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it's pretty frustrating how republicans can just spew endless lies about city life with zero repercussions but the moment a dem disparages a pickup truck it's open season

If you’re worried about the young people today and their mental health crisis, it’s comforting to spend 5 minutes on Nextdoor. The old people are SO much crazier!

D.C. is a lovely and vibrant city, the unhoused people there just want help, and the people who live in the city have no voting representation in Congress and thus lack one of the major opportunities for anyone to advocate for them.

Haven't you seen the 1994 documentary film "Speed"?

There's now a food scraps bin right outside my building! So thrilling! I noticed it on Thursday and thought, embarrassingly, that maybe it had been there for awhile and I hadn't noticed?? But no, it was installed on Wednesday 😅

This morning I got good dim sum, got a cheap haircut, bought a hat, bought a birthday present for my brother at the liquor store, went to the library, and got complemented on my new hat by a stranger. All within a 3-block radius of my apartment. #urbanism

A thing not often mentioned here is one of the things OpenAI is trying to take away is community. Having experts beyond yourself — and professionals and friends and family and and and — means interacting with them, enforcing community. This attempts (poorly, thankfully) to diminish and destroy that.

Everyone Hates Airlines, Especially the Workers Set to Strike The flying experience is increasingly miserable, for both passengers and the people working the cabin. While Air Canada executives rake in millions, flight attendants are unpaid for large parts of their job and ready to strike.

The flying experience is increasingly miserable, for both passengers and the people working the cabin. While Air Canada executives rake in millions, flight attendants are unpaid for large parts of their job and ready to strike.

This aquarium is super sketchy. No responsible zoo or aquarium would allow random visitors to touch an octopus.

OK I did get rained on but only a little

My legs on a deck chair on the roof of an apartment building. The sky is very gray and cloudy

An orange sunset from an apartment building roof. In the distance are the US Capitol, Jefferson Memorial, and Washington Monument

Overcast, but not too bad
#roofreading
(Plus bonus sunset from earlier this week)

Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory by Martha Wells The Price of Salt (Carol) by Patricia Highsmith The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde Good Inside by Becky Kennedy Titan of the Stars by E. K. Johnston Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire Cosmoknights Vol 2 by Hannah Templer Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains by Bethany Brookshire Spider-Gwen: Gwenverse #5 by Tim Seeley and Jodi Nishijima The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

July reads 💙📚
(assuming I don't read a whole book before midnight 😅)

I had a preview of this and they are delightful together; highly recommend

Concerning, because this is the best type of garlic press, but thankfully only applies to those bought in 2024-2025

ArlNow, y’all…

a) recycling copaganda and;

b) platforming a forever candidate who averaged 22% in 8 elections over the past decade, in order to;

c) pass off a Scott Mccaffrey op-ed as “news”

ArlNow has a duty to its readers to report on reality. They fail often. Very often.

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens ISLA VISTA, CA—In the days following a violent rampage in southern California in which a lone attacker killed seven individuals, including himself, and seriously injured over a dozen others, citizens ...

12 years earlier.

It Only Tuesday WASHINGTON, DC—After running a thousand errands, working hours of overtime, and being stuck in seemingly endless gridlock traffic commuting to and from their jobs, millions of Americans were dishearte...

theonion.com/it-only-tues...

The high school I went to has been under investigation for months for being too nice to trans students 😮‍💨

when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”

My legs on a deck chair on the roof of a tall building. In my lap is a book. The sky is clear, though getting dark

Nice night for my favorite hobby, #roofreading

Fort Myer has a thrift shop. If they won't take them they might know somewhere that will

It is too hot to waste all that water on A.I. Blast me with a firehose of cold water and let me answer things incorrectly.

Dear Jeff Bezos …

No, a LOT of them think that. Science may be one of the most social forms of knowledge production we have. Arguably it’s at least as social as creative writing. Actual scientists will tell you this. Yet, millions of people think they can do science alone with an LLM.

They really got me with this one. I was prepared to be mad but nope, this ranking is objectively correct

A reminder that the Fox News Cinematic Universe only focuses on black officials when they can tear them down.

They used to mock Baltimore's Brandon Scott as a "DEI mayor" but now that homicide rates have plummeted they're just pretending he doesn't exist.

Her expression turned even more grim. “Corporate slave labor camps.” I said, “Yes, but if we call them that, Marketing and Branding gets angry and we get a power surge through our brains that fries little pieces of our neural tissue.” Indah winced.

‘Murderbot’ Renewed For Season 2 At Apple TV+ Ahead Of Season 1 Finale The Season 2 renewal comes ahead of the first season finale on Friday

Yay!!! Murderbot’ Renewed For Season 2 At Apple TV+ Ahead Of Season 1 Finale deadline.com/2025/07/murd...

Has the Climate Movement Been too Polite? This Senator Thinks So. US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse called on Democrats to stop enabling the fossil fuel industry's "malevolent propaganda operation."

Democrats keep “getting caught in this stupid doom loop in which our pollsters say: ’Well, climate’s not one of the top issues that voters care about, so then we don’t talk about it.’”