Imo, there is no way to fail at canvassing. If you show up, walk around, knock on some doors, talk to some folks, then you've had more political impact than 99% of people.

Tim@lodgepolepines.bsky.social · 19h ago

re: LRT I am so doorknocking-pilled it's crazy. I used to grudgingly put up with it but I think it's important/fun now. you might not think it if you know me but I have social anxiety in many situations but - canvassing, whether it's electoral, labor, or tenant, is basically free exposure therapy

re: LRT I am so doorknocking-pilled it's crazy. I used to grudgingly put up with it but I think it's important/fun now. you might not think it if you know me but I have social anxiety in many situations but - canvassing, whether it's electoral, labor, or tenant, is basically free exposure therapy

TN-09 👀

Politico@politico.com · 15h ago

DCCC adds 12 GOP seats to midterm target map

large, well-designed study showing that adding social/emotional conversations with a chatbot into a person's life is objectively harmful across multiple psychological axes t.co/VTcTwfK3ky

Planting trees in cities saves lives. A new study in Chicago estimates that planting 14,000 trees per year to increase shade would save 104 lives annually Conversely, eliminating urban trees increases deaths from heat agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Increasing Urban Tree Canopy Associated With Reduced Mortality: A Longitudinal Analysis of Chicago Neighborhoods

Total canopy cover was not associated with mortality, but year-to-year increases were linked to lower all cause and cause specific mortality Year-to-year tree canopy loss is significantly associa...

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Audience-Capture Miserabilism is the great enemy all of us on the liberal posting app must fight every day you can get so much engagement for saying obviously false things that resonate with people who are extremely sad

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 24h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

They allowed a feedback loop of suicide-related content to build up, possibly leading to the suicide of one kid, to provide a control group so they could figure out whether or not safety measures dampened engagement. 10% of users were in the control.

Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 11h ago

This is absolutely awful

great thread by Jeremy, and I think this element is exceptionally hard for a finance-heavy industry and investment space to grasp at times— for many many people, money isn’t an effective eraser of doubts. It might increase willingness in some cases, but it can also paradoxically fuel resistance.

Jeremy Diamond ☕️@dmnd.me · 22h ago

Last thing: It's not enough for residents to get an improved tax base or even direct payments. This is a unique situation where folks specifically disapprove of the product. They want to be proud of the product.

honestly, the fact that we have made it through the atomic age *without* another use of nuclear weapons since 1945 is a miracle we don't fully appreciate

Rebecca R Helm@rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · yesterday

Today is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:

Since today is the day Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set, here is Nazim Tulyahodzhayev's excellent animated adaptation of the story. It's just 10 minutes long; watch it on your coffee break.

Watch: There Will Come Soft Rains (1984) | The Rediscovered Soviet Animated Warning

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Napier students made the most of their first year at Glencliff High School after last summer’s rezoning ended the neighborhood’s 52-year tradition at McGavock High School. ✍️ @ejturner02.bsky.social

Napier students continue to adapt after Glencliff rezoning - Nashville Banner

Students from the Napier neighborhood will continue the adjustment to Glencliff High School following the controversial rezoning from McGavock High School.

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Here is a monthly summary of fatal crashes, and non-fatal pedestrian and bicyclist traffic crashes in Davidson County for July 2026. Robert Powell, Bankole Olupinla, Jaime Magsam, Mikel Holder, Deandera Lovell, Jason Bungarz-Kinney, Madeline Mitchell, and a motorcyclist all lost their lives.

Happy Monday

DoctorTheopolis@drzaiusbaltar.bsky.social · 4d ago

yeah he sees himself as being in a negotiation with Iran but at war with Minnesota

Secretary of Defense Rock@sodrock.bsky.social · 3d ago

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

Broadway bar owners got so mad about alcohol delivery hour restrictions that they went to the state to create a whole new multi-agency bureaucracy to prevent Nashville from keeping people safe and keeping traffic moving. Not sure what that means for this convo but it’s a fresh complication.

Pete@pete-nash.bsky.social · 4d ago

Not just because of this, but for every day, Broadway should be closed to vehicle traffic from 5th Ave to 1st, with AM delivery hours. It is absurd to pretend that this is a functioning state highway. www.wkrn.com/news/local-n...

New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo

She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.

Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.

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When you slow down and think about it you realize it's ten times worse than it seems. Sure it's farcical, but it's also a brutal legal attack on a man they knew to be innocent, done to distract from their own thievery and incompetence and as a flex to terrify anyone who might make them look bad.

Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 5d ago

It is very weird that they just lie about normal people and then it’s not a scandal when they admit it

damn i didn’t know all this that must be why the union army lost

Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 5d ago

Another datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right

I've been seeing a lot of people responding to this with "there ought to be a law," but importantly, we haven't needed a law for this sort of thing because no prior president wanted to be known as a leader who would literally kill people in their hour of need for not voting for him

Seth Masket@smotus.bsky.social · 7d ago

This is honestly one of the most shocking images coming out of this administration and that’s saying something

I remember seeing someone (very reasonably) complaining here a few days ago that there seems to be next to no visible thinking on left and center about how to join the dots on administration and democracy. This is the beginnings of an answer to that complaint donmoynihan.substack.com/p/rebuilding...

Rebuilding Democracy Requires Rebalancing Power

What does a power-shifting agenda look like?

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Again because this story is breaking contain. It’s not World Cups, is all FIFA tournaments which includes a lot more than just men’s and women’s senior World Cups. This matters a lot because part of the proposal for increased revenue is increasing the number of tournaments fifa puts on.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 6d ago

UEFA's 55 member associations have voted to boycott World Cups if FIFA proceeds with its plan to sell stakes in its competitions to private investors

Monkey's paw bursts into flames

Ben Jacobs@jacobsben.bsky.social · 7d ago

UEFA in talks to put forward a candidate to rival Gianni Infantino at the FIFA presidential election, as exclusively revealed. Nasser Al-Khelaifi has significant support. Those close to Al-Khelaifi insist he has no aspirations to stand, nor give up his roles at PSG and beIN Sports.

Andy Najar does something cool on the ball every time he plays - he's one of the most entertaining players in the league. He and his Nashville teammate Sam Surridge produced a filthy little combination down the right flank to set up Evander's goal tonight

New York *City* has a budget that is larger than all but *three US states* and the mayor has massive leeway in jow that is spent

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · last wk.

I think it's good that Mamdani is Just Doing Stuff but more people gotta realize that it is not a matter of Will or motivation or whatever but because the NYC Mayor, as an office, is one of the uniquely powerful individual offices you can hold in the United States (seriously)

RIP Kavinsky. The DRIVE (2011) title sequence (and prologue) is just one of the most magnetic and successful sequences in movie history and it's impossible to imagine any track other than "Nightcall" in it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc_z...

Drive 4K HDR | Opening Credits Song - Nightcall

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One of the interesting things that I think people underrate as a driver for a need to RTO to some extent is that remote learning doesn’t really work, for students or new employees at scale

GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com · last wk.

i am not convinced that full time remote works for everyone, i am not even convinced it works for most people, but when employers refuse to do the work to make coming into work productive and valuable for those workers, i don’t blame the workers who prefer to stay home, i blame the bosses

That it was going to be thankless drudgery paid for in a few scattered moments of enjoyment rather than the exact opposite

Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · last wk.

Hey parents of bsky: What are some theories of parenting you were very confident in right up until you had your own kids?

As it turns out, you do have to listen to experts who are engaging in active considerations of tradeoffs in an ongoing crisis AND you have a role to play by changing your own behavior. They’re going to spend decades trying to prove that these two things aren’t true.

COVID was a moment where the liberal consensus about both expert institutions and shared personal responsibility were proven to be incredibly important and it has driven both conservatives and a certain kind of leftist completely insane because it invalidated their worldview

Post-Left Watch@postleftwatch.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ryan Grim wants Dr. Fauci prosecuted because we didn't know everything about COVID-19 a month after it was discovered.