Matthew
@mat-the-w.bsky.social
I like fencing, engineering, dancing, history, urbanism and more. This will be a broad collection of everything. Please keep your hands and feet inside the ride at all times. All views my own.
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Trump did this
The US Administration has decided to destroy a top network for clinical trials to test new treatments for children with brain cancer.
This is another atrocity that will harm Conservative and Liberal Americans, long after the politicians responsible are gone.
This is another atrocity that will harm Conservative and Liberal Americans, long after the politicians responsible are gone.
Pediatric Brain Cancer Group to Lose Federal Funding
www.nytimes.com
August 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Trump did this
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“My great great grandparents would be absolutely astonished by how much clothing everyone has today” is my Roman Empire.
September 1, 2025 at 5:59 AM
“My great great grandparents would be absolutely astonished by how much clothing everyone has today” is my Roman Empire.
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you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos
April 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos
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Do I know anyone here with direct experience of the water contamination issues that happened in Santa Rosa after the Tubbs Fire? Property owner? Resident? Water department employee? State agency staff? Fire fighter?
March 3, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Do I know anyone here with direct experience of the water contamination issues that happened in Santa Rosa after the Tubbs Fire? Property owner? Resident? Water department employee? State agency staff? Fire fighter?
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There is a widely held believe among American traffic engineers that you cannot have a protected bikeway that crosses driveways.
Good street design: As this cycleway crosses driveways it continues across them without interruption, with a smooth, level, continuous surface, as does the footway, with steep ramps for vehicle access which helps to slow down cars as they turn across it.
March 3, 2025 at 4:41 PM
There is a widely held believe among American traffic engineers that you cannot have a protected bikeway that crosses driveways.
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The Coastal Commission’s legislative director said that a tall building with 100+ affordable homes does nothing but enrich “millionaires and billionaires and corrupt kleptocrats.” They have nearly infinite power over affordable housing approvals and denials along the coast.
As a profession, we should ask ourselves what's the point of having these anti-YIMBYs. Why don't we also have flat Earthers in a geography program? Maybe we need anti-evolutionists arguing that stance in literature journals? Why do we give sophistry a pass just because it's left coded?
Unfortunately for academic anti-YIMBYs, building more market rate housing to lower housing prices works in practice but not in theory.
February 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The Coastal Commission’s legislative director said that a tall building with 100+ affordable homes does nothing but enrich “millionaires and billionaires and corrupt kleptocrats.” They have nearly infinite power over affordable housing approvals and denials along the coast.
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If you live in a Blue State, the most important thing you can do individually for America is get on your city council and focus entirely on building more housing. Many people in Red States will find their lives untenable very soon and need somewhere to flee to.
It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
February 24, 2025 at 7:59 PM
If you live in a Blue State, the most important thing you can do individually for America is get on your city council and focus entirely on building more housing. Many people in Red States will find their lives untenable very soon and need somewhere to flee to.
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Part of what's going on is that people who who choose tech careers sign up for a different level of risk than people who choose government careers, so government workers now being exposed to tech-like career risk feels much more traumatic on a relative basis. Like putting your grandma into crypto.
February 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Part of what's going on is that people who who choose tech careers sign up for a different level of risk than people who choose government careers, so government workers now being exposed to tech-like career risk feels much more traumatic on a relative basis. Like putting your grandma into crypto.
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I think it's both depressing and telling how many Americans (including many members of the elite media) view "masculinity" basically in terms of being an abuser and are excited and thrilled to sign up themselves and others for more abuse.
Repeating myself, but the idea of Trump & Musk as "masculine" remains bizarre. They're just the toxic and immature parts with none of the traditional "masculine" virtues. They're whiny, entitled, unreliable, dishonest, self-absorbed, never take responsibility, never put duty over self-interest, etc.
I mean, Jesus Christ, can you people even *hear* yourself?
I'm about to die of secondhand embarrassment just reading this crap.
I'm about to die of secondhand embarrassment just reading this crap.
February 13, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I think it's both depressing and telling how many Americans (including many members of the elite media) view "masculinity" basically in terms of being an abuser and are excited and thrilled to sign up themselves and others for more abuse.
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This is a very important dynamic at the ICC (International Building Code; they write the model U.S. building code), which really works against urban affordability. The voting structure is also heavily biased towards smaller jurisdictions: www.iccsafe.org/wp-content/u...
February 10, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This is a very important dynamic at the ICC (International Building Code; they write the model U.S. building code), which really works against urban affordability. The voting structure is also heavily biased towards smaller jurisdictions: www.iccsafe.org/wp-content/u...
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We don't even need to look to Spain or the Netherlands. Davis, CA has a lot of cul-de-sacs with pedestrian/bicyclist cut-throughs, which create a great, quiet, low-car-traffic volume network while providing the benefits of cul-de-sacs. You could design them for emergency evac via car, if needed.
Long a suburban standard, yet scorned by urbanists, Portlander Sam Balto @coachbalto.bsky.social thinks culdesacs are the key to safer — and more fun — neighborhoods.
Opinion: Portland needs more culdesacs
"We do we let cars dominate our residential streets while the suburbs have already solved this problem?"
bikeportland.org
February 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
We don't even need to look to Spain or the Netherlands. Davis, CA has a lot of cul-de-sacs with pedestrian/bicyclist cut-throughs, which create a great, quiet, low-car-traffic volume network while providing the benefits of cul-de-sacs. You could design them for emergency evac via car, if needed.
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To clarify as there is sometimes confusion around the advocacy of making our streets bicycle friendly.
February 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM
To clarify as there is sometimes confusion around the advocacy of making our streets bicycle friendly.
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Not every Canadian Pierre Poilievre supporter is a Trump supporter.
But every Canadian Trump supporter is a Pierre Poilievre supporter.
That’s a big red flag. #TeamCanada
But every Canadian Trump supporter is a Pierre Poilievre supporter.
That’s a big red flag. #TeamCanada
You know which Canadian has done nothing useful to support Canada during Trump’s trade war crisis?
Pierre Poilievre.
Not surprising considering his record supporting Trump, MAGA & the extremist Trucker convoy, attacks on media, connection to Stephen Harper, and refusal to get a security clearance.
Pierre Poilievre.
Not surprising considering his record supporting Trump, MAGA & the extremist Trucker convoy, attacks on media, connection to Stephen Harper, and refusal to get a security clearance.
February 5, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Not every Canadian Pierre Poilievre supporter is a Trump supporter.
But every Canadian Trump supporter is a Pierre Poilievre supporter.
That’s a big red flag. #TeamCanada
But every Canadian Trump supporter is a Pierre Poilievre supporter.
That’s a big red flag. #TeamCanada
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Seriously, they said this. 🙃
“faculty can use it to streamline administrative tasks, freeing up more time for teaching and research” openai.com/index/openai...
“faculty can use it to streamline administrative tasks, freeing up more time for teaching and research” openai.com/index/openai...
February 5, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Seriously, they said this. 🙃
“faculty can use it to streamline administrative tasks, freeing up more time for teaching and research” openai.com/index/openai...
“faculty can use it to streamline administrative tasks, freeing up more time for teaching and research” openai.com/index/openai...
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If this happens - and if Musk et al get control of BLS - then all economic bets are off.
I can’t say it any more plainly than that.
I can’t say it any more plainly than that.
NEWS: Sources tell me that DOGE is setting its sights on the Department of Labor next. DOL workers have been ordered to give DOGE access to whatever they ask for—or risk termination.
“We’re supposed to stop everything we’re doing and do whatever the DOGE kids ask… It feels dirty and illegal.”
“We’re supposed to stop everything we’re doing and do whatever the DOGE kids ask… It feels dirty and illegal.”
February 5, 2025 at 12:51 AM
If this happens - and if Musk et al get control of BLS - then all economic bets are off.
I can’t say it any more plainly than that.
I can’t say it any more plainly than that.
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Sure he owns other things, but it’s really interesting to consider that one of most significant things we collectively have the power to constructively do in these truly dangerous times is take away much of Elon Musk’s power by making Tesla worth nothing.
February 4, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Sure he owns other things, but it’s really interesting to consider that one of most significant things we collectively have the power to constructively do in these truly dangerous times is take away much of Elon Musk’s power by making Tesla worth nothing.
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I can. In fact, the Canadian version is so great, I can't think of an American equivalent. 🧵
February 5, 2025 at 2:54 AM
I can. In fact, the Canadian version is so great, I can't think of an American equivalent. 🧵
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seems fine
new reporting that Elon is instructing GSA, the agency that manages government worksites, to terminate the leases for all (!) federal offices nationwide: apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump and Musk demand termination of federal office leases through General Services Administration
One of the next moves in President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s effort to fire government employees and curtail operations is using the agency that manages federal employee worksites around the countr...
apnews.com
February 4, 2025 at 11:32 PM
seems fine
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guess what you fucking dumbasses, Claude can't run a wet lab, chatGPT can't build and repair vacuum tubes, and gemini can't do fieldwork. you still need people to do that shit and you need money to pay them and you need a bureaucracy to organize it. turns out science is hard! whoops!
January 27, 2025 at 10:52 PM
guess what you fucking dumbasses, Claude can't run a wet lab, chatGPT can't build and repair vacuum tubes, and gemini can't do fieldwork. you still need people to do that shit and you need money to pay them and you need a bureaucracy to organize it. turns out science is hard! whoops!
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Union statemente by CFA (California Faculty Association) about cuts at Sonoma State University, please share:
www.calfac.org/sonoma-state...
www.calfac.org/sonoma-state...
Sonoma State Administrators Announce Layoffs, Department Closures and Mergers - California Faculty Association
In a move that will devastate student recruitment, retention, learning, and success, Sonoma State management announced this week deep cuts to faculty,
www.calfac.org
January 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Union statemente by CFA (California Faculty Association) about cuts at Sonoma State University, please share:
www.calfac.org/sonoma-state...
www.calfac.org/sonoma-state...
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Group DMs need to happen on here way faster it’s the only thing keeping several groups from moving over.
January 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Group DMs need to happen on here way faster it’s the only thing keeping several groups from moving over.
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Heads up, the Biden-Harris White House websites are now archived! If you have an old link that gives an error, you can delete the www . whitehouse in the link (be sure to remove the www) and replace with bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/ [rest of your link]
bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/ostp/news-up...
bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/ostp/news-up...
FACT SHEET: Climate and Energy Implications of Crypto-Assets in the United States | OSTP | The White House
Climate change is one of the most pressing problems confronting our nation and our world, and President Biden has taken bold steps to address it with legislation and policy. Among the President’s comm...
bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov
January 24, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Heads up, the Biden-Harris White House websites are now archived! If you have an old link that gives an error, you can delete the www . whitehouse in the link (be sure to remove the www) and replace with bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/ [rest of your link]
bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/ostp/news-up...
bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/ostp/news-up...
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You won't believe this. My team and I make this show called SciShow that works hard to be rigorous and accurate while also being appealing and entertaining.
We reach a LOT of people every year with episodes about crabs and neutrinos and gender and cancer and vaccines.
It's great, I love it.
We reach a LOT of people every year with episodes about crabs and neutrinos and gender and cancer and vaccines.
It's great, I love it.
January 23, 2025 at 12:11 AM
You won't believe this. My team and I make this show called SciShow that works hard to be rigorous and accurate while also being appealing and entertaining.
We reach a LOT of people every year with episodes about crabs and neutrinos and gender and cancer and vaccines.
It's great, I love it.
We reach a LOT of people every year with episodes about crabs and neutrinos and gender and cancer and vaccines.
It's great, I love it.
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The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high.
January 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high.
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Job growth without housing growth guarantees gentrification.
January 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Job growth without housing growth guarantees gentrification.