Gregory Crowder
@tievape.bsky.social
Software. Housing. Transit.
Author of the Citigroup UX Manual
Author of the Citigroup UX Manual
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AD-ROCK: Yo Ebenezer you gotta show re-
BEASTIES: MORSE
AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of
Beasties: COURSE
MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy
BEASTIES: MOOCHER
MCA: We’re Christmas Past
MIKE D: Christmas Present
BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE
BEASTIES: MORSE
AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of
Beasties: COURSE
MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy
BEASTIES: MOOCHER
MCA: We’re Christmas Past
MIKE D: Christmas Present
BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE
January 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
AD-ROCK: Yo Ebenezer you gotta show re-
BEASTIES: MORSE
AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of
Beasties: COURSE
MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy
BEASTIES: MOOCHER
MCA: We’re Christmas Past
MIKE D: Christmas Present
BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE
BEASTIES: MORSE
AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of
Beasties: COURSE
MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy
BEASTIES: MOOCHER
MCA: We’re Christmas Past
MIKE D: Christmas Present
BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE
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🤦🏿♂️They've got Franklin the Turtle out here making official statements and denials?
"Kids, it wasn't me! I would never! They deepfaked me! And besides, I'm Canadian anyway."
- Franklin, probably
This Great American crashout would be funny if it weren't all so serious.
"Kids, it wasn't me! I would never! They deepfaked me! And besides, I'm Canadian anyway."
- Franklin, probably
This Great American crashout would be funny if it weren't all so serious.
December 2, 2025 at 5:07 AM
🤦🏿♂️They've got Franklin the Turtle out here making official statements and denials?
"Kids, it wasn't me! I would never! They deepfaked me! And besides, I'm Canadian anyway."
- Franklin, probably
This Great American crashout would be funny if it weren't all so serious.
"Kids, it wasn't me! I would never! They deepfaked me! And besides, I'm Canadian anyway."
- Franklin, probably
This Great American crashout would be funny if it weren't all so serious.
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Cons of the neocon true believers: they were willing to kill for constitutional democracy.
Pros of the neocon true believers: they are ready to kill for constitutional democracy.
Pros of the neocon true believers: they are ready to kill for constitutional democracy.
Is it possible that there are now issues where I am to the right of Bill Kristol??
December 2, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Cons of the neocon true believers: they were willing to kill for constitutional democracy.
Pros of the neocon true believers: they are ready to kill for constitutional democracy.
Pros of the neocon true believers: they are ready to kill for constitutional democracy.
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For that matter, equity's strongest soldiers are largely non-ideological, and not "woke" at all, but "asleep". They believe in a better America and that it has been betrayed. They don't really get the trans thing, let alone the abolition of gender they in fact think it's weird, but they support you.
December 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
For that matter, equity's strongest soldiers are largely non-ideological, and not "woke" at all, but "asleep". They believe in a better America and that it has been betrayed. They don't really get the trans thing, let alone the abolition of gender they in fact think it's weird, but they support you.
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I say this to say if my 71 year old white Dad, who faithfully bought his only granddaughter target cards for every holiday including like national peanut butter Day and is dependent on delivery commerce can tell Target to shove it, I don't want to hear it from others.
November 29, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I say this to say if my 71 year old white Dad, who faithfully bought his only granddaughter target cards for every holiday including like national peanut butter Day and is dependent on delivery commerce can tell Target to shove it, I don't want to hear it from others.
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thomas has talked me into watching red october, which i’ve never seen bc why would i want to watch that
he told me it stars “murderbot’s father” and tim curry
i know sean connery has the world’s worst accent in it
he told me it stars “murderbot’s father” and tim curry
i know sean connery has the world’s worst accent in it
November 28, 2025 at 12:51 AM
thomas has talked me into watching red october, which i’ve never seen bc why would i want to watch that
he told me it stars “murderbot’s father” and tim curry
i know sean connery has the world’s worst accent in it
he told me it stars “murderbot’s father” and tim curry
i know sean connery has the world’s worst accent in it
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i’m sorry but if i have to eat the amount of shit i do on here for keeping up to date with my field (programming and data science) somehow making me responsible for sam altman, journalism doesn’t get to plead uwu small not true scotsman
November 27, 2025 at 5:14 AM
i’m sorry but if i have to eat the amount of shit i do on here for keeping up to date with my field (programming and data science) somehow making me responsible for sam altman, journalism doesn’t get to plead uwu small not true scotsman
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did you hear about the Lisp/slam poetry meetup? it has prose and cons
November 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
did you hear about the Lisp/slam poetry meetup? it has prose and cons
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Victory! SBCTA is cancelling the ONT Tesla Tunnel project - which would have duplicated BRT with an tunnel for cars - after construction costs escalated to $1-2 B. Time to pivot to electrification and 15 minute service on the San Bernardino line, planning for future multi-use heavy rail to ONT.
November 26, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Victory! SBCTA is cancelling the ONT Tesla Tunnel project - which would have duplicated BRT with an tunnel for cars - after construction costs escalated to $1-2 B. Time to pivot to electrification and 15 minute service on the San Bernardino line, planning for future multi-use heavy rail to ONT.
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A fantastic read. Some ice cold moments: “For years, the thing with Nuzzi was that however frustrating her behavior might be, almost everyone agreed that she was a good writer… As recently as a few weeks ago, people were still saying this.”
People are calling my lede here "appalling," "nightmare fuel," "actively evil," and "a desecration of the human spirit"
The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined
Inside the most important, and also least important, story of our time
www.theringer.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:41 AM
A fantastic read. Some ice cold moments: “For years, the thing with Nuzzi was that however frustrating her behavior might be, almost everyone agreed that she was a good writer… As recently as a few weeks ago, people were still saying this.”
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Arguing about Star Wars is like the Jedi and the Sith struggling with one another over the Force. The conflict is real only to the combatants, but the Force doesn't care.
November 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Arguing about Star Wars is like the Jedi and the Sith struggling with one another over the Force. The conflict is real only to the combatants, but the Force doesn't care.
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I've said since Trump picked on Mahmoud Khalil that he was picking his political martyrs poorly.
But this one...
But this one...
November 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I've said since Trump picked on Mahmoud Khalil that he was picking his political martyrs poorly.
But this one...
But this one...
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Marjorie Taylor Greene talked about a "national divorce" in the United States. Republicans stormed the Capitol and a majority of Republicans in the House of Representatives objected to the 2020 presidential election results *after* the riot.
November 24, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Marjorie Taylor Greene talked about a "national divorce" in the United States. Republicans stormed the Capitol and a majority of Republicans in the House of Representatives objected to the 2020 presidential election results *after* the riot.
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It does look like Molotov-Ribbentrop all over again, in that clearly nobody checked with Poland. "European fighter jets will be stationed in Poland." The Polish air force may be surprised to learn that was ever in question, seeing as they are, uh, Europeans with fighter jets stationed in Poland.
Dmitriev-Witkoff pact
November 22, 2025 at 5:14 AM
It does look like Molotov-Ribbentrop all over again, in that clearly nobody checked with Poland. "European fighter jets will be stationed in Poland." The Polish air force may be surprised to learn that was ever in question, seeing as they are, uh, Europeans with fighter jets stationed in Poland.
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Rounding Out LA's Holy Trinity of Future Rail
YouTube video by nandert
www.youtube.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
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I don't know how bad this is on the GOP side, but Democrats have a huge "club" problem. There are dozens of people I could name off the top of my head who have more to say about housing policy than Larry Summers but unfortunately, none of them are DC insiders.
NEW: Before the recent Epstein disclosures, Larry Summers was poised to lead the economic policy plank for the Democrats' "Project 2029" effort at the Center for American Progress. He signed off on a housing policy paper CAP was prepping for next week.
prospect.org/2025/11/14/e...
prospect.org/2025/11/14/e...
Epstein Confidant Larry Summers Guiding Democrats’ ‘Project 2029’ - The American Prospect
Summers was overseeing the economic policy plank of the Center for American Progress’s effort. Emails released this week show him in regular contact with Jeffrey Epstein.
prospect.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I don't know how bad this is on the GOP side, but Democrats have a huge "club" problem. There are dozens of people I could name off the top of my head who have more to say about housing policy than Larry Summers but unfortunately, none of them are DC insiders.
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I'm seeing chatter about the rising tide and all boats. And, I really hate to have to say this, but I think in our current condition, it is wrong. Or, at least overstated.
kevinerdmann.substack.com/p/im-afraid-...
kevinerdmann.substack.com/p/im-afraid-...
I'm afraid the economy isn't improving for everyone
Alex Tabarrok has a post at Marginal Revolution linking to a post from Jeremy Horpedahl at Economist Writing Every Day about rising real incomes.
kevinerdmann.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I'm seeing chatter about the rising tide and all boats. And, I really hate to have to say this, but I think in our current condition, it is wrong. Or, at least overstated.
kevinerdmann.substack.com/p/im-afraid-...
kevinerdmann.substack.com/p/im-afraid-...
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Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like:
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 13, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like:
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
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jeffrey epstein won't see your jokes about how poorly written his emails were, but your barely literate friends also won't see them, because they can't read. fire away
November 13, 2025 at 4:55 AM
jeffrey epstein won't see your jokes about how poorly written his emails were, but your barely literate friends also won't see them, because they can't read. fire away
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Katie Wilson is leading in the Seattle mayor's race!
November 10, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Katie Wilson is leading in the Seattle mayor's race!
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Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
November 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
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Notice how people are using this about Elon's trillion dollar deal, which happens in 10 years IFF:
- The ai bubble doesn't pop
- He makes an army of 1 million robots
- He octuples Tesla's value
- He doesn't die
Etc
It's very much subjunctive, very much future tense. And yet.
- The ai bubble doesn't pop
- He makes an army of 1 million robots
- He octuples Tesla's value
- He doesn't die
Etc
It's very much subjunctive, very much future tense. And yet.
There's an interesting grammatical tense used only to talk about powerful, wealthy people, where they have simultaneously done the thing, are doing the thing, and will do the thing.
Totally divorced from the concept of linear time, the only important element is: important person and thing.
Totally divorced from the concept of linear time, the only important element is: important person and thing.
November 8, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Notice how people are using this about Elon's trillion dollar deal, which happens in 10 years IFF:
- The ai bubble doesn't pop
- He makes an army of 1 million robots
- He octuples Tesla's value
- He doesn't die
Etc
It's very much subjunctive, very much future tense. And yet.
- The ai bubble doesn't pop
- He makes an army of 1 million robots
- He octuples Tesla's value
- He doesn't die
Etc
It's very much subjunctive, very much future tense. And yet.