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themountaingoats.bsky.social
The way tech companies constantly do stuff that nobody asked for really tells you a lot about their bigger ideology. They tell themselves that you will like it over time. What they mean is you’ll learn to endure it, or you’ll give up. quality of UI is not actually anywhere on their radar
themountaingoats.bsky.social the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 7h
new iOS update is sleek and also defaults in Music to “you must want songs transition as they would on a dance floor.” so many people will wonder why they can’t just listen to an album. Apps > Music > Song Transitions > toggle off.
A screenshot of Apple Music’s auto mix feature, which the new iOS update defaults to on, thereby ruining the listening experience for countless millions.
December 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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aluino.blacksky.app
😳

(Not a real gun but still wtf)
December 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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gyro.bsky.social
I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit
December 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
busyizzi.bsky.social
siri play “afraid of horses” by half gringa
papapishu.bsky.social Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 6d
I swear to god none of the people involved here have actually played this game because if they did they’d be embarrassed that this is what they’re afraid of.
duckvalentine.bsky.social Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 6d
Humble's now banned it too, post-launch:
www.ign.com/articles/hor...
December 7, 2025 at 7:13 AM
busyizzi.bsky.social
voice of a generation
December 7, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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tylerplariviere.bsky.social
PHOTOS: Feds deploy tear gas in Elgin as hourslong standoff ends in man's arrest

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
December 6, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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thedaisymoon.me
Thin people always think we're imagining things. We are not.
yrfatfriend.bsky.social Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend.bsky.social · 3d
“I don’t treat fat people any differently”

(Photos by the inimitable Haley Morris Cafiero: www.haleymorriscafiero.com)
A fat white woman stands in a crowd while a thin woman appears to snicker at her. Photos by the incredible Haley Morris Cafiero. A fat white woman stands on a sidewalk while two thin/muscular people watch with jaws dropped. Photos by the incredible Haley Morris Cafiero. A fat white woman takes a phone call on the sidewalk while two uniformed police officers hold their hat over her head mockingly. Photos by the incredible Haley Morris Cafiero. A fat white woman sits on the stairs in a public space. A person stands behind her, making a silly face, posing for a photo with her in the foreground. Photos by the incredible Haley Morris Cafiero.
December 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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royalpratt.bsky.social
A reminder: Gregory Bovino may be gone and a bunch of his men aren't here anymore but Border Patrol is still in Chicagoland, randomly stopping folks at Home Depots and chasing people through the snow.
December 5, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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jackjenkins.me
Religion note: Remember that pastor who was arrested protesting an ICE detention facility outside Chicago recently? The one who was photographed on the ground as officers arrested him?

That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.
December 4, 2025 at 2:12 AM
busyizzi.bsky.social
have been sitting on this one for a bit as too niche, and it is, but …
Domino meme. At the beginning is “Sam Rosen hires young Keith Olbermann as a junior sportscaster” and at the end is “All of straight normie America googles ‘felching’”
December 3, 2025 at 9:37 PM
busyizzi.bsky.social
As a side note to the broader point - here’s yet another reason for reducing car dependency. A car shouldn’t have to be an essential.
rbreich.bsky.social Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7d
Gen Z is spending more on essentials than previous generations, yet their wages aren't keeping up.

It's no wonder they aren't "spending like retailers need them to."

When 70% of the economy depends on consumer spending, people need money to spend. It's as simple as that.
December 2, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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2avesag.as
"Randy Mastro felt he had to do something but didn't want to do a single thing to validate anyone loosely associated with Transportation Alternatives" may be the Occam's Razor explanation here, eh?

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shabazzstuart.bsky.social Shabazz Stuart @shabazzstuart.bsky.social · 8d
I am profoundly grateful for the support. As some of you have requested, I am releasing our full secure bike parking proposal publicly for NYC. We did not take anything for granted-- we partnered with global leaders in London and Paris as well as Motivate + others

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December 1, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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shabazzstuart.bsky.social
I am profoundly grateful for the support. As some of you have requested, I am releasing our full secure bike parking proposal publicly for NYC. We did not take anything for granted-- we partnered with global leaders in London and Paris as well as Motivate + others

docsend.com/view/rw3vxqe...
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December 1, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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2avesag.as
I have no insight into any of this process or Oonee's proposal, but it's a real shame that a local company was seemingly denied this opportunity all around.
shabazzstuart.bsky.social Shabazz Stuart @shabazzstuart.bsky.social · 8d
Today was the hardest day of my life. We fought for nearly a decade to bring secure bike parking to NYC and ultimately were completely excluded from the @nyc-dot.bsky.social process for citywide system. To those who believed in us and our vision, I am so sorry.

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Adams Administration Picks Vendor for Bike Locker Vendor After Years-Long Wait - Streetsblog New York City
Bike parking lockers built by Tranzito are coming to hundreds of locations across the five boroughs, the Eric Adams administration said.
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December 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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marklazerus.bsky.social
Good morning.
December 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
a lovely thread. a really good live theatrical effect has a magic that cinema just can't reproduce
bfletcherwatson.bsky.social Ben Fletcher-Watson @bfletcherwatson.bsky.social · 9d
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view. And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone. "When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”
December 1, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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rogersparkman.bsky.social
Was able to spot 3 of the named plows: Sleet Home Chicago, Da Plow, and Jean Baptiste Pont du Shovel. No sign of my plow, dubbed Ernie Snowbanks. @sorenspicknall.bsky.social
Chicago street map showing a named plow. Chicago street map showing another named plow. Chicago etc. As in first and second alt texts. See earlier alt texts.
November 30, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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debjitduttaart.bsky.social
What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
publius24.bsky.social John Q. Public @publius24.bsky.social · 11d
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
busyizzi.bsky.social
🧵
November 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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rcmacleod.bsky.social
Hello, YouTube has shown me a video of a guy teaching an octopus from the fish market to play piano
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcWn...
I taught an octopus piano (It took 6 months)
YouTube video by Mattias Krantz
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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socialistdogmom.bsky.social
we have to go back. to warn them.
November 28, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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escalante.bsky.social
Just posting this so I can embed this in a future blog. Yams. Sweet Potato Yams.
April 9, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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sundance.bikesky.social
When the new bike lane is just paint:
November 28, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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derek.bike
so our government made a big deal about banning speed cameras but one city left theirs running to see what difference the ban would make and you are not going to believe this
But according to data shared by Coun. Rowena Santos — collected by speed cameras that were no longer distributing tickets but which were still capturing vehicle speeds - Brampton saw 71,258 speeding incidents from Nov. 16 to Nov. 22 in the areas where cameras were located. That compares to 31,581 incidents the week prior when the cameras were still distributing tickets.
November 28, 2025 at 12:56 AM