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On South Park Season 29 Episode 1 at 13minutes 45seconds in, huge plot hole. None of those road bikes would have had kick stands. That's entirely unrealistic. Horrible episode.

I just want to ride my bike, often with my kids, and not get buzzed by someone going 10+ mph over the speed limit. I pick my route based on road size and speed limit. If people ignore speed limits then they expose me and my kids to additional risk. I like polices like these thanks to the results.

Ohhh look at me I'm New York City. I have an awesome basketball team with likeable players and a mayor that cares about making life better for every citizen man fuck you

Can't believe no one told be about Big Joel before. I guess I can thank Beast Games for something.

Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

This looks very fun spacetraders.io

My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area. (15 in Manhattan btw)

PSA: STOP USING SUBSTACK It's a Nazi bar. theracket.news/p/substack-s...

Since people are talking about the razor thin margins in the restaurant industry, I would like to remind everyone of my bête noir, which is parking minimums for bars and restaurants. Off street parking mandates for places that serve alcohol are basically a subsidy to drunk driving.

"Right-wing operators in particular are groomed and trained to argue to embrace bad-faith argument as a tactic. And yet even in the Trump era, when the bad faith is so thinly veiled, liberals remain reluctant to treat it as disqualifying." Man oh man is @brianbeutler.bsky.social right about this.

This is a wonky process but BIG news regarding the Republican budget bill: My staff successfully got multiple provisions removed from the bill. Two key wins: 1) Medicaid provider tax. Striking this means Republicans have to backtrack on hundreds of billions in Medicaid cuts.

"Believe it or not, the food tastes better when you're camping too. That's because when you're in the wilderness, you're starving, and your acute hunger improves the flavor profile of whatever dehydrated beans and tinned ravioli you'll be having for dinner." buff.ly/oeZ3SnZ

Hey @ajc.com Please remind Bill Torpy he's an asshole for getting the pedestrian safety improvements to Baker St shot down www.11alive.com/article/news... www.ajc.com/news/local/t...

Literally nothing Obama or Biden did on this had any impact at all. Because it is not actually about numbers or capacity or jobs or whatever. It is just pure id, purity, xenophobia and completely imperious to logic.

Fellas is it gay to work

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

DEMOCRATS: We can never espouse things like Universal Healthcare. That’s crazy GOP: We’re going to invade Canada

In 1862, a Union soldier found cigars wrapped in a piece of paper in a field of clover. The paper was a copy of Confederate Gen. Lee's invasion orders. The Southern sloppiness helped the Union stop Lee at Antietam. It's unknown who lost the orders in the field, or if he was related to Pete Hegseth.

"The report found that more civilians were killed in the first week of the Trump administration’s bombing campaign than were killed in the 12 months of US- UK strikes on Yemen that were conducted under the Biden administration from Jan 2024 to Jan 2025." The Signal chat was bad. This is worse:

No one could’ve predicted that Trump would so many of the things that he said he would do.

Rubio's state dept appointee is a white supremacist and a misogynist. I remember not too long ago when a Republican who said this would be disqualified from high profile federal jobs forever.

I'm really taking to the Niri window manager lately. github.com/YaLTeR/niri I spent several years on i3 and later sway. A 6-month-ish stint with XMonad in between. Then a couple years going back to ole-reliable Plasma. Maybe Niri is just scratching an itch but it seems to do everything just right

President Trump just let more than 1,500 violent criminals loose on our streets. On January 6, 2021, Daniel Rodriguez tased a police officer until he had a heart attack. Watch the video below to see the January 6 rioters that Republican politicians are calling "patriots."

Guys it wasn't a Nazi salute. Does he retweet a bunch of Nazis all the time? Yes. Is he currently serving under a President who openly courts Nazis? Sure. Were there Nazis in the crowd? There were. Did the physical movement exactly replicate the Nazi salute? Of course it did! But what you don't unde

I will never stop being mad about how the media has treated the anti-trans movement as a group of ordinary people with legitimate concerns rather than the obvious frothing bigots they are.

Am I the only person who is old enough to remember how Jeremiah Wright said one thing one time, and Obama had to disavow him and answer endless questions about it? Yet Yarvin has been writing for years and Vance and others are *on the record* praising his ideas, but we never fucking hear about it

I'm just sayin' T, why don't they just do another cease fire in LA too?

I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012. Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place. A thread.

My new deep dive on how Trump “won” the popular vote. I put “won” in quotes because it wasn’t his win, but Harris’s loss. The results were not a “swing right” embracing Trump/MAGA, but a vote of no confidence in Democrats (and in our system as a whole). www.weekendreading.net/p/how-trump-...

How it started. How it’s going

Here's a free startup idea: sell boxed pasta water. No one remembers to preserve that shit.

REMINDER: Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry signed a bill in May 2024 making it LEGAL for drivers to KILL PEDESTRIANS who block their way in the road.

My religion is founded on the belief that if I can get my home office organized and cleaned *enough* just once then I will be able to keep it that way forever.

"low-income Americans who voted for Trump say they are counting on him to keep their benefits intact" Do you laugh? Cry? Mock? Sympathize? I genuinely don't know.

Well, there is but only if people are willing to change the way they live like reducing driving and embracing urban living, for example.

Just read the response from Costco to shareholders requesting it back down from DEI. It was glorious. It begins "Our Board has considered this proposal and believes … an enterprise rooted in respect and inclusion is appropriate and necessary." and gets better. A happy investor #diversityandinclusion

biden should honestly veto this

The Atlanta airport hates people experiencing homelessness and people taking public transportation equally - this metal structure is what passes for a place to sit while you wait for a train now. There used to be perfectly fine benches here. Not enough, but some. Now they're gone.

Luigi Mangione posted online about having spondylolisthesis, a spinal condition that can be extremely painful and debilitating. I talked to other people with the disorder about how hard it is to get proper treatment within the U.S. healthcare system:

MENSWEAR GUY: Furthermore, you’ve neglected to even cut the vents of the shockingly poor-fitting sport coat you’ve, for some reason, chosen to wear to breakfast MAN WHO STILL WEARS A THREADLESS TEE FROM 2003 WITH TWO ANTHROPOMORPHIC HOUSES HUGGING UNDER THE TEXT “HOMIES”: haha get his ass derek

BREAKING: The Montana Supreme Court has blocked the state's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth, finding the 2023 law violates the state constitution’s privacy clause and that trans people have a right "to make medical judgments affecting her or his bodily integrity and health"