nobody ask me about what I’m doing with my career for the next academic year (or maybe 2) (or maybe forever). i’m taking some time to be delusional about something.

never wanted to click on anything less in my life

the university was created by the collective bargaining of the gremlins w/ both governments & the church, who begrudgingly acknowledged it was in everyone’s best interest if they created the legal & physical space to let the gremlins do pretty much whatever they wanted

Oliver Darkshire@deathbybadger.bsky.social · 12mo ago

a university is not for generating profit, it provides cultural enrichment via weird little gremlin people who love visigoths or haikus, and very occasionally a scientist who figures out faster than light travel

being a billionaire and on the internet all day is crazy to me. if i had even five million dollars, you would not find me online whatsoever.

Yes, the Problems are bad, but this is no time for radical things like Solutions

what did i do to be cursed with the extremely specific punishment of being a Bluesky user who agrees with **** ******* approximately 50% of the time

am I going to get in trouble for wondering aloud whether the vibecession phenomenon can be explained by a change in *who* is struggling rather than *how many people* are struggling

car ownership is sometimes a necessity/ cost efficiency thing, but a lot of the time it’s a skill issue & those justifications are pure cope. it’s hard to tell which is happening in specific cases on social media but seeing it all the time in real life makes me 🫩 on a daily basis

Ironically, high-viz vests help you hide in plain sight. They're great for tactical urbanism projects.

Alex@mplsalex.bsky.social · 4w ago

This is so awesome.

counterpoint: the dead should make it harder for me to speak ill of them

My friend is dead. A driver, through neglect, recklessness or malice, has killed Louisa. I’m beside myself with grief and filled with righteous anger at a city that has stalled and slow-walked safety improvements for all road users. Louisa should be here with us.

The Boston Globe@bostonglobe.com · last mo.

A cycling advocate and transportation planner for the city of Boston was identified as the cyclist who was struck and killed in a crash near Roxbury Crossing this morning.

fascinated reading about the guys who plucked platner out of obscurity just cuz of his vibe, convinced him to run and spent like $3 vetting him. "the agency sent us some of his reddit posts but not all of them" i GUARANTEE you i could have run a better background check www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

The ‘Mad Scientist’ Behind Graham Platner’s Scandal-Plagued Rise

Dan Moraff rushed the vetting of the Maine Senate candidate. He says he’s trying to blow up the way Democrats run campaigns.

wsj.com

"it is difficult to ... not prefer the pure, misguided heart over the cynical and cautious one" lareviewofbooks.org/article/dang...

A Better World Is Not Possible | Los Angeles Review of Books

Did the Weather Underground have a point?

lareviewofbooks.org

caught up on uk politics over the past few months and now I have twice as many worms in my brain

tbh lots of ent brains got cooked once pandemic + social media suddenly exposed them to any dirtbag hobbit being able to call bullshit on their long-winded entmoot incrementalism/neutrality

so we've all been thru this huh lol

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hey German speaking friends: Do you have a name for the feeling associated with watching a mutual on social who's a mutual because of historical shared respect fall down a rabbit hole and start publically 'liking' all kinds of bad takes?

genuinely inspiring.

Matthew Lewis -- living in the era of cults and consequences@mateosfo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"We think that building housing is part of the solution. We think net zero is part of the solution. We think a car-light development is part of the solution. We think building a sense of place and community is part of the solution." -- leader of the Squamish nation www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/o...

can you make money being +epsilon ahead of the curve on pop music? maybe kalshi is my plan C career path...

maybe it was all a dream 🤞

ElieNYC@elienyc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Please god let this close the portal to Hell the Cubs opened in 2016

It's possible to derive joy from other people's joy.

It can't be overstated how he really doesn't know how anything works but was mythologized as a supergenius engineer by a shitty press

Sarah T Roberts, PhD@ubiquity75.xyz · 2mo ago

“I think actually things will move maybe even by the end of this year to where you don't even bother doing coding. The AI just creates the binary directly.” “Doing coding.” The AI just creates “the binary” directly. Ok.

Being against bike lanes is the number one red flag there’s deeper, darker views a person holds that we just don’t know about

the cars don't drive themselves and we're still nowhere near Mars, but you can't question Elon Musk's ability to deliver screwworms and racial violence

Everyone who says that you need to learn and use AI heavily right now to avoid being permanently left behind is telling you that they believe the future will feature profound and inescapable inequality and they’re okay with that.

got us again I’ll admit

i don't understand people who are weird about adolescent transition. don't you want children to be successful? like kim petras??

before or after “Diet Pepsi” dropped?

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo ago

If an alien landed and asked you: ‘What is music?’ what would you play for them?

Hey, if you're a CA voter who hasn't returned your ballot, and you also want to pass the #BillionaireTax, then there is a great strategic voting opportunity here. If there are no R governor candidates on the ballot in November, then the sub-tabs of recent polling suggest the tax wins easily.

David Dayen@ddayen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

First poll to show a Republican lockout... Steyer & Becerra are the top two as Dem turnout finally dusted to surge (returned ballots now above 2022, as it should be with a contested primary at the top)