David H. Montgomery
@dhmontgomery.com
Words, data, code. Senior data journalist with @today.yougov.com. Host of the French history podcast The Siècle (@thesiecle.com).
Does this match others' experience?
I'd go with Burley over Thule! The Thule products I've purchased over the years have been of lower quality each time. My second Burley is still truckin' after many years (first one got stolen).
November 18, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Does this match others' experience?
Any cyclists have thoughts on the Thule Courier bike trailer?
Or competitors in that ~$500 price range you'd recommend over it?
(Happy to hear suggestions for multi-thousand-dollar solutions for biking kids around, but it's probably not gonna happen.)
Or competitors in that ~$500 price range you'd recommend over it?
(Happy to hear suggestions for multi-thousand-dollar solutions for biking kids around, but it's probably not gonna happen.)
November 18, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Any cyclists have thoughts on the Thule Courier bike trailer?
Or competitors in that ~$500 price range you'd recommend over it?
(Happy to hear suggestions for multi-thousand-dollar solutions for biking kids around, but it's probably not gonna happen.)
Or competitors in that ~$500 price range you'd recommend over it?
(Happy to hear suggestions for multi-thousand-dollar solutions for biking kids around, but it's probably not gonna happen.)
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I haven't invested the time or mental effort to move to a different search engine but this successfully removed AI junk from my google searches.
Do you wish Google search results were like they used to be — just a list of websites, not laden with AI and inserted modules? The good news is you can get this *right now*. And you can even change your Chrome (or Vivaldi) search bar presets to search this better Google by default! My guide:
How to fix your searches
A simple hack to make get better search results every time.
dhmontgomery.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I haven't invested the time or mental effort to move to a different search engine but this successfully removed AI junk from my google searches.
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Do you wish Google search results were like they used to be — just a list of websites, not laden with AI and inserted modules? The good news is you can get this *right now*. And you can even change your Chrome (or Vivaldi) search bar presets to search this better Google by default! My guide:
How to fix your searches
A simple hack to make get better search results every time.
dhmontgomery.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Do you wish Google search results were like they used to be — just a list of websites, not laden with AI and inserted modules? The good news is you can get this *right now*. And you can even change your Chrome (or Vivaldi) search bar presets to search this better Google by default! My guide:
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Much like gun waiting periods, we have to implement memoir waiting periods. You shouldn't be able to publish that book about that thing that happened for at least 5 years.
November 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Much like gun waiting periods, we have to implement memoir waiting periods. You shouldn't be able to publish that book about that thing that happened for at least 5 years.
(Note: If you are using a search engine other than Google, you are already too advanced for this lesson and there is no need to point this out to the class.)
November 17, 2025 at 2:37 AM
(Note: If you are using a search engine other than Google, you are already too advanced for this lesson and there is no need to point this out to the class.)
Do you wish Google search results were like they used to be — just a list of websites, not laden with AI and inserted modules? The good news is you can get this *right now*. And you can even change your Chrome (or Vivaldi) search bar presets to search this better Google by default! My guide:
How to fix your searches
A simple hack to make get better search results every time.
dhmontgomery.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Do you wish Google search results were like they used to be — just a list of websites, not laden with AI and inserted modules? The good news is you can get this *right now*. And you can even change your Chrome (or Vivaldi) search bar presets to search this better Google by default! My guide:
My 9-month-old’s dedication to the principle of entropy is remarkable. If I put two blocks in front of her she doesn’t blink an eye. But if I put them *next to each other* in an ordered structure she will lunge to knock them apart.
November 16, 2025 at 10:08 PM
My 9-month-old’s dedication to the principle of entropy is remarkable. If I put two blocks in front of her she doesn’t blink an eye. But if I put them *next to each other* in an ordered structure she will lunge to knock them apart.
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Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’
November 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’
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Every dating app since OKC was designed by the least interesting person you know which explains pretty much everything about everything.
Hinge should work like OKC
Hinge should work like OKC
November 16, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Every dating app since OKC was designed by the least interesting person you know which explains pretty much everything about everything.
Hinge should work like OKC
Hinge should work like OKC
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I moved to Minnesota in June 2023 during a day when the air smelled like a campfire. When I’ve asked longtime Minnesotans about the increasingly severe smoke during our summers, they all say it was never a problem until a few years ago. And wow, this graph has got the receipts.
November 14, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I moved to Minnesota in June 2023 during a day when the air smelled like a campfire. When I’ve asked longtime Minnesotans about the increasingly severe smoke during our summers, they all say it was never a problem until a few years ago. And wow, this graph has got the receipts.
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King Louis-Philippe I was conscientious and hard-working. So it's a little unfortunate — but extremely funny — that the defining image of him became a caricature drawing his jowly face as a pear.
Find out more in my latest episode!
thesiecle.com/episode48/
Find out more in my latest episode!
thesiecle.com/episode48/
November 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
King Louis-Philippe I was conscientious and hard-working. So it's a little unfortunate — but extremely funny — that the defining image of him became a caricature drawing his jowly face as a pear.
Find out more in my latest episode!
thesiecle.com/episode48/
Find out more in my latest episode!
thesiecle.com/episode48/
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french wikipedia is the only language that has a "list of bastards" article
November 9, 2025 at 8:03 AM
french wikipedia is the only language that has a "list of bastards" article
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This video by @edariad.bsky.social drives home this point, finding that @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social's use of *themes* and philosophy in his GMing sets him above other very good pro DMs: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghf7...
November 14, 2025 at 7:02 AM
This video by @edariad.bsky.social drives home this point, finding that @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social's use of *themes* and philosophy in his GMing sets him above other very good pro DMs: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghf7...
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This is a real flight school, teaching people to fly planes!!! Like????
November 14, 2025 at 12:17 AM
This is a real flight school, teaching people to fly planes!!! Like????
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Protoss Gnostics
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Archons rule
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Archons rule
November 14, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Protoss Gnostics
🤝
Archons rule
🤝
Archons rule
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happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands by the Perimeter Fence and Screams for Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day
November 14, 2025 at 6:39 AM
happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands by the Perimeter Fence and Screams for Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day
This video by @edariad.bsky.social drives home this point, finding that @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social's use of *themes* and philosophy in his GMing sets him above other very good pro DMs: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghf7...
November 14, 2025 at 7:02 AM
This video by @edariad.bsky.social drives home this point, finding that @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social's use of *themes* and philosophy in his GMing sets him above other very good pro DMs: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghf7...
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I think more people should be willing to say "Judge may have had the better season but it's boring and uninteresting for him to win the MVP and it's interesting and fun for Raleigh to so I want Raleigh to win it"
we're getting closer to a rational argument, but not quite there. Can those things be accounted for? Do they bridge the (elided) gap between *how much of a better hitter Judge was*?
I don't think our current metrics can account for everything catchers do, tbh, but they account for a lot
I don't think our current metrics can account for everything catchers do, tbh, but they account for a lot
Gold glove catcher takes a beating every game in a record setting season vs dude who just stands in the OF. Judge was the better hitter. Raleigh played the most difficult position. Should have been Raleigh.
November 14, 2025 at 5:27 AM
I think more people should be willing to say "Judge may have had the better season but it's boring and uninteresting for him to win the MVP and it's interesting and fun for Raleigh to so I want Raleigh to win it"
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NEW EPISODE: After the July Revolution of 1830, France has a new king. And Louis-Philippe wants everyone to know he's not like a regular king, he's a cool king.
thesiecle.com/episode48/
thesiecle.com/episode48/
November 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
NEW EPISODE: After the July Revolution of 1830, France has a new king. And Louis-Philippe wants everyone to know he's not like a regular king, he's a cool king.
thesiecle.com/episode48/
thesiecle.com/episode48/
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The original pear caricature was published in 1831 by Charles Philipon. It got him put on trial for insulting the king, where his defense was that Louis-Philippe so resembled a pear that an “artist could quite easily have drawn the parallel unintentionally." Then he drew it to demonstrate.
November 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The original pear caricature was published in 1831 by Charles Philipon. It got him put on trial for insulting the king, where his defense was that Louis-Philippe so resembled a pear that an “artist could quite easily have drawn the parallel unintentionally." Then he drew it to demonstrate.
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"the US is uniquely bad" and/or "the US is uniquely/inevitably doomed" are also American exceptionalism
November 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
"the US is uniquely bad" and/or "the US is uniquely/inevitably doomed" are also American exceptionalism
The latest episode of my history podcast looks at the complicated personality of an underrated historical leader, and his struggle to define what it meant to be a constitutional monarch of a divided country — both Citizen and King.
NEW EPISODE: After the July Revolution of 1830, France has a new king. And Louis-Philippe wants everyone to know he's not like a regular king, he's a cool king.
thesiecle.com/episode48/
thesiecle.com/episode48/
November 13, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The latest episode of my history podcast looks at the complicated personality of an underrated historical leader, and his struggle to define what it meant to be a constitutional monarch of a divided country — both Citizen and King.
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Sometimes you run across an old quote that stops you cold. From a Jayson Stark article in January 2000:
November 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Sometimes you run across an old quote that stops you cold. From a Jayson Stark article in January 2000:
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Why does Clarissa, the largest Penguin, not simply eat the other Penguins?
November 12, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Why does Clarissa, the largest Penguin, not simply eat the other Penguins?