I literally spent 10 min translating Lula’s speech about Palestine to English. I just need every single one of my gringo friends to listen to this man in order to maybe restore their faith in politics. This right here is a politician. This is why we voted for him. And personally, I’ll do it again.

Republicans in D.C. cancelled a $2M grant for @cambridgemass.bsky.social to build a new bridge that would connect Danehy Park to affordable housing along Rindge Ave. Now, the city's using other federal funds to build it anyhow. #mapoli mass.streetsblog.org/2025/09/23/t...

On the street, it's got a dozen names. Some call 'em White Devils. Simple, classic. Some cats call 'em The Levelers, 'cause they take you from a 10 on the pain scale down to a zero. Smooths you right out. You call it Tylenol. I call it death.

Strange, the bully is kicking my ass even though I've been telling everyone how much I respect him. Maybe he hasn't heard

lol

In Swedish, a word for what you eat to bridge the gap between meals (or while waiting for the main course to cook) is stödmacka. It means "support sandwich." A similar word in Norwegian is ventepølse, or "waiting sausage."

FDR won 42 states in 1932, it wasn't by pandering to Hoover voters. Then Republicans called him a socialist for 4 years. Then he ran for reelection and won 46 states

the Will Smith track “Wild Wild West” just came on the radio and: 1) it was weird that for several years whenever Will made a tentpole movie he also rapped about it in partial character 2) we should make more actors do this

"These Are The Nights," our sophomore full length is streaming NOW. Vinyl and other physical formats available on @jumpuprecords.bsky.social www.thenewlimits.net/release #ska #blueska

(coughs really friggin loudlyband gestures wildly at @markey.senate.gov and @warren.senate.gov )

they *lost* Fallon?

Only seven Senate Democrats are signed onto a resolution put forward by Jeff Merkley for the United States recognize the State of Palestine. They are: Sen. Jeff Merkley Chris Van Hollen Tim Kaine Bernie Sanders Peter Welch Tina Smith Tammy Baldwin Mazie Huron

my band put out a new album! if you like your ska with a smattering of rock and soul; and your love/hate songs interspersed with rabblerousing against the entrenched political order, give it a listen! thenewlimits.bandcamp.com/album/these-...

Someone asked me earlier why I don’t do more than AI, and the answer is that every time I look deeper into AI I see more evidence that this is a massive, unbelievable failure, propped up by webs of debt and ignorance, private capital fully believes there’s massive AI demand that does not exist.

New episode with Jake and Julia from @thenewlimits.bsky.social . We discuss the band’s history, new music, recording, the Boston ska scene and so much more. Now available! #ska open.spotify.com/episode/6qA6...

#Everett cancels annual Hispanic festival to protect residents from #ICE snatching baystatebanner.com/2025/09/18/e...

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

whatever they do i hope that they at least don't do the dumb "there was no real big balls, it was just an allegory used for the vulgarity of the period" thing

TIL that a curfew is also a literal object! the word has its roots in the French couvrefeu - "cover fire" - and was used to denote a bell rung to warn people to cover their fires overnight to prevent the outbreak of flames between wooden houses. a curfew was a bell-shaped cover for embers!

Look, I love all our local political reporters ... honestly anybody who comes across the river is good by me. But also I think maybe that more reporters covered our cat mayor election than our real one, and that's maybe an issue, right? Right? www.instagram.com/reel/DOoPNic...

I mean, given an unused rail right of way beneath one of the most densely populated parts of the city, I would use it for rail, not TED talks.

“The metaverse will be the centra of all social, economic, and work, activities. You all will live in my metaverse” Zuck, 2021 “You all will wear my dong recording goggles so I can watch you piss. You will wear them everywhere, I must see and hear everything you do.” Zuck, 2025

It's hard to overstate just how off the charts warm the Pacific is right now. The swath of the basin from California to Japan (a HUGE area) from 25N to 60N is ~3F (1.6C) above normal. To put it into math terms that is 6 Sigma/ standard deviations above the mean. More… 1/

Hi-our new post provides more detail: www.cambridgebikesafety.org/2025/09/08/a... Feel free to reach out to [email protected] to discuss more!

For #somerville #somerpoli City Council At-Large candidate Holly Simione suggests stopping building new protected bike lanes and thinks cyclists should pay a fee to register their bikes.

Just wait until he learns about these things called “batteries”.

“Helsinki has not recorded a single traffic fatality in the past 12 months, city and police officials confirmed this week.” City engineer credits lower speed limits and smart design. I agree. #Helsinki #VisionZero

What is the city but the people?

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I built a web tool so anyone can design and evaluate ridership and costs of high speed rail networks anywhere in the world: railmapper.net

What if Boston politicians gave an actual fuck about the air we breathe and not the loss of a precious parking space?

I'm PhD in graphic design and Cracker Barrel's REAL problem is they didn't go *far enough*

60 Minutes Australia said YOLO and did a major investigation into Trump and Epstein. youtu.be/qMIP4RIoCHc?...

Did you know LLMs and reinforcement learning are different things? Except the major push by big tech to label everything “ai” to defraud investors blurred these lines. LLMs are still useless planet burning theft powered bs generators.

Nichols: He doesn't understand anything that basically isn’t a real estate deal. And so the idea that Putin is obsessed with Ukraine for other reasons, Trump just doesn't understand any of that stuff and doesn't understand why he can't make a deal.

“Excuse me, are you in line?” is New Englander for “You are standing in the worst possible way.”

The Josh Kraft 2025 Democrat for Mayor campaign is now sending mailers to Newton.

I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic

Hot take, people who hate cities shouldn’t be in charge of cities

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

"It turns out that our attention is captured above all by emotional outbursts, reinforced prejudices and cats." - Brian Eno #quote

so fucking sick of this asshole

AI destroys information

A couple of years ago Amsterdam dug a huge hole in front of the main train station to build a 7,000 capacity bike parking garage

Deskilling is real. This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service. Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.

RIP Tom Lehrer. He was said to have called Little Boxes "the most sanctimonious song ever written," making him by definition the ur-YIMBY.

From 1908, an early and perceptive critique of urban cars: "The automobilist pays for his speed; his right of way he takes without price from a public that has never been able to give definition to its vague but deep-seated protest." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc... h/t @mobileharv.bsky.social