Neither Montana nor California have legalized in-app gambling and the fact that those two very different states agree on this should be a signal to everywhere else.

Anybody who doesn’t like Thanksgiving turkey isn’t salting theirs 24 hours beforehand and cooking it to 145 degrees for 30 minutes w/ a solid rest afterwards Pre-salting meat a day+ beforehand was the simplest, biggest unlock I ever learned about cooking

The little known sequel by Richard Greenberg

Very odd to look at a 1971 scrapbook of a road trip through various small German towns and knowing (before even checking Maps) that the parking lot in front of some cathedral is now a packed pedestrianized plaza. Because all these countries knew the parking was unsustainable!

Making sure developers don’t make a dime is more important than building homes for people

Quakebot’s gotta fix this rounding situation at some point lmao

Not my fault apple knocked the 13 pro out of the park until maybe the current generation

The alternative to an SRO isn't a larger apartment; the alternative is a tent.

Marjorie rode one train to Georgia, got some time to reflect, and realized the last decade of her life has been based on lies

sorry,

I don't blame people for assuming there's no good, healthy version of online community. Anyone younger than me has probably never seen it. But it used to exist, I swear.

Yet somehow still everything between the 110, 105 and 405 are still forgotten!

My crazy idea for incorporating public feedback into city planning: You let residents vote for representatives in city government, and those people are empowered to implement the policies they promised while campaigning.

if dems win congress next year they need to introduce an impeachment resolution against emil bove

lol yeah, don’t need those entry level folks anymore! Hey how’s that anti aging technology going, are any of those existing workers going to stop getting older?

As somebody who spends hours trying to optimize between (effectively) two choices of employer-provided plans—I wouldn’t wish that level of hyper-focus on anybody

i think vance is only interesting inasmuch as he extremely unprincipled and thus a good guide to where the GOP is going (gift link)

Me any time I have to hear this guy’s opinions

My most NIMBY position is, no new self storage buildings in town. As someone who did need it for a year after a move, I know it drives up costs—ours was 2 hours north of our house because of cost & availability!—but it’s a case of wanting to incentivize people to consider consuming less

NEW via CNN: “The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal”

Man I bet the Cave Caucus would be so upset right now if they could read, or had been awake and paying any attention at all for the last decade

The burnout line in this is so real. I’ve spent almost all year essentially burned out from advocating for a single development in my city (not to mention the burnout from… *gestures broadly*, plus work). Perhaps soon I can get back to business here.

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

On a panel at a Space Diplomacy Symposium, talking about civil space. 1 thing I’m struck by: the educational and inspirational work we do is critical and is largely not replaced by commercial or military space actors.

ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*

Is this... Hopescrolling?

really important element of this basically total victory is that it puts the fear of god in republican incumbents and may bring the redistricting push to a total halt

Politicians should probably get on Bluesky to get better in touch with the American electorate.

Instead of changing the clocks by an hour twice a year, we should change them a minute a day for half the year. Stop selling clocks on ovens! It’s 2025, all the rest of our clocks are changing automatically!

even when far rightwingers are having an extremely positive experience on all fronts they’re still able to hallucinate a situation where they’re the victim

Nick Schifrin better have a great therapist. That guy seems to exclusively cover absolute atrocities—Ukraine, Gaza and now Darfur

This is funny because the one time I had a day in Anchorage, I was thinking… The bones are definitely here, this could be a sweet town if only some more density were incentivized Granted it wasn’t in the winter, but still.

Yup, I am constantly surprised at how well my city council public comments go in my head beforehand, vs. how they come out in the moment under time pressure

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

TRUMP IS LITERALLY DEMOLISHING THE WHITE HOUSE TO BUILD HIMSELF A PALACE

We simply have to bring back shame

Can the Times et al actually explain their coverage priorities, even internally? How is it that any hint of denigration of Americans by a Dem is front-page news, but the president publishing video in which he calls himself "King Trump" and flies a plane dumping sewage on Americans' heads NOT news?

This is what the protests are for—people hate talking politics with strangers because we don’t necessarily have a shared base of facts. We need to not feel alone in thinking “this is crazy, right?”

Was literally just saying the same thing

Chris Murphy: "This is a country that's falling apart because Trump is in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. We're not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We're in the middle of it ... I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that literally funds the destruction of our democracy"

Look I’m gonna court some controversy here and say, even the most mainstream of all music: TLoaS, GNX and HMHaS are all fantastically interesting pieces of art made in the last year, and yet peak popular music. Skill issue here ten thousand percent if you don’t recognize that.

CSB YouTube channel’s 2028 video subject just dropped

New Taylor Swift album is proof she needed a break from Jack producing lol Lots of 70s/80s showing up here to my ear. & I will never not like a clarinet feature in popular music

There is quite literally a decades old tv game show about this

last night I was talking to a community organizer from Mississippi and he was like “who even remembers what milk cost last month! I forget by the time I reach the checkout! It’s two dollars or something!” and he’s got a better grasp on how people engage with prices than the entire political class

I think I’m too American to understand these words used in this order

this is more or less what I expected

the US should return to a global leadership position by submitting ourselves fully to international norms and laws rather than having our cake and eating it too and dictating our will at all times. isolationism but woke isn't the answer and it's not clear if that's what the world even wants from us.