Mr. Nick Beaudrot
@nbeaudrot.bsky.social
Math Dad.
Aspiring-to-comeback Triathlete.
Fall Out Boy apologist.
Aspiring-to-comeback Triathlete.
Fall Out Boy apologist.
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Mr. Nick Beaudrot
@nbeaudrot.bsky.social
· Nov 15
"Inflation is very unpopular and the median voter's views on crime and immigration are closer to Trump's than Harris's" is like 90% more accurate than every narrative take out there that focuses on Rogan, trans rights, "the information environment", etc
The Pope is sports guy and a movie guy, he's the Bluesky elder millennial Pope.
November 17, 2025 at 4:23 AM
The Pope is sports guy and a movie guy, he's the Bluesky elder millennial Pope.
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Left yimbys have to be unified in not allowing higher MHA! There will be a lot of pressure on Wilson to raise it and that would be a disaster for market rate housing in our city.
@wilsonforseattle.bsky.social
1. Get rid of min. parking requirements
2. Temporarily end MHA to spur building for 3 yrs
3. Get rid of design review temporarily for 3 yrs
4. Don’t allow NIMBYs in wealthy areas to slow down development; sue them every time as a deterrent for future efforts
1. Get rid of min. parking requirements
2. Temporarily end MHA to spur building for 3 yrs
3. Get rid of design review temporarily for 3 yrs
4. Don’t allow NIMBYs in wealthy areas to slow down development; sue them every time as a deterrent for future efforts
November 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Left yimbys have to be unified in not allowing higher MHA! There will be a lot of pressure on Wilson to raise it and that would be a disaster for market rate housing in our city.
Keep the tush push but make the false start booth reviewable.
November 17, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Keep the tush push but make the false start booth reviewable.
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The Mexican Jarritos Instagram account has fewer followers per capita (1 in 2940) than the South Korean Jarritos Instagram account does (1 in 2810).
November 17, 2025 at 3:46 AM
The Mexican Jarritos Instagram account has fewer followers per capita (1 in 2940) than the South Korean Jarritos Instagram account does (1 in 2810).
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my wife says to me, “If you could have stopped Ronnie from going into the stands, none of this would have happened.” I say, “Well, Jesus, if I could have stopped Ron from going into the stands, I would be playing in the NFL.”
grantland.com/features/an-...
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November 17, 2025 at 2:11 AM
my wife says to me, “If you could have stopped Ronnie from going into the stands, none of this would have happened.” I say, “Well, Jesus, if I could have stopped Ron from going into the stands, I would be playing in the NFL.”
grantland.com/features/an-...
grantland.com/features/an-...
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I think they’re 2 of the 3-4 best teams in football and the fact that it was so close reflects that!
If you are the Rams, and you are realistic, that game should scare you. It took 4 Sam Darnold pics to barely win at home.
November 17, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I think they’re 2 of the 3-4 best teams in football and the fact that it was so close reflects that!
Not me feeling good about the Seahawks after a loss.
Yeah, I'm never big on moral victories but I think this might be one.
November 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Not me feeling good about the Seahawks after a loss.
Certainly in civil rights, the (correct!) presumption was every government employee between your and the supreme Court did not want to do you any favors. A similar mindset existed in environmental law.
We live in a different world and we probably need procedures that reflect it.
We live in a different world and we probably need procedures that reflect it.
So much of the boomer liberal and for that matter left instinct is deeply suspicious of scale or being processed by A System. School, Government, Industry, Nuclear, etc etc are all of a kind.
November 16, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Certainly in civil rights, the (correct!) presumption was every government employee between your and the supreme Court did not want to do you any favors. A similar mindset existed in environmental law.
We live in a different world and we probably need procedures that reflect it.
We live in a different world and we probably need procedures that reflect it.
Again as a reminder this gets back to something like the 2020 coalition, not 2016 let alone 2012
More broadly, the 2024-2025 pro-Democratic shifts seem to be biggest in the poorest areas while in the richest towns the electorate got more Republican, ruining many a narrative
NEW: New Jersey’s township data is (mostly) in, so
@shanegoldmacher.bsky.social & I crunched the numbers on NJ’s blue shift/pendulum swing
The same majority-Hispanic cities & towns that swung to Trump in 24 shifted back D, to Mikie Sherrill, in the governor’s race
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...
@shanegoldmacher.bsky.social & I crunched the numbers on NJ’s blue shift/pendulum swing
The same majority-Hispanic cities & towns that swung to Trump in 24 shifted back D, to Mikie Sherrill, in the governor’s race
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...
November 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Again as a reminder this gets back to something like the 2020 coalition, not 2016 let alone 2012
The Neoliberal Lorax would have auctioned off of tradeable Truffula harvesting permits and we'd all be better off.
The Lorax should have organized the animals and sued the Onceler for trespass or arranged for sustainable Truffula harvest or gone full ecoterrorist or something /anything/ to arrest the inevitable.
November 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The Neoliberal Lorax would have auctioned off of tradeable Truffula harvesting permits and we'd all be better off.
Seuss wrote the book from La Jolla (suburban San Diego) during postwar/boomer suburbanization. It's pure NIMBYism and air/water pollution concerns today are just not the issue they were at the time.
In retrospect, the Lorax is the most disastrous children's book to have ever been written. The beloved book depicts economies of scale as destructive and environmental advocacy as failing to achieve any of your goals except being smug and correct in the end when industry burns itself out.
November 16, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Seuss wrote the book from La Jolla (suburban San Diego) during postwar/boomer suburbanization. It's pure NIMBYism and air/water pollution concerns today are just not the issue they were at the time.
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Every summer since 1983, workers at Crater Lake National Park have gathered data about the lake’s famous clarity. The biologist Scott Girdner has led much of this work. When he retires, a hiring freeze will leave his position unfilled indefinitely. www.quantamagazine.org/mixing-is-th...
November 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Every summer since 1983, workers at Crater Lake National Park have gathered data about the lake’s famous clarity. The biologist Scott Girdner has led much of this work. When he retires, a hiring freeze will leave his position unfilled indefinitely. www.quantamagazine.org/mixing-is-th...
Tiktok is a sin, let's go
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
November 16, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Tiktok is a sin, let's go
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Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
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There's lots of ways into this, but if you believe Sam Altman is full of shit when he predicts super intelligence by 2030, you should also believe he's full of shit when he states AI will consume 250 GW by 2033. It's about as meaningful as saying we'll colonize Mars.
November 14, 2025 at 1:40 AM
There's lots of ways into this, but if you believe Sam Altman is full of shit when he predicts super intelligence by 2030, you should also believe he's full of shit when he states AI will consume 250 GW by 2033. It's about as meaningful as saying we'll colonize Mars.
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Very sad to hear about the passing of legendary Seahawks safety Kenny Easley--one of the hardest hitting dudes to ever play the game, and a fascinating guy who stood up to management at many turns. RIP.
November 15, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Very sad to hear about the passing of legendary Seahawks safety Kenny Easley--one of the hardest hitting dudes to ever play the game, and a fascinating guy who stood up to management at many turns. RIP.
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The world, like the Mandelbrot set, is not a fractal, but something much more complex.
(Will thread if there's popular demand.)
(Will thread if there's popular demand.)
July 4, 2025 at 3:46 AM
The world, like the Mandelbrot set, is not a fractal, but something much more complex.
(Will thread if there's popular demand.)
(Will thread if there's popular demand.)
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1. By popular demand, 🧵 on the Mandelbrot set, fractals, and some analogies outside math. The tl;dr version is that the Mandelbrot set isn't fractal but quasi-fractal and that makes it considerably more complex.
November 15, 2025 at 10:22 PM
1. By popular demand, 🧵 on the Mandelbrot set, fractals, and some analogies outside math. The tl;dr version is that the Mandelbrot set isn't fractal but quasi-fractal and that makes it considerably more complex.
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Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information!
Silicon Valley, 2025:
Silicon Valley, 2025:
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November 15, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information!
Silicon Valley, 2025:
Silicon Valley, 2025:
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The most on-brand and accessible "aggressive" or quick fix Mayor Wilson could do, is to unblock key bus route bottlenecks. Much of our bus lane network is effectively wasted because careless/selfish car drivers routinely queue up blocking bus lane turns every rush hour.
Like here at Valley/Westlake
Like here at Valley/Westlake
November 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The most on-brand and accessible "aggressive" or quick fix Mayor Wilson could do, is to unblock key bus route bottlenecks. Much of our bus lane network is effectively wasted because careless/selfish car drivers routinely queue up blocking bus lane turns every rush hour.
Like here at Valley/Westlake
Like here at Valley/Westlake
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I’d also love to see her very aggressively fix some problems, but I’m not hopeful that the electorate would understand that that’s what she’s done. I don’t think it will help her get reelected.
One of the few things the Abundance people are straightforwardly right about is that progressives need to stand up for their values and demonstrate their worth.
Wilson should be *extremely* aggressive in making the city better. Win the next election on outcomes, not process.
Wilson should be *extremely* aggressive in making the city better. Win the next election on outcomes, not process.
The way for progressive mayors to win reelections is to go all in
November 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I’d also love to see her very aggressively fix some problems, but I’m not hopeful that the electorate would understand that that’s what she’s done. I don’t think it will help her get reelected.
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Thriller where three women stumble onto a sinister conspiracy in Washington DC but it’s Nancy Mace, Boebert and MTG
November 15, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Thriller where three women stumble onto a sinister conspiracy in Washington DC but it’s Nancy Mace, Boebert and MTG
You can't do scorigamis for individual stat lines. That's not a thing.
November 15, 2025 at 3:32 AM
You can't do scorigamis for individual stat lines. That's not a thing.
Post your favorite Star Trek character, wrong answers only.
November 15, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Post your favorite Star Trek character, wrong answers only.