Mateyush
@mateyush.bsky.social
Geographer and one-time aviation and transportation planner. Jerusalem again after stops in CDMX, NYC, Shanghai, DC, Dubai, and Montreal, but always and forever a proud New Jerseyan.
Oh neat, the building where I used to work got SimCityfied.
Tuesday's Most Read # 3 - At Any Cost: New York is the one American city that only gets more expensive. In culture of predictability, why the demand for a place so unpredictable?
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At any cost
New York is the one American city that only gets more expensive. In culture of predictability, why the demand for a place so unpredictable?
link.theoverheadwire.com
January 21, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Oh neat, the building where I used to work got SimCityfied.
Caruthersville Braggadocio is a much better hotel alias than Clark Westfield #IYKYK
January 21, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Caruthersville Braggadocio is a much better hotel alias than Clark Westfield #IYKYK
More of a Hall of Famer than Andruw
Jacque Jones
RF
Debut: 1999 - Retired: 2008
FLA - CHC - DET - MIN
RF
Debut: 1999 - Retired: 2008
FLA - CHC - DET - MIN
Jacque Jones at baseball-reference.com
Career stats of Jacque Jones
baseball-reference.com
January 21, 2026 at 6:21 PM
More of a Hall of Famer than Andruw
Leader propaganda, unsafe construction, Russian chewing gum, Tajik Claus. 10/10, no notes.
Muzhdai Vasl Restoran; Муждаи Васл, Tursunzoda, Tajikistan https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=38.52020170000001%2C68.2214686&query_place_id=ChIJK6BI7XGrtTgRKF1VwND-cKo
January 19, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Leader propaganda, unsafe construction, Russian chewing gum, Tajik Claus. 10/10, no notes.
The announcer with the Boston accent pronouncing Boisvert a different way each time is magical.
Wow.
This is the first time I have seen a college hockey fight like this, I've seen guys throw hands but not straight off the bench, dropping all the gear, arranged fight like this. (it's not allowed and will be an automatic suspension for tomorrow night for both players)
This is the first time I have seen a college hockey fight like this, I've seen guys throw hands but not straight off the bench, dropping all the gear, arranged fight like this. (it's not allowed and will be an automatic suspension for tomorrow night for both players)
January 19, 2026 at 8:53 AM
The announcer with the Boston accent pronouncing Boisvert a different way each time is magical.
I'm at the sushi bar, I'm at the ultrasound clinic, I'm at the combination sushi bar ultrasound clinic.
Paparats' Kvetka; Kamsamolskaja vul. 23, Baranavičy, Brest Region 225406, Belarus https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=53.1286111%2C26.0061111&query_place_id=ChIJV7FC99rP2EYRZiB2J6WOB20
January 18, 2026 at 8:43 AM
I'm at the sushi bar, I'm at the ultrasound clinic, I'm at the combination sushi bar ultrasound clinic.
Think this headline from Australia is great? Now read it in an Australian accent.
Fatberg the size of four buses likely birthed poo balls that closed Sydney beaches – and it can’t be cleared
Fatberg the size of four buses likely birthed poo balls that closed Sydney beaches – and it can’t be cleared
Exclusive: Secret report suggests fats, oils and grease accumulate in ‘inaccessible dead zone’ at Malabar plant, then dislodge when pumping pressure ‘rapidly increases’
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A giant fatberg, potentially the size of four Sydney buses, within Sydney Water’s Malabar deepwater ocean sewer has been identified as the likely source of the debris balls that washed up on Sydney beaches a year ago.
Sydney Water isn’t sure exactly how big the fatberg is because it can’t easily access where it has accumulated. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 17, 2026 at 7:34 AM
Think this headline from Australia is great? Now read it in an Australian accent.
Every school with "State" in its name is not a state. Every school without State in its name contains the name of a state.
January 16, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Every school with "State" in its name is not a state. Every school without State in its name contains the name of a state.
Reposted by Mateyush
![Comic: Common Sailing Rigs. [18 boats with different sail types, labeled.] Lateen; Bermuda rigged sloop; Ketch, Gaff rigged sloop; yawl; schooner; Ketch-rigged Gaff; Kloop-rigged sketch; bunkbed rig; Flettner rig; Oops, all Spinnakers; keel rig; kite rig; longsail rig; deckhand obliterator; offset rig; mastless rig; unclassifiable chaos rig.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreientc5tredyz4kyj4ifwiiu2diy5zkxze6pnlbtcyxlntwlkg43ku@jpeg)
January 13, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Aliquippa, Aliquippa, tumbledown, workaday, Aliquippa.
January 14, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Aliquippa, Aliquippa, tumbledown, workaday, Aliquippa.
I know someone from here!
January 13, 2026 at 8:44 PM
I know someone from here!
Israeli news playing a bunch of clips of today's rain, wind, and (up north) snow, to David Broza's Barakim v'Raamim (Lightning and Thunder) off of Israel's most beloved children's album.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S06Z...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S06Z...
ברקים ורעמים (Remastered)
YouTube video by David Broza - Topic
www.youtube.com
January 13, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Israeli news playing a bunch of clips of today's rain, wind, and (up north) snow, to David Broza's Barakim v'Raamim (Lightning and Thunder) off of Israel's most beloved children's album.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S06Z...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S06Z...
The Passaic
My favorite Twitter prompt was "RT this with your home river," so reskeet this with your home river.
Mine is the Patuxent.
Mine is the Patuxent.
January 13, 2026 at 5:09 PM
The Passaic
Much like the Sawgrass Expressway bordering the Everglades, Emirates Road is one of those places where's there's development on one side of the highway, and on the other side, there's... nothing. Just nature.
ZOOM | 1083; Emirates Rd, E 611, After Shk Hamdan Complex, E611 - مدينة هند 2 - دبي - United Arab Emirates https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=25.0645304%2C55.35140219999999&query_place_id=ChIJA8cUSiRlXz4R4IlD0_Np4XQ
January 13, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Much like the Sawgrass Expressway bordering the Everglades, Emirates Road is one of those places where's there's development on one side of the highway, and on the other side, there's... nothing. Just nature.
January 12, 2026 at 7:16 PM
It's Headley!
Chase Headley
3B-LF
Debut: 2007 - Retired: 2018
NYY - SDP
3B-LF
Debut: 2007 - Retired: 2018
NYY - SDP
Chase Headley at baseball-reference.com
Career stats of Chase Headley
baseball-reference.com
January 11, 2026 at 6:50 PM
It's Headley!
I know somebody from here!
January 11, 2026 at 6:03 PM
I know somebody from here!
This town consumed a measurable bit of my mental energy for a couple of years.
January 11, 2026 at 7:38 AM
This town consumed a measurable bit of my mental energy for a couple of years.
At 1:48 in the video, someone has a *baby stroller* on the pitch.
*scenes*
January 10, 2026 at 5:34 PM
At 1:48 in the video, someone has a *baby stroller* on the pitch.
An NL Central completist!
César Izturis
SS
Debut: 2001 - Retired: 2013
BAL - CHC - CIN - STL - TOR - MIL - PIT - WSN - LAD
SS
Debut: 2001 - Retired: 2013
BAL - CHC - CIN - STL - TOR - MIL - PIT - WSN - LAD
César Izturis at baseball-reference.com
Career stats of César Izturis
baseball-reference.com
January 10, 2026 at 5:29 PM
An NL Central completist!
Cheeky "Doha" Nando's (this is way in the outskirts, Doha-ly speaking)
Nando's Doha Festival City; South Casual Dining Area، Al Shamal Rd, Qatar https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=25.3846203%2C51.44231359999999&query_place_id=ChIJ6VLREO_dRT4R56mueBcEMVM
January 10, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Cheeky "Doha" Nando's (this is way in the outskirts, Doha-ly speaking)
How had Yaacov Agam not yet won the Israel Prize? And will the fountain in Dizengoff *finally* be restored in time for the award? It's been under renovation for almost 10 years now. www.ynetnews.com/culture/arti...
Israel Prize awarded to renown artist Yaacov Agam, 97
He is well-known as the creator of the Fire and Water Fountain in Tel Aviv’s Dizengoff Square; Prize committee: 'Agam broke the boundaries of traditional visual art and pioneered new languages in kin...
www.ynetnews.com
January 7, 2026 at 7:12 PM
How had Yaacov Agam not yet won the Israel Prize? And will the fountain in Dizengoff *finally* be restored in time for the award? It's been under renovation for almost 10 years now. www.ynetnews.com/culture/arti...
Ulan-Ude is on the other side of Lake Baikal from Irkutsk. What's the current temperature there? Don't worry about it.
Gorodok"; Ulitsa Tolstogo, 3, Ulan-Ude, Respublika Buryatiya, Russia, 670010 https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=51.8250229%2C107.599178&query_place_id=ChIJu7c0xzDbr10R5vZw8EdliWs
January 6, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Ulan-Ude is on the other side of Lake Baikal from Irkutsk. What's the current temperature there? Don't worry about it.
I can't believe it never registered with me that Sheetz was a name www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/o...
Steve Sheetz, Who Popularized Convenience Stores as a C.E.O., Dies at 77
www.nytimes.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:15 PM
I can't believe it never registered with me that Sheetz was a name www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/o...
I looked at this list, thought no way was this 1996, that Green Day song was huge in 1998, and sure enough, look at the top. It's not 30 quite yet. (Brimful of Asha was 98? I would have guessed that was a UB40-clone from 1988.)
The Billboard Modern Rock tracks from 30 years ago
Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ
January 5, 2026 at 9:26 PM
I looked at this list, thought no way was this 1996, that Green Day song was huge in 1998, and sure enough, look at the top. It's not 30 quite yet. (Brimful of Asha was 98? I would have guessed that was a UB40-clone from 1988.)