If you plow it, the riders will follow. Ashland/Navy bike lane @nycsanitation.bsky.social edition.

We paid for #amtrak tix to avoid cars and then the train in front of us hit a car on the tracks in the very last stretch of travel #carsruineverything

Giant crustaceans inhabit most of Earth's deep ocean floors, according to a surprising study https://www.earth.com/news/alicella-gigantea-giant-crustaceans-amphipod-inhabit-most-deep-sea-floor/ #marine #nature

NYT when a trans man wants to take testosterone: 😡😡😡😡😡 NYT when a cis woman wants to take testosterone: 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

Dear ICE, If you don't like being called Nazis, maybe stop doing so much Nazi-like shit? ICE Agents Arrest Man on Christmas Eve—and Then Steal His Groceries Source: https://newrepublic.com/post/204750/ice-agents-detain-man-christmas-eve-steal-groceries #ice #crookswithbadges

Happened to be near Broadway-Lafayette today so I took a few minutes to check out the pilot fare gate array. This is the Conduent model. It needs work. It doesn’t seem to handle crowding well and the OMNY tap to gate opening latency too slow. Here’s a combined video of riders entering / exiting.

Pair programming.

Lindsey would be a strong urban progressive for council district 3 and I will happily vote for her.

You don't need Linux to run free and open source software https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/25/go_foss_keep_your_os/ Alternative apps to empower older versions of macOS or Windows <- by me on @theregister

Ahhh. I've 'downgraded' to a (dell latitude) laptop with physical touchpad buttons and dedicated pgup/pgdn keys, and it's sooooo much nicer. When I finally need to upgrade from this laptop (which was originally released in 2020), hopefully lenovo will have continued their trend of going back to […]

I wonder if the Fediverse Chick is ok

But yeah so anyway the criminals* just announced that they've been given 1 million more files to scrub for their bosses names and I guess we just have to let them do that??? There's no walking the calendar back to compliance, they are already in violation of the law, every day we let them […]

Merry Christmas, I guess? Ho Ho Ho, our post office workers deserve heated workplaces

Thinking about the last time I visited the post office. Only the lobby was heated. Not the warehouse and offices where USPS employees work all day. Biden was still in office, and so was the cost-cutting postmaster general from Trump's first term, Louis DeJoy Meanwhile, the DOJ is day after day […]

As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.

This long-read synthesizes the Republican Fascist lawless terror operations in the U.S. so far, and what is coming. Even if you have been following, worth your time as seeing it reported in one place will alert and galvanize you anew […]

the ten pillars of fascism The mythic past: Fascists draw on a mythical past to justify a glorious future. Propaganda: Propaganda in fascist politics often operates through inflammatory speech, stirring hostility and manipulating emotions, and displacing reasoned public debate with fear and […]

Mastodon, we got you this cat for the holidays. #CatsOfMastodon

this is incredible, @MrLovenstein. https://tapas.io/episode/1607651

The AI controversy is the loneliness crisis, the inequality crisis, and the education crisis stacked on each other, wearing a trenchcoat and a fedora.

i have spent time with bari weiss, who used to date my former roommate and who i am in an alumni program with, and i feel comfortable saying she is both stupid and evil

bahahahhaha The Beaverton rises to the challenge once again: “The person who did this is either an ardent believer in the fight for an independent media, free of political influence, or just someone kinda bad at their job. Since we’re talking about Canadian media here, I know what I’m betting […]

My policy of declining when billionaires offer me a ride on their private jets to visit their secluded Caribbean underage sex islands is starting to pay off.

Today two separate people asked me about (ortlieb) panniers. One in TJs on the escalator, the other outside at the falafel truck. I've been asked so many times by strangers about my various cargo bikes, but can honestly say I've never been asked about my panniers in at least a decade. To be fair […]

WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data. Safe bike-lanes mean business.

It's so funny when friends from Before Times visit and tell stories, and my kids are like, "wait... our parents did THAT? OUR PARENTS? and they threw PARTIES??" #parenting

I ate way too much south indian food, and 12 hours later I'm *still* full. I'm definitely going back there..

Sometimes you get a perfect conjunction of posts in your timeline.

May I recommend a subscription to @theonion.com print edition as a holiday gift, because their ads continue to rule

she’s watching the pulled CECOT story

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

Bari Weiss going from purported brave defender of free speech and open debate to chief censor of reporting about a federal concentration camp is so grimly hilarious

If your friends and family say something like "Why are you still protesting Elon, he's not even involved in politics anymore" this holiday season, remind them that he never really left. #TeslaTakedown qz.com/elon-musk-sa...

If any news people still following me, proposed (snarky) headlines for tomorrow: "Power Outage Causes Waymogeddon In San Francisco" "Waymo Problems Than Expected After Power Outage" #waymo #sanfrancisco

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Artemis201/115754645089453670 American voters in Nov 2024:

Ok can confirm: Waymo’s are just fully bricked at any intersection with a light. The city is gonna slowly just get totally clogged with Waymo’s stopped at intersections. #sanfrancisco

8yo: "Wow, I didn't expect it to look like an anus!" A: "Go eat your anus at the table." 13yo: "Guys. Shut up."

Two cruisers made it down 9th Avenue to 46th St. in the bike lane in moments, then stuck in traffic on 46th St. Imagine if there was a bike lane on 46th they could use. Bike lanes speed emergency response

RE: https://mastodon.social/@SeanCasten/115752477326601097 the nyt continues to be garbage

oh no all the fake journalists funded by billionaires to divide the electorate and destroy informed consensus are now fighting with each other

Came in to find all the presents under the tree had their bows ripped off, scattered across the living room. And surveying the crime scene was this innocent bystander. #caturday

Success! I was worried about the high winds we're experiencing today but it turns out when your cargo is heavy AF you become impervious to wind 😎

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/115744154515290973 This confirms my priors and I will absolutely not be looking into any critiques of the article or study. #praisecheesus

This is not "oops, our bad", it's "fuck you, what are you going to do about it"

Having a roomba (not actually a roomba, it's a neato botvac; you know the *other* robot vacuum company that went bankrupt) sometimes feels like having a dog. *weird loud noises* me: "Ugh, what did you eat?" *roomba beeps as I pause it* me: "A zip tie? No! Drop it. DROP IT."

I just heard from someone who works at JFK that PANYNJ is itself actually panic buying 30-day unlimited JFK AirTrain MetroCards to make them available to airport employees through February. What happens after that, who knows. What a mess.

This should be a major scandal. The 30 day unlimited JFK AirTrain MetroCard is $42.50 and is used by tons of airport employees. The regular fare is $8.50. Riders will surpass the 30-day rate in just FIVE taps. Airport employees, who can least afford a fare hike, will pay $300-$400 a month now!