Reposted by @jcriecke.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 15/10/2026They started on illegal immigrants, expanded it to legal immigrants, now are going after naturalized citizens. If you are not one of those groups, you are just somewhere further down the chain, but they will get to eliminating your rights eventually too. 333016909
Reposted by @jcriecke.bsky.socialDelaney King In Yellow @delaneyking.bsky.social · 15/10/2026A reminder that CGI is not inherantly bad looking, but that it is produced by artists under perpetual crunch as fast as possible and for shit pay to maximise shareholder profits. When allowed to properly work their magic, artists can make CGI invisible and believable. 422027
Reposted by @jcriecke.bsky.socialEvan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I am entirely serious when I say that this should be seen as a moderate position. It specifically and surgically dismantles institutions that did not exist pre-9/11 and assigns their functions much as they were assigned pre-9/11. 1355251692
Reposted by @jcriecke.bsky.socialSave Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 15/10/2026“Permanent DST in 1973 was highly regarded at first, with a nearly 80% approval. Two months later, that dropped to 42%.” Only permanent Standard Time can last! #DitchDST www.wtnh.com/news/nationa...wtnh.comPermanent daylight saving time could leave students commuting in the dark, data showsWhile permanent daylight saving time would cause the sun to set later in winter, the sun would, in turn, rise later in the morning. 26518
Reposted by @jcriecke.bsky.socialAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026This is a significant worsening of our current state of constitutional collapse. I know it feels like there are so many, and there are, but in terms of crossing the Rubicon moments this one's up there. 242365380
Reposted by @jcriecke.bsky.socialAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 12/10/2026no coming back from this without punishing the entire chain of command from the officers carrying out this shit to the people at the top giving the orders 10857741211
jcriecke.bsky.social @jcriecke.bsky.social · 12/10/2026 too many startle starfleet ships with earth-centric names. Gimme a name that's clearly Vulcan, or Andorian. 070
Reposted by @jcriecke.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center? 675260705529
Reposted by @jcriecke.bsky.socialMei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence. 50169125543
Reposted by @jcriecke.bsky.socialJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854 151151776537
Reposted by @jcriecke.bsky.socialgeoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 09/10/2026dc statehood is non-negotiable after trump's actions in his second term. republicans despise the people of the city that hosts them, and there is little reason to think that, now that the seal is broken on treating them as an occupied population, a next republican president will be more restrained 232419457
Reposted by @jcriecke.bsky.socialMax Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 10/10/2026Elite impunity is perhaps the single greatest problem in American politics going back to Gerald Ford’s Watergate pardons. These people keep getting away with it. This needs to stop. 281323302
Reposted by @jcriecke.bsky.socialDoug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Imagine if a daycare center only installed electrical outlet covers one at a time after a toddler shocked himself, rather than just identifying all the outlets and covering them at once. That's basically the modern US city government approach to fixing streets. 016441
Reposted by @jcriecke.bsky.socialMax Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 09/10/2026Need the inspiring story of how grizzled, tough-but-kind coach Talarico helped the misfits and underdogs on the Austin Wokes overcome their personal trauma and save their beloved drag brunch spot by beating the Proud Boys at the big summer softball game (costarring Lil Nas X). 1124434
Reposted by @jcriecke.bsky.socialElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Newsletter time. Alito is on the ballot in the midterms, in case creeping fascism wasn’t enough of a reason to vote. www.thenation.com/article/poli...thenation.comThis November, Vote Like Alito Is on the BallotIn this week’s Elie v. U.S., our justice correspondent gives Democrats another reason to vote in November. Plus: How Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s Medicaid unmasked the racists. 12763215
Reposted by @jcriecke.bsky.socialDoug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“Do we really expect our children to act like adults just so adults can act like children?”nyc.streetsblog.orgCycle Of Rage: One Crash Shows How Reckless Car Drivers Ruin Kids' Childhoods - Streetsblog New York CityWe want our kids off their phones and reading books in the library. Too bad drivers don't give a shit. A rant from Streetsblog Editor Gersh Kuntzman. 119754
Reposted by @jcriecke.bsky.socialRyan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 09/10/2024Happy Hangul Day! It's a Korean holiday honoring the best and easiest alphabet in the world! Everyone in Korea gets the day off work to contemplate it, but it only takes fifteen minutes to learn! So today, learn to read Korean in 15 minutes! 17882263
Reposted by @jcriecke.bsky.socialBenjamin راغب @benzado.com · 09/10/202625 years ago they predicted George W. Bush’s entire eight yearstheonion.comBush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over'WASHINGTON, DC–Mere days from assuming the presidency and closing the door on eight years of Bill Clinton, president-elect George W. Bush assured the nation in a televised address Tuesday that "our lo... 0251
Reposted by @jcriecke.bsky.socialUrban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This sort of stuff makes me want to scream. The cost bloat is in *capital projects* not in operations! Capital projects are bloated because of a complex web of balkanized permitting processes, the byzantine and inconsistent nature of federal grant funding, and outsourcing talent to consultants. 1653470
Reposted by @jcriecke.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it 95115252677
Reposted by @jcriecke.bsky.socialNome @nome.bsky.social · 09/10/2026It's worth noting that the decision to kill him by firing squad - chosen for its symbolism, according to Hegseth - gets the symbolism entirely backwards. For example: we hung the Nazis convicted at Nuremburg, instead of giving them the death by firing squad they would have preferred. 217924
Reposted by @jcriecke.bsky.socialAdam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 07/10/2026Cities are awesome, cities are what makes freedom possible, and we should never let conservatives dominate the way they get framed in public discussions youtu.be/2hYorE3nvKAyoutu.beThe Rural Voter Is Facism's Greatest FriendYouTube video by Liberal Currents 312323
Reposted by @jcriecke.bsky.socialMax Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 07/10/2026One of the most salient divisions in American urban politics is between people who choose to live in cities because they actually like urban life and temporarily embarrassed suburbanites. 724831
Reposted by @jcriecke.bsky.socialNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Right now society at large is paying most of the bill for people who drive giant pick-up trucks and SUVs, my humble proposal is that we should stop doing that and ask them to pay it themselves. 234749
Reposted by @jcriecke.bsky.socialBetter Streets Chicago @betterstreetschicago.org · 06/10/2026👏👏👏 We couldn’t agree more! 016031
jcriecke.bsky.social @jcriecke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026They've also spent the last hundred years making sure public domain is as small and restrictive as it can possibly be, with no new works added for decades. Reform copyright. 010
jcriecke.bsky.social @jcriecke.bsky.social · 04/10/2026What do you do with a rainbow that breaks the law? Put it in prism. It's a light sentence. But it gives it time to reflect. 040
jcriecke.bsky.social @jcriecke.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Don't worry, Denver leaders hear you and will make sure i nothing like this ever happens again. They will protect the character of our neighborhoods and make our streets safe for free parking. 100
jcriecke.bsky.social @jcriecke.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I feel like this is a medieval penance. "Declare your impropriety on social media and you shall be forgiven." 010
jcriecke.bsky.social @jcriecke.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It still baffles me that networks can veto dialogue. Like, did you hire writers or not? 000
Reposted by @jcriecke.bsky.socialderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026please do not post photos of barbour jackets in early october if you're not also voting for policies to address global warming 494505385
Reposted by @jcriecke.bsky.socialArne @androidarts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Guys, I'm quitting my job as a Death Camp guard. The organization's culture is broken and there are also ethical concerns I can now vaguely sense. I loved working there for three years, standing guard, and guarding, and getting paid, but recently... Anyways, I'm writing a book about my time there. 210113
Reposted by @jcriecke.bsky.socialElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026My newsletter is up. Eric Schmitt should be mocked and John Roberts should be hounded and I will not be persuaded otherwise. www.thenation.com/article/poli...thenation.comEric Schmitt Deserves to Be Mocked ForeverIn this week’s Elie v. U.S., our justice correspondent relives the senator’s glorious face plant. Plus: whyt John Roberts’s also deserves our mockery. 32987183
Reposted by @jcriecke.bsky.socialSweet Shop @sweetshop.app · 02/10/2026Engage... in savings!: Star Trek: Defiant, Star Trek (2022-), Archives, Year Five, Lower Decks. $495.50 bought separately, yours for $25. sweetshop.app/bundles/engage 188
Reposted by @jcriecke.bsky.socialNome @nome.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I will, at great personal cost, refrain from discussing the banality of evil, and asking if they manage to sleep at night because they dissociate, or just have convinced themselves of something like "i'm only one small part of the system" or "it's out of my hands." This kindness will go unnoticed. 21503
Reposted by @jcriecke.bsky.socialDenver Bicycle Lobby @denverbicyclelobby.bsky.social · 02/10/2026DBL joined coalition partners @bikewalkbus.bsky.social @greatdentransit.bsky.social @yimbydenver.bsky.social and Pedestrian Dignity to send a letter to Denver City Council today about the 2027 Budget. Call your Council Members and ask them to make these amendments. 0117
jcriecke.bsky.social @jcriecke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If this man becomes the nominee we'll lose and deserve it. 000
Reposted by @jcriecke.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026"they really believe it"/"they will try to do it"/"the promises are real" are things that most americans refuse to believe about politicians but if you take them seriously will help you predict political behavior more often than not 592610419
jcriecke.bsky.social @jcriecke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Calling a fourplex density is sad. City Council is full of NIMBYs and cowards who think the only legitimate way to live was invented in Levittown. 010
jcriecke.bsky.social @jcriecke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I don't even pick up the phone any longer and the powers to be are rapidly making text unusable as well. Bout to switch to an app and completely mute phone and messages. 010
Reposted by @jcriecke.bsky.social🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026But if trans girls are "cheating" by playing women's sports, what else are the sneaky trans people cheating about. They're also coming for Title IX. They don't care about women in sports. They want women out of sports. Please, I am begging you, stop falling for this shit. 11930166
Reposted by @jcriecke.bsky.social🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026Save Women's Sports, an anti-trans organization whose entire existence is built around ferreting out trans athletes who want to run rougshod over your cisgender girl could only find 5 athletes competing K-12. Five. 4766105
Reposted by @jcriecke.bsky.socialDenver Bicycle Lobby @denverbicyclelobby.bsky.social · 28/09/2026DBL social meetup Tue. Hope to see you tomorrow night. We’ll plan to meet on the patio but will meet indoors if the weather is bad. 031
Reposted by @jcriecke.bsky.socialGreg Shill @gregshill.com · 28/09/2026Notably, travel times also did not increase outside the congestion zone. This mirrors what we have seen in other aggregate congestion pricing impacts. For example, it was predicted that drivers would change their routes to avoid the zone, creating new congestion; this, too, did not happen. 020455
Reposted by @jcriecke.bsky.socialDemocracy Now! @democracynow.org · 27/09/2026The Trump administration has deported tens of thousands of immigrants to so-called "third countries" that they have no connections to. "This is extraordinary rendition all over again, in broad daylight," says Tutu Alicante, a human rights lawyer from Equatorial Guinea. democracynow.org“Extraordinary Rendition All Over Again”: U.S. Deportees Sent to Equatorial Guinea Beaten, ImprisonedTwo men deported from the United States to Equatorial Guinea were arrested by local police forces and transferred to a prison earlier this month, in apparent retaliation for speaking out about conditi... 6297135