NightRose
@nightrose.bsky.social
Transportation planner in Salt Lake City.
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literally cannot comprehend the world in the era of the Great Weirdening without intimate knowledge of extremely online milieus, esoteric cranks, ephemeral events, and memes
This is a complaint borne sheerly from privilege, but I hate how understanding anything about American politics and the intricacies of its media requires me to pay attention to the biggest losers in the world.
December 27, 2025 at 7:40 PM
literally cannot comprehend the world in the era of the Great Weirdening without intimate knowledge of extremely online milieus, esoteric cranks, ephemeral events, and memes
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Wow does this piece suck! Another very good reminder that "realistic", "pragmatic", "adult" etc have all just become half-hearted mumbled stand-ins for "better things aren't possible"
Like: eliminating the combustion engine is NEVER ATTAINABLE? like ever? We'll be selling them in the year 4000? WTF
Like: eliminating the combustion engine is NEVER ATTAINABLE? like ever? We'll be selling them in the year 4000? WTF
December 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Wow does this piece suck! Another very good reminder that "realistic", "pragmatic", "adult" etc have all just become half-hearted mumbled stand-ins for "better things aren't possible"
Like: eliminating the combustion engine is NEVER ATTAINABLE? like ever? We'll be selling them in the year 4000? WTF
Like: eliminating the combustion engine is NEVER ATTAINABLE? like ever? We'll be selling them in the year 4000? WTF
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Whenever I can, I use dishwashers as an analogy at work. They are what we as humanity should seek to achieve: high quality end product using less energy, less water, and less stuff (in this case, soap/detergent)
Modern dishwashers are an absolute marvel.
Modern dishwashers are an absolute marvel.
People who want to get morally superior about how they hand-wash everything really gotta reckon with the fact that machine dish-washing uses considerably LESS water and emits considerably fewer greenhouse emissions than standard handwashing practices do.
(And you save a lot of time...)
(And you save a lot of time...)
December 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Whenever I can, I use dishwashers as an analogy at work. They are what we as humanity should seek to achieve: high quality end product using less energy, less water, and less stuff (in this case, soap/detergent)
Modern dishwashers are an absolute marvel.
Modern dishwashers are an absolute marvel.
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To be clear, creating zoning for pickleball is not what most planners *want* to do. It’s something that many *have* to do because their city council members have no leadership, and all they do is respond to complaints by a few busybodies. So it’s a political, not planning issue
Zoning for pickleball… I guess we need to focus on the issues of our times, but this is indicative of a complain-oriented way of planning
December 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
To be clear, creating zoning for pickleball is not what most planners *want* to do. It’s something that many *have* to do because their city council members have no leadership, and all they do is respond to complaints by a few busybodies. So it’s a political, not planning issue
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Cheryl Harris's 1993 "Whiteness As Property" identifies this sort of personal injury as a new, post-Brown form of whiteness as property that emerged from anti-affirmative action lawsuits in the late 70s and 80s
obvious but still significant that one of the primary and most socially tractable ways some people experience their own “whiteness” is when they decide they’ve been personally deprived something they’re owed, whereas when they get or have things, it’s what they’ve personally earned as an individual
December 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Cheryl Harris's 1993 "Whiteness As Property" identifies this sort of personal injury as a new, post-Brown form of whiteness as property that emerged from anti-affirmative action lawsuits in the late 70s and 80s
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People who want to get morally superior about how they hand-wash everything really gotta reckon with the fact that machine dish-washing uses considerably LESS water and emits considerably fewer greenhouse emissions than standard handwashing practices do.
(And you save a lot of time...)
(And you save a lot of time...)
December 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM
People who want to get morally superior about how they hand-wash everything really gotta reckon with the fact that machine dish-washing uses considerably LESS water and emits considerably fewer greenhouse emissions than standard handwashing practices do.
(And you save a lot of time...)
(And you save a lot of time...)
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The first thing ICE did when it was created was raiding meat processing plants in the Midwest and south to help quell labor disputes over safety violations and keep those who weren't detained from getting legal protections as many had kids who grew up locally and were citizens with political power.
December 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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There's a sort of large-megaphone protection racket for certain right-wing preferred policy outcomes.
The calls for generic dems to vaguely "move to the center" on issues should properly be understood as a threat, not as advice.
As in, "nice candidacy you got there, would be a shame if..."
The calls for generic dems to vaguely "move to the center" on issues should properly be understood as a threat, not as advice.
As in, "nice candidacy you got there, would be a shame if..."
December 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
There's a sort of large-megaphone protection racket for certain right-wing preferred policy outcomes.
The calls for generic dems to vaguely "move to the center" on issues should properly be understood as a threat, not as advice.
As in, "nice candidacy you got there, would be a shame if..."
The calls for generic dems to vaguely "move to the center" on issues should properly be understood as a threat, not as advice.
As in, "nice candidacy you got there, would be a shame if..."
As it has always been on this webbed site.
December 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
As it has always been on this webbed site.
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It was in the immediate wake of 9/11 and George Bush’s approval rating was still one kabillion but yes they were wrong and this is why we primary shitty weathervane reps and replace them with people who have morals and backbone.
fun fact: ICE was created in 2002 with near unanimous support from congressional democrats!
December 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
It was in the immediate wake of 9/11 and George Bush’s approval rating was still one kabillion but yes they were wrong and this is why we primary shitty weathervane reps and replace them with people who have morals and backbone.
IMO when Will is wrong, his wrongness is usually in the same direction: refusing to acknowledge that the *way* in which material wealth is generated and allocated has a substantial impact on the structural wellbeing of a society.
Turning campaigns into mutual aid hubs isn’t good for campaigns or mutual aid! Your campaign manager should be entirely too busy to schlep around 5600 tampons!
December 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
IMO when Will is wrong, his wrongness is usually in the same direction: refusing to acknowledge that the *way* in which material wealth is generated and allocated has a substantial impact on the structural wellbeing of a society.
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I think the fundamental problem with Will, and the Democrats broadly, is they have gone all in on this data-driven philosophy that is so obsessed with observing and understanding the current moment that it has lost the ability to perceive a future that isn't just the current moment extended forever.
December 27, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I think the fundamental problem with Will, and the Democrats broadly, is they have gone all in on this data-driven philosophy that is so obsessed with observing and understanding the current moment that it has lost the ability to perceive a future that isn't just the current moment extended forever.
IMO Gaza moved a lot of very loud and active young people from a 5 or 6 to a 3 or 4.
You need a decent contingent of very loud and active young people at 5 or 6 in order to win big elections.
You need a decent contingent of very loud and active young people at 5 or 6 in order to win big elections.
Gaza didn’t get Trump elected. If you don’t believe me, believe all the Gaza activists who say they didn’t cost Harris the election.
December 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
IMO Gaza moved a lot of very loud and active young people from a 5 or 6 to a 3 or 4.
You need a decent contingent of very loud and active young people at 5 or 6 in order to win big elections.
You need a decent contingent of very loud and active young people at 5 or 6 in order to win big elections.
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synthesizing the discourses by saying kat abu should use the campaign money to start a think tank instead
December 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
synthesizing the discourses by saying kat abu should use the campaign money to start a think tank instead
Huh. (from: hls.harvard.edu/today/the-my...)
December 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Huh. (from: hls.harvard.edu/today/the-my...)
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My favorite factoid is that the average Brit outside of London makes less than the average West Virginian but has to deal with a housing market comparable to California.
America is a country of extreme wealth and extreme inequality, both things can be true at once
America is a country of extreme wealth and extreme inequality, both things can be true at once
I think that this belief is more common than any of us would like to admit and it is also extremely fucking wrong. This is why it’s important to learn about the rest of the world.
all of america is "extremely poor" you dipshit, it's trying to persuade the bulk of this country. You're so detached from reality
December 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
My favorite factoid is that the average Brit outside of London makes less than the average West Virginian but has to deal with a housing market comparable to California.
America is a country of extreme wealth and extreme inequality, both things can be true at once
America is a country of extreme wealth and extreme inequality, both things can be true at once
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They do not deserve a moment's peace
ICE agent recognized out Christmas shopping—throws tantrum when citizens profile him.
"We're trying to prevent you from kidnapping our neighbors," they say.
"I'm not doing anything but walking, leave me alone!" he yells.
"Not right now you're not—but the past 5 days you have."
Philadelphia, PA
"We're trying to prevent you from kidnapping our neighbors," they say.
"I'm not doing anything but walking, leave me alone!" he yells.
"Not right now you're not—but the past 5 days you have."
Philadelphia, PA
December 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
They do not deserve a moment's peace
My Take on Red One is that it makes a lot more sense if you read it as "Jeff Bezos got J.K. Simmons play Jeff Bezos as Santa"
Not opposed to the premise, but if I were banking on Santa being real, I’d go with a magic-based system and not a militarized surveillance state
December 26, 2025 at 4:44 AM
My Take on Red One is that it makes a lot more sense if you read it as "Jeff Bezos got J.K. Simmons play Jeff Bezos as Santa"
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Artists are also hurt by big companies spamming DCMA takedown requests for fair-use or similar-sounding works.
Why are you relying on a rent-seeking legal mechanism that's ineffective and holding humanity back?
Why are you relying on a rent-seeking legal mechanism that's ineffective and holding humanity back?
December 24, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Artists are also hurt by big companies spamming DCMA takedown requests for fair-use or similar-sounding works.
Why are you relying on a rent-seeking legal mechanism that's ineffective and holding humanity back?
Why are you relying on a rent-seeking legal mechanism that's ineffective and holding humanity back?
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Same playbook used on the genocide in Gaza--throw up a smokescreen of conflicting claims and hairsplitting so the audience is comforted by their own ambivalence to other people's suffering. Every item in this is pointless if you know that torture and rape are wrong, period.
The full Weiss memo is dogshit
-who cares if administration figures “regret” sending people to CECOT
-who cares about the criminal histories of the people we sent to CECOT, we sent them to a torture prison
—who cares about the “debate” over the legality of sending people to a torture prison
-who cares if administration figures “regret” sending people to CECOT
-who cares about the criminal histories of the people we sent to CECOT, we sent them to a torture prison
—who cares about the “debate” over the legality of sending people to a torture prison
December 22, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Same playbook used on the genocide in Gaza--throw up a smokescreen of conflicting claims and hairsplitting so the audience is comforted by their own ambivalence to other people's suffering. Every item in this is pointless if you know that torture and rape are wrong, period.
Feel like the American equivalent would be the "USS Pop 'em Out Like Donuts"
learn the native expression instead!
as in imagine dropping a bunch of raw dumplings into boiling water
as in imagine dropping a bunch of raw dumplings into boiling water
December 23, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Feel like the American equivalent would be the "USS Pop 'em Out Like Donuts"
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fear of public transit never sits right with me. ride the bus and you’ll see people looking out for one another, strangers chatting, babies waving, neighbors moving in community. isolationism will kill us
December 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
fear of public transit never sits right with me. ride the bus and you’ll see people looking out for one another, strangers chatting, babies waving, neighbors moving in community. isolationism will kill us
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Yesterday, the U.S. House passed HR 3492 by just 5 votes. The bill would criminalize gender affirming care. In 2023, Utah passed a bill sponsored by now-U.S. Rep. Mike Kennedy that banned the practice. The bill called for a study & for the policy to be revisited when the study was complete.
December 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Yesterday, the U.S. House passed HR 3492 by just 5 votes. The bill would criminalize gender affirming care. In 2023, Utah passed a bill sponsored by now-U.S. Rep. Mike Kennedy that banned the practice. The bill called for a study & for the policy to be revisited when the study was complete.
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there is one and only one political strategy, and that is: “hang trump like an anchor around the neck of every single elected republican and the party itself.” no ‘friends across the aisle.’ no ‘the fever will break.’ anyone not on board with that has to go. no exceptions
![Gallup poll | 12/1-12/15
President Trump approval crosstabs (%)
🟥Overall (59/36 disapprove) [-23]
🟥Democratic (93/3 disapprove) [-90]
🟩Republican (89/8 approve) [+81]
🟥Independent (68/25 disapprove) [-43]
🟥18-34 (68/25 disapprove) [-43]
🟥35-54 (59/36 disapprove) [-23]
🟥55+ (53/43 disapprove) [-10]
🟥No college (55/37 disapprove) [-18]
🟥College graduate (59/37 disapprove) [-22]
🟥Male (53/42 disapprove) [-11]
🟥Female (64/30 disapprove) [-34]
🟥White (52/46 disapprove) [-6]
🟥Non-white (71/21 disapprove) [-50]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreifnv6vxufu6icjvsd5toirz3lmqkzertdpdnlqh7q44momevhfjqq@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 2:42 AM
there is one and only one political strategy, and that is: “hang trump like an anchor around the neck of every single elected republican and the party itself.” no ‘friends across the aisle.’ no ‘the fever will break.’ anyone not on board with that has to go. no exceptions