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Science/Nature/California stuff. Photography/bikes/hikes.

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andlane.bsky.social @andlane.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Pretty sure this is Sam Altman’s origin story
ONE FEAR comic strip
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andlane.bsky.social @andlane.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The moral of The Lorax is: Goddamn I gotta buy me one of those thneeds.
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andlane.bsky.social @andlane.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Vaxxed??
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 18/08/2026
"You were riding in the morning, or at night, or on a quiet road, or a main road. The only time and place to ride a bike is a time beyond time and a place beyond place, where the space-time continuum is bent so strangely that you are both everywhere and nowhere." buff.ly/bSa1Wm5
mcsweeneys.net
You’re a Cyclist Who Was Just Struck by a Car Driver. Here’s Why It Was Your Fault
You were riding during rush hour Why were you riding then? There are way too many cars on the road. If you were commuting, you should have contacted your bos...
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Rode a bike in a place that didn't allow cars and now I'm convinced we need this everywhere
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Sadly this morning, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved Sen. Mike Lee’s amendment to eliminate the 2001 Roadless Rule, which protects roughly 45 million acres of national forest land.
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andlane.bsky.social @andlane.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Oh the Spurs are… done done.
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andlane.bsky.social @andlane.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
The Cavs are DONE done.
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
"bikes can be useful for some people" one of the most controversial things you can say in the social media space.
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Ignoble Jim R Houghton @jimrhoughton.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
It's an absurd notion that we have to prove each type of creature suffers pain before we treat it accordingly. All complex creatures have nervous and sensory systems with a key purpose of identifying and responding to danger, going way back in evolution. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
theguardian.com
Don’t reach for the bug spray: scientists find insects may feel pain after crickets nurse sore antenna
The behavioural cue of ‘flexible self-protection’ is a way to establish whether an animal feels pain, scientists say
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The thing is that we do have the answers. We know what works to slow down cars and keep pedestrians and micro-mobility users safe. But our leaders choose not to implement those solutions.
Technologies like speed-limiting governors and automatic emergency braking systems can help improve traffic safety, Simmons said.

However, with national requirements on such braking tech in new cars several years away — and with no rules regarding governors on the immediate horizon — “some of [the solutions] have to be behavior-based,” he said.

“At all levels of government, it’s known that fast, aggressive driving has such terrible results,” Simmons said. “It’s going to take a concerted effort to reverse that trend, but I don’t know that anyone has the answer right now.”
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andlane.bsky.social @andlane.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
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andlane.bsky.social @andlane.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Jesus Christ
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andlane.bsky.social @andlane.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The FY2026 National Park Service budget is $2.1 billion.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
It’s unbelievable that butterflies do this! they are too small! What do you mean you flew from Canada to Mexico you are one inch tall!
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Jerome Alexander Horne @jahorne.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
"Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom." www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...
scientificamerican.com
The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike
A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom
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Matthew Terrill @matthewterrill.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
I was already a hard AI-skeptic but this cements my long suspicion that there is no feasible path to anything close to return on invested capital for these data centers. Tech would need 15 to 25 times current AI revenues within the next 2-3 years just to break even. Not financially viable.
"I clearly hit a nerve in the industry, when judging by the number of individuals who reached out to chat," he wrote in an followup blog post. "In total, l've spoken with over two-dozen rather senior people in the datacenter universe, and there was an interesting and overriding theme to our conversations: no one understands how the financial math is supposed to work. They are as baffled as I am, and they do this for a living."
Kupperman's original skepticism was built on a guess that the components in an average Al data center would take ten years to depreciate, requiring costly replacements. That was bad enough: "I don't see how there can ever be any return on investment given the current math," he wrote at the time.
But ten years, he now understands, is way too generous.
" had previously assumed a 10-year depreciation curve, which I now recognize as quite unrealistic based upon the speed with which Al datacenter technology is advancing," Kupperman wrote. "Based on my conversations over the past month, the physical data centers last for three to ten years, at most."
In his previous analysis, Kupperman assumed it would take the tech industry $160 billion of revenue to break even on data center spending in 2025 alone. And that's assuming an incredibly generous 25 percent gross margin - not to mention the fact that the industry's actual Al revenue is closer to $20 billion annually, as the investment manager noted in his previous blog."In reality, the industry probably needs a revenue range that is closer to the $320 billion to $480 billion range, just to break even on the capex to be spent this year," Kupperman posited in his updated essay. "No wonder my new contacts in the industry shoulder a heavy burden - heavier than I could ever imagine. They know the truth."
Kupperman called that gulf between tech industry spending and actual revenue in 2025 "astonishing."
However, it doesn't even begin to scratch the surface. For example, how does it all shake out when we account for 2026, when hundreds of new data centers are expected to pop up?
"Adding the two years together, and using the math from my prior post, you'd need approximately $1 trillion in revenue to hit break even, and many trillions more to earn an acceptable return on this spend," he writes.
"If the economics don't work, doing it at massive scale doesn't make the economics work any better
- it just takes an industry crisis and makes it into a national economic crisis," he concludes.
Overall, the pessimists broadly agree: it's no longer a matter of if Al is massively overhyped, but when the whole thing comes crashing down.
More on Al hype: Data Shows That Al Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 10/10/2025
aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
chicago.suntimes.com
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
It would be cool if the journalists doing these kinds of stories would take 5 minutes and look up one of the many studies on the benefits of bike infrastructure and then include that in the story. But no, we get vibes and a one-sided story.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Every time there is a mass shooting, I can't help but think of the parallels between gun violence and traffic violence. Two things that kill a similar number of Americans each year (including many children), and two issues with obvious solutions that we, as a country, have chosen to ignore.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
theatlantic.com
AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 18/06/2025
no, for sure, just go ahead and get rid of everything that makes me give a damn about this country
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Gabrielle Drolet @gabrielledrolet.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Cartoon with caption by my buddy @jackhauen.bsky.social
Two people riding bikes in Amsterdam. One says “if anyone proposed this in my town I’d kill them”
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Why does this echidna look like he’s about to drop the hottest jazz piano album OF THE YEAR
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Rebecca Plevin @rebeccaplevin.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Following a loud public outcry about job cuts at the National Parks Service — and a relentless media campaign from outdoors enthusiasts across the country — it looks like the Trump administration has blinked. via @jackdolan.bsky.social
latimes.com
Trump administration backtracks on eliminating thousands of national parks employees
Following a loud public outcry, and relentless media campaign from outdoors enthusiasts, the Trump administration has reversed course on a plan to eliminate thousands of seasonal workers at the Nation...
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