14 hours later and my mentions are still full of angry treatises about badly behaved cyclists. Bike lanes are not a reward for good cyclist behavior! They are infrastructure proven to make cities safer for ALL ROAD USERS. Whatever way cyclists have wronged you is irrelevant to the discussion!

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · last wk.

Every conversation about bike lanes is like: "Car crashes kill a huge number of people every day, including pedestrians, cyclists, & car occupants. Good bike infrastructure has been shown to make everyone safer (& doesn't increase congestion)." "But sometimes cyclists break rules & hit people!"

I start orientation for law school tomorrow morning, and they’ve asked us to brief Terry v. Ohio for the first day. I’m working on it but it keeps pissing me off

My flight has been delayed 2 hours and I’m ready to commit crimes

I will never pay for tsa precheck. I will never pay for global entry. I will not pay the government a bribe to remove an obstacle they put in place and refuse to improve upon

I hate how stupid things work in the country I live in

Undervalued sign that this is a scam country is the fact that you can only use the more efficient and accurate passport scanners that every EU country uses by default if you pay for global entry

[me to Gavrilo Princip after he shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand] bro you just shot that guy at random

And it's not just e-bikes. We are seeing cycling broadly being attacked in the U.S. and the biggest brands in the country are pretty much...silent on the issue.

Bike brands are pivoting to gravel and MTB in part because it's become absolutely hellish to ride recreationally on the road in the U.S. But at the same time, there's really no advocacy from the bike industry towards safer streets. And to be clear, I'm talking about the biggest brands here.

I'm not the first person to say this, but the bike industry in the U.S. is really missing a huge opportunity by not aggressively defending and promoting e-bikes. I think this is largely the result of it being an industry built on recreational cycling and not transit riding.

The Rockies exist. The Appalachians wait.

Those mountains are older than the concept of trees and bones and you WILL respect them

Kris Lorischild@direkris.itch.io · 2w ago

It's so cute when people on the east coast talk about mountains

I feel like an issue that would connect well with voters would be doing anything at all to slow the current progression toward "absolutely everything now is a scam"

Now, everyone do this.

Alex Zalben@azalben.bsky.social · 2w ago

FWIW from my teeny tiny perspective as a freelance writer, I am not going to watch the Harry Potter show, I am not going to pitch on it, and I will decline any assignments if offered. I could really use the money, but it's not worth the cost of hurting trans lives.

*shouting until I am hoarse* LAND DOESN'T VOTE

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Tom Emmer: "Minnesota doesn't necessarily lean Democrat. In fact, if you look at the 2024 presidential heat map, it is overwhelmingly red. There is a blue dot essentially in the Twin Cities."

The politics of asking normal people to pay for their share of the cost of providing high quality public services will get easier if we start with taxing the ultra-wealthy at higher levels, even if the revenue that raises won't be enough.

I want El-Sayed to win for a lot of reasons but id be lying if i said getting the “sure it works in New York and California but it can’t work in middle America” people to shut the fuck up wasn’t high on my list.

“I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry,” goes so fucking hard

laura olin@lauraolin.bsky.social · 3w ago

Abdul El-Sayed on capitalism: “I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.”

This will never stop working because the entire finance industry would have to give up a chance at reliable gains during the week. The could stand on principle, but it would mean potentially missing out on profits that everyone else is making. Once that happens, they lose clients to the competition

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 4w ago

🔴 ⚠️ BREAKING: US and Israel are preparing to bombard energy-related targets in Iran as soon as this weekend - CBS News

it’s legitimately fucking offensive to me as a taxpayer that this entire administration is run by people whose only goal in life is to be on television

Brandy Zadrozny@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 4w ago

Someone posted this in slack and I actually thought it was The Onion. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

I have some friends who still subscribe to the Atlantic. Briefly scanning over their recent headlines, I struggle to understand what value this is adding to their lives. It’s such bog standard hatred sloppily filtered through the “thoughtful and nuanced” lens

I got a musubi kit recently so I now have a whole new dimension of things to be extremely annoying about

I’m really worried that bond investors are going to suddenly decide to notice we’re in a debt crisis the second the next Dem takes office

Steve Rattner@steverattner.bsky.social · 4w ago

Trump and Musk promised to shrink the deficit. Instead, it's projected to grow — to $2.5 trillion a year within a decade (in today's dollars). That's a heavier burden for taxpayers, and it pushes up interest rates on credit cards, mortgages and beyond. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart

I don't think you should worry about sounding like AI when you write. I don't think you should worry about AI, period, especially with that molotov cocktail just sitting in your hand. The lighter clicks. The data center beckons. A soft summer breeze tousles your hair as if to say: Attaboy.

“The DSA will destroy the Democratic Party!” Meanwhile…

General take on the Wilson review: She makes some broadly good points about the differences in characterization between the poem and the movie. She’s right about the specific characters she criticizes as being flattened or outright changed. She’s also right about the specific omissions the movie…

Has anyone asked Emily Wilson what she thinks of O Brother Where Art Thou?

LeBron James should just take the train to his new job: defector.com/lebron-james...

LeBron James Should Just Take The Train To His New Job | Defector

LeBron James is coming to Philadelphia, a fact anyone who lives in Philly would have learned from interacting with strangers on the street, no matter their interest in basketball. This is salient…

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Lol fuck off that’s cool as hell

Politico@politico.com · last mo.

El-Sayed comes under fire for 'ogre on a pike' leaked comment