Marko
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Housing and transit first. Shahmander second.
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patriotic multiculturalism propaganda is the best kind of propaganda
I'm once again politely asking Bluesky developers to allow us to attach multiple photos and videos in one post.
December 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
patriotic multiculturalism propaganda is the best kind of propaganda
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Look, I'm sure that Nolan's adaptation of "The Odyssey" will be fun, but I highly doubt it will be as good as the original.
December 25, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Look, I'm sure that Nolan's adaptation of "The Odyssey" will be fun, but I highly doubt it will be as good as the original.
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all i want for christmas is for dan olson to do for AI what he did for nft's
December 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
all i want for christmas is for dan olson to do for AI what he did for nft's
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Travel writer Rick Steves was at his home in Edmonds, Washington, when he learned a local community center for homeless residents was set to close. Within a few weeks, Steves bought it.
“I really take ‘love your neighbor’ seriously,” he said.
“I really take ‘love your neighbor’ seriously,” he said.
A center for homeless residents was set to close. Then Rick Steves stepped in.
Travel writer Rick Steves said he takes the verse ‘love thy neighbor’ seriously and paid more than $2 million to save the facility in Washington state.
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December 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Travel writer Rick Steves was at his home in Edmonds, Washington, when he learned a local community center for homeless residents was set to close. Within a few weeks, Steves bought it.
“I really take ‘love your neighbor’ seriously,” he said.
“I really take ‘love your neighbor’ seriously,” he said.
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i posted this to badsite on 2018-07-28: "I've been mulling for the last two years the idea that the GOP's Southern Strategy was like the Bene Gesserit's Kwisatz Haderach breeding program and Trump is Paul Atreides fucking it up for them and they don't know how to put the sandtrout back in the qanat"
there is a reason that Trump is striking out in front of his own district court judges and that the Heritage Foundation is imploding. it's because this isn't true. people have been saying this for years. they were right for Gettier case reasons.
December 24, 2025 at 3:48 AM
i posted this to badsite on 2018-07-28: "I've been mulling for the last two years the idea that the GOP's Southern Strategy was like the Bene Gesserit's Kwisatz Haderach breeding program and Trump is Paul Atreides fucking it up for them and they don't know how to put the sandtrout back in the qanat"
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larry summers, the one-time executor of jeffrey epstein's will, wrote 7 NYT op-eds in 2025
December 23, 2025 at 12:37 PM
larry summers, the one-time executor of jeffrey epstein's will, wrote 7 NYT op-eds in 2025
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Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
December 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
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Amazing results in New York remind me how disappointing it is that congestion pricing efforts have stalled in San Francisco.
With congestion pricing, Muni service could be robustly funded, transit ridership would climb, and traffic through much of the Bay Area would significantly decrease.
With congestion pricing, Muni service could be robustly funded, transit ridership would climb, and traffic through much of the Bay Area would significantly decrease.
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
December 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Amazing results in New York remind me how disappointing it is that congestion pricing efforts have stalled in San Francisco.
With congestion pricing, Muni service could be robustly funded, transit ridership would climb, and traffic through much of the Bay Area would significantly decrease.
With congestion pricing, Muni service could be robustly funded, transit ridership would climb, and traffic through much of the Bay Area would significantly decrease.
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Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
December 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
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matt & co’s theory of how public opinion on immigration would respond to new information was simply empirically wrong.
at this point the only reasonable conclusion is they refuse to update their priors w/ new data because the data is inconvenient for them
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
at this point the only reasonable conclusion is they refuse to update their priors w/ new data because the data is inconvenient for them
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
December 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
matt & co’s theory of how public opinion on immigration would respond to new information was simply empirically wrong.
at this point the only reasonable conclusion is they refuse to update their priors w/ new data because the data is inconvenient for them
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
at this point the only reasonable conclusion is they refuse to update their priors w/ new data because the data is inconvenient for them
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
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"Should Trump attempt to seek a third term?"
All:
No: 75%
Yes: 14%
Yes Among:
GOP: 31%
IND: 10%
DEM: 2%
YouGov / Dec 15, 2025
All:
No: 75%
Yes: 14%
Yes Among:
GOP: 31%
IND: 10%
DEM: 2%
YouGov / Dec 15, 2025
December 18, 2025 at 10:52 PM
"Should Trump attempt to seek a third term?"
All:
No: 75%
Yes: 14%
Yes Among:
GOP: 31%
IND: 10%
DEM: 2%
YouGov / Dec 15, 2025
All:
No: 75%
Yes: 14%
Yes Among:
GOP: 31%
IND: 10%
DEM: 2%
YouGov / Dec 15, 2025
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This is what I think whenever I see Great Highway defenders or I-980 defenders.
December 18, 2025 at 8:06 PM
This is what I think whenever I see Great Highway defenders or I-980 defenders.
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Dumb policy but like, the big AI companies all have:
1. Aligned themselves with Trump and Gulf royal families
2. Blew off electricity cost concerns for data centers
3. Advertised their products as mass unemployment machines
Time to lie in the bed they made!
1. Aligned themselves with Trump and Gulf royal families
2. Blew off electricity cost concerns for data centers
3. Advertised their products as mass unemployment machines
Time to lie in the bed they made!
December 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Dumb policy but like, the big AI companies all have:
1. Aligned themselves with Trump and Gulf royal families
2. Blew off electricity cost concerns for data centers
3. Advertised their products as mass unemployment machines
Time to lie in the bed they made!
1. Aligned themselves with Trump and Gulf royal families
2. Blew off electricity cost concerns for data centers
3. Advertised their products as mass unemployment machines
Time to lie in the bed they made!
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occurs to me that we might be getting the "there's a problem of lonely males with no friends or romantic partners" and "there's a lucrative industry of toxic male influencers who tell young men to act like assholes" causation arrow backwards
December 17, 2025 at 11:53 PM
occurs to me that we might be getting the "there's a problem of lonely males with no friends or romantic partners" and "there's a lucrative industry of toxic male influencers who tell young men to act like assholes" causation arrow backwards
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THIS IS IT. THIS IS THE THING RIGHT HERE THAT IS BREAKING SOCIETY.
The internet lets you pick your own truth, by selecting your way into a community where you are allowed to believe whatever feels right to you. People have come to expect that. A society of totally permissive belief.
The internet lets you pick your own truth, by selecting your way into a community where you are allowed to believe whatever feels right to you. People have come to expect that. A society of totally permissive belief.
December 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
THIS IS IT. THIS IS THE THING RIGHT HERE THAT IS BREAKING SOCIETY.
The internet lets you pick your own truth, by selecting your way into a community where you are allowed to believe whatever feels right to you. People have come to expect that. A society of totally permissive belief.
The internet lets you pick your own truth, by selecting your way into a community where you are allowed to believe whatever feels right to you. People have come to expect that. A society of totally permissive belief.
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This is what the elites who installed Trump did it for. Not the only reason, but the main one. This is the explicit outcome they were trying to engineer.
The unemployment rate for Black workers soared to 8.3% in November. That's more than double the rate for white workers.
December 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
This is what the elites who installed Trump did it for. Not the only reason, but the main one. This is the explicit outcome they were trying to engineer.
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NEW: A Discord community for gay gamers is in disarray after one of its moderators and an executive at Anthropic forced the company’s AI chatbot, Claude, on the Discord, despite protests from members.
Anthropic Exec Forces AI Chatbot on Gay Discord Community, Members Flee
“We’re bringing a new kind of sentience into existence,” Anthropic's Jason Clinton said after launching the bot.
www.404media.co
December 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
NEW: A Discord community for gay gamers is in disarray after one of its moderators and an executive at Anthropic forced the company’s AI chatbot, Claude, on the Discord, despite protests from members.
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Researchers at the University of California San Francisco track how abortion comes up on television. They say the trends from 2025 are concerning. n.pr/4oQlr52
Fewer characters on TV had abortions this year — and more stories reinforced shame
Researchers at the University of California San Francisco track how abortion comes up on television. They say the trends from 2025 are concerning.
n.pr
December 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Researchers at the University of California San Francisco track how abortion comes up on television. They say the trends from 2025 are concerning. n.pr/4oQlr52
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The reason folks are focusing on DHS's refusal to honor Real IDs is that it means that the Trump regime is asserting the right to detain anyone in America, resident or visitor, without probable cause. It's an erasure of habeas corpus for all Americans.
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Add to this that HSI just filed a declaration in our case challenging these policies saying they can’t trust REAL IDs as proof of status.
So showing your papers isn’t even enough to end the stop.
So showing your papers isn’t even enough to end the stop.
December 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The reason folks are focusing on DHS's refusal to honor Real IDs is that it means that the Trump regime is asserting the right to detain anyone in America, resident or visitor, without probable cause. It's an erasure of habeas corpus for all Americans.
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bsky.app/profile/jare...
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Joaquin Arambula for Congress
December 13, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Joaquin Arambula for Congress
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This widespread, unexamined assumption that restrictions on dangerous driving–speed cameras, road diets, crackdowns on individual drivers–are a burden for a given neighborhood instead of a demonstrably life-saving amenity is a sign of how car-brained our society is
Yeah I’m sorry, but this is indefensible and is *exactly* the kind of shit that people are talking about when they talk about non-profit/activist brainworms. And it’s causing real harm here! Minorities are more likely to be victims of drunk drivers as well!
The California ACLU is staunchly opposed to the ignition interlock device program and is a big reason that it has not been expanded. Despite the fact that California heavily subsidizes the cost for low-income drunk drivers, the ACLU says that the program is a form of "racialized wealth extraction."
December 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
This widespread, unexamined assumption that restrictions on dangerous driving–speed cameras, road diets, crackdowns on individual drivers–are a burden for a given neighborhood instead of a demonstrably life-saving amenity is a sign of how car-brained our society is