Nope. We don't have to do this. The courageous act would be to refuse. Jingoist slop like this is an enormous factor in why the US has been terrorizing the world for decades. There are no heroes bombing Iran.

Unbelievable that we still talk about withholding HIV funding as a form of political maneuvering rather than an act of social murder, as if the 80’s + 90’s never happened and we didn’t lose an entire generation to this already.

I’ve watched a very smart child try to encode what chaptgpt thinks is “human” so that her class assignments don’t get flagged for plagiarism. I’ve heard expert professionals admit to self-editing so they don’t “sound” like an llm. This is the kind of cultural flattening that accelerates fascism.

Lyft acquiring Motivate was a major step in the wrong direction for major bike shares. These programs have become side projects for a company that makes far more money on car transportation rather than a buyer actually invested in urban transit options.

With 29% of all trips made by bike and 64% of bike trips made by women, Osaka is a cycling city beyond compare. What makes it even more remarkable is these gains were made in spite of very little dedicated infrastructure. So what can we learn from a place that didn't build it, and they came anyway?🧵

if an adult plays the trombone in the peanuts universe it sounds like words

I know it's a bit chaotic out there right now, but it's still interesting to see middle class bus riders have to wait in the literal street while a tiny of handful of people driving $50k SUVs cruise around in perfectly cleared lanes.

fucking monsters

I recognize options are limited. But every Democrat needs to be out there, reminding ICE and CBP that there is no statute of limitations on murder. Democratic presidential candidates need to promise prosecutions of those who commit crimes on Trump's orders. Patel will be gone in a mere 3 years.

The original concentration camps didn't start as death camps. But they did kill a lot of people through neglect, malnutrition, disease, and individual murders. There's no distinction between this facility and dachau in 1933.

New ICE Bucket Challenge just dropped.

in every big city the mayor works for the cops whether they want to or not. and the cops work for trump

“Blaming bike lanes is blaming the solution. The only thing that gets cars off the road is better transit and better active transportation. The two go hand in hand.” - Sam Austin www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...

The Vegas Marks

Now that opponents have lost two lawsuits and two elections, we invite them to accept the will of San Franciscans and work with us to make the most of our coastal park.

“But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself” anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

This is a super clear guide to what constitutes a legal ebike in California.

"The study found that, from January through June 2025, average daily maximum PM2.5 concentrations in Manhattan’s CRZ declined by 3.05 micrograms per cubic meter – a reduction of 22% compared to a projected average of 13.8 micrograms per cubic meter had congestion pricing not been implemented."

Can't remember if it was this bad before COVID but I'm seeing an alarming spreading of what I'll call Airport Behavior to other public places. Obliviousness to other people's existence, ineptitude at navigating the environment. "Is this your first time at the grocery store" type stuff

If you can, please consider donating to their GoFundMe. The money is going to union members this holiday so they can buy groceries and pay rent while they fight for a fair contract. If MiUSA means anything at all, it must mean good paying jobs for workers. www.gofundme.com/f/support-in...

Disappointed to see this. 160 union workers are fighting for a fair contract at Individualized Shirts, a US factory that makes high-end men's button-ups. The managers there have rejected the union's request for fair wages and health insurance. The union is asking for support 🧵

everyone needs to start pirating movies and TV shows again NOW

Mad Men 4K

The effortless shift in discourse from people insisting that anything that isn't a white statue of a dead roman dude isn't art like 3 years ago to demanding that they be treated as visionary artists for typing" x-men mystique big boobs she's my girlfriend" into a prompt window

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"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read

this is your brain when your entire politics is just a set of aesthetics

imagine walking down the beach and seeing jesus carrying some guy

Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:

Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.

Why would I work my ass off to provide valuable goods and services to my community when I can become a trillionaire by scamming rubes

I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

On Armistice Day, I think about this recreated soundscape of the moment the guns fell silent on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918. A testament to the arbitrariness of war as much as anything else www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/l...

I just realized this also works

The goal of Spotify’s algorithm isn’t to help you discover new music, its goal is simply to keep you listening for as long as possible. It serves up the safest songs possible to keep you from pressing stop. Read more from @terrenceobrien.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/column/81574...

Evening viewing recommendation? Watch Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper make sparks BALL OF FIRE (1941) — Howard Hawks's snappy screwball take on the Snow White tale.

The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon

I vote:

Sorry to do litmus tests but I want candidates who understand and say out loud that the big tech industry is a hive of evil charlatans who get rich pumping poison into the world

"We talk a lot about the 'male loneliness crisis' but in my estimation we don’t talk enough about the 'male suckerfication crisis'"

Editorial cartoon: Don't bread on me. Enjoy :)