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byerussell.com
One question repeatedly ponder: when will biz owners in urban areas realize that they can get a lot more customers without the cost (or space) required for parking by catering to the e-bike parent crowd?

Never have I ever worried about parking on my e-bike. @dlknowles.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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jcbradbury.com
Cover just dropped. Coming in 2026 from Oxford University Press.
November 6, 2025 at 12:27 AM
chastonkome.bsky.social
looking for best Kike Hernandez memes
November 2, 2025 at 3:43 AM
chastonkome.bsky.social
60 seconds in microwave: food is still ice cold, poking with fork suggests still some ice in center

61 seconds in microwave: i burn off my fingerprints touching the bowl, what was once a powdered seasoning now has the temperature and consistency of lava, peeled back plastic film has melted
October 31, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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boboispost.ing
October 21, 2025 at 12:56 AM
chastonkome.bsky.social
The last Crown Prince of the Dual Monarchy (Austria-Hungary) could have watched Inception.
raxkingisdead.bsky.social rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · Oct 7
you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones
October 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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stbikeskc.bsky.social
KCATA announces new bus route adjustments due to new Streetcar operations.
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RIDER ALERT: RideKC Bus Changes effective Oct. 19, 2025, in coordination with the KC Streetcar Main Street Extension Opening | Bulletins | RideKC
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October 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
chastonkome.bsky.social
I will just say that everyone deserves peace and the world would be a better place if we are truly believed that.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 30
Hegseth: "As history teaches us, the only people who actually deserve peace and those who are willing to wage war to defend it. That's why pacifism is so naive and dangerous."
October 1, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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wired.com
Months after the Department of Government Efficiency's attack on the federal government began, WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as DOGE tore through their offices.
The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers
WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.
www.wired.com
September 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
I wrote something about respectability in dress over on Twitter. The topic is nuanced for me, so unfortunately the post had to be long. Since Bluesky (reasonably) has character limits, I can't easily import the text here. So I'm including screenshots, if you would like to read it.
ON RESPECTABILITY IN DRESS Every once in a while, people here will get mad at me. And it often involves the same issue: respectability in dress. Or its related cousin: dress codes. Judging someone's deeper, more important qualities based on attire often feels so natural; people get upset when I refuse to engage in the same judgment. To them, it feels as though I'm denying something so obvious, I'm dishonest. I've written about dress respectability no fewer than half a dozen times in my 15 years of writing about menswear, but never so thoroughly and comprehensively on Twitter. This post will be long, but I hope it is engaging. And I hope you stay with me because I find this sentiment to be so noxious — so antithetical to any notion of "good," whether religious or secular — that I hope I can convince a few people to resist such temptations. What is respectability in dress? It's the idea that you can show respect through clothes, such as wearing a suit to a wedding. Or the idea that people in certain clothes are more deserving of respect, such as a man in a suit versus another man in a hoodie. I will address each in turn. I believe dress is a form of social language. And thus, you can signal certain things through clothes. For instance, if I were to attend a wedding, I would wear a suit as an outward expression of a sentiment in my heart (e.g., "I'm happy for my hosts and wish to honor them on this day"). The suit is simply a representation of my sentiment, which already exists, even if I was in jeans. However, if I arrived at a wedding and saw someone not wearing a suit, I would not judge the person's more important qualities based on their attire. Perhaps they didn't have time to buy a suit. Perhaps clothes shopping gives them great anxiety. Perhaps they can't afford a suit that fits. If I wanted to know whether that person is of good character, I would judge this off their more direct actions, such as how they treat the people around them. Are they genial to g… In 1852, Cardinal John Henry Newman penned an essay, initially delivered as a university lecture, titled "Definition of a Gentleman." A gentleman, he says, is someone gentle and kind, considerate of others, humble in social relations, and respectful of boundaries. He compares a gentleman to "an easy chair or a good fire, which do their part in dispelling cold and fatigue." He writes: "The true gentleman in like manner carefully avoids whatever may cause a jar or a jolt in the minds of those with whom he is cast — all clashing of opinion, or collision of feeling, all restraint, or suspicion, or gloom, or resentment; his great concern being to make every one at his ease and at home. He has his eyes on all his company; he is tender towards the bashful, gentle towards the distant, and merciful towards the absurd; he can recollect to whom he is speaking; he guards against unseasonable allusions, or topics which may irritate; he is seldom prominent in conversation, and never wearisome. He makes light of favors while he does them, and seems to be receiving when he is conferring." There is notably nothing in his essay about clothes. It's impossible to judge a person's deeper, more important qualities based on clothes because people are often just following social conventions. To go back to the wedding example, many people wear a suit not because they hold a particular sentiment in their heart, but simply because a suit is protocol. A friend who works as a wedding photographer revels in telling me stories about suited guests getting into fistfights—certainly not a way to honor your hosts. The irony of dress codes is that the stronger the enforcement, the less you can tell about someone's character based on dress. Let's now turn to the idea that people in certain clothes are more deserving of respect. The sharpest, most pointed counterargument for this is Pierre Bourdieu, who in his 1979 book Distinction, pointed out that our notions of "Good Taste" are often nothing more than the habits and preferences of the ruling class. Edward Carpenter, a gay British reformer in the late 19th century, understood this a century earlier. He hated suits. In an essay about the "simple life," he compared suits to coffins, as they have "stiff layers upon layers of buckram," which he believed prevented people from getting enough sunlight and air. But more importantly, he hated suits because he recognized that Victorian dress codes weren't about dress codes at all — they were about status signaling and social hierarchy. In May 1889, Carpenter wrote a letter to The Sheffield Independent about how 100,000 of the city's residents were struggling to find sunlight and air, enduring miserable lives, and dying of illnesses because of the thick, black cloud of smog arising out of factories like smoke from Judgement Day. Meanwhile, as Melton-clad plutocrats nattered on about proper dress codes, they concealed their cruelty and vulgarity under refined manners. They weren't concerned with virtue, but rather with showing their supposed higher moral status. And then those socially under them aped those manners to seem higher class. (A dynamic that German sociologist Georg Simmel recognized in his 1902 essay "On Fashion.) Our judgements of dress are often more about the person underneath the clothes, rather than the clothes themselves. We see this with the pre-war British Guardsmen, who dropped their Edwardian-inspired fashions as soon as they were adopted by the "ruffians" known as Teddy Boys (and some Teddy Gals). Or how the slacker hoodie became a symbol of meritocracy in the New Economy when (white) coders wore it in the early 2000s, but it symbolizes criminality when worn by black teens. Clothes ind… I'm fundamentally opposed to any notion of respectability in dress, as I find it antithetical to a fundamental moral principle: you should treat everyone with respect unless they behave in a manner that suggests otherwise. And so, if John Fetterman lumbers through the halls of Congress in hoodies and shorts, you should object to him based on his politics, not his dress. If a student shows up at Oxford Union in sweats, you should consider his ideas, not his pants. I am perfectly fine with saying certain outfits are ugly. I'm deeply uncomfortable when people make moral judgments based on clothes. A person is not more or less deserving of respect based on dress; they can only do so based on more meaningful behavior. My guess is that you know this in your heart. As you travel through the world, look around you. Are your poorly dressed cousins and uncles bad people? Do shabbily dressed teachers or nurses on the train not actually serve society in positive ways? Do suited politicians not occasionally commit crimes? The idea that appearance doesn't always match character can be found more melodically in Fela Kuti's 1973 album "Gentleman." If you are already interacting with someone on a meaningful basis, you've hopefully already gotten enough information about them to form a judgement and thus can ignore dress. If you haven't interacted with them in meaningful ways, you can simply withhold judgement. I will end with an excerpt from Stuart Hall, a Jamaican-born British cultural theorist. In an essay about pluralism, he made a distinction between "common culture" and "common society," encouraging us to embrace differences. "It should not be necessary to look, walk, feel, think, speak exactly like a paid-up member of the buttoned-up, stiff-upper-lipped, fully corseted and free-born Englishman, culturally to be accorded either the informal courtesy and respect of civil social intercourse or the rights of entitlement and citizenship. Since cultural diversity is, increasi…
September 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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ndrew.bsky.social
ive never seen anything like rhetoric coming from the right in the last week, this is absolutely insane and it needs to stop and people in power need to start speaking the fuck up like right the fuck now
September 15, 2025 at 10:11 PM
chastonkome.bsky.social
Moneyball but with Nicolas Cage as Billy Bean
September 14, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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rianjohnson.bsky.social
Look at that beautiful blue sky! ⏰☠️ Wake Up Dead Man, the new Benoit Blanc mystery. Thanksgiving in theaters, 12/12 on Netflix. More to come very soon…
September 2, 2025 at 1:12 PM
chastonkome.bsky.social
rearview camera but it’s just random Google Streetview images
September 1, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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the-downballot.com
GOP Gov. Mike Kehoe just called a special session of the Missouri legislature to start on Wednesday. He also released a new congressional map aimed at gerrymandering the Dem-held #MO05 so that Republicans can flip it.

Press release: governor.mo.gov/press-releas...

Via: x.com/RedistrictNe...
August 29, 2025 at 9:41 PM
chastonkome.bsky.social
Q for #KCBike community - the south directed 🚲lane along Rockhill where it meets with MLK Blvd (pic). What (if any) is the safe way to proceed from here, esp if i want to go to UMKC? It seems like all directions involved trying to cross in front of active lanes. SV pic is pre-bike lanes #bike #KC
Pre-bike lane view from bikers POV of intersection in question
August 29, 2025 at 9:43 PM
chastonkome.bsky.social
“Patriotic salsa”
discontinuedfoods.bsky.social Discontinued Foods! @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · Aug 25
The company's founder, Ryan Lambert, apparently saw a televised rally in favor of helping immigrants, and it made him so incensed that he decided to start making, in his words "Patriotic salsa"--a very normal and well-adjusted reaction
August 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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pokemongems.bsky.social
Image of a Quagsire with tect saying “touch grass” and “I can’t because I’m 4x weak to grass”
August 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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jkuznicki.bsky.social
I think Democrats should offer voters a broadly defined anti-fraud platform. Yes, obviously, start with Trump’s influence peddling, but don’t stop there. Online fraud is massive, almost every phone call you get is a scam, and the solution has to be federal or it just won’t work.
August 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
You should never follow any of these color charts. They are all stupid.

I'll show you why. 🧵
Someone on Twitter posted a color chart for how to combine different shirts and pants.
July 25, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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hamiltonnolan.bsky.social
The comments on Bret Stephens’ latest NYT column, “No, Israel Is Not Committing Genocide in Gaza,” are really something.
July 23, 2025 at 12:24 AM
chastonkome.bsky.social
Andiamo Azzurre - we can get back up, just 30 more mins! Do it for Girelli!
July 22, 2025 at 9:01 PM
chastonkome.bsky.social
Andiamo Azzurre!!

😭🇮🇹⚽️🏟️🤌
July 16, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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opinionhaver.bsky.social
Reminder: more than 60% of four year institutions let in at least 75% of applicants. A school with an admissions rate of 65% is one of the more selective schools in the country. College admissions shit is entirely elite neuroses about like 100 schools, or total bullshit.
jamellebouie.net jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Jul 12
oh, we have some straightforward gutter racism. “the blacks and the browns are the reason white people can’t get ahead” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
July 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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sportingkc.com
TAKING ALL 3 POINTS

#SKCvCLT | #SportingKC
June 26, 2025 at 2:49 AM