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R2-JL

@r2-jl.bsky.social
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I'm into video games, public transit, and not saying too much on the internet. See also kind.social/@r2jl

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I cannot even accurately express how infuriating it is to be an American right now. None of this suffering is necessary. All of this is allowed to keep a handful of rich child molesters out of prison.
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AMR - Alexis Mercedes Rinck @alexis4seattle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We did it!! Thanks to your advocacy and support, Seattle City Council just passed our historic legislation banning surveillance pricing on groceries with no corporate amendments.
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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"solving the last mile problem...and soon, eliminating the first mile problem too, good luck if you can't afford a smartphone plan or waymo fare!"
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Aura @aurahack.ca · 23/09/2026
dude i am seeing this shit 24 hours after seeing Clip Studio remove a bunch of assets of people holding hands because Mastercard told them to there needs to be an afterlife so people can fear of having it denied to them this is unhinged
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Aura @aurahack.ca · 23/09/2026
we need to make hell real, people have to be afraid of shit again
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Aura @aurahack.ca · 23/09/2026
did i die, did i have a stroke and i am comatose is this real does discord have a toggle for "show me gambling ads" are you fucking serious
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Mr. Moo Sky @bricebowl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Disable gambling ads:
Discord Settings. "Sponsored Content" button is pressedSponsored Content settings. "Manage Sponsored Content" button is pressedManage Sponsored Content settings. "Real Money Gambling" radio switch is "off" (disables gambling content)
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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@discord.com I see now why age verification started rolling out, fuck this and fuck you for doing this
special reward available for fanduel in discord, because what discord needed was ads for predatory online gambling, fuck discord and everyone that works in their company leadership
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Also, as @juliareedwa.bsky.social points out in her thread, the way the Seattle Times characterizes Harrell's use of JumpStart funding is completely inaccurate. So many errors in one story! bsky.app/profile/juli...
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Just reading up on the city budget (been on vacation). There are a number of strange errors and misconstruals in the Seattle Times' coverage, including a reference ot "Seattle's income tax" (we don't have one) and spending outpacing revenue in a worsening economy (that's not what caused the deficit)
seattletimes.com
Seattle mayor tries to ‘right the ship’ in her first city budget
The city has faced consistently bleak revenue projections for years, and, as was the case last year, city spending continued to outpace revenue this year.
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Rebecca Saltzman @rebeccaforec.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wow, looks like the AC Transit Board doesn’t want to hear from us. Email instead calling for censure of Director Young: www.actransit.org/form/contact...
AC Transit meeting cancellation notice
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Kind of amazing how underappreciated “make the buses go faster” would save service hours, free up bus availability, and actually sell more fares, all of which are positives on a transit agency’s balance sheet
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Orcish Librarian @bibliovoreorc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Remember how streaming positioned itself as better than linear TV, because it cost less, and didn't have ads? And remember how streamers burned VC and tech giant money for just long enough to ruin the production and business models of linear channels? Yeah, funny thing about that...
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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New for the Nebulized: it was fun doing a dry run of this one live in Seattle last week — probably helped me dial in the themes and the storyline a bit too. Also, stop telling me to go to the transit-oriented blueberry farm, it’s never happening nebula.tv/videos/cityn...
nebula.tv
CityNerd — Seattle’s LINK Is That Good (We Just Need More)
2026 has been a year of record-setting performances for Seattle's Link light rail, with new suburban connections and big network effects. But can Puget Sound keep the transit momentum going?
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
IMO the way to understand this is Donald Trump has a kinetic sense of star power and being at the center of a story — and (just as importantly) a part of him has always wanted to be mayor.
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"A common virus could nearly quadruple your odds of suffering new back problems" "Repeat [COVID-19] infections were associated with nearly 4 times the odds of new back problems, while the chances of receiving a new respiratory diagnosis were connected to a 5 times increase." archive.li/g9MCr
Screenshot of a New York Post health article published September 20, 2026, headlined “A common virus could nearly quadruple your odds of suffering new back problems.” The article image shows a woman standing beside a sofa, grimacing while holding her lower back in pain. The caption identifies the virus as COVID-19, stating that people who had COVID twice had 76% higher odds of a new diagnosis and nearly four times the odds of developing new back problems. Article by Rachel Sacks.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY
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RJ Palmer 🔜 LBX 637 @rj-palmer.com · 21/09/2026
lmao dude what, apparently a guy selling AI shit at a convention in Australia got so mad that people were criticizing him for it he started biting them. I've heard of AI brainrotting but these people are literally zombifying www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
screenshot of a person recounting the story in a facebook post
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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 22/09/2026
I think the next Democratic administration should brandish a mighty antitrust bludgeon.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.
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ellen teapot 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @ellenteapot.ca · 22/09/2026
still kind of in shock about Rob Bonta dropping the Paramount-Warner Brothers Discovery antitrust lawsuit what is even the point of having a separately elected Attorney General if he’s going to be the governor’s puppet?
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
COVID-19 — not TikTok — is disabling young women "People are so unaware of the myriad conditions COVID-19 can trigger and exacerbate." "Long COVID is a well-documented illness" producing "outcomes like ME, POTS and autoimmune disease" and "increasing risk of heart attacks, strokes and blood clots"
Screenshot of a September 21, 2026 article from The Sick Times headlined “COVID-19 — not TikTok — is disabling young women.” A subheading reads: “‘Sickfluencers’ are symptoms of a mass disabling event.” The article is written by Julia Doubleday. Below the headline is a photo of a young woman with long dark hair wearing a white face mask, teal sweater and black pants, standing outdoors beside a railing with trees in the background. Image source credited to Charlotte May/Pexels.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I wish there were a single sentence that could simultaneously encapsulate and explain every single problem we have in modern society.
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Jake i 🇵🇸 ✡️ (alt Space Laser Command) @jakei.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I think it'd be cool if a bunch of big shot writers/producers/actors/etc did a 21st century United Artists thing its time we need artist owned and run studios
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Ash @fishyash.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Friendly reminder that Duolingo was initially concieved to trick people into translating articles for free, which they later used as training data for MTL algorithms. Duolingo's primary purpose has NEVER been about teaching you a language, even from the start! slate.com/technology/2...
If it doesn’t charge users and, so far, doesn’t serve them any ads, how does Duolingo make money? It tricks you into working as an unpaid translation service. At the end of some lessons, Duolingo will ask you if you want to practice by translating a real-world document. Which will turn out to be, say, a BuzzFeed article. By melding together enough stabs at this task from high-level Duolingo users, the app can render a surprisingly accurate translation. Which is worth good money. So far, Duolingo has contracts with BuzzFeed and CNN to translate stories from English into languages such as Spanish, French, and Portuguese. This service is already earning Duolingo hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, but von Ahn predicts he will be adding a raft of new clients soon. “The language translations market is huge,” he says. “It’s a $30 billion per year market.”
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
saw this on Instagram and it so perfectly encapsulated my rage
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being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

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what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past 'dresses are for women and pants are for men. i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we've made
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Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hello! I would be curious to know how Bungie workers feel about today’s pivot and how the studio is being managed in general. If you’re a company employee with views on the matter, please do get in touch. Happy to chat confidentially. DMs open. Signal: kerrblimey.43
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“With the emergence of AI, tech companies decided they could stop directing traffic to news sites and supplant them altogether by stealing and regurgitating their journalism.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
bloomberg.com
AI Can’t Hold City Hall Accountable
If AI hasn’t finished off your local newspaper yet, just wait. It will. OpenAI, the company that built ChatGPT, has called itself an “existential threat” to news publishers.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 22/09/2026
hey virginians did you know you get to vote to remove a BAN on same-sex marriage from the state constitution and protect people if the 6 robed freaks overturn obergefell? www.vpm.org/news/2026-08...
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VPM News
Voters will decide whether to enshrine marriage equality in Virginia
VPM | By Jahd Khalil and Adrienne Hoar McGibbon
Published August 24, 2026 at 5:00 AM EDT
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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
American constitutional law: we're rebuilding Bourbon-style absolute monarchy from first principles, thanks John Roberts! Canadian constitutional law: in theory all law comes from our sovereign; in practice the Crown has zero discretion and if they get any ideas we zap 'em with a cattle prod
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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This kind of sums up where AI went off the rails. "Solving" problems that aren't problems at all -- and that are inherently human -- and ignoring the quality of life things it could actually improve.
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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Autobesity [noun]: the alarming growth of private cars in height, width, length and weight at the expense of public space, the environment and overall safety. (video maker #unknown) - Marco Te Brömmelstroet Cc: @tomflood.bsky.social @thewaroncars.bsky.social @ffsafestreets.bsky.social
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
With the midterm elections shaping up to be a massive reckoning for the Republican Party, it's worth remembering that they had a fairly easy offramp from Trumpism in the immediate aftermath of the January 6th riot but they completely chickened out.
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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 22/09/2026
Metrolink has gone 6 months without a budget. With no dedicated funding, member agencies cannot agree on whether to run more or fewer trains. No one has stepped up with a plan to fill the funding gap, like the Bay Area has. This is no way to run a transit system. Governance reform now!
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randy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
in terms of invasion potential, Moscow has not had a legitimate enemy to worry about since 1945; meanwhile, since 1945 Moscow has invaded many of its neighbors and wrought Gaza-level destruction
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
👇🏽 #AbolishICE
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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
These types of transit service cuts are tantamount to surrendering to climate change. It doesn’t have to be this way, vote #YesOnRTM & volunteer now to multiply your impact. Opportunities every day here: luma.com/connectbayarea
Map of BART station closures if transit measure fails“EXHIBIT 3
Potential Muni Cuts: Headaches for Riders and Only Temporary Cost Savings
Route cuts and reduced service hours would save Muni money in the short term but would also lower fare revenues and therefore are no fix for the agency's fiscal woes.
Source: SFMTA.
Photos: Sergio Ruiz.
CUT UP TO 20 MUNI
ROUTES
Corridors with multiple routes, downtown express, hilltop and nelghborhood connections
$70M-$150M
DOUBLE WAIT
TIMES
Metro train service, Rapid and
Frequent routes
END REGULAR
SERVICE AT 9 P.M.
Limited Owl network only from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m.
REDUCE OR CUT HISTORIC SERVICE
3 cable cars lines and F Market &
Wharves streetcars
$30M-$80M
$30M
$70M-$140M”
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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
SPUR’s new report details how catastrophic it will be for Bay Area transit riders if the public transit funding Measure RTM fails. But drivers will feel it too, w an estimated doubling of Bay Bridge crossing times and more than 3X longer through the Caldecott Tunnel. www.spur.org/sites/defaul...
“The Bay Area's Top Three Highway Bottlenecks After Potential Transit Cuts
The Bay Bridge, Caldecott Tunnel, and I-680 in Walnut Creek/Concord would experience some of the most significant travel delays in both directions if looming cuts to transit service are not prevented.
Bay Bridge
+33
MINUTES
A.M. PEAK
+43
MINUTES
P.M. PEAK
Caldecott
Tunnel
+20
MINUTES
A.M. PEAK
+27
MINUTES
P.M. PEAK
1-680
(Walnut Creek/Concord)
+15
MINUTES
A.M. PEAK
+20
MINUTES
P.M. PEAK”“EXHIBIT 4
Traffic Delays at Most
Current Highway
Bottlenecks Would
Double With Proposed
Transit Service Cuts
Line and station closures and reduced service frequency would compel transit users to drive, worsening current highway bottlenecks.
Source: SPUR-Jacobs.”
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Urbanist is in the middle of our fall membership drive right now, and our pitch is pretty straightforward: we want to provide more REPORTING and not AI slop. www.theurbanist.org/membership/
theurbanist.org
Membership
Advocacy Journalism for Better Cities
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22/09/2026
to start: -a decade of Clean Air Act violations at Tesla's Fremont plant -multiple stealth recalls and other auto safety law violations -a long record of systematic workplace abuse -blatantly buying votes to throw the last presidential election -DOE loan fraud -interference in US foreign policy
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22/09/2026
investigating Elon Musk, subpoenaing him, making him testify under oath, and working toward significant prosecutions should be one of the leading Democrat campaign promises right now not just for DOGE, for a decade of self-driving fraud that has killed more than 60 Americans, and many other crimes
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 22/09/2026
This is the country that four decades of "personal responsibility" politics have wrought.
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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...
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Exclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against Paramount
The California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs.
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I’ve had some talks with transit-friendly but very tax-weary friends locally about how RTM felt to them bit like a hostage ransom, and I explained as best I can that the stakes are actually this high and this stark based on how the measure passes or fails. Don’t overthink it!
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Aura @aurahack.ca · 22/09/2026
important to all Vancouver residents!! Translink sells SkyTrain plushes!!! LOOK AT THIS LIL GUY!! what a friend translinkstore.ca/products/sky...
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Randolph Ruiz @aaaarchitecture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Everyone supportive of transit in California should watch this. I have a lot of respect for the expertise Nick has developed on transit project delivery. He is a great communicator and believes better things are possible. I hope his work makes an impact.
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Streetsblog California @streetsblogca.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Newsom’s Climate Record Is Better Than Most Governors. That’s Not Good Enough. Encouraging numbers from CARB are good, but the state needs a dramatic change in its transportation funding. cal.streetsblog.org/2026/09/22/n...
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Newsom’s Climate Record Is Better Than Most Governors. That’s Not Good Enough. - Streetsblog California
Encouraging numbers from CARB are good, but the state needs a dramatic change in its transportation funding.
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 22/09/2026
Moral panics are manufactured concerns created to push an agenda, don't hold up under scrutiny, and the fallout always harms more people than will ever be helped. Stand up for trans people.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/09/2026
stand up for trans people: it is the right thing to do and it just will not hurt you, not now, not in this environment and maybe folks can start to relearn that trans people are pretty fucking cool, actually
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