4 plexes are legal in Bend, and it's fine. SJ has a million people and a far worse housing crisis. He sounds deeply unserious. One size fits all is single so detached units only

wow if only somebody could do something about the traffic and ineffective public transportation, does San Jose have a city government whose job it is to improve those things? Maybe a mayor or something? 🤔

Absurd

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

get in loser we're getting Reconstruction right this time

you do not tax billionaires to fund universal healthcare. you, yes you the person reading this, and everyone you know, pay more in taxes to fund universal healthcare. you tax billionaires to take away a gun that Elon Musk is pointing at your head.

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

Andrew and I are both starting grad school in the fall and I said our cats should too so here's what they'll be studying -- Nona: forensics Clementine: social work OR he's going to clown college Xiao: he's gonna work REALLY hard and get his GED

McDouble! Age: 3.5 weeks ish Weight: 353g Sex: a smollish lad Softness: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Snuggles: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Gluttony: ⭐️ Noise Level: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Introducing…. McFlurry! Age: 3.5 weeks or so? Weight: 352g Sex: a strapping lad Softness: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Snuggles: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Gluttony: ⭐️ Noise Level: ⭐️⭐️

Wait we don’t even need to pass let alone enact a wealth tax to get rid of these parasites?

I posted this elsewhere and someone replied, "Karl Urban is not in the TV series, but only in the movies, so he is the reel McCoy."

I've never actually watched this episode, but I've read the wiki summary of it many times. The text flows like a simple, deeply chilling fable translated from the tongue of a dead civilization. I rarely recommend Wikipedia entries as literary items, but this one is

Yeah, the irony is that they conflated these things intentionally as a marketing tactic, so they could point at important things machine learning did and lead people to believe LLMs were as useful.

The Feds can try to end Bluesky as a communication and organizing tool for the political opposition, but they're too late. We've already blocked each other so hard no one has any idea what's going on.

Everyone, please enjoy seeing Matt Mahan get absolutely demolished by Reddit commenters www.reddit.com/r/California...

Ew Moleskine used genAI for their Lord of the Ring collection by mentioning they used it, then entirely removing the claim after some backlash. Incredibly shitty of them for a brand that claims human creativity. cjleo.com/blog/moleski...

Toronto man poised to become the first Canadian cured of HIV-AIDS. 62-year-old has been in remission since 2021. He joins a group of 10 others across the globe who achieved the milestone after a stem cell transplant, by Jennifer Yang www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com

*incredible* ten minutes for this rule

Pour one out for the Hilton staff who are working perhaps the worst shift in food service history rn.

Regular reminder that a quality respirator (N95, KN95, P100, others) can also help with allergies and smoke and poor air quality in addition to helping you go into stealth mode or avoid COVID & other illnesses.

(sound on)

I will give my actual real hard-earned cash to any app that will count my steps each day (a real number which helps me know if I've sat on my ass too much in a day) and not tell me a god damn thing about how many calories I've burned (a fake number I give zero fucks about)

these are policy decisions, made by government officials. that have taken away my preferred option for transit. cars are not freedom, they're a prison that most people don't even realize they're in.

Look at Nona! 😻

Food $200 Data $150 Rent $800 Air Police $50 million Utility $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my city is dying

"why don't you take the train, I'll pick you up at the station and we can get dinner before the show" I said, like a fool who believes Caltrain runs on time

I don’t think I’ve ever been so persuaded by an endorsement before this. Fuck, I might be voting for Tom Steyer for California governor. www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/s/...

Zhang Shan won the gold medal for the mixed skeet shooting event in the 1992 Olympics. The International Shooting Union *immediately* banned women from competing against men.

not even a single thought

I think I'm owed overtime pay for a day I worked in the last pay period, but the math of it is super weird because I worked two different jobs at two different pay rates (for the same employer) on that day. Do I email HR? Or do I go straight to calling the CA labor board?

Ahahahahaha what do you mean the TECHNICAL ADVISOR to Bluesky just blocked over 300k users by following an ANTI-AI, AI HATERS blocklist. Embarassing.

Here's a compromise about the house of representatives: We triple the size, but we only let the first 435 representatives into the chamber debate or vote on any given issue. Votes are announced by a computer at random times with a loud siren, and we film the reps trying to book it to the chamber.

actually I have a theory about Xavier Becerra, I think his campaign is a giant scam to get as much money as possible, and I am basing this on the fact that he texts me daily begging for money

Why don't Xavier Becerra or Tom Steyer have candidate statements in the California voter information guide?

Wasn't there a time when Patreon would just charge you one lump sum every month? Why don't they do that anymore?... Surely it's less efficient to charge me $2-$5 seven times a month?

The only A.I. I support is Abolish ICE.

I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that because you have not turned on location sharing.

A reminder during #NationalLibraryWeek, libraries are our best and last defense against the fascist monopoly on knowledge and information

There has been a murder

something i've just caught onto today: lack of open volunteer positions. partly because everyone else unemployed is looking to volunteer for the sake of resume padding, but also because nonprofits can't even afford the resources necessary to find people willing to work for literally free

I’ve been wondering this for a while and it’s not a rhetorical question (I would actually love if the answer was yes): have any Dems said they will stop every cent going to this Nazi surveillance company the second they take back Congress?

Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?

The Uk needs a version of Hot Ones but for desi food called Curried which is hosted by Tim Curry, there you go, I just made your network eleventy billion dollars

Schrödinger’s Strait of Hormuz

I enjoy the way that in this photo our cats look like a hip-hop duo quite a lot of people quite liked in 1996 who have made a comeback record, done an interview with a broadsheet newspaper and are attempting to prove they are still serious and relevant.

This is single handedly the funniest scene from any Star Trek