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Alan @gammacounter.bsky.social · 1h

This is new to me, and in looking it up I found another Sumerian proverb whose meaning is lost to us: "For a donkey, there is no stench. For a donkey there is no washing with soap. The donkey beats its penis against itself." medium.com/@michael.l.r...

A ‘Dog’ Walks into a Bar — The Bronze Age Joke that Isn’t a Joke At All

Here is a joke that’s older than iron tools:

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Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social · 2h

We need to stop pairing unrelated infrastructure upgrades with transit projects because everyone blames the transit project for construction even though 90% of the work is for a sewer replacement and then it makes future transit projects harder share.google/dr9blW4oQuZ3...

After controversial Muni upgrade, bus crashes have dropped significantly

Bus crashes are down 40% on the busy SF corridor.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 5h

I’m sorry this just did me in.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5h

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips — made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 — show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself.

“It is deeply disrespectful and hurtful to see my father’s image used in such a cavalier and insensitive manner when he dedicated his life to truth,” Shabazz, whose father was assassinated in front of her in 1965 when she was 2, told The Washington Post. She questioned why the developers were not acting “with the same morality, conscience, and care … that they’d want for their own families.”

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5h

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 6h

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

if we are going to have a supreme court that is as powerful as it is, i basically think justices should be forbidden from public comment on their work as well as any supplemental source of income while they are on the bench. (they should also ride circuit again but that's a bit separate.)

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 11h

The substance of what she's saying is bad and unconvincing, but more fundamentally, I really don't think Supreme Court justices should be going on book tours where they publicly comment on their work and respond to criticism of it. Either put it in a written opinion or hold your peace.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 8h

Did not know this about Old Bay

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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 8h

ok but can you choose which bag

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 11h

New levels of hell: just got an email from our local AYSO cancelling today’s youth soccer games because ICE is at the Home Depot across from the soccer fields at James Park in Evanston.

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 10h

Nobody wants it as a story but I have multiple NYPD sources who voted for Mamdani, are eager for his win in November, and who say their colleagues quietly feel the same.

They like that he wants NYPD to focus on crime, not quality of life enforcement.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 9h

"To be a Republican in 2025 represents a clear public confession that you either don't know the difference between good and evil and you're so morally empty that you can't be bothered to begin to try, or that you do know the difference, and you prefer evil enough to commit mass murder for it."

The Crime of Human Virtue

Sometimes it really is as simple as good vs. evil. This is one of those times. Human virtue is our great crime against the fascist project; it's also our great weapon against it.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10h

I am an airplane person who thinks that nearly all commuter flight routes should be replaced with high-speed trains

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 20d

You can be a “car guy” and not like car dependency. You can be a “car guy” and get that too many cars in cities is bad for everyone, including drivers. You can be a “car guy” and be tired of lies & manipulations like “the war on cars.” You can be a “car guy” and know more choice means more freedom.

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 10h

I hate how true this is.

Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 24d

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 24d

If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there

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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 10h

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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 11h

I don’t think most people realize that that corn is inedible

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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 11h

seriously through the Snowbirds were great, worth heading out to see, not stupidly loud

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Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social · 12h

there is no social benefit in these scam data centres

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8d

“Advocates are particularly concerned over the facilities’ use of Pfas gas, or f-gas, which can be potent greenhouse gases, and may mean datacenters’ climate impact is worse than previously thought. Other f-gases turn into a type of dangerous compound that is rapidly accumulating across the globe.”

Advocates raise alarm over Pfas pollution from datacenters amid AI boom

Tech companies’ use of Pfas gas at facilities may mean datacenters’ climate impact is worse than previously thought

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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 11h

printed pdf of excel

Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 11h

PDFs into the depths

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 11h

I hate how accurate this is

Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 24d

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 24d

If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there

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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 11h

Fleet Week is pretty low budget this year

pelicans flying over sf bay, with boats and the ggb in the background. blue skies, few clouds

pelicans in a blue sky with a nice gradient

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12h

Not sure why it has taken until late 2025 to see this, but this is how you do it. Every time. For every one of these guests.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 13h

My version of this is that Vought, Yarvin etc represent a kind of braindead right-Gramscianism, which leaves out all the interesting subtleties and treats civil society _only_ as a realm of indoctrination, where one ideological master-narrative can readily be substituted for another.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 15h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 13h

part of the conditions for reopening the govt should be clawing back these slush funds

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h

Even as FBI is being downsized, it must allocate more of its resources to the only part of the govt that is growing: immigration enforcement.
The scale of this growth is hard to comprehend. DHS has a slushfund of $10B - bigger than the old ICE budget - to pay other agencies and state & local cops.

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bikepedantic @bikepedantic.bsky.social · 13h

Spotted at the start of the HONK parade: SCUL put half an aluminum canoe on an old Urban Arrow!

Half of an aluminum canoe on the cargo bed of an urban arrow

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