Declan M. Martin

Democratic Socialist, transit activist, open-source cartographer, animation enjoyer. he/him

[Declan M. Martin @declanmar]

https://t.co/Eq4VThdgfs

[Declan M. Martin @declanmar]

@catgirlprostate @codfish246 Also 70 million cans of soda is a pretty reasonable amount of soda. Like… less than a warehouse’s worth.

[Travis @travisclones]

I’m sorry, but we need to figure out a way for everyone to be housed and able to afford a transit fare. Normalizing homelessness, fare evasion, and chronic drug use in public spaces is normalizing systemic decline of our society instead of fixing and saving people’s lives.

[William B. Fuckley @opinonhaver]

A good tell that the NatCon project is bullshit is the way that the people going on about National Purpose also become toddlers at literally even incredibly basic notions civic duty or obligation such as ‘turn down the AC if you can so hospitals have power’

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Bitch, Texas does the same thing, winter and summer.

[lusso @luusssso]

Y2K era Gucci watches were so on point

[onion person @CantEverDie]

broken system designed to target and terrorize the current political scapegoat. we have to completely scrap the current supreme court. trans rights will prevail, we’ll keep playing sports, we will win

[Alex Armlovich @aarmlovi]

These skyscrapers on the train station in Oakland were 100% illegal before state housing law

Several YIMBY laws are helping, but AB2923 in particular gave BART control of its own zoning

BART is a state corporation just like a city--now they can zone their own land like a city

[Jerusalem @JerusalemDemsas]

Elizabeth Warren used to be a Republican, Senator Bernie Sanders used to oppose the Brady Bill and voted to shield gun manufacturers from lawsuits (the law that obstructed the Sandy Hook families' suit), Ted Kennedy used to be pro-life but then became a 100%-NARAL-rated-standard-bearer of abortion rights, Jesse Jackson called abortion genocide then ran for president as a pro-choice Democrat.

People change their minds. Sometimes it's cynical, sometimes it's under pressure from activists, sometimes it's because they just heard some good arguments and sometimes it's because their team evolved.

A politics that pre-determines good guys and bad guys and decides that no one can change no matter what they do is a dead end. We live in a country where lots of people disagree with us -- the point of protest isn't to push people out of the body politic, it's to get them to come over to our side.

[Vivian @suchnerve]

Well hello, let’s celebrate that!

[Slazac 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇹🇼🌐 @TrueSlazac]

Rejoining is supported by a majority of Brits and even the most pro-Europe party refuses to make it official policy

[nazzo @nazzobetweeting]

europe needs to grow the fuck up. grow. the. fuck. up. extreme heat is DANGEROUS and can be FATAL. enough fucking grandstanding against americans because you have a fucking inferiority complex. GET AC AND SAVE YOUR CITIZENS’ LIVES.

[Declan M. Martin @declanmar]

@suchnerve

[Vivian @suchnerve]

“Air conditioning to cope with climate change doesn’t make sense, because it just makes it worse”

By that “logic,” you also shouldn’t warm your home in the winter, even though climate change has been making cold snaps increasingly extreme as frigid air leaks from the poles.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Este es el antes y el después del periodista palestino Mujahid Bani Mufleh, tras pasar 14 meses en prisiones de "Israel" donde sufrió torturas y privación médica, tuvo un grave derrame cerebral.

Si fuera un periodista europeo torturado por Rusia sería portada en todos los medios

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

AIR CONDITIONING IS NOT A RIGHT-WING TECHNOLOGY

IT'S JUST A PUMP THAT MAKES A ROOM COLDER

STOP BEING AN IDIOT

[FFRF @FFRF]

It belongs right after The Odyssey, Beowulf, and The Lord of the Rings in the "Influential Works of Fiction" unit.

[Ada🏳️‍🌈 @TheMemeWalker]

It's so fucking funny how profoundly unaffordable this hobby became virtually overnight if you didn't build a PC before 2025 lmfao.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Yes it can. You absolutely CAN air con your way out of a heatwave. If you couldn't, then Texas and Singapore wouldn't exist.

[clara the urbanist @SlopHq]

america won't fund a single indoor public play space for kids, but for thirty years a hamburger chain quietly ran free climate-controlled playgrounds in every town, then tore them all out, and nobody held a hearing. the playplace was infrastructure and we won't admit we miss it

[David @Zero_4]

🚨 10 years ago today, the UK voted to become the first country in the history of mankind to impose economic sanctions on itself