Republicans, when talking about war and absolutely nothing else.

Clown event

“clown event still possible”

Do these fools want republicans to reap what they sow from starting a stupid war, or not?

Announcing: Coming to PBS on April 1! LIFE UNEARTHED with Ariel Waldman is a visually striking science-driven nature series that reveals Earth’s ecosystems through radical shifts in scale—from microscopic wildlife to the planet’s most iconic species, and even the potential for life beyond Earth. 🧪🦠

PlanScore just added scenarios to play with the implications of various swings in vote share for US House elections. For instance, it thinks current generic ballot (7 point shift from 2024 = D+5 generic ballot) implies about 230 seats for Democrats. planscore.org#!predict7D-u...

This game is swingy as hell 🏀 #dubnation

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Minesweeper but it's the Strait of Hormuz. Source: sweepthestrait.com

Straits are now battlefields

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We should stop using the word “impeachable” because it suggests a legal definition for a political idea: is there enough will to do it? Then it will get done

This is how I access Bluesky

This is how I access Bluesky

This is how I access Bluesky

This is how I access Bluesky

Did some plug-in solar math on my last 12 months of utility bills. Right now a DIY set of 1.2kW plug-in solar panels would pay for itself in 3 years. Alternatively a DIY set of 2.4kW panels + 3.6kWh of battery would also pay for itself in 3 years.

If coding is your favorite part of software engineering, keep coding. AI doesn't stop you. But if coding was the only part you were good at, that's a different conversation. The job was always bigger than the code. #bransoncognac blog.bryanl.dev/posts/ai-sen...

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“No consciousness without class consciousness” is pretty good!

“The ideology is both stranger and stupider than commonly supposed: conservatism, in the final analysis, isn’t conserving any actual order, it is conserving the idea of an underlying order … wants to preserve some parts of the existing order and reform others, a fascist wants to overturn all of it.”

Nobody likes it except that one guy who gets to change the really big clock because they let him swing from all the gears while he does it. The Old Clock Master they call him. He gets up there on those gears and gets to swinging and whooping and he's the only one who likes this.

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Please add your comments to the survey, especially about the dangers of painted bike lanes Painted bike lanes on 2nd are dangerous door-zone lanes used more for double parking, and are not appropriate for a transit hub. OakDOT should follow the bike plan and install protected bike lanes on 3rd

I wonder if you could update The West Wing for 2026 by adding a laugh track.

@kerithburke.bsky.social get the rest of those goofs off the Bad Place

Good first half from Scrub Nation 🏀 #dubnation

Webster’s Dictionary defines shield as “a device or part that serves as a protective cover or barrier”

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We made a big addition to PlanScore this week: a scenario adjustment tool to change, view, and share outcomes for district plans. I wrote up a short summary of the technical changes we made, and link from there to a wider review of the politics that motivate the work: medium.com/@michalmigur...

A fine replacement for the previous Klay Thompson mural!

Sky business

Check out this very cool update to @planscore.org: You can now move a slider back and forth to simulate how a map would perform under any electoral environment. For more, see this post by @mike.teczno.com: medium.com/planscore/pl...

We made some big upgrades to the PlanScore website. You can now design your own scenario to examine potential outcomes in state legislative and congressional districting plans. On any new plan, you can change incumbency, vote margins, and the base election that PlanScore uses for the projection.

Getting ready for the 2026 mid-terms, every PlanScore analysis page moving forward will now feature a new scenario adjustment tool to make it easy to change, view, and share potential outcomes that may differ from 2024 medium.com/planscore/pl... Try with this NC map: planscore.org/plan.html?20...

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As @clairewillett.bsky.social writes: "I hate these people to a degree that feels simultaneously corrosive to the soul, and also the only righteous response to this kind of evil." Homer called it Οργή. It's what Achilles feels. (It's what Achilles DOES.) Also used by St Paul for the wrath of God.

Once again, in actual democracies, people do not need to engage in permanent litigation & political mobilization to retain the basic right to vote, because none of the major political parties make restricting suffrage the central pillar of their policy platform. We also don't have to live like this.

Well that's rad www.reddit.com/r/oakland/co...

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A neighbor

What a week for performative cruelty

I'm collecting stories from folks about how they currently bike San Pablo Ave, or WANT to bike San Pablo Ave, to help inform an article in @bikeeastbay.bsky.social's next print newsletter. Please take 2 minutes to fill out the form here with your story! forms.gle/MBBSNwFcnBma...

Cars ruin cities!