California is not the only state that uses mostly, or in a few cases 100%, mail ballots. It is the extreme outlier on being the slowest state to count and report results. Just noting it doesn't have to be this way, they can and should get their act together and catch up to plenty of other states.

Honestly just glad it's out of state plates.

Holy shit. (From Reddit)

What I’m hearing: Instagram’s Trust and Safery org absolutely gutted the last few weeks. ~60% of the org gone - between layoffs and forced reassignments to data labelling. All while “AI maxxing” pushed a bunch of bugs to prod. And hence why today’s massive Instagram account takeover happening.

Meanwhile Seattle is closing miles of roadway, discouraging driving, and bringing on temporary shuttles alongside it's normal event public transit systems to support it's games. Good on us.

We're gonna need more stadium bike parking (go Mariners, really go Girl Scouts for offering free tickets to 300+ package cookie sellers)

people spend enormous amounts of time fighting online about whether to talk about epstein and corruption or affordability and, look, it’s really not that hard to do both at once

On this: I’m a tall Brown woman with a strong jawline. A whole white woman accused me of being a man in a public toilet the other day. I didn’t correct her because my being trans or cis was not the point. The point was she felt entirely comfortable and confident doing that to someone in a TOILET.

Hank Green did a video on how a lot of people have been doing this "I don't hate any race I just think they are inferior in some way, that's not racism" and, like, yes it is. And it unlocked something for me that feels really obvious about how people think about racism wrong

unnoticed by whom, npr

I regularly have people ask me about Mythos these days, so here are my thoughts: Finding bugs is never the hard part. Fixing them is. How’s your organizational alignment? Are your engineers burned out? How is your production resilience? Before you worry about the new shiny, focus on your basics

eastwood's movie arc since "unforgiven" is a fairly frank skepticism about the redeeming power of violence and imperfect attempts to understand experiences different than his own

It's crazy how we have both the World Cup and America 250 this year, and almost no one cares about them because this regime has wholly sucked the joy out of even momentous national events.

So, I don't think the problem is that you can't make great art with conservative themes. Jurassic Park is a great example of such a movie. The problem is that Matt Walsh really just wants Sam Neil to turn and face the camera and explain which baptist denomination he belongs to.

TIL that the Jim Henson crew were so delighted by getting to work with Tim Curry on Muppet Treasure Island, that they gifted him a one-of-a-kind Muppet likeness of himself! And it’s just…look at them! 🥹

We need a good RPG about whaling. Something that really gives you the immersive expereince of a whaling boat, the ease of losing limbs, opressive sailor debts, the reeking pots, and grim whaling port towns. [listens to earpiece] Okay fine, someone needs to take another stab at Dishonored.

If you think this gets better once you're a manager, let me assure you it does not.

In case you missed it: last night, CBS News awarded the Mike Wallace Memorial Scholarship to Santiago Campos, a high school journalist. In accepting, he took the time to condemn the direction of CBS News to much surprise and applause from the audience.

Yes, it's true, the median household net worth is around $193k. But it's not a normal slope below that, there's yet more skew, just like at the top. You'd think the 33rd percentile would be around $125k. They're not, it's more like $67k. 10th percentile is around $0. Below that, it's negative.

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

This is true in life. Virtue signaling/ethics signaling is a very good strategy to not having your virtues or ethics put to test. No one asks Bob from accounting that is a stickler for every protocol to cook the books.

Recent status: watching someone that works at Zoom take a past due security training about not taking meetings in public spaces while he was on a train going between Copenhagen and Stockholm. He completed his training then had a sales meeting about volume discounts.

I cannot imagine a more on-the-nose metaphor than tech companies filling their offices with free drugs that supposedly enhance your productivity but are more addictive than heroin. fortune.com/2026/03/04/p...

one thing which is kind of weird about the last five years in silicon valley is the attitude of seething hatred for employees coming from the C-Suite -- one which even other executives, in private, seem bewildered by

Just found a subreddit that pairs people with fucked up balls of string with people who love detangling balls of string and it is *very* wholesome

America is already great

"everyone" = men with money

This is completely deranged: Iran is required to play games in the US but ISN’T ALLOWED TO STAY IN THE COUNTRY OVERNIGHT. They will instead have to fly back to Mexico. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Memorial Day 2026 vs. last year 🇺🇸 ⛽ Gas: +41% (four-year high) ✈️ Airfare: +20.7% (YoY... but holiday tickets booked early are ~6% CHEAPER) 🐄 Beef: +16% 🍅 Tomatoes: +40% ☕ Coffee: +18% 🌭 Hot dogs: +11% 🏨 Hotels: +4.3% 🥚 Eggs: −39% 🍗 Chicken: −1.8%

I bet dude is openly too frightened to ride the bus or subway in a major US metro, but the person wearing a mask on the 5h air bus with recycled air is the scared one.

Some of us just don't like getting colds

I’m glad there is one (1) person who is truly using the opinion page as it should be used

Pre-Cana (Catholic marriage prep) doesn't happen in a day. It's a six month process, standard. You can do it 'faster' with a VERY LONG weekend retreat, and then private counseling sessions with the priest. That also cannot be done in a day. You also cannot be married in a 'venue' without...

The USPS ran a contest and had people vote on 25 previously issued postage stamps, and whichever one won would be reissued. Mister Rogers won. I'mna cry.

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

helen lewis has an article in the atlantic today begging everyone to read discworld and I am going to suggest she start by rereading monstrous regiment and think about how that might apply to trans issues

Thread. (The CEO got sacked this morning.)

every one of these folks should be primaried unconscionable betrayal of their constituents

Quick, check your health insurance policy: What's your lifetime maximum? What is the most money your insurance company will spend on you? Trick question: Obamacare banned it! The whole concept! Gone! Babies were maxing out their lifetime insurance coverage before Obamacare!

@seattledot.bsky.social has been testing whether the “authorized vehicles only” signs are sufficient. And the answer is a resounding no

TIL ABF stands for Ajinomoto Build-up Film. Computer chips use MSG production byproduct as their internal electrical insulation. www.ajinomoto.com/innovation/o...

Normal people: what a cute video of a kid talking with his dad 🥰 Me: did this man just post a video of his toddler riding in a carseat with only the chest strap clipped? 😨

we just buried Paul Ehrlich this year and his whole deal was that we were inevitably going to overpopulate. so i guess what i'm saying is that these trends may be more complicated than line-go-up or line-go-down forever

Discworld QOTD, from Carpe Jugulum

if you want to post you should submit a “post request” where a mutual will pretend to read it first and then approve a merge into the main bluesky timeline

I cannot stress enough how much anyone who complains about the government spending money to give new parents free diapers should never know one single moment of peace

I keep wondering when each will figure out they were selected as the fall guys. It was the most explainable reason when DOGE was just a bunch of teenage college dropouts who were clearly not just unremarkable, but blatantly not very bright.