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DW Rowlands

@82streetcar.bsky.social
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Freelance Urban Geographer and Master of Social and Anti-Social Sciences. A trains-trans in exile (from Maryland to South Holland). Learning Dutch.

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 23h
happy John Brown day!
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Julia Curlee @juliacurlee.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
If this is true, the White House has blood on its hands. Weaponizing Ukraine’s reliance on Starshield—hobbling the interceptors that stop incoming Russian Shaheds—is a disgusting use of US leverage over a country fighting for its existence. Slava Ukraini
reuters.com
EXCLUSIVE: Order to limit Starshield for Ukraine came from inside White House, sources say
The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine ​for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefe...
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Global medieval trade alert 🚨 “Archaeologists digging in the medieval city of Great Zimbabwe have discovered pieces of jade-green Chinese pottery, suggesting that the enigmatic empire had long-distance connections with East Asia more than 1,000 years ago.” Fab article by Dr. @killgrove.bsky.social
livescience.com
Chinese pottery discovered in Great Zimbabwe reveals medieval African empire's vast connections spanning thousands of miles
Archaeologists excavating a medieval African kingdom have discovered pottery from eastern China, revealing connections across continents.
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Dinah Rose KC @dinahrose.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Remembering Gwyneth Bebb today. She passed Oxford law finals with first class marks in 1913, but was refused a degree. The CA rejected her claim to become a solicitor, saying only men were "persons" within the legislation. In 1920 she finally became a Bar student. But died in childbirth in 1921.
Screenshot of a Facebook post recording the fact that on this day in 1920, women were awarded Oxford degrees for the first time. Image of graduating women.
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NOS @nieuws.nos.nl · 14/10/2026
Staking streekvervoer begonnen, impact moet nog blijken
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Staking streekvervoer begonnen, impact moet nog blijken
Aanleiding voor de staking is het mislukken van cao-onderhandelingen. Sommige ov-bedrijven zijn uitgezonderd, zoals het stadsvervoer in Amsterdam en Den Haag.
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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Frankly I've come to the conclusion that the British Empire was a Common Law thing that was never statutorily defined.
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They/Them (T. T. Perry) @ttpphd.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Cepeda‐Emiliani, Alfonso, et al. "The sensory penis: A comprehensive immunohistological and ontogenetic exploration of human penile innervation." Andrology (2026) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec... #SexEd #SexualHealth #SexMed #Circumcision
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/andr.70118
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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I actually don’t think most Americans understand how much damage has been done to the nation, the deep madness of choosing to be governed by people who themselves are a madness of “anything could be true but really nothing is” Everything we thought we stood for and we thought protected us is gone
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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 12/10/2026
The conclusion. For those who don't know, gauntlet tracks are two sets of tracks that interlace and share a single bed so they can run very close together. AFAIK, this is possible thanks to being able to drive line of sight. A clever solution! (Thanks to @82streetcar.bsky.social for showing me!)
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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 12/10/2026
Something for your (various North American) holiday Monday: In Amsterdam, sometimes trams narrow down to a single "lane" using gauntlet tracks so they can travel down narrow and busy streets. Fun to watch!
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Just thinking about this as the state harasses Ilhan Omar over 40 year old paperwork.
washingtonpost.com
Elon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegally
Investors in Musk’s first company worried about “our founder being deported” and gave him a deadline for obtaining a work visa.
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tpwrtrdmn @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Anine is one of the people who worked to expose the research misconduct against trans people at Oslo University Hospital. Yesterday, she was told she is no longer on their waitlist to receive gender-affirming care. This is so obviously retaliatory, it's hard to put into words!
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DW Rowlands @82streetcar.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ugg...
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𝔫𝔬𝔯𝔞 𝔫𝔢𝔠𝔯𝔬𝔰𝔦𝔰𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔢𝔯 🏳️‍⚧️ @neurosismancer.gay · 07/10/2026
YOOOO LETS FUCKIN GOOOOOOOOO
gothamist.com
NYC moves to spend nearly $9M of gender-affirming care fund for minors
The funding is part of a $15 million investment announced in June as major hospitals retreated from providing such care.
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DW Rowlands @82streetcar.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This article about what gets missed by wildfire damage counts in the context of the Eaton Fire in Altadena, California was a worthwhile read. And not just because it's of personal interest to me as someone who went to college in Pasadena and knows the area well. placesjournal.org/article/what...
placesjournal.org
What the Count Misses
Wildfire recovery tends to overlook damage that can’t be measured. In Altadena, the number of buildings that burned in the Eaton Fire says little about what residents really lost.
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Wintersong @wintersong.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Just a Supreme Court Justice saying with his whole chest that hating queer people is such a vital tenet of Christianity that to treat LGBTQ people fairly is to discriminate against Christians.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Lafayette Square isn't "a historic protest site." It's a fucking park. And it's packed on nice days. Calling it a protest site is White House framing. They're closing a popular public park to create a presidential palace Saddam Hussein would love.
nytimes.com
Inside Trump's Plan to Fence Off a Historic Protest Site (Gift Article)
The president’s proposal to enclose a park in Washington could alter how the space has been used for generations.
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DW Rowlands @82streetcar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I don't actually know how this data compares to the US in terms of rates, but it's certainly lower than much of Europe. I do wonder at the smoking rates being higher in urban centers, though: I think the opposite is likely true in the US?
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Ari Ofsevit @ofsevit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I believe this is my longest blog post ever, and one of the longest things I've ever written. Long-form lives! ariofsevit.com/apb/2026/10/...
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The Road Pricing Post | "Amateur" Planner Blog
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Uday Schultz @a320lga.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
One of the questions that has long flourished in my head is how, tactically and materially, transit networks abroad actually manage their service to produce better reliability outcomes than we're used to seeing on this side of the Atlantic.
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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As part of a system that was used to legally verify my identity online, a site asked me a series of "knowledge-based questions" — what is my SSN, birth date, former addresses, where I went to school, etc. — and then, this one... note that I already had to provide my DOB...
"Knowledge-Based Question. Using your date of birth, please select your astrological sun sign of the zodiac from the following choices."
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 01/10/2026
"the president has ai psychosis" is a cursed set of words
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Benjamin Schneider @benschneider.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It can't be overstated how unusual this project is. It's just so big and dense. There are a lot of unanswered questions about how the engineering, operations, and management will work. The closest precedents are probably some of the mega-complexes in Hong Kong.
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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It is frankly climate denialism to say we're just going to rebuild these tracks over and over again at great expense and not move them off the beach (which is strikingly absent from this article).
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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
between the not being able to read, the increasing homophobia, and now this, seems like the dutch youth are thriving
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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The White House has removed (not "repealed") wording that Title IX protections against sex discrimination apply to students who might be discriminated against for their "choice" of same-sex romantic partners. Officially bullying LGBTQ kids is legal again. news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...
news.bloomberglaw.com
Trump Rule Repeals Biden-Era LGBTQ Student Protections (1)
The Trump administration Monday rolled back a Biden-era rule that expanded Title IX’s protections against sex discrimination and harassment to include sexual orientation and gender identity.
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DW Rowlands @82streetcar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I didn't know this was a thing, but now I kind of want to see it someday.
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 26/09/2026
an ex-colleague of mine who worked for Palantir as AI Systems Lead said about a month before Minab that he was forward deployed overseas doing the "most meaningful work" of his life. We likely know what it is now, and I no longer am on speaking terms with him.
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 26/09/2026
www.iankduncan.com/personal/202.... "In 2021, Salamon acknowledged that >=3 employees had [...] been compelled to undergo “debugging,” [...] intervention in a person’s own psychology [with] excessive deference to her own judgment and [...] damaging the ways participants understood themselves."
iankduncan.com
Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian Duncan
How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking ...
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DW Rowlands @82streetcar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is one of my dad's favorite paintings. And, as a result, I knew about it before I'd ever been to New York, and also before I understood why, in 1922, one might describe "New York City" as something one could have a view of _from_ Greenwich Village.
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 25/09/2026
used to be SSA data was kept separate, and then they started using it to ferret out trans people applying for passports, and now they're using it to go after immigrants too.
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Salomé Viljoen @salome.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
today, SCOTUS essentially agreed that willful violations of the 1974 Privacy Act the Social Security Act, and the Administrative Procedure Act, resulting in the transfer of sensitive SSA data on basically every American, is fine...as long as you're handing that data off to ICE
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Alex @alexanotherone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Do we need a discussion about why both of these options on a large scale are bad for the housing market, bad for income inequality and bad for public health? Please, just bring in developers who want to make money and will build new houses without holes in the walls
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
this is a genuinely crazy story
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Dan Mauler 🎃 @meelar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is why Global Entry/Pre-Check need tobe free. The government should not be selling a FastPass like Six Flags.
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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I truly don’t understand this “transplant” nonsense. The whole THING about NYC is that ppl come here from other places to mutate into New Yorkers! TO SEE IF THEY CAN BE KING OF THE HILL, TOP OF THE HEAP! Imho a rando who moved here a year ago is the MOST NY person. Welcome Ohio rando, have a bagel
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DW Rowlands @82streetcar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Have to be done but are essentially procedural" is the sort of thing that people have been outsourcing to script and code for a long time. My big concern about outsourcing them to AI is that I still get the impression that LLMs aren't procedural and tend to randomly insert incorrect/imagined stuff.
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Alexis @alexispace.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Cis people of election nerd sky if you want to assuage your guilt over red state democrats throwing trans people under the bus then at least help me stay housed please.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026
When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic.
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Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 18/09/2026
Given my previously stated desire for authors to lean into their own special weirdnesses and let their unique freak flags fly, you can perhaps guess how I feel about the idea that the people outsourcing their thinking to spicy autocomplete are contributing to the McDonaldization of culture.
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Jed Kolko @jedkolko.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The 2025 American Community Survey should have come out today. But it has been delayed because of unusual political encroachment at Census. ACS drives business and policy decisions, especially in local communities, and is the primary input to Census’s immigration estimates.
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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The British media will bargain away the rights and dignity of all women—not just trans women, women of colour, GRT women, immigrant women, disabled women—before they give up the dream of fascism.
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R Subramanian (he/him) @rsubramanian.com · 17/09/2026
"NPR tracked down equipment and found that some of it was auctioned, donated or thrown in the trash... NASA donated hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of radio communications equipment to Capitol Technology University without the knowledge of the scientists who used it"
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A minimum population size for local government in general would solve literally hundreds of problems. Lots of cities should be annexed or disincorporated.
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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 10/09/2026
I’m a Texan trans kid who almost died because of Ken Paxton. The world should know what he’s done. This was very difficult for me to write, but given what's at stake, I cannot bear to stay silent about what I went through at Paxton's hands. He must not be rewarded for what he's done to trans kids.
transiticsnews.com
I’m a Texan Trans Kid Who Almost Died Because of Ken Paxton. The World Should Know What He’s Done.
Regardless of Talarico’s recent statements on trans people, Paxton cannot be rewarded for the extreme suffering he’s inflicted on me and tens of thousands of Texan trans kids.
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DW Rowlands @82streetcar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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