Hey patreon I love ya but no one is ever, EVER, going to use your app to find new things to pay for. Your new business will always come from outside the app. Please go back to letting us navigate our own stuff without sifting through a thousand pointless podcasts I’ll never listen to.
This, more than anything else, is policy that would make the biggest positive difference in every American’s day to day life. Every single person in every American city would be happier with this. But we don’t even sniff it because the auto lobby works day and night to make sure we don’t.
Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2w agoTo carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars. Even if those cars are electric. And then there’s all the parking. OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money, emissions, pollution, noise etc. Choices. Simple.
Halves of your lives... RANKED 1. The First Half 2. The Second Half
You’re crying because you’re sad. I’m crying because Florence & The Machine’s masterpiece Ceremonials didn’t get its due when it came out and honestly never did. We are not the same.
I hoped this went without saying but if you’re letting your kid watch ai slop you are permanently destroying their brain and should be charged with child abuse
My goal is to die or retire without having made a LinkedIn. Only 40 or 50 more years to go
Major landmark moment for our sketch comedy venture: a much bigger comedian stole one of our sketches beat for beat. A true sign that we may be onto something!
And it lands on exactly this- If you ask “what do moderate Dems stand for?” The answer is: “Nothing Republicans don’t already stand for way more” Moderate Democrats are JV Republicans. Americans don’t want to stand for half of a philosophy. They want politicians who will fight for a better life.
Garthtoons by Garth German@garthtoons.bsky.social · last mo.Van Jones missing that people mobilize and vote for something positive. Doubling down on asking people to vote “not that!” against Democratic Socialism as well as MAGA Fascism doesn’t work. Give people something they are voting FOR. Inspired people. That’s the lesson lost from Obama.
You really expect people to “roll up their sleeves and start organizing on the ground” for the values of “we don’t hate rich people, cops, free enterprise, the west” etc? Nobody is passionate about this. People are passionate about opposing fascism and an affordable life. That’s why DSA is winning.
Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · last mo.I’m crying
We’ve reached the 50% point on toilet lids being soft-falling, making every new toilet a wonderful guessing game, which is exactly what everyone always wanted
There are ~125 million tax paying adults in the united states, which means on average we're all paying $2,400 each to iran as part of our surrender terms.
READ: Full U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding
The full deal was read to reporters by a senior administration official.
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The Mamdani Knicks have won the NBA championship, only blemished by the Trump game
I grew up in a house without air conditioning and I’ll never forget the feeling of stepping into friends homes and being like “wait what”
If developers wanna use AI for coding by all means, but it’s such an easy slam dunk to - at the very least - globally ban all ai creation of human beings.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo agoBank of England warns on AI scams as deepfakes of Farage-Bailey fight spread
Hey I did the hot ones challenge (and I’m fairly good w spicy food) and lemme just say- all the celebs are underselling how intense da bomb is. They’re very prepared and practiced. But it ruins your day.
Mamdani becoming mayor and the Knicks immediately winning a chip should inform America everything they need to know about next election cycle
My recent video that dares to ask “what if Pokémon were real?” just crossed 100k views, begging the question: Have I Surpassed The Washington Post? You decide: youtube.com/shorts/xqYqs...
Pokémon IRL
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Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis Washington Post Opinions podcast episode has 470 views on YouTube.
Cartoons have ruined me. If you asked me what an elephant eats I’d say mostly peanuts and there’s no way that’s right
There’s so much talk about gerrymandering and zero discussion about how the idea of representation based on arbitrary geographical lines probably isn’t the best foundation for democracy at this point. Let everyone run nationally and the top 535 get into office. Badda bing badda boom
The two things you should know about me are: 1. I am hungry 2. I would like some yum yums
If I am not immediately killed by the shower pressure than it is too low
🛑 WARNING 🛑 The 3 singles Broken Social Scene have released from their upcoming album suggest it’s going to- 1. Be their best album since s/t 2. Be a top-5 album of 2026 3. Include the Song of Summer I recommend getting into it now so when it becomes ubiquitous everyone knows it started with you