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I'd assume a gentle, comforting caress on the wrist.

If some asshole drove past a crossing guard and hit my child with their car, and my child's school used this kind of language about it, I would probably never stop shrieking with rage.

It’s happened again

"I just yelled out to them, ‘Hey, I appreciate what you’re doing,’ because most of Chicago does want this,”"

...Yeah?

"said Goone, a suburbanite who works in casino marketing."

And there it is, of course.

Most people who write about politics, right or left, have internalized the concept of the Trump supporter as the authentic american Volk and so many of their conclusions proceed from that
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I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee. You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.

RIP Kaleb Horton
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Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From LONDON—Claiming that he recognized the member of the royal family, but his memory was hazy, President Donald Trump has spent his entire trip to the U.K. trying to figure out where he knows Prince Andr...

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

Drawing if a tired puppy with the caption; "This too shall pass but like wtf"

Bruh

This will be a boon to Trump's support base of drug-addled VC bros.

We need community notes here to clarify that in fact Michelle Wu ended his campaign

Watching the cable news commentary on the bullet engravings is wild because none of these people seem to realize that the content of the engravings are indicative of extremely online meme brain rot

'No rhyme or reason': AI grading issue affects hundreds of MCAS essays The use of AI to score Massachusetts’ standardized MCAS tests resulted in errors that affected hundreds of exams, the NBC10 Investigators learned.

Nothing could possibliy go wrong when AI intersects with high stakes testing. www.nbcboston.com/investigatio...

"No income tax on cops" has to be the most median-voter-brained shit I've ever seen put to print, it just might work.

I grew up in the red area and honestly not knowing is for the best.

these people need to log off. seriously. bluesky this, bluesky that, how about you look at some actual blue skies and get off the internet for ten minutes

Even those only take like 10 minutes, I'm assuming he's confusing an EKG with an echocardiogram, which actually can take 40 minutes.

Here's some real talk: Dem strategists urging Dems to avoid the "trap" of talking about Trump occupying cities are saying this precisely in order to get quoted in NYT and elsewhere, and everyone involved in this charade knows it.

@jamisonfoser.bsky.social and me:

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If a parent can't handle not being in direct context with their kid for the length of a school day they need to work on themself. I don't understand how so many parents ended up like this.

when you have a kid, you are bombarded with contradictory messages. You're told formula is bad. You're told processed is bad. You're told probiotic is good. People who offer simple, comforting messages can very easily turn naive, uneducated people, but not entirely, against their best judgment

Google's Gemini AI tells a Redditor it's 'cautiously optimistic' about fixing a coding bug, fails repeatedly, calls itself an embarrassment to 'all possible and impossible universes' before repeating 'I am a disgrace' 86 times in succession

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

I grew up in Indy and just sort of assumed everywhere was the same. Then I moved to a small college city with decent transit and I've never looked back.

If I had the money, I'd summer in Chicago and winter in New Orleans every year, riding my private railcar between the two.

Kids need freedom. Dangerous roads make it hard to grant it. Bigger cars, distracted drivers and worried parents mean fewer kids are roaming freely.

1000 times this wapo.st/41r8xSn

New Zealand woman and six-year-old son detained for three weeks by Ice in US enduring ‘terrifying’ ordeal Sarah Shaw, who has a US visa and lives in Washington state, was detained after attempting to re-enter US from Canada

This is appalling. Civilized countries look at us and are rightly horrified that this idiocy and cruelty is sanctioned by--encouraged by--our government.

(I originally wrote "Other civilized countries look at us..." But do we any longer count in their ranks?)

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When I got married in Boston I begged my Midwestern family members to not rent a car here and none of them listened to me. My sister looked like she'd been visited by the angel of death driving from Logan to her hotel.

“I don’t want to live in a house museum” is my mantra. We need our cities to serve the people that exist now, not the ones that existed when my house was built: 1918

Our loved ones died biking in Cambridge last year. Boston-area candidates need to follow the facts on bike lanes. - The Boston Globe Some candidates are displaying a staggering lack of regard for people who cycle, victims of traffic violence, and everyone who cares about safer roads.

"Separated bike lanes reduce collisions and save lives."

It's really that simple. The research is ample. But our leaders and, sadly, our neighbors have chosen to ignore all that to coddle drivers and protect parking. Deaths like those of John Corcoran and Minh-Thi Nguyen are policy choices.

Glad to see @burhanazeem.bsky.social continuing to tell it like it is. There's no way to have a healthy, growing city without building places for people to live.

"Flaherty in 2014 made headlines after he tried to stop a victim of a hate crime from testifying against his client by bribing him with $2,500 in cash, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Flaherty pleaded guilty to the crime in 2016."

Lol get the fuck outta here