Oh no my apartment is now a bike lane

Derek…

Elon Musk’s Doge staffers face protest over labor department visit Representatives of ‘department of government efficiency’ set sights on latest target in federal agency overhaul

Elon Musk's Doge staffers are targeting the US Department of Labor this afternoon

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Dear elected officials:

I don’t need you to post about the bad things Trump is doing.

I need you to post about what you are doing to stop those bad things. And how you’re helping the people hurt by those bad things.

Sincerely,
Me

“I didn’t fuck around. Why do I have to be part of the finding out?” - me, every day this month

A photo of David Lynch being asked to elaborate on something and his simple reply of “No.”

He was the nicest guy and a years-long pedestrian and accessibility advocate. If anything his work is undersold in this article. The way he died was so unfair and sick.

How to delete Facebook, Instagram, and Threads | TechCrunch In the wake of Meta’s decision to remove its third-party fact-checking system and loosen content moderation policies, Google searches on how to delete

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I’ll check this out. Curious if they have thoughts on South Korea’s politicians seemingly having a very different set of incentives than ours do and how that impacted this. Examples: 23 day election cycle, public financing, cable news not being a major political force, single term, etc.

Underappreciated @bsky.app feature: the ability to set a domain you own as your handle. bsky.social/about/blog/4...

Let's not repeat the same mistakes of 2017.

Say no to resistance grifters. Say no to those weird anonymous "angry staffer" accounts.

Instead put that energy into protecting vulnerable populations and finding a policy agenda and messaging strategy that works.

Who else almost deleted their mostly unused Bluesky account recently? 🙋🏻‍♂️

That was basically the pitch of I-732 in 2016, and it drew a ton of industry opposition and failed too.

I don’t think we can discount the power of fossil fuel money in this. It killed I-732, it killed I-1631 in 2018, and it has a good chance of helping I-2117 in 2024 if we aren’t careful.

Nature is healing

In addition to deactivating my X/Twitter, I recently left something like 18 Facebook groups that I have no recollection of joining or being added to. It’s the year of social media pivoting, perhaps?

There’s clearly a story here

From Olgy Diaz’s opponent, who is running on a “Tacoma is Dying” message

Whatever reach you may have had there is likely diminished now anyway. The algorithm is such a mess and it’s such a cesspool of bad content.
An org I’m part of recently tweeted about leaving too, and it got one reply about cryptocurrency airdrops.

A screenshot of my Twitter account getting deactivated

Feels good, man

Leopards would surely never eat MY face!

What’d you get?