Reposted by Pumpkin BabyUrban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026One thing that I think about a lot is in “Wages of Destruction” Tooze describes how the Third Reich didn’t really have a theory about public policy or the economy. They limped from crisis to crisis their entire existence finding emergency stop-gaps to achieve short term priorities. 210818
Reposted by Pumpkin BabyUrban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Germany’s political leadership believed in esoteric theories around racial supremacy and ultimately believed good outcomes would naturally flow from Aryan’s natural superiority. This is the same vibe the GOP has in 2026. 3648
Reposted by Pumpkin BabyUrban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Conservatives never post shit like this. Only liberals do because they have a nagging insecurity, don’t believe liberals can ever wield power legitimately and don’t believe liberal constituencies can legitimately govern without the blessing of the Volk. 1468686
Reposted by Pumpkin Babyscwiba @scwiba.bsky.social · 11/09/2026This man won his primary by 30 points. 4590011878
Reposted by Pumpkin BabyOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026if it took you 5 seconds of contemplation to think of an alternative you should take at least another 5-10 to at least consider the possibility that it at least crossed the minds of 1 or 2 of the people who dedicate their lives and research careers to dealing with the problems we post about on here 292379299
Reposted by Pumpkin BabyBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Antebellum politics is fascinating, the South kept getting policy concessions and whipped themselves up into a paranoid rage anyway, essentially because they couldn't stand being culturally judged for having slaves 7486591359
Reposted by Pumpkin Babycait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 29/08/2026gotta do something in between not being allowed to contact your ex-wife or child for 50 years 181632216
Reposted by Pumpkin BabyMeredith Rose @mrose.ink · 28/08/2026This is what I need people to understand when they start grousing about "resist libs": these are people who hate ICE with their entire, folk-art-making, cornfed hearts. You cannot sit around and write people off as potential allies because you're not personally into their aesthetics. 12563109
Reposted by Pumpkin BabyUSER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Stick your militant doomer bullshit up your ass. Everybody isn't required to share your precious cynicism. 510724
Reposted by Pumpkin Babydillo saint dillo @dillo.media · 23/08/2026dudes will always find a way to rock 523032595
Reposted by Pumpkin BabyRob Haug @robhaug.bsky.social · 20/08/2026We also know that AI is only helpful if you have the discipline specific skills and knowledge to understand when, how, and why the AI is giving you incorrect results. Therefore the most important thing we can do to prepare students to work with AI is double down on the fundamentals. 527541
Reposted by Pumpkin BabyNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 19/08/2026At the climax of the book of Job, God responds to a cogent and detailed argument from Job by screaming about how Job should shut the fuck up because he’s not the one who fought and defeated a sea monster. You must study the Bible to learn that people have always known what it’s like to post. 2996
Reposted by Pumpkin BabyFormer Staffer: Institute of Price Stabilité @pabstblueronin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026It's so sick that popcorn is pre-columbian. Imagine getting a basket of hot popcorn, a big gourd of chicha, and settling in for some Meso-American ballgame 211012
Reposted by Pumpkin Babylastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 17/08/2026The Recurring Speed Camera Discourse is a bit exasperating really because, look, we all know what's actually happening is people just want to be able to commit the pertinent crimes and don't like being punished for it, but people come up with obvious post-hoc pseudo-woke rationalisations for this. 391224176
Reposted by Pumpkin BabyThe War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Approximately 74% - 80% of drivers ticketed by New York City's speed camera ticket do not receive a second one. Speeding dropped by 94 percent reduction in locations where cameras were installed. www.nyc.gov/html/dot/htm... 161005197
Reposted by Pumpkin BabyKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/08/202614 hours later and my mentions are still full of angry treatises about badly behaved cyclists. Bike lanes are not a reward for good cyclist behavior! They are infrastructure proven to make cities safer for ALL ROAD USERS. Whatever way cyclists have wronged you is irrelevant to the discussion! 303109301844
Reposted by Pumpkin BabyOB Cycler @obcycler.bsky.social · 15/08/2026good thing we're having a moral panic over ebikes 🙄 2643132
Reposted by Pumpkin Babydepths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026amazing article 124102572485
Reposted by Pumpkin BabyUrban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 14/08/2026It’s super fucking weird that this is like the consensus position among most urban scholarship but no one is able to see the tension. White flight is bad! But white professionals moving back to the city? Yeah also bad. 720211
Reposted by Pumpkin BabyPeter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I have spent 20+ years talking to drivers who have counterfactual complaints about bike riders. My conclusions... 617638
Reposted by Pumpkin BabyMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Personally, I think what needs reckoning with is how fake it all was. Centrists convinced themselves annoying leftists on twitter were an equivalent threat to Jan 6 insurrectionists. They wildly inflated the threat of left-wing authoritarianism while ignoring how it was taking hold on the right. 92073330
Reposted by Pumpkin BabyTravis Norvell @pedalingpastor.bsky.social · 11/08/2026How come after a concert or sporting event or rush hour it’s not called a “car takeover”? Streets are for people 217020
Pumpkin Baby @hessianhunter.bsky.social · 10/08/2026The only actual anti-aging biohacking that works for shit is wearing sunscreen. 010
Reposted by Pumpkin BabyMichael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 09/08/2026There's a guy who built a full-body war elephant puppet and is hiking Hannibal's route over the Alps with his toddler. If you've got a billion dollars and you devote a single second of your life to accumulating more wealth instead of doing shit like this, I don't think you should count as a person 316331
Reposted by Pumpkin BabyAaron Meyers @aaronmeyers.bsky.social · 04/08/2026"Today is August 4, 2026" There Will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury 231547898
Reposted by Pumpkin BabySarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West 763700841
Reposted by Pumpkin BabyJerome Alexander Horne @jahorne.bsky.social · 03/08/2026The first three towers of the Sen̓áḵw in Vancouver. A major Indigenous-led, multi-tower residential and commercial development project by the Squamish Nation located on ancestral reserve land. Meaning "the place inside the head of False Creek." 018624
Reposted by Pumpkin Babytpwrtrmnky. @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 03/08/2026researchers: every unit of currency we put into this welfare service not only makes the user's life materially better, but returns about 150% of the spending in how it benefits society more broadly. right wing: ok but what if too many people use it though? also "too many" is "more than zero" here 3562124
Reposted by Pumpkin BabyDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 01/08/2026The only creative industry that is inarguably both doing well and doing great work right now is "new baseball guy names." 892197242
Reposted by Pumpkin BabyMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 31/07/2026And here is the same Alex Jones bullshit appearing in Rolling Stone. Unbelievably embarrassing to publish this. 362174380
Reposted by Pumpkin BabyOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/07/2026minnesota state senator directly taking on musk and his big pockets PRECISELY HOW DEMOCRATS SHOULD BE DOING IT 10799134
Pumpkin Baby @hessianhunter.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I need a Key and Peele college football sketch but for 19th century baseball players 021
Reposted by Pumpkin BabyAdam H Johnson @ahjohnson.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Centrists in Congress (anonymously) threatening to leave this Democratic Party. James Carville calling for a schism. Top Dems refusing to endorse Dem primary winners. Pouty (also anonymous) pro-Israel donors in MI calling for a donor strike—I wrote about the emerging centrist Uncommitted Movement.therealnews.comA new, centrist Uncommitted Movement has emergedExcept this time it’s in support of genocide, rather than trying to stop one. 1421165247
Reposted by Pumpkin BabyJackson Teal @jbteal.bsky.social · 26/07/2026As someone who loves older architecture and thinks genuine preservation is important, the historic preservation in our cities is deeply broken. This project in New York is preserving an existing 3 story building but was not approved and told to make revisions. Can you tell the difference? 2164
Reposted by Pumpkin Babybaby cigarette @mommywiseau.bsky.social · 25/03/2026HP Lovecraft's full name was "Harry Potter Lovecraft". which is why he was so racist 336980
Reposted by Pumpkin BabyJonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 26/07/2026I feel like the way of dealing with such behaviour is to look these people right in the eye and say, very gently, "You think your right to park matters more than homes these children?" Then when they reply just repeat it with slightly different emphasis.newsshopper.co.ukHundreds slam proposals to turn car park into children's home in BromleyPlans to build a children’s home on a car park in Bromley have been slammed by nearby residents who call the current parking situation “a… 1322066401
Reposted by Pumpkin BabyHagai Palevsky (he/him) @dialhforhagai.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him 138122992745
Reposted by Pumpkin BabyMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Again. This is the author. What are we doing here? 694461911
Reposted by Pumpkin BabyStephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 25/05/2026I loathe the cult of the car. 4373791937
Reposted by Pumpkin BabyMichael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 30/06/2026we are one john roberts heart attack away from the complete dissolution of the reconstruction amendments and instantiation of a formalized caste system 462760493
Reposted by Pumpkin Babyhammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 21/06/2026if fascists had any competence and rizz they'd get bitches and be too distracted to be bothered with all this ethnic cleansing bullshit 0535
Reposted by Pumpkin BabyNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 01/06/2026publiccomment.blog/p/hyperfascism 22860238
Reposted by Pumpkin BabyCitizen Platano 🇵🇷 @daniloc.xyz · 24/05/2026conspiracy thinking is seductive because it’s SIMPLE you don’t need to unpack five interlocking technology trends you don’t need to understand the limitations of a given technology or the process of how things get built and shipped you just need a villain to hate but this is an opiate 530744
Reposted by Pumpkin BabyCitizen Platano 🇵🇷 @daniloc.xyz · 24/05/2026my favorite case on this point: yes, Zuckerberg did trip over a curb and land in a radicalization engine then he spent $80b to create a 3D shopping mall no one wanted. no amount of money or connections could conjure the social change he wanted don’t award these guys more power than they have 7942132
Reposted by Pumpkin BabyUrban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 22/05/2026A lot of replies being like “Wait something good!?” No you morons, republicans want to be able to allow chud truck drivers to speed through your neighborhood without consequence. You are a fucking sucker if you think congressional republicans care about privacy. This stupid country I swear to god. 25764106
Reposted by Pumpkin BabyDoug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Look, if you wanted your student loans, healthcare, or retirement paid for by the government I suppose you should have stormed the Capitol on January 6th. 41320374
Reposted by Pumpkin Baby🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 19/05/2026CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...glaad.orgTell the FCC that LGBTQ Stories Don’t Need a Warning Label | GLAADThe Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is targeting LGBTQ stories. They are trying to control what you see on television. This government overreach is dangerous... 11558025005