Finn Smith

25 years ago, terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people, including 2,753 New Yorkers. As we remember that terrible day, let us also remember the first responders, office workers and strangers who ran toward danger to help each other.

BART is great

Huge congratulations to the US-based Wikimedia Foundation employees who voted with 92% support in favor of unionizing, and shoutout to the tireless work of the organizers.

When old SVU episodes don’t hold up in modern times.

Bug fixed today: for 18 months I was silently ignoring 20 of the 49 Wikipedias on my watchlist, including Simple English and Persian. My watchlist's wiki names never matched the IRC feed's names, so those edits were invisible. Full writeup: github.com/mrfinnsmith/...

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

SFO is the best airport in the US.

Comey Spelled It In Seashells By The Seashore. The DOJ Now Pretends It’s A Felony. James Comey is not exactly someone we've ever been a fan of on Techdirt. He was a terrible FBI director in so many ways. We’ve spent years criticizing the man — for his crusade against encryption, his supporting the…

Costco workers are so nice

Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

Yessssss www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...

This is why they want us talking about day care scams.

RIP Claude

Nice ride home last night #sanfrancisco

How many minutes did you spend on Wikipedia this year? If you used the official Wikipedia app in 2025, you can check your own statistics. It’s a mirror for your curiosity. And if you didn't, now is a great time to start!

Kirk vs Ressa, ATX

@paris.nyc

On this beautiful morning in Astoria, I cast my ballot for our city and our future. I hope you will too.

Beautiful sunny day on JFK 🌞🌉🌲 #sanfrancisco #goldengatepark

“Imagine you step into your vehicle, you push a button, and it drives you to the office. You catch up on work, send emails, or watch an episode of your favorite show,” said GM CEO Mary Barra. This exists, it's called a bus www.cnn.com/2025/10/22/c...

The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.

Oh it’s not appropriate for your program to air the president wearing a crown and shitting on American citizens? You’ll talk about it in euphemisms? Maybe call it the “crown video” and ignore the shitting part? Because that’s appropriate? Tell me, was it appropriate for the president to do it?

MAJOR NEWS: @GavinNewsom signed SB 79, my bill allowing more housing near public transit — rail, subway, rapid bus. It’s a huge step for housing in California. It’ll create more homes, strengthen our transit systems & reduce traffic & carbon emissions. Thank you, Governor!

@jasonhowell.bsky.social @jeffjarvis.bsky.social I thought you might appreciate this ad for "gigawatt-scale AI factories"

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Scholars at Risk is now active on Bluesky! SAR is an international network of institutions and individuals working to protect scholars and promote academic freedom. Keep an eye out for our upcoming #Free2Think2025 report, documenting global attacks on #highered! Learn more: scholarsatrisk.org

The Kimmel video: "The MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it."

He’s not even pretending to have an actual defamation claim. He’s just mad they didn’t endorse him, to the tune of $15 billion.

NY Gov. Kathy Hochul endorses NYC Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...

u guys seemed pretty sure just a little while ago tbh

Hi @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social, we're friendly, we've been on each other's shows. We both agree Kirk's murder is horrific. Q: was Kirk "practicing politics in exactly the right way" when he called for me to be deported because he didn't like my Covid views on MSNBC? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

Another day in a dystopian liberal hellhole #sanfrancisco #sunsetdunes

Another day in a dystopian liberal hellhole #sanfrancisco #sunsetdunes

Green Apple Books in SFO terminal 1 is great 🍏📚👍🏻

Wow, Palo Alto removed their pedestrianized main street. What an own goal! 🤦🏻👎🏻

Tokyo’s rail/public transport system. Y’know, for perspective. Great cities run on transit. HT @scootfoundation.bsky.social

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

Whoops, we lost part of the bridge #sf #SanFrancisco

We still have no idea who the ICE agents are. They could be insurrectionists, extremist militiamen or criminals themselves, chasing law-abiding citizens down the street for recording their kidnappings. The odds they aren't are low. Congress must raise hell about this. A masked gang runs our country.

Whoa! Hats off to ABC News reporter Matt Gutman for keeping his cool yesterday. This LAPD officer needs to be relieved of duty if he can’t handle an alleged “touch” without snapping.

So proud to be a part of this amazing morning. Location ocean beach San Francisco #nokings

The revolution is full of 60-year-old women who love their trans kids.

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

"Nobody’s going to spit on our police officers," says Trump, who four months ago pardoned people who beat police officers with pipes, flagpoles, baseball bats and 2-by-4s at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

The Right Way To Protest is to stand very still in your apartment and whisper “I wish this wasn’t happening” then get your ass to work, you’re gonna be late damn it