This whole ICE nonsense quota based racist policing is so useful for illustrating so many Black civil rights concepts that people have been confused about for decades. People used to ask me, "Why do Black folk cheer when they see a man successfully run from the cops? He's a criminal!"🤡 No.

Such language model, big smart.

The scientific method took a long time to take hold because it’s upside down from how we primates are wired to come to consensus about stuff that was important to our primate predecessors. We’re wired to ask ‘why is the bigger, confident primate right?’ Science asks ‘how might I be proven wrong?’

what this latest episode shows is that like all fascists before them these assholes are highly afraid of being ridiculed so therefore we should ridicule them a hell of a lot more

Look, they do not have the capacity or competence to do this at the scale they want you to fear they do, and your fear is precisely their greatest force multiplier. Everybody who is cowed into silence by their threats allows them a smaller pool to focus on.

It might be smarter to declare war on an American city that isn't literally characterized by how much the people who live there make their entire personalities about how much they love it. Have you even seen my timeline? We've basically been training for this for years.

If you don’t believe that Trump’s authoritarianism can be defeated, look at how scared MAGA is of chalk:

This is when it would be nice if Massachusetts had a less dysfunctional state house, because we should be hurrying to fix this.

Sure is getting pretty genocidal out there. Y'all need to understand that "rounding up" ANY group leads to more of the same. We do need everyone to speak up on this, and hold the line to support our trans neighbors.

Off to the first day of high school on the same bike he rode as a passenger at age 1. #bike

I commuted to high school on the subway. I had maybe 5 issues in all that time and 100% of them were adult men (of all demographics) being perverts. This was not a subway problem, it was a misogyny problem—and I never had to deal with it alone once because another woman always stepped in to help.

That feeling when your teen says “oh don’t worry about picking up [my little brother] from Kung Fu Camp, I’m already near there and will meet him.” 🙂

She doesn’t need a hero, she is the hero we need. 🤩

I didn’t know until now that in the original Rosie the Riveter painting, she is crushing a copy of Mein Kampf under her foot. Happy feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, remembering all the women who crush the serpents of Satan under their heel.

just lost $100,000 on a polymarket bet that trump would negotiate a peace deal today with putin. i was sure of it. i can't believe i lost all this money. he wrote the art of the deal.

BREAKING: Federal prosecutors said today they went to a grand jury twice to indict a D.C. woman for assaulting an FBI agent during an arrest by ICE — and were twice rejected. Notably, she faces the same charge as the District's alleged sandwich thrower. www.wusa9.com/article/news...

This is why I practically fly into a rage anytime I see someone say, "Actually, crime concerns are real." No! There could be zero crime in these cities and Trump would still be attempting his fascist takeover. Do not accept the premise even in the slightest!

honestly "the chatbots are essentially the fae" would probably be better for normies as a mental model

If you're running out of hope, you can still find nourishment in the deepest reservoir of the human soul: spite.

mRNA tech is some of the coolest, most powerful, most promising scifi shit humans are currently doing. They are being investigated to help with cancers, autoimmune diseases, M.S., stroke recovery, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and high cholesterol.

People will be like "I would do anything for my kids!!!" right up until you suggest dropping the speed limit to 20mph.

Whether it's conservatives assassinating State Senators in Minnesota or liberals refusing to sell Alan Dershowitz pierogis in Martha's Vineyard, both sides have taken incivility to an extreme.

What gets me is how utterly un-manly the manosphere is. It’s crybabies and insecurity all the way down. Truly embarrassing stuff.

Impressive!

Last week I participated in a town wide evacuation drill in Stinson Beach. I walked down the hill with my go bag. I was told twice that I should have brought my car, and that if I get stuck in a traffic jam, I should just sit there in my car. I beat the entire line of traffic to the staging area.

The cure to the male loneliness epidemic™️ is to recruit 10 friends and acquaintances to your plan to rob three Las Vegas casinos simultaneously, both to enrich yourself and to get one over on the guy who's with your ex-wife. Think of the opportunities for male bonding!

This is an insane thing to write about game development. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/a...

HAPPENING NOW: a group of New York rabbis are being arrested at a protest outside the Israeli consulate calling for bringing food into Gaza, an end to the war, and return of all hostages @newjewishnarrative.bsky.social

Or maybe fast+cheap deliveries are a feature of cities with great urban design, and attempting to bring that level of convenience to low-density car dependent neighborhood requires massive subsidies.

Shoutout to the guy who was skateboarding down Somerville Ave with a full-sized amp and guitar case.

It's driving me insane that Zohran gets asked to condemn a slogan he already criticizes but then nobody is asked to condemn this fucking genocide! This is happening now. This is the critical stage. Never again means never again! My secular Jewish upbringing taught me to oppose this no matter what!

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

Today for the first time, our 4-year old biked the whole way to daycare, on brand new protected bike lanes! The dream of a Somerville Bike Network that is “safe for all ages and abilities” is one step closer to a reality. 

There are only two paths forward for America: fascism for all of us, or fascism for none of us. Some of you are deluding yourselves into believing that the US can ever return to a state of "Fascism, but just for Black dudes! 🤣" AKA centrism. But that will not happen. The spell is broken.

We just merged a 3000 files / 75k lines of code PR in our 2017 @emberjs.com app that moved us from .ts + .hbs => .gts This would have never been possible without @embroider/template-tag-codemod and the work from the great @chris.manson.ie and other great members of the Ember.js community! 🫶

Urbanist four year olds playing trucks: “Thanks for parking in the bike lane like a jerk!”

no one has ever met him, Bill Watterson is practically a bigfoot-level cryptid

One thing about rich people not valuing aesthetics anymore, altho some do and I'll get to them in a minute, is that we've *all* collectively been taught not to. STEM is where the smart people are. Can't find a job? Well what did you expect, majoring in underwater basketweaving...

The funniest running joke with right-wing commentators on Twitter is trashing Bluesky for not having the free-speech, anything-goes ethos of Twitter, while also deliberately misspelling “Bluesky” to avoid running afoul of Twitter’s owner.

If you don’t run any security lists you might not know that there’s a whole cottage industry of extremely annoying people who use automated scans to report the stupidest “vulnerabilities” hoping to score a bounty, and that the signal to noise ratio is nearly zero.

I cannot overstate how important it is to understand the difference between a specialist model trained on carefully-chosen clinical data and a chatbot trained on slurping down the whole internet. Most people hear “AI” and only think of the second. It’s bad!

Build it! Everyone should learn the joy of changing trains at Park Street. This is what peak transit system design looks like. Seattle to San Francisco? Just go Inbound to Park St and change trains to go Outbound to San Francisco! Nothing could be simpler!

One of my strongest beliefs is if they actually put this on Broadway it would absolutely destroy at the award shows and run for 20 years

Wildlife in #somerville.

China’s BYD has taken the lead from Tesla on EV sales in Latin America. I expect this headline will soon repeat itself in every place on the globe. Except the US, where our protect-Elon policy ensures that we pay more for less. substack.com/home/post/p-...

I've seen some miserable fucksticks go "I don't take it seriously, it's just entertaining" Boomers sucked into qanon said *the same exact thing*. It's not serious, it's just fun, etc. Don't cram dogshit into your fucking skull no matter how fun and entertaining you find the activity to be.

bluesky is the #1 app for introspection