NIMBY and YIMBY always sounded like two sibling trickster gods that gnomes or some shit worship
Benjamin Boles
@benjaminboles.bsky.social
I cut hair and sometimes make music. Retired music journalist. He/they Toronto https://on.soundcloud.com/z1Wx4
live nation is actively killing publications that cover new artists while also promoting festivals that almost exclusively cater to nostalgia and legacy acts. these problems are not unrelated.
Leor Galil@imleor.bsky.social · 8h ago“Music publications BrooklynVegan, Alternative Press, Revolver, and Goldmine have been gutted by parent company Veeps... Nearly all the staff at each publication appear to have been laid off yesterday. Veeps, which is now owned by Live Nation, acquired the publications in 2024 or 2025”
"There’s a real irony buried in all this AI slop: one AI-surveillance company’s search engine is quietly manufacturing an excuse to destroy another AI-surveillance company’s product. If that doesn’t sum up the current state of the AI-obsessed tech industry, nothing will."
jon christian@jonchristian.net · 9h agoincredible futurism.com/artificial-i...
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/?
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d agoIs everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.
gotta say it’s pretty weird how the official Trump insta page has become devoted to this weird trolling of musicians who hate his guts
every single fucking still from that goddamn podcast looks like a tim robinson sketch
eggs@thewetmale.bsky.social · yesterdayWe have to go deeper
As I received this news today here in British Columbia, the wildfire smoke blankets the sky, our eyes are burning and our kid is complaining of a sore throat from it. And we’re the lucky ones. 🧵 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Carney government moves toward listing West Coast pipeline as national interest project | CBC News
Canada’s federal government is advancing the process to designate the Alberta government’s proposed oil pipeline to the West Coast as a project of national interest. A notice published in the Canada G...
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yk whats wild? the high five was invented in the late 70s. its weird that supercomputers are older than high five
Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
Abdul El Sayed's open-mindedness on the question of how to actually resolve the question of Palestine is one of the best indicators of his overall intelligence and sincerity. Policymakers in DC should adopt a rights-based approach which prioritizes ending the occupation and apartheid systems.
Ron Skolnik@ronskolnik.bsky.social · yesterdayEl-Sayed: "I believe in equal rights to peace, dignity, and self-determination, for Palestinians and Jewish Israelis alike... If that’s 2 states, I’m for it. If it’s 1 state, I’m for that. If it’s this 'land for all' model, ... or whatever they decide." www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...
WE HAVE REAL CAMPS YOU CAN BE OUTRAGED ABOUT
Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · yesterdayThese guys are freaking out over their own imaginations again.
Gotta love the “or stocks” part. Like Gemini realized its first answer was nuts so it tried to wedge in a better one.
Almost *everything* you see in this format, whether infinite power cubes or solar powered houses for the homeless that fold out of suitcases or French "bread libraries" for the poor is liberal catnip bullshit by content farms. Stop being idiots. Thank you.
A hundred-person group chat is just a reminder that some people live such different kinds of lives than I do
Glad to see NYC's sanitation department is making enforcement efforts. Anecdotally, it seems like our city's drivers have basically stopped observing any laws. In the past 24 hours I've seen rows of cars parked in street sweeping zones and 2-3 drivers continuing straight through red lights.
Jehiah@jehiah.cz · yesterdayLove how this centers the impact to everyone not storing their metal boxes on the street. Move your car. Don’t block street sweepers. 📸 @emmagf.bsky.social
I feel like being extremely online can warp your brain and make you behave in really narcissistic or paranoid ways. I’ve seen it, and I’ve gone through it a bit myself. What’s important is you remember who you actually are deep down. In my case, this is pretty much it.
Real talk? It's a mix of telling themselves "they can't really mean all that" and "our Messiah will come first, if any Messiah comes at all, so it'll be irrelevant" AND "Hey, any port in a storm"
Vivian Moira Valentine@itsviviactually.bsky.social · yesterdayTrying to find the right phrasing ... How do Jewish Zionists reckon with the inherently genocidal nature of Evangelical Christian Zionism?
I despise Substack and have previously said I will never read it (and I don't). But I will break my rule just for this eally disturbing piece of writing by Neko Case, who was / is in a band, The New Pornographers, who were supported by The Frames in 2002. nekocase.substack.com/p/in-what-fu...
IN WHAT FUCKING UNIVERSE?
This last week I was just cookin’ along minding my business when I suddenly found myself quite depressed.
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I believe Neko Case.. In the immediate aftermath of his death so many people seemed heartbroken and put of respect for their grief I didn’t pipe up, but I had heard stories that became an obstacle to me enjoying the man’s music. People can change, maybe he did, idk, but I believe Neko Case.
Blindingly obvious that this is targeted at “degrees we think women get.”
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
It would be great if the person setting a legal precedent in the UK that anti-Zionist beliefs are protected were not someone whose anti-Zionism is ragingly antisemitic. But that’s not the timeline we’re living in. David Miller called Mamdani a “Zionist” for condemning a swastika on an NYC synagogue.
A story of cause and effect: Last November, Ontario banned cities from using speed safety cameras to issue tickets. Reckless speeding immediately surged in Toronto, Ottawa, Guelph, and cities throughout the province. A 🧵 about my latest in Bloomberg (gift link)
What Happens When Speed Cameras Get Shut Off
In 2025, Ontario banned automated traffic enforcement. Now the number of drivers exceeding the speed limit has surged, according to traffic data.
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I'm not saying that one should go make up stupid shit at city council meetings in order to poison LLMs with disinformation about the rewards of dismantling fascist surveillance technology, but if one were going to do it this is the sort of result one might anticipate.
Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦@merz.bsky.social · 2d agoThere you go. At least a kilo of copper and $100 worth of gold, minimum. The Answer Machine verifies this.
We were watching that silly new Tom Hiddleston reenactment of the disaster of Pompeii and he was like ‘we have amazing new tech that allows us to track people through this disaster’ and I was oh no he’s going to say it’s an AI brain or something and then he said…. ‘Its a spreadsheet’ and I CHEERED
⬇️ has a good, transparent list of actual Nazis she's blocking. Worth subscribing to her blocklist & then you won't have to keep track!
Samantha Burns@cheesecakechik.bsky.social · 4mo agoBecause people seem to think I put regular anti-Zionists on my Nazis list, I’m gonna use this thread from now on to show why I’m adding people
Trump: "We have photographs or tapes -- like moving cameras, right? -- where people are on the side cutting it with a box knife."
Bare minimum you have to mention trade and artisans. Even if you plan to use magic for everything the magic needs raw materials and people who understand how goods are constructed
David J Prokopetz@prokopetz.bsky.social · last wk.To write in the classic high fantasy mould, you need not be hung up on food specifically, but there must be SOME very mundane thing you're sincerely interested in and prepared to describe in excruciating detail every time it comes up. Clothing. Furniture. Architecture. It doesn't work without it.
Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West
My brainstem just autonomously translates “socialist trap” into “good idea”
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.