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Thread of my 2026 reading. The goal is to read more books. I'm calmer when I read more!
I had this exact same thought.

And while I think we could find strong evidence that meek me is tougher than ICE guys, I always de-escalate situations with drivers.

Unlike cops, I don't escalate situations or turn mundane ones into total hellscapes.
As someone who has multiple dangerous interactions with a car every time I ride my bike I have zero patience for this bullshit from JD Vance and Kristi Noem about the agent feeling threatened by a car turning around. The average bike commuter has more courage than trigger-happy Jonathan Ross.
January 9, 2026 at 9:05 PM
It's always fun when you walk somewhere and you're like this is going to be 25,000 steps and it's actually 3,000 steps. Lol.
January 9, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Even with the considerable tip this man has ears for days! Somebody adopt Piccolo. He currently lives in Brooklyn, NYC.
January 9, 2026 at 12:54 PM
It's so pathetic that this administration is encouraging people to support an industry that is terrible for the environment, cruel to workers, and catastrophic for animals.

We need to move away from animal agriculture, not toward it.
RFK Jr. just flipped the food pyramid to create a funnel of performative masculinity
Never mind that meat-maxxing is terrible for human health—and the planet.
www.motherjones.com
January 9, 2026 at 2:36 AM
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Prosecuting individuals who participated in this regime includes anyone who bought Hillbilly Elegy.
January 8, 2026 at 7:00 PM
In a meeting with students a senior coworker starting to read from ChatGPT. The students cringed. I mentioned that we would need to use a verified peer reviewed paper and the students nodded.

I can only hope these students aren't an anomaly in their hesitation to use ChatGPT.
January 8, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Bret using the Spanish adverb indudablemente here is deeply offensive
Legalizing burglary as an anti-kidnapping policy doesn't make sense. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/o...
January 8, 2026 at 2:15 PM
My sister is going to an anti-ICE protest tonight. My sister is not a let's take this to the streets type of person. Her willingness to protest is giving me a feeling of hope.
January 8, 2026 at 1:03 PM
5 people have been killed by ICE since September.

None of those people had to die or should have died!
Driver shot in Minneapolis is the at least the fifth person killed in US immigration crackdown
And since the Trump administration launched its immigration crackdown last year, no federal agents have yet been charged in the deaths.
www.inquirer.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:21 PM
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masked, unidentified goons who assault and murder with impunity. a literal gestapo.
This is the ICE agent who murdered a woman by shooting her multiple times in the face.
January 7, 2026 at 7:36 PM
I am going to log off and listen to some imaginary baseball with Tabouli.

See you all soon!
January 7, 2026 at 9:49 PM
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they are recruiting for the worst, bottom-of-the-barrel chuds imaginable and those chuds are behaving exactly as you'd expect
MPR playing an eye witness account right now of ICE shooting directly through the windshield at her face and not giving her medical care for 10 minutes.
MPR News is live right now bringing you updates on this. mprnews.org/listen
January 7, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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I truly don't think mainstream journalists in the U.S are prepared to cover state violence
January 7, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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People love to hand-wring about bike lanes hindering emergency responders, but it's always cars -- parked or otherwise that cause issues.
The FDNY's response to a five alarm fire in the Bronx was delayed by drivers who parked their cars in front of three fire hydrants closest to the blaze. Two firefighters and one civilian were injured.
Illegally Parked Cars Delayed FDNY Response to Five-Alarm Fire - Streetsblog New York City
First responders call out scofflaws blocking hydrants for delaying the response to a five alarm fire in the Bronx.
buff.ly
January 6, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Tabouli and her crinkly strawberry
January 7, 2026 at 12:58 AM
I miss biking and baseball

Biking to baseball games is the best
January 7, 2026 at 12:54 AM
My experiment of only showering at night is over.

I feel half dead. I look half dead. I might be half dead.

Back to morning showers and a quick evening rinse.

Really clueless as to how people can live without a morning shower.
January 6, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
January 6, 2026 at 2:00 AM
The entire goal for today is to get thru the workday and go home for a little weightlifting and rowing in the basement.

That's it. That's all I have to do.
January 6, 2026 at 12:19 PM
A delightful thread. So many people are doing fun and cool things.
u heard sharon, everyone post about their esoteric interests right fucking now. for the good of the community, we need to be hyperfixationmaxxing.
i think this site really needs to figure out how to grow the non-politics verticals (the baseball moment was a good thing!) because i suspect a lot of the bad clusters come out of the political clusters driving 95% of ENG-lang posts
January 6, 2026 at 2:39 AM
And now they have Jhonkensy

Contemplating whether I should be worried that I forgot Craig Albernaz left Cleveland or am I putting too much pressure on myself to know MLB stuff in the off season?
@JeffPassan tweeted
The Baltimore Orioles lineup might have the best lineup in baseball. Whatever order Craig Albernaz chooses, he’s got Gunnar Henderson, Pete Alonso, Jordan Westburg, Taylor Ward, Adley Rutschman, Jackson Holliday, Sam Basallo, Dylan Beavers and Colton Cowser. A wrecking crew.
January 6, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Please, Baltimore fans cherish Big Christmas to the fullest extent.

I want to believe Jhonkensy Noel's best days are ahead of him as an Oriole. 🙏
January 5, 2026 at 11:33 PM