I am on Team Gentrification, and you should be as well.

An act to mandate all references to the population of a city in general discussion be to the containing metropolitan area and not the legal entity of a city with that name.

As a literal statement this is largely true if candidate quality means chance of winning and obviously false if candidate quality means value-over-replacement; I would assume he means the former, but that's not really the best metric to focus on.

Most evil budget in history apparently passing the House *by the margin of the guy who died YESTERDAY* is probably this year's biggest piece of Dem political malpractice yet.

Inexcusably late joke, but they should rename it the Pope.

In this house we believe that the suburbs are part of the city.

I'd be willing to defend that, honestly.

Innovative and unique posting on the timeline today.

You say "be gay, do crimes" but you do not assist the Alphabet Mafia in its operations; curious.

Dusting off my polycular synthesis setup.

Feminine urge to reply to bleets to which I should not.

Poor resume ↔️ No employment. Sometimes I'm not sure why I bother.

Fun fact: more than a third of US rail systems (mostly cities with a tram and nothing else) get fewer riders than this suburban station in Sydney.

It is now 2025 for a majority of Earth's human population.

If anyone reading this knows of such a job which pays >= $24/hr, I can start immediately.

It is kind of annoying that there basically do not seem to be any true entry-level computing jobs on the market.

On principle he should have commuted the other three as well (particularly Tsarnaev, who strikes me as more sympathetic than a number of people who did make the cut), but it's a start.

If you count thesis supervision as collaboration, my Erdős-Bacon number is seven.

My take on DST discourse is that we should do reverse DST to ensure the sun doesn't set too late in summer.

Taking suggestions for what to do with 1.4 kg instant ramen and 2 kg canned tuna.

They should make this creature the Australian national mollusc.

5/5 (!) intercity trains that I've been on in the last two days have been >20 minutes late when I got off; we need better delay recovery procedures.

I do not particularly appreciate Microsoft buying every surface of this train for advertising.

If I had a nickel for every attempted coup in a major Western country that I slept through the entirety of this decade, I would have two nickels.

One like for one take.

I see UK Labour has decided they need to be eviler.

I would be curious to hear how Bluesky intends to handle the under-16 social media ban our Parliament seems to have just passed.

"Big business steals from every little guy in existence" Disregarding the mischaracterization as stealing, this is fine; consumers in every sector clearly want big business to make things into mass markets. Copyright just makes this dynamic more asymmetric because big business has better lawyers.

Mementote nihil nisi machinarum.

This is an anti-property account. Free land, free commodities, free information.

Sadly the aesthetic quality of the Chinese script has greatly declined over the last few thousand years.

Most user-friendly interface:

Concurrent appointment to multiple judicial districts seems like an odd relic.

Harris 2024 vs Trump 2020 (tipping point MI is D+1.4).

What's the biggest city in the US that doesn't have at least one distant suburb with an inflated idea of its own importance (Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Sacramento, San Diego)?

China is particularly egregious about it, but it's really annoying how many historical things are known by modernized or foreign names that bear at best a tenuous relationship to what they would have called themselves.

We don't talk enough about how parenting is inherently reactionary and must be abolished.

Is it just me or is Discord having some issues right now?

It should be illegal to have transfers where you have to wait more than 80% of the inter-train period.

The spider wants you to engage with this post.

I have an unfortunate tendency to damage umbrellas I use, but today I used a new umbrella for the first time and one of the spokes was bent out of place no later than when I finished opening it, which has to be a record.

Doomscrolling Bluesky is just like doomscrolling Twitter, except instead of getting no new posts half of the time I refresh it is almost all of the time.

It seems we're not yet at the stage of the entire dictionary being taken here.