Portland has broken containment. I repeat: Portland has broken containment. Shelter in place until you hear further updates.

Good luck and Godspeed, Maine voters. As a former subject of the Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo administrations I don’t really have any grounds to cast aspersions but maybe we should all try to do better in the future?

launching a new edition of Haldeman's THE FOREVER WAR where every five pages it includes an Axios report that a peace deal is imminent

Never forget: peninsulaforeveryone.org/blog/atherto...

Hello welcome to being an open source maintainer in 2026 would you like to a) ignore massive numbers of incoming vuln and bug reports or 2) get brigaded for using LLM tools to deal with those reports or 3) sorry there is no secret third thing

🔗 This is part of the "Your Tax Dollars At Work" series on federally funded research that sounded ridiculous but generated enormous returns. Full series archive: bioniclab.substack.com/notes #YourTaxDollarsAtWork

“In 2022, about 23,400 housing units were permitted in Los Angeles. Bass took office in December that year. In 2023, the number fell to about 18,600, and then to 17,200 in 2024.” apple.news/AKBsjQqdXSYK...

i think this is accurate and worth thinking about. A D vs D governor's race would all-but guarantee a wipeout of Rs in all the competitive House seats in CA and in a bunch of other swingy downballot races

BECOME SHARK

periodic reminder that bill de blasio basically stopped fighting with the nypd after they kidnapped his daughter and publicly threatened her you tell them no and they tell you they're the ones with the guns

Pittsburgh, Milwaukee.

“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral Arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.”

let's be clear, let's be very clear, let's be incredibly clear about something: Marcia Lucas is why you love Star Wars. She's why Star Wars worked. She's why it has heart. She's responsible for the in-media-res beginning, she's responsible for basically everything charming and unique about >

called it! bsky.app/profile/mtsw...

NEW EXAMPLE FOR FONT LESSON JUST DROPPED

SWERFs are so baffling "Porn is harmful because look at that woman can't you see how much she hates this? If she loved it she wouldn't be phoning it in" Girl do you give your job 100% every time? I fucking don't! God forbid a bitch does her job and goes home! Even if she's passionate about it!

fellow angelenos: please vote for raman we cannot afford the chance of spencer fucking pratt winning against a deeply unpopular incumbent

This is even better than the time that there were two different bands touring as Queensrÿche.

The Sun Dreamstation was Sun Microsystems' brief and deeply confusing attempt to answer the question: What if a Sparcstation was also really good at Crazy Taxi?

Well, this instantly puts every last online dating failure I've had into sharp perspective.

my hot take on gooning discourse is that nobody who posts frequently on bluesky can criticize anybody for spending hours a day masturbating.

Like clockwork, this gets reposted by one of my moots every month or so. Please stop. I'm begging you. This is a rodent study. It's an exciting line of inquiry, but we are years to decades from even finding out if works at all in humans, nevermind is efficacious enough to bother manufacturing.

The city of Los Angeles lost a lawsuit over a megacontroversial affordable housing project its been trying to block in Venice this week. Last fall, the state threatened to pull the city's zoning authority if it didn't approve the development. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...

So building on yesterday's Cramps news, I notice that the Bandcamp page in fact lets you listen to everything they have listed up there now for free, with the exception of the preorder for the new archival release...BUT if you buy that now, you get all of it now as well. So, go nuts.

This, by the way, is the hidden compact that allows stuff like fan fiction and Artist Alleys at comics conventions to survive: smart companies recognize they hold the copyright anyway and are happy to turn a blind eye to stuff that isn't a direct, suicidal challenge

Boy that tweet about canals and datacenters seems really clever until you look up when the peak of commercial traffic on the Erie Canal was.

Roses are red Buggy whips are leather

Cheesesteaks are mostly meh.

So relieved to see this. (I keep seeing people post that they're upset with Morris Day, not having seen this update, so I'm sharing it again.) (I didn't believe it was true in the first place or very much hoped it wasn't—so, like I said, relief.)

One good argument for YIMBYism is that housing scarcity makes people receptive to xenophobic fascist political appeals.

Queen shit: “I’m not resigning,” said Alfonsi, who remains employed at CBS. “If they want me gone because I did my job, they’ll have to fire me.”

I'm not getting within a mile of the thread itself but if you are convinced that your prosperity will fall away at any moment, that the safety nets we have will fail when that happens, and so are terrified of even small purchases, what you have is not a political analysis but _an anxiety disorder_.

I've had a very nice back-and-forth email exchange with Shaolei Ren, who provided the original "AI uses a bottle of water per prompt" estimate with the Washington Post. (1/5)

Terrific polemic by one Texan, Michael Wood, about another, John Cornyn: "The difference is courage and patriotism. These men without chests, as C.S. Lewis would call them, are not nimble or smart. They are cowards, and I for one will not let them forget it." open.substack.com/pub/michaelw...

FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE.

Please tell me your top five albums (full-intentional-released-as-albums albums, none of the singles compiled into an "album" bullshit*) to listen to START TO FINISH, no skips ever *I can enjoy those too but for the purpose of this question they are bullshit

A tale of two cities: as bad as Eric Adams was, one area where he and Zohran are aligned is the importance of building more housing meanwhile Michelle Wu’s NIMBY policies are wrecking Boston’s homebuilding

Unimpeachable list

It is extremely funny that a fair amount of the libertarianosphere convinced itself that putting up with Trumpism was a necessary evil because he was going to Finally Cut Government Spending For Real This Time. There are not enough fell for it again awards in the _world_.

before today, there were very, very few people, if anyone, that people would rank as the greatest living jazz musician higher than Sonny Rollins. there will never be another one quite like him. RIP and thank you so much.

RIP youtu.be/_D3zqnokaVI?...

Wow that's amazing, now to ask any of the several million still-living women who lived in the USSR how that worked out...

If you have never see REJECTED before, stop what you are doing immediately. Press play. Thank me later.

Men who appear to be ICE agents entered a Pittsburgh-area diner today, then got into a violent confrontation with the manager when he asked them for a warrant. KDKA-TV got the videos and spoke to witnesses.

Scientists are calling this the most metal shit they’ve ever seen

something else I want to note is that this crowd has been heckling moderate Dem electeds for bad votes and timid stances, and Mikie Sherrill's response was to leave while Andy Kim stayed all day and got pepper sprayed for his trouble

Cilantro Julep!

They didn't die while serving in the military, but they died protecting our freedoms from those who would destroy them, nonetheless. Remembering these heroes on this Memorial Day.

I would watch the hell out of this but I’ll also go to the mats for: the ideal story for 7-9 would have been _any_ consistent story rather than the world’s most expensive game of Exquisite Corpse.