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John Miklos
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Community Planner - I seek to understand everything.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Fell into another dimension. Cell service is surprisingly good
November 9, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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The Mamdani political sign generator is kinda fun https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html
November 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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“Most of the days the federal government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was the president.”— @howtoreadthisch.art
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November 8, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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I'll just let the experts do all the explaining. #SNAP
November 8, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.

This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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sitting through the open enrollment presentation and my god. for profit healthcare is some of the most gross and evil shit imaginable. this country has truly lost the plot and it's awful.
November 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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TerraEsperanza in Guatemala City shows what’s possible with the flexibility of single-stair design — a vibrant, 10-story mixed-use building on a small lot.

Designed by Mexico City's Legorreta + Legorreta, the project floats above the grade plane and provides a variety of unit sizes.
November 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Reminder to pro-business Americans: Canada has something like twice as many self-employed people and small businesses per capita as you because even self-employed Canadians can get unemployment insurance and healthcare. It's great for our local economies.
sort of funny how people don't get how utterly ruthless the campaign was focused on the everyday affordability angle, even from people aligned with Mamdani!
November 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Trump just continually shooting our country in the face. This unwarranted (and likely illegal) destruction of Goddard is madness. It jeopardizes the next several decades of space exploration.
Reposting to correct an error: trump admin is quietly gutting 13 buildings and about 100 laboratories at Goddard campus that has been instrumental to Hubble and James Webb telescope missions. Staff say they’ve be locked and told to move equipment. Anything left behind will be thrown away.
NASA may be quietly gutting an iconic campus with what it calls strategic closures, workers fear
(CNN) — Alarm is growing among federal workers at NASA’s iconic Goddard Space Flight Center’s main campus in Greenbelt, Maryland — the nerve center for groundbreaking missions like the Hubble
www.wkow.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Did a little doomposting so here's a PELICAN TRIPLE DIVE(!) to make up for it 🪶
November 2, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Had to scroll 600 paragraphs of text to find out it was Ben Horowitz of a16z (aka Marc Andreessen's founding partner, and murderer Daniel Penny's employer) who made the donation, which was done entirely in physical trucks and was not exchangeable for any other use or need.

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The nation’s largest police fleet of Tesla Cybertrucks is set to begin patrolling the streets of Las Vegas in November thanks to a donation from a U.S. tech billionaire, raising concerns about the blurring of lines between public and private interests.
Nation's largest fleet of police Cybertrucks to patrol Las Vegas
The nation’s largest police fleet of Tesla Cybertrucks is set to begin patrolling the streets of Las Vegas in November.
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November 2, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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In the latest demonstration of this administration’s hostility toward the poor: The Trump Administration has not only dragged its feet in dispensing SNAP contingency funds, but they’re literally obstructing private actors from helping to promote food security when the government will not.
The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
November 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
November 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!

Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.

Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!

#MundaneHalloween
November 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Cassini NAC natural color view taken on 2011-04-25 19:34 UTC.

Distance to Rhea: 2.23 million km
Distance to Dione: 3.12 million km
Distance to Enceladus: 2.98 million km
Distance to Saturn: 2.75 million km
Phase angle: 67 deg

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January 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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October 31, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Since the LIHTC program was created in 1986, the number of LIHTC units has risen every year as the program has become the major generator of affordable housing in the US.

Because of affordability expiration, however, the number of LIHTC units is expected to begin falling over the next decade.
Expirations and early exits of LIHTC units: Implications for the affordable housing stock - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) is the nation’s largest source of financing for the development and preservation of affordable rental housing. The program provides tax credits to developers ...
www.chicagofed.org
October 31, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Yeah I wonder why this whole country is acting suddenly as if it’s suffering from the severe onset of lifelong lead poisoning
October 31, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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You know what we donate to the local food pantries? We donate MONEY. Because they can turn that money into what those they serve need the most. I do not know what those folks need better than the food pantry does. So I give them my dollars and they turn them into something useful.
Sweet Jesus, do not donate seeds to your food bank in October. Honestly, don’t donate seeds to your food bank unless you are specifically asked to, and even then I would think REALLY HARD about whether that’s regionally appropriate.

When I needed food donations, I was in student housing.
October 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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AAA really will come pick up your bike, they aren’t lying.
The driver, when we arrived at Belmont Wheelworks, asked if he could take a picture, saying “It’s my first bike!”
October 30, 2025 at 11:52 PM