Walking in the go-ahead un in extra innings is the peak Jose Alvarado experience
Charles In Charge (of trains)
@thecharles1.bsky.social
Philly, transit and land use, frequent flyer, sports, cute dogs
Awkward moment here as the Guardians and D-backs benches cleared but things had to be broken up because "Um please move we need to tarp the field"
“People like complaining and the complaints are mostly unmoored from whether or not they’re willing to do what is necessary to solve the problem” Is something I think a lot of people could stand to internalize a bit. Not all complaints represent some unmet need people just kinda like to complain.
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈@maxdubler.com · 3d agoExtremely related point: people don’t want to pay more for quality, they want to be cheap and complain!
Again, this is not what we believe. It's true that nearly all drivers are one mistake away from harming other people, which is why road design is important. But it's also true that there is a subset of egregiously bad drivers that cities and states can and should identify and remove from the road.
It's generally accepted on here that transphobia is a big, flashing warning light about someone who's about to go down a right wing rabbit hole, and I think after this week we should probably consider "still mad about Dr. Fauci" in a similar way
Post-Left Watch@postleftwatch.bsky.social · 6d agowhat
Lots of non-citizens are on the jury pool in Philly because they use DMV records and local tax payments to build their master list. (They get out of jury duty by simply notifying the court they aren't citizens.) This man isn't dumb. He's a con artist.
This is an excellent thread. Most rural areas in the US operate under what is essentially a feudal system where a small group of people own most of the land and control almost all of the employment. They amass their wealth by ripping off people who barely had anything to start with.
Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 6d agoMost rural areas have a ruling class. And they want cheap unfree workers & to pass their fiefdoms on tax-free forever. It ain't rocket science. The fact that we're scared to talk about THAT, ime, is what's costing us a lot of rural voters!
I do not care for the smol bean-ing of policy. A policy can be well intentioned but a bad idea because of the tradeoffs involved which is why assessing those tradeoffs is important. It's not bad to point that out.
the problem here isn't military, it's the way the military was used. what was the desired outcome? could that be achieved by long-range strike alone? (answer to the first question is a series of question marks, answer to the second is "no")
Phillips OBrien@phillipspobrien.bsky.social · last wk.People need to step back and understand what they are seeing. After a few months of war, the USA is running out of munitions and options fighting a country with no air force, no navy and a damaged infrastructure. US decline is real and self-inflicted.
Boy I hope this bit from my Gallipoli chapter, which I’m in the middle of writing, isn’t prescient.
climate change is real. all costs of beating climate change must be born by other people, who produce emissions purely for fun, unlike the emissions I produce, which are all life or death necessities
Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰@urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 2w agoIn 2026 the modal center left opinion is: Climate change is real! But the actuarial risk posed by climate change? Fake news spread by usurious financial institutions.
cops hate automated enforcement *because* its fair. They conceptualize their role not as punishing rulebreakers but punishing "bad people" (poors and minorities). They dislike red light/speed cameras because they wind up punishing "good people" for doing something they see as essentially harmless
William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2w agoit's fucking insane that so many people get away with hiding their license plates so that they can get away with running red light cameras and cops mostly don't care (I'm sure some of them do on their personal vehicles too). like this is something where broken windows policing actually makes sense.
The idea that the wealthy, the middle class, and the poor are all in completely separate housing markets with no overlap ignores how things work in the real world. In the absence of new high end housing, wealthy people outbid the middle class for the best available existing housing and renovate it.
Barbara Samuels@bsamuels72.bsky.social · 2w agoNew MR housing flattens or marginally lowers cost of housing for people in mainstream market, i.e mid-class & some working class people. Which is good. But we shouldnt pretend it meaningfully helps the poor or homeless. They are not competing in the same mainstream market w/ rich or even mid-class.
there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 4w agowhat a fucking asshole
Hey man, I got bad news about this Spain/Portugal matchup
Danny@dannystus.bsky.social · last mo.A country founded on genocide and enslavement and imperialism is seen as problematic for the majority of the globe.
it's certainly interesting to watch every single person in the oil industry repeat in a monotone “we are 3 to 6 weeks away from the worst energy crisis in history”, supply chain people with thousand yard stares, every single macroeconomist I know is benchmarking against 2008, etc and then meanwhile
this website is not beating the allegations
My perennial spicy take is that Amtrak's open seating on most trains is dumb and bad.
If Netanyahu is dying and doesn't care about what happens after he dies, that would explain some things
Yair Wallach@yairwallach.bsky.social · 3mo agoNetanyahu was forced to reveal today that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer last year, and is undergoing treatment. The image is from this week.
Reform isn't really a neo-fascist party. Incoherent right-populism, but not neo-fascist. You're thinking of *Restore UK*.
Alt Bureau of Labor Statistics@domesticshoggoth.bsky.social · 3mo agoWhy does the lineup for the British neo-fascist party look more and more like the cast of Captain Planet
if this polling result surprises you, i am issuing emergency guidance for you to touch grass immediately
Polling USA@usapolling.bsky.social · 4mo ago"Do you have a favorable or unfavorable view of Hasan Piker?" Unfavorable: 15% Favorable: 7% Never Heard Of/Have No Opinion: 79% Echelon / April 2026
"The baseline pension for retirees who lacked formal employment—a category that includes almost all farmers—is 163 yuan ($24) per month." Endless billions for AI and robotics while the generation that built the miracle is forced to toil until their last breath
China’s pension failings expose its harshest inequality
Uneven hand-outs see the rural elderly till the soil while urbanites enjoy retirement
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"Ooh. Everybody okay down there?" - Jim Deshaies Boog Sciambi remained silent on this one after a full moon appeared at Tropicana Field.
that 'german or autistic' quiz people are doing is hosted on the website of that canadian guy who loves *aleksandr dugin* by the way. just thought i should put that out there