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“They are the cathedrals of our secular era. They are high among the great accomplishments of our civilization.” Love this @charlescmann.bsky.social ode to the power grid, the public water system, the food supply chain, and the public health system: www.thenewatlantis.com/publications...

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Public, so it’s not going to be a full Instagram replacement for me yet, but worth testing :-) anybody else I know betaing it?

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

they are stealing data from the american people and depriving us of the transparency that we are entitled to by law. none of this is legal and not a single federal employee has any reason to comply.

submitted 22 days ago • 797 comments

Last year we started a project to download and preserve public data. lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01... Since saving public data is in the news today — but is always needed — let’s talk about what you can do to help.

submitted 22 days ago • 15 comments

Intelligence officials are starting to leak to me now too. Here’s a memo Defense Intelligence Agency personnel received instructing them to suspend observances including: - Holocaust Remembrance Day - MLK Day - Juneteenth

submitted 25 days ago • 884 comments

1. The executive orders did not freeze federal funding. 2. The Monday OMB memo did freeze federal funding. 3. OMB rescinded Monday’s memo, thereby rescinding the funding freeze. 4. The EOs (which did not freeze federal funding) are still in effect—and, for these purposes, irrelevant. Sigh.

submitted 24 days ago • 175 comments

As with every serious/fatal ped or bicyclist crash, I’m just gutted by Sunday’s tragic but preventable incident where a 66-year old neighbor lost her life. When will we stop elevating driver speed & convenience over life? How can we build a future where 87-year olds have options besides driving?

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

no human, however media literate, can conceivably digest news at the pace it is being created by the white house

submitted 25 days ago • 25 comments

If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi... They need to hear from you.

submitted 26 days ago • 155 comments

JD Vance spearheaded a federal ban on mask mandates. He said it was “a massive victory for personal freedom in this country.” So wear a mask because JD doesn’t want you to. Wear a mask to make them harder to ban. Wear a mask as a form of community care, solidarity and resistance.

submitted 27 days ago • 23 comments

I would be incredibly curious to see a map of these 918 priority intersections - the article says they’re based on “collision data and high pedestrian volumes.” So, along the Berkeley #HighInjuryNetwork?

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

If you live in Rhode Island, please call Whitehouse's office and tell him to vote NO on RFK, Jr. No excuses for endangering all of our lives during an age of pandemics. (202) 224-2921.

submitted 30 days ago • 59 comments

Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, “there’s been a massive uptick in social media platforms removing content related to reproductive health care and specifically abortion pills,” EFF’s Lisa Femia told @nytimes.com. "This is an ongoing, increasing problem.”

submitted 30 days ago • 19 comments

Hey romance-reading friends, you know how we seem to be in this golden age of romance-focused bookstores opening up, of the sheer availability of romance both physically and digitally? You need to inform yourself about age verification initiatives.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: There's been a 51-percent drop in injuries an a 55-percent drop in crashes year-over-year within the congestion relief zone in just the first 12 days of the program. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/01/23/c...

submitted 30 days ago • 30 comments

This one's incredibly important, friends. We're looking at bird flu and measles and massive food safety issues and whether or not we ever get another vaccine. Literally life and death.

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

You and me both, kitten.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

And you don’t have to be 100% perfect! I’ve been boycotting Amazon to the extent possible since 2006 (when I realized what they were doing to the local bookstore scene). I’m out there loud and proud for #IndieBookstoreDay every year. Yet did I remember to preorder for #OnyxStorm? Ha.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

2 day delivery is so embedded in so many peoples’ lives - to the detriment of the communities we live in. If you want to live in nice places with nice neighbors, you have to support your community retail with your money AND your presence. People are drawn to where other people hang out.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

I've gone from "Wikipedia is not a real source, students" to "I will defend Wikipedia with my life" in a short span of time. I don't know what we should do, I'll be looking to others for guidance on that, but I do know we have to defend every remotely democratic or open source tool we have now.

submitted 32 days ago • 20 comments

SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

submitted 32 days ago • 942 comments

The Berkeley Books Inc is closing in February, per their Instagram. The El Cerrito Barnes and Noble just closed this weekend. The only general purpose bookstore within a five mile radius of El Cerrito after Feb 9 will be Pegasus on Solano. What do we do to ensure that another bookstore moves in?

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

The idea that a president can issue an executive order that overrides Congress, while it may be appealing to everyone who wants TikTok back and agrees that the TikTok ban is a first amendment violation, is actually illegal dictator shit

submitted 35 days ago • 121 comments

Me, ‘00s: “I wish I could IRC on my phone from the train!” Me, ‘10s: “Ok IRC is dead but at least I can tweet from the train” Me, 2020: “Maybe Discord?” crickets from friends Me, 2025: “I miss lively group chats from my IRC days!” Also me: “Dahhhh people are expecting answers from me” hides chat

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

If you live in an abortion-restricted state, order your abortion pills now. PlanCPill.org will direct you to a provider who delivers to your state. If you live in Texas, you'll need to go through AidAccess.org. Legal jeopardy is on the provider, not the recipient--for now. So order them now.

submitted 37 days ago • 21 comments

Hey @safety.bsky.app, how does somebody contest an unjust suspension? They received an email telling them to email an address at blueskyweb.xyz, which seems phishy, but their account has definitely been suspended.

submitted 38 days ago • 3 comments

I cannot wait to see this in San Francisco. (And we’re used to toll lanes anyway.)

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Seen in Venice Beach today

submitted 41 days ago • 60 comments

The CEO of Watch Duty used his skills as a software engineer to build the app to amplify fire safety information as a public service: “Techies are obsessed with going to Mars and inventing an AGI robot to do art. But I’m obsessed with time and life.” sfstandard.com/2025/01/09/w...

submitted 44 days ago • 47 comments

This is why you should call it decongestion pricing.

submitted 43 days ago • 5 comments