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yeah, like it says in the display name, I’m also on Mastodon now too as travis@mastodon.mit.edu
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This is basically 85% of Sanders/Fetterman/Platner deadenders and they don’t even get the ‘good politics’ part in the end
Really makes you think
Really makes you think
November 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
This is basically 85% of Sanders/Fetterman/Platner deadenders and they don’t even get the ‘good politics’ part in the end
Really makes you think
Really makes you think
this is just a high-end designer version of Apple’s iPod Sock which already existed, right?
November 12, 2025 at 3:33 AM
this is just a high-end designer version of Apple’s iPod Sock which already existed, right?
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I do not understand how we’re at a point where real estate magnates, actors, tech weenies and fucking Ivy League MBAs are lecturing anyone about masculinity or manliness but for fuck sake that shits got to stop.
November 12, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I do not understand how we’re at a point where real estate magnates, actors, tech weenies and fucking Ivy League MBAs are lecturing anyone about masculinity or manliness but for fuck sake that shits got to stop.
I often joked about WAaaS (Whataboutism-as-a-Service) back on Xitter, but I never thought someone would actually do it.
Yet more evidence that any given specific NIMBY objection to a project is, more often than not, a shell game for generalized opposition to change—it's merely the most compelling sounding argument—and addressing such individual concerns will usually not meaningfully reduce opposition.
November 12, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I often joked about WAaaS (Whataboutism-as-a-Service) back on Xitter, but I never thought someone would actually do it.
Oh man, just when I was looking forward to the MacBook Pros finally getting OLED screens, too.
November 12, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Oh man, just when I was looking forward to the MacBook Pros finally getting OLED screens, too.
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Conclave
The Fugitive
Ferris Buller’s Day Off
Rookie of the Year
The Fugitive
Ferris Buller’s Day Off
Rookie of the Year
November 11, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Conclave
The Fugitive
Ferris Buller’s Day Off
Rookie of the Year
The Fugitive
Ferris Buller’s Day Off
Rookie of the Year
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Trying to get ahead of that Joyce Carol Oates dunk
Pope Leo has shared his four favorite movies of all time, as the Vatican prepares to host dozens of actors and directors in a “World of Cinema” gathering on Saturday at his official residence. See which films made the pope's list. nyti.ms/4p3exK9
Pope Leo Shares His Favorite Movies Ahead of Vatican Event
The list leans heavily on uplifting classics.
nyti.ms
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Trying to get ahead of that Joyce Carol Oates dunk
Just in case people don’t understand what’s going on here: Ebikes are getting complicated enough that they all rapidly progressing to use CANbus throughout. And that means if Steven Miller is given control of the CANbus in your car, he’s obviously gonna want control of everybody’s bicycle too.
man I don’t wanna sound like a libertarian here, but I definitely don’t want Greg Bovino and Kirsti Noem and Big Balls to be given control of my car or my ebike.
November 12, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Just in case people don’t understand what’s going on here: Ebikes are getting complicated enough that they all rapidly progressing to use CANbus throughout. And that means if Steven Miller is given control of the CANbus in your car, he’s obviously gonna want control of everybody’s bicycle too.
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Some folks said we were too harsh in our episodes on on John Forester and Vehicular Cycling. This amazing video from Not Just Bikes suggests we weren’t harsh enough.
I'm a longtime fan of Not Just Bikes, but his 95(!) minute video on John Forester and Vehicular Cycling is truly his magnum opus.
If you are even remotely interested in the history of bicycling in America, it is worth a watch.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRPd...
If you are even remotely interested in the history of bicycling in America, it is worth a watch.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRPd...
This is Why Cycling is Dangerous in America
YouTube video by Not Just Bikes
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Some folks said we were too harsh in our episodes on on John Forester and Vehicular Cycling. This amazing video from Not Just Bikes suggests we weren’t harsh enough.
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It’s giving napoleon tried to invade Russia but was like shit, it’s cold here
"Another source with direct knowledge said the number of Border Patrol agents currently operating in the Chicago area will go from 250 down to 100. But in March, that number could increase to 1,000 agents."
chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet... w/ @jonseidel.bsky.social
chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet... w/ @jonseidel.bsky.social
U.S. Border Patrol boss Greg Bovino, fellow agents expected to leave Chicago soon
Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin insists “we aren’t leaving Chicago,” but the feds' immigration campaign is expected to begin winding down. However, one source said they could b...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:15 PM
It’s giving napoleon tried to invade Russia but was like shit, it’s cold here
man I don’t wanna sound like a libertarian here, but I definitely don’t want Greg Bovino and Kirsti Noem and Big Balls to be given control of my car or my ebike.
November 11, 2025 at 11:53 PM
man I don’t wanna sound like a libertarian here, but I definitely don’t want Greg Bovino and Kirsti Noem and Big Balls to be given control of my car or my ebike.
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Y'all really think you can come to the Bay and act stupid without consequences?
Labor Secretary Lori Chavez DeRemer: "It has been less than 2 months since Charlie Kirk was murdered, and the radical left is at it again. Antifa groups are terrorizing some of our cities ... I am so grateful that he has deployed the National Guard. The American people deserve law and order."
November 11, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Y'all really think you can come to the Bay and act stupid without consequences?
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Oops, all gender!
![Instagram caption from NPR of their interview with John Fetterman
In his new book, "Unfettered," Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) criticized his party for losing the support of working class men, writing that President Trump appealed to them more because "he wasn't afraid to comment on things the left told us we were no longer allowed to have commonsense opinions on."
Fetterman also writes, “if men are forced to choose between picking their party or keeping their balls, most men are going to choose their balls.”
“I think there's been a disconnection,” he told "All Things Considered" host Scott Detrow. “It's just this idea and just being perceived as more anti-man […] And it's just a lot different kinds of energy that comes out from.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5fkaj7zmtrdz6o4az3vvlxbf/bafkreiadfrhld7ftk53pgpl2aaafm74uz2qivzeudf3nkmykvcx643fl7i@jpeg)
November 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Oops, all gender!
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Chairman of the Boer’d
November 11, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Chairman of the Boer’d
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Slam in the back of my Coagula
November 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Slam in the back of my Coagula
why does this incel look like a mini Malcom Gladwell?
November 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM
why does this incel look like a mini Malcom Gladwell?
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There’s one man who’s been waiting for the gig all his life and wouldn’t be a coward about this
November 11, 2025 at 11:34 AM
There’s one man who’s been waiting for the gig all his life and wouldn’t be a coward about this
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Fifty year mortgages and fifteen-year-old sex partners define the Republican Party core values.
November 10, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Fifty year mortgages and fifteen-year-old sex partners define the Republican Party core values.
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Inshallah, the next Democratic administration will find that the 14th Amendment exists, that Pence was technically the 46th President, Biden the 47th, and Trump was not eligible to hold office again and all his acts are null and void. (Yes, I am a politics sicko with a heart full of hope.)
November 11, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Inshallah, the next Democratic administration will find that the 14th Amendment exists, that Pence was technically the 46th President, Biden the 47th, and Trump was not eligible to hold office again and all his acts are null and void. (Yes, I am a politics sicko with a heart full of hope.)
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Less than a week ago a democratic socialist won the mayor’s race in the biggest city in the country running as a “Democrat” and people still think there’s simply no way to commandeer this party and make it good
smdh
smdh
November 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Less than a week ago a democratic socialist won the mayor’s race in the biggest city in the country running as a “Democrat” and people still think there’s simply no way to commandeer this party and make it good
smdh
smdh
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he bought a $25b company for $44b and turned it into a $5b company
November 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
he bought a $25b company for $44b and turned it into a $5b company
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Some of the things that have Changed in US culture between 2022 and now have an economic basis. Some of the things are just that the CEOs making the decisions realized that they *could* be a lot crueler, and that they *wanted* to be a lot crueler
there was an incredibly stark change at my job between 2023 and 2025. just absolutely day and night.
i dont think there’s ever been a point where corporate america has had a sincere sense of morality but it is probably a sign of the times that the culture at most major firms does not even pretend to encourage ethical behavior anymore. the transformation is really stark in tech.
November 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Some of the things that have Changed in US culture between 2022 and now have an economic basis. Some of the things are just that the CEOs making the decisions realized that they *could* be a lot crueler, and that they *wanted* to be a lot crueler
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musk's extwitter was a failure by any quantitative metric of business or technical performance. he and his stans ended up revising the goal to make it an ideological performance, and that had a much bigger impact
OpenAI "proved" that LLMs are a viable product and X "proved" that you can fire large numbers of employees
(and, for that matter, Trump 2024 "proved" that wokeness was over and you didn't need to put up with any lip from your workers)
(and, for that matter, Trump 2024 "proved" that wokeness was over and you didn't need to put up with any lip from your workers)
November 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
musk's extwitter was a failure by any quantitative metric of business or technical performance. he and his stans ended up revising the goal to make it an ideological performance, and that had a much bigger impact