Consider the people you know in 2026 who are wiling to answer an unknown number, listen to a pitch, and then willingly subject themselves to several minutes of questions about politics, a topic which almost no one alive enjoys - and ask yourself how well these folks represent the rest of us.
@abovoadmala.bsky.social · 20h agoIsn't polling a fairly mature industry? How is it so ineffective?
I can’t believe we’re doing another cycle of pretending to have a deal with Iran. This is so stupid.
Palo Alto and San Francisco have both grown about 20% since 1990. In the 30 years after the automobile started gaining traction, Detroit grew 549%. Why is housing unaffordable? That's why.
tweety fish@sifu.tweety.fish · 2d agoI'm not going to QT but there's a silicon valley NIMBY complaining about maintaining the historical character of Palo Alto and man that place should look like fucking singapore. Market cap of tech companies based in and around there is like $14 trillion and it's full of fucking bungalows? So broken
My grandfather got me hooked on this yogurt years ago and I'm kinda sad that I can't have it anymore.
Phil Rosenthal@philrosenthal.bsky.social · 2d agoYeah. That’s the reason.
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.
Both the #Pirates and #Guardians making legitimate contender-type trade deadline moves? Must be a chilly day in hell, but I'll take it.
The Cubs leaving WGN effectively stopped me being a Cubs fan
the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2d agoit's fucked up that in 1999 I could name every starting Cub and the entire pitching rotation plus relievers and now I couldn't name one Cub if you paid me even though I'm still for 'em
One of the biggest struggles I've had with using this account more often is that I don't want to exclusively argue about politics all day, and every account I click on is just a wall of that
Scoiattolo@scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz · 2d agoGood lord I wish some of you could read on this text based social media website.
there is a strain of lefty discourse where you can’t come to any unflattering conclusions about the populace—those must be explained away by how they are being acted upon by capital—but I think you’ll understand things better if you understand capital can also exploit weaknesses it didn’t create
If this actually happens, I might join up. But considering the number of people who said they'd join Bluesky and then didn't, I won't be holding my breath on it taking off.
NBC4 Columbus@nbc4i.com · 2d agoThe owners of the once-popular social media platform say they are working on relaunching Myspace with a new vision. https://nbc4i.co/4fNNRtN?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_
I don't really have an objection to the CEO saying Bluesky is open to all; it's kind of his job to do that. But as others have pointed out, the design of the site means it's harder for trolls/bots/chuds *and also* influencers/hypebeasts to get traction. The "bubble" here is actually normal humans.
as max notes, the beloved victorians were copy-pasted apartment buildings, built at industrial scale. same for the iconic brooklyn brownstone.
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈@maxdubler.com · 2d agoSan Francisco architectural beauty Discourse is maddening to me because people just ignore the fact that 2/3 of the city is mass-produced plywood and stucco garbage and much of the beloved Victorian housing stock in the other third is also mass produced “cookie cutter” housing.
Gotta say hearing *Yankees* fans complain about another team buying championships is just rich #MLB
Amish furniture is a prime example of this. It isn't particularly high quality, well built, or well designed. But a lot of people think it is, because unlike most items in stock at lower-end furniture stores, it's *wood*
Jen Wunder@jenwunder.bsky.social · 3d agoSerious question: How much is preference and how much is not having access to/being able to afford/knowing what higher quality is/feels like? I recently made a muslin sundress with a full muslin lining bc I couldn’t find what I wanted. I’d forgotten how nice a properly fitted and lined one feels.
"Bernie Moreno won't defend his own family. You can't trust him to defend yours." There's your ad campaign, Dems.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 4d agoShould the congressman who is credibly accused of beating and throwing scalding water at your own daughter run for re-election? “I don’t know,” says GOP Senator Bernie Moreno www.notus.org/ohio/bernie-...
Those of you eager to serve wealthy MLB owners as volunteer Pinkertons won’t like to read this, but as usual Joe Sheehan nails the real problem:
Idle Thought: I wonder how much the #OhioStateFair has suffered from the area around Columbus shifting from rural farmland to suburban sprawl. In 1970, Powell, Pickerington, New Albany, Pataskala, and Dublin had a combined population of 4,095. By 2020, it was 115,296. Each has grown more since.
I think my most genuinely unpopular take is that a widely held and genuine consumer preference for cheaper, lower-quality goods, not private equity, is driving the decline in quality of consumer goods like clothing and housewares.
The team that blew a 14-game lead in the division last season decided 2.5 was insurmountable.
The last team to have the reigning MVP and Cy Young winner at the same time got swept in the Divisional Series. #MLB
The people upset about the Dodgers maybe winning 3 in a row seem to forget that the Yankees once won 15 pennants in 18 years. We have *way* more parity in baseball now than we used to.
A salary cap isn't going to stop cheap teams from trading away talent they don't want to pay. #MLB
Yeah, this is the best move the Guardians have made at the deadline since adding Andrew Miller in '16.
Collin Whitchurch@cowhitchurch.bsky.social · 4d agoThe White Sox today made two acquisitions: one was Luis Castillo and the other was Team In Their Division No Longer Employing Tarik Skubal
Thought of what would have been a great @theonion.com headline during the Brookpark dome debacle: "Browns Threaten to Stay in Cleveland Unless New Stadium is Built"
The winner of the poster contest for the #OhioStateFair is really obviously AI-generated. Really obvious to everybody but the judges, apparently.
The reason the DSA folks seem to get so much attention is that they tend to talk about stuff like why your rent is high or why the bus is never on time. Voters by and large don’t really care about “democracy” because a lot of them have not gotten much out of democracy www.npr.org/2026/07/29/n...
To win over working-class voters, Democrats need to stop talking about democracy
Working-class voters have moved away from the Democratic Party. Winning them back is key to the party's future, a new reports shows. But first, the messaging has to change.
npr.org
your apartment, the sport of basketball, and the Republic of Korea are all social constructs. mere recognition of this fact does not actually make the question of whether you are standing in your own apartment, playing basketball, or a Korean national up in the air until settled by op ed editors
The pov that any thing less than strapping on pom poms for everything the party establishment does is “divisive” is so insipid - even worse, most of these people are the ones who can’t stop criticizing progressives. Somehow that’s ok
A very serious Rural Politico once told me "Dems have to go to farmer meetings! We gotta be where the people are!" I was in fact in a farmer meeting at that very moment! So I live-texted him the meeting. They were complaining that they want indentured workers that they don't have to pay or feed.
Lucas Tieman@lucastieman.bsky.social · 6d agoThere would be more pushback if folks left of center were more serious about outreach. But folks aren't despite the fact that our system does give disproportionate power to rural areas. But instead of taking that as the rules of the game as it exists, and actually organizing, we complain about it.
