Halloween is one of the deadliest days of the year for American children, as violent drivers mow them down, with impunity, across the country. It's pathetic that most cities won't follow what Mayor Mamdani is doing, but it says a lot about the values of the typical U.S. Mayor.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · yesterdayNYC is opening 160 car-free (but treat-filled) streets and plazas to enjoy fun and safe fall festivities this spooky season. Find one near you at nyc.gov/trickorstreets.
Getting Jacob Rees-Mogg to turn into Will Stancil for an hour is some real gonzo Video Game Achievement But Real Life shit. Absolutely incredible.
UNITED24 Media@united24media.com · yesterdayWatch Tucker Carlson get a quick economics lesson after claiming Russia’s economy is bigger than Britain’s.
i think it’s like super ideal for welders to become civil engineers and for hairstylists to become social workers, by the way, social mobility is great and we need more white collar workers who have some fucking perspective on life. but our systems are NOT set up for that. at all.
My dog wouldn’t quit bothering me on the couch so I told him to go into his place so I could have some peace. The obstinate asshole did not do that so he’s now in the kitchen laying quietly instead.
I have been saying this for years. "Drinking the Kool-Aid" sounds a lot less funny/pithy when you realize over 300 people who died there were under eighteen and 150 of them were ten years old and younger.
gamera obscura october edition@ohrobin.bsky.social · 2d agoI am so tired of Jonestown being a stock reference for “haha, you’re in a cult.” 918 people died, most against their will, and still it has become shorthand for how stupid you think someone is. It's the McDonald's hot coffee incident of mass death — universally referenced, entirely misremembered.
Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending
I keep seeing this Semafor graph that seems to show the Trump administration’s effect on international visits is comparable to the pandemic. My first thought was “that can’t be true” and indeed it is not. This is monthly data. We only have to Jun/Aug 2026. The lines are over-fitted to the months.
PODCAST HOST: the blood from the crime scene was found to actually be from the murder victim PODCAST CO-HOST: wait… the murder victim… died? with blood PODCAST HOST: i know—i was thinking the same thing. but then i read in the report that they died from the blood not being in the body anymore
Getting over a cold, does anyone need a Tom Waits impression?
“Why are people so down on AI and consumer tech, right now?”
”You see an acceleration in the hydroclimate cycle overall. You see more extreme precipitation when it is raining and more extreme evaporation when it is not, simply by virtue of the temperature being higher than it used to be.” @weatherwest.bsky.social said
Having new neighbors is making me speedrun learning new names and I’m not set up for this.
yes, i am saying this. literally this. i am saying that you should not care about water for 16,000 people when "growing alfalfa for export in deserts with approximately zero precipitation" is literally orders of magnitude more water and vastly more pointless.
A New Reconstruction@burleyzack.bsky.social · last wk.40m people rely on the Colorado River, which year after year shows less water in it. Denver Water has declared drought conditions and restricts residential use. You’re saying we shouldn’t care about the new water use equal to 16000 people? www.governing.com/finance/denv...
My five year old has the soul of Orson Welles. We were outside school and he 'put a kiss in my pocket for later.' Extremely touched by this, I gave him two back. He dug out the second one, THEATRICALLY CRUSHED IT IN HIS FIST and said 'one is enough.'
I'm just thinking back to COVID when our pundits and media intellectuals were incensed and enraged about kids falling behind in their education because we were doing remote schooling.
Matt Ford@mford.bsky.social · last wk.Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
Back when my kids were really young our fridge was packed with various jams and jellies. Since then, they have been replaced with various barbecue sauces.
Did you know that Lenovo computers have a voice assistant to walk you through restoring a wiped computer that starts at 100% volume without input from the user and can go off at any time, including 1 am? I sure didn’t.
If you think Trump is such a dumpster fire that the GOP is fucked beyond 2028, you don't understand the American electorate. They will forget and give the Republicans another chance unless we do something *structural* to prevent that from happening
I'm proud of any fellow alum of my high school forensics program, but for years I have enjoyed watching people beg Alan Ritchson on Instagram to join the fight against, say, trans people's existence and Ritchson promptly, politely driving them into the ground like a nail with the Gospel as a hammer.
the babahuck@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2y agook the Reacher guy keeps it real as hell
