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Fan of Bikes, Trains, and building more housing.
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Dunkin Donuts could make eight million dollars if they made a Fluff-themed drink and sold it in a collectible Yeti travel mug that looked like a Fluff container.
December 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Dunkin Donuts could make eight million dollars if they made a Fluff-themed drink and sold it in a collectible Yeti travel mug that looked like a Fluff container.
Alternate scenario: staying up way too late and being a complete zombie the next day. There is no winning!
Parent dreaming of all the things they can do with that luxurious 13 minutes from the time their child finally goes to bed and before they fall asleep from exhaustion
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December 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Alternate scenario: staying up way too late and being a complete zombie the next day. There is no winning!
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As someone who is an obsessive rule follower and e-biked about 1000 miles around greater Lowell last year, the 'ebike panic' has driven me crazy
In an area full of hills and no real bike lanes, my level 2 ebike lets me bike safer by maintaining 20mph speed & being able to start after stopping
In an area full of hills and no real bike lanes, my level 2 ebike lets me bike safer by maintaining 20mph speed & being able to start after stopping
Something I often talk about is the need for media outlets to put conversations about e-bike safety and regulations in the context of the larger danger on our streets: cars.
The Boston Globe published two letters to the editors that do this well. I'll thread them below.
The Boston Globe published two letters to the editors that do this well. I'll thread them below.
December 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
As someone who is an obsessive rule follower and e-biked about 1000 miles around greater Lowell last year, the 'ebike panic' has driven me crazy
In an area full of hills and no real bike lanes, my level 2 ebike lets me bike safer by maintaining 20mph speed & being able to start after stopping
In an area full of hills and no real bike lanes, my level 2 ebike lets me bike safer by maintaining 20mph speed & being able to start after stopping
Nothing on the internet makes me actually audibly respond much nowadays, but I legitimately went "What the Fuck" at the end of this.
I can’t emphasize enough how much you need to watch this until the end
December 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Nothing on the internet makes me actually audibly respond much nowadays, but I legitimately went "What the Fuck" at the end of this.
Love it when my two favorite podcasts team up
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨The boys are joined by @patrickwyman.bsky.social to talk about the US Navy's very stupid attempt to create flying aircraft carriers.
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Episode 391 - The US Navy's Flying Aircraft Carriers ft. Dr. Patrick Wyman
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December 9, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Love it when my two favorite podcasts team up
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Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who listened and/or subscribed to the Patreon! If any of this sounds interesting to you, check out our first three episodes, all available now.
December 8, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who listened and/or subscribed to the Patreon! If any of this sounds interesting to you, check out our first three episodes, all available now.
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Friends, I couldn't be more excited about my new show Past Lives - here's what's coming up:
12/10: Sosias, Silver Mining, and the Athenian Golden Age
12/17: Neaira and the Lives of Sex Workers in Ancient Greece
12/24: Holiday break
12/31: Terence, Slavery, and Early Roman Literature
Also bonuses!!!
12/10: Sosias, Silver Mining, and the Athenian Golden Age
12/17: Neaira and the Lives of Sex Workers in Ancient Greece
12/24: Holiday break
12/31: Terence, Slavery, and Early Roman Literature
Also bonuses!!!
December 8, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Friends, I couldn't be more excited about my new show Past Lives - here's what's coming up:
12/10: Sosias, Silver Mining, and the Athenian Golden Age
12/17: Neaira and the Lives of Sex Workers in Ancient Greece
12/24: Holiday break
12/31: Terence, Slavery, and Early Roman Literature
Also bonuses!!!
12/10: Sosias, Silver Mining, and the Athenian Golden Age
12/17: Neaira and the Lives of Sex Workers in Ancient Greece
12/24: Holiday break
12/31: Terence, Slavery, and Early Roman Literature
Also bonuses!!!
I can see a playground from my house but there's such busy roads between my house and the playground that I wouldn't want my kid (who I trust) to walk there by themselves until their like 10
Think much of the over-parenting we despise stems from the early on fear of the driver.
If parents weren't terrified of our streets kids would have so much more freedom and independence which might get them comfortable with their children's ability to navigate the world without them.
If parents weren't terrified of our streets kids would have so much more freedom and independence which might get them comfortable with their children's ability to navigate the world without them.
December 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I can see a playground from my house but there's such busy roads between my house and the playground that I wouldn't want my kid (who I trust) to walk there by themselves until their like 10
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Do you prefer to read instead of listening? You're in luck, because Past Lives subscribers get text versions of every episode delivered straight to their inbox at the same time as the audio drops. Here's an early access peek before Past Lives launches tomrrow: www.patreon.com/posts/early-...
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December 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Do you prefer to read instead of listening? You're in luck, because Past Lives subscribers get text versions of every episode delivered straight to their inbox at the same time as the audio drops. Here's an early access peek before Past Lives launches tomrrow: www.patreon.com/posts/early-...
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i bet the first fiddle player to figure out that a fiddle can sound like a train was just the tail-gettingest mutherfucker you ever met. probably inconvenient having to wade through all those bitches anytime he had to go someplace tho
November 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
i bet the first fiddle player to figure out that a fiddle can sound like a train was just the tail-gettingest mutherfucker you ever met. probably inconvenient having to wade through all those bitches anytime he had to go someplace tho
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My new history podcast, Past Lives, launches this Wednesday! If you're already subscribed to the Patreon, you'll receive the full script for the first episode, "On Historical Storytelling," tomorrow as a thank you for your support. Check it out: www.patreon.com/cw/PastLives...
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November 30, 2025 at 9:57 PM
My new history podcast, Past Lives, launches this Wednesday! If you're already subscribed to the Patreon, you'll receive the full script for the first episode, "On Historical Storytelling," tomorrow as a thank you for your support. Check it out: www.patreon.com/cw/PastLives...
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Donald Trump and George W Bush are very different in many ways but they have this in common: they were/are very appealing to large numbers of people and I would very much like to know what the fuck is wrong with every last one of them
November 30, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Donald Trump and George W Bush are very different in many ways but they have this in common: they were/are very appealing to large numbers of people and I would very much like to know what the fuck is wrong with every last one of them
Light rail models make me want to get into model railroading more than anything else
Light Rail at the New York Society of Model Engineers in Carlstadt, NJ.
November 30, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Light rail models make me want to get into model railroading more than anything else
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Can you imagine if the Times and Post and CNN reacted to every time DHS explicitly endorsed neo-Nazism with the same kind of screaming headlines that they did every time Biden stumbled over a world leader’s name?
November 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Can you imagine if the Times and Post and CNN reacted to every time DHS explicitly endorsed neo-Nazism with the same kind of screaming headlines that they did every time Biden stumbled over a world leader’s name?
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Essay: During my first visit to the Dog Chapel, I imagined coming back to leave a memorial for a dog I’d have one day, writes E.B. Bartels. On the second trip, I pictured myself doing it for Seymour, but I figured that was at least a decade away. Not even four years later, there I was, heartbroken.
Three seasons at Dog Mountain
During my first visit to the Dog Chapel, I imagined coming back to leave a memorial for a dog I’d have one day, writes E.B. Bartels. On the second trip, I pictured myself doing it for Seymour, but I figured that was at least a decade away. Now here I was, not even four years later, absolutely heartbroken.
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November 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Essay: During my first visit to the Dog Chapel, I imagined coming back to leave a memorial for a dog I’d have one day, writes E.B. Bartels. On the second trip, I pictured myself doing it for Seymour, but I figured that was at least a decade away. Not even four years later, there I was, heartbroken.
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Cover by Victor Pazmiño.
November 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Cover by Victor Pazmiño.
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We got to make using AI to figure out personal gifts a social crime. Most gifts suck to begin with but now you’ve literally taken the thought out of it’s the thought that counts
November 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
We got to make using AI to figure out personal gifts a social crime. Most gifts suck to begin with but now you’ve literally taken the thought out of it’s the thought that counts
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The Nuzzi thing is a good reminder that outside the deep structural issues of energy/subsistence, most of what's happening right now is an old-fashioned crisis of elite legitimacy, which sounds comforting until you realize how some of those have turned out in the past
November 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
The Nuzzi thing is a good reminder that outside the deep structural issues of energy/subsistence, most of what's happening right now is an old-fashioned crisis of elite legitimacy, which sounds comforting until you realize how some of those have turned out in the past
Jesus, this and the ioniq 6 really can murder the Model 3. I don't know why you'd get a Tesla sedan when the options are so much better for the same price or cheaper
I don't see how Tesla's Model 3 can survive if Benz can offer an alternative EV this cheap, with this kind of performance, on top of the 15% tariff that it's charged in the US.
Imagine what this model does to Tesla in Europe, where Benz pays no tariffs.
Imagine what this model does to Tesla in Europe, where Benz pays no tariffs.
November 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Jesus, this and the ioniq 6 really can murder the Model 3. I don't know why you'd get a Tesla sedan when the options are so much better for the same price or cheaper
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We're officially one week, seven days, away from the launch of my new history podcast Past Lives! We've got so much great content on the way - three full episodes on December 3, plus a Patreon bonus - so be sure to subscribe now: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
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History Podcast · Updated Weekly · History is built by people like you, and Past Lives is here to bring their stories to life. Every week, we’ll focus on the lived experiences of real people in the pa...
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November 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
We're officially one week, seven days, away from the launch of my new history podcast Past Lives! We've got so much great content on the way - three full episodes on December 3, plus a Patreon bonus - so be sure to subscribe now: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
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sit down at the bus stop in the pouring rain because the trolleys are out and see a test waymo and then a cybertruck go by in quick succession just fucking kill me now i'm ready
November 26, 2025 at 2:20 AM
sit down at the bus stop in the pouring rain because the trolleys are out and see a test waymo and then a cybertruck go by in quick succession just fucking kill me now i'm ready