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This Times op-ed by @galvinalmanza.bsky.social really misses the point.
Free buses work in small systems because ridership is low, and the cost of collecting fares exceeds the cost of recovery. Not the MTA. They really do need that money.
Free buses work in small systems because ridership is low, and the cost of collecting fares exceeds the cost of recovery. Not the MTA. They really do need that money.
Opinion | Something Surprising Happens When Bus Rides Are Free
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 3:03 PM
This Times op-ed by @galvinalmanza.bsky.social really misses the point.
Free buses work in small systems because ridership is low, and the cost of collecting fares exceeds the cost of recovery. Not the MTA. They really do need that money.
Free buses work in small systems because ridership is low, and the cost of collecting fares exceeds the cost of recovery. Not the MTA. They really do need that money.
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Physically incapable of analyzing politics outside of this insipid frame.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
February 14, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Physically incapable of analyzing politics outside of this insipid frame.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Oh hell yes, Brave and the Bold!!
In cartoon news, Tubi just revealed practically the entirety of the classic Warner Bros/Hanna-Barbera/Cartoon Network library is coming to the platform this March.
For those who don't wanna visit the bird site, here's the full list of what's coming.
For those who don't wanna visit the bird site, here's the full list of what's coming.
February 14, 2026 at 4:38 AM
Oh hell yes, Brave and the Bold!!
Holy crap am I glad I didn't try to stick around for sparring class, because after the normal karate class my body decided it is DONE. And freezing. The walk home from the bus stop was brutal and I am now wrapped in blankets and a heating pad.
February 14, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Holy crap am I glad I didn't try to stick around for sparring class, because after the normal karate class my body decided it is DONE. And freezing. The walk home from the bus stop was brutal and I am now wrapped in blankets and a heating pad.
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if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them
February 14, 2026 at 1:50 AM
if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them
Holy shit. Yay!
It's official KOG is greenlit! Can't wait for you all to see what the team has been cooking up! #KnightsofGuinevere #KOG #Glitch #glitchproductions
February 14, 2026 at 1:04 AM
Holy shit. Yay!
Karate class, kata (routines).
Me: "Shihan, is there a kiai (shout) on that nineteenth move?"
Shihan (instructor): "Not officially but we put it in."
Other Student: "It's in the video."
Shihan: "Don't trust the video. We just did that for COVID."
Student: "It's in the video, it's canon."
Me: "Shihan, is there a kiai (shout) on that nineteenth move?"
Shihan (instructor): "Not officially but we put it in."
Other Student: "It's in the video."
Shihan: "Don't trust the video. We just did that for COVID."
Student: "It's in the video, it's canon."
February 14, 2026 at 12:50 AM
Karate class, kata (routines).
Me: "Shihan, is there a kiai (shout) on that nineteenth move?"
Shihan (instructor): "Not officially but we put it in."
Other Student: "It's in the video."
Shihan: "Don't trust the video. We just did that for COVID."
Student: "It's in the video, it's canon."
Me: "Shihan, is there a kiai (shout) on that nineteenth move?"
Shihan (instructor): "Not officially but we put it in."
Other Student: "It's in the video."
Shihan: "Don't trust the video. We just did that for COVID."
Student: "It's in the video, it's canon."
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I looked this up to try and understand what happened
and ... I am only more confused now.
nationalpost.com/sports/olymp...
and ... I am only more confused now.
nationalpost.com/sports/olymp...
February 13, 2026 at 11:11 PM
I looked this up to try and understand what happened
and ... I am only more confused now.
nationalpost.com/sports/olymp...
and ... I am only more confused now.
nationalpost.com/sports/olymp...
I shall add it to my collection.
Take my angry like.
February 13, 2026 at 9:58 PM
I shall add it to my collection.
This is apparently specifically about figure skating. But also, 🌲🌲🌲
Let’s go! Please don’t men too much, men.
February 13, 2026 at 9:12 PM
This is apparently specifically about figure skating. But also, 🌲🌲🌲
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We've noticed.
Zuck taking advantage of every opportunity, I guess. "World's going to shit? Well, I guess EFF will be too busy opposing fascism to notice that we launched surveillance glasses!"
Cool, cool.
Cool, cool.
Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.
Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
February 13, 2026 at 8:43 PM
We've noticed.
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Since Reagan, the rallying cry of Republicans has been "think of the children!" Every excessive act, every oppressive law was justified if it protected the children.
Unspoken in that, but known to most, was it only applied to white, wealthy, Christian children
They want the rest to die quickly.
Unspoken in that, but known to most, was it only applied to white, wealthy, Christian children
They want the rest to die quickly.
Guillotines are the moderate solution
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Since Reagan, the rallying cry of Republicans has been "think of the children!" Every excessive act, every oppressive law was justified if it protected the children.
Unspoken in that, but known to most, was it only applied to white, wealthy, Christian children
They want the rest to die quickly.
Unspoken in that, but known to most, was it only applied to white, wealthy, Christian children
They want the rest to die quickly.
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It’s unreasonably important to me that people know JewBelong isn’t some big org, it’s just Archie Gottesman, a hugely shitty racist rich white woman who used to make billboards for her daddy’s company and pivoted to vomiting her bullshit racist crybullying onto them in the name of “antisemitism”
This is the pet project of one rich AF Jewish nepo baby white lady who lives on the upper east side and claims to speak for all Jews and throws her money around to control the messaging and it is a fucking nightmare
February 13, 2026 at 7:44 PM
It’s unreasonably important to me that people know JewBelong isn’t some big org, it’s just Archie Gottesman, a hugely shitty racist rich white woman who used to make billboards for her daddy’s company and pivoted to vomiting her bullshit racist crybullying onto them in the name of “antisemitism”
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Happy Valentine's day, folks. Here's my favorite story about the nerd and the honeypot.
I vaguely recall @megelison.bsky.social telling a story from her fintech days about a shlubby engineer realizing several drinks in that he was being honeypotted by a model and climbing out the bathroom window to escape
February 13, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Happy Valentine's day, folks. Here's my favorite story about the nerd and the honeypot.
Revelations about the Clooney Ocean's Eleven it had never occurred to me to ask about but that make perfect sense.
The EMP was a replacement for what was originally a hotel detonation, struck after 9/11. So it was, indeed, out of place.
February 13, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Revelations about the Clooney Ocean's Eleven it had never occurred to me to ask about but that make perfect sense.
Senator Wyden is having a long decade.
I’m just going to leave this here
February 13, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Senator Wyden is having a long decade.
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I'll get the first, Doylist reason out of the way quick - because star trek is a way to talk about our society and its future, and medicine is only as good as the plot says it is.
Geordi had a visor for the same reason. Picard, an artificial heart.
Geordi had a visor for the same reason. Picard, an artificial heart.
February 12, 2026 at 9:53 PM
I'll get the first, Doylist reason out of the way quick - because star trek is a way to talk about our society and its future, and medicine is only as good as the plot says it is.
Geordi had a visor for the same reason. Picard, an artificial heart.
Geordi had a visor for the same reason. Picard, an artificial heart.
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don't get me wrong, the casual outfit & charcoal lighter fluid sprayed right onto stucco or sheetrock has incredible "on my way back from the Dillons I drove by that new ICE jail and, goshdarn if it just wasn't nearly on fire enough" energy.
but we should protect all members of La Main Pinot Noir.
but we should protect all members of La Main Pinot Noir.
February 13, 2026 at 5:43 PM
don't get me wrong, the casual outfit & charcoal lighter fluid sprayed right onto stucco or sheetrock has incredible "on my way back from the Dillons I drove by that new ICE jail and, goshdarn if it just wasn't nearly on fire enough" energy.
but we should protect all members of La Main Pinot Noir.
but we should protect all members of La Main Pinot Noir.
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brb, establishing a community fund to get badly needed facemasks and close-toed shoes into the hands of our nation's center-left wine moms.
KMBC: "A woman tried to set a fire at a South Kansas City warehouse that had been rumored as a possible ICE detention center. Earlier today, the company that owns the property confirmed it is no longer moving forward with a sale to the U.S. government."
February 13, 2026 at 5:20 PM
brb, establishing a community fund to get badly needed facemasks and close-toed shoes into the hands of our nation's center-left wine moms.
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I miss the era when things were otherwise running so uneventfully the press would feast on a sex scandal like this until someone blinked.
Corey Lewandowski "fired a U.S. Coast Guard pilot after [Kristi] Noem's blanket was left behind on a plane" — a decision that was reversed when they realized they needed someone to take them home.
People said Noem and Lewandowski "do little to hide their relationship inside the department."
People said Noem and Lewandowski "do little to hide their relationship inside the department."
A Pilot Fired Over Kristi Noem’s Missing Blanket and the Constant Chaos Inside DHS
Secretary faces fire for confrontational immigration crackdown and self-promotional style; White House to wind down Minnesota operations.
www.wsj.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:23 PM
I miss the era when things were otherwise running so uneventfully the press would feast on a sex scandal like this until someone blinked.
This was written by @orzelc.bsky.social who is a quantum physicist, but I was nodding.
February 13, 2026 at 4:48 PM
This was written by @orzelc.bsky.social who is a quantum physicist, but I was nodding.
No, I did not get a side gig writing @nytimes.com headlines.
I wouldn't say no to one though.
www.nytimes.com/2021/06/22/s...
I wouldn't say no to one though.
www.nytimes.com/2021/06/22/s...
When an Eel Climbs a Ramp to Eat Squid From a Clamp, That’s a Moray (Published 2021)
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:26 PM
No, I did not get a side gig writing @nytimes.com headlines.
I wouldn't say no to one though.
www.nytimes.com/2021/06/22/s...
I wouldn't say no to one though.
www.nytimes.com/2021/06/22/s...
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incredible how white men are given the benefit of the doubt when anything coming from marginalized groups are treated with utmost suspicion and distorted beyond recognition
February 13, 2026 at 5:05 AM
incredible how white men are given the benefit of the doubt when anything coming from marginalized groups are treated with utmost suspicion and distorted beyond recognition
Cathay Home, a textile manufacturer and distributor, has applied for a trademark on SWIFT HOME, and has drawn an opposition from Taylor Swift.
bsky.app/profile/reut...
It's a stylized mark, Swift's registration is for the same class of goods (textiles/bedding), and...yeah, I can see it.
bsky.app/profile/reut...
It's a stylized mark, Swift's registration is for the same class of goods (textiles/bedding), and...yeah, I can see it.
February 13, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Cathay Home, a textile manufacturer and distributor, has applied for a trademark on SWIFT HOME, and has drawn an opposition from Taylor Swift.
bsky.app/profile/reut...
It's a stylized mark, Swift's registration is for the same class of goods (textiles/bedding), and...yeah, I can see it.
bsky.app/profile/reut...
It's a stylized mark, Swift's registration is for the same class of goods (textiles/bedding), and...yeah, I can see it.
...
*laughs bitterly*
*laughs bitterly*
what’s the most obvious on-the-ground truth that your profession knows, but people don’t live like it’s true?
what other jfc-inducing truths are sitting in plain sight for people who know how to see what’s happening?
February 13, 2026 at 3:38 AM
...
*laughs bitterly*
*laughs bitterly*