“You got those photos of Kate Mulgrew using a cell phone?” “Yeah boss, real fuckin’ sexy, just like you asked.”

What a ✨ description from Horace Ballard re: Bethany Collins' reimagining of Confederate statuary: "It is Collins’s exactitude of form, expertise in memory-work, and archival witness that make this more than a response or gesture. This is a mercy" 🥹 www.artforum.com/features/mon...

Braindead populism:

you can imagine a baltimore dot that for the last 2 decades made sure every resurfaced road contained space for a bike lane. it would have been well within their power to do, and the cumulative effects would have helped further all four of these plans. instead, here we are. shameful and depressing

In Xena season 2 you discover, in the vampire episode (of course there's a vampire episode), that the ancient greeks had both hip-hop AND trip-hop.

Not in the mood to build a LaneSaber yourself? Let me build it for you! Just opened an Etsy store so those without tools can be safe too. This one is the heavy duty big boy that directly mounts to your rear rack. “Batteries Not Included”

Intriguingly, a google search for "billionaire escape pod" and "le guin" produces only 4 pages of results, none of which are more than a few months old, & almost all are on Instagram. Ursula Le Guin has been dead for 8 years.

Anyone who has ridden a bike in a city knows something else about speeding cars: it doesn't even help! We all end up together at the next red light anyway, but not all of us needed to travel at killing speeds to do it

SCOTUS: ok so all the KKK members in the Republican Party have to do is avoid saying "I'm doing this for racist reasons" on television and they can redistrict away THE REPUBLICAN PARTY:

How come whenever someone fails to kill the president, the whole conservative establishment blames us for correctly labeling him a fascist, but when trans women are murdered there isn’t a single call to “tone down the rhetoric?”

And it wouldn't even lead to lower prices at the pump! Here's the legendary @pkrugman.bsky.social writing in 2000.

A bike crash is when you fall off your bike. This is a more accurate headline: Towson teen on bicycle hit & killed by driver, leaving school in mourning.

Cycling is this beautiful thing. You can go anywhere in the world, ride a bike, and enjoy the city and meet people. You come back, and you meet lifelong friends. It's an experience that I wish everybody would enjoy.

RASHI LIVES!!! and he’s in trouble with his mother 🫠

Requiring the parent of a SNAP recipient to provide a written statement clarifying that a birthday money transfer was not recurring support is so dystopian.

The word ‘driver’ is in the third paragraph of this piece

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

The crisis that RFK jr is talking about is that teen pregnancy is down.

I’ve been watching Xena: Warrior Princess for the first time, and it’s wonderfully ridiculous. S01E24 is the episode when it becomes The Pitt as Xena helps an Amazon warrior pregnant with a centaur’s baby while she teaches medicine to Hippocrates and Galen and stops a civil war.

On Saturday a bunch of my pals raised money to support Baltimore’s Moveable Feast (and then rode bikes). They asked me to join them for 2027, so the fundraising has begun. If you’d like to give some money to feed our neighbors in crisis, this is a great way, and I wrote a little about it here:

in america, those german chocolate eggs with toys inside are banned because they're a danger to kids

I don't understand anything anymore.

"none of us can cancel everything but everyone can cancel something" is the heart of this. Sometimes it feels like folks on here are more interested in yelling at each other over the ways we're all struggling to navigate this system instead of figuring out what parts we can do.

It’s telling that Alabama took 14 years to implement Brown (you MUST desegregate) and < 14 days to implement Callais (you CAN eliminate Black districts if you call them Democratic, but you don’t HAVE to).

man, fuck this. $153 million could do a lot of good

yeah man, we’re all just dummies who don’t understand that you’re just judicial monks operating in a sphere of pure law [puts finger to ear] what’s this, clarence thomas gave another speech blaming progressives for hitler?

mercantilism: failed capitalist free market: failed planned economies: failed we are not repeating the mistakes of the past, no we are instead moving in a bold new direction with the Centrally Unplanned economy. all decisions will be made by a guy who has no idea what's going on.

This seems fake. Nothing is showing up on any of my accounts, and anyone legit would have an exact amount and not the item purchased, right?

I've been accused of exaggerating or fabricating the things people say about drivers vs other road users before but a drunk driver deliberately driving on the sidewalk to try to mow down a child & multiple people replying to question the propriety of the child's behaviour is so fucking on the nose.

Angela Morley had two careers, either one of which would be notable. Under her deadname she did the music for the Goon Show, Hancock's Half Hour etc and arranged Scott Walker's first four albums. Post-transition she worked in Hollywood and got three Emmys and an Oscar nomination.

This has me thinking about all the drivers that scream out their windows that I should be riding on the sidewalk while I'm doing 25mph on the road. This story is going to end with Spokane banning e-bikes, right? They'll find a way.

You can't fix the geometry of cars. Like plaque in an artery, they restrict the flow of life in our cities.

so sorry.

JANE SAYS / she can’t move any cows / the gas is too exPENsiiiiiiive

COSTELLO: well then who’s supporting the public health event ABBOTT: yes COSTELLO: I mean the fellow’s name ABBOTT: who COSTELLO: the guy supporting the public health event ABBOTT: who COSTELLO: involving the cruise vessel ABBOTT: who COSTELLO: I wish I was on that fucking cruise vessel

Moraff’s Revenge (1988).

Set my wheels up tubeless today, and it was much easier than I expected. I was worried about setting the bead with a floor pump and… it was fine? I think it helped that I had to ride the tires with tubes for a week and took them on and off a couple times which made them more flexible.

pope out here describing white sox baseball as cinema

Ottobar, come for the ambience, stay for the delicious drinks?

I hadn’t seen the poster before and wasn’t expecting such “pray the rosary” energy.

It’s my opinion any prosecutor or police found withholding exonerating evidence should serve an equal amount of prison time and forfeit all money and property earned since the conviction to the wrongfully imprisoned person. That seems extremely fair to me. apnews.com/article/manh...

Happy April 28 to all who celebrate!

I am psyched about earth. These kids. I am psyched about being caught in the tangle of their lives.

Your regular reminder that there's a profession where the employees are so violent, so untrustworthy, that they are required by law to have personal video supervision every time they interact with the general public, just so there is any sort of factual record of what occurs.

Famously Lincoln’s last words were “this is why I need a home theatre.”

Ball room is a bipartisan preoccupation, as we know from recordings of LBJ's calls to his tailor

Do we really need to rerun this study every 6 months or do we have to do it for every singular trans person in every singular sport? How are cis people this bad at pattern recognition?