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Infrastructure is politics
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wildcat-russell.bsky.social
The only reason US EVs have a market is that we can’t get the Chinese ones here. They are cheap and excellent.
November 12, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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bradmunchen.bsky.social
It's so over for Tesla in China.

The Xiaomi YU7, a Model Y rival, not only outsold Tesla's Model Y in October, but it outsold Tesla's *total* October sales of 26,006 vehicles by 29%.

💀☠️
November 12, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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secondnaturemb.bsky.social
So this happened an hour ago. I don’t think I’ve seen red this deep in a long time. You could see it quite clearly with the naked eye. #aurora
A bright red curtain of light surrounded by green glow rains down from the sky behind the silhouettes of spruce trees A bright red curtain of light surrounded by green glow rains down from the sky behind the silhouettes of spruce trees A bright red curtain of light surrounded by green glow rains down from the sky behind the silhouettes of spruce trees. The light is reflected in the thin layer of ice covering the pond in the foreground.
November 12, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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lauragmitchell.com
To address safety issues (bc of drivers) my kids’ school recently changed the pick up process to get rid of the car pick up line entirely.

Caregivers have to park nearby & walk up to the blacktop to get their kids.

It’s calmer, safer, and bikes can still roll right up onto the blacktop.
MCBL Bunch bike is parked at a school with 3 helmets on it
November 11, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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americanfietser.bsky.social
Bike Rack Design 101:

Staple racks are a great form, but the material shape is key. Hollow round tubes can be silently and quickly cut with a simple pipe cutter.
​Square tubing or thick flat steel makes this type of theft much more difficult.
strobbe.bsky.social Dimitri Strobbe 🚧 @strobbe.bsky.social · 1d
Bericht aan alle #wegbeheerders: fietsnietjes met (holle) ronde buizen zijn gemakkelijk te saboteren! ✂️🚲

Daarom mijn advies om enkel fietsnietjes te installeren die gemaakt zijn van van dikker platstaal. Zoals we doen bij #Maintain!
November 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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janrosenow.bsky.social
Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004.

Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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bornmiserable.bsky.social
DONALD TRUMP: [asleep, drooling on long red tie]

SENATE DEMOCRATS: fine, we give in
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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mauraquint.bsky.social
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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eff.org
License plate readers were sold as tools for finding stolen cars, but records have shown that they're being used in abortion investigations. States must ban law enforcement from using ALPRs to investigate healthcare decisions and prohibit sharing data across state lines. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a
New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety's surveillance data in an abortion investigation, contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and
www.eff.org
November 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
rational.bsky.social
Fun!
November 9, 2025 at 2:54 PM
rational.bsky.social
Kalamazoo we need to pull the plug on this. It is a loaded weapon and it's pointed at all of us
November 9, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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eff.org
Thousands of cities allowed cops to run racists searches through their Flock Safety license plate reader databases. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
License Plate Surveillance Logs Reveal Racist Policing Against Romani
More than 80 law enforcement agencies across the United States have used language perpetuating harmful stereotypes against Romani people when searching the nationwide Flock Safety automated license
www.eff.org
November 8, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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marcelias.bsky.social
🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump violated the Constitution and federal law by ordering hundreds of National Guard soldiers to Portland, Oregon, earlier this year, a federal judge ruled Friday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump-Appointed Judge Rules His Portland Military Takeover Was Unconstitutional
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:30 AM
rational.bsky.social
Is it good when you get subpoenaed at public speaking events @edzitron.com
iwriteok.bsky.social Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 4d
if you are the public defense investigator who just subpoenaed Sam Altman on stage know that i love you and think you are a wonder upon this earth.
November 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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braddevero.bsky.social
Come check out Handmade by Angie and other vendors at Kallamatopia craft show at the downtown mall tonight 5-8 pm

#arts #crafts #ornaments #art #painting #photography #kalamazoo #michigan #creativity
November 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
lyndab08.bsky.social Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 5d
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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esghound.com
Dr Oz talking about obesity, diabetes and dementia while Trump is slumped over like a man minutes from death is supremely funny content
November 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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johnrogers.bsky.social
The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
marklemley.bsky.social Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 6d
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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jonathancohn.bsky.social
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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dresdencodak.com
It's coming. It's coming. IT'S COMING.🔥🔥🔥
November 6, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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vortexegg.com
The right is producing content for what is essentially a reality TV show for a national fascist counter-reality that anyone who wants to believe can immerse themselves in and pretend is real (and use as “evidence” for decision-making) but it doesn’t replace actual reality that we can all still see
sarahjeong.bsky.social sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 6d
every time I explain to my coworkers that a social media influencer from out of town has convinced the Trump administration that the Portland police are antifa, they look at me like I've sprouted a second head www.theverge.com/policy/81340...
But the police very soon had much bigger fish to fry, as out-of-state influencers swooped in to get in on the content-rich environs of the Portland ICE facility. On October 2nd, local police arrested Nick Sortor of Washington, DC, on suspicion of disorderly conduct. After Sortor was released the following morning, he told his 1.2 million followers on X that he had spoken to Attorney General Pam Bondi. (Bondi later opened an investigation into the Portland police.) Sortor, who was also invited to Trump’s roundtable on “antifa,” went on to publicly attack the Portland Police Bureau for being “Antifa-infiltrated,” an allegation that the Trump administration appears to be taking seriously — the word of an influencer being, apparently, much weightier than the thin blue line.
November 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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americanfietser.bsky.social
The most successful cities will be the ones that give people safe, affordable, efficient, enjoyable freedom of choice in transportation.
November 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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theophite.bsky.social
straight-up jury nullification. this guy did it, confessed to it, and the jury instructions explicitly said that if he did it intentionally, it was assault.
November 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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edzitron.com
To be clear this is a misread of the situation. Was Friar testing the waters? Sure. Did she think the waters would be fully of angry fish? No
archive.ph/2025.11.06-0...
In addition to OpenAI’s deals with chipmakers, the ChatGPT maker is also eying a broad mix of financing vehicles to fund its infrastructure efforts. Friar said OpenAI is “looking for an ecosystem of banks [and] private equity” to support its ambitious plans. She also hinted at a role for the US government to “backstop the guarantee that allows the financing to happen,” but did not elaborate on how this would work. Asked for clarification, an OpenAI spokesperson said Friar was speaking in the context of the broader AI industry. There are currently no immediate plans about OpenAI pursuing a federal backstop, the spokesperson said.
November 6, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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jahorne.bsky.social
“Children and families are craving community and physical activity and being outdoors. And when you present that versus a school car line, people naturally gravitate to something that’s super joyful and community-driven,” Balto said

apnews.com/article/bike...
From a few to more than 350, children and parents ride together to school as a 'bike bus'
In the New Jersey township of Montclair, a group bicycle ride to school has become a weekly community ritual.
apnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:24 AM