@nextdoorsv.bsky.social just thought to look up the history on a rental in my neighborhood that is asking $6k a month (rented for $4k two years ago). Home last purchased in 1970’s for $35,000, paying $1k for property tax. The house next to it is paying $28k. 🫠

Meanwhile in Taiwan… the official government website is honoring drag performers 🇹🇼🥇

"She's a very nutty girl" 🏳️‍🌈 Nymphia Wind of RuPaul's Drag Race fame reimagines Taiwan's roadside culture for NYC Pride March. Through drag, this project reinterprets the Betel Nut Beauty as a cultural figure with agency, stylistic force, and contemporary expression. www.moc.gov.tw/global_outre...

For anyone with homies in Texas… gist.github.com/mary-ext/6e2...

Anxious? Stressed? Unsure About Your Career?

For those who only come on this website for the Weekday Doom and not the Weekend Bantz, we collectively found horseshoe crab flipping, and it's GLORIOUS. Enjoy the whole thread, extra points if you buy a hat. www.horseshoecrab.org/store/hat.html

The inner weeb in me is always misreading Chabot as Chobits

Nothing makes me want to commission art more than being at a design conference that won’t shut up about AI

Also catching up on Love Island on the train while watching in the tiniest window possible

While I am really happy to not need to commute in my daily life these days, 3 days of riding the Caltrain again for a conference have been a delight.

A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.

this week on catfished

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It gets better. His company’s name: Greenwater Services. Did he once pay a bribe to Jim Traficant: yes, of course

Whoops modern Italian is like 70% reimported Italian American food. archive.today/hpfSz

I want you to notice how this article, which took two journalists to write, doesn't even bother to seriously explore whether the claims being made by companies are true it's genuinely just not relevant to them

California, you have trained for years for this moment. I believe in your ability to forestall the construction of one (1) building for an indeterminable amount of time

If you need a script for getting your company off Twitter, I WROTE YOU ONE. Multiple people have used it, successfully, to explain the legal liability your company incurs by forcing employees to be on a platform with child sexual abuse material. I will help you use it. anildash.com/2026/02/23/t...

Yooooo remember a couple years ago when those three LA city council members were caught on tape saying a ton of insanely racist stuff and conspiring to gerrymander another council member’s district? That other council member was Nithya Raman. The voting bloc they were trying to split? Renters.

TAKE MY REVOLUTION

If you want to watch The Vampire Lestat, watch seasons 1-2 of Interview with the Vampire. Not only will they give you context, there's no reason to skip them. Season 2 of IWTV is one of the most satisfying seasons of TV I've seen in years.

california is gonna have so many mail in ballots that don’t get counted because people don’t know the new USPS rules that are impacting mail in voting. tl;dr don’t put your ballot in the mail today, find a ballot drop box. www.kqed.org/news/1208537...

#WitchHatAtelier creator Kamome Shirahama is headed to #KodanshaHouse LA for a special conversation with guest speaker Dana Terrace (The Owl House). Enter at kodanshahouse.com#WitchHatAtelier#KodanshaHouseefore June 5, 6PM PST for a chance to win a ticket to this event!

just a reminder that utena is still on youtube for free, subbed and dubbed youtube.com/playlist?lis...

“Google’s AI Overviews are peddling misinformation on a scale that may be virtually unprecedented in human history. A recent analysis conducted at the behest of The New York Times found that the AI-generated summaries, which appear above Google search results, are accurate around 91% of the time.”

This is just the first mockup but I decided to make myself a tshirt so people will stop fucking talking to me about how much they love AI

“The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you”

The Neverending Story is actually a pretty good analogy for aspects of fascism: a violent emptiness seeking the erasure of imagination and fomenting despair.

They're spending millions of dollars on this campaign. Imagine what social services could do with that money.

NEW: The tobacco company Reynolds American donated $5M to the Trump-backed super PAC MAGA Inc. on 4/30/2026. 8 days later, the Trump administration rolled out a new policy that could be very lucrative for Reynolds by allowing it to begin selling flavored vapes.

Gundam Wing episode 1 if it had the Hathaway needle drop

“The increase in Black infant mortality, from 9 to 21 deaths per 1,000 births, means Black infants born in Hamilton County are more at risk than those born in Iraq, Iran, Guatemala, Honduras, Libya or Vietnam, according to the World Bank.”

Dozens of empty Waymos invaded an Atlanta neighborhood and circled a cul-de-sac for hours with no passengers www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Nice Reuters graphic on Taiwan-recognizing nations.

How I feel every time I think about Comixology

Why does California have 123,974 people sleeping on the street? I hate to break this to you, but it's not because of billionaires, private equity, or venture capital. It's because of your neighbor Frank -- who is big mad at a 5 story apartment for low income senior farmers.

when ur on a walk and there's a dog

I WISH this was an exaggeration. www.kron4.com/news/technol...

Job hunting in a hostile environment. ✨

So since the State of California mostly funds K-12, that means income taxes mostly fund K-12. And that means its very volatile! (Unlike property taxes) If you like teachers, you'd better hope that tech stonks keep going up, and that the AI bubble doesn't blow up! /4 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sem7...

It wasn't always like this! Before Prop 13 1978, property taxes did used to cover schools! And then it didn't when people decided that property taxes sucked. Who could've predicted there would be consequences (aside from all the experts who predicted this disaster) /3 ed100.org/lessons/whop...

A lot of people replied or quoteskeeted my post saying "Schools too!" That's not really accurate for most of America. And definitely not California due to Prop 13 1978. /1 ed100.org/lessons/whop...

Can I have a vacation where I just stay home and deep clean my bathrooms and read manga

this admin is an act of treason against the US constitution and that is all of how it will be remembered

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

For people that post on TikTok, I’m sure you’ve heard that TikTok automatically opted everyone in to allow every video you’re ever posted to “allow AI to remix content.” Unlike the “Allow reuse of content” which you can toggle off and on for your account, you can’t do the same for this AI thing

They're calling it the best democracy ever. www.ft.com/content/7529...

Tapping the sign

i feel bad for our country but this is tremendous content

you fucking guessed it! "Last year, Philz was purchased by private equity firm Freeman Spogli & Co., which also owns Popeyes Chicken and El Pollo Loco, for a reported $145 million, according to Mission Local, though the company did not provide details of the deal."