URGENT! The Massachusetts House just passed a "social media ban" that would force YOU to upload a government ID or submit to a face scan to post online. CALL YOUR STATE SENATORS! 978-485-4694

Okay bluesky I need your help

I live in Massachusetts. You might think we're a bastion of lefty intellectualism but our state government a clusterfuck of post-puritan real estate bros

Reskeet this. Text it to your "friends from home"

Help this find every masshole poster who will know what to do

Did u know there's an antifascist version of hacksawing catalytic converters off parked cars

As someone who just got fucked on their taxes, I can confirm.

So often when someone is killed by a driver, we get stories from neighbors about how speeding has been a problem on the street. These deaths are preventable. These deaths are policy choices.

Minneapolis Health Care Workers Are Organizing to Defend Their Patients From ICE Organizing and rights trainings have helped health care workers protect their colleagues and their patients.

Healthcare workers in Minneapolis have been forced to grapple with violence and intimidation as ICE descends on their workplaces. I interviewed several about how organizing and rights training have helped them protect their colleagues and their patients. Read their advice here:

This Clever Bike Bell Can Even Be Heard by People Wearing Noise-Canceling Headphones Škoda's DuoBell is designed to avoid collisions between cyclists and pedestrians preoccupied by their podcasts.

Škoda's DuoBell is designed to avoid collisions between cyclists and pedestrians preoccupied by their podcasts. www.wired.com/story/skoda-...

Somehow this gif is weirder than the actual octopus sex.

Octopus sex is crazy

I was talking to a private wealth manager the other day and she was telling me that she's been feeding her private data into Claude for help writing memos to clients

I go, "You know that's a two-way mirror and they can see all the stuff you're putting in there, right?"

She goes, "Huh, I guess so…"

#OtD 7 Apr 2010 800 Carlsberg factory workers in Denmark walked out protesting new policies to restrict beer drinking at work. The strike failed after five days, but the following month saw another strike for pay increases shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

Where Did Everyone’s Drunken Whimsy Go? Saturday Night Social: All my friends are going dry in the name of self-optimization. But I still believe in getting a little drunk for no reason.

Saturday Night Social: All my friends are going dry in the name of self-optimization. But I still believe in getting a little drunk for no reason.
www.jezebel.com/where-did-ev...

Our mayor really has shit the bed since getting reelected.

r/boston • Mouse still active in my apartment, landlord and traps not working, what can I do? I live in a super small studio apartment in Beacon Hill and have been dealing with a mouse in my apartment since February 24. Maintenance came last Friday and said they sealed a gap behind the oven, but the mouse is still active. The exterminator set traps and poison, yet nothing was caught even when I was away for a week and still haven’t. Edit: additional information - I’ve only see it come out from under the oven. Edit: I’ve also tried those scented pouches, the exterminator left bait stations, and I’ve also made a mint and cinnamon spray. None of these helped. I can’t keep living like this, the apartment feels unlivable and I’m at my wits’ end. Has anyone dealt with a persistent mouse problem? What actually worked? Should I escalate to 311, hire my own exterminator, or explore legal options? Thanks in advance for any advice.

311BOS Hello! This is the team at Boston 311. If you’re concerned about building safety or unsatisfactory living conditions, we can connect you with the Inspectional Services Department (ISD) to have an inspector take a closer look. Call us at 3-1-1 (or 617-635-4500) and we’ll connect you to the right team.

Today on Boston Reddit: OP has a mouse problem, @311.boston.gov replies in thread to help.

I’ve seen these moves but usually it’s accompanied by other boys in a “band” and they’re singing some shit I’d rather not hear.

Just preordered from my local bookstore maybe 10 mins ago

Cartoon depicting the Sickos guy riding a bicycle in a lane marked "Bikes Only" and saying, "Heh heh heh" while a bunch of motorists are complaining about him while they're in a traffic jam.

Kelly by Ward Sutton

Omar: There were hundreds of millions in oil futures traded just minutes before a reversal in US policy on Iran. This is corruption. At DHS, we got a reckless spending spree, planes, vanity projects. It's like a billionaire's midlife crisis, except the American people are paying for it.

I do think it's important to draw a distinction between Flock cameras and red light/speed cameras. For example, in Massachusetts the budget authorizing these cameras has some clear guard rails about usage aimed at addressing surveillance concerns.

Source: budget.digital.mass.gov/govbudget/fy...

Edging the erotic chatbot

Suggested edit: "wall-to-wall turds"

"Don't wear headphones, it's dangerous"

For the folks in the back: I call out these hi viz,no headphones, blame/shame campaigns because we had decades to figure out what works (and we know what does)

It's not like road violence snuck up on us last week and we had to scramble to find a solution.

Trump Contracting Clause Would Override AI Safeguards Amid their Anthropic fight, Trump officials are advancing a new provision that would empower them to force AI companies to scrap safety and privacy protocols.

🚨SCOOP: Trump officials are quietly adding a line into government contracts that would force AI companies to remove safety & privacy guardrails as Trump officials advance plans for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance, according to contract text reviewed by @levernews.com.

Congress dialogue tree:
A. Sorry, we don't have a majority
B. Sorry, we don't have a supermajority
C. Sorry, we have to support the president
D. [say nothing, avoid all media]

💯

Good thing we don’t need street safety improvements. Right @mayorwu.boston.gov ?

(PDF) The Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale: Development, validation, and associations with workplace outcomes PDF | From boardrooms and brown bags to emails and earnings calls, business culture often seems overrun by “corporate bullshit,” a semantically empty... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...

Studying BS.
"business culture often seems overrun by “corporate bullshit,” a semantically empty & often confusing style of communication in organizational contexts that leverages incomprehensible corporate buzzwords and jargon in a functionally misleading way."
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Whoever started this laundry fire has done more to impede this devastating war than anyone in Congress.

CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar…

An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar tools.
www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...