Reposted by beccagrawlCarolyn Fiddler @cfidd.bsky.social · 22hBruh, you literally JUST SAID "no fatties" and "no weirdos" 893195505
Reposted by beccagrawlAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20hI for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president 854241465700
Reposted by beccagrawlletithappenalreadymama @pnutsmama.bsky.social · 30/09/2026i know no one wants to hear this but rape and violence is extremely common in college, and we haven’t moved the needle on how to stop it because ultimately your life as a woman is worthless to everyone. 2153
Reposted by beccagrawlfakesharrows @fakesharrows.bsky.social · 30/09/2026midcity getting menaced by Marines helicopters this morning. v cool 052
Reposted by beccagrawlAdam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is awesome: in lieu of autographs or selfies at events (this was from outside the XM Radio event in NYC this week), David Byrne now hands out this business card before cycling away. www.reddit.com/r/talkinghea... 1018426
Reposted by beccagrawlmattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026awoke this morning with a Vision 4990291662
Reposted by beccagrawlJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026these look more and more like late Brezhnev, late Chernenko photos 301131192
Reposted by beccagrawlSam @samd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026PSA: the sweetgreen CEO is speaking at a MAHA summit right before JD Vance and RFK Jr. if you haven’t already, find another slop bowl to replace it with. my personal fav is Naya, which was founded by a Lebanese immigrant 1112727
Reposted by beccagrawlThe 51st @51st.news · 28/09/2026Are you job-hunting in D.C. right now? We want to hear about your experience for an upcoming story. Take our survey below!docs.google.comWe want to know: Are you job-hunting, and how's it going?A recent survey showed that, over the past two years, two-thirds of households in D.C. had been affected by federal job losses. With the resulting tight job market — at a time when costs are already h... 087
Reposted by beccagrawlrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026call me when there's an AI agent onto which i can offload my chronic sense of dread that just around the next corner is an existentially important task i've forgotten to do that's about to bite me in the ass. i am not interested in models which require me to turn the dread into tasks myself 631932
Reposted by beccagrawlspooky joseph reed @josephsreed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026oh did donald trump announce a new factory I think I heard this song before www.theverge.com/c/21507966/f...theverge.comInside Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in WisconsinThe two-year charade that upended people’s lives 064
Reposted by beccagrawlSam @samd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026it’s so funny that people were like “OMG a 2PM Oval Office announcement, is Trump going to end the war in Iran or invade Cuba?!?!” and it turns out, no, he’s just going to rant about how good the economy is + how elections are rigged and then fall asleep 562041372
Reposted by beccagrawlAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026the two big ai stories to kick off the week are - meta ai giving your address to strangers on fb marketplace - stole a scientific breakthrough and presented it as its own work this is what we get instead of healthcare or third spaces or public transportation or pick literally anything else 232479612
Reposted by beccagrawlSheo @sheologian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Tech bros also don’t understand that the reason no one gives a fuck that their dentist’s office sends a birthday card vs. an old friend that sends one is that the sending matters not at all without the act of remembrance and thoughtfulness 2213
Reposted by beccagrawlAlex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The underappreciated point here is that taking the messy, contingent nature of scheduling, communication, and navigating social relationships is something that AI people think these tools can do. When in fact it is quite difficult and takes a lot of social skill. 318535
Reposted by beccagrawlHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026They’ve sunk everything into the idea that regular people somehow want a layer of enterprise software between them and every aspect of their lives. They can’t imagine people don’t want to run everything like a business. 530337
Reposted by beccagrawlTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I participated in some public library ai courses. I’m telling you that the state of literacies and the complexity of lives deeply enmeshed in the bowels of late stage capitalism cannot find a use case for an agent & if they could, people don’t have the scaffolding to imagine one that could be useful 7102184
Reposted by beccagrawlNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost. 31863636
Reposted by beccagrawlAbby Olcese @abbyolcese.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Me listening to @sepinwall.bsky.social and @kvanaren.bsky.social talking Cupertino on this week's EP of @tvisgoodpod.bsky.social 13210
Reposted by beccagrawlDoug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Copenhagen doesn't even have the best cycling infrastructure. That honor belongs to Utrecht and other Dutch cities. CPH has lots of car-dominated streets and intersections where cyclists are a bit exposed. But it's an *excellent* example of what could be done rather quickly in plenty of US cities. 2312
Reposted by beccagrawlJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026New from 404 Media: when you upload images to Copilot, they're not private. Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users' prompts/images, according to internal docs we got And they're horrified at what they're seeing. Bombarded with requests to make sexual AI images www.404media.co/humans-readi...404media.coHumans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're HorrifiedHuman contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI... 14650336
Reposted by beccagrawlManuel Salgado @manuelsalgado.bsky.social · 28/09/2026AI is an unprofitable and unsustainable industry that is only kept afloat by zealots who believe so strongly that they are setting piles of money on fire to keep it afloat and a federal government who will accommodate shortcuts. We as a country learned absolutely nothing in 2008. 034
Reposted by beccagrawlEviction Lab @evictionlab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“Nearly 28% of lower-income renters said they were unable to pay for housing sometime during 2025, a gradual increase from around 24% in 2019.” www.npr.org/2026/09/23/n... By @npr.org’s @marissajae.bsky.socialnpr.orgIt's getting harder to afford rent in the U.S., even for middle-income familiesHousing affordability challenges are spreading to higher income brackets, according to new research, which found one in five renters struggled last year to pay for their housing in full and on time. 13216
Reposted by beccagrawlAdam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 28/09/2026"These MAGA weddings are Mos Eisley cantinas for counterintelligence." –@michaeldweiss.bsky.social 14548164
Reposted by beccagrawlTom Bridge @tombridge.com · 27/09/2026The Nats won about 10 more games than I thought they would at the beginning of the year, but about 15 games fewer than they should have. Not a bad season. Let's build on it. 151
beccagrawl @beccagrawl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Thoughts: this is not totally a reflection on the team itself. DC as a city and community has been going through it in 2026, the entire K-shaped economy is squeezing out so many people from regularly attending games, and Nats Park has pulled more and more seats into “premium” pricing. 2120
beccagrawl @beccagrawl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026After seeing Jordan Donica, Rob McClure, and Ana Villafañe in the Arena Stage production of Damn Yankees, this casting news…😒😒😒 330
Reposted by beccagrawlMeg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I think we're in a time when people don't hear songs by accident often anymore. If I could have avoided ever hearing "My Heart Will Go On" in 1997 by carrying earbuds everywhere, I would have. I've never heard this song, because I am rarely if ever forced to hear anything. 99411
Reposted by beccagrawlKameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 27/09/2026We are literally all living in little algorithm-tailored bubbles. Something many of us fail to realize is that just because WE see a news clip or song or hot take everywhere, doesn't mean everyone does. Our media and news is highly tailored. There aren't just 4 channels anymore. 34611
beccagrawl @beccagrawl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Helen Hayes: the first lady of American theatre, first female EGOT winner, and a DC native! 070
Reposted by beccagrawlDC Public Library @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Your neighborhood library is also your neighborhood movie theater. 🎬 Our libraries host movie nights throughout the year, from new releases to classics and everything in between. Check out what’s screening at a library near you and make it a movie night. 022
Reposted by beccagrawlZach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 27/09/2026Fewest women I've ever seen in a single event space, and I cover comic conventions for a living. 542625437
Reposted by beccagrawlWill Harris @willharrisinva.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It's the 36th anniversary of the premiere of COP ROCK, so what better time to revisit my @avclub.com oral history of the series? No matter how ridiculous you think the series was, you'll be emotionally invested by the end of the piece. www.avclub.com/an-oral-hist... 86517
Reposted by beccagrawlKavitha A. Davidson @kavithad.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The Giants just signed a backup quarterback and 1) I was not prepared for this to be his photo 1918332
Reposted by beccagrawlJonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026There is no problem to which Rahm Emanuel running for president is the solution. 2449282
Reposted by beccagrawlBrian Wilcox @brianwilcox.bsky.social · 26/09/2026People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. --Roger Hornsby 2574
Reposted by beccagrawlPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A couple quick observations here, which should be obvious. 1) insurance “risk pools” work by requiring younger/healthier people who make few or no claims to sign up and pay premiums alongside older/less healthy people who do, essentially covering their costs. 1262051493
Reposted by beccagrawlMichael Bazemore @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Remember this shit next time some billionaire or billionaire's lickspittle warns about class war. There's never not been one, and they wage it openly against us. 310642
Reposted by beccagrawlFirst Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 26/09/2026My thoughts are with the cohort of older millennials here who today are experiencing the bittersweet moment where you are aware you're finally about to be older than all the baseball players. 3273
Reposted by beccagrawlMartin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026As D.C. debates whether to legalize self-driving cars like Waymo, people ask: Do the cars get into crashes? My colleague @zaraleinorman.bsky.social wanted to find out, but learned that D.C. refuses to release crash reports: www.washingtonsun.com/metro/waymo-...washingtonsun.comWaymo Touts Its Crash Safety Data, But D.C. Won’t Release the NumbersAutonomous vehicle companies — which could be permitted to operate in the District this fall — enjoy a blanket exemption from public records law. 52912
Reposted by beccagrawlGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets. 206189065384
Reposted by beccagrawlBen Harris @benharris1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Remember, it was this guy getting beaten up off U St that was the excuse for the National Guard’s deployment to DC. 510537
Reposted by beccagrawlPhil Yabut @philliefan99.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Pretty sunset in #DC tonight. #cwshare @capitalweather.com @thehillishome.com @hillragdc.bsky.social 081
Reposted by beccagrawlBrian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Oligarch solidarity www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...hollywoodreporter.comThe Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing. 52851352
beccagrawl @beccagrawl.bsky.social · 26/09/20262026 is truly Robert Pattison’s year and we’re all just along for the ride. 020