Reposted by Alec PerkinsWait That's Interesting @waitinteresting.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Society peaked with these 571300142
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 30979265
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
Alec Perkins @alecperkins.me · 02/10/2026Formalized in a city program, effectively a park-where-you-want fee: nyc-business.nyc.gov/nycbusiness/...nyc-business.nyc.govNYC Delivery Solutions: the Stipulated Parking Fine Program<p>Businesses that make deliveries can pay parking tickets at a lower cost by giving up their right to a hearing.</p> 000
Reposted by Alec PerkinsMichael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Most TV is just this now. 17171611964
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
Alec Perkins @alecperkins.me · 26/09/2026Changing the policy to actually account for the number of available on-street spots is an affront to the God-given right of the Hoboken voters to easily and cheaply park wherever they please. 020
Alec Perkins @alecperkins.me · 25/09/2026Somehow residents and council members didn’t connect the low price with the constant struggle to find parking. Also presumably lots of people were fraudulently claiming residency for cheap parking whenever they drove in. 040
Alec Perkins @alecperkins.me · 25/09/2026A traffic engineer literally laughed in a meeting when they heard how cheap the permits were. But people take it as a personal offense whenever the price goes up so it was politically impossible for the longest time. It finally has been raised but still cheaper than off-street. 110
Alec Perkins @alecperkins.me · 25/09/2026Probably something like: if people want to pay the city money, why turn them away. 100
Alec Perkins @alecperkins.me · 25/09/2026I think it was more to boost the corner cars ZipCar/Hertz program that just launched, plus genuine desire to reduce cars. But City and council have always been at odds over this. The permits were still oversold for years after, maybe still are. 020
Alec Perkins @alecperkins.me · 25/09/2026Permits were something like $30 at the time, IIRC, and they oversold them relative to on-street spots by 50%. 220
Reposted by Alec PerkinsRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/09/2026Voyager Instruments xkcd.com/3302/ 253078431
Alec Perkins @alecperkins.me · 24/09/2026‘He and his conspirators weren’t in cuffs on Jan 21 so it must not have been that bad.’ 000
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
Alec Perkins @alecperkins.me · 23/09/2026The Bluesky “That’s all, folks!” in the list of quote posts really adds to the vibe. 020
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
Alec Perkins @alecperkins.me · 21/09/2026Stopping distance for a typical car at 100 mph is something like 100 yards, and it travels ~50 yards for every second the driver spends reacting. By the time a driver realizes the road has traffic, or a hazard, it’s too late. There certainly are roads where incident likelihood is low, but none safe. 000
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
Alec Perkins @alecperkins.me · 11/09/2026Pretty sure that’s what they like about him, because they are tired of having to pretend they care about living in a society. 021
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
Alec Perkins @alecperkins.me · 10/09/2026I remember a classmate in an STS elective doing a paper on 4chan and memes circa 2007. If only we knew! 010
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
![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)
