matheus

there are so many open layups and somehow dems can’t make them. republicans are literally pulling cancer treatment from children and they can’t message on that??? like what the fuck are we doing here

thank you for your work

US imports gypsum from Spain. gotta be some money being made there.

if I wanted to know what a Ph.D thinks I’d open safari and type in “jstor.org”

honestly still WIP but good enough for now

n: london…?
e: tokyo
s: florianópolis
w: o’ahu

still WIP

lmfao this made me snort

his hometown is also a perfect encapsulation of this exact issue - he’s from Sarasota, a town known for its arts community, full of vote blue grannies, that votes 60/40 GOP every election. ofc, he also went to an extremely selective public magnet school, so

Against Polling It's 90% Bullshit

I've had it with data.—
www.unpopularfront.news/p/against-po...

just scrolled through the packet, looks like a slam dunk. good luck!!!

according to their own data they were only sacrificing ~2% of revenue on one line… just stupid.

correct, 2025 ridership is 2/3rd of what it was in 2016 systemwide, according to their data. WFH is a big factor there, as well as just generally undercounting ridership on the GLX imo.

here’s their statement from 2016.

www.mbta.com/news/2016-10...

fwiw, they’re back to doing all door boarding with tap to go as of last year. fare evasion is still pretty much ubiquitous, although a good chunk of riders have monthly they just don’t bother scanning.

you can rest assured American media will never press them on it (or any of their other lobbying affiliations), so all this “backlash” from them is about how hollow their souls feel. if that makes you feel any better.

Political inaction on Gaza and Palestine is criminal negligence: An open letter from ITUC General Secretary Luc Triangle The world is witnessing a horror that defies comprehension. Boundaries of humanity have long been crossed, red lines have been trampled. The war in Gaza and the ongoing repression across Palestine mus...

Political inaction on Gaza and Palestine is criminal negligence : An open letter from ITUC General Secretary Luc Triangle www.ituc-csi.org/Political-in...

Usually you have to translate from Hebrew to hear Israelis talk like this

unfathomably delusional and depraved. just living in a parallel world. absolutely gobsmacked.

EU TÔ MALUCOOOOOO

huh. heard there was a bit of writing on that www.marxists.org/reference/ar...

Just by throwing enough cash at media institutions until they desist. Once you own the media, you own the historical record, and with that you can justify… anything

The Times and Amazon Announce an A.I. Licensing Deal

Embracing a future in which blatantly doctored economic data can be inaccurately summarized by a customer-service chat popup and fed to me while I shop for unpronounceably branded dropship batteries that cost $27 each because of tariffs

historians is absolutely bananas

and, like Caio said, disposable income is a constant issue lol

a little bit. the flip side to that is that it’s way easier (if motivated) to join DSA, or nerd out about video games, or be a crazy career networker. but it’s genuinely very hard to just ~be social~ outside of an in-group of some kind.

you mostly don’t once you’re out of college. occasional house party, professional/workplace events. run clubs, gyms, meetups for other special interest stuff is good too.

but there’s no like, default hang for for a listless Gen Z person figuring themselves out.

WIP front elevation for a project of mine. 1/8” :1’, drawn on trace paper laid over a sketch of irl location

work in progress today

someone should write a paper on Dead Internet theory as Keynesianism

although the older drivers occasionally get cranky and open the front door only because fare evasion (which has always been like, <80% above ground, frankly)