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Restaurant owner in Austin, dad, hoops fan. Main interests: #rstats, data viz, Power BI, cheaper housing, Wem-V-P. (Not a frequent poster.)
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cops doing crime on camera. as @chadloder.bsky.social has been pointing out all day, this is totally illegal. cops doing crime. on camera. adjust your stupid headlines accordingly.

submitted 1 day ago • 143 comments

The two clips in this thread are absolutely insane. I hope they’re shown on a loop tomorrow to hammer home how ridiculous this overreaction looks

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Cannot stress enough that this is a pitiful action by a weak, scared, pathetic group of insecure, wannabe authoritarians, and they should be mocked until the end of time for wanting to bring in the military over some people protesting them at a Home Depot.

submitted 2 days ago • 50 comments

State repression of peaceful protests can subject activists to injury and even death but—when broadcast to the world through media—often turns mass opinion against the state. bsky.app/profile/owas...

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

Informative thread from the scene of the protests in LA. Seems to confirm protestor injuries from gas, a vehicle, or both

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Just read this - such a beautiful piece of short writing

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Sincere feature request: a labeler for literally any content involving AI. I do not need or want posts - even from my favorite follows - on this topic ever again, positive or negative, thoughtful or stupid. Just let me Bsky in peace.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

note that this completely inverts the public justification for the deportation scheme. they claim they’re deporting criminals, but they deported Kilmar without knowledge of a crime, and now that they supposedly found one they’re bringing him BACK.

submitted 4 days ago • 138 comments

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submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

1. Hali’s footwork here seems unconventional for a pull-up after seemingly turning the corner 2. This camera really shows the half-beat where Wallace mistakenly thought he’d handed Hali off to Caruso 3. I love that Nesmith just bear hugged him 🫂

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

THE account of the 2025 NBA playoffs

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I had a busy day and can’t follow everything that happened, but I can’t believe anyone who does politics for a living needs to be told this. WTF is wrong with Dem leadership?

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Berkeley's NIMBYs on Nextdoor: we must carefully study this zoning proposal to ensure equity for the disadvantaged. Berkeley's NIMBYs on Airbnb: $50/day to sleep in my yard.

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

Surreal scenes right after this. That’s all *ice* on the ground when it was 86 degrees out

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Holy hell

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Let the team who is fouled choose: 2 free throws OR side out of bounds again with a 14/24 reset on the shot clock. Only caveat here is you have to actually call the defense for fouls before the ball is inbounded instead of letting a lot go

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Chinese HSR does Beijing-Shanghai – which is about the distance as NYC-Atlanta – in just over four hours, and gets six times the ridership of airlines. $1.8 billion in net profit last year. scmp.com/economy/chin...

submitted 16 days ago • 43 comments

And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my diesel engine and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my tandem axles all exhaust yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

New working paper on Medicaid, based on Medicaid expansions, finds: *Medicaid reduced mortality hazard for new enrollees by 21% *expansions were cost-effective *lack of health insurance explains about 5-20% of the mortality disparity between high- & low-income Americans www.nber.org/papers/w33719

submitted 15 days ago • 19 comments

It’s hard to put into words just how comprehensively this bill is going to hurt public colleges and universities in Texas—especially UT.

submitted 16 days ago • 82 comments