the Wikipedia entry for axolotls reads like a Cake song

I want to see big bird spit on someone new ep out now with @ipaintbirbs.bsky.social !!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiOo...

Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media

The Professional Managerial Class is the revolutionary class and the DSA is their conduit. Which is why the left nimby stuff was so counterproductive. Why are you trying to impoverish your own political base, moron?

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social · 2d ago

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...

I kept saying "pigeon hole principle" instead of "bin packing" because I was nervous and now I have to live with that

The only other time a second-term president had approval ratings this low at this point in the cycle, he resigned a week later.

Still can’t over the fact that the president of the United States just told an entire state to pound sand after getting cyberattacked by a foreign adversary because they didn’t vote for him and it was treated like a Tuesday lol

Things I and friends have done to calm an angry abusive man from further escalating and killing us or our children: -Smiled -Kept normal schedules in order not to trigger a fight -Appeased with kind acts (cooking, cleaning, favors) -Forced friendly tones and words

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

My mom asked us to send my dad videos for his birthday. So I did a whole day-with-me thing and made my first J-cut ever. I also learned why nobody uses iMovie when they know what a J-cut is.

Solved a problem by turning off all of my data routing devices and turning them back on again. I'm feeling fine about this and not like there's a gremlin in my stack that's gonna get me

I could eat a lot of sesame balls

the battlefield medicine vibes at the vet office are really something

the wealthy (who control the business press) want expansive, stimulative monetary policy when Republicans run government and restrictive, recessionary policy when Democrats run government. So you get articles like this saying inflation is fake when a Republican is in charge.

CNBC@cnbc.com · 5d ago

As Warsh’s Fed faces pressure to act on inflation, these indicators show it’s at its lowest in years

if you want to see normally sclerotic do-nothing local governments suddenly snap into action, do some quietly beneficial tactical urbanism type thing like this and watch how quickly they race to remove it

wishda@wishda.bsky.social · 5d ago

The DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.

every time i've run into my new neighbor for the last few weeks has been as i'm on my bike. he asked me a few questions and i was maybe a little too aggressive in offering him a test ride with his kids, but then he went out and bought two (!) ebikes this week

Thinking about that take home coding interview I did many years ago that took me too long to do but I also reversed the test jar file and patched it because it had a race condition that was messing up my code

guys I just had to fish it out of the trash because it was left on the floor next to a piece of bubble wrap

Ronnie Chen@ronnieftw.bsky.social · last wk.

the kid brought home a giant snake skin shed from a Burmese python?? what am i supposed to do with this

The question of “Why are enviros so temperamentally eager to say no to things but so unable to say yes to things” is easier to understand when you realize that they built themselves completely around an advocacy focused on hyperlocalized impacts on ecosystems

good thread

Steve Randy Waldman@interfluidity.com · last wk.

public options are a good thing to keep the private sector honest. 1/

literally this cartoon

Alex@alexh666.bsky.social · last wk.

Thinking about the time I had to explain to a neighbor that when I say I want “safer streets” it is in reference to infrastructure to address violent drivers, not about property crime or wanting more cops

this shit was always annoying even in cases where it was maybe technically correct, but now with Trump doing lots of unprecedented bad shit the ‘heh, you rube, you fool, politicians have always been corrupt’ gimmick is both wrong on the merits and much more pernicious.

Widow's Bay DSA@gonebabygone.bsky.social · last wk.

There’s a kind of guy on social media who acts like you’re a moron for believing in gradations. You say we’re teetering on fascism, they go “umm we were founded on genocide” You say Musk is having a racist breakdown they go “umm he was always racist” Truthers for the concept of things getting worse.

I would say, "that *has* to be a bit" but I was a local politician for ten years and that's within median local activist behavior

Sometimes I think it’s too reductive to say that a car is a uniquely deranging object to own, but then I see people who claim left politics compare the people trying to turn a carpark into a children’s home to Netanyahu and I think “no, the car has made you crazy”

Claire McNab@2legged.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 2w ago

@kayfourbee.bsky.social Local authority decision would exacerbate local reource shortage. But instead of seeing a better decision which doesn't create a resources crisis, your preferred solution is to tell people to eff off. That sounds liks the Netanyahu approach to urban planning […]

I cannot emphasize enough how much we should all get the fuck off of X. This includes every politician and progressive group.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2w ago

There is simply no ambiguity in what Elon Musk is arguing and endorsing here.

Bass promoting fare-free LA metro is a really funny example of a politician attempting to pander but instead landing on a proposal that, within the community of people who care a lot about the issue, is a specific shibboleth for not knowing what you're talking about: bsky.app/profile/mayo...

Mayor Karen Bass@mayor.lacity.gov · 2w ago

As Chair, I’ll build a long-term financial plan to make Metro fare-free. I’ve fought for a world-class transit system my entire career because public transit should create opportunity for everyone.

not really surprised to learn that terminal stupidity and racism is the reason i can’t walk into a CVS and just buy a toothbrush without flagging down the one person who might be in the store dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...

We used to be able to buy things in this country

Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy

dannykatch.substack.com

interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”

tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

I'm actually astonished at how clean this graph looks as a diagnostic for our housing ills. Note how close it is to 1 at the start. Houses per single adult or married couple.

A theme here is that if a person inside city government intervenes on behalf of a restaurant losing parking spots or a random driver getting a parking ticket, that's seen as constituent services. If another government insider works on behalf of keeping people alive, that's seen as advocacy.

StreetsblogMASS@mass.streetsblog.org · 2w ago

A public records request reveals how @mayorwu.boston.gov's election-year "review" of transportation projects created a duplicate layer of authority inside City Hall that fomented confusion and stalled urgent safety initiatives: mass.streetsblog.org/2026/07/22/f...