I hate saying this as a complex systems guy, but if you want one single dominant reason to explain the most of everything that is going on in the world right now, I think it’s this one

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

On one hand, this is quite dangerous. On the other hand, given prior deployments, they’re gonna be mowing public parks and picking up trash in three weeks, and getting de-and re-activated every 29 days so they don’t get paid properly

It's weird - but now in Oslo, there's so many EVs that you notice the noise and the smell from individual ICE cars, and you realise how much we've been normalising it for ever. You can smell them half a street away. And inside parking lots are just *quiet*.

“What once appeared as the sublime discipline of “the market” has been unmasked as the unbounded whims of an increasingly fascistic group of billionaires, with Trump as their avatar.”

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon The Guardian: 1st paragraph BBC: 4th paragraph AP: 5th paragraph Time: 6th paragraph Politico: 8th paragraph NPR: 9th paragraph CNN: 10th paragraph NBC: 12th paragraph Fox News: never mentions

Guys, US per capita carbon emissions are down 30% from peak! 30%! We’re doing it! All the little steps (and big) are paying off! 🚉⚡️☀️💨🚲🌳🚶🌱🌎

Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide! It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers. It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!

Seriously, constructing ~*Cloud Cities*~ on Venus is a more scientifically viable plan for space colonization than Mars is. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

The main reason I am not on X is I know enough about this stuff to know however immune one thinks they are to information ops, propaganda, and algorithmic manipulation it has an impact on the way you see the world. Even when you think you're kicking against it, you're dancing to their tune.

I tried to explain to the students in my African American English class that they’re not allowed to record in class because it stifles honest inquiry and also could get me fired, or worse, put me AND them in mortal danger. This should not be a normal part of our jobs.

the political policy cure for “male loneliness” is - more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week) - more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages) - more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)

Banning a VPN basically makes it illegal to work remotely from Michigan.

The running theme with the Congressional Democrats is that they give up concrete material stuff in order to get purely procedural wins.

BREAKING: Mrs. Met files for divorce after documentary implicates Mr. Met in Epstein Files

mr met, no!

I'm going to leave this here because I even see a lot of leftists regularly speaking about 'what the country wants' when in fact NO. MOST PEOPLE DID NOT VOTE FOR THIS MAN and LESS THAN 50% of people who voted actually voted for him.

Meanwhile, nine-year-olds are using "that's AI" to mean "that sounds like bullshit."

Pro UI Tip: if someone has to interact with an element, don’t treat “move mouse out of element” as “close.” Fucking Gmail rsvp popups.

I’m starting a new AI consulting company called It’s Not Going To Work, LLC. Here’s how it works. You give me $100,000, I tell you “It’s not going to work”(TM), you save $1M+ in wasted contracts, lots of wasted effort, and embarrassment. It’s a good deal. Try it out.

a new mRNA therapy apparently can cut the rate of Huntington's disease progression by ~75%. yet more miracle shit www.bbc.com/news/article...

TNR - President Trump repeatedly blamed the UN for his teleprompter issues and a malfunctioning escalator in a spiteful speech to the General Assembly. But it seems that both issues were caused directly by his own team. newrepublic.com/post/200833/t...

I won trivia today so that was pretty rapturous

Would be a really funny day to ghost on social media sites or anyone you wanna clown on. Just never talk to them again, no read receipts. Evangelical parents you thought about cutting off? Today’s the day.

Would be a really funny day to ghost on social media sites or anyone you wanna clown on. Just never talk to them again, no read receipts. Evangelical parents you thought about cutting off? Today’s the day.

One of the biggest things we want readers to take away from “Life After Cars” is that learning to *see* cars is step one on the path to realizing a better world.

The antifa thing is a smoke screen. There is no "central antifa leadership." JD Vance gave the game away last week when he said this was about George Soros and Ford Foundation. The far right influencers will simply fill the narrative vacuum with propaganda and lies to justify the crackdown.

Ah, I see they found the weird intersection between anti-vax and patriarchy. “Blame women for not wanting to suffer pain” I should have expected.

It's Baby Safety Month.

Need a Monday pick-me-up? Here's what you get if you look up the Tesla showroom where we held Seattle's first #teslatakedown protests ✊🙌 Remember: Every act of rebellion pushes our lines forward. And you have friends everywhere.

To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

So much if our current problems are tied up in a weird cult that continually thinks that all our long term crises are pointless bc human existence is going to get wrapped up within the next five years so why bother.

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

If you're still in line to vote, you can now leave the line. Donald Trump has been elected United States President.

not convinced by this "dyson sphere" thing. there's gotta be a way to make a star boil water to turn a turbine instead

Republicanism is an identity around here, not really an ideology. Kind of like a religion or fandom. You can't do Republican light. You gotta go big if you wanna peel people away. The actual ideological conservatives here tend to be frothing bigots under it all, not the people you want to appeal to.

carry nail clippers with you at all times

I’m sure a protracted occupation of a country covered in mountainous jungles will go smoothly and not backfire whatsoever.

In an abusive relationship, the perpetrator makes the biggest power grabs when he feels his control over the victim is slipping. I’m keeping that in mind whenever we see massive escalations from Trump. It’s all still very dangerous. But these moments are a sign of weakness, not strength.

Trump is -10 on his absolute best issue archive.vn/ShD9a

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

repeating: you cannot win with these people by compromising. they only see it as a sign of weakness and to push further. your only shot is to fight like hell, and the more of us organized to fight back, the better we can.

These people just hate anyone that goofs on them because they have zero sense of humor and you will never win with them. They hate us and there is nothing you can say to placate them.

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

generally speaking, and with the glaring exception of november 2024, the more directly democratic an institution has been, the better it has checked Trump (eg grand and petit juries); the more elite and insular, the less effective (the Senate, the Supreme Court, big business)

An 18 year old marine holding a sweaty, balding, middle-aged administrator at bayonet point for hours as he devises new forms and interviews non-woke bureaucrats for the non-DEI program