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@809explorer

Transit and bike fanatic Szechuan peppercorn appreciator Budding Midwest convert

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Trump: we're gonna kill you all. we're gonna regime change you. we want nothing less than unconditional surrender

Mojtaba: guess we're going down together then

trump: [surprised pikachu.jpg]

11.03.2026 02:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 599 ๐Ÿ” 74 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

only true on days ending in Y

10.03.2026 20:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
10.03.2026 16:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 17 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

shoplifting is bad. cheating on your taxes is bad. smoking on the train is bad. not picking up your dogโ€™s poop is bad.

we live in a society, act like it!

09.03.2026 19:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 1616 ๐Ÿ” 211 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 69 ๐Ÿ“Œ 37

Americans have no idea how much the world is shook, folks. Here in Thailand they have a running tally of how many days' worth of fuel the country has left.

09.03.2026 02:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 3055 ๐Ÿ” 812 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 42 ๐Ÿ“Œ 42

Iran's government is more hardline, its people are poorer and more isolated, the region's on fire, and the global economy feels like its about to go into shock

If you want to know why people wanted to avoid war with Iran for so long, you're finding out in real time

09.03.2026 02:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 5213 ๐Ÿ” 1015 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 81 ๐Ÿ“Œ 30

All the dudes out there with two $1600/month loans on their lifted pickup trucks when gas hits $6/gal

09.03.2026 03:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 895 ๐Ÿ” 127 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14 ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

it's cool how young men voted republican as a bloc in one (1) election and immediately got like 30 "here's why you should never do that again" policy lessons.

08.03.2026 23:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 307 ๐Ÿ” 39 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

how it feels taking public transit rn

06.03.2026 20:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 2074 ๐Ÿ” 379 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 41 ๐Ÿ“Œ 31
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Congrats to Rep. @katiejonesmpls.bsky.social and family, who biked to the hospital last week and came back with baby Hans. Here's what she told me about the ride:

05.03.2026 14:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 546 ๐Ÿ” 138 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7 ๐Ÿ“Œ 46

Wang Shishen ๆฑชๅฃซๆ…Ž (1686-1759), October 1728:

ๆฏ้คๅ…ˆๅค‡ไนฐ้ฑผ้’ฑ๏ผŒๆ›พ่ฎฐๆบๅฝ’ๅฐไผผๆ‹ณ๏ผŒ
ไธ€่‡ช็ˆช็‰™ๅŠจ้ป ้ผ ๏ผŒๅ‚ไบบๅฎ‰็จณๅง้’ๆฐŠใ€‚

I set money aside for fish before each meal.
She used to be no bigger than my hand --
Now with claw and tooth she routs the crafty rat,
And drowses by her humans on her mat.

28.12.2025 18:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 380 ๐Ÿ” 148 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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04.03.2026 00:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 7578 ๐Ÿ” 1552 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 91 ๐Ÿ“Œ 39

โ€œโ€ฆsignificantly reduced the rate at which BART service crews have had to clean up vandalism and what the agency internally refers to as โ€˜very large messesโ€™โ€ฆcleanup that generally requires staff to pull in larger bins and different types of cleaning products. The data, Trost said, was โ€˜shockingโ€™.โ€

04.03.2026 00:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 106 ๐Ÿ” 17 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

this is the sound of panic setting in

03.03.2026 19:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 785 ๐Ÿ” 123 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 43 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

They are literally running with โ€œwe have always been at war with Eurasia.โ€ Unreal.

03.03.2026 13:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 4866 ๐Ÿ” 1038 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 151 ๐Ÿ“Œ 25

this is fucking shocking, and while i know politics journalists think it's clichรฉ to point this out, a democratic president would be impeached for delivering this speech in this way, and rightly so.

01.03.2026 21:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 3472 ๐Ÿ” 682 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 99 ๐Ÿ“Œ 22

that top DOD officials spent the entire day feuding with a tech company and the boy scouts before launching a war in the middle of the night should probably inform your opinion about how well planned and executed this will be

28.02.2026 08:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 3257 ๐Ÿ” 846 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 31 ๐Ÿ“Œ 20
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28.02.2026 12:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 3396 ๐Ÿ” 826 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 62 ๐Ÿ“Œ 50

operation epic fury was carefully selected from a list of respectful names including

operation epic pwn
operation so fury, much illegal
operation jesterbombing, furymaxxing

28.02.2026 12:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 353 ๐Ÿ” 45 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11 ๐Ÿ“Œ 9
A small format retail shop that just sells zines

A small format retail shop that just sells zines

One big (small) thing that the USA needs to work on is bringing back small format retail. Out shops are too big.

27.02.2026 14:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 103 ๐Ÿ” 13 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8 ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

Top tier way to learn the launch date for our next major transit expansion

26.02.2026 20:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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It's Official: the Cybertruck is More Explosive than the Ford Pinto - FuelArc News We now have a full year of data for the Cybertruck, and a strange preponderance of headlines about Cybertrucks exploding into flames, including several fatalities. Thatโ€™s more than enough data to comp...

Analysis of crash data shows that you're 17 times more likely to die in a vehicle fire if you buy Elon Musk's Tesla Cyber truck than if you had bought a Ford Pinto, the 1970s era car infamous for gas tank explosions in rear end collisions.

fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

26.02.2026 00:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 2296 ๐Ÿ” 1021 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 147 ๐Ÿ“Œ 160

33 of the people pardoned by Trump for January 6 have committed more crimes including molesting children and killing people while drunk driving.

25.02.2026 03:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 4203 ๐Ÿ” 1210 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 33 ๐Ÿ“Œ 23
23.02.2026 23:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 470 ๐Ÿ” 75 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Roadblocks to government action by organized groups of citizens is good when the government action is bad and bad when the government action is good.

13.02.2026 17:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 29 ๐Ÿ” 6 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Look at all the pro-housing voices in the paper of record ๐Ÿ”ฅ

20.02.2026 14:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 62 ๐Ÿ” 6 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!

19.02.2026 22:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 7604 ๐Ÿ” 1074 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 46 ๐Ÿ“Œ 132
Governor Pritzker convenes a roundtable on housing in Illinois.

Governor Pritzker convenes a roundtable on housing in Illinois.

Just unveiled the Building Up IL Developments (BUILD) plan and gathered a group to talk about housing in our state.

The consensus? We need to build more and fast.

Looking forward to getting it out to communities across Illinois.

19.02.2026 02:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 480 ๐Ÿ” 72 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 16 ๐Ÿ“Œ 4