i think mamdani should do other things that the mayor of stardew valley does since the scavenger hunt went so well. i think he should start sneaking onto your property and picking up your mail at 4am. i think the people of new york should have to sneak vegetables into his fridge

Well worth looking at the pictures and postings on Zohran Mamdani's #ZcavengerHunt in New York. These are the things that make cities into communities. Great for the city, and a welcome antidote to our national sociopath's dystopian vision of urban life and, really, all social and civilized life.

In my MSc dissertation on climate finance, I show that very high-level financial actors consider the integration of climate data to be a necessary condition for informed decision-making. This means that JP Morgan and other banks are, in effect, making the informed decision to short the Earth.

Who knows how much this will matter but this is one the most comical failures of researching your brief I’ve ever seen.

When the dismantlists talk about "trimming the fat" or "bloated" whatever relating to the federal government, remind them that there have been about the same number of federal employees since the 1960s.
Meanwhile US population has increased by ~70% and GDP has increased 29-fold.

democrats won’t admit it, but my family’s economic outlook has gotten a LOT better since Trump took office. but what do i know? i don’t have a fancy economics degree, i’m just a regular guy who runs an airplane scrapyard

made this snow guy on sunday

gays leaving twitter for bluesky reminds me of that scene from LoTR where the elves are exiting middle earth

Here’s one of my main takeaways: the point of governing is to make people’s lives better, but the point of politics - especially campaigns - is to give people a story about who to blame for things sucking. It’s a real mistake to confuse one for the other, as I have often done!

already tired of the whiny threads from young men about how society forced them to become monsters because they put woke in the video games or whatever. back in my day you applied some guyliner, wrote some emo lyrics in a journal, and handled it

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

i really didn’t notice how abnormally negative twitter had become until i was presented with an alternative

bluesky feels like a happier, quieter version of 2012 tw*tter without any bots or spam, and i kinda love it ??

look at my cats

There's a big and basic asymmetry here.

Rs don't have to answer for obnoxious things Trump himself does. He doesn't mean it. I'd take some mean tweets and $2 gas right now! etc

Ds have to answer for the craziest thing said by a rando on Twitter or cable TV and featured on Fox News.

The information economy is rotten from top to bottom. Lessons from Trump’s election about media policy:

mattdpearce.substack.com/p/lessons-on...

[Googles how to do a revolution]

[Googles how to do a rebellion]

[Googles swordfighting basics with video]

[Googles nearby bakeries]

[Googles nearby bakeries delivery]

Glad I have a cat because it's weirdly calming to look at something that has absolutely no capacity to understand what is happening