Urban Futurist Democrat
urbfuturistdem.bsky.social
Urban Futurist Democrat
@urbfuturistdem.bsky.social
The future is urban. It's here, if we want it.

East Bay, CA
The Metropolis is born free, but almost everywhere it is in chains
December 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Here's a whole magazine article from 1928 on the origin & use of the phrase. Taste is not mentioned; examples are given in a wide range of service matters, and it's described as a statement of policy & attitude more than of fact.

I think we can put a pin in that folktale!
December 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Oh, those days of abundant over the counter amphetamine
December 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
"Metropolitan ostracism" - legally bar officials who abused the public trust from living in or (with exceptions) even entering any metropolitan or micropolitan statistical area.

Like keeping Russian officials out of the EU.

So e.g. for Texas, only the white areas.
December 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Interesting. Religious identification stopped declining among Americans this decade, but certainty seems significantly down, & declining comparably in each age group www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...

@faineg.bsky.social that since-deleted post you quoted was of the 2014 study, for reference
December 2, 2025 at 5:44 PM
December 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
December 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I have to say, with data through August I am not seeing the tariffs' impact anywhere near the level predicted. It does seem like between a range of tactics, USMCA certification, optimizing import sources by tariff level, corps forgoing some profits, etc., the bullet has not hit at the macro level.
December 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
November 29, 2025 at 5:13 PM
If every Republican voter were a MAGA Republican, why would we ever use the qualifier? </pedant>
November 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Hmmm, this may be relevant too. There were a lot more Brits in my online spheres than there were C/S Americans. Maybe they were the ones transmitting this to me
November 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Probably hom, hum, or hume
November 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Kermit's residence could also have stood some vacancy taxation it seems
November 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
"Can you, like, mark down that I'm commenting in outrage?"
November 25, 2025 at 5:17 AM
November 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The next transition seems to have been in the 19th century, where in "rough" settings it started to be used as the _consequence_ of violence - the implication being "I'll knock you cross-eyed."

From 'Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry', compiled by Yeats:
November 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
While "for" was less common, it also seemed to run to earlier dates. Eventually I found this key in an 1881 glossary, quoting an Erasmus translation from 1543:
November 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Nobody Scores! by BBolt never quote took off, but it's still online & worth going through. nobodyscores.loosenutstudio.com

I still have a hard time believing this one is from 2006.
November 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Yeah, if I were quitting a job with scheduled holidays but no PTO bank, I too would time out my resignation to maximize salary and minimize work
November 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
I know how this story ends
November 21, 2025 at 1:51 AM
November 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Like this?
November 19, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I think Epstein's spelling & diction were aspirational to the fourth of these
November 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM