the fundamental problem with tech positivity as a movement is that people like Lindsey and Musk see the gendered bifurcation of the “two cultures” of science and humanities and extrapolate way, way too much from this (due to bigotry, but there’s versions of the same error that are more mundane)

Also we need to be real that the GOP is using “Haitians” or “Somalis” or such with a hard R

Exactly why I've introduced HB 2095, to adopt Canada and Europe's framework of "presumed liability" for drivers who injure or kill vulnerable road users. Let's take what's working in other places and make our roads safer here for everyone. #waleg

my demands are simple, mr. bond

Might not help this site much but big miss from the sports leagues to let mediocre bowls rule Friday December 26th until 7 Eastern. Gotta get some more day games going

Holy fuck. Washington deserves a lot better, and I really hope Mayor Wilson can get some other Sound Area mayors on board with asking what the idea here is.

JESUS CHRIST ON A FUCKING CRACKER www.theurbanist.org/2025/12/22/f...

Anyway the problem with a permanent vibescession caused at least in part by social media posturing is that while it might screw Trump in the short term it really screws the politics of generosity and solidarity in the long term. Believing times are bad makes people more selfish.

(Starting an 🍎 review 🧵 because we live in a golden age of apples and they don’t get enough respect. Feel free to mute). First time trying Pizzaz, a newer Honeycrisp cross, and I’m a fan! Still crisp like a Honeycrisp, but a little more tart and low key flavor. Maintains color when cut. Easy eating

"Public meetings aren’t going anywhere, and citizen input will always have a place. But there have to be limits — and the views of nearby homeowners who show up for meetings can’t be the last word on whether Massachusetts gets the housing it needs."

The reality of being a progressive sports fan is making peace with the fact that you really don't want to know what these guys think about most things. Women's sports are a bit better because of how much politics is Gender these days, but it's relative

I don't know what Jerry is doing, but the White Sox taking last year as the absolute embarrassment it should be is a good thing

Again, I truly *loved* this week’s episode of Heated Rivalry, but IT IS A WISH FULFILLMENT ROMANCE. The success of a gay hockey romance TV show, largely watched by people who are neither hockey players nor hockey fans, is not “proof that the world is ready and all we would do is love you”

It’s not lost on me that BOOTS — based on a memoir about being gay in the pre-DADT Marines — didn’t really take off and got canceled after one season. Actually existing as a closeted gay man in a traditionally masculine space isn’t really fun or fun to watch.

Isn’t that a neat trick? By playing semantic games with the planning process, we’ve eliminated the possibility of rail entirely without ever bothering to systematically examine whether it would make sense. Another $15-$17 billion to the highway contractors! That bike path is just icing on the cake.

The MAC is the soul of America. I stand by this

I have a distinct memory of this when I still on so many painkillers that I could see, but not feel, strangers touching my genitals. Absolutely surreal moment honestly.

The Marina District is one of the wealthiest areas in San Francisco. It's incredibly damning that the self-proclaimed "progressive" candidate in the congressional race opposes the redevelopment of a Safeway into a 25 story apartment building, and claims that it will "destroy" the neighborhood.

Thinking an awful lot about Wake Up, Dead Man, and how Josh Brolin’s Monsignor Wicks tightens his hold on his dwindling flock by demonstrating their cowardice when he says shit so revolting that others walk out.

If you want to say that every pedestrian and bicycle fatality, every DUI is "a policy choice" go ahead - but be aware that part of that policy choice is prioritizing the comfort of lawless and reckless drivers over pedestrians and cyclists.

Yeah I’m sorry, but this is indefensible and is *exactly* the kind of shit that people are talking about when they talk about non-profit/activist brainworms. And it’s causing real harm here! Minorities are more likely to be victims of drunk drivers as well!

"Cookie cutter" housing is good. It's good when cities pre-approve designs, making it easier to add more housing. www.berkeleyside.org/2025/12/09/t...

I thought an 8-team playoff would've been enough, I don't support going past 12, but one way or another, now that we're to a place where undefeated teams do not get left out, the only answer to any playoff 'snub' whining is "damn, you probably should've just won all your games"

That might be the worst possible outcome. What a crock of shit.

what follows immediately after the birthright clause? the privileges and immunities and due process clauses? and what follows them? the equal protection clause. all of this is explicitly to say, "the declaration is the constitutional law of the land"

i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.

Stockton Dr is cleared of all snow and ice right down to the asphalt for cars, but hundreds of daily CTA bus riders at this stop have to navigate icy lumps #PlowTheSidewalks

getting kinda negatively polarized on self driving (waymo, not Tesla) bans. they do cost like the technology clearly works and is viable for at least intra-city transit, at a certain point the distracted, drunk, et. driving deaths are in fact actively on the people seeking to delay it's deployment

There are some well-meaning non-sports folks who think sports is a land of naïveté, and sports media does a lot to enshrine that. But just as a general rule: most diehard sports fans are at the other end of the spectrum, trying to preserve scraps of joy among a withering torrent of cynicism.

single-family-only zoning is not what keeps the zinc smelters away from the playgrounds

If your wage leads to a "tight" budget that still allows you to live in a "well-off Boston suburb" it is not poverty.

This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.

this is a blasphemy.

LONG RAMBLING EMOTIONAL THREAD: It's World AIDS Day. Since the Administration has decided to keep it quiet, I'd like to share my introduction to AIDS. I grew up in Seattle. My mom remarried a man who had a brother who was a King County Sheriff's Deputy. His name was Terry and he was gay. 1/x

i recoiled a lot at the depiction of the fans in Ep 1 of Pluribus because, while people like that exist, they aren’t really the full extent of the problem

Malteses are far from the worst offenders, but there's a reason I prefer working group dogs. Nothing silly going on there, just a bunch of herders and sled pullers.

The only way to stop this for state govts to start going after the universities that do this and then for the next democratic admin to go after universities again too.

New housing lowers rents.

They believe that Trump will use the formal powers of the government and whatever informal powers he may have to extract costs from them if they do not play ball and they equally believe that the anti-Trump coalition will not extract these costs. So we need to extract those costs.

This is fundamentally Nazism. The idea that different peoples than the favored races carry degradation in their very genes, that they cannot strive to become better because biology compels them to be worse. It’s not just repugnant, it’s a bald faced lie.

Journalists are jumping all over this guy but what evidence do we have that isn’t true. I’m not even saying it is true, but why would we take their word that it isn’t?

Given the amount of inflation in the last few years, a lot of people don't have enough car insurance. Everyone should review their policies, including their under-insured limits, before they renew.

As always, "just win lol" is undefeated

Flint's water crisis followed a budget crisis which put Flint under the rule of a state level emergency manager. They needed cheaper water and chose to get it from a more local water source. That water authority subsequently failed to properly treat the water, leaving the water corrosive.

It remains insane to me that DOGE was treated at the time as an impressive shock and awe accomplishment - “you can’t deny he’s getting stuff done!” - and then instantly memory holed by the press once if became clear it was a total failure by every possible standard including Musk’s own

At least ACC basketball is back. Doesn't bring in the money like football but the ACC being a football conference is as offensive as that period in the mid 2000s where Louisville, Rutgers, and Cincinnati briefly turned the Big East into one.

DC journalism is an enterprise focused first and foremost on the inner workings of DC journalism. This has been a worsening problem for years, but the fact of Donald Trump (among other things) accelerated it considerably.

i actually believe this very strongly, not in a shitpost way. i manage my band IG account, and it looks very different from my account here on bluesky for many reasons, one of which is that it destroys your credibility to speak singularly on an org account and also because it's not fair to the org

It's hard to describe how disorienting it is to see this many students absent. My only mental reference point is the weeks leading up to school getting canceled due to COVID-19, when students were starting to stay home due to illness or out of precaution. CBP/ICE is a plague.

VERY, VERY pleased