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The thing about Lula winning is that the odds heading into today were similar to what stats modelers and gamblers are saying about the gop holding the Senate.

Bro about to do some serious engineering. IG: @canoe_carrier Algonquin Highlands, Ontario 🇨🇦

Saw a car with a Perot '92 bumper sticker on it today. I know nothing about cars but I'd guess the model year was 2005-2010.

Matty Y is in a very tough spot. He's realized that he is just a rightwinger but he knows that if comes out as one he will lose most of his subscribers. His material interest necessitates twisting himself into a pretzel like this.

Communism is when you do it. When I do it, that's free enterprise.

"Every budget that follows will build on the principles established here," the mayor said. "That means finding efficiencies, it means cutting waste, and it means taxing the rich."

"having a dude who can score goals" remains pretty important

Sliwa > Adams. Vote blue no matter who unless that is the choice then vote your conscience

the brady bunch relies upon the early deaths of two parents. beneath your frivolous merriment there lies a foundation of bones

We have some google admin tools at work that do a bunch of g-suite usage tracking shit. One of the things it does is send some basic stats to admins in a weekly summary email. Thanks to this mostly useless feature, I know that I regularly get 450-500 emails/week.

In the 90s you'd hear about the Sultan of Brunei pretty often and now you never do. What's up with that?

Finally, the pro-natalist policies we were promised. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/w...

Mr. Mayor, fire this man

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

Good to know

"Lol wut" has never had an apter application.

As a woman, I offer my sympathies to the Pope who is now being told hourly by very many random men what he actually means

A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.

Trump's plan to decarbonize is working. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Tell me you've never lived outside a handful of coastal cities without telling me you've never lived outside a handful of coastal cities. Almost everywhere in this country you have to walk in the road because there is no sidewalk. Even in big progressive cities like Austin, there is no sidewalk.

Is Trump a big enough troll to turn his speech tonight into an April 1 joke?

I, for one, sincerely hope that the stop work order on the ballroom means that there will just be a hole in the ground for the next 2.5 years while this gets litigated. I don't actually care at all about the ballroom per se but I do enjoy bad people getting shit on their face. Or lawn. Whatever.

This fantastic piece gets to a point I've been writing about: to the extent there was a "deep state" secretive, mechanized, career bureaucrats that ensure the exertion of state power regardless of administrations/political priorities--Palantir is trying to digitize, dehumanize, and automate it.

What's with the little white hats on the water glasses at Trump's press conference? Is this a normal thing that I've just not noticed before?

So far, the highlight of my year is making a rubberband ball from scratch.

Here we have a scene of several busses operating normally, as seen from my office, which I reached via the also functioning normally R train.

I am begging the media to stop sating nyc has banned all travel. Almost all public transit is running. It's just the small minority of weirdos who drive that have to stay home.

Most people don't want to hear it but Dungeness crab is really the only crab worth getting excited about. (I am in Washington).

deposing a foreign ruler and spending tens of billions of dollars on oil subsidies so we can put American frackers out of business, just in time for EVs to permanently collapse oil demand. that's the Trump business touch alright

All you need to know about this NYT puff piece about a startup trying to "optimize love" is this guy in the purple cape standing in the background of the image at the top. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/s...

On the plus side, by covering their foreign policy adventurism with the veneer of a "law and order" approach, the administration opens themselves to the very real chance they'll fail to get convictions in court. Thus far their lawfare revenge tour hasn't resulted in much success.

already getting tired. will i stay up past 10? only the cats will know

One of these cult leaders had predicted that the "singularity" was gonna be in 2025. I think we all made it right? Barring anything happening in the next few days. They'll update their so-called "calculations" (I.e. numbers out of asses) for the next "prediction." Who STILL platforms these people?

O holy night

and where NYC does meter parking, they give it away for free on Sunday. Free parking on Sunday is such an asinine thing for NYC to do, yet nobody ever questions it.

Why did 2 new Japanese grocery stores open in Cobble Hill this month within 1/4 mile of an already existing Japanese grocery store? Don't get me wrong, this is great, but I worry that none of them will survive this much competition.