I see the best explanation for all this madness is simply that the elites affected by the crime lord in the Oval are not capable of changing their behavior patterns to fit the ground shifting beneath their feet. This lack of action has exposed them to danger from many angles.

Maybe I don't know very much but it certainly seems to me like a state suspending a major election is really bad and the sort of thing brave truth-telling journalists ought to be covering in extreme detail

"Why are all the journalists laid off now" this is why. Pretty simple.

Some people might be interested to know that the WM has a "Save a Page Now" feature. You can paste in a specific URL and get it archived immediately. There are also nifty browser plugins to do the same thing without having to go directly to web.archive.org

Wodehouse: Wooster: "What ho, Jeeves. This giant worm on Piccadilly is a rum chap, I say." Jeeve: "I believe it is called shai halud, sir" Wooster: "Well, be that as it is, does it have to block the Criterion like that?"

Alt, bc this is powerful

It’s the 250th year of American independence, and the Pope and the King of England are reminding Americans of their revolutionary values, principles, and ideals Somewhere, John Adams is confused as fuck

if you work at one of those outlets that doesn’t need to write anything good to stay in business, you can publish something like “it’s good to eat goose turds off the sidewalk” and half of bluesky will spend an entire day reposting it to say no no no that’s not true

Their “distrust” in higher ed is predetermined, dogmatic. It is not seeking “to be heard,” nor does it ultimately care about evidence of higher ed working in good faith to make changes in line with their “concerns.” it is seeking nothing less than the destruction of the enterprise itself. 2/

I don't know I love signing up for 50 different accounts across 25 different services with names like ZazzleZoo and YikYak just to stay involved in my kid's schooling

The Abundance movement often points to environmental groups as the obstacles to building. But who actually files the lawsuits blocking projects? It’s not environmental groups. It’s been lawyered-up HOAs protecting property values all along. Regulation by litigation is the problem.

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

This is AWFUL and should get national press.

On the left is @illinoisdot.bsky.social’s goals. They greenwash with pretty renderings, but we know better.

Reminds us of this @theonion.com banger.

Have learned that my fellows do not know the tiger poem so here it is for you

I love this essay very much!!!!

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

It's a shame that "defend your culture" always means "hate strangers different from you" and never "enact anti-pollution laws so that you can go fishing with your grandkids the way your grandpa taught you."

134th Place may be my favorite street in Chicago. It is anomalous and serene, but packed with history. A brief introductory thread with some photos from a recent visit:

There is no nerd prom all the nerds doing useful shit like cancer research got defunded.

Palantir employees:

I bet few of today's Soviet-loving communists know that in 1982, Bulgarian philosopher Zhelyu Zhelev published "Fascism", a book about Nazi Germany, fascist Italy, and Franco Spain. The book got banned and withdrawn within weeks because everyone realized he was describing Soviet-backed socialism.

OR JUST WRITE THE THING YOURSELF FOR FUCK'S SAKE IT WILL TAKE LESS TIME THAN WHATEVER THE FUCK THIS IS mashable.com/article/sinc...

All hot & precooked food should be eligible for SNAP recipients. A bipartisan group of lawmakers has introduced legislation that would allow Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients to purchase hot rotisserie chickens with their benefits. www.goodmorningamerica.com/food/story/h...

the number of people i see speeding through school zones and residential streets with their phones directly in their faces…

Next up -- covering the Washington Monument in a really classy glitter

I mean yes but in another sense that's exactly what their owners are paying for.

Our society has a massive blind spot when it comes to how dangerous these giant trucks and SUVs are to everyone outside of them.

Texas Tech can stage mass wildcat labor actions or cease to be a university. Those are the only two choices that I can see.

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

RLE will be absolutely transformational for Roseland and Altgeld Gardens, two long-disinvested underserved communities, but given the astronomical price tag and total disregard for intermodal regional connectivity, it is an ideal bookend for the RTA era with a process NITA should never replicate.

Incredible a school charging more than $80k in tuition thinks it can continuously jack class sizes of its once-esteemed writing program to save pennies and no one will care. It’s probably because they got away with increasing classes by 25% during the “financial crisis” of a 50% endowment INCREASE.

Class action lawsuits seem like the only response to this, but I don’t know if that’s enough

should i buzz him in?

I'm not going to provide details, so don't ask. Nevertheless: No, it is not OK to have one hallucinated cite. No, you can't delete that and expect me to take the rest of your work seriously. No, absolutely not. It should never ever happen.

Bank of Erath Erath, LA

Trust me, disabled people feel this hostility acutely.

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

No the more I think about it the more I think we should all hate tech Nazis even more than we already do

You're looking at velvet malachite, Cu2CO3(OH)2. A few warnings: Please resist the urge to touch it to feel how soft it is. Absolutely /do not/ lick it. Keep far away from any Supermen. If a wingéd creature emerges, do not agree to any pacts. Let's talk about the science here.

Here’s a must watch, and good to share with family and friends, about the secretive deals made between big tech and state/local governments to build massive, polluting, downright dystopian data center warehouses. Well researched and reported by @businessinsider.com

What do you get if you cross an angry sheep with a angry cow? One animal in a baaaaaaaad moooooooood.

Under socialism everyone will get banh mis whenever they want.

Tehran, earlier today. Oh I miss those snow covered mountains so much. I cannot wait to walk your sidewalks and hug your trees.

We had to destroy Western civilization to--actually we just wanted to wreck shit.

We have a deal. theonion.com/at-long-last...

These are gorgeous!