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the thing that's making me an Angry Old Guy is seeing so many younger people bizarrely terrified of anything unfamiliar, a little dirty, a little worn, anything that isn't completely antiseptic and clean. this is a heavy generalization but I still see it all over
I think there’s a huge section of society who just can’t deal when their brain/body shows more than a 5% departure from normal. Some weird obsession with maintaining the status quo
December 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
the thing that's making me an Angry Old Guy is seeing so many younger people bizarrely terrified of anything unfamiliar, a little dirty, a little worn, anything that isn't completely antiseptic and clean. this is a heavy generalization but I still see it all over
if I were being elected to any office in CA,
December 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
if I were being elected to any office in CA,
I think we could catch some very interesting footage when ICE thugs initially don't realize they're being recorded
Honestly Meta glasses might be a good bodycam for protesters
New: A CBP agent in Charlotte wore Meta Ray Bans to an immigration raid and used it to record, based on photos shared with 404 Media. We've seen them wearing these glasses before but this is the first specific evidence we have of them recording
www.404media.co/border-patro...
www.404media.co/border-patro...
December 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I think we could catch some very interesting footage when ICE thugs initially don't realize they're being recorded
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California Air Resources Board: "To achieve climate goals, we need less driving"
Transportation Researchers: "To reduce driving, we need fewer lane miles"
Caltrans: "We need billions of dollars to keep widening highways."
California Legislature: "You got it."
usa.streetsblog.org/2025/12/02/o...
Transportation Researchers: "To reduce driving, we need fewer lane miles"
Caltrans: "We need billions of dollars to keep widening highways."
California Legislature: "You got it."
usa.streetsblog.org/2025/12/02/o...
Opinion: One Less Lane Ought To Fix It — Streetsblog USA
Federal inaction means states must lead on reducing emissions — but their reluctance to reallocate road space for cars may doom climate goals.
usa.streetsblog.org
December 8, 2025 at 11:56 PM
California Air Resources Board: "To achieve climate goals, we need less driving"
Transportation Researchers: "To reduce driving, we need fewer lane miles"
Caltrans: "We need billions of dollars to keep widening highways."
California Legislature: "You got it."
usa.streetsblog.org/2025/12/02/o...
Transportation Researchers: "To reduce driving, we need fewer lane miles"
Caltrans: "We need billions of dollars to keep widening highways."
California Legislature: "You got it."
usa.streetsblog.org/2025/12/02/o...
look, I've heard enough about his fetishes already, get him the fuck off the stage
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 10:54 PM
look, I've heard enough about his fetishes already, get him the fuck off the stage
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Yeah, I as a 37 year old having lived through now 10 years of this, now have anti-populism as a core political belief
I think that the longstanding trauma of this moment is going to be that many people in their 20-30s rn in not-quite-elite circles are going to be intensely small c conservative for a long time and have something of a hair-trigger for anything that smells of populism for the rest of their days
honestly i think you could probably describe the vast majority of American media, political, and corporate elites as decadent
nobody knows how bad things can get
nobody knows how bad things can get
December 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Yeah, I as a 37 year old having lived through now 10 years of this, now have anti-populism as a core political belief
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It does really seem that the not quite elite circles are the vanguard of democracy right now. The true elites are decadent shitheads who will destroy us all.
I think that the longstanding trauma of this moment is going to be that many people in their 20-30s rn in not-quite-elite circles are going to be intensely small c conservative for a long time and have something of a hair-trigger for anything that smells of populism for the rest of their days
honestly i think you could probably describe the vast majority of American media, political, and corporate elites as decadent
nobody knows how bad things can get
nobody knows how bad things can get
December 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
It does really seem that the not quite elite circles are the vanguard of democracy right now. The true elites are decadent shitheads who will destroy us all.
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honestly i think you could probably describe the vast majority of American media, political, and corporate elites as decadent
nobody knows how bad things can get
nobody knows how bad things can get
you'd think that the fact that the president is currently trying to get the Feds to arrest Senators would be what the NYT editorial board would focus on but...
I see the gizmo cult has made its way into the NYT
December 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
honestly i think you could probably describe the vast majority of American media, political, and corporate elites as decadent
nobody knows how bad things can get
nobody knows how bad things can get
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Indigenous developments were totally exempt from the community approvals and all zoning limitations. Believe it or not the liberal white residents nearby with their “in this house we believe” signs found ways to call it a greedy development out of scale with the context
I take a look at the growth of indigenous urbanism, and some of the incredible developments being built by Canada's First Nations, in this HIGH SPEED dispatch:
www.highspeed.blog/the-future-o...
www.highspeed.blog/the-future-o...
December 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Indigenous developments were totally exempt from the community approvals and all zoning limitations. Believe it or not the liberal white residents nearby with their “in this house we believe” signs found ways to call it a greedy development out of scale with the context
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There is a real, fundamental misunderstanding at work here, and what I wish is that Matty would understand that many other people view an open racist and eugenicist with the same level of visceral contempt that he reserves for a left-wing writer who insulted his blog once.
I like these three. He’s also done a bunch of pro-vaccine stuff that I like to recommend to conservatives because but that wouldn’t be informative to the BlueSky audience.
December 8, 2025 at 2:30 AM
There is a real, fundamental misunderstanding at work here, and what I wish is that Matty would understand that many other people view an open racist and eugenicist with the same level of visceral contempt that he reserves for a left-wing writer who insulted his blog once.
indeed, so much about the Bay Area in one image here
December 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
indeed, so much about the Bay Area in one image here
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In the US we're at least seeing some thermostatic backlash towards more pro-immigration positions, but the UK equivalent seems to be a ratchet effect towards "deport them all"
December 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
In the US we're at least seeing some thermostatic backlash towards more pro-immigration positions, but the UK equivalent seems to be a ratchet effect towards "deport them all"
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Yeah I hate to say it, but it's hard to avoid the conclusion that the root problem is that British voters are now bad people trying to vote for bad things
December 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Yeah I hate to say it, but it's hard to avoid the conclusion that the root problem is that British voters are now bad people trying to vote for bad things
for me, a local legislator proudly posting a long, heartfelt thread about the anniversary of a nonbinding resolution about global politics - one which, like most such resolutions, resulted in absolutely zero IRL change - does not at all land the way that it is intended to
December 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
for me, a local legislator proudly posting a long, heartfelt thread about the anniversary of a nonbinding resolution about global politics - one which, like most such resolutions, resulted in absolutely zero IRL change - does not at all land the way that it is intended to
he does not lie for political reasons. he lies because he enjoys it. he enjoys being part of an amoral regime that cheerfully kills innocent people for sport
WELKER: Isn't it possible that even the act of taking off a t shirt could've been part of an attempt to get attention for help?
TOM COTTON: Or it could've been an attempt to signal to another cartel boat to come pick them up and pick up the cargo
TOM COTTON: Or it could've been an attempt to signal to another cartel boat to come pick them up and pick up the cargo
December 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
he does not lie for political reasons. he lies because he enjoys it. he enjoys being part of an amoral regime that cheerfully kills innocent people for sport
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Though I am the parent of a small child, I didn't know who Ms Rachel is until recently. But from what I've seen of her lately in the news, I am now a ride or die Ms Rachel stan.
December 7, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Though I am the parent of a small child, I didn't know who Ms Rachel is until recently. But from what I've seen of her lately in the news, I am now a ride or die Ms Rachel stan.
in the California Dept of Public Health we trust
I'm educated guessing that this past week was a turning point for many public health orgs in the U.S. with looking to downplay or delete any CDC info or links on their websites. It's getting to the point where linking to the CDC shows you're not paying attention and not serious about public health.
I’ve now had multiple sources tell me the UK NHS is removing the CDC from its list of reliable sources.
Welcome to irrelevance.
Welcome to irrelevance.
December 7, 2025 at 4:39 AM
in the California Dept of Public Health we trust
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"If you use this to produce a naked image of a child, you and also the owner of the site are guilty of production and possession of CSAM" would probably kill the whole generator dead.
cannot stress enough how bad it is to give teenage boys a "see this person naked" button. massive, multi-axis disaster
The rise of deepfake pornography in schools: ‘One girl was so horrified she vomited’ www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
December 7, 2025 at 1:01 AM
"If you use this to produce a naked image of a child, you and also the owner of the site are guilty of production and possession of CSAM" would probably kill the whole generator dead.
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There is also the Weatherstar 3000, which emulates how the weather channel used to be in the 90's, complete with smooth jazz
weatherstar.netbymatt.com
weatherstar.netbymatt.com
WeatherStar 4000+
Web based WeatherStar 4000 simulator that reports current and forecast weather conditions plus a few extras!
weatherstar.netbymatt.com
August 28, 2025 at 10:09 PM
There is also the Weatherstar 3000, which emulates how the weather channel used to be in the 90's, complete with smooth jazz
weatherstar.netbymatt.com
weatherstar.netbymatt.com
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they hate music, they hate art, they hate artists, they hate pop, they hate the video games they play, they hate the movies they watch, like, they're just all the worst fucking people you've ever met, none of them believe in anything
December 6, 2025 at 3:43 AM
they hate music, they hate art, they hate artists, they hate pop, they hate the video games they play, they hate the movies they watch, like, they're just all the worst fucking people you've ever met, none of them believe in anything
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learn an instrument, join a band, spend your teenage years and your twenties killing your bad brain cells and your eardrums with a bunch of other dopey stoners from a wide variety of backgrounds and gender preferences, you come out on the other side with only good brain cells, it's science
If it weren't for a positive chance encounter at 19, I could have easily fallen into that. We men really need to make an effort to put the young dudes we encounter onto positive paths. Don't ask me how, I don't know.
December 6, 2025 at 4:00 AM
learn an instrument, join a band, spend your teenage years and your twenties killing your bad brain cells and your eardrums with a bunch of other dopey stoners from a wide variety of backgrounds and gender preferences, you come out on the other side with only good brain cells, it's science
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One of the dilemmas of living through the second Trump administration is that saying these things out loud seems crazy. But yeah, the death penalty is an established, well-documented thing we have on the books for precisely these kinds of crimes; they obviously did it; and it's not hard to prove.
"the government should try, convict and then kill the secretary of defense for the crime he very obviously seems to have committed" seems like a radical thing to say, but -- no, it's not. it's the actual penalty for what pete hegseth, a man who ordered death squads to murder civilians, has done.
December 6, 2025 at 1:17 AM
One of the dilemmas of living through the second Trump administration is that saying these things out loud seems crazy. But yeah, the death penalty is an established, well-documented thing we have on the books for precisely these kinds of crimes; they obviously did it; and it's not hard to prove.
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This really needs to be understood: "The confusion appears intentional and is proving profitable and deadly."
The people selling these vehicles are not our allies. velo.outsideonline.com/ebike/...
The people selling these vehicles are not our allies. velo.outsideonline.com/ebike/...
E-Bike Injuries Are Up 1,800%, But It's Not Actually E-Bikes: It's Electric Motorcycles
The vehicles causing a recent spike in injuries and worse aren't e-bikes. Here’s why, our solution, and how to differentiate an e-bike from an e-moto.
velo.outsideonline.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:22 PM
This really needs to be understood: "The confusion appears intentional and is proving profitable and deadly."
The people selling these vehicles are not our allies. velo.outsideonline.com/ebike/...
The people selling these vehicles are not our allies. velo.outsideonline.com/ebike/...
just took a poll that makes me wonder if Matt Haney is running for Pelosi's seat
December 5, 2025 at 11:10 PM
just took a poll that makes me wonder if Matt Haney is running for Pelosi's seat
it is beneficial to Democrats for the Trump team to trust in Democrats being spineless, yet Democratic appearance of spinelessness undermines their chance to win elections such that they can strike back hard
I'm pretty sure this is wrong, because right now we're careening toward Trump, Hegseth, and Miller staking everything on nullifying the 2026 elections.
Hegseth certainly understands he's done for if Dems take Congress. Miller very likely feels similarly.
That's when the biggest protests happen.
Hegseth certainly understands he's done for if Dems take Congress. Miller very likely feels similarly.
That's when the biggest protests happen.
calling my shot way in advance: election certification day, 2029, is going to see the largest no kings protest yet, with more than a million people in the streets of dc alone
just a message: no fucking funny business.
just a message: no fucking funny business.
December 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
it is beneficial to Democrats for the Trump team to trust in Democrats being spineless, yet Democratic appearance of spinelessness undermines their chance to win elections such that they can strike back hard