The fact that Biden passed the Green New Deal in all but name and the most progressive climate advocates decided to smear him over it was truly blackpilling to me. Rather than "this was a great start, let's keep going", the online advocacy claimed it was worse than nothing.

We've already given them plenty of incentive and they looked for excuses to continue their behavior.

Spoiler: They will not, and they can not.

me on bluesky in 2023: stay calm, act chill, and maybe people won't think I'm some kind of terribly uncool "car guy" (or, god forbid, "tech guy") me on bluesky in 2026: you know what, let's talk about cars and AVs, this place needs to talk about something other than the horrors

this is how every outlet should refer to X

God I have seen what you have done for others....

this web site has such a wide variety of ages of 38 year olds

New — I wrote about how corporate media is immediately siding with power in the wake of Trump attacking Venezuela and capturing Maduro, and how journalists need to treat the administration as a hostile entity that’s openly lying to them.

One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years. Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.

Easiest question ever

"YOU'LL KNOW WHEN I ANNOUNCE A POLICY CHANGE, BECAUSE I'LL ANNOUNCE A POLICY CHANGE." —Mayor Wilson

The energy I'm bringing into 2026

People seem to have almost this mythic idea of what shenanigans McConnell was able to get away with as minority leader. And it is almost exclusively just "he used the filibuster" which, like, Schumer is doing too?

we're 25 days out from a shutdown and there is really no indication at this point that we're gonna have an open gov come jan 31st

I would say 10 years in prison for everyone who used Grok to undress a woman's (or a child's) photo on X should help. The culture will noticeably improve if we remove these freaks from society for a while.

We told the HP fans to read another book but we neglected to tell the Star Wars fans to watch a different movie….

Rest in piss

This is a known CIA tactic from the COINTELPRO days

one of the most backwards, sabotaging instincts in purportedly progressive spaces is the desire to find a random, powerless individual who many can agree is weird in an undesirable way and make them into a problem to be fixed, because they're easily harmed unlike the powerful villains of our world

in all seriousness people are aggro’ing over increasingly stupid and bad things because they feel useless in the current moment which, to be serious, means you should log off and do more things instead of just screaming at someone

I also know several really good journalists who have told me they don’t post as much on here anymore because of the uniquely scoldy culture on Bsky. I just think it’s always worth evaluating your own information bubble and the forces that shape it.

I really think Lowtax, by enshrining antisocial assholery as the default mode of being online among strangers, was one of the most influential people of the 21st century so far

If I had one wish it would be for internet leftists to learn the definition of neoliberal

If you can’t find common ground with the wills and sky’s of the world you’re not really ready for a true progressive movement

And elections tampering is a good enough excuse 🤔

There are two exterminators in town, one is good and the other is notoriously shitty. Your landlord asks who he should hire for the roach problem. You say “I don’t care it’s all the same to me.” He hires the shitty one. You leave a one-star yelp review on the good exterminator.

Should I make this into a sticker for sale? Would you buy it and put it on all pictures of the Donald and his minions you see?

Ba(c)kfiets neu gedacht #Carryshitolympics

I basically never see the racism or murder at the Racist Murder Pit. You can avoid that kind of thing if you don't go looking for it. The truth is, the Racist Murder Pit is the best place to have meaningful conversations about politics. And you can pretty easily ignore all the racism and murder

wow

Lord of the year lord of the year lord of the year lord of the year

NEW STORY // Puget Sound Agencies Offer Fare-Free Transit on New Year’s Eve Story by Stephen Fesler via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/12/31/p...

so much of the bike infrastructure debate is shaped by the presupposition that people who drive cars need their cars, whereas people who ride bikes don’t really need them

Merry Christmas and a Happy Holidays to everyone.

RIP to the horse who whinnies at the end of 'sleigh ride' you would have loved short form vertical video

this does not change the fact that the Democratic Party in 2025 is, at least on social issues, *without question* the most liberal major political party that has ever existed anywhere in the world

It is well past time for blue states to withhold their federal taxes

the shitstorm that’s already brewing because of Bari’s decision to spike this story is going to end up being vastly more damaging to her and to the admin than allowing the story to air would have been she’s an evil propagandist hack but she is also very bad at doing it in a way that isn’t hamfisted

The Abundance movement often points to environmental groups as the obstacles to building. But who actually files the lawsuits blocking projects? It’s not environmental groups. It’s been lawyered-up HOAs protecting property values all along. Regulation by litigation is the problem.

So, you ask, if they can’t just do a simple thing like release the files as the law requires, how can we trust them to do hard things like run the economy and keep us safe? The answer, of course, is that we can’t. We can never trust they can and will do the right thing.

It's funny how no one had to be coaxed into using WordPerfect, a web browser, or Google.

cars are expensive, disabled people tend to be poorer, and a lot of disabilities preclude you from driving you can't pretend your defense of car dependency is based in concern for disabled people if you're not also concerned for those of us who can't drive

Drop Fortnite

Today is the deadline for Trump’s Department of Justice to release the Epstein files and comply with federal law.

matt & co’s theory of how public opinion on immigration would respond to new information was simply empirically wrong. at this point the only reasonable conclusion is they refuse to update their priors w/ new data because the data is inconvenient for them www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...

Everyone involved in this needs to end up in prison. There needs to be consequences for trying to kick out the pillars that uphold civil society.

It’s a little on the nose for the guy kicking millions off SNAP to announce the first annual Hunger Games

can’t say Merry Christmas anymore because of the Woke Police 😔

It's best to understand that fascists see hypocrisy as a virtue. It's how they signal that the things they are doing to people were never meant to be equally applied. It's not an inconsistency. It's very consistent to the only true fascist value, which is domination.

this is the unspoken but absolutely clear argument at hand.