Reposted by Alec PerkinsWait That's Interesting @waitinteresting.bsky.social · 19hSociety peaked with these 571283139
Reposted by Alec PerkinsGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 04/10/2026we are going to have to find an alternative to meta products for local communities and advertising, right now, it’s almost impossible to do any kind of local business or art project without it, but both their rules and support are so arbitrary and capricious that you can’t rely on them 29966263
Reposted by Alec PerkinsKieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 01/10/2026I keep seeing this Semafor graph that seems to show the Trump administration’s effect on international visits is comparable to the pandemic. My first thought was “that can’t be true” and indeed it is not. This is monthly data. We only have to Jun/Aug 2026. The lines are over-fitted to the months. 12460133
Reposted by Alec PerkinsMichael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Most TV is just this now. 17171601964
Reposted by Alec PerkinsJoey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Official monthly data is in, and US solar power generation hit a new record high, up 21% compared to this time last year! 161154242
Reposted by Alec PerkinsDoug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This was a fun one to record. The Harit Setu plan is very cool. Instead of a piecemeal approach—a short bike lane here, a fixed intersection there—the city is redesigning entire neighborhoods at once to create complete networks of bike lanes and continuous sidewalks as well as green infrastructure. 16810
Reposted by Alec PerkinsMiser @misernyc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Pedestrianized 35th reaches its final, lush form 1444988
Reposted by Alec PerkinsRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/09/2026Voyager Instruments xkcd.com/3302/ 253077431
Reposted by Alec PerkinsThomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 24/09/2026Instead of many customers who could buy your product but don’t want to you get a few customers who would love to buy your product but can’t 1204
Reposted by Alec Perkinsarr @arr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This makes me hopeful. This number is aspirational but nowhere near out of reach: a working professional could realistically cash out their 401k and buy off a public official. Owning a senator is more attainable for most Americans than home ownership. 6146771036
Reposted by Alec PerkinsAsh Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 22/09/20261/23 Sorry, this will be long... There is a lot of shouting about what happened in the Channel yesterday. So I want to go back to basic law. Not immigration policies or political rhetoric. At sea, the starting point is simple: Preservation of life comes first under all maritime conventions. 26895469
Reposted by Alec Perkinswade of mutilation @waderockett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026“McNeill is best known for his role as Lt. Tom Paris in ‘Star Trek: Voyager,’ a television series that aired in 1995.“ www.parkrecord.com/2026/09/11/w...parkrecord.comWasatch County Council candidate Robert McNeill values transparency, accountability - Park RecordHeber City resident and hopeful political newcomer Robert Duncan McNeill is stepping in as the Democratic candidate for Wasatch County Council at-large Seat A. 34010
Reposted by Alec Perkins🚲Bike JC🗽 @bikejc.org · 22/09/2026Big meeting Wednesday evening on bus rapid transit on JFK Blvd!! Come out and support! 02210
Reposted by Alec PerkinsEuan @euan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026not mentioned in this screenshot but appearing later in the article is that the US is sharing details of the deportees with the Iranian government, despite many of them having fled after resisting the regime that the US is ostensibly fighting a war to remove 4300114
Reposted by Alec PerkinsIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 20/09/2026Amtrak didn’t tell us about this exposure, so heads up: if you took an Amtrak train last week through Chicago or anywhere on the Southwest Chief, Coast Starlight, or California Zephyr routes like we did, you may have been exposed to measles! Please let the train people in your life know about this 3813331153
Reposted by Alec Perkinstweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 18/09/2026this from @ftrain.com is terrific, unsurprisingly, and I think this sentence actually understates the issue; it's not just that the big labs are in a hurry, it's that they don't see producing useful and well-documented tools for using these models as an important part of what they're doing 934364
Alec Perkins @alecperkins.me · 18/09/2026Alan Ritchson nerding about about pre-vis on REACHER, and his camaraderie with Maria Sten, is a delight www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFAO...youtube.comAlan Ritchson wants Hollywood to rethink action heros in Reacher spin-off Neagley | Comic-ConYouTube video by Variety Events 000
Reposted by Alec PerkinsOpen Plans @openplans.org · 16/09/2026Cars emit 3.5x more than freight & 13.5x more than buses, despite moving fewer people. They make up 64% of NYC's transportation emissions. Join our Climate Week panel, Reducing Driving as Climate Action, on policies that cut driving & emissions. 🌎 RSVP: luma.com/parking-70cz 1304
Reposted by Alec PerkinsHildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 15/09/2026This post is making the rounds again for some reason and therefore I feel I must inform you that they’ve hired another one so there are now TWO forensic pathologists working in Iceland. 542429586
Reposted by Alec PerkinsGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I'm admittedly not an early child development expert but it does seem the ideal scenario for any baby is being collectively raised by a traveling women's professional soccer team 271500259
Reposted by Alec PerkinsBus-priority 🚌🚍 @bus-priority.bsky.social · 15/09/2026If you haven’t already, please take the time to fill out this survey linked on this page here www.hcnj.us/visionzero/b...hcnj.us 044
Reposted by Alec PerkinsNJ TRANSIT Customer Advocate @customeradvocate.bsky.social · 15/09/2026👋Hey Hudson County riders! The County invites you to a public meeting about the JFK Bvd Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Study. Come share your comments! 🗓️9/23, 6 PM-8 PM. 📍HCCC Gabert Library, 72 Sip Ave, 6th Floor, Jersey City I'll see you there! ℹ️More info on the project: hcnj.us/visionzero/brt/hcnj.us 064
Reposted by Alec PerkinsLarry Higgs @commutinglarry.bsky.social · 15/09/2026After false starts ,studies and past proposals NJ may finally get a first bus rapid transit system. www.nj.com/traffic/2026...nj.comN.J. never had a true bus rapid transit. That could change for a county that desperately needs it.An 11-mile section of busy Kennedy Boulevard between the southern tip of Bayonne and the Union City-Jersey City border could be the first. 1115
Reposted by Alec PerkinsIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 14/09/2026A 40-year-old kernel bug got discovered while on stage at DEF CON and the writeup is gloriousyuvalino.comHow can you not be romantic about UNIX domain sockets?A 40-year-old kernel bug discovered on the DEFCON 34 main stage. 633971
Reposted by Alec PerkinsPhoenician Thnkr @phoenecianthnkr.bsky.social · 12/09/2026TRANSMANIAN DEVIL LMAOOO 672753352
Reposted by Alec Perkins3underscores.bsky.social @3underscores.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Fire hit two 3-story rear (accessory) tenements in Jersey City' Paulus Hook neighborhood today. In the 19th century these were built in the backs of lots, with larger tenement buildings in front. This block has 3 altogether, with these 2 attached and the other a few lots away. Photo from reddit. 4162
Reposted by Alec PerkinsKirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 12/09/2026TIL that Mohamed Atta was a professional urban planner, of the preservationist nimby persuasion, and that his graduate school thesis was about how high-rises ruin neighborhood character 😳. 2255293
Reposted by Alec PerkinsWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Everyone still using X is using a website that produces and distributes CSAM. It is disgusting and immoral and nobody has any excuse for not being fully aware at this point. 16893311
Reposted by Alec PerkinsRobert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I am having a particularly frustrating week, so here’s one of the best things I’ve ever done. The eruption of Sarychev Peak in the Aleutian Islands, seen by the crew of the space station. www.nasa.gov/image-articl... 10860801506
Reposted by Alec PerkinsColin @colin-fraser.net · 27/08/2026I also continue to believe that my mental model is the best one, which does not conceptualize the “agents” as discrete entities, but rather as the protagonists in a story that the LLM has been trained to write about a cool little guy who goes on hacker adventures. 433860
Reposted by Alec PerkinsDavid Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 10/09/2026New study finds the social cost of driving a car 1 km—including pollution, crashes, infrastructure, and noise—is more than *triple* the private cost paid by the car owner. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... 18795332
Reposted by Alec PerkinsAmanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 08/09/2026No, babe, I NEED the $200 Le Creuset Star Trek shuttlecraft casserole dish for my banana bread. 19571791173
Reposted by Alec Perkinskonnaire @konnaire.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Putting the :/ in https:// 92472784
Reposted by Alec PerkinsRobert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Approximate size (depending on how you’re viewing this) of a black hole with the same mass as the Earth. Formation mechanisms that could produce such a small black hole are purely hypothetical. 78723
Reposted by Alec PerkinsGoodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026Model train enthusiasts are another group dedicated to their craft, with some embracing the reality that graffiti is a part of their culture and others rejecting it. Ultimately the hobby is what you make it, and that is largely the shared sentiment - the choice is yours what you do with your yard. 2182281
Reposted by Alec PerkinsHoratio Pornviewer @stuntbirdarmy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026One team I was on had a running joke that if the loss report said “the sun was in my eyes,” the driver was looking at a photo of the sun on their iPhone. 131953121
Reposted by Alec PerkinsHoratio Pornviewer @stuntbirdarmy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026The distracted driving discourse is already popping off but I’d just like to throw in: I’ve been an insurance adjuster for almost 13 years. When I started, we almost never saw high speed rear end impacts. Now they’re like the most common type of claim. It’s distractions, this is obvious. 733540736
Reposted by Alec PerkinsBrett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 02/09/2026Seth Moulton ran the campaign Third Way has been asking for and 692719520
Reposted by Alec PerkinsAnnalee @flowerhorne.com · 02/09/2026Hm. As someone who's done anti-abuse and code of conduct work before: you don't want your rules to be too specific, because there are people who make tap-dancing on the line their whole personality. But they DO have to be specific enough to be clear, or people won't actually know what not to do. 136191
Reposted by Alec PerkinsAndrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 31/08/2026Hey @1password.bsky.social, time to change course.alilleybrinker.com1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe — Andrew Lilley Brinker1Password has committed $300,000 to Omarchy. This is unacceptable and must be rescinded. 541518622
Reposted by Alec PerkinsCineCalendar @cinecalendar.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Aug 29th 1997 - Skynet become self aware. 📽️📅 Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 112664
Reposted by Alec PerkinsNE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 29/08/2026grant us the courage to avoid flushing the things we cannot flush the system to flush the things we can and wisdom to know the difference. — sewerenity prayer 1136586
Reposted by Alec PerkinsSimeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Yesterday, the NASA Perseverance rover captured this view of Mars' moon Phobos. The large crater Stickney is visible in the top left of the moon. 🔭🧪 flic.kr/p/2sxUsq4 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Simeon Schmauß 211128
Reposted by Alec Perkinsryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28/08/2026when I visited Helsinki--which has gone years at a stretch with zero (0) traffic deaths--I was fully convinced that a very low speed limit was the secret sauce 2241958
Reposted by Alec PerkinsLex Roman @lexroman.com · 28/08/2026Meta's new settlement means we're ALL going to be verifying our identity soon to use social media, at least in the United States. Don't want to give Meta, YouTube and TikTok your ID? You might not have a choice soon. Let's hope VPNs still work. www.techdirt.com/2026/08/26/m...techdirt.comMeta Just Paid Nearly $17 Billion To Make Sure It Gets To Write The Kid Safety Rules For Every Other Social Media PlatformBy now you’ve almost certainly heard the news that Meta has settled with 52 state and local Attorneys General who had sued the company in some form or another over child safety on Meta’… 0289
![Screenshot of the Wikipedia page for 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta that reads, “ At the Hamburg University of Technology, Atta studied under the guidance of the department chair, Dittmar Machule, who specialized in the Middle East. 19] Atta was averse to modern development. This included the construction of high-rise buildings in Cairo and other ancient cities in the region. He believed that the drab and impersonal apartment blocks, built in the 60s and 70s, ruined the beauty of old neighborhoods and robbed their people of privacy and dignity.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:42w75ppgdk7goly4ip7ebmrh/bafkreigusvnskzzu6o6c7ckveqfer7zdussf5vcsvt32h4jolv5hctzt2y)
![3-panel comic. (1) [Person with shoulder-length hair gestures at diagrams on wall in front of table with three people.] PERSON 1: As the radioactive power source on *Voyager 1* weakens, we’ve been turning instruments off to conserve power. (2) PERSON 1: Only two instruments remain. Do we want to lose the plasma wave subsystem or the magnetometer? (3) PERSON 2 with ponytail: You know, if we just turned off Greg’s LED underlighting– PERSON 4 with short hair: Absolutely not. PERSON 3: Dammit, Greg. PERSON 4: I will *not* allow us to look uncool in front of aliens.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreif7mauuvcdwzdpudh4qgynso2alimxydznfrdls5gpxsslzrxvk3u)
