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How blackouts in San Francisco this weekend shut down Waymo.
“.. Traffic lights across the city were down, seemingly confusing the driverless cars — and halting them in their tracks.”
@missionlocal.org $GOOGL
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
“.. Traffic lights across the city were down, seemingly confusing the driverless cars — and halting them in their tracks.”
@missionlocal.org $GOOGL
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
December 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
How blackouts in San Francisco this weekend shut down Waymo.
“.. Traffic lights across the city were down, seemingly confusing the driverless cars — and halting them in their tracks.”
@missionlocal.org $GOOGL
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
“.. Traffic lights across the city were down, seemingly confusing the driverless cars — and halting them in their tracks.”
@missionlocal.org $GOOGL
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
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"prompt theft" is funny as hell like oh no somebody did the same google search as me. grow up
December 21, 2025 at 12:57 AM
"prompt theft" is funny as hell like oh no somebody did the same google search as me. grow up
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“I’m not an anti-homeless and anti-immigrant Nazi! Here is a paper from the notably not Nazi-affiliated University of Chicago to back me up!”
Lots of people QTijg this who do not seem particularly familiar with work on this - here's a good paper
bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/u...
bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/u...
December 21, 2025 at 11:46 AM
“I’m not an anti-homeless and anti-immigrant Nazi! Here is a paper from the notably not Nazi-affiliated University of Chicago to back me up!”
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This one is art.
December 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
This one is art.
Jake Paul got knocked out? Nice
December 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Jake Paul got knocked out? Nice
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I think it’s great if you have managed to carve out a life in America where you don’t feel that precarious or on guard all the time but that puts you in more rarified company than your tax bracket. People don’t feel good here because it’s not good here
December 19, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I think it’s great if you have managed to carve out a life in America where you don’t feel that precarious or on guard all the time but that puts you in more rarified company than your tax bracket. People don’t feel good here because it’s not good here
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STRICKLAND: Participate in the UFC White House event?
"Just to go hang out with the fucking Epstein list? I'm good, dude."
"Just to go hang out with the fucking Epstein list? I'm good, dude."
December 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
STRICKLAND: Participate in the UFC White House event?
"Just to go hang out with the fucking Epstein list? I'm good, dude."
"Just to go hang out with the fucking Epstein list? I'm good, dude."
“Will you step up today and help us fight for the release of the Epstein Files? [insert ActBlue link]”
an even saltier fundraising ask
December 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
“Will you step up today and help us fight for the release of the Epstein Files? [insert ActBlue link]”
Headed opinion from Bouie here, not least because he fancies himself a Reconstruction scholar (he’s not). How exactly can you argue that Reconstruction was unfinished, but that despite that, “America good.”
December 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Headed opinion from Bouie here, not least because he fancies himself a Reconstruction scholar (he’s not). How exactly can you argue that Reconstruction was unfinished, but that despite that, “America good.”
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no truth and reconciliation, just empire for ever and ever
December 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
no truth and reconciliation, just empire for ever and ever
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the political class in this country, the ostensible left, is going to continue to demand you ignore what you know to be moral and true because it doesn't represent "sound optics"
December 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
the political class in this country, the ostensible left, is going to continue to demand you ignore what you know to be moral and true because it doesn't represent "sound optics"
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One of my trans friends asked me to let people know that the FDA is now sending out warning letters to companies selling chest binders. They are reclassifying them as "medical devices" which will be impossible for most companies to legally comply with. This is the bare-minimum care for trans adults.
GenderBender LLC - 720842 - 12/16/2025
Failure to Register and List/Misbranded
www.fda.gov
December 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
One of my trans friends asked me to let people know that the FDA is now sending out warning letters to companies selling chest binders. They are reclassifying them as "medical devices" which will be impossible for most companies to legally comply with. This is the bare-minimum care for trans adults.
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"So it turns out supporting genocide and ICE is bad for voter turnout. So are war criminal endorsements. Who knew"
NEWS: The DNC is killing off its 2024 autopsy.
DNC Chairman Ken Martin has decided not to publish a public report, believing that a backward-looking document would be counterproductive as the party has started winning.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
DNC Chairman Ken Martin has decided not to publish a public report, believing that a backward-looking document would be counterproductive as the party has started winning.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
The D.N.C. Is Killing Its Autopsy of What Went Wrong in 2024
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
"So it turns out supporting genocide and ICE is bad for voter turnout. So are war criminal endorsements. Who knew"
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Yo @safety.bsky.app are you all just deleting every single account from Gaza on sight? Because this person hadn’t even heard of Bluesky when I started talking to her- made an account yesterday and made ONE POST. She’s a published journalist by the way.
December 19, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Yo @safety.bsky.app are you all just deleting every single account from Gaza on sight? Because this person hadn’t even heard of Bluesky when I started talking to her- made an account yesterday and made ONE POST. She’s a published journalist by the way.
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In 2012 Trump was perfectly happy to refer to a transgender beauty contestant as a “young woman,” and to allow her and other transgender contestants to compete in his pageants, shrugging, “maybe she’ll win… and I feel fine with that decision.”
GOP anti-trans scapegoating is a cynical marketing ploy
GOP anti-trans scapegoating is a cynical marketing ploy
Think about this. Did you hear trans panic headlines in the 2000s? No.
Conservatives weren’t “worried” about trans people until the day they lost on Marriage Equality.
Once they realized most of us are just fine with gay marriage, they needed a new wedge issue and started attacking trans people.
Conservatives weren’t “worried” about trans people until the day they lost on Marriage Equality.
Once they realized most of us are just fine with gay marriage, they needed a new wedge issue and started attacking trans people.
I’m rewatching Mad About You & theres a joke where Ursula the ditzy waitress mistakes a recurring character for a post-op trans woman and immediately talks about how great she looks now, then deadnames her as part of a running joke at Ursula’s expense. In 1995. The great trans scare is manufactured.
December 19, 2025 at 3:28 AM
In 2012 Trump was perfectly happy to refer to a transgender beauty contestant as a “young woman,” and to allow her and other transgender contestants to compete in his pageants, shrugging, “maybe she’ll win… and I feel fine with that decision.”
GOP anti-trans scapegoating is a cynical marketing ploy
GOP anti-trans scapegoating is a cynical marketing ploy
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Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things.
There’s no third option.
There’s no third option.
In addition to this administration trying to kill kids, and they're also coming for our binders? OUR BINDERS.
December 19, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things.
There’s no third option.
There’s no third option.
Book in bio
man, that hit dog hollered LOUD
December 19, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Book in bio
Why your books in the bio? Why is your pinned post the Goodreads page saying “this stuff matters?” You think we’re so illiterate we can’t see that shit
It’s so funny because if I was on social media to sell books, I’d dust off the Facebook account and unlock my instagram—not spend time on a post-literate site with a couple of hundred active users!
December 19, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Why your books in the bio? Why is your pinned post the Goodreads page saying “this stuff matters?” You think we’re so illiterate we can’t see that shit
I mean one where you actually have to deal with other human beings not just sit on your ass all day and type emails and then type into a different window on your computer. Stuff like that
I wonder what passes for a ‘real’ job these days. bsky.app/profile/wat2...
These dudes have their books in all caps in their bios. Yeah no shit you think this way, you use your real name on social media because you have to draw attention to your work. You wouldn’t give a shit about this if you had a real job but gotta cultivate a following so time to police da mean posts
December 19, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I mean one where you actually have to deal with other human beings not just sit on your ass all day and type emails and then type into a different window on your computer. Stuff like that
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"We don't want to be Luddites --" brother, Luddites were opposed to bosses concentrating wealth by using technology to make inferior product with warehouses fulls of starving exploited child labor. You don't have to wear the team jersey but respect the game.
December 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
"We don't want to be Luddites --" brother, Luddites were opposed to bosses concentrating wealth by using technology to make inferior product with warehouses fulls of starving exploited child labor. You don't have to wear the team jersey but respect the game.
These dudes have their books in all caps in their bios. Yeah no shit you think this way, you use your real name on social media because you have to draw attention to your work. You wouldn’t give a shit about this if you had a real job but gotta cultivate a following so time to police da mean posts
The reaction to this story and Michael’s thread is a prime example of how social media makes people coldhearted assholes
This is going to trigger another round of abuse for this woman but the basic facts appear to be that she was separated at the time and so was the CEO. She recoiled on the jumbotron because her husband was attending the same concert.
December 19, 2025 at 2:02 AM
These dudes have their books in all caps in their bios. Yeah no shit you think this way, you use your real name on social media because you have to draw attention to your work. You wouldn’t give a shit about this if you had a real job but gotta cultivate a following so time to police da mean posts
Bruh who gives a shit about these anymore? Why do they keep trying to make it 2012 again?
It’s finally here! Check out President Obama’s end-of-year picks for books, music and movies!
Starting in June 2026, we’ll be celebrating the joy of reading, the power of music and thrill of movies on our campus. We can’t wait to host you!
Starting in June 2026, we’ll be celebrating the joy of reading, the power of music and thrill of movies on our campus. We can’t wait to host you!
December 19, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Bruh who gives a shit about these anymore? Why do they keep trying to make it 2012 again?
Headass opinion. This dude has absolutely walked by some homeless dudes on campus thinking they deserve it but comes on here talking about how people lack human decency. Affluent white dude sees affluent white lady - “wow humanity is awful”
December 19, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Headass opinion. This dude has absolutely walked by some homeless dudes on campus thinking they deserve it but comes on here talking about how people lack human decency. Affluent white dude sees affluent white lady - “wow humanity is awful”
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“people won’t leave me alone, its ruined my life” says woman to the paper of record next to her full name and photo, from an 8 month old scandal everyone forgot about
December 19, 2025 at 12:27 AM
“people won’t leave me alone, its ruined my life” says woman to the paper of record next to her full name and photo, from an 8 month old scandal everyone forgot about