Cycling is 10 times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities and 100 times more fun.

"What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?" Bertolt Brecht

"Lawsuits are slow, they are complicated, they are often decided on arbitrary technicalities or total nonsense, and being so costly they are hideously biased toward the rich and well-connected." prospect.org/justice/amer...

I’m never going to stop being mad that hedge funds and tech middlemen siphoned off all the money that should’ve let someone like Kaleb Horton have the career he deserved

This was always the funniest conspiracy theory to me — that there are MRI machine-like devices that can cure all known illnesses in seconds, but the government has been hiding them — and Trump just posted an AI generated video of himself announcing they're real. We're cooked!

Five years ago, @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social and I did a story about rural Oregon's fever dream that Antifa was coming to their town from Portland. Hundreds showed up armed downtown because they heard on Facebook that "Antifa buses" were coming. No buses came so they said Antifa "retreated."

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

Chotiner: You've written a lot about the band Weezer over the years. Me: That's right. Chotiner: And The Blue Album is their best work as you've said. Me: 100%. Always has been. Chotiner: In 1996 in a letter to your high school girlfriend you wrote... Me: Can we go off the record real quick?

It’s so cool that everyone is just destroying the Internet

AL CAPONE DILLINGER NANCY

RIP Val Kilmer

Meanwhile, in Albuquerque

Do we fully understand what is being witnessed when we watch Nikola Jokić. Yeah, he’s tucked away in Denver. The talent around him isn’t the most premium. But Jokić is, essentially, unguardable. http://dlvr.it/TJTxfk

STASH THAT TRASH

my idols are dead and my enemies are in power. rip to one of my favorite actors “TAKE A LOOK, SONNY, IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN AGAIN!” www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPXC...

after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"

How did climate change fuel wildfires? Wet-to-dry whiplash. In Pasadena, 20 of the rainiest days since 1893 occurred after 2000. One was last Feb. Yet there hasn’t been a drop in eight months, with heat waves in between. Vegetation grew, then dried, then burned: capitalandmain.com/how-climate-...

this line from Ethan has been stuck in my head all day. And I felt it most reading my friend and colleague @nancywalecki.bsky.social's beautiful and heartbreaking dispatch from LA this evening. Here's a gift link, I urge you to read it www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

Some people still get to be protected classes

I know we’re tapping the Hannah Arendt sign a lot these days, but “inherently infallible social in-group gains authority over broadly defined out-groups” is like one of the big Actual Fascism signifiers

This capitulation is happening so much faster than I thought it would. And it’s much more candid about shrugging and saying “yeah, this is to specifically allow right-wing hate mongers and trolls have free rein to harass vulnerable people because the president wants it to be that way”

NEW: The staff of the Athletic has signed union cards and today petitioned NYT management to join the Times Guild www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

All this Spencer Rattler talk reminded me of another QB I loved that didn't get nearly enough respect, Jake 🐍Plummer. I'm so happy that he ended up doing EXACTLY what I expected him to do with his life post-football.

I took 16,040 photos in 2024. I edited 3,315 of them. And these are my favorite 20 of the whole year, with a 3,295-way tie for 21st. 1/5 #albuquerque #abq #newmexico #streetphotography #artphotography

www.eatthis.com/boston-marke... yes, it's private equity

Played Worlde for the first time in months in honor of the @nytguildtech.bsky.social getting their contract, but have you ever seen a more demented winning pattern? Wordle 1,272 6/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛ 🟨⬛🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Contestants on the show “Love Is Blind” are employees, the National Labor Relations Board said, potentially opening the door to unionization.

Yellow Painting by Vasily Kandinsky, 1938 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137415

I’ve been wanting to get a shot of this place since the first time I drove through Albuquerque. I need to live in the world that the phrase SOUTHWEST CYBERPORT whispers and the typeface promises.

Feel free to keep this one handy to send back when someone starts emotionally unloading on you and you don’t have the bandwidth to deal with it.

Somehow this is the photo of mine I’ve been thinking about the most lately. Head to the alt text for more on why it’s been stuck in my head

’tis the damn season* *in which golden hour is at, like, 4 p.m.

Remember how Meta suspended the Threads account tracking Mark Zuckerberg's private jet? www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... The Bluesky account saw the jet landed in Palm Beach yesterday, and Zuck had a private Mar-a-Lago meeting with Trump today: www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11...

WHAT A PERFORMANCE 😱 After losing his shoe early in the race, New Mexico’s Habtom Samuel still managed a 2nd-place finish at #NCAAXC, covering the 10km course in 28:38 in 35 degree weather. Last spring, Samuel also also won the NCAA 10,000m title after falling to the track mid-race.

mentally rearranging some timelines after discovering leonard cohen's "First We Take Manhattan" came 4 years after "The Muppets Take Manhattan"

Bluesky has 'em shook

I’ve decided to treat alt text like director’s commentary or footnotes. It’s a DVD special feature that also happens to help out a whole community.

Today’s pre-dawn dog walk layers included the only two garments I’ve continuously worn since high school (22 years ago, my god)

Making Metropolis, 1927

The @denverpost.bsky.social's Elizabeth Hernandez examines how the debate — both internal and external — over a beloved nonprofit's representation of Native American culture and history illustrates the complicated and changing relationship Colorado has with its Western traditions

It only took about a day for me to replace my Following feed with this one as my default in the app: bsky.app/profile/did:... Just shows you original posts by your followers, no reposts and no replies. Really improves the signal to noise ratio.

Trump’s deportation plans would be disruptive in Colorado, where 1 in 10 residents is an immigrant buff.ly/3OdQPdW

I call this one “a stroll through the gallery.” ABQ, New Mexico

Albuquerque sky showin’ off today.