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A match made in heaven. #WorldBollardAssociation

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

Truly never thought I would ever be cheering on goddamn Doug Ford.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

A crypto national reserve is like a national reserve of Beanie Babies. It serves no function. There is no situation where it would be necessary. Except to move massive sums of taxpayer dollars to private interests in exchange for worthless garbage.

submitted 2 days ago • 56 comments

This is 100% bullshit. There are no algorithms. Musk and his incel clown posse are not forensic accountants and do not know how to audit. Discovering fraud is a labor-intensive project that can never be done by looking at payments alone. This is just a thinly-veiled rationale to gut Social Security.

submitted 2 days ago • 248 comments

I didn’t expect Adam Conover winding up Ed Zitron and letting him complain about idiots for 90 minutes would be the best I felt this week, but here we are. Genuinely cathartic to listen to during a terrible time for the U.S.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Hundreds protest Elon Musk, Donald Trump outside of Tesla dealership in Owings Mills

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

It's worth remembering that on top of everything else, Musk is a sloppy, incapable manager.

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

PSA. Stay away from these "alt gov" accounts. they did this in 2017 on twitter & a bunch of them were actual fucking far-right ops

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Please stop using Substack. It is funding the most vile shit (white nationalism, transphobia, homophobia, misogyny, just absolutely vile) and they do not give a fuck.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Well, at least we’re all clear now on what hell it would be living in Elon Musk’s Mars colony

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

What would a TV ad promoting alternatives to driving look like? What if people who love cycling and progressive transportation reclaimed ideas like freedom, independence and even patriotism? We decided to give it a shot. Check out our new video, "America, It's Just Like Riding a Bike."

submitted 14 days ago • 24 comments

cc: @violetblue.bsky.social

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

How is every Legal Eagle video not now just him shrugging and saying "apparently nothing means anything anymore."

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

My latest episode of Alien Ocean is up on YouTube! This time, we're talking all about boxer crabs and their..."unique" relationship with the two anemones they always carry around. What makes it..."unique?" You'll have to watch to find out! youtu.be/fZT5vKHB8_I 🦑

submitted 19 days ago • 11 comments

In another benchmark for an independent, non-profit newspaper being born in a major U.S. city, the www.thebaltimorebanner.com just added obits/death notices. Bring on county bureaus, police blotters, listed homesales and a word jumble. This is the only practical road home for print journalism.

submitted 24 days ago • 11 comments

Someone on Facebook asked advice for a coverup tattoo for a Gaiman quote (and fair enough!) and a tattoo artist got chatting and said they do so many HP coverups these days too. That made me very happy. Then they said: "I donate the money from hp coverups to trans advocacy groups" and I got happier.

submitted 23 days ago • 17 comments

Today, we at Google have a new product: what if you could could ask an app a question? Oh, we do that already? Well, what if we were a little bit worse at it? What if we also sometimes gave you egregiously wrong information? And what if it cost a billion dollars? Still not interested? It's mandatory

submitted 22 days ago • 160 comments

Jenny Nicholson's four hour video about the star wars hotel should have been nominated for best documentary feature I'm not even kidding

submitted 22 days ago • 7 comments

THIS is the version of the ‘farmer who’s about to lose his farm’ testimonial that you need to see. Here’s the thing—I don’t care if they admit they were wrong. We already know they were. But they do need to admit they were lied to—by Donald Trump. Call him out by name!

submitted 22 days ago • 204 comments

Asphalt, pavers, roads, streets... Let's explore these things in the new NJB 🟠 video.

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

What flexposts say: "We could use steel bollards but a bollard might scratch a car and that would be a tragedy. So, we're going to use these instead — things literally designed to be run over — because protecting even one car from a scratch is worth thousands of pedestrian deaths every year."

submitted 26 days ago • 27 comments

Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work

submitted 28 days ago • 211 comments

Laughs in TRS-80

submitted 28 days ago • 1997 comments

I can’t emphasize enough how we are on a worst case trajectory.

submitted 28 days ago • 6 comments

Why am I mad at much of my family in Queens? No reason villagevoicenews.com/2025/02/02/f...

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

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Would you like to see a staged reading of "The Guild" the musical with an incredible cast and fantastic lyrics, music and book?! Grab tickets for the Feb 23rd 4pm PST in-person performance in LA or LIVESTREAMED from anywhere, at Dynasty Typewriter Theatre! www.squadup.com/events/the-g...

submitted 29 days ago • 28 comments

You know @pixelfed is Canadian while we’re at it :)

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

In the aftermath of the 1917 Halifax Explosion in Canada, Boston mobilized a relief train to aid our northerly neighbors. A century later, each winter Nova Scotia still sends us a towering Christmas tree that we light together on Boston Common—a symbol of friendship across boundaries & generations.

submitted 30 days ago • 10 comments

we’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas!

submitted 30 days ago • 25 comments

Emptying a bin in the Netherlands. Having these large bins on residential streets ensures there is no "bin day", residents are free to put their rubbish out whenever they please, which leads to less litter in the street. A sensor tells the local authority when it's full, meaning fewer truck journeys

submitted 30 days ago • 4 comments

Alex Berenson, a Covid pseudoscience grifter, whose propaganda helped kill tens of thousands of people, is heavily promoted by substack. Please stop fucking writing for a website run by sociopaths.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Can't park there, mate.

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

I said I would do this last night but I was too tired so lets do it today. A few caveats - not saying this list is exhaustive, it's just a good place to start. It's also not in chronological order because I'm a chaos gremlin

submitted 30 days ago • 19 comments

If I were writing an article about Trump moving USAID under the State Department, I'd mention that doing so is illegal prior to the 17th paragraph, and I wouldn't couch that in "lawmakers have argued..." Five reporters are credited for this piece—this isn't about a lack of resources.

submitted 30 days ago • 26 comments

"We have fought and died alongside you....During your darkest hours...we were always there. Standing with you, grieving with you, the American people.” I’ve had my differences with Justin Trudeau, for sure, but he rose to the occasion here.

submitted 30 days ago • 136 comments

The first Senators to actually do anything about the Trump admin

submitted 31 days ago • 215 comments

Hit the ❤️ if you’re joining us today! Let us know where you’re travelling from in the comments. ⤵️ #AFCW 🟡🔵

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

THREAD

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

A few years ago on Twitter I mentioned that I did not want to use substack, and one of their executives- marketing, maybe?- showed up to comment that I was a nobody so no one would notice. So there’s that.

submitted 34 days ago • 4 comments

Elon Musk is a Nazi. Full stop. Substack is supporting and endorsing a Nazi, days after that Nazi told the world he was proud to be a Nazi. Decent people have got to leave Substack. Please. I'll follow you wherever you go, and I'm happy to give you my money wherever you land.

submitted 34 days ago • 62 comments

Can confirm.

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

"Mismatched chargers and post-sale tampering are almost wholly to blame for the negative press that the electric bike sector has endured" #ebike www.cyclingelectric.com/in-depth/unp...

submitted 34 days ago • 4 comments

We now have over 100,000+ followers on @bsky.app. Thank you all for preserving the memory of Auschwitz with us.

submitted 34 days ago • 87 comments

Good morning, UT insect collection.

submitted 34 days ago • 5 comments

Well, since Heathrow expansion's back in the news, might as well plug episode 4 of Unfinished London, which we made back in 2014 and has barely gone out of date. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXmp...

submitted 34 days ago • 12 comments

Everything is so damn stupid.

submitted 35 days ago • 89 comments