one of the things that's stuck with me from @thewaroncars.bsky.social book is how commonly used language has shifted the blame. car "accidents" as opposed to "crashes." it takes the—as you put it—violence out of the equation.

someone tell the California ACLU who is disproportionately more likely to be killed in traffic accidents including those involving people under the influence

# Christmas carol lyrics that go hard when you paste them over a picture of Stacker Pentecost

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The way tech companies constantly do stuff that nobody asked for really tells you a lot about their bigger ideology. They tell themselves that you will like it over time. What they mean is you’ll learn to endure it, or you’ll give up. quality of UI is not actually anywhere on their radar

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I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit

siri play “afraid of horses” by half gringa

voice of a generation

PHOTOS: Feds deploy tear gas in Elgin as hourslong standoff ends in man's arrest chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Thin people always think we're imagining things. We are not.

A reminder: Gregory Bovino may be gone and a bunch of his men aren't here anymore but Border Patrol is still in Chicagoland, randomly stopping folks at Home Depots and chasing people through the snow.

Religion note: Remember that pastor who was arrested protesting an ICE detention facility outside Chicago recently? The one who was photographed on the ground as officers arrested him? That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.

have been sitting on this one for a bit as too niche, and it is, but …

As a side note to the broader point - here’s yet another reason for reducing car dependency. A car shouldn’t have to be an essential.

"Randy Mastro felt he had to do something but didn't want to do a single thing to validate anyone loosely associated with Transportation Alternatives" may be the Occam's Razor explanation here, eh? bsky.app/profile/shab...

I am profoundly grateful for the support. As some of you have requested, I am releasing our full secure bike parking proposal publicly for NYC. We did not take anything for granted-- we partnered with global leaders in London and Paris as well as Motivate + others docsend.com/view/rw3vxqe...

I have no insight into any of this process or Oonee's proposal, but it's a real shame that a local company was seemingly denied this opportunity all around.

Good morning.

a lovely thread. a really good live theatrical effect has a magic that cinema just can't reproduce

Was able to spot 3 of the named plows: Sleet Home Chicago, Da Plow, and Jean Baptiste Pont du Shovel. No sign of my plow, dubbed Ernie Snowbanks. @sorenspicknall.bsky.social

What a great headline

The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture

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Hello, YouTube has shown me a video of a guy teaching an octopus from the fish market to play piano www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcWn...

we have to go back. to warn them.

Just posting this so I can embed this in a future blog. Yams. Sweet Potato Yams.

When the new bike lane is just paint:

so our government made a big deal about banning speed cameras but one city left theirs running to see what difference the ban would make and you are not going to believe this

They did it again! NYC subway Thanksgiving 2025, via @scootercaster.com!

🟤 🟤🤎🟤 ➖ 🟫🟫 ➖ 🟫🟫 👟 👟 My abstract nude for Vanity Fair

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A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.

the left nimby crashout bc Zohran actually wants to build more housing is genuinely so funny

Median r/delta poster

haven’t seen ROS or Solo but this seems like a pretty ball-knowing list from Pritzker, particularly if he volunteered the name “Star Wars” rather than “A New Hope”

This guy is now 11 for 11. Amazing. bsky.app/profile/park...

people are reading "catch-and-kill" in the journalistic sense but she was probably just finding raccoons for him to eat

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this should be a much bigger story

me waking up and opening this app

this was made specifically for me

Ideal jrpg party composition

I really can't stress how important it is for progressive and leftists to contend for school, library, water, etc etc boards. Hyper local involvement in our communities where we can actually influence lives.

lol

the nuzzi story is fun and all but at the center of it is the elevation of a man who has dedicated his life to making children catch preventable diseases to a position where he can enact harm at enormous scale

Wild how the Boy Mayor age for cis white men overlaps with the geriatric pregnancy age

Folks, I did it. I made the Cooks Illustrated competing pear crisps, and then I made my friends judge them blind.

Everyone yells about parents letting their kids watch iPads at restaurants but then also yells when parents purposely pick a place where it’s appropriate for kids to play in outdoor space and lets them play.