Alex Holt
@skatingtomato.bsky.social
Still your friendly neighborhood geek/“propogandist.” Baltimore/Maryland correspondent for GGW. He/him. Vocal advocacy classist. Tranist. #ActuallyAutistic
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Alex Holt
@skatingtomato.bsky.social
· Feb 20
What to watch in the 2025 Maryland General Assembly
Between a budget crunch, a housing crisis, and a new appetite in Annapolis for tackling longstanding energy and environmental issues, this year’s Maryland General Assembly session could be a very prod...
ggwash.org
My latest article for @ggwash.org takes a look at some of the biggest urbanist bills of #MDGA25, especially in transit, housing, & even the environment. Check it out, there's a lot of good stuff being discussed in Annapolis, even amidst all the chaos in Washington: ggwash.org/view/98490/w...
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brain-boiling from lockdown and such is absolutely part of it but I'm mostly referring to the sheer weight of unprocessed grief bsky.app/profile/docs...
That’s right. The experience of Covid comprehensively and irreparably boiled the brains of at least a third of our fellow citizens and we’re gonna be dealing with the consequences of this shit for the rest of our lives.
November 24, 2025 at 4:47 AM
brain-boiling from lockdown and such is absolutely part of it but I'm mostly referring to the sheer weight of unprocessed grief bsky.app/profile/docs...
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it's the COVID psychic damage
The biggest blackpill for me was a poll that found that, despite Trump's abysmal approvals and Dems cleaning house lately, an hypothetical 2024 rematch would still be a tossup. The insane reality is that a majority of US voters really experienced the Biden years as some kind of epochal catastrophe!
“I’m not gonna lie to you about the economy like Biden and trump and say it was great“
“Achtually the economy was great under Biden, the guy we dumped 4 months out from the general here are some charts“
If you think the 100% true fact that the economy was good under Biden is relevant youre dumb
“Achtually the economy was great under Biden, the guy we dumped 4 months out from the general here are some charts“
If you think the 100% true fact that the economy was good under Biden is relevant youre dumb
November 24, 2025 at 4:17 AM
it's the COVID psychic damage
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We Thought You Was a Toad, Charlie Brown
Is it safe, Charlie Brown?
We’re going to need a bigger boat, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 3:27 AM
We Thought You Was a Toad, Charlie Brown
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I have never seen any literature to back up this assertion.
Nor have I seen any acknowledgment of the primary trade-off, namely crashes occurring when one party mistakes a two-way stop control intersection for a four-way, which seems to happen quite frequently.
Nor have I seen any acknowledgment of the primary trade-off, namely crashes occurring when one party mistakes a two-way stop control intersection for a four-way, which seems to happen quite frequently.
November 24, 2025 at 4:44 AM
I have never seen any literature to back up this assertion.
Nor have I seen any acknowledgment of the primary trade-off, namely crashes occurring when one party mistakes a two-way stop control intersection for a four-way, which seems to happen quite frequently.
Nor have I seen any acknowledgment of the primary trade-off, namely crashes occurring when one party mistakes a two-way stop control intersection for a four-way, which seems to happen quite frequently.
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The entire practice of sprinkling two-way stops into a network of four-way stops is based on a traffic engineer myth that drivers experience so-called "stop sign fatigue," and that reducing the number of stop signs increases compliance.
November 24, 2025 at 4:44 AM
The entire practice of sprinkling two-way stops into a network of four-way stops is based on a traffic engineer myth that drivers experience so-called "stop sign fatigue," and that reducing the number of stop signs increases compliance.
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I joined the DSA eight years ago
When I joined, we were so small scale that I had to paint banners for marches on bedsheets
Eight years later, we won the mayorship of the greatest city on earth
When I joined, we were so small scale that I had to paint banners for marches on bedsheets
Eight years later, we won the mayorship of the greatest city on earth
November 24, 2025 at 4:47 AM
I joined the DSA eight years ago
When I joined, we were so small scale that I had to paint banners for marches on bedsheets
Eight years later, we won the mayorship of the greatest city on earth
When I joined, we were so small scale that I had to paint banners for marches on bedsheets
Eight years later, we won the mayorship of the greatest city on earth
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Do they think solar panels like… sap the sun?
Anti-solar NIMBYs aren't beating the accusations of being pretty dim bulbs. "Extracting from the sky" is a good one
November 24, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Do they think solar panels like… sap the sun?
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Caring that what you say is true really is a disadvantage in the modern political comms ecosystem
November 24, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Caring that what you say is true really is a disadvantage in the modern political comms ecosystem
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There are a lot of different versions circulating. They're all AI generated.
November 24, 2025 at 4:25 AM
There are a lot of different versions circulating. They're all AI generated.
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It's part of a trend of putting these guys in environments where billionaires would be unlikely to hang out.
November 24, 2025 at 4:16 AM
It's part of a trend of putting these guys in environments where billionaires would be unlikely to hang out.
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I've seen this image enough now that I feel like I should point out it's fake.
November 24, 2025 at 4:12 AM
I've seen this image enough now that I feel like I should point out it's fake.
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i have no idea what the anwser is but im guessing its not something you can do with some airstrikes and special forces
November 24, 2025 at 4:26 AM
i have no idea what the anwser is but im guessing its not something you can do with some airstrikes and special forces
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what kind of resources do you need to occupy a country 2/3rds the population of iraq who’s two core geographies are “ultradense urban jungle ” and “rainforest”
November 24, 2025 at 4:24 AM
what kind of resources do you need to occupy a country 2/3rds the population of iraq who’s two core geographies are “ultradense urban jungle ” and “rainforest”
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not my wheelhouse here but i suspect the scenario where he pulls off a regime change, the likes of which nominally competent and popular governments have been failing at for my entire life, still involves a nonzero number of US soldiers dying. i do not know how he sells that to the public
I don't think these results show what people think they show. Lots of lefty wishful thinking about this being a Vietnam for Trump. Handled right, it could be his biggest success. Not likely but possible, and people need to be aware of that.
Trump had found an issue more unpopular than his handling of inflation - attacking Venezuela:
www.cbsnews.com/feature/cbs-...
www.cbsnews.com/feature/cbs-...
November 24, 2025 at 4:21 AM
not my wheelhouse here but i suspect the scenario where he pulls off a regime change, the likes of which nominally competent and popular governments have been failing at for my entire life, still involves a nonzero number of US soldiers dying. i do not know how he sells that to the public
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The full total of RFK’s arguments against vaccines are that someone makes money so the entire scientific community is compromised.
Which is the logic of a total child.
The shirt you’re wearing made someone money, does that mean it doesn’t cover your gross torso?
Which is the logic of a total child.
The shirt you’re wearing made someone money, does that mean it doesn’t cover your gross torso?
November 24, 2025 at 4:26 AM
The full total of RFK’s arguments against vaccines are that someone makes money so the entire scientific community is compromised.
Which is the logic of a total child.
The shirt you’re wearing made someone money, does that mean it doesn’t cover your gross torso?
Which is the logic of a total child.
The shirt you’re wearing made someone money, does that mean it doesn’t cover your gross torso?
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If NBC News is saying this shit it really really makes it that much harder to pretend there's any audience on Twitter whatsoever. The 9 real humans left on that platform just farting in the same room over and over just constant Dutch ovens
X's new location transparency feature shows that a slew of MAGA-branded accounts are apparently based outside the U.S., and also stirred speculative outrage over where the Department of Homeland Security account was created.
X's new location transparency feature unleashes questions about origins of MAGA accounts
The function, which shows that a slew of MAGA-branded accounts are apparently based outside the U.S., also stirred speculative outrage over where the Department of Homeland Security account was created.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:26 AM
If NBC News is saying this shit it really really makes it that much harder to pretend there's any audience on Twitter whatsoever. The 9 real humans left on that platform just farting in the same room over and over just constant Dutch ovens
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Let’s not forget Britian’s greatest linguistic crime: how they pronounce “schedule”
November 24, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Let’s not forget Britian’s greatest linguistic crime: how they pronounce “schedule”
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Aluminum with an extraneous i? Read the Treaty of Paris.
All those unnecessary u’s in color and flavor etc? We won the war.
A spelling of fetus so heinous it implies the baby is a monster? Should’ve prevailed at the Siege of Yorktown if you want to behave like that.
All those unnecessary u’s in color and flavor etc? We won the war.
A spelling of fetus so heinous it implies the baby is a monster? Should’ve prevailed at the Siege of Yorktown if you want to behave like that.
November 24, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Aluminum with an extraneous i? Read the Treaty of Paris.
All those unnecessary u’s in color and flavor etc? We won the war.
A spelling of fetus so heinous it implies the baby is a monster? Should’ve prevailed at the Siege of Yorktown if you want to behave like that.
All those unnecessary u’s in color and flavor etc? We won the war.
A spelling of fetus so heinous it implies the baby is a monster? Should’ve prevailed at the Siege of Yorktown if you want to behave like that.
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As with all semantical disputes, Britain forfeited the right to call cookies biscuits in the Treaty of Paris.
love the website where posting a picture of a biscuit inspires deranged comments and some of the most tedious discourse imaginable
November 24, 2025 at 4:03 AM
As with all semantical disputes, Britain forfeited the right to call cookies biscuits in the Treaty of Paris.
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'manufacturing consent is for nerds': the regime
November 24, 2025 at 4:22 AM
'manufacturing consent is for nerds': the regime
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absolutely. no one. does. their goddamn homework.
November 24, 2025 at 4:20 AM
absolutely. no one. does. their goddamn homework.
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Congrats to the Giants for being the first team eliminated. Great job Mara family, helluva decade!
With the Rams win, the Arizona Cardinals have been eliminated from the NFC West.
The updated NFC playoff picture!
The updated NFC playoff picture!
November 24, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Congrats to the Giants for being the first team eliminated. Great job Mara family, helluva decade!
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England etc actually did do a bunch of ‘criminal’ removal but it wasn’t hangings, it was transport to the colonies
I don't know what even the point of arguing with these people is anymore, but the idea that "the crime gene" had been weeded out by 19th-20th century Europe is something you have to be a genuine imbecile to believe.
musk agreeing with an explicitly eugenicist post
November 24, 2025 at 3:04 AM
England etc actually did do a bunch of ‘criminal’ removal but it wasn’t hangings, it was transport to the colonies
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Leave The Gun, Take The Cannoli, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Leave The Gun, Take The Cannoli, Charlie Brown