Had a delightful ride today where everyone observed the correct right-of-way at four-way stops, and no one froze in sheer panic because I was riding a bike. Unprecedented. Magnificent. This will day never happen again.

Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.

100%. Electoral politics has failed us in a way that should be unacceptable in any liberal democracy. Looking out for your neighbor is one of the only things that matters in a country where the system is beyond fixing.

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Someone needs to explain to normies that the plan to “Make America Healthy Again” works by killing the sick people.

I fuckin love this satirical one

“In 2023, cars and their drivers killed 8,820 American pedestrians and bicyclists — 7,314 pedestrians and 1,166 cyclists. They injured another 136,281, an increase of over 5,300 injuries from 2022.” Put the responsibility where it belongs. Via @jalopnik.bsky.social www.jalopnik.com/1979666/defe...

Did we all sleep poorly and woke up earlier than we wanted?

The thing about health disinformation is that when it comes from the highest office, people believe it. Parents & pregnant women want to do the right thing but are now making health decisions based on fear. This is causing real harm. It's also making our jobs as healthcare professionals harder.

one thing about cycling that is shocking to me is most people apparently strongly prefer to ride only on pavement and "don't want to get their bike dirty" if I didn't get into dirt or gravel once and am not filthy at the end of a ride, my soul is not fulfilled I don't understand clean bike people

Before the war Moaz wanted to be an architect or an engineer but after watching so many people die and get injured he wants to be a doctor- surely seems Gaza needs them and helping him seems like a good investment

Muhammad is trying to evacuate his family including his 2 year old with diabetes but Bluesky zaps every account he makes gofund.me/f07f052f6

Sama’a is especially worried about her newborn daughter Talia, who is suffering so much in the heat and blaring sun. The tents are too hot during the day too take cover in. Utter cruelty. Please donate and share so they can have the water and food they need each day tinyurl.com/support4samaa

As someone who is learning the plumbing trade the number of regulations and specific codes plumbers need to know to maintain water safety is so high and no fucking way people are going to do that themselves lmao

To a great degree we’re dealing with the fallout from a generation of men who got lucky once during a specific moment in tech evolution, made to feel as gods, but are all now suffering their mid-life crises having accomplished nothing else of note. These men have made nothing other than money.

whoa. Every single one of the Sinclair advert buyers on this list is automotive or automotive related (insurance). That is one aspect of the power in our society held by car companies that I haven't seen studied enough.

"if you regulate my industry uhhhhhhhh it will bring about the end of the world, seriously bro seriously, I'm so serious"

Evidence (if you needed it) to show that people have more of a gut reaction to information about visible, physical changes they can relate to than theoretical data that has little bearing on their personal lives. grist.org/science/brea...

Trump: don’t take acepitoemponoene RFK Jr: *moth crawls out of mouth* A nude man is in the background, only referred to as “the colonel” Person watching on tv: well if they say so

“Why tylenol?” Because it’s the pain medication that pregnant people can take. That’s it. That’s why.

My man David Byrne released a new album this month

this is the solution to the male loneliness epidemic I am 100% serious

People with autism are harder to exploit for unpaid labor

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

open.substack.com/pub/houseofm... Wrote about the radical act of returning to one's body in a digital age designed to detach us from them.

when will they make an actually useful AI tool that simply prevents you from logging on

one of the less-discussed harms of the housing affordability crisis is how it makes escaping from abusive living situations borderline impossible. i'm not even just talking about teens, i mean folks well into their 20s and 30s who came of age into an impossible job market and can't afford to leave

My sister and I deal with both things. Her dental hygiene routine is PRISTINE. Like, she budgets ten minutes twice a day for it, carries supplies in her purse. She has had 14 root canals. And every time they finger wag her, despite her trying her damndest. It makes her not want to come back.

One thing I would love to see is dental professionals quit shaming patients for (what they see as) poor dental hygiene. If you’re poor, you don’t go until there’s a problem, and by then what was a minor problem is major. EDS and other chronic diseases cause problems on their own.

If we talked openly about how behind the rest of the world we are we would have to reckon honestly with the reason why and every single time it always comes back to white supremacy and the idea that we can't improve this country because then Black people might enjoy good things.

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

just wanna make one very Xennial user interface request and beg web/app designers to not use gray as a selection highlight colour 30 years of UI convention has trained me to see grayed out options in a list as INVALID, DO NOT CLICK and I have now paid the wrong credit card five times as a result 💀

I wanna say it again, the right to bodily autonomy is foundational to SO MANY rights, and it is what’s at stake in attempts to legislate trans people out of existence. Any attack on trans rights undermines the right to bodily autonomy for EVERYONE.

Bottom line, you're surrendering to Donald Trump. I would never be able to handle the humiliation

"Oh yeah, well jut wait till they take away free and fair elections" please revisit the historical example cited above and spend five seconds in quiet contemplation

Watching prominent commenters followed by dozens of people I know say "it's over" because Jimmy Kimmel got suspended...like, they actually killed Medgar Evers, in defense of a fascist system that had been in place for decades. Imagine social media that day! Read history and have some self-respect.

"He died as he lived, twisting statistics to lie about minorities in hopes that others would murder them on his behalf."

This is the best writing Gretchen has ever done, on a subject I think it's safe to say she now knows better than most.

Of fucking COURSE

My fucking god

Absolutely fucking insane

i assume he’s stumbling around hammered somewhere being unnecessarily mean to an intern and screaming “WHO LOOKS SILLY FOR TOUSLING THE DICTATOR’S HAIR NOW‽” into a framed and mounted print of the ape nft he co-owns with paris hilton.

The outpouring of support from readers & colleagues is overwhelming. I can't imagine them coming together like this for a "problematic" trans woman even five years ago. If you want to help me make up the lost income from comics work, you can subscribe to my Patreon. www.patreon.com/c/scumbeliev...

While I got my knuckles rapped by corporate America for being rude and tasteless about a guy who dreamed of the stoning of me and everyone I love, Fox's Brian Kilmeade advocated explicitly for the state murder of all homeless people -- on live TV, no less -- to virtually no response.

Fascists do not believe in free speech as a universal principle. Free speech is a tool they'll happily use, but they don't think everyone should have it. They don't believe in universal moral principles at all. Rights and privileges are for the in-group, obligations are for everyone else.

Making America Healthy Again by taking away preventative low-cost healthcare, especially for women.

I’ve shared Haetam before but his fundraiser was closed by GoFundMe (he doesn’t know why) and most of the money returned. He has a new chuffed and needs to flee with his four young children

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"Bosses value a compliant and easily abused workforce more than money" is the woefully underdiscussed knuckle tattoo on Adam Smith's invisible hand.