BlueSky: Why aren’t there any third spaces? Also BlueSky: Tax churches.

AI is pushing young people toward the trades www.marketplace.org/story/2025/1...

“I don't think I've ever seen a job ad that said ‘English degree required,’” he said

Has anyone else gotten so fed up with California's effective ban on clear produce bags that they have purchased their own. I'm wasting so much food because I can't see what I have and I can't see when it is starting to get old.

One of the biggest moments of my career: USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!

Just like they used to say when Biden was president!

Due to an act of Congress, the Epstein files must be released by Friday. Is Venezuela ready for the imminent invasion?

Someone need to get out the photo editing software and update this for the Age of Trump. "In the immediate aftermath, THE PRESIDENT will get it wrong" "Don't trust WHITE HOUSE sources." "Don't trust stories that cite THE PRESIDENT'S SOCIAL MEDIA as the source of information." etc.

Because if you care about securely owning a movie that you love--as opposed to "owning" it only until a license agreement over which you have no control expires without warning--you need a DVD or Blu-ray. The hardware may be yesterday; the concern is very much of this moment.

I was thinking to myself, "I can't believe it's December," but if I reflect a little and I'm honest with myself, I still can't believe it's the 2000s.

Woah! Bluesky just took ALL my chats hostage and is extorting personal identity information, like ID cards, credit cards, pictures of my face.

perusing UM Clergy Group like

If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.

30 years ago today, Netscape announced a new programming language, one that emerged from a frantic, week-and-a-half-long sprint. It ended up sticking around far longer than anyone could've expected.

We believe that celebrating a spectacle of international togetherness while ignoring the suffering of millions contradicts the spirit of the Eurovision Song Contest. In response to Israel's inclusion, we have made the difficult decision to boycott this year's contest. Full statement 👉 eurovision.nz

Even if the Democrats get back into power they won't fix all this, they'll just say this is the new status quo and exist in a holding pattern until they so infuriate voters somehow the Republicans will regain the rains and we'll all start sliding down hill again.

A UBI has existed for over 40 years in Alaska. It's a small one, and annual vs monthly, but it's entirely compatible with capitalism. Heck, the conservative FairTax plan even includes a UBI as part of it.

In retrospect this cabinet meeting seems equivalent to Biden's team insisting on doing that debate with Trump, only with less of an audience for it.

The guy is a Techno-Optimist™️

No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer

It seems unfair that only UC Berkeley gets to call itself Cal. I think each time UCLA and Berkeley play each other, the winner should get to call themselves Cal until their next game

As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store. Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.

If a phone still works fine, it’s not “device hoarding” to keep using it. It’s common sense.

If you want some good news this morning, I showed my three boys the PM doing the six/seven thing and now they have all stopped doing it.

"political violence is never acceptable," is a phrase you don't hear politicians say after cops beat the shit out of peaceful demonstrators

We are nearly approaching the 10-year anniversary of the Colangelo family Thanksgiving mystery of trying to figure out who ate the bag of gourmet dog treats thinking they were cookies and stashed the wrapper under the couch once they realized their mistake.

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

When did all the teachers suddenly become so interested in students' voices. When I was taking writing courses the goal was to conform to "standard English" and follow the examples of good writers. This "personal voice" thing only became a thing after LLMs came on the scene.

When "I won't vote for somebody who doesn't support trans people" is considered a hostage taking purity test but "I won't vote for somebody who DOES support trans people" is NOT considered a hostage-taking purity test then we aren't against hostage taking, we're just choosing our preferred hostage

People who yell about generational inequality are liars or fools. The problem is the super-rich, not your parents deanbaker22.substack.com/p/the-rich-p...

The peasants are worried about Healthcare and jobs again. DISTRACT! DISTRACT! DISTRACT! 🚨🚨🚨

Right wing fascists would have us believe that hatred of Netanyahu and his government is antisemitic. It isn't, any more than hatred of Trump and his catch-farts is hatred of all Americans. Evil should be called out wherever it appears.

Remember when some of us said the Democratic leadership would take all the wrong lessons from the blue tsunami and squander all the goodwill? Here you go.

It’s a problem with that acronym, because almost everything works for both referents “Lately SF has lost all sense of realism.” “I know. And it has so few women.” “It boils down to SF is obsessed with gadgets, and especially with AI.” “And don’t get me started on BART delays.” “Wait what”

So laws requiring them to use deadnames and assigned-at-birth pronouns are also unconstitutional, right? Right?

"Look, Mamdani's win is both the worst thing to ever happen and totally meaningless; his supporters are stupid rich kids and also dedicated communist-terrorist infiltrators; and, as I argue in this, my 12th op-ed on him, it's strange that we all keep talking about him so much."

Tuesday Zohran Mamdani convincingly wins NYC Mayoral race. This means that by next week Gavin Newsom will have grown a beard and be promoting free busses and rent freezes in California.

Exactly this. We just haven’t been given great candidates because the DNC won’t open their treasure chest for them. It’s been going on for decades and the main reason we’re in this pickle now.

I definitely had this off in the past and then i checked and it was flipped to “hide”

I would argue we won DESPITE the Democratic party.

I think this is in some ways the most encouraging thing for me from last night they really went national full court press to beat Mamdani and they got what they wanted - Republicans showed up, held their noses and voted for Cuomo, the anti-Mamdani coalition worked they still lost by 9

This is what happens with means tested programs. They bread resentment in those who still struggle but don't qualify. SNAP is also highly inefficient spending more on admin that it distributed in aid. A Universal Basic Income would solve both these problems.

I like how Zohran Mamdani scandals are like "He called his old cousin his aunt one time" and Andrew Cuomo scandals are like "He sexually assaulted 13 women."

We live in a country where the media is focused more on who a Democratic mayoral candidate defines as his ‘aunt’ than on the DHS Twitter account putting out white nationalist propaganda and replying to Nazis online.

Reagan's approach to the world prominently featured two things: 1) Russian aggression bad, Western democratic alliance good 2) Free trade good, tariffs and other barriers to trade bad Pretending it's the opposite is the sort of reality inversion only someone who rejects truth itself could buy.

I know we shouldn't invest too much in one political candidate. But I can't help but see Mamdani as a living, breathing counterexample to everything that's wrecked our current politics. I wish him nothing but success, because I feel like his success might become ours too.

Frodo wakes. ‘Where am I?’ ‘In the House of Elrond. It is ten o’clock in the morning. The morning of October the twenty-fourth, if you want to know.’ ‘Gandalf!’ ‘Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here, too, after all the absurd things you have done since you left home.’

This is why I will not vote anymore. I live in the red area. I cannot afford to live in the blue.