Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Good to see those two hotties in the back get some work outside of a Descovy ad 000
Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Perhaps our elected representatives would take the need to regulate agentic AI more seriously if we started calling them digital immigrants 000
Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Last week it was "clanker is a slur" and this week they're hauling out Thich Nhat Hanh to defend the terms and conditions of software. I guess we should have known when Steve Jobs used the Dalai Lama to sell iMacs that we would end up here 010
Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I still can't get past "clanker is a slur" 1373
Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Socialism is private ownership of the means of production 000
Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Socialsim is when I can't find free parking 100
Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Socialism is when movies are in black-and-white and have subtitles 100
Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Socialism is purchasing a $1000 Silver Tier Basic Premium Plus Extended Basic Plan on the Obamacare Health Insurance Marketplace 100
Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Socialism is when I slip on a banana peel that antifa has thrown into by path 100
Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Socialism is when all the nonbinary hotties won't let me sit with them in the cafeteria and talk about me behind my back and have mindblowing gay sex probably 101
Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I was going to say he sounds more Canadian than Maine! His accent isn't any kind of Maine accent I know of. 000
Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 07/10/2026...Texas has continued sprawling and chewing up empty ranchland to build cheap, egalitarian-ish 'burbs. Of course they had to generate a bajillion tons of extra CO2 in the process, but I think they beat us on the racial integration scoreboard. Just saying! 000
Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This is one way that Texas is, however unwittingly, more progressive than California. While our astronomical housing costs have steadily drained disadvantaged minority groups out of urban areas of opportunity, leading to neo-feudalist resegregation... 100
Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Unlike us Olds, the millenials, zoomers, and alphas are all very chill about this. They are very chill! It's mainly the media grifters, rural zealots, and retirees in Lubbock who care about a bunch of Indian kids at a UT game. Sadly the rabid whites outnumber the normies, what can you do? 110
Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Having lived in Texas for a few years, I saw so many contexts in which it is in many ways a model pluralistic society. All around the suburbs of Dallas, Austin, and Houston are Indian kids, Vietnamese kids, black kids, white kids, and, most of all, kids with Spanish last names 100
Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Every local facebook group in California needs someone to give them a Prop 13 primer...actually scratch that, needs a crash course on why property taxes exist first. "I already paid off my house, why do I still have to give the government money?" 020
Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I sometimes wonder whether it's worth explaining this stuff to people on NextDoor / Facebook? Maybe once you've established credibility with the local group you can eventually get through to them. 220
Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 06/10/2026News like this is a helpful reminder that we've always been a fairly unserious country 020
Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 06/10/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePQ9...youtube.comBorat's Rant And National Anthem At RodeoYouTube video by ShowAndMovieClips 000
Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The White House rushed out a clarification amidst a media firestorm when this happened apnews.com/article/bide...apnews.comBiden suggests Trump supporters are 'garbage' after comic's insult of Puerto RicoPresident Joe Biden's tone was at odds with the message that Democratic nominee Kamala Harris is seeking to present as she aims to cast a broad appeal, including to disaffected Republicans. 000
Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A lot of people can't or just don't want to understand this simple truth. I'd add the related point that, despite what you hear, we understand Middle America so much better than Middle America understands us. We came from you! 030
Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Wait till you find out about *cream of* wheat 120
Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 03/10/2026[guy who has never mentioned anything about universal human rights]: what if my chatbot has intrinsic moral value? 000
Reposted by Urban TransectualThe Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Trump is just generally queeny and I think he’d enjoy being with a man but I doubt he actually fantasizes about it. Rubio’s straight. JD Vance is not 100% cisgender but isn’t into men regardless. Hegseth wants to suck a dick. 2171
Reposted by Urban TransectualJames Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I see people putting AI in the same bucket as NFTs (speculative technology that will go away when the bubble pops), but I think the internet is the better comp. Sure there's some early bubble-y activity, but the underlying technology is real it's going to dramatically change things. 2554359
Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Saw someone online disparage the Pope as "holier-than-thou" and I could not stop laughing for like 5 minutes. Never has this country been more in need of Jesus 011
Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The pope, ranch dressing, and Lil Nas X are the three legs of my patriotism stool at the moment and even that last one is getting a little shaky 110
Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The fact that the American Pope is cool as shit is like the only thing holding up my pride in my country right now. That and ranch dressing 100
Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I can't remember, does the migrant caravan thing happen every election year, or only election years when Democrats are in office? 000
Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Are all the Romance languages calling Artificial Intelligence EE-YAH?static.klipy.comMiss Piggy's Karate Chop on KermitALT: Miss Piggy's Karate Chop on Kermit 010
Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Meta frames its AI project around the idea of satisfying whatever people want, the very thing Buddhists believe is at the root of all suffering 000
Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 27/09/2026DAYS OF THUNDER (1990)static.klipy.comDays Of ThunderALT: Days Of Thunder 131
Reposted by Urban TransectualCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure. 5843461195
Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026As far as the loony lesbians, I'm just glad someone out there is experimenting with 2020-themed bars, the 1950s diner concept is really played out. 000
Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Why does it suddenly feel like the country's most pressing issues involve Mary Peltola's management style, a Mooooooslim running for Senate, and some loony lesbians in a Massachusetts town no one has ever heard of? Oh right, it's six weeks to election day 100
Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"There's no way I can make the crotch big enough for you" - direct quote from my tailor 110
Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Truly a classic film and this scene makes me cry tears of joy 011
Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I have lived here for nearly 30 years now and still can't figure out why northern California businesses insist on keeping their doors propped open when it is 50 degrees outside 000
Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I know you don't drink but lmk if you need to develop a wine list and signature cocktail program (of course that would make it an illegal business again) 010
Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Next career move @loulamer.bsky.social ? sfstandard.com/2026/09/21/h...sfstandard.comSelling tacos from your backyard could soon be legal in SFA proposed ordinance would let residents cook and sell meals straight from their home kitchens — no commercial kitchen required. Advocates say it could legitimize an economy that’s already thriving on... 110
Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I know it's beside the point but G_d I hate that beard. Does he think he's Amish? 000
Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Your regular reminder that the politics of family values has never been only about controlling us but equally because they can't control themselves 011
Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Bless my little town, a PG&E rep held a info session recently and now there are dozens of nonplussed comments on the local Facebook group based on confusing the concept of population with population density and also "algorhythyms" 000
Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 17/09/2026When you murder innocent civilians at point blank range that's called terrorism. When you murder innocent civilians from the air-conditioned comfort of a government office building, that's called "systemic failures" 000
Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Public transportation is so sleek and svelte 010
Urban Transectual @jakecummings.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Trying to explain to 2012 me which one of these two ended up taking a courageous stand for poor, brown people and which one turned out to be a Hilter aficionado 000
