Electric Buses Point of no return - have gone from 12% to 56% of new city bus sales in Europe in just 6yrs Europe's 2035 target of 100% zero emission bus sales could be reached as early as 2028 Bravo Europe 🇪🇺!

Unfathomable

The only way to square the mainstream media's decades of handwringing and complaining about how dysfunctional NYC is and this WSJ story about how business elites have historically "called the shots" on how NYC is run is to conclude that business dingbats ruined NYC and this is how you fix it.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 17h 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.

QueensLink is a slam dunk for the entire city and easily fits into Mamdani’s affordability agenda. So why did he endorse the QueensWay plan instead? nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/08/05/m...

OPINION: Mamdani Is Making a Catastrophic Mistake on QueensLink - Streetsblog New York City

Many residents of Queens have supported the QueensLink project that would extend the M train from Forest Hills to the Rockaways. Yet on May 22, the Mamdani administration renounced the project and…

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Better things are possible Learn how thru-running regional rail could transform Chicagoland with a system that’s already 96% built: BuildTheTunnelChicago.org

Kira M@kmc39.bsky.social · 6h ago

was thinking this morning about how the US kinda gave up on solving problems, so we get a string of obvious cons that pretend to solve problems instead. carbon capture, hyperloop, moon factories, AGI, crypto, plastic recycling, widened highways

Thread on the Family Medical Leave Act passed under Bill Clinton

Erik Loomis@erikloomis.bsky.social · 6h ago

And while talk of paid family leave is part of the progressive legislative world, it’s not really a top priority today. We’ve been stuck at the same limited point for 33 years now.

If anyone had any doubt about what kind of publisher Frontiers is, this is a shocking whistleblower account

Michael Okun@michael-okun.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Over the last month I saw that human editors are now stripped of control. I could no longer stop the system from auto-inviting "reviewers" with zero relevant expertise. Even worse - the AI began actively revoking the invitations I manually sent out to actual, qualified experts.

Sinister! A lot of NYPD resent Summer Streets for sulky culture war reasons (hatred of cyclists, car hog mentality, see healthy use of public space as “liberal”) and are trying to ruin it with costly security overkill. @mayor.nyc.gov needs to stop this shit cold even if it costs him

Streetsblog NYC@nyc.streetsblog.org · 2d ago

Summer Streets attendees were stunned by the sheer number of police and their vehicles clogging many intersections — in what one cop called "overkill."

If Stevens is down 3.3% then she needs to lead the remaining 32% of the vote by like 10%, and that seems unlikely? She's not even leading by that much in Wayne Co.

ElectionCord@electioncord.com · 15h ago

With 65% of the vote, I think El-Sayed has this about wrapped up. Obviously a lot smaller margin than was suggested by polling, but Stevens hasn't gotten enough out of Wayne.

It ys a tragedye - It ys a sadde song - But we sing it anywaye. For heere ys the thinge: To knowen how it endeth And yet begin to sing it agayne As yf it mighte turne out thys tyme? Ich learned that from a friende of myne He koude make you see how the worlde koude be Yn spite of the waye that it ys

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Zionist Dems have to pretend to be someone else to book a room for their defeat party

Stephen Lurie@luriethereal.bsky.social · 19h ago

You can look at this and think it’s a funny little aside, but I think this is a perfect encapsulation of how fundamentally the Democratic electorate has changed.

🖕😆🖕😆🖕😆🖕😆🖕😆🖕😆🖕😆🖕😆 I know, I know, we have to be really, really careful about November but let us enjoy every win

Stephen Wolf@stephenwolf.bsky.social · 18h ago

Republican power grabs in Kansas and Missouri are going down in flames with 18-25% of votes reported so far. Missouri's Amendment 4 aimed to make citizen-initiated constitutional amendments practically impossible. Kansas' Amendment 1 was designed to flip the state Supreme Court to ban abortion

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

I'm sorry but that's just ducking amazing.

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social · yesterday

DSA-aligned Democrats are now the most pro-free-trade voting bloc in the United States, in an incredible turn of events www.theargumentmag.com/p/who-suppor...

The first three towers of the Sen̓áḵw in Vancouver. A major Indigenous-led, multi-tower residential and commercial development project by the Squamish Nation located on ancestral reserve land. Meaning "the place inside the head of False Creek."

Readers should note that this in not just one or two posts, but indeed, the song continues over a whole thread, with footnotes.

Chaucer Doth Tweet@levostregc.bsky.social · 2d ago

Yf you spye a fadid signe at the syde of the roade that saith 'V short leagues to the Shack of Love'

Yf you spye a fadid signe at the syde of the roade that saith 'V short leagues to the Shack of Love'

I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Really loved The Odyssey but it bugs me a little how they felt the need to change the language for modern audiences

Every Gender Studies major deserves an apology for every joke made at their expense. People studied STEM because everything was science and engineering. People studied CompSci because everything was computers. People studied Gender because as it turns out, everything actually is Gender.

my neighborhood 7-11 closed a couple years ago and tried to reopen but couldn’t get the permit approved because there’s a preschool next door and 7-11s sell alcohol (the previous permit was grandfathered in). i saw a fence going up around the lot recently and looked up what was moving in: a gun shop

This story is so absurd that I think it didn’t get enough attention. Chicago police is violating the law to the tune of hundreds of thousands of secret traffic stops that it’s not reporting as the law requires. When Pascal discovered this, they said they’d fix it… but secrecy has only increased!

Pascal Sabino@pascalsabino.bsky.social · 3w ago

Chicago Police officials said they would address the 200,000+ secretive traffic stops I had uncovered two years ago that were hidden from oversight. But now as CPD Superintendent Larry Snelling retires, the issue is worse— *half* of all stops in the last year were not properly documented

"Why should I major in History?"

Bits@bitshammer.bsky.social · 7d ago

In the millions of years before fungus evolved to consume cellulose, all the trees that died and fell in the forest were backlog.

REF's a scam and meritocratic promotion is a lie so you may as well do whatever 'political' thing you're afraid your uni will punish you for.

Owen Davies@odavies9.bsky.social · 4d ago

So a whole lot of my talented Humanities colleagues are now unemployed as of today. A lot of understandable concern over Exeter. But for over two decades my Hums colleagues were in the top quartile for their research contribution to society. History top 10. Now gone with only a national whisper.

Reminder: it’s a Metra monthly bonus weekend. Since Monthly Passes don’t expire until noon the first business day after the end of the month, July Monthly Pass holders can still ride all weekend for free.

Skeuomorphic designs in general. You could print any pattern you wanted on that plastic, why always wood grain?

Sanjay Srivastava@sanjaysrivastava.com · 6d ago

What is an extremely nerdy/obscure/specific thing you hate with a white-hot wrath?

The used booksellers were trying to figure out wtf was going on a while ago and I was afraid it was something like this.

Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival@theharvestmaid.bsky.social · last wk.

Why is everything so transparently evil now?