Pumpkin Baby

I'm like you. I don't identify with calling music "self-expression" because to me the goal of music-making is to evoke an emotion or sensation. If my work isn't evocative to others, I have not met my creative goals.

The obvious wisdom and effectiveness of Housing First is obscured by the fact we've made "a tiny, no-frills apartment" an expensive status symbol in huge swathes of the country by creating an artificial housing shortage

The coontail hair stripes are Myspace as hell, I'll give them that. Her aura still couldn't be more zoomer.

The two styles of popular modern metal are “European people being embarrassing” and “energy drink metalcore made by the computer”

There are plenty of tough-guy tattoo tropes derived from old Northern European symbols that are yellow flags, like one is fine on its own but with other context can signal something more sinister.

A totenkopf is not such a symbol. No one gets one by accident because they like vikings.

An important academic update

Halal Truck Mr. Beast

Eldest boy has taken to sending me messages and emails sporadically that look normal but when opened are just Halal Truck Mr. Beast

He had his stroke right before the election. If he had stepped down at that time, it would have been an effective default outcome of Republican senator Dr. Oz. Dr. Oz would probably still be worse but not by a lot.

Not enough political analysis and punditry acknowledges that a gigantic chunk of the US voting bloc has been brainwashed by grifters and that whether or not you can sway voters on anything essentially comes down to how well you can penetrate the propaganda they are assimilating.

Good. It was way too big an area with way too generic a definition to actually be a "historic district" the way it's supposed to work. Most people who live in the area didn't even know it was happening and didn't support it.

This was a bs "preservation" move anyway. I want to reuse pretty old architecture as well but the system is broken and is currently mostly a cover for wealthy NIMBYs to keep any new tall buildings from going up in the area with all the transit connections.

Robotaxis obey laws and drive slowly but they have pretty brutal fail-cases in novel environments that are inevitably going to end up killing people. Taxi drivers are more skilled and aware of the road than a typical civilian motorist even if they drive aggressively.

1. This is despicably evil.
2. This needs to be fought at every level. There is no world in which this cannot be considered cruel and unusual punishment.
3. Those behind this effort need to be exposed and never know a moments peace.

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to bomb this elementary school full of kids because he thinks it makes him look cool. also his scheming viziers will be betting money on it for fun. good luck soldier

And it's even a nice-looking building!

Can we stop blaming everything we don't like on NYC transplants now?

it's not the issue of this story, but it is a transparent example of how the "cars are freedom" narrative is a complete farce. when the state controls your movement and can immobilize you on a whim, you are not free. car dependency is an arm of fascism for the car *IS* fascism and must be abolished.

Investigative Post obtained this video of Border Patrol abandoning Nurul Shah Alam, the nearly blind Burmese refugee who was found dead

www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/26/t...

He HAS made good on a lot of his promises, or at least taken meaningful steps in the short weeks he's been in office. We don't have to be doomers. I want to believe his admin is doing something behind the scenes but he needs to be transparent and we need to pressure him.

it's 2016: north carolina introduces a bill to ban trans people from using bathrooms safely. there's a national outcry; companies withdraw business up to and including the NCAA cancelling a publicized game. the bill fails.

it's 2026: kansas passes a law nullifying trans people's licenses. crickets.

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow

It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker

This was never about woman's sports

I still haven't listened to that Overmars joint despite being very much on your side with this

Threads like this aren't really suited for this kind of argument but I wonder if you still stand by me being shameless for identifying that housing prices in Vancouver cooled off once they built more housing. You think I'm a bad faith actor? Are my statements truly not factual?

For that 2.2% number, is that Canada overall or just Vancouver? Let's provide sources so we can be on the same page about facts and figures.

Compared to what? When was rent increase higher and what was the vacancy rate? You're aware that going much below 8% vacancy is considered an unhealthily tight housing market, right?

I already pointed to the counterexample of Vancouver, after which you claimed, falsely, they have one of the highest vacancy rates in the country. Do you still stand by Vancouver having high vacancy rates? Do you think 3.7% is high? Do you have a different number that is more trustworthy?

I have yet to see any compelling evidence that new housing increases demand beyond the supply it creates in any location. Are these statements based on reasoning and assumptions or from real-world data?

Before allowing more density in Vancouver they tried tons of government interventions like banning foreign investors. None of it made a big impact. What did make a big impact was allowing more housing to be built where people wanted to live. As it turns out, supply and demand applies to housing.

I meant to say "rising again", not "falling again".

Shameless? Rents falling during the height of COVID and then falling again supports the YIMBY thesis that "supply and demand applies to housing", not the opposing thesis of "only housing built by someone pure of heart is can solve the problem of expensive median housing cost"