Mark 🐀
@lunaephemera.bsky.social
He/Him | Low Level Bureaucrat, High Level Wizard | Urbanism and Public Transit Die-Hard | I'll die in Albuquerque, that's a threat and a promise.
Imagine anyone had listened.
November 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Imagine anyone had listened.
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My grand unified theory of suburbia is that camera doorbells are like SUVs, they provide an illusion of security while making you more paranoid
“Camera doorbells are social cancer as a technology, breaking down social solidarity and further encouraging people to see strangers with suspicion.”
Christmas is coming, and the Black Friday sales signal we’re in peak gift-buying season.
When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.
When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.
November 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
My grand unified theory of suburbia is that camera doorbells are like SUVs, they provide an illusion of security while making you more paranoid
Chuck sure is one for nostalgia, and I think congress delegating some authority to admin state is good, given congress members are not air quality experts or hydrologists, but the overall article message is nice and reasonable.
"Suburban Experiment didn’t just change our geography. It rewired our culture. It trained us to experience isolation as prosperity, consumption as citizenship. By the time internet arrived, we were living in systems too large to understand, too brittle to repair." www.panoptica.ai/the-gutenber...
The Gutenberg Moment
Every communication revolution births chaos before it births order. Gutenberg's press collapsed the gatekeepers of knowledge in the fifteenth century—and it took centuries of war, displacement, and in...
www.panoptica.ai
November 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Chuck sure is one for nostalgia, and I think congress delegating some authority to admin state is good, given congress members are not air quality experts or hydrologists, but the overall article message is nice and reasonable.
NEW MEXICO MENTIONED!
Also, budget as values document is a tried and tested axiom for a reason.
Also, budget as values document is a tried and tested axiom for a reason.
Vital City | New Mexico: Surprising Proving Ground for Two Big Mamdani Ideas?
What the mayor-elect can learn from the Southwest state
www.vitalcitynyc.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
NEW MEXICO MENTIONED!
Also, budget as values document is a tried and tested axiom for a reason.
Also, budget as values document is a tried and tested axiom for a reason.
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We warned you that self-driving cars would just create self-driving traffic jams, and here they are.
The car industry has no solution to the shortage of space in cities. Public transit, cycling, and walking are all part of the answer, but cars are not.
The car industry has no solution to the shortage of space in cities. Public transit, cycling, and walking are all part of the answer, but cars are not.
Waymo privatized another public street:
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 25, 2025 at 1:07 AM
We warned you that self-driving cars would just create self-driving traffic jams, and here they are.
The car industry has no solution to the shortage of space in cities. Public transit, cycling, and walking are all part of the answer, but cars are not.
The car industry has no solution to the shortage of space in cities. Public transit, cycling, and walking are all part of the answer, but cars are not.
Looking down from the precipice and all I feel is loathing.
November 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Looking down from the precipice and all I feel is loathing.
We're the best state in the union for a reason (its the food and the social services)
Spice up your holidays with New Mexico flavors! Serve up red chile turkey, green chile stuffing, and biscochitos for a festive feast that's perfect for Thanksgiving or Christmas.
Taste a New Mexican Thanksgiving
From red chile turkey to traditional biscochitos, explore a full New Mexican holiday feast you’ll want to make year after year.
www.newmexicomagazine.org
November 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
We're the best state in the union for a reason (its the food and the social services)
Always important to have data to back up the gut intuition that spending all of your time in secluded boxes (single-family homes, personal automobiles, cubes/office in the office, etc.) doesn't fully satiate your social needs and that we should get out and be in community more
👉 Our new paper uses daily mobility data to show that spatial isolation is much more common today among those living in advantaged neighborhoods than the converse.
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
November 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Always important to have data to back up the gut intuition that spending all of your time in secluded boxes (single-family homes, personal automobiles, cubes/office in the office, etc.) doesn't fully satiate your social needs and that we should get out and be in community more
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👉 Our new paper uses daily mobility data to show that spatial isolation is much more common today among those living in advantaged neighborhoods than the converse.
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
November 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
👉 Our new paper uses daily mobility data to show that spatial isolation is much more common today among those living in advantaged neighborhoods than the converse.
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
The sewer socialism of the modern day is a focus on robust public transit and multimodal transportation.
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The sewer socialism of the modern day is a focus on robust public transit and multimodal transportation.
Amazing article tbh. Something I'd add is that its good to value human life and democracy, and thus its imperative we have the political will to put money into these things. They're expensive, yes, but cost is never insurmountable.
I really cannot recommend this excellent piece on Hammersmith Bridge highly enough
Hammersmith Bridge
Where did 25,000 vehicles go?
nickmaini.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Amazing article tbh. Something I'd add is that its good to value human life and democracy, and thus its imperative we have the political will to put money into these things. They're expensive, yes, but cost is never insurmountable.
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
COULD BE US BUT WE PLAYIN
November 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
COULD BE US BUT WE PLAYIN
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I have never felt more patriotic
November 22, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I have never felt more patriotic
Me as a dog on a walk: "Yeah can I get uh, piss on da rocks?"
November 22, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Me as a dog on a walk: "Yeah can I get uh, piss on da rocks?"
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moments of positive morale and communal enjoyment are worth it for their own sake
November 21, 2025 at 10:59 PM
moments of positive morale and communal enjoyment are worth it for their own sake
So far, any Mamdani news is just like a booster shot to the brain. We live in a profoundly stupid time and its easy to be myopic, but man what a joyous feeling it is to be hopeful!
November 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
So far, any Mamdani news is just like a booster shot to the brain. We live in a profoundly stupid time and its easy to be myopic, but man what a joyous feeling it is to be hopeful!
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Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism
November 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism
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TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
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Mamdani's response to the reporter's Q on this was awesome: "I don't pay attention to resolutions".
November 21, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Mamdani's response to the reporter's Q on this was awesome: "I don't pay attention to resolutions".
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Ways that cities can prevent robotaxis from inducing so much add'l car use that streets become perennially clogged:
🔹 Adopt congestion pricing
🔹 Charge robotaxis (+ ridehail) a fee for every mile driven w/o a passenger
🔹 Install BRT to inoculate transit from AV-caused slowdowns
More options ⤵️
🔹 Adopt congestion pricing
🔹 Charge robotaxis (+ ridehail) a fee for every mile driven w/o a passenger
🔹 Install BRT to inoculate transit from AV-caused slowdowns
More options ⤵️
A self-driving car traffic jam is coming for US cities
A century ago, cars remade America. Autonomous vehicles could do it again.
www.vox.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Ways that cities can prevent robotaxis from inducing so much add'l car use that streets become perennially clogged:
🔹 Adopt congestion pricing
🔹 Charge robotaxis (+ ridehail) a fee for every mile driven w/o a passenger
🔹 Install BRT to inoculate transit from AV-caused slowdowns
More options ⤵️
🔹 Adopt congestion pricing
🔹 Charge robotaxis (+ ridehail) a fee for every mile driven w/o a passenger
🔹 Install BRT to inoculate transit from AV-caused slowdowns
More options ⤵️
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Hi, I am 100% this girl.
![The [place name] mentioned! meme showing an anime girl clutching chile peppers, wearing an Albuquerque Isotopes hat and a Zia sun sweatshirt, surrounded by hot air balloons.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jp6hust4xvhpp27yxehjz6fv/bafkreieoo5uy4iarqp5hgl3pwywzkc4p7t5o4enbwlfggyslgv5hh6keaa@jpeg)
November 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Hi, I am 100% this girl.
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CAUGHT IN THE ACT.
Doing a CRIME.
Doing a CRIME.
November 16, 2025 at 10:42 PM
CAUGHT IN THE ACT.
Doing a CRIME.
Doing a CRIME.
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My crazy idea for incorporating public feedback into city planning: You let residents vote for representatives in city government, and those people are empowered to implement the policies they promised while campaigning.
At Land Use (again) and it's literally all the same people it always is (myself included)...like who are we fooling that the same 75 people showing up every time is "the will of the people"? What a sham public process is sometimes, sadly
November 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
My crazy idea for incorporating public feedback into city planning: You let residents vote for representatives in city government, and those people are empowered to implement the policies they promised while campaigning.
I was thinking it was a Monday, but in fact it was, on its face, a terrible Sunday, the kind by which only the drowning depths of of a dark puddle could fully encapsulate, and to which god's tyrannical imposition becomes an all-consuming series of coordinating coincidences that leads somewhere beyon
ok, i'm calling it, Olivia Nuzzi is not real. she is a Markov chain text generator. we've been duped.
November 17, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I was thinking it was a Monday, but in fact it was, on its face, a terrible Sunday, the kind by which only the drowning depths of of a dark puddle could fully encapsulate, and to which god's tyrannical imposition becomes an all-consuming series of coordinating coincidences that leads somewhere beyon