As a former teacher, and as a parent, and as an SF resident and renter, I'm with the teachers in SF: it's time to fund schools.
To do that we need to change the tax base.
To do that we need to overcome NIMBY politics.
SF has to become a city again.
The strike in SF backs up to long broken housing taxation and permitting, which has long been a national issue, but this is different.
This is decades after that. This is a city that doesn't have people to do basic things. And the teachers are the ones to call it...
Parenting in SF right now to kids in public school and I kinda think this is the big one.
As a former teacher talking to teacher friends... I think this needs divine intervention (...@governor.ca.gov) or it's going very long. Negotiations were already a year in.
Mushrooms along the Silver River in Michigan's Upper Peninsula for #MushroomMonday!
shaggy mane mushroom
little mushrooms in moss
hen of the woods? not sure
maybe a russala? unidentified mushroom peeking through moss
Well, it’s dark and rainy all the time now. But the mushrooms are thriving.
Screenshot of a tweet by former NYC mayor Bill de Blasio. It's a photo of de Blasio wearing a bright-blue "Hot Girls for Zohran" T-shirt and smiling while looking into the sun next to a brick wall with a "vote here" sign taped to it. The main text of the tweet reads: One of the happiest votes I ever cast! What a beautiful day for NYC! sun emoji. at zohran k mamdani at hot girls four zohran.
I cannot
@colinmegill.com made the grand reveal of Pol.is 2.0 - the new generation of the software that allows for people with different opinions to reach consensus, at #TICTeC 2025 - another great one to rewatch! youtu.be/Q8kMOg4EPQA
#NoKings event in Fairhope, Al.
A woman was arrested for "lewd conduct" because she was dressed in penis suit with a sign that said "No dick-tator"
3 cops on a 53 yo woman.
Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.
Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.
New reddit alternative built on AT
‘Brexit is a tragedy and it will be reversed.’ 💥
#Heseltine is the best political communicator by a long way.
His emphatic call for rejoining the EU cuts through the noise, grounded in truth, while the counterarguments cling to a dwindling minority of Brexit believers.
1/2
Stanford Engineering (@StanfordEng) launched an open-rank faculty search in design. It can place candidates in any department in our School of Engineering: facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...
I'm thrilled to bring in more colleagues at the intersection of engineering+design!
I wrote something new! It’s a UI design history essay about Mac’s Control Panel, and it uses emulation in some… maybe new and maybe interesting ways?
aresluna.org/frame-of-pre...
4.5 was the one they should have open sourced.
Bluesky's near-consensus that AI doesn't work and won't be a technology that has major knock-on effects on society is…not grounded in reality. No mater how loudly and repetitively people say it.
Panel on Growing the Open Society: Tech and democratic innovation
And now we have a panel 'Growing the Open Society: Tech and democratic innovation' with @fecampagnucci.com, @colinmegill.com from Polis (a real time system for gathering and analysing what real people think), and Lula Chen from MIT Governance Lab. #TICTeC
Fantastic panel at #TICTeC Day 2
✨ @fecampagnucci.com
✨Lula Chen from MIT GOV/LAB
✨ @colinmegill.com from Pol.is
I might go as far as to say that the attempt to “get past” process is actually a part of that problem because it further undermines the attempt to have the conversation we need about process.
This has to be critical assumption of next generation of dem tech
Agree with @glenweyl.bsky.social: "We cannot "get past" process. We must improve on it."
or thinking that what they believe is the answer will appear unattractive to the "hoi poloi" and therefore needs to be hidden. Making the case for why I think this is bad practice is hard to do briefly, but I think it is a strategic mistake.We cannot "get past" process. We must improve on it.
TICTeC 2025 Growing the Open Society: tech and democratic innovation. Fernanda Campagnucci, InternetLab/University of Muenster; Colin Megill Polis/The Computational Democracy Project; Martin Tisne, AI Collaborative; Louise Crow mySociety. Day 2 of TICTeC June 11 2025, 10:15-11:00, Mechelen and online
TICTeC day 2's plenary sees @fecampagnucci.com of @internetlab.bsky.social; @colinmegill.com of Polis & the Computational Democracy Project; @martintisne.bsky.social of the AI Collaborative and our own @itscrowbot.bsky.social. Join the conversation: tictec.mysociety.org/event/tictec...
not the wedge issue platform, the union issue platform
at some point there's a tip-over
Older parents are constantly telling those in the early days to cherish it. But that can be very hard advice to follow when you’re in the thick of it. In the Wonder Reader, Isabel Fattal rounds up stories on the gems and the challenges of parenting:
I hardly ever draw on paper anymore and I miss it. I miss the results.
The 100 Men Vs 1 Gorilla debate
Lost a dear friend to cancer today, absolute force of nature. As a doctor, Dana was hope for many patients. Joyous, generous, humble. Impossible that she's gone, leaving behind a young daughter.
We loved you Dana Lott — you'll be in our hearts forever.
today.duke.edu/2019/09/blue...
Oh hell yes.
