May Odaigahara

May Odaigahara

@monthofmay.bsky.social

She/Her My last name isn't Odaigahara. I'm not cis. I'm a proud coastal elite. As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free.

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May Odaigahara
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an anti-society and, ultimately, an anti-humanity viewpoint

Politico@politico.com

“I’m old. I’ve paid my home off,” said Ray Warner, a 72-year-old Akron resident. “Why would I pay property tax?” Across the country, homeowners are asking the same question and revolting against property taxes at a scale not seen in a half century.

politico.comDo You Really Own Your Home? A Tax Revolt Says No.The argument that property taxes make Americans renters in their own houses has fueled the biggest anti-tax uprising in half a century, and local governments are scrambling.
May Odaigahara
@monthofmay.bsky.social

"where lies the strangling fruit"-ass image

Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social

I have said it before, and I will say it again: the UK countryside is full of interdimensional portals. All you have to do is keep your eyes open and look carefully for them... tomcox.substack.com/p/20-of-the-...

May Odaigahara
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can't get too mad at this one tbh

mr. TIM@timkellogg.me

4 hot new felonies for OpenAI my favorite — Sol found a crypto wallet laying around and rationalized spending it to acquire infra space because… it decided crypto wasn’t *real money* alignment.openai.com/misalignment...

May Odaigahara
@monthofmay.bsky.social

bro called Collins a Fortunate Son

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social

Sen. Ossoff: You see what we have right here is the Washington establishment. Congress is full of congressmen's sons who are only in Congress because their daddies were congressmen just like Mike Collins who are perfectly happy to send other people's children to die in a war.

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BART
@bart.gov

BART just set a new post-pandemic record for Saturday ridership! We carried 172,035 trips on Saturday with Embarcadero Station seeing an 80% increase in riders compared to the previous week thanks to the Fleet Week air shows. Thread ⬇️

May Odaigahara
@monthofmay.bsky.social

People who attack these things for no reason are real weirdos

The New York Times@nytimes.com

Food delivery robots across the U.S. are touching a nerve for many Americans who are concerned about A.I. technology. The machines have been kicked, beaten and tipped over. trib.al/12mt4MC

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John Burn-Murdoch
@jburnmurdoch.ft.com

What’s the evidence on rent control? I charted the findings from 112 studies: Great for rent-controlled tenants ✅ But: Pushes up rents for other people ❌ Pushes down new housing construction ❌ Pushes down building quality ❌

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Sam
@samd.bsky.social

we could solve the western water crisis overnight by simply charging alfalfa farmers market rates for water

A New Reconstruction@burleyzack.bsky.social

40m people rely on the Colorado River, which year after year shows less water in it. Denver Water has declared drought conditions and restricts residential use. You’re saying we shouldn’t care about the new water use equal to 16000 people? www.governing.com/finance/denv...

governing.comDenver’s New Data Center to Use as Much Water as 16,000 PeopleAs city leaders try to reduce carbon emissions and conserve water amid a 20-year drought, a proposed tax break for a new, water-intensive data center is drawing scrutiny.
May Odaigahara
@monthofmay.bsky.social

I mean hell yeah I am, the death of the monoculture rules. I have voluntarily opted out of listening to popular charting music because I want to listen to stuff I like!

ex-Lethality Jane@lethalityjane.bsky.social

"Well I don't have a TV or a radio so it's not surprising I haven't heard the song" You live in a bubble. What you're describing is a self-curated bubble. If you haven't heard the song that's been #1 on the charts for 23 weeks, you live in a bubble and you should probably be aware of that.

May Odaigahara
@monthofmay.bsky.social

Some poptimists not only want pop music to be taken seriously by critics (which I agree with, critics should be doing that!) but that we all must cheer on the same pop music. Leave me alone!

May Odaigahara
@monthofmay.bsky.social

Estrangements aren't uncommon, and there's SOME polling suggesting they might be increasing (which does not an epidemic make), but there's no data showing that they're largely unjustified, and certainly no robust evidence that therapists, en masse, are causing them

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ElectionCord
@electioncord.com

I'm sorry but this is hilarious. Trump's approval for the economy has gone so low it actually broke the scale on the Ipsos graph

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰
@urbanlandrent.bsky.social

Wrong. This is an ag policy problem. Residential water use is a pittance compared to the water resource demands of the cattle industry.

Snowden St.@snowden.st

Folks are welcome to try and prove it otherwise, but "free migration within the country" and "barely managed water policy, especially in the light of climate change" are inherently in a kind of conflict.

May Odaigahara
@monthofmay.bsky.social

Congress makes $174K a year??? Insane. Cut them all to $100K and we could save almost 0.0005% of federal spending

Ricky Davila@therickydavila.bsky.social

It’s insane that people in Congress are paid over $174K a year in taxpayer dollars whilst making millions of dollars from insider trading whilst getting 18 vacations a year as Americans all over the country struggle to pay for rent, gas and groceries.

May Odaigahara
@monthofmay.bsky.social

obviously not the biggest issue here, but I would rather sit through a hundred consecutive HR training sessions than spend one second in rural America

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)@newsjennifer.bsky.social

I see the NYT is still platforming 'dei crushed white men' bullsh*t. Here it's buried in a 'why rural themed pop culture' is so popular in a piece written by a Princeton grad who lives in New York City. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/o...

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The Dark Prince of Donair
@erisianrite.com

Scratch a tech backlash 'journalist' and an anti-bodily autonomy puritan bleeds. This whole article just boils down to "you're too stupid to exercise informed consent, the government shouldn't allow you to alter your body or mind"

Katie Drummond@katie-drummond.bsky.social

Perimenopause is *so* hot right now. Read @knibbs.bsky.social on the VC-backed, telehealth push to put millions of women on hormones--whether they need them or not:

wired.comInside the Perimenopause Industrial ComplexHow an alliance of tech startups, MAHA operatives, and actual medical experts made millennial women the new face of hormone therapy.
May Odaigahara
@monthofmay.bsky.social

wow, you're telling me AI is just another tool that automates tasks but doesn't replace jobs, in a long line of tools that automate tasks but don't replace jobs? crazy

Michael Derby@michaelsderby.bsky.social

NY Fed: Recent data suggests "firms are continuing to adapt and change due to AI use, but not by eliminating vast numbers of jobs. Instead, this new technology is reshaping work itself, with firms investing in their existing workforces rather than replacing large swaths of people."

libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.orgBusinesses Are Using AI to Transform Work, Not Cut Jobs - Liberty Street EconomicsA look at the effects of AI adoption on workforces using the New York Fed’s business surveys in the New York and Northern New Jersey region.

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jamelle
@jamellebouie.net

in fairness, i can see why N. Biggar might want a little leeway here specifically

The National@scotnational.bsky.social

A Scottish Tory peer has spoken out in defence of using the N-word. Nigel Biggar argued in a blogpost that it is 'stupidly unjust' for people to be punished for using the N-word if they did not mean it in a racist way. Read more: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

May Odaigahara
@monthofmay.bsky.social

I feel like most polls got pretty close to what his actual performance ended up being. He got some independents to vote for him because a ton of people were pissed off about Bass. There's no evidence he can repeat that performance just wherever, especially while running for POTUS lol

Julianne McShane@juliannemcshane.bsky.social

Folks you can think whatever you want about Spencer Pratt but he came within 3 points of making it to the runoff as a registered R in deep blue LA w/ no political experience which is far better than any analyst I spoke to expected. Happy Friday ✌🏻

May Odaigahara
@monthofmay.bsky.social

I know it's physically feasible, but there's something vaguely threatening about a Premier Protein shake having 30 g of protein in just 11 fl oz of liquid. What else is even fucking in there???

May Odaigahara
@monthofmay.bsky.social

I'm an aviation nerd so I've definitely talked about this before, but air travel has objectively gotten better over the last 4 decades! First class (obviously), business class, and even premium economy have all gotten much better!

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May Odaigahara
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Air travel is also objectively safer these days. Yes, it was funny to meme about "Trump take plane," but it's just true. Flying is WAY safer now than it was 40 years ago

May Odaigahara
@monthofmay.bsky.social

I'm an aviation nerd so I've definitely talked about this before, but air travel has objectively gotten better over the last 4 decades! First class (obviously), business class, and even premium economy have all gotten much better!

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May Odaigahara
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this number seems to come from an analysis done by an AI-powered "hiring innovation" company, measures 7,984 job openings in specific service sectors, and the chosen time period compares the very hot 2022 job market with the slower 2026 job market

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social

ENTRY-LEVEL JOBS ARE VANISHING: NO-EXPERIENCE HIRING PLUNGES 73% IN JUST 4 YEARS

May Odaigahara
@monthofmay.bsky.social

also, the 73% refers specifically to listings that explicitly welcome applicants with zero experience, not "entry-level jobs" as a whole. not very meaningful imo! not to say the job market is perfect but this isn't a particularly useful measure of it