A macho culture of performative selfishness might start on the roads, through racing, rolling coal, ever bigger SUVs ... But it doesn't end there. If we want to live in a decent country which values human life, we need to change this culture. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Driving that’s too fast, too dangerous and utterly lawless: why do we tolerate this petro-masculinity? | George Monbiot

In towns and in the countryside, I see 4x4s and pick up trucks driven without care or consicence. It’s a Magafication of transport, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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25 years ago, terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people, including 2,753 New Yorkers. As we remember that terrible day, let us also remember the first responders, office workers and strangers who ran toward danger to help each other.

I was 18 and just moved to NYC for college weeks earlier. heard the first plane hit, went up to the roof and watched the second. hopped on our bikes and headed into Manhattan. we had just crossed the Manhattan Bridge when the first tower collapsed. that day and the weeks after were utterly surreal

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The Rams play in Australia in two days and they haven't left yet: defector.com/the-rams-pla...

new addition to the shop

MAXXED OUT at $9.999!! GasBuddy data showing 5 stations in California that have hit the limit and are selling diesel at the dispensers highest possible price: $9.999/gal

welcome to 2020s tech. we got - pervert glasses - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - the button that does nothing - we outta ram - we outta hard drives - we outta graphics cards - ten trillion vibe coded apps that nobody uses - wiretap

Andrew Couts@couts.bsky.social · last wk.

NEW: The new Apple Watches double as AI-powered listening bugs for generating convo "recaps" or transcripts of any previous 15 seconds. But fear not, Apple says, this data isn't sent to Apple/gets encrypted, speakers aren't ID'd, and there's a chime for the 15-second thing. @lhn.bsky.social reports:

i've seen shitty cinematography but this is next level

Digital Brain@yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 2mo ago

BBC engineers built robo-cameras disguised as dung heaps to film wildlife at distances no human crew could ever get close enough to reach.

just read that the Fielder/Oppenheim doc was the secret screening at Telluride. reinforcing my film fest policy of always going to the secret screening

Just catching up on the scuttlebutt around Maryland Renn Faire’s furry ban

some many problems with transit around here but the one detail I always get stuck on is why doesn't the light rail have signal priority? seems like a simple improvement. if not, please forgive my ignorance of transit tech

Banthaskull@banthaskull.bsky.social · last wk.

We rode light rail for the first time in forever because it was a monday day game. Street parking would be janky. Seriously, long-ish walk to train. Taking train back was 40 min wait and train was way slower than driving. It is like MTA is actively trying to make people hate transit. I don’t get it

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars.

The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars

Electric vehicles get all the press – but it’s the smaller unsung two wheelers cutting oil demand the most.

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the health department notice for the Bun Shop is wild! REASON FOR CLOSURE: NO HOT WATER, RODENT INFESTATION, INSUFFICIENT REFRIGERATION, IMPROPER HANDWASHING, GENERAL UNSANITARY CONDITIONS, OPERATING WITHOUT A VALID LICENSE

if your bondo filler is drying too quickly you can thin it up to 10% with bondo resin to slow it down

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this is crazy. my wife and a bunch of her family members went through the process of verifying their Polish citizenship and got Polish passports. most of them view it as something to have *just in case* they need it but one of the cousins went ahead and moved to Poland.

yeah baltimore accent is the platonic ideal fer sure

This is how I feel about some on the City Council and in the school system who think young people should just be more responsible and leave earlier to get to school on time.

Charm City Art Spice@rahnealexander.com · 2w ago

it's a real problem that a lot of the people who make public transit decisions primarily drive cars

it's a real problem that a lot of the people who make public transit decisions primarily drive cars

lol yeah that's right

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Looking at the longer series, the generational shift in labor share is striking; the shaded areas are the periods when members of that generation entered the workforce. Elder and junior millennials may occupy the same generation, but they are living very different lives.

Mike Konczal@mtkonczal.bsky.social · 2w ago

BLS this morning, with revised 2Q data: "The labor share, which is the percentage of output that accrues to workers in the form of compensation, was 52.8 percent in the second quarter of 2026, the lowest level in the series, which begins in the first quarter of 1947."

hooked up a couple anmeters to my mains and now I'm walking around the house turning things on and off, watching the results on the power monitor, having an absolute blast

someone at work relabeled the vhs collection categories

the ajuga really loves being underneath these squash leaves

people are pooping in the waymos

But the truth is that society is a construction project and it is not self-executing. Having a shared project to work on collectively is essential. We are living through a time where a number of people aren't bought into the shared project. So here we are.

Pssssst… Baltimore: if you go to Current Space in the near future, and live in the city, look/ask for the petition they have going around. They follow all the zoning laws, but keep getting harassed by noise complaints by crybaby condo dwellers that apparently aren’t cut out for DOWNTOWN CITY life