Jack
@jacktymac.bsky.social
anti-imperialist automobile abolitionist
land use historian
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charlotte / mittelfranken
land use historian
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charlotte / mittelfranken
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Jack
@jacktymac.bsky.social
· Nov 20
The social ideology of the motorcar - Uneven Earth
by André Gorz The worst thing about cars is that they are like castles or villas by the sea: luxury goods invented for the exclusive pleasure of a very rich minority, and which in conception and natur...
unevenearth.org
"The car would no longer be a necessity. Everything will have changed: the world, life, people. And this will not have come about all by itself." –A. Gorz
unevenearth.org/2018/08/the-...
unevenearth.org/2018/08/the-...
1835: build first steam railway in Germany between Nürnberg and Fürth (Ludwigseisenbahn)
*wait very, very patiently*
2025: reap the reward of Franconia's very own commie corridor (Die Linke result in this year's federal election)
*wait very, very patiently*
2025: reap the reward of Franconia's very own commie corridor (Die Linke result in this year's federal election)
November 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
1835: build first steam railway in Germany between Nürnberg and Fürth (Ludwigseisenbahn)
*wait very, very patiently*
2025: reap the reward of Franconia's very own commie corridor (Die Linke result in this year's federal election)
*wait very, very patiently*
2025: reap the reward of Franconia's very own commie corridor (Die Linke result in this year's federal election)
Omaha and Nuremberg have nearly identical municipal/urban/metropolitan populations, but that's about where the similarities end...
November 8, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Omaha and Nuremberg have nearly identical municipal/urban/metropolitan populations, but that's about where the similarities end...
Percentage-point change in share of population by demographic in the Charlotte area
The blue line is highly correlated w/ pp change in Black population share (Charlotte rezoned most of the inner sections of the line for TOD)
Meanwhile gentrifiers seek walkability not weak transit access...
The blue line is highly correlated w/ pp change in Black population share (Charlotte rezoned most of the inner sections of the line for TOD)
Meanwhile gentrifiers seek walkability not weak transit access...
November 5, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Percentage-point change in share of population by demographic in the Charlotte area
The blue line is highly correlated w/ pp change in Black population share (Charlotte rezoned most of the inner sections of the line for TOD)
Meanwhile gentrifiers seek walkability not weak transit access...
The blue line is highly correlated w/ pp change in Black population share (Charlotte rezoned most of the inner sections of the line for TOD)
Meanwhile gentrifiers seek walkability not weak transit access...
RB12 Mittelfrankenbahn through Laubendorf (Langenzenn) to Markt Erlbach 🌤️🛤️🌳
October 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
RB12 Mittelfrankenbahn through Laubendorf (Langenzenn) to Markt Erlbach 🌤️🛤️🌳
Carbon intensity of electricity generation; Sept '22 → Sept '25
🇩🇪 ⚡︎ 517 → 285 gCO₂eq / kWh (-44.9%)
🇺🇸 ⚡︎ 442 → 422 gCO₂eq / kWh (-4.5%)
Per capita emissions from power sector; Sept '22 → Sept '25
🇩🇪 ⚡︎ 239.5 kg CO₂eq → 126.2 kg CO₂eq (-47.3%)
🇺🇸 ⚡︎ 454.3 kg CO₂eq → 437.6 kg CO₂eq (-3.7%)
🇩🇪 ⚡︎ 517 → 285 gCO₂eq / kWh (-44.9%)
🇺🇸 ⚡︎ 442 → 422 gCO₂eq / kWh (-4.5%)
Per capita emissions from power sector; Sept '22 → Sept '25
🇩🇪 ⚡︎ 239.5 kg CO₂eq → 126.2 kg CO₂eq (-47.3%)
🇺🇸 ⚡︎ 454.3 kg CO₂eq → 437.6 kg CO₂eq (-3.7%)
October 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Carbon intensity of electricity generation; Sept '22 → Sept '25
🇩🇪 ⚡︎ 517 → 285 gCO₂eq / kWh (-44.9%)
🇺🇸 ⚡︎ 442 → 422 gCO₂eq / kWh (-4.5%)
Per capita emissions from power sector; Sept '22 → Sept '25
🇩🇪 ⚡︎ 239.5 kg CO₂eq → 126.2 kg CO₂eq (-47.3%)
🇺🇸 ⚡︎ 454.3 kg CO₂eq → 437.6 kg CO₂eq (-3.7%)
🇩🇪 ⚡︎ 517 → 285 gCO₂eq / kWh (-44.9%)
🇺🇸 ⚡︎ 442 → 422 gCO₂eq / kWh (-4.5%)
Per capita emissions from power sector; Sept '22 → Sept '25
🇩🇪 ⚡︎ 239.5 kg CO₂eq → 126.2 kg CO₂eq (-47.3%)
🇺🇸 ⚡︎ 454.3 kg CO₂eq → 437.6 kg CO₂eq (-3.7%)
The Australian govt commissioned Deloitte last year for an assurance review “to help assess problems with a welfare system for automatically penalising jobseekers”
It went as well as one could expect…
It went as well as one could expect…
October 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The Australian govt commissioned Deloitte last year for an assurance review “to help assess problems with a welfare system for automatically penalising jobseekers”
It went as well as one could expect…
It went as well as one could expect…
Legalize it
Encourage it
Build it
Everywhere
Now
Encourage it
Build it
Everywhere
Now
4 and 6 storey single-stair co-ops mixed among single fam houses, in a neighbourhood with 50' lots.
September 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Legalize it
Encourage it
Build it
Everywhere
Now
Encourage it
Build it
Everywhere
Now
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Katie Wilson's lead has grown substantially in Wednesday's ballot drop. She went from a ~1,300 vote lead over incumbent Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell to 5,000+ today. www.theurbanist.org/2025/08/05/k...
August 6, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Katie Wilson's lead has grown substantially in Wednesday's ballot drop. She went from a ~1,300 vote lead over incumbent Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell to 5,000+ today. www.theurbanist.org/2025/08/05/k...
Germany is barreling towards this 2029 map and SPD really does not give a shit lol
August 1, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Germany is barreling towards this 2029 map and SPD really does not give a shit lol
My favorite gauge of normie lib thought: NYT’s comment section
…and the most-recommended comment on today’s headline story calls for sanctioning Israel. The intra-party chasm now spans at least BDS
…and the most-recommended comment on today’s headline story calls for sanctioning Israel. The intra-party chasm now spans at least BDS
July 31, 2025 at 5:26 PM
My favorite gauge of normie lib thought: NYT’s comment section
…and the most-recommended comment on today’s headline story calls for sanctioning Israel. The intra-party chasm now spans at least BDS
…and the most-recommended comment on today’s headline story calls for sanctioning Israel. The intra-party chasm now spans at least BDS
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Avant / Après Rue de Gravelle dans le 12ème arrondissement de Paris, en cours de métamorphose : la quarantaine de places de stationnement sera remplacée à terme par une vingtaine d'arbres.
July 26, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Avant / Après Rue de Gravelle dans le 12ème arrondissement de Paris, en cours de métamorphose : la quarantaine de places de stationnement sera remplacée à terme par une vingtaine d'arbres.
cities in the global Charlotte belt
Goiânia, BR
Lusaka, ZM
Plžen, CZ
Nagpur, IN
Sendai, JP
Goiânia, BR
Lusaka, ZM
Plžen, CZ
Nagpur, IN
Sendai, JP
July 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
cities in the global Charlotte belt
Goiânia, BR
Lusaka, ZM
Plžen, CZ
Nagpur, IN
Sendai, JP
Goiânia, BR
Lusaka, ZM
Plžen, CZ
Nagpur, IN
Sendai, JP
electoral landscape: reshaped
o7
o7
July 22, 2025 at 11:03 PM
electoral landscape: reshaped
o7
o7
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"The Palestinian people have a right to rebellion. An occupied nation has a right to rebel."
— Gustavo Petro, President of Colombia 🇨🇴
— Gustavo Petro, President of Colombia 🇨🇴
July 16, 2025 at 6:21 PM
"The Palestinian people have a right to rebellion. An occupied nation has a right to rebel."
— Gustavo Petro, President of Colombia 🇨🇴
— Gustavo Petro, President of Colombia 🇨🇴
Shout out to the two "Zhoran Mamdani" votes back in 2021
July 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Shout out to the two "Zhoran Mamdani" votes back in 2021
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Guess I need to repost this piece I wrote last fall about generative AI, fascism and the mirror for fascism it has always been. This timeline is only starting its descent into technological fascism
Sorry yall wish i had better news abojt how this goes unless we actually destroy these fascism engines
Sorry yall wish i had better news abojt how this goes unless we actually destroy these fascism engines
Unreal
Since its inception, the Internet has been a symbol of boundless innovation and free-flowing information limited only by our imagination. While the Internet may not have always lived up to these lofty...
www.instituteofunreality.com
July 9, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Guess I need to repost this piece I wrote last fall about generative AI, fascism and the mirror for fascism it has always been. This timeline is only starting its descent into technological fascism
Sorry yall wish i had better news abojt how this goes unless we actually destroy these fascism engines
Sorry yall wish i had better news abojt how this goes unless we actually destroy these fascism engines
The ambient nazism is increasingly intolerable
July 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
The ambient nazism is increasingly intolerable
Update: the race for second place was won by Andrew Cuomo ^_^
The race for second place is real but only features two people, one of whom is named Andrew Cuomo
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is clearly generating more search interest among city residents than any other primary candidate – an upward trend which started ~two months ago but picked up again recently
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is clearly generating more search interest among city residents than any other primary candidate – an upward trend which started ~two months ago but picked up again recently
June 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Update: the race for second place was won by Andrew Cuomo ^_^
"Walking" commute share by county, 1970 to 2023
June 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM
"Walking" commute share by county, 1970 to 2023
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New NYC mayoral poll, May 23-26 for PIX11: pix11.com/news/politic...
Andrew Cuomo - 35%
Zohran Mamdani - 23%
Brad Lander - 11%
Scott Stringer - 9%
Adrienne Adams - 8%
Zellnor Myrie - 5%
Andrew Cuomo - 35%
Zohran Mamdani - 23%
Brad Lander - 11%
Scott Stringer - 9%
Adrienne Adams - 8%
Zellnor Myrie - 5%
May 28, 2025 at 9:16 PM
New NYC mayoral poll, May 23-26 for PIX11: pix11.com/news/politic...
Andrew Cuomo - 35%
Zohran Mamdani - 23%
Brad Lander - 11%
Scott Stringer - 9%
Adrienne Adams - 8%
Zellnor Myrie - 5%
Andrew Cuomo - 35%
Zohran Mamdani - 23%
Brad Lander - 11%
Scott Stringer - 9%
Adrienne Adams - 8%
Zellnor Myrie - 5%
“I certainly feel a profound loss of faith. Something I felt to be true about humanity – that people are fundamentally good, that we owe it to children to protect them – has shifted because of this conflict.”
This shift has been readily apparent for 600 days
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This shift has been readily apparent for 600 days
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As Gaza's children are bombed and starved, we watch - powerless. What is it doing to us as a society? | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
I thought we all believed in a collective responsibility towards children. This terrible conflict has made me question that, says Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
www.theguardian.com
May 24, 2025 at 12:18 PM
“I certainly feel a profound loss of faith. Something I felt to be true about humanity – that people are fundamentally good, that we owe it to children to protect them – has shifted because of this conflict.”
This shift has been readily apparent for 600 days
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This shift has been readily apparent for 600 days
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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very cool that for ten years people at the heights of political commentary insisted to the point of rage that the paramount threat to free speech was “censorious” college students
after announcing that foreign students are being banned from Havard, Noem warns "this should be a warning to every other university to get your act together."
May 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
very cool that for ten years people at the heights of political commentary insisted to the point of rage that the paramount threat to free speech was “censorious” college students
With explicit fear of AfD, the editorial board can pay homage to Merz over the course of six pages without a single-mention of GroKo’s left-green opposition. They may be scared of the former, but they’re terrified of the latter.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/o...
Opinion | Why We’re Rooting for Germany’s Conservative Chancellor
www.nytimes.com
May 17, 2025 at 12:31 PM
With explicit fear of AfD, the editorial board can pay homage to Merz over the course of six pages without a single-mention of GroKo’s left-green opposition. They may be scared of the former, but they’re terrified of the latter.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/o...