And their quality is cratering

coffeefeed.bsky.social@coffeefeed.bsky.social · 5h ago

✨ 🇺🇸 La Colombe Coffee Roasters — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Quick fact: Founded in 1994, the company has cafés in locations including Philadelphia, New York City, Chicago, Austin, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Washington, D.C. #MorningCoffee #Barista #SpecialtyCoffee #CoffeeCulture

this is not at all clear and is a poisonous sentiment

Another Josh Smith@jcsmith55.bsky.social · 4h ago

It's pretty clear that, for centrist/establishment Dems, "Blue No Matter Who" applies only to progressive voters whose preferred candidate lost The establishment has cooked their brains into thinking winning over moderate GOP voters is a winning strategy

Pains me to say this but cars are a lot better than 40 years ago. I remember the days of blasting the heat during the middle of summer to make it over the Grapevine without overheating.

i really have no patience whatsoever for people who are scared of muslims having elected office

I would bet that this is another example of equality feels like oppression.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 16h ago

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

San Diego’s bike lane network marred by traffic-clogged streets, connection gaps, SDSU report finds

San Diego’s bike lane network marred by traffic-clogged streets, connection gaps, SDSU report finds

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People need to stop dooming about gun violence in the US.

Jared Rutecki@jaredrutecki.bsky.social · 2d ago

There were 37 homicides in the city last month, the lowest total for any such month dating back to at least 1970. That total is down 18% compared to July 2025, and is less than half the totals of July 2020 and 2021, which each saw more than 100 killings.

People in my network on LinkedIn are fighting over the quality of impact evaluations of USAID programming. Not today nor any day until the heat death of the universe satan...

Whenever this comes up I have to mention the time I got absolutely abused by Dawn Staley in a pickup basketball game at UVA.

Micah@rincewind.run · 23h ago

it's the old serena williams tweet in action, that there is a physical difference between the top tier of male athletes and the top tier of female athletes gets taken by far too many delusional men as "I can beat a woman at anything" no, you cannot beat a decent athlete of either gender at anything

People in my network on LinkedIn are fighting over the quality of impact evaluations of USAID programming. Not today nor any day until the heat death of the universe satan...

It is true that *professors* are generally underpaid

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · yesterday

Add this to the “compared to what?” list of questions that don’t get asked of any other institution in American society but become crises worthy of endless handwringing & criticism for higher education bsky.app/profile/mcop...

I’ve never quite understood what academics mean when they say they are required to do unpaid labor. Feels like just a dramatic way of saying I didn’t think this was in my job description.

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Elizabeth Picciuto@epicciuto.bsky.social · 2d ago

What is your favorite example of when the cheap version of a product is legit better than the expensive one?

People need to stop dooming about gun violence in the US.

Jared Rutecki@jaredrutecki.bsky.social · 2d ago

There were 37 homicides in the city last month, the lowest total for any such month dating back to at least 1970. That total is down 18% compared to July 2025, and is less than half the totals of July 2020 and 2021, which each saw more than 100 killings.

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Jake Berman@lostsubways.com · 3d ago

this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?

If you read To Build a Fire growing up this is triggering.

My mother in law and wife are watching The Durrells and it’s making me want to reread the Alexandria Quartet. Wondering if it will hold up or not.

My mother in law and wife are watching The Durrells and it’s making me want to reread the Alexandria Quartet. Wondering if it will hold up or not.

I know Bsky has some serious REM-heads. Advanced test. Without googling, name a second song from each of the albums I got :-)

Andrew Blum@ablum.bsky.social · 3d ago

Radio Free Europe Seven Chinese Brothers Life and How to Live It I Believe Exhuming McCarthy Losing My Religion What’s the Frequency Kenneth Daysleeper World Leader Pretend Try Not to Breathe New Test Leper Bandwagon Carnival of Sorts (Boxcars)

Radio Free Europe Seven Chinese Brothers Life and How to Live It I Believe Exhuming McCarthy Losing My Religion What’s the Frequency Kenneth Daysleeper World Leader Pretend Try Not to Breathe New Test Leper Bandwagon Carnival of Sorts (Boxcars)

stim possible@jessespector.com · 3d ago

here’s a little game… pick a band/artist, and name your top however many songs you can do, limited to one per album

you cannot have a forest for your backyard in most of the West and expect that the forest will not burn to the ground someday. it is inevitable. it has cost countless lives and I am despairing that we will ever learn this lesson or we are just going to accept it as a price we pay for aesthetics.

If you read To Build a Fire growing up this is triggering.

By opening from 4:45 to 8:45 each day.

Stella Rouse@stellarouse.bsky.social · 4d ago

Bar owners have a new favorite customer: Gen Xers.

1) Ive tasted the forbidden fruit. I’ll never be happy on my bike again 2) Diminishing returns are real, too many suckers out there with more money than sense.

Shout out to Moment Bicycle.

So my local bike shop was down a couple of mechanics and felt bad about how long it was taking them to get my bike back to me so gave me a free demo on Red-equipped Melee. Plus/minus an $11,000 bike I think. Will it be…

So my local bike shop was down a couple of mechanics and felt bad about how long it was taking them to get my bike back to me so gave me a free demo on Red-equipped Melee. Plus/minus an $11,000 bike I think. Will it be…

The thing that gets me about the AI Google Earth thing is Google Earth is one of the genuinely holy shit that’s amazing things that tech folks have developed. Giving humans a detailed view of anywhere on the planet is world historical achievement stuff. And it’s the same company now wrecking it.