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Justin Manley
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Writer and programmer.

Science, spatiality, magic, mind.

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Tooze: "China is the decisive variable in climate politics going forward...when I say that China becomes the singular centre of the entire global energy drama, I’m not exaggerating. It’s true. It is the entire fossil game and by far the dominant wind and solar player."

en.ccg.org.cn/archives/88518
Transcript: Adam Tooze at CCG
To the latest event information and expert opinions?
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August 6, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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just devoured @annaleen.bsky.social's Automatic Noodle in less than 24 hours. Just what I needed 🤖🍜🎯😊 -- soooo on point!
August 6, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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The MJT is one of the greatest places in all of Los Angeles. I hope they recover and reopen soon (and weirder than ever) lacmaonfire.blogspot.com/2025/07/jura...
Jurassic Technology on Fire
I'm late to the news, but a fire of unknown origin broke out at Culver City's Museum of Jurassic Technology on the night of July 8th. Founde...
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July 21, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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In a world where more people obsess about their work being inherently meaningful, I hope that you see your job relatively close to the left side of the chart...
June 11, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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A tale of two cities, Chicago bike edition: On the left is CDOT's map of bike infrastructure on the North Side, and on the right is the South Side. Even without the legend, you can tell that these are two different worlds, with I-55 acting as a border between them
A screenshot of CDOT's interactive map of bike infrastructure on the North and West Sides of Chicago. The map is bounded roughly by the south branch of the Chicago river to the south, Harlem Avenue to the west, Oakton Street to the north, and Lake Michigan to the east. Lots of greenways and protected bike lanes are visible across the extent of the map, with scattered off-street trails visible here and there as well. A screenshot of CDOT's interactive map of bike infrastructure on the South Side of Chicago. The map is bounded roughly by the Calumet Channel to the south, Harlem Avenue to the west, I-290 to the north, and Lake Michigan to the east. Lots of greenways and protected bike lanes are visible north of I-55, but there is very little aside from painted lanes south of that. Off-street bike trails are visible along the lakefront, on which the Lakefront Trail extends down to South Shore, as well as the Major Taylor Trail on the far South Side and a few sections of trail near Wolf Lake on the far Southeast Side.
June 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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how it started vs. how it's going on the Elizabeth Line
a bench against a pale grey wall with a darker grey silhouette smudged on the wall above each seat on the bench a bench against a pale grey wall with a colorful sticker on the wall above each seat on the bench
June 12, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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wise words seem obvious once spoken. past me needed to hear this. maybe also present me.
rosalarian.bsky.social Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · May 16
If you don't enjoy writing, maybe being a writer isn't for you. That's okay! Most people are not writers. People become writers because they like to write. Otherwise they do other things with their time. AI will never solve the fact that you do not like to write.
May 16, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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sometimes I come across a book in a bookstore and think: this was written SPECIFICALLY for me. never more than today, tho:
May 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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my buddy @resnikoff.bsky.social off the top rope with some actual class analysis www.thenation.com/article/soci...
A YIMBY Theory of Power
Pro-housing advocates offer an analysis of class relations that is more sophisticated and has more explanatory power than the one held by many critics of the “abundance agenda.”
www.thenation.com
April 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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I wouldn't expect grey, yellow, and red to go together, but somehow the M3 metro line in Milan makes the combo look SO cool. I look forward to any chance I get to ride this line as an opportunity to be immersed in this crazy color world
on the left side of the image, a yellow banister descends diagonally along a grey stone wall, presumably follow the tread of stairs which are out of view below frame. the yellow banister is fixed to the grey wall with circular fittings painted a contrasting bright red. natural light -- perhaps from a subway entrance -- illuminates the upper left part of the image. on the right the grey stone of the wall changes to a horizontally-striped wall covering made out of metal and painted red a grey wall with a grid pattern topped by a row of square lights in a long metal yellow fixture. along the base of the wall, five bright red circular seats a ceiling with a square lattice painted bright yellow. the lattice is almost as deep as each square is wide -- perhaps three inches. in the foreground are two ceiling light fixtures with the bulbs set in decorative round mesh circles painted yellow (one with a red border). in the background are four triangular yellow lights, also fixed to the ceiling a barrier on the Milan metro. the verticals are painted red and have pointed tops; the tubular barrier itself is yellow. everything else (floor, walls) is grey -- the floor is steel tread plate, while the walls are stone (granite?)
April 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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The London County Council has been defunct since 1965, and this coat of arms hasn't been officially in use since 1986, when Thatcher abolished its successor the GLC. But in some parts of London at least, the seal is still lovingly kept up!
a colorful heraldic crest on a stone pillar. Above the crest, on a sky-blue scroll, the words "London County Council." Below, on a similar scroll, "Maitland Park Estate." The crest itself consists of blue and white wavy horizontal lines representing the Thames surmounted by St George's cross (red cross on white) covered by a golden lion surmounted by a golden crown
March 30, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Ursula K. Le Guin on the true pain of being a writer
Screenshot of a single question and answer from interview in the Times Literary Supplement with Ursula K. Le Guin. Here is the quote: If you could make a change to anything you’ve written over the years, what would it be? In The Dispossessed, I would mention the communal pickle barrels at street corners in the big towns, restocked by whoever in the community has made or kept more pickles than they need. I knew about the free pickles all along, but never could fit them into the book.
March 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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“Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business…Companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group receive govt funding based on the number of people they detain, which is why they lobby for stricter immigration policies.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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learned enough about metalworking this weekend to make a rough-and-ready stand for a corn bulb by welding steel rods together 👨‍🏭
February 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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very underwhelmed by GeoSpy. Just tried it out with a bunch of pics I took when I lived in San Francisco.

I selected these pics to be difficult, but not impossible. They all show public places.

GeoSpy seems almost completely clueless about anything that's not a typical StreetView-type photo.
a screenshot showing three images: on the left, some red rocks bathed in golden afternoon light; in the middle, a map showing Glen Canyon Park in San Francisco; on the right, a StreetView view down a road with some single-story houses on one side a screenshot showing three images: on the left, a view over the back of some houses with Sutro Tower in the background against a smoky sky; in the middle, a map showing the 101 ramp towards Market Street in San Francisco; on the right, a StreetView view down the 101 a screenshot showing three images: on the left, a dusky view of a courtyard surrounded by blocky red brick buildings; in the middle, a map focused on the outer Mission in San Francisco; on the right, a StreetView view down a road in San Francisco with two- and three-story stucco apartment buildings on either side a screenshot showing three images: on the left, a pink and a yellow house seen through flowers and foliage; in the middle, a map centered on Noe Valley in San Francisco; on the right, a StreetView view of a yellow house flanked by two green houses in San Francisco
January 21, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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London Short Film Festival is back!! Loved the kickoff program of short films from the '90s, especially "Latifa and Himli's Nomadic Uncle" by Alnoor Dewshi player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/wa...
Six filmmakers and one producer standing on a stage holding mics at a Q&A
January 17, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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I lean forward to get a better view of the painting, but the couple behind me is in the way.
two figures facing each other, taupe-on-taupe
January 4, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Top exhibitions I saw this year (in no particular order):

Anthony Gormley: Time Horizon @ Houghton Hall (UK)
Gala Porras-Kim @ MCA Denver
Elizabeth Englander, Eminem Buddhism @ Aldrich Museum (CT)
Tom of Finland / Beryl Cook @ Studio Voltaire (London)
Lygia Clark @ Whitechapel Gallery (London)
a painting showing a man wearing nothing but a posing pouch holding a stripper's pole. he is standing and is surrounded by grinning, laughing women, all dressed for a night out, who are craning to see as he leans forward and pulls down the posing pouch. everyone's contours are large and rounded a bronze figure of a man embedded at the waist in a grassy field a sculpture of a human figure, seated with legs crossed. the figure is made out of the components of a Thonet chair, like a line drawing in space an arrangement of white rectangular pedestals in an art gallery. each pedestal is topped by a jointed aluminum sculpture.
January 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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My top reads this year, in order (yes, I know they're oldies -- but still just as good as ever!):

1. Dante's Inferno
2. The Knife Thrower
3. Life: A User's Manual
4. If on a winters night a traveler
5. Speak, Memory
6. Contact: Art and the Pull of Print
7. Five Ways to Forgiveness
8. Howard's End
December 31, 2024 at 12:45 AM
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making a Christmas gift for my mom: a set of David Umemoto's beautiful cut-and-fold paper sculptures

davidumemoto.com/architecture...
a sheet of blue paper with a metal ruler on top of a black cutting mat with a white ruled grid. next to the paper is an xacto knife and a rotary blade a sheet of blue paper lying on a desk with two cutting blades in the foreground. In the background, a jade plant in a concrete pot and a small paper sculpture made out of the same blue paper light coming through a sheet of blue paper with cuts in it. the blue paper mostly looks green; it only appears blue where the light bounces back through a cut onto the paper
December 19, 2024 at 11:48 AM
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I thought I was too late to snag an Antistatic Print Object this year bc when I tried to sign up for one, they were already maxed out. But I guess I must have signed up earlier and then forgotten because GUESS WHAT JUST ARRIVED!!!
a printed zine with a darkly inked cover showing a solar eclipse. below the zine is the envelope it came in.
December 18, 2024 at 2:47 PM
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What that teacher’s thread highlights is that children are deciding which authoritative voice is more credible and we’re going to lose that fight.

We need to be teaching children how to challenge authority to determine credibility.

ChatGPT can easily be used against itself. We need to show kids.
December 10, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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a sizeable chunk of the moral panic around "AI" is about the destabilizing force of AI-generated falsehoods (aka "hallucinations"). but what about the falsehoods AI encourages us to generate ourselves? 🧵>>> a thread (1/10)
December 15, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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my mom made a podcast! (at the local public library, no less!)

it's all about the built and designed world, and the first few episodes are about cars + roads. I just learned about how fire trucks shape our experience of the roads, even when they're not out & about

open.spotify.com/episode/0udV...
Traffic Fatalities and Vehicle Design
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December 13, 2024 at 7:33 PM
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lord knows I love a good story about militant nuns (thinking of @nicolaz.bsky.social, @kenfollettauthor.bsky.social, Mark Salzman), so obviously I was VERY interested to see nuns on the front page of the NYT this morn

sometimes reality is more unlikely than fiction

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/10/r...
These Nuns Were Excommunicated but Won’t Leave Their Convents
The Poor Clares of Belorado, in northern Spain, are digging in their heels in a battle of wills over real estate with the Catholic Church.
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2024 at 6:12 PM