"The Flydubai co-pilot who tried to hijack a flight to Tel Aviv is a former cryptocurrency speculator who four years ago was living with his parents and calling women “rotten meat” on a now disabled social media account. " And guess where that account was

Lauren Dobson-Hughes@ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 23h ago

Flydubai pilot was deep into manosphere content, routinely used derogatory sexual slurs about women, and wanted a tradwife Misogyny is a gateway drug www.ft.com/content/a92b...

RIP to the world's first software engineer news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90

Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.

news.mit.edu

This is just a relentlessly horrific story. It’s hard to adequately contextualize the moral desolation of this unfolding in the midst of a midterms against a ruling party helmed by inveterate rapists and rape apologists. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/congres...

Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs

Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.

phoenixnewtimes.com

The design toolkit for NYC Streets is getting really good.

The AI induced analog world...

Daniel Knowles@dlknowles.bsky.social · 2w ago

Some unintended consequences I suspect the rise of AI agents will create: 1. Restaurants that only take reservations by hand written letter, or more likely, don't take them at all. 2. Gigs where you can only buy tickets in person. 3. Businesses that operate without websites.

"The conservative project called for the eradication of transgenderism from public life entirely; it never said 'but we'll stop if trans people concede somewhat.'" www.liberalcurrents.com/concede-noth...

Someone like Sam Schwartz should really know better. This is an incredibly stupid thing to say. Ebikes and escooters are the BEST tools we have for improving safety, by actually enticing people on to micromobility. To say nothing of the environmental benefits of light electric vehicles.

I think it is important to emphasize that we change physical sex, though idk how to do it without opening the "transsexual" can of worms

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · yesterday

“When a trans person transitions, and takes the hormone matching their gender identity, every aspect of their body changes, from physical strength, to secondary sex characteristics, to gait, to hair production, to bone growth, in some cases, even vocal intonation (primarily for trans men).”

These guys keep imagining a Benevolent Dictator that exists solely in their own heads because they imagine it to be them personally, and they can’t shake the juvenile fantasy that if everyone was forced to obey them personally all problems (namely people defying them) would be solved

Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 3d ago

“Democracy has been hailed as, like, the holy grail for the last couple hundred years, but democracies are inefficient,” said the crypto billionaire. “If you get a benevolent dictator, it’s actually extremely efficient." Hmm, where have I heard this before? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...

this is all a joke to them because far-right conservatives think that rape is good, and that high status men should be entitled to rape any women around them who are not also already attached to other high-status men. this is their actual ideology

Alan Elrod@aselrod.bsky.social · 3d ago

One of the most heinous examples is Matt Walsh suggesting that, actually, Jane Doe raped the frat boys because they were also under the influence. I thought it bore a certain resemblance to some of Andrew Johnson’s comments on slavery. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-illusion...

Important reminder to vote yes on the ballot question that would allow the mayor's office and DOT to speed up the installation of safe street designs, bike lanes, and transit upgrades. These are the people who want to retain their veto and keep us mired in a dysfunctional status quo.

What to Know About NYC’s 5 Ballot Proposals Ahead of Election Day

New York voters will answer five questions in November’s general election.

thecityreporter.nyc

Second Ave. Sagas@2avesag.as · 3d ago

The Church that had to postpone an anti-vision zero “community” meeting a few years ago because a 9-year-old was killed by a truck driver the same week is at it again, this time protesting bus lane upgrades. www.instagram.com/p/DeHtgftlLi...

I wrote about the Cornell rape case, specifically about how MAGA responses to it highlight the male supremacism on the American right. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-illusion...

The Illusion of Consent: A Rape at Cornell and the MAGA Right

For the new right, when a man is accused of rape, he is first and foremost a victim of feminism.

liberalcurrents.com

it is actually worth reading the entire op ed. it is Alito condescendingly explaining that yes, his “originalism” is made up bullshit that is *superior* for being made up bullshit apple.news/ACn4mQ2uDS7C...

Opinion | Justice Samuel Alito: Even Originalists Make Mistakes — The Wall Street Journal

An interpretive method disciplines the decision-making process, but it doesn’t free judges of the need to exercise judgment.

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The same people who are still furious about having to show a vaccine card for a few months in 2021 are completely fine with U.S. citizens being detained and assaulted without due process by a partisan secret police force with no standards or accountability.

ProPublica@propublica.org · 2d ago

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

Just last week the AI bros signed a voluntary, self policing safety pledge. Today here's yet another attack that -like others before it - "would likely result in criminal charges being filed had human hackers taken them."

Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · 2d ago

Maybe I’m a curmudgeon about this but no way anyone thought he would just deport criminals. That was the lie they told themselves.

I think this is a fundamental misunderstanding of the problem at hand. The issue is not people who feel that their lives are empty and meaningless. It is precisely the opposite: people who yearn for a perfectly comfortable and empty life and lash out at the countless frustrations of existence.

Snowden St.@snowden.st · 4d ago

This feels dead on. To raise a bit of a prompt: what do people think is the alternative to present to people who say “my life feels empty”? A. “Don’t look to politics for it” B. “You have no reason to/shouldn’t feel that way” C. “We have a better way to find meaning” D. Don’t care about these votes

Truly incredible that this is how the media is choosing to eulogize the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House in US history, who was a serial sexual abuser of children. For all the talk about "deep state" plots to abuse children, no one even remembers this case.

not to go full gen x hose drinker on you, but we walked to school on our own & were allowed to go to the library by ourselves when i was 5 & my sister was 8. the norfolk public library in our neighborhood was the one on hampton blvd. we loved it! it’s sad kids aren’t free to roam anymore.

Fietser@americanfietser.bsky.social · 3d ago

Our built infrastructure robs kids of their freedom of independent mobility. Streets are dominated by oversized vehicles, piloted by aggressive and distracted drivers where one mistake can turn lethal. We sacrificed child development to subsidize the auto industry.

Think about the core tenets of American conservatism: a government serving 300 million people and leading the world should be “small” and that we should orient all policy around servicing the rich so that they throw us gruel. It’s fucking stupid and we should say so.

Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social · 4d ago

The biggest democratic/liberal mistake of the last 50+ years has been operating like the right has anything to offer America. It was the fundamental problem with Bill Clinton to Obama and everyone in between

This man is evil, but also dumber than a pile of shit.

Marty Lederman@martylederman.bsky.social · 4d ago

Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."

Working class Republican found lying about his motivations and history next to fork in kitchen

zenlike@zenlike.bsky.social · 4d ago

So, this very sympathetic piece where the subject is “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024”. 5 minutes of checking his facebook shows pro Trump posts as far back as 2019, and a post saying that he “stands with Trump” posted just a couple of days after Trumps coup.

So, this very sympathetic piece where the subject is “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024”. 5 minutes of checking his facebook shows pro Trump posts as far back as 2019, and a post saying that he “stands with Trump” posted just a couple of days after Trumps coup.

Mr. Dan Zak@mrdanzak.com · 4d ago

A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

The Department of Transportation has made its popular parallel bike lanes on 43rd and Skillman avenues in Queens even better by pouring concrete at key intersections to slow down turning vehicles and improve daylighting. Check it out in this latest from @streetfilms.bsky.social. buff.ly/JjQQvEP

Friday Video: DOT Makes Two Bike Lanes Even Safer - Streetsblog New York City

Take a ride with the great Clarence Eckerson Jr. (did we mention that he has an award from the UN?) as he surveys a major improvement in Queens.

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i get there's this bullshit imuinty idea around the president but for the live of me, i don't understand why some dem da hasn't just arrested musk

The part of this article where Pierre Damas Bel’s dad was in the funeral home telling him what a good son he was wrecked me. So many lives destroyed by a fit of pique by Trump voters and nonvoters.

Mr. Dan Zak@mrdanzak.com · 4d ago

A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap

The arguments are incoherent and bogus but the racist right turning its lens on South Asians for being too successful and visible is a real phenomenon and should be forcefully countered

Listening to the racist podcast about the “Indian Question” and wow mediocre 2026 white guys jealous of an Indian with a tech job is very much the new mediocre Central Valley white guys in 1941 jealous of Japanese with a thriving farm.