Maybe building our transportation systems around personal 2+ ton murdermachines was a mistake

I spend altogether too much time thinking about how All the Small Things appears to have more cultural relevance than What's My Age Again? Presumably because of "work sucks I know" and the fact that any dope can sing it But WMAA is quintessential Blink and should be considered their best song

Primary defeats and retirements, profiles in courage

There are no good billionaires.

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

your tax money my tax money we, personally, are being forced to directly pay outright traitors because the president decrees it intolerable

Imagine using $1.7 billion to address hunger, housing, education, and medical care. Imagine using $1.7 billion to address the wage gap and the lack of resources for survivors of violence and abuse. We should never look at these ideas as too radical or impossible again.

Remember when the Supreme Court said a president lacked the power to forgive $20,000 of student debt for Pell Grant recipients and the White House just said "Oh, okay"

9pm: yawning 2:12am: time to become a scholar on uncontacted tribes

Absolute heartbreak for Hearts

This is why I think it's really important to re-frame e-bikes as a replacement for cars. People don't feel guilty about driving. Why should they feel guilty about an e-bike? It's just a different form of transportation. 1/

Killing the world’s richest man by rapidly spiking his cortisol with cooler and cooler film casting choices

I’m departing a @nacto.bsky.social conference where my peers were sobbing about constituents who have died on their streets and highlighting all the great work they do to make their streets safer With the flick of a pen, poor leadership can cancel out that great work Speed kills

Fuck Jeff Bezos Fuck Amazon Wealth tax now

As the person whose job it is to decide whether to pursue impeachment, the speaker of the house shouldn’t get to plead ignorance when asked about possible impeachable offenses

Boston:

Many of you deserve to have your cash grabbed

I encourage states to review the text of Fuck You v. Make Me

Check out this hatchet job of a font style

When you realize the mail of america it's mostly just a big mall

The pivot from Everything is blockchain to Everything is AI has not been terribly surprising. (AI seems more useful than blockchain, but that's a very low bar.)

Secondary effect of Musk taking over Twitter is that progressives who are now concentrated on Bluesky can be more conveniently ignored by many Democratic offices.

The real message of Frogger is the dangers of commuting in a city that doesn't have reliable public transit.

see you soon @nacto.bsky.social

My apology to Senator Susan Collins: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/why-is-sus...

Telling people, "we're going to have a green energy transition and cheap gas" is the equivalent of posting the "no take, only throw" dog-and-frisbee meme directly into your platform

Removing the gas tax doesn't target fossil fuel companies. If anything, it helps them by making it more likely consumers buy gas.

It would seem painting the bottom of the pool blue will do the opposite of what the pool is supposed to do (reflect light) and will also not have the intended effect (make the water appear blue).

It's gonna be funny when gas hits $8 a gallon and Sean Duffy gets fired over it for some reason

“I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.” – Blaise Pascal

the Trump-Hormuz cycle: 1. Open it right now 2. It’s open because I said it’s open in a social media post 3. I mean it, open it or I will commit war crimes 4. It’s not important and we never needed it anyway (we are here) rinse, repeat

Has the hospital ship made it to Greenland yet?

DC’s public transit system is one of the great things about living here, so it checks out that our previously hometown paper now opposes it

The courts just ruled that the tariffs that Trump imposed to replace the ones the Supreme Court struck down were also illegal. Just as I reported in February. Major media outlets blew this story.

“We are the luckiest bastards alive,” he says of living in Marblehead. “We can’t also be the most self-interested bastards alive. They can’t be the same thing.” www.marbleheadindependent.com/he-asked-if-...

On its third attempt tonight, Marblehead Town Meeting approved an “MBTA Communities–compliant” district largely centered on the 125-year-old Tedesco Country Club, meeting 3A requirements on paper while all but assuring no new housing would be built. This comment says it all.

This is an amazing video.

Hi, spider expert here! Kyle Rittenhouse was bitten by a Brown Recluse (loxosceles reclusa). Unlike widow bites, recluse bites don't affect the nervous system. Instead, they are a cytotoxic venom, destroying local tissues at the site of the bite.. So how bad could this get? Well...

This is NONE of my business and I feel for everyone involved. There's lots of lives ruined here, at least one career (should be two) in the shitter and kids that don't deserve any of this <Stephen A Smith voice> BUT This better be a Lifetime movie someday or YOU'RE LEAVING MONEY ON THE TABLE

I'm not an alcoholic, there's nothing alcoholic about making personalized bottles of whiskey, that's perfectly healthy behavior

funniest thing i’ve ever seen

RIP Ted Turner. Putting your favorite baseball team on national TV every night because you can was such a flex in the 1990s. I didn't get NESN but I got TBS, and as a result I got to watch the bulk of the Maddux/Smoltz/Glavine/Chipper Jones Braves for a good chunk of my childhood

oh my god this is so embarrassing x.com/AAGShumate/s...

When the design looks like car infrastructure, it will be treated like car infrastructure.

I think we should still talk about captive drivers, though.

This is partisanship at its rawest. SCOTUS has clamped down on lower courts for rulings that could alter maps many *months* before an election—even when those maps have been judged illegal. Here, it's rushing to let the Louisiana GOP change a map *while an election is underway.*

My bluesky timeline is wall to wall posts about the Met Gala and I don't see anything about it on Mastodon. Feels like a major point in favor of Mastodon tbh.