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Building codes, fire/life safety, urbanism, politics, theme parks, and more. Proudly non-partisan since before it was cool, anti-war no matter which party supports the war, a non-driver, and a Masshole.
Clearly this administration has no respect for the idea of being a good neighbor. (This is a great reason why politicians should have to dress like racing drivers.)
Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social · 2w agoI don't think the United States should invade Cuba. This, to me, sounds like a bad idea. www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-gro...
This is beyond sad, and the only reason it's a real concern is because some egomaniac in Washington decided to be the opposite of a good neighbor.
BJ Weinman@bjweinman.bsky.social · 2w agoCarney admits Canada is prepared for a military 'trump' invasion from the US deanblundell.substack.com/p/bombshell-...
To be fair to evil Mitch McConnell, he doesn't know who he is or what he is voting on. His handlers directed by Trump MAGA senate leaders are now doing McConnell evil work for him.
It really annoys me when people defending car dependency try to minimize the importance of mobility for children. Kids both want and deserve the freedom to move around their communities and they should be able to do so safely.
Good riddance. He clearly has no respect for the Equal Protection Clause and the First Amendment.
Jennifer Shin - WTAF@jennifershin.bsky.social · 2mo agoAnother evil motherfucker down, oh so many more to go.
Yet another AI slop-infested court filing. Maybe people should be required to type (or handwrite?) the whole thing in court? It would be burdensome but it's the only way I can think of to try to slow the onslaught of AI slop in court filings.
Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew: An "expert witness" in a $61 million lawsuit over an industrial explosion that killed three people and destroyed 200 homes used ChatGPT to write his report for the court. He prompted ChatGPT to "show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion at Watson Grinding" www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...
This is an excellent reason why airports and train stations need good public transit connections.
Oh The Urbanity!@ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 2mo agoKinda sucks if you’re travelling with a kid on a train/plane, and you’re visiting people in a car-dependent area, you have to lug around a car seat for the whole trip. Even if you don’t need it on every leg of the trip. Even if you rarely use it at home.
This is just cruel and evil, and brings a whole new meaning to "getting Zucked".
Michael Love@elkmovie.bsky.social · 2mo agoI’m on a small-ship Alaska cruise with my son; our boat rescued a stranded vessel last night and apparently we did that after the Coast Guard radioed Mark Zuckerberg’s yacht - which was closer - and they repeatedly refused to respond. (There was near unanimous booing when the captain announced this)
"Platner’s first deployment, in early 2005, began at the Abu Ghraib prison complex, part of which the military had rechristened Camp Redemption." missed that detail the first time around!
Rick Perlstein@rickperlstein.bsky.social · 2mo agoA watershed piece. America will have have a very hard time becoming less imperialist as long as combat service is sentimentalized and fetishized, when it actually tends to turn men into broken, hateful people, and helps make things like like Trumpism happen. www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...
“Don’t blame it on labor and labor costs” says Blakeman, about the MTA’s cost problems, which are decidedly caused by labor contracts and work rules that he says he supports.
Spectrum News NY1@spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · 2mo agoNassau County Executive and Republican candidate for governor Bruce Blakeman took aim at MTA leadership while riding the Long Island Rail Road Wednesday, and MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber responded with his own criticism of Blakeman's record on transit.
He's not wrong...... thehill.com/homenews/adm...
Trump ahead of Graham funeral: ‘He’s never seen a war that he didn’t like’
President Trump said the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) “liked war” and was “very strong on the military” ahead of his funeral Tuesday. “Lindsey liked war,” Trump said on “Fox and Friends.” “I j…
thehill.com
Vital skill for navigating any policy spectrum: recognize the difference between those who criticize a project because they want it to be better, and those who criticize it because they want it to be destroyed.
William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 3mo agoI have a ton of criticisms of cal HSR but I am not willing to hear any from republicans of it, considering their problem is that it exists at all
Anyone who does things just to "own the libs" (especially things like wasting energy or rolling coal) deserves to wear a diaper, sit in a high chair, and eat baby food.
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 3mo agoAs energy bills rise, the US DOE deletes money-saving energy efficiency tips from its website. You think it can't be this stupid, but it is: the libs like using energy efficiently, so to own the libs, we must waste energy, at any cost.
Politicians should have to dress like racing drivers. Then we'd know where the money is really going.
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3mo agoBeyond absurd. A budget is a moral document.
In any other lifetime, “American president pays millions of dollars to a woman he sexually assaulted and then threatens to tax Canada because smoke can cross the border” would be such a big headline they’d bring back kids selling newspapers on the corner
Hey, but they make construction much more expensive with often no improvement in safety, so we have fewer new (and safer) houses and more people live in older, less-safe buildings. But they're the solution!
When imperialists say "democracy", they really mean "dictatorship".
Sbamb@sbamb.bsky.social · 3mo agoI love the part where Rubio goes on about establishing democracy in Venezuela. You know, by taking it away.
Good discussion on how tort reform is an enabling block to making code/standard reform easier.
Coba Weel@weel.bsky.social · 3mo agoIf industry wants wastefully prescriptive rules to be more reliably shielded from ruinous liability then just critiquing the wasteful prescriptiveness of the rules may not get us very far.
What a surprise… not. 😂
jon christian@jonchristian.net · 3mo agoNEW: The brand-new logo of the Donald J Trump International Airport appears to be AI slop, featuring an eagle with garbled talons, an asymmetrical number of feathers on each wing, and more glaring irregularities futurism.com/artificial-i...
I can't believe people do things as dumb and absurd as this. This sort of thing is why we have silly warning labels like "Do not tip or rock this vending machine" and "Do not put any person in this washer".
Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · 3mo agoOh, we're NOT supposed to inject yourself with gold to gain superhuman abilities cuz you'll go running around a Thai neighborhood screaming and bleeding then run from the cops into a pond and die? Sure 🙄 okay
The fossil fuel addicts must be furious.
Bruce Little@brucedlittle.bsky.social · 3mo agoSolar energy just provided more electricity in the US than coal for the 1st time on record. So, spending $700 million to bail out the coal industry is like throwing a lifeline to a ship that has already sunk. All the president’s men might not be able to put the coal industry back together again.
“Spending $700 million to bail out the coal industry is like throwing a lifeline to a ship that has already sunk.”
In the United States, solar energy is outpacing coal for the first time ever
It now provides more than twice the share of electricity that it did five years ago.
motherjones.com
THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY
Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 3mo agoBREAKING: in June 2026, *every single one* of the 1,062 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 7,727 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.
Google is now frying the earth to tell people to put glue in their pizza cheese.
Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 3mo agoNEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...
