There's not a single other medical procedure that has less than a 1% regret rate. Heart surgery has a 20% regret rate.

Also, the rounding is covering up that it's reportedly a $1.776 billion pot. Because someone thought making it 1776 would be hilarious. 🙄

It's quite shocking how many more satellites are visible by eye now than just a few years ago, especially as Starlinks are in much more light-polluting orbits. 🔭 You can now usually see a few in the sky at the same time, and it's only going to get worse. 🫤

“My hypothesis is that women will use AI to do more work. Men will use AI to get out of doing more work. And, every argument that is not dealing with the preconditions of this gendered inequality is not thinking seriously about AI” @tressiemcphd.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/lost...

A short #avgeek 🧵(with the ultimate goal of explaining what the first officer does) So lots of definitions and initialisms.

"the dramatic cost declines in batteries have now made 'firm renewables' — solar or wind paired with batteries — cheaper than fossil fuels in many parts of the world." This is game changing.

America in Decline

SpaceX was not that profitable before he merged it with xAI, which torches money running Elon's CSAM generator Grok. it apparently lost $5 billion last year. Elon wants it valued at $1.25 trillion www.theinformation.com/articles/spa...

My first photography book will release in July, and you can pre-order now. I'm honored to have words by @johnedwinmason.bsky.social in book. I'm grateful. Thank you 🙏🏾 www.krisgravesprojects.com/current/jers...

I feel I should alert Bluesky to the baby foxes in our yard

"The oligarchs want a permanent ruling class. The extremists want a permanent underclass to grind a boot into. The deal between them is straightforward enough: the oligarchs get captured courts and permanent tax cuts, the extremists get their hierarchy of human worth written back into the law"

People regularly attempt to murder people with a dangerous weapon and because it's a car it's framed as impatience or annoyance, instead of the deeply dangerous, violent behavior that it is.

Like every Mother's Day today I am asking that you consider a donation to @nationalbailout.bsky.social to help free mamas who are separated from their families by the injustices of pretrial detention systems. secure.actblue.com/donate/freeb...

All right, this just came across my radar, and it is *brilliant*. You won't find a better or more compact explanation for [waves hands] all of this. This is the skeleton key.

Photo by @nicolehester.bsky.social for The Tennesseean www.tennessean.com/picture-gall...

this is also one of my hobbyhorses. you want a better caliber of lawmaker? you want to reduce the odds of corruption? pay them more. a lot more.

A very Strength In Numbers-coded article today: It looks like Republican Supreme Court justices made a very rudimentary, but willful, statistical error in their effective invalidating of the VRA in the Callais decision. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-05-08...

Rode the Bergen Bike Bus today to make a big announcement: We’re redesigning Bergen Street and Dean Street, from Court Street to East New York Ave — adding new bike boulevards and more pedestrian space. Safer rides to school for New York City kids coming soon.

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📣 Join the @jerseycitynj.bsky.social Vision Zero Community Walking Tours, starting TODAY! 📣 When you arrive, look out for the Vision Zero Jersey City yellow vests if you have trouble locating the walking group!

Top 10 neighborhoods by housing density added, 2020–25: 1—Greenpoint waterfront Brooklyn 2—East Harlem Manhattan 3—Navy Yard DC 4—Downtown Brooklyn 5—Hunters Pt Queens 6—Journal Sq Jersey City 7—Lower E Side Manhattan 8—The Drag Austin 9—Downtown Jersey City 10—LI City Queens

california’s democratic trifecta just tested a $20 million project to cover agricultural irrigation canals with solar panels to produce energy while reducing water evaporation. it worked. california is already at 75% renewables

The smartest and best thing you can do to fight back against global fascism is to simply buy an ebike and stop burning fossil fuels as much as possible.

Today, the day of the Met Gala, the unionized workers of the Met posted this image to their Instagram. www.instagram.com/p/DX64ioYjecG/

They cut school lunches and THIS is the bipartisan school funding bill they come up with? Fuck you.

It is great to see New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani riding in the annual TD Five Boro Bike Tour! Things like this help illustrate the need and importance of safe bicycle infrastructure in the city...

Simple Boxes with Ornamentation are better than One Box Pretending To Be Lots of Boxes

Absolutely bonkers footage of Ukrainian soldiers shooting down Russian drones in prop planes with shotguns. Not ai, came from an official Ukrainian account and verified by the WSJ.

My latest Paris dispatch on how 300 streets outside of schools became some of the coolest places in the city. But even more importantly, these family-centric improvements provide ubiquitous reminders that this society prioritizes children

the Knicks are leading 60-19, which is actually higher than the scoring margin on the scoreboard in this Space Jam gag before it says "kinda one sided isn't it"

We just dropped a limited batch of $5 tickets at gothamfc.com/mayor for the Gotham FC May 9th home game vs. Boston Legacy. I'll be there. Will you? Grab a $5 ticket at gothamfc.com/mayor before they're gone!

They didn’t just double tap. They hunted her like an animal. First they sent her death threats. They struck her, then followed her to where she tried to take shelter & struck her there. They struck the rescue workers who came for her & only after hours, after she died, did they allow retrieval

ok the Mr. Beast lawsuit, let’s go. step 1: don’t do this, or this, or this, or this

"Benches are where optimistic visions of civic life meet reality. To remove them, or to curate who gets to sit, is to abandon the work of defining a civic ideal and determining, together, how to live up to it." NEW: Why benches are slowly disappearing from public spaces — and why we need them back:

“Another way to look at this is that billionaires have joined a war on professional administrative class of public servants precisely because of their proximity to formal mechanisms of accountability.” That part! Everything from documentation to compliance mechanisms to whistleblowing is a threat.

Over half of Americans don’t have passports.

Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

I'd say that this applies to anyone traveling in a car in any city. Being in a car versus walking, riding, or taking transit fundamentally changes how you view a place and your relationship to it. I wish more leaders set this kind of example. www.npr.org/2026/04/16/n...

New Jersey's 23-game Jeopardy champion Jamie Ding is more than a self-described faceless bureaucrat. He allocates Low-Income Housing Tax Credits ("LIHTC") to fund affordable housing construction across New Jersey. We used his historic run to explain LIHTC! betterblocksnj.org/2026/04/16/j...

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

🧵 1/2 Jersey City just declared April Native Plant Month! 🌿 Native plants are essential to keeping Jersey City green, resilient, and thriving. They support local wildlife, provide food and habitat for pollinators, and require less water and maintenance than non-native species.

I know I have paid to produce so much suffering throughout my entire life but there was always a plausible deniability baked in. Like how they put blanks in one of the firing squad rifles. www.welcometohellworld.com/something-th...

As we write in the book, a traffic report that says there’s been a crash on the highway that will make you late to work probably means someone has been seriously injured or killed. Most people just don’t want to reckon with that reality.

F-ing depraved. The IDF edited a photo of the journalist they assassinated and made it look like he was wearing a Hezbollah uniform. They explicitly state that it is legal in Israel to murder journalists. The entire Israeli state is a criminal enterprise.

There's a particular kind of paralysis in Jersey City that masquerades as civic virtue. It shows up dressed in the language of "resident input," "stakeholder engagement," or "co-governance." And it ends with almost nothing getting built, fixed, or decided. betterblocksnj.org/2026/04/13/j...

Brooklyn bike space nerds are top notch nerds. www.reddit.com/r/bicycling/...