Nathaniel Garry
@potatohead.bsky.social
Unadilla Valley Middle School ‘13
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this is only adjacent to the topic but I really hate the "this person will kick cancer's ass" style of discussion about illness. cancer is a tsunami. you might get lucky and survive it but you don't fight it. you get lucky enough to catch it early, and to have a cancer that we can treat, or not
Virginia Democratic Party Chair’s response to my reporting warning that Gerry Connolly was terminally ill back in December
May 22, 2025 at 12:51 AM
this is only adjacent to the topic but I really hate the "this person will kick cancer's ass" style of discussion about illness. cancer is a tsunami. you might get lucky and survive it but you don't fight it. you get lucky enough to catch it early, and to have a cancer that we can treat, or not
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People on bikes are good for business.
We knew it. Now you do too!
@trecpdx.bsky.social + other researchers found more bikes mean more sales.
Now a study from NYCDOT confirms it. A bike lane brings in tourists, delivers jobs, and boosts retail sales up to 49%.
www.fastcompany.com/90182112/wan...
We knew it. Now you do too!
@trecpdx.bsky.social + other researchers found more bikes mean more sales.
Now a study from NYCDOT confirms it. A bike lane brings in tourists, delivers jobs, and boosts retail sales up to 49%.
www.fastcompany.com/90182112/wan...
Want To Make Money? Build A Business On A Bike Lane
Research from New York City notes that newly installed protected bike lanes do more than keep bikers safe--they raise the income of the stores they are in front of.
www.fastcompany.com
December 2, 2024 at 10:10 AM
People on bikes are good for business.
We knew it. Now you do too!
@trecpdx.bsky.social + other researchers found more bikes mean more sales.
Now a study from NYCDOT confirms it. A bike lane brings in tourists, delivers jobs, and boosts retail sales up to 49%.
www.fastcompany.com/90182112/wan...
We knew it. Now you do too!
@trecpdx.bsky.social + other researchers found more bikes mean more sales.
Now a study from NYCDOT confirms it. A bike lane brings in tourists, delivers jobs, and boosts retail sales up to 49%.
www.fastcompany.com/90182112/wan...
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People want to consume media that flatters them instead of challenging them, and there’s now a way to do that at scale, and that incentivizes the production of it. This synergizes well with something @opinionhaver.bsky.social said that has really stuck with me:
April 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
People want to consume media that flatters them instead of challenging them, and there’s now a way to do that at scale, and that incentivizes the production of it. This synergizes well with something @opinionhaver.bsky.social said that has really stuck with me:
Propreantepenultimate: 5th to last.
Words can be fun
Words can be fun
April 11, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Propreantepenultimate: 5th to last.
Words can be fun
Words can be fun
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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
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The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
Killing children is by design, I'm afraid. "Pro-natalists" like Musk claim they aren't racist, but their pressure to have children is solely focused on white women, while they back policies that literally kill of non-white children.
He's a eugenicist.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
He's a eugenicist.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
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Do you love the walkable neighborhood core of Capitol Hill, Columbia City, Fremont, Ballard, Green Lake, Beacon Hill, Madrona, Queen Anne, or the U District? Thank a streetcar line.
December 14, 2024 at 4:09 AM
Do you love the walkable neighborhood core of Capitol Hill, Columbia City, Fremont, Ballard, Green Lake, Beacon Hill, Madrona, Queen Anne, or the U District? Thank a streetcar line.
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Walmart’s defenders argue that the company's low prices are a boon to poor and middle-class families, Rogé Karma writes. But new research suggests that Walmart “makes the places it operates in poorer than they would be if it had never shown up at all”: theatln.tc/qiYz3E5C
The Walmart Effect
New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.
theatln.tc
December 24, 2024 at 1:28 PM
Walmart’s defenders argue that the company's low prices are a boon to poor and middle-class families, Rogé Karma writes. But new research suggests that Walmart “makes the places it operates in poorer than they would be if it had never shown up at all”: theatln.tc/qiYz3E5C
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"If the plan goes through, hundreds of billions of dollars of public assets will be spent or leveraged to buy a million Bitcoins, allowing the tiny minority of Bitcoin moguls to finally cash out their holdings into real money." prospect.org/power/2024-1...
The Crypto Plot Against America’s Gold Reserves
National Treasure: Bitcoin Edition
prospect.org
December 6, 2024 at 4:00 AM
"If the plan goes through, hundreds of billions of dollars of public assets will be spent or leveraged to buy a million Bitcoins, allowing the tiny minority of Bitcoin moguls to finally cash out their holdings into real money." prospect.org/power/2024-1...
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PSA: If one ever needs to see/share a link from twitter, use xcancel.com , in short type 'cancel' after the X in any link and it will display a mirror of the tweet, not giving it any clicks or other traffic.
ie clicking xcancel.com/elonmusk does not contribute to views or advertiser stats
ie clicking xcancel.com/elonmusk does not contribute to views or advertiser stats
X Cancelled
xcancel.com
November 6, 2024 at 9:10 PM
PSA: If one ever needs to see/share a link from twitter, use xcancel.com , in short type 'cancel' after the X in any link and it will display a mirror of the tweet, not giving it any clicks or other traffic.
ie clicking xcancel.com/elonmusk does not contribute to views or advertiser stats
ie clicking xcancel.com/elonmusk does not contribute to views or advertiser stats
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,064,446!
September 20, 2024 at 8:49 PM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,064,446!
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The transience of nice things is a difficult truth
April 29, 2024 at 7:34 AM
The transience of nice things is a difficult truth
Growth economies rely on waste
February 23, 2024 at 11:23 PM
Growth economies rely on waste
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"Everyone’s a sellout now"
Naomi Klein is quoted (via The Guardian) saying the biggest change in the world since 1999 is "neoliberalism has created so much precarity that the commodification of the self is now seen as the only route to any kind of economic security."
Naomi Klein is quoted (via The Guardian) saying the biggest change in the world since 1999 is "neoliberalism has created so much precarity that the commodification of the self is now seen as the only route to any kind of economic security."
Everybody has to self-promote now. Nobody wants to.
So you want to be an artist. Do you have to start a TikTok?
www.vox.com
February 2, 2024 at 3:03 AM
"Everyone’s a sellout now"
Naomi Klein is quoted (via The Guardian) saying the biggest change in the world since 1999 is "neoliberalism has created so much precarity that the commodification of the self is now seen as the only route to any kind of economic security."
Naomi Klein is quoted (via The Guardian) saying the biggest change in the world since 1999 is "neoliberalism has created so much precarity that the commodification of the self is now seen as the only route to any kind of economic security."
January 31, 2024 at 7:11 PM
January 11, 2024 at 8:05 AM
I was born in the late 1900s
November 30, 2023 at 6:00 PM
I was born in the late 1900s
Here at last. Hello SkyWorld
November 19, 2023 at 10:01 PM
Here at last. Hello SkyWorld