The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”
EXCLUSIVE: @theonion.com tells me they've struck a (long-awaited) deal to take over Infowars.
New PTFO on how America's finest (fake) news source trolled Alex Jones, with the blessing of Sandy Hook families — and what @bencollins.bsky.social is planning next — will be up soon
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Must be nice to have that kind of free time and free money
It took almost exactly 3 years to go from, "check out these cool pictures of US presidents as wrestlers" to people throwing molotovs at Sam Altman's house
Or "you just bought a refrigerator, here are nine more refrigerators"
that creepily cheerful man from those boner pill commercials
looks like a wax figure of
why does he look like a 30 year old in 90 year old makeup
Crashes and serious injuries dropped 15 percent and 52 percent respectively in West Harlem after New York City swapped vehicle storage for curbside trash containers, according to data crunched by @davecolon.bsky.social nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/17/c...
Mamdani hasn't had time to really think about all that space he now has, because he spends most of his time at City Hall and around New York City. He tries to keep a semblance of his old life by getting around the city on foot, by bike or train. "If you spend every single day driving around in a tinted window security detail, you will have a very specific view of the city," he said. "You actually meet other New Yorkers and you break out of the bubble that so many have come to expect of politics, where politicians only seem to be spending time with other politicians or the people who donated to make them politicians."
I'd say that this applies to anyone traveling in a car in any city. Being in a car versus walking, riding, or taking transit fundamentally changes how you view a place and your relationship to it. I wish more leaders set this kind of example.
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Well yes you just coughed lightning and exploded the cat
Sounds risky, pour yourself a chalice of virgins blood first
The Chronicle posted every SF donor to Prop 8 and a guy who lived very literally in the shadow of the giant Pride flag at Castro & Market had put in 10K and… holy shit how miserable can a person be
Oh, what a good time for me to sing the gospel of the movie Big Trouble which he and 20 other actors you love and also Tim Allen are in youtu.be/mu_cYrDFU18?...
Roger Rabbit desperately trying not to yell TWOOOOOOOOO BIIIIIIIITS
Me sitting at the bar while the three 20somethings next to me play Super Mario World on the TV for what is very clearly the first time
San Francisco park rangers were met with an unexpected sight during their pre-dawn patrol Thursday: a small sea lion, lounging on the sidewalk near homes in the Outer Sunset.
Exactly one year ago today:
same here
The car and the single family suburban house are machines designed to make people feel isolated from and under attack by all other people at all times. They are spreaders of Hobbesian War of All Against All Thought.
Like even if you don't seek to abolish them you still have to contend with it
sound one tho. they’re alienation machines, there’s a season Henry Ford/Musk were obsessed with ramming them into roles where they don’t belong
Why are cyclists at risk, Padj?
It's amazing that I can make a post about how cyclists deserve protected infrastructure so we don't get killed by drivers and people will be like, "But have you considered that I saw a cyclist without lights so you all deserve to die?"
Ballmer musta shit himself
RFK Jr is who the Tanners were hiding ALF from
I honest to god have no idea what point those are attempting to make, they really do read like parody
Mavis Beacon
Beakman from Beakman's World
I always hoped those two kids would find each other
Yeah, I think one of the most incredible things about the pope-off is that when previous popes have done similar things, it had to go through a translation barrier, but no nuance and no shade is lost when the American pope is being bitchy [complimentary]
california is in a deficit. we could resolve this by actually taxing property correctly, but for some reason even people who AREN'T LEGACY HOMEOWNERS think prop 13 is good for them. IT'S NOT IT'S REALLY BAD
the latest citynerd video is what i'm going to point non-californians to in the future because people DO NOT UNDERSTAND how utterly insane prop 13 is. one single ballot measure that has entirely shaped the direction of this state and unfortunately continues to. in 2020, a repeal went 48-52.
[Ford CEO] "spoke with Fox News about rising car prices and global competition, telling Brian Kilmeade that China’s spare production capacity is so large that it could easily absorb the roughly 16 million new vehicles sold in the US"
Skill issue from failing CEO
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