Colby Moorberg
@colbydigssoil.bsky.social
Husband, dad, soil and wetland scientist, academic, bike commuter, advocate for open textbooks and active transport, sports fan, and sourdough baker
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will never cease to amaze me that china built out it's HSR infra for about a trillion dollars - while the US spends roughly 1.5 trillion a year just on *car ownership*
My whole life we’ve been told that The US is simply too big to have high speed rail
December 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
will never cease to amaze me that china built out it's HSR infra for about a trillion dollars - while the US spends roughly 1.5 trillion a year just on *car ownership*
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“Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor & strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself.”
Obvious to any REAL Christian. #MerryChristmas
Obvious to any REAL Christian. #MerryChristmas
Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God
Leo has made care for immigrants and the poor key themes of his early papacy.
www.reuters.com
December 25, 2025 at 4:00 AM
“Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor & strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself.”
Obvious to any REAL Christian. #MerryChristmas
Obvious to any REAL Christian. #MerryChristmas
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Big day for dads with pocket knives
December 25, 2024 at 4:07 PM
Big day for dads with pocket knives
Have a Grateful Christmas, everyone!
www.youtube.com/live/eulhW7E...
www.youtube.com/live/eulhW7E...
Grateful Dead Yule Log: Spring '90 Vol. 1
YouTube video by Grateful Dead
www.youtube.com
December 25, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Have a Grateful Christmas, everyone!
www.youtube.com/live/eulhW7E...
www.youtube.com/live/eulhW7E...
I'm making progress on a Christmas break project - rebuilding my kid's "new" 90s mountain bike. I greased the bottom bracket and headset, installed a new 1x crankset, and installed Maxxis Holy Roller tires. I'll finish tomorrow in time for us to ride & see X-mas lights tomorrow night. #Cycling #MTB
December 24, 2025 at 11:52 PM
In light of the Chiefs getting subsidies to move to Kansas with similar talks happening with the Royals:
youtube.com/shorts/c2NN7...
youtube.com/shorts/c2NN7...
The sports stadium scam continues in Kansas City — with taxpayers on the hook for $1.8 billion
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
youtube.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
In light of the Chiefs getting subsidies to move to Kansas with similar talks happening with the Royals:
youtube.com/shorts/c2NN7...
youtube.com/shorts/c2NN7...
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Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.
November 21, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.
I submitted my semester grades with 9 minutes to spare for the deadline. Now it's time to catch up on literally everything else!
December 22, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I submitted my semester grades with 9 minutes to spare for the deadline. Now it's time to catch up on literally everything else!
Between how bowl game decisions went with ISU and KSU, the chiefs moving to Kansas likely with huge tax incentives for their billionaire owner, and how the Twins owners continue to run that franchise into the ground, I'm kind of over mainstream sports - college and pro.
December 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Between how bowl game decisions went with ISU and KSU, the chiefs moving to Kansas likely with huge tax incentives for their billionaire owner, and how the Twins owners continue to run that franchise into the ground, I'm kind of over mainstream sports - college and pro.
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can’t overstate how badly young people have been fucked over by the “digital natives” label. they just don’t get any basic computer skills classes at all, it’s assumed knowledge. the situation is akin to if we abolished English as a subject for the new gen of “native English speakers”
December 22, 2025 at 3:49 AM
can’t overstate how badly young people have been fucked over by the “digital natives” label. they just don’t get any basic computer skills classes at all, it’s assumed knowledge. the situation is akin to if we abolished English as a subject for the new gen of “native English speakers”
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people who are new to academia tend to find its obsession with sources and citations a brake on their "i'm just trying to be CREATIVE, man" mindset. but it turns out the relentless obsession with accuracy, citation, and *provenance* is a load-bearing pillar of the whole enterprise
December 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
people who are new to academia tend to find its obsession with sources and citations a brake on their "i'm just trying to be CREATIVE, man" mindset. but it turns out the relentless obsession with accuracy, citation, and *provenance* is a load-bearing pillar of the whole enterprise
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suspect a big reason why many academics and others who work in areas where getting facts RIGHT is key are disinterested in using LLMs for research:
they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.
they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.
December 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
suspect a big reason why many academics and others who work in areas where getting facts RIGHT is key are disinterested in using LLMs for research:
they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.
they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.
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Those scooters, e-bike pose an extreme safety concern, we must regulate or ban them,
meanwhile
www.kshb.com/news/local-n...
meanwhile
www.kshb.com/news/local-n...
KCPD: 1 dead, 2 in critical condition after wrong-way crash near Independence, Jackson in KCMO
The Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department is investigating a wrong-way crash that left one person dead and two others in critical condition early Saturday morning.
www.kshb.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Those scooters, e-bike pose an extreme safety concern, we must regulate or ban them,
meanwhile
www.kshb.com/news/local-n...
meanwhile
www.kshb.com/news/local-n...
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What does it take to move 1000 people? Smart infrastructure supporting choices that don’t take up so much space (or produce so much emissions/pollution, cost so much public money etc).
Mobility in cities is about space.
Graphic via @seattlesubway.org based on a Sydney graphic I spread years ago.
Mobility in cities is about space.
Graphic via @seattlesubway.org based on a Sydney graphic I spread years ago.
December 20, 2025 at 11:31 PM
What does it take to move 1000 people? Smart infrastructure supporting choices that don’t take up so much space (or produce so much emissions/pollution, cost so much public money etc).
Mobility in cities is about space.
Graphic via @seattlesubway.org based on a Sydney graphic I spread years ago.
Mobility in cities is about space.
Graphic via @seattlesubway.org based on a Sydney graphic I spread years ago.
I just finished grading students video reflections on Aldo Leopold's Land Ethic essay. I wish all grading could be this enjoyable.
December 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I just finished grading students video reflections on Aldo Leopold's Land Ethic essay. I wish all grading could be this enjoyable.
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If people could just intuitively understand the difference between a million, a billion, and a trillion, we’d all be better off.
That applies to dollars. To tons of carbon. And so on.
Math. It matters.
That applies to dollars. To tons of carbon. And so on.
Math. It matters.
December 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
If people could just intuitively understand the difference between a million, a billion, and a trillion, we’d all be better off.
That applies to dollars. To tons of carbon. And so on.
Math. It matters.
That applies to dollars. To tons of carbon. And so on.
Math. It matters.
I have a cargo bike I can no longer use because its battery is dangerous. I'm sorry not willing to invest $600 in an aftermarket battery for it because the bike uses 22" wheels that only Rad manufactured. If something goes wrong with the bike, Rad isn't going to be around to get replacement parts.
Seattle Bike Blog covers the deterioriating situation at RAD Power, including naming investors. www.seattlebikeblog.com/2025/12/16/c...
Customers set to be screwed as Rad Power Bikes files for bankruptcy + Former St. Paul Councilmember says a Rad battery fire destroyed his house
From the Minnesota Star Tribune. Seattle-based Rad Power Bikes filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Monday, three weeks after the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (“CPSC”) issued a pr…
www.seattlebikeblog.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I have a cargo bike I can no longer use because its battery is dangerous. I'm sorry not willing to invest $600 in an aftermarket battery for it because the bike uses 22" wheels that only Rad manufactured. If something goes wrong with the bike, Rad isn't going to be around to get replacement parts.
Just about got hit by a driver turning right on red without checking if the crosswalk was clear. I was walking, but if it wasn't for my cyclist "HEY!" yell being on point he would have taken me out at the knees. He plugged his ears before I even had a chance to berate him, which I totally did.
December 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Just about got hit by a driver turning right on red without checking if the crosswalk was clear. I was walking, but if it wasn't for my cyclist "HEY!" yell being on point he would have taken me out at the knees. He plugged his ears before I even had a chance to berate him, which I totally did.
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Cannot even imagine saying no to an incredible opportunity like this.
December 16, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Cannot even imagine saying no to an incredible opportunity like this.
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
Pyramid Song from Radiohead popped into my head tonight for some reason. I needed to listen to the whole thing before it turned into an earworm, so I watched the video for the first time. The video is as interesting as the sign is! #Radiohead music.youtube.com/watch?v=3M_G...
Radiohead - Pyramid Song
YouTube video by Radiohead
music.youtube.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Pyramid Song from Radiohead popped into my head tonight for some reason. I needed to listen to the whole thing before it turned into an earworm, so I watched the video for the first time. The video is as interesting as the sign is! #Radiohead music.youtube.com/watch?v=3M_G...
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My love for em dashes is as old as the hills and as mighty as my inability to make a transition between thoughts literally any other way and I will be damned if I let the clankers take that from me
December 10, 2025 at 3:00 AM
My love for em dashes is as old as the hills and as mighty as my inability to make a transition between thoughts literally any other way and I will be damned if I let the clankers take that from me
"Criticism is only good if you're trying to help someone. Otherwise, it's just mean. And no one likes that. I should know."
- Charlie Brown to Snoopy in The Snoopy Show, S3 Ep4
Good words to live by for all peer reviewers and life in general.
- Charlie Brown to Snoopy in The Snoopy Show, S3 Ep4
Good words to live by for all peer reviewers and life in general.
a cartoon of snoopy laying in a chimney with christmas lights
ALT: a cartoon of snoopy laying in a chimney with christmas lights
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December 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
"Criticism is only good if you're trying to help someone. Otherwise, it's just mean. And no one likes that. I should know."
- Charlie Brown to Snoopy in The Snoopy Show, S3 Ep4
Good words to live by for all peer reviewers and life in general.
- Charlie Brown to Snoopy in The Snoopy Show, S3 Ep4
Good words to live by for all peer reviewers and life in general.