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The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
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Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.
December 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.
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First Secretary of Defense you could defeat by painting a tunnel on the side of a boulder.
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
First Secretary of Defense you could defeat by painting a tunnel on the side of a boulder.
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Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Finds Bank Analysis
City of Madrid significantly boosted the takings of its shops and restaurants last Christmas by banning cars from the CBD, finds an analysis by Spain's second largest bank.
www.forbes.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
Trudging slowly over wet sand
Back to the bench, where your clothes were stolen
This is the coastal town
That they forgot to close down
Armageddon, come Armageddon!
Come, Armageddon! Come!
Everyday is like Sunday
Everyday is silent and grey
Back to the bench, where your clothes were stolen
This is the coastal town
That they forgot to close down
Armageddon, come Armageddon!
Come, Armageddon! Come!
Everyday is like Sunday
Everyday is silent and grey
November 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Trudging slowly over wet sand
Back to the bench, where your clothes were stolen
This is the coastal town
That they forgot to close down
Armageddon, come Armageddon!
Come, Armageddon! Come!
Everyday is like Sunday
Everyday is silent and grey
Back to the bench, where your clothes were stolen
This is the coastal town
That they forgot to close down
Armageddon, come Armageddon!
Come, Armageddon! Come!
Everyday is like Sunday
Everyday is silent and grey
Sunk cost fallacy is a helluva drug
i wonder how much of Americans' views on driving vs. transit would change if they had to pay for gas/insurance/etc every time they turned on the engine
"i'm not paying $5 to take the train to work twice a day when i can just drive" is a genuine opinion held by so many people
"i'm not paying $5 to take the train to work twice a day when i can just drive" is a genuine opinion held by so many people
November 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Sunk cost fallacy is a helluva drug
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i wonder how much of Americans' views on driving vs. transit would change if they had to pay for gas/insurance/etc every time they turned on the engine
"i'm not paying $5 to take the train to work twice a day when i can just drive" is a genuine opinion held by so many people
"i'm not paying $5 to take the train to work twice a day when i can just drive" is a genuine opinion held by so many people
November 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
i wonder how much of Americans' views on driving vs. transit would change if they had to pay for gas/insurance/etc every time they turned on the engine
"i'm not paying $5 to take the train to work twice a day when i can just drive" is a genuine opinion held by so many people
"i'm not paying $5 to take the train to work twice a day when i can just drive" is a genuine opinion held by so many people
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okay but hear me out: what if artificial scarcity AND corporate consolidation were BOTH problems
crazy i know
crazy i know
Neon Liberalism (entering its second season) #53: Join Samantha and guest Becky Chao, Director of Policy and Research at the Economic Security Project, as they talk about the never-ending conflict between YIMBYs and anti-YIMBYs—and how we can get beyond it. www.liberalcurrents.com/neon-liberal...
Neon Liberalism #53: Beyond Abundance?
Join Samantha and guest Becky Chao, Director of Policy and Research at the Economic Security Project, as they talk about the never-ending conflict between YIMBYs and anti-YIMBYs—and how we can get bey...
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
okay but hear me out: what if artificial scarcity AND corporate consolidation were BOTH problems
crazy i know
crazy i know
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Today on Volts: the subset of cleantech known as "electrotech" -- solar, batteries, heat pumps, etc. -- is marching toward inevitable victory, not because it's low-emissions (though it is), but because it's more efficient & cheaper. I discuss the good news with @kingsmillbond.bsky.social.
Clean electrification is inevitable
Kingsmill Bond explains why the global march of "electrotech" has moved beyond the reach of US political interference.
www.volts.wtf
November 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Today on Volts: the subset of cleantech known as "electrotech" -- solar, batteries, heat pumps, etc. -- is marching toward inevitable victory, not because it's low-emissions (though it is), but because it's more efficient & cheaper. I discuss the good news with @kingsmillbond.bsky.social.
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pretty clear what happened: Zohran converted Trump to the divine and immortal science of islamo-communism.
November 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
pretty clear what happened: Zohran converted Trump to the divine and immortal science of islamo-communism.
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Seeing a tent doesn’t put anyone in danger. Being uncomfortable is not the same as being unsafe.
November 22, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Seeing a tent doesn’t put anyone in danger. Being uncomfortable is not the same as being unsafe.
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Growing up in LA in the 1970s and 1980s, we routinely had smog alert days when we weren’t allowed to have lunch or recess outside. Your eyes would sting all the time and if I played outside my lungs would burn at the end of the day. It’s vastly better now. But I guess that’s woke?
November 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Growing up in LA in the 1970s and 1980s, we routinely had smog alert days when we weren’t allowed to have lunch or recess outside. Your eyes would sting all the time and if I played outside my lungs would burn at the end of the day. It’s vastly better now. But I guess that’s woke?
Thinking about the weird guy in my neighborhood with a 60s muscle car with a bumpersticker that says "when the air was clean and the sex was dirrrty"
Dude, I'm sure you're right about the sex, but as for the air back then...
Dude, I'm sure you're right about the sex, but as for the air back then...
Literally just lectured about this!
In the late 1960s, air quality was so bad in several cities they had to turn on the street lights during the day so drivers could see. And yeah, the Cuyahoga River was so polluted it literally caught on fire.
In the late 1960s, air quality was so bad in several cities they had to turn on the street lights during the day so drivers could see. And yeah, the Cuyahoga River was so polluted it literally caught on fire.
Oh, I don’t know. Our rivers no longer catch on fire and our air is far less poisonous than it used to be, even in smog bowls like Los Angeles. And I think those are good things.
November 19, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Thinking about the weird guy in my neighborhood with a 60s muscle car with a bumpersticker that says "when the air was clean and the sex was dirrrty"
Dude, I'm sure you're right about the sex, but as for the air back then...
Dude, I'm sure you're right about the sex, but as for the air back then...
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Fun fact: In California, parcel taxes for schools must be voted on per school district. They need a 2/3rds vote. So most parcel taxes are written such that people who are 65+ can opt-out of paying them, because otherwise they would never pass. And still senior citizens vote them down.
I want to agree, but blue US cities have bad education policies even when a fix wouldn't be at all contrary to coalition-of-interest politics. They all pay teachers like shit; New York pays teachers worse than Berlin even though average wages there are ~1.5x what they are here.
November 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Fun fact: In California, parcel taxes for schools must be voted on per school district. They need a 2/3rds vote. So most parcel taxes are written such that people who are 65+ can opt-out of paying them, because otherwise they would never pass. And still senior citizens vote them down.
Are there studies like this but that distinguish between walkable urban and auto-centric suburban environments?
Strongly suspect most of the unhealthy effects of "cities" that they identify here disappear when controlled for whether residents walk/bike places vs. drive...
phys.org/news/2025-11...
Strongly suspect most of the unhealthy effects of "cities" that they identify here disappear when controlled for whether residents walk/bike places vs. drive...
phys.org/news/2025-11...
Humans are evolved for nature, not cities, say anthropologists
A new paper by evolutionary anthropologists Colin Shaw (University of Zurich) and Daniel Longman (Loughborough University) argues that modern life has outpaced human evolution. The study suggests that...
phys.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Are there studies like this but that distinguish between walkable urban and auto-centric suburban environments?
Strongly suspect most of the unhealthy effects of "cities" that they identify here disappear when controlled for whether residents walk/bike places vs. drive...
phys.org/news/2025-11...
Strongly suspect most of the unhealthy effects of "cities" that they identify here disappear when controlled for whether residents walk/bike places vs. drive...
phys.org/news/2025-11...
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"6 story monstrosity" - check
"building more destructive crap that produces toxins" - check
"too many state loonie lefties" - check
"Work on population control and protecting the environment." - check
Palo Alto - Free Square
BINGO!!!!!
"building more destructive crap that produces toxins" - check
"too many state loonie lefties" - check
"Work on population control and protecting the environment." - check
Palo Alto - Free Square
BINGO!!!!!
November 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
"6 story monstrosity" - check
"building more destructive crap that produces toxins" - check
"too many state loonie lefties" - check
"Work on population control and protecting the environment." - check
Palo Alto - Free Square
BINGO!!!!!
"building more destructive crap that produces toxins" - check
"too many state loonie lefties" - check
"Work on population control and protecting the environment." - check
Palo Alto - Free Square
BINGO!!!!!
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TIL Ruby Bridges is only 71 years old. man alive Jim Crow was just yesterday
November 18, 2025 at 6:04 PM
TIL Ruby Bridges is only 71 years old. man alive Jim Crow was just yesterday
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Free speech is more than me being allowed to say what I want. Everyone also has to like it and tell me I'm a smart and handsome boy
November 18, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Free speech is more than me being allowed to say what I want. Everyone also has to like it and tell me I'm a smart and handsome boy
y'all keeping up with these Epcot files? prince andrew lost the royal jewels in future world i think and the president is gonna help him out or something even though he wasn't at first. crazy stuff!
November 18, 2025 at 12:44 AM
y'all keeping up with these Epcot files? prince andrew lost the royal jewels in future world i think and the president is gonna help him out or something even though he wasn't at first. crazy stuff!
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November 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Thank God these people are as dumb as they are evil.
Halligan told grand jurors they could indict based on evidence she promised to produce later but didn't have right now (!!)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...
Halligan told grand jurors they could indict based on evidence she promised to produce later but didn't have right now (!!)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...
Judge Says Justice Dept. May Have Committed Misconduct in Comey Case
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Thank God these people are as dumb as they are evil.
Halligan told grand jurors they could indict based on evidence she promised to produce later but didn't have right now (!!)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...
Halligan told grand jurors they could indict based on evidence she promised to produce later but didn't have right now (!!)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...
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If you're a professor at Texas A&M, you'll need to receive written authorization from the university president before discussing this incident on campus.
November 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
If you're a professor at Texas A&M, you'll need to receive written authorization from the university president before discussing this incident on campus.
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Never seen a mayor so committed to reversing the modest progress she's made on homelessness.
After failing to stop a major state housing bill from becoming law, Los Angeles leaders are turning to plan B: Delaying Senate Bill 79's implementation and pushing for unspecified legislative changes next year. My dispatch for @politico.com Pro subscribers subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
POLITICO Pro: Los Angeles failed to defeat a major housing law, so it's turning to Plan B: Delay, delay, delay
A report from the city planning department outlines strategies for pushing off many of the effects of SB 79 through 2030.
subscriber.politicopro.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Never seen a mayor so committed to reversing the modest progress she's made on homelessness.