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Interesting: Urbanist group @ggwash.org is suing @ddotdc.bsky.social over its refusal/failure to release a study the city conducted on congestion pricing possibilities in downtown D.C. The study was finished in 2020, but has never been made public – even in response to FOIA requests.

there's a new thai place near us that has two bathrooms: a "single occupancy" bathroom and an "all gender" bathroom that's also single occupancy. these are the two genders under woke 2

I only want my songs to transition as god intended: with a listener dedication from Delilah

This plan doesn't extend the expiring enhanced Marketplace credits at all & instead contributes $ to HSAs for enrollees who may not even have HSAs & can't use that $ for premiums. By appropriating cost-sharing reductions, it further lowers underlying credit amounts & raises premium costs even more.

This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong. I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.

I love going to the movies & would like to go more but most weeks there just isn't anything new out that I want to see bsky.app/profile/benj...

amount of advertising at movie theaters has been climbing because studios take almost all the box office for new movies, and then they aren't even producing enough movies to get people into the theaters as they used to. that's one of the things conglomeration has done, also "optimization" (trash).

Cannonball!

Everyone else worrying about the last year of the contact Me:

Kyle Schwarber has made $239 million since the Cubs non-tendered him.

SCOOP: the dodgers get the song in the contract too btw. all rights in perpetuity i've been told. it's even illegal for mets fans to think back fondly on it

good use cases for genAI: 3 or 4, tops evil use cases: 25,471 and counting

The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)

"what does nick sirianni want to do" the question of our age

sort of want to go to a Caps game this season but their bag policy is SO stupid. as far as I can tell you can't even bring in a normal sized clear bag like at baseball games, it's clutch purses only

was trying to remember why I knew this guy's name and oh yeah

Rodan is straight-up faded here

Everyone imitates Tolkien all the time except when it comes to the one way it would really matter: making the protagonist of your novel for children a short, fat, 50-year-old man who doesn't want to do anything.

It’s genuinely unbelievable how much the average right winger’s conception of history is based on post-war American advertising of the mid 20th century

I love how the Times keeps going back to the same callous, racist down-home folks to seek their sanction for this administration’s cruelty and incompetence. This week: what do you think of the boat strikes? I knew I’d seen this Charles Vaughters — Marine vet, college student — before.

i will probably keep saying some variation of this because its inevitably going to happen but dems campaigning on “reform ice” need to be met with the same reaction as a someone asking if they can kick your child in the head

Why do I see videos of these men failing to do a pull up like once a week

I'm probably too used to baseball but I'm a little surprised that's as far as they can go back bsky.app/profile/benj...

BREAKING NEWS: the positivity rabbit was found dead in South Philadelphia earlier this evening

Yeah I don’t think the thirty three drinks are the story here, even if that is an eye-watering number

The anti-MAHA messaging really needs to play this up. Do you realize the infant mortality rate in the US less than 100 years ago was over 60 per 1000 births and now it's down to 5.47 per 1000.

He looks about as bad at pull-ups as I am, wild bsky.app/profile/razz...

well of course i am familiar with the number of the beast. which is why i should be your leader!

male loneliness epidemic but it was just about being the only Craig in the NHL

NEW: As if it wasn't enough to be working for Dr. Oz, the nearly 7000 employees of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are now getting weekly emails from him hectoring them to eat less. This is from @leahfeiger.bsky.social

I'm always saying that airports have too much space for seating and aren't stinky enough bsky.app/profile/atru...

something i fail to understand is how weird narcissistic nihilists seem to attract each other instead of repel

incredible that you can impose draconian working conditions even on “let the computer do it” bsky.app/profile/cult...

sorry, we have to kill the louvre. threads is doing it better.

Daniel Day Lewis came out of Instagram retirement to show support for Paul Dano. King shit.

It’s well known among reporters that Trump answers his cell phone. If you can get the number, he picks up.

ok it’s legitimately funny that they can’t even throw red meat to Catholics without falling into heresy

Jim Caviezel stars in HOSPITAL MAN

Here's Rep. Ann Wagner (R-Mo.) raging about Missouri's elections being "decided in California" in response to an article about Missourians protesting a gerrymandering petition in California -- except the article is about the town of California in Missouri.

some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think

I'm marking a column in Excel with "Yes" "Maybe?? {+ optional reason}" or "No - {reason}" and Excel keeps insisting that it can predict what I'm going to do next. AI is such a disaster, and it's getting worse. "Niybe"??!!

Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.

Oh hell yeah bsky.app/profile/maus...

Giving parents the discretion not to vaccinate their kids is one of the strongest ways the state reinforces the parent-child relationship as one of ownership. Your parents have the ability to decide whether you will die of preventable disease, because you are their property not a person.

AI is marketed to people who can't get their way out of a jam in an '80s sitcom

An irony is that a religious exemption actually is workable when it's for a very small number of students. But conservatives - who have culture war rather than sincere religious objections to vaccinations - have basically ruined it for sincere religious groups like Christian Scientists

I don't think "apartheid" is the wrong word to describe Israel but "Jim Crow" applies equally well. this exact same scenario, right down to the noose lapel pins, has played out in the American south.

Notre Dame had become dangerously close to likable after the transition from Kelly to Freeman and I'm glad they're doing the work to correct that.