In 1986, contracting HIV meant you were going to die, usually slowly, painfully, and alone. Now it's a chronic illness like hypertension. In 1986, gay and lesbian couples couldn't have their relationships legally recognized and had to adopt elaborate legal workarounds.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 20h 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.

the whole 'nothing has gotten better' discourse is of course fucking stupid in a million ways, but I just wanted to note that average dog lifespan in the United States has increased by two years since 2000.

There's no better way to wean the world off oil than to make it drastically more expensive and subject to the whims of a narcissistic simpleton.

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 2d ago

Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West

"Zoning powers... should not be left unchecked, but should be subject to sensible controls & restrictions; & that the towns have misused their zoning powers in trying to prevent residential development through large lot zoning.” 📰 Boston Globe 📅 February 14, 1960

"I support cyclists and their right to ride safely on the road but only if they follow the rules all of the time" is an absolutely unhinged thing to say in a country where we have drivers killing tens of thousands of people each year and speeding while playing on your phone is normal and accepted

Dasia Taylor,now 22, developed a surgical suture that changes color in response to pH changes associated with wound infections. #Invention #Innovation #MedicalBreakthroughs

no amnesty

Minnesota Reformer@minnesotareformer.com · 2d ago

On Jan. 11, Gregory Bovino watched as his Border Patrol agents dragged a man out of his car at a St. Paul Speedway, knelt on his back until he lost consciousness, and dragged his limp body into the back of a van. The man's name is Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano and this is his story.

A law legalizing housing has ... led to a bunch of proposals for new housing. In Palo Alto, the car-brained NIMBYs are baffled & shocked. Oh noes, the "fabric of the neighborhood"!

New California law could ignite a surprising housing boom in Palo Alto

City officials didn't expect this flurry.

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It’s impossible to capture how little we knew and how lucky we were.

Cooper Lund@cooperlund.online · 3d ago

The problem with What Should We Have Done About COVID discourse is that it’s all Monday morning quarterbacking with the much better information we have now compared to then, and is about what we should have done now that we know instead of how we should have acted with imperfect information then

It will be worse than this! Most websites will be forced to ask you to send your ID to a third party surveillance service, adding a credit card won't be enough for most. Bluesky asks for your *social security number* if you live in Texas now, due to this shit. Call in, and kill it.

Eromancer@eromancer.bsky.social · 3d ago

This will be the US if the SCREEN Act passes. Call your Senators before August 5 and tell them that you oppose the SCREEN Act, KOSA, and the KIDS Act. Use the official lookup tool at www.senate.gov/senators/sen... to find yours by state.

Yep. I've been saying for *years* that as a neurodivergent cis bloke, quite apart from the basic human decency angle which should be enough by itself, it was in my interest to support trans people because it was *fucking obvious* the bigots were coming after us next. *Years* ago.

Sophie Rebecca 🏳️‍⚧️🩰@sophiedancer.co.uk · 3d ago

Laughs in trans having seen this movie. None of that matters Dr Burnett, if they want it banned / restricted they will just make up a nonsense review Ala Cass, and if you’re sat there thinking well Cass was independent etc then oh boy get ready. They’ve run this blueprint before.

The first three towers of the Sen̓áḵw in Vancouver. A major Indigenous-led, multi-tower residential and commercial development project by the Squamish Nation located on ancestral reserve land. Meaning "the place inside the head of False Creek."

my neighborhood 7-11 closed a couple years ago and tried to reopen but couldn’t get the permit approved because there’s a preschool next door and 7-11s sell alcohol (the previous permit was grandfathered in). i saw a fence going up around the lot recently and looked up what was moving in: a gun shop

we had an entire ICU team that was dedicated to flipping patients onto their bellies to give them a last shot at oxygenating before their inevitable deaths, but ok

Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d ago

RFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>

I once had a longtime criminal defense attorney tell me he felt guilty people often said “there’s no way this could have happened because of X, Y and Z,” instead of ”this did not happen because I did not do it.”

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?"

There is no version of yourself you could become that would satisfy the people who hate you. So you might as well be who you are.

This paper shows that immigration enforcement can _increase_ crime. Undocumented immigrants already have the lowest crime rate, but tough-on-immigration policy makes immigrants less likely to report crime. So immigration enforcement worsens the problem it was ostensibly meant to solve

We’re proud to announce our 2026 election endorsements! * Senate, 2nd Middlesex: @burhanazeem.bsky.social * House, 26th Middlesex: @mikeconnollyma.bsky.social * House, 27th Middlesex: @benforward3.bsky.social * House, 34th Middlesex: @wilfredmbah.bsky.social somervilleyimby.org/elections/20...

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Somerville YIMBY is pleased to announce the following endorsements for Massachusetts House and Senate elections. There are multiple strong candidates in many of these contests, and these were not e…

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The mistakes we make now are not allowing cities to be cities, bogging down every decision with expensive long winded process and delay, limiting where it can happen, and still succumbing to the notion that it has to help suburbs

Christof Spieler@christofspieler.bsky.social · 2d ago

I think the conspiracy is comforting to people -- "a few bad guys did this." The reality -- "electeds, planners, and most of the public believed that the car was the future and rail transit was outdated" is actually more unsettling since it raises the question of what we're getting wrong now.

I’m speaking at @burhanazeem.bsky.social’s “More Housing is Possible: a National Town Hall” tomorrow evening, sign up here! www.mobilize.us/burhanforsta...

More Housing is Possible: a National Town Hall · Burhan for State Senate

Join Vice Mayor Burhan Azeem and the people behind the Montana Miracle, California’s SB79, and the ROAD to Housing Act to discuss recent wins and what comes next for the housing movement. Speakers wi...

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♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Incubus (52) Jalen Ngonda (15) The Jimi Hendrix Experience (14) Cory Wong (12) Parlor Greens (11). #myweekcounted 190 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm-butialabs.bsky.social

Are you saying the DOJ withdrew that pool vandalism indictment… upon reflection?

In 4th grade my class debated Puerto Rican statehood and the pro side was "my cousin is Puerto Rican" and the anti side was "How would you even arrange 51 stars on the flag" and I want to stress that this is the level at which the American public as a whole generally engages with issues.

My boy Pedro, but the rest of the cast is muppets.

Pedro Pascal as Smiling Javi Gutierrez

Alt: Pedro Pascal smiling maniacally

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Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 6d ago

If not Matt Damon, who is you alternative Odysseus?

YIMBYs, a new moment of triumph is upon us! Atherton, the Silicon Valley enclave that prohibits all but single-family homes, one of the most exclusionary towns in the country, has just received its first multifamily housing project (ever!) under @scottwiener.bsky.social’s SB79!

one aggressive hardball thing I would like to see happen is blue states coordinating to have deliberately contradictory and difficult to navigate regulatory environments for hostile regime-aligned businesses such as X. what red states did with abortion pre dobbs.

What it looks like when you embrace housing abundance

Or maybe don’t patch it, but exploit it. apple.news/AQ8gIjZmrT1q...

A Device Hidden in Cars Across the US Leaves Them Vulnerable to Hacking and Paralysis. Patch It Now — WIRED

Dealerships installed alarms in millions of vehicles—and left them in even if the buyer didn’t want them. Now researchers warn they can be hacked to unlock, track, and disable cars.

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New in PN: Harmeet demonstrates danger of posting through it "The case highlights disintegration of DOJ under leadership of internet-poisoned ideologues who think Musk’s house of horrors is real life. And yet being terminally online is their Achilles heel, undermining their quest to weaponize govt"

Harmeet Dhillon demonstrates danger of posting through it

When being terminally online goes wrong.

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