How Google Maps Makes It Harder for Palestinians to Navigate the West Bank
One user told WIRED that Google Maps directed them to “drive right into a wall that’s been up since 2003.”

@wired.com spoke with five people who have driven recently in the West Bank who say Google maps, the world’s most popular navigation app, sometimes leads users into traffic jams, walls, and onto restricted roads where they may have potentially dangerous encounters.

www.wired.com/story/google…– (@peard33.bsky.social) December 23, 2024

Superstitions about gingerbread flourished in the seventeenth century. Witches supposedly made gingerbread figures, ate them, and thereby caused the deaths of their enemies. Dutch magistrates went so far as to declare baking or eating molded cookies illegal.

– (@scottobear.bsky.social) December 23, 2024

Merry almost Xmas, folks!

My annual Rankin-Bass Rudolph painting is a bit less “HollyJolly” than those of past Xmases. A bit quieter.

Of course this scene is right before Hermie jumps out of the workshop window to follow his dreams.

So there’s that.

– (@bsienk.bsky.social) December 23, 2024

We’re living in the most ludicrous timeline

– (@abbyhiggs.bsky.social) December 22, 2024

When you can buy a democracy. It’s not a democracy any longer.

Join the resistance at
@altyellonatpark.org

– (@altyellonatpark.org) December 22, 2024

Day 20,412

Ghost of Christmas Present, year 2024. I wonder what his 2000ish brothers are up to today.

#art #doodle #dickens #ghostofchristmaspresent

– (@scottobear.bsky.social) December 22, 2024

@knowledgefight.bsky.social

Thought of you guys!

– (@scottobear.bsky.social) December 21, 2024

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[Verse 1]
Tiny windows
Stacked to the sky
Click a date stamp
Lose track of time
Housecat
Highway
Dreams of the sea
Late night laundry
Talking to me

[Pre-Chorus]
Every entry
Pins me down
Every sentence
Spins around

[Chorus]
Infinite scroll of strange days
Little bright boxes in a long gray maze
I keep falling through your side notes
Trip on the tags
Tangled in quotes
Infinite scroll of strange days
Breakfast confessions and backyard phase
I don’t know you
But I know your tone
All of these pages
Make my head your home

[Verse 2]
Weather forecast
On a paper heart
Pixel postcards
Tear me apart
Odd obsessions
Stacked in a pile
Tiny monsters
Learning to smile

[Pre-Chorus]
Lost in headlines
From your mind
I skip years
One at a time

[Chorus]
Infinite scroll of strange days
Little bright boxes in a long gray maze
I keep falling through your side notes
Trip on the tags
Tangled in quotes
Infinite scroll of strange days
Breakfast confessions and backyard phase
I don’t know you
But I know your tone
All of these pages
Make my head your home

[Bridge]
You say
“Today I feel like…”
Then drift into a dream
I read the crumbs
Connect the dots
Turn a diary to a screen
How many lives in one life
How many thoughts in one line
I chase your shadow down the archive
’till your yesterday’s mine (hey!)

[Chorus]
Infinite scroll of strange days
Little bright boxes in a long gray maze
I keep falling through your side notes
Trip on the tags
Tangled in quotes
Infinite scroll of strange days
Breakfast confessions and backyard phase
I don’t know you
But I know your tone
All of these pages
Make my head your home

[Verse 1]
Cracked path
Fresh cut grass
Joggers pass in neon tracks
Geese parade like traffic cones
Kids trade cards and dial tones

[Chorus]
Wandering the greenway
Counting cracks
Heartbeats racing handlebars and railroad tracks
Wandering the greenway
Wired and awake
Sidewalk serpent doing figure eights

[Verse 2]
Dad hats
Camera straps
Sprinklers hiss like secret taps
Old stone bridge with spray-paint names
Vending can stuck
I kick the frame (hey!)

[Chorus]
Wandering the greenway
Counting cracks
Heartbeats racing handlebars and railroad tracks
Wandering the greenway
Wired and awake
Sidewalk serpent doing figure eights

[Bridge]
Is this a highway for walking?
Is this a park in a line?
Is this a thought I can follow
Or a route I ride in my mind? (my mind)

[Chorus]
Wandering the greenway
Counting cracks
Heartbeats racing handlebars and railroad tracks
Wandering the greenway
Wired and awake
Sidewalk serpent doing figure eights