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Land use/enviro lawyer. New York expatriate to San Francisco. Legalize it (housing). Upzone the suburbs. he/him

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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 16h
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026
getting mad at the pope for not thinking the chatbot has a soul is easily the funniest thing I've read all week
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Active Measures, LLC @activemeasures.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It's only covert action if it's produced in the Title 50 region of Northern Virginia, otherwise it's merely sparkling sabotage
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Cars Ruin Cities @carabolitionist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As someone who had a mushroom phase (the normal kind not the fun kind) growing up and whose family/friends rewarded me by constantly asking for IDs of any mushrooms they find in the woods, I might just to send them this chart from now on.
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
we have to stop imports because that's other countries stealing money from us, and we have to stop exports because that's other countries stealing goods from us at last we will throw off our shackles, no longer a nation plagued by trade
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Cars Ruin Cities @carabolitionist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The defining quality of CA Dem politics is the total fear of using power. No difference between this and the Marin County Planning guy interviewed in the NYT “twilight of the NIMBY” article who said “our philosophy is ‘first do no harm.’” Just do nothing, and nothing bad can happen. Right? Right?
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Cars Ruin Cities @carabolitionist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Finally watched HOT FUZZ (2007) and why did nobody tell me about this film until now? I think I’m going to watch it like 10 more times now?
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
@Very__Regular

george lucas, 1975 (in tunisia, severely dehydrated, over budget) sure, yeah. put the little blue guy in the background. is alec still in his trailer

guy who gets mad for money on youtube, 2024: and now disney made Deebo Threebo green. that's how little respect they have for you
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Mike @2adult2person.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Twitter user dawnedEUW quote tweeting a "picture" of a white dragon laying on the ground: i can't help but notice that i am seeing a lot more dragon sighting videos since the advent of generative AI.

Could it be that AI's adverse effects on the environment are leading to a change in their behavior, e.g. lack of water sources that causes them to move closer to cities?
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Alt Boo-reau of Lake-Monster Spook-tistics @domesticshoggoth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"moderator of r/doordash by the reddit username u/i_love_femboys6969 attempts to commit an act of terror on behalf of ISIS" is the most 21st century headline I've ever read.
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Cars Ruin Cities @carabolitionist.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Cars! They’re bad news!
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Kampf mit Kette @kampfmitkette.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"it can only good happen", i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and transform into a corn cob
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Jake Berman @lostsubways.com · 08/09/2026
If you've spent your whole life going hiking, driving a Prius and having a beautiful garden in the 'burbs, it's horrifying to think that the guy who takes the train and lives in a steel tower is doing a better job of saving the planet than you.
news.berkeley.edu
New interactive map compares carbon footprints of Bay Area neighborhoods - Berkeley News
Data on current carbon emissions will help cities meet goals set at Paris climate summit, and show people how they contribute to global warming.
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Hunor Deak @hunordeak.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Cars Ruin Cities @carabolitionist.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It’s so cool that this has both been an unmitigated success and has pissed off the worst people on earth.
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Cars Ruin Cities @carabolitionist.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I’ve now lived in SF for 2 years, smothered by tech marketing/hype, and it *really* is the collapsing of these distinctions and intentional refusal to disaggregate what we’re talking about when we talk about these technologies that makes me feel like my brain is melting with every convo about “AI.”
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FᎪᎢ ᏩᎪNᎠᎪᏞF @sofarrsogud.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
If a baby hands you a toy telephone to answer, that's a sign of great respect in their culture.
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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Racial segregation wasn't an accidental or purely historical side effect of modern zoning—it was core to the story, and the resulting codes are still in effect in most US cities. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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The racial origins of zoning: Southern cities from 1910–40
This article argues that the desire to regulate black residential patterns constituted a major objective of the early zoning and planning movement in the United States, particularly in the South be...
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
bought this and now I have ants all over my windshield
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Cars Ruin Cities @carabolitionist.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Nobody should know what title insurance is, and why it’s both completely useless and absolutely essential for due diligence in any real estate purchase. I joke with my spouse that our cats are pure of heart because they’re blissfully ignorant of what title insurance is and will never need to learn.
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Cars Ruin Cities @carabolitionist.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Somewhat specific, but I said in 2021 that the Supreme Court hates independent agencies but likes their 401ks so when they finally kill independent agencies they’ll hand wave into being a transparently stupid and pathetic “history and tradition” exception for the fed and only the fed, and, well…
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Clue Heywood @clueheywood.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
SpongeBob HUSSEIN SquarePants
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Cars Ruin Cities @carabolitionist.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Lmao
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Cars Ruin Cities @carabolitionist.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
*Old Timey Strong Bad voice* The Cheat, activate the remotoscope!
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Dirt Dork. @dirtdork.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
static.klipy.com
Ta-Nehisi Coates: Wow, that was racist.
Alt: Ta-Nehisi Coates: Wow, that was racist.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
All the Fauci stuff is a modern day version of the POW/MIA stuff after Vietnam - a way to try to rewrite the history of a huge failure of conservative ideology to be instead a story about how liberals and foreigners stabbed us in the back.
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smouritsen.bsky.social @smouritsen.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Just got out of Terrance Malik’s adaptation of the Odyssey. It is one of the most visually stunning things over committed to film. Odysseus (Adrian Brody) remains out of frame for the entire film and is only briefly heard in voiceover. Also, there are dinosaurs for some reason.
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Cars Ruin Cities @carabolitionist.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Yesterday I got ice cream and did a double take when I saw the wrapper on the cone was 250th branded. It was the first 250th branding I’d seen on a product I purchased this year. It’s impressive how thoroughly the vibes around this have been ruined that an *ice cream cone* gave me a jumpscare.
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Cars Ruin Cities @carabolitionist.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
A meme featuring three people standing in a kitchen: a woman who’s reaching into a jack-o-lantern that a man is holding in front of his crotch, while another woman looks on from the side. The woman reaching into the jack-o-lantern is labeled “defense intellectuals.” The jack-o-lantern is labeled “technostrategic abstraction.” The man is labeled “nuclear weapon enthusiasts.” The woman looking on is labeled “reasonable people.”
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Jeff (Liberal Party - NJ) @yournjenthusiast.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
“more muscular military options”
Judith Butler Apology Form
Date:
Reason for behavior:

The media convinced me that feminism was solved in the 1980s

I never actually read their work

I miss not thinking about gender

I didn't realize how much of society is built on gender

I was jealous of their nonbinary swag

Mercury was in retrograde

I will hereby respect Judith Butler
and I will NOT talk down on the best feminist thinker of our lifetimes
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Cars Ruin Cities @carabolitionist.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The most direct historical antecedent to “the executive directly runs a colony as a ‘business venture’ so the legislature can keep its powder dry” is, like, King Leopold/the Belgian Congo.
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 21/07/2026
italian beef 8:40 “too early” AM “italian beef” legal sandwich jail sandwich lawyer Chicago
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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Amazing that this man can perfectly execute both of the Great New York Expressions - Italian AND Jewish
Mamdani going “Eyyy”Mamdani going “nu?”
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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
KulakAnnhilator420: it's actually extremely problematic for you to assume that rural farm owners don't have revolutionary potential. this is the problem with liberals.
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Cars Ruin Cities @carabolitionist.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I’m glad many of these quotes are pointing out not just biodiversity but the loss of biomass as well. Fixing ecosystems depends not just on preventing more species from going extinct, but also just getting raw numbers up. They’re more than just big zoos with a few specimens each.
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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Medically, the beers you have while grilling don’t count. The science behind it is fascinating
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Cars Ruin Cities @carabolitionist.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Tanking for draft picks
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
constitutional birthright citizenship survives by 1 vote. and to think people were worried about this beautiful institution.
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Cars Ruin Cities @carabolitionist.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Horse looking at ocean with accompanying text “man”
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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Others have said it better, perhaps @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app has said it best, but I will say it most crassly: Today's SCOTUS believes that humans do not have rights, but money does. POTUS cannot interfere in the fiduciary duty of the Fed to the nation's money, but fuck any duty to the people.
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Cars Ruin Cities @carabolitionist.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Photoshopped image of a YouTube video saying it was posted 3 months ago by a verified account with an avatar of a baby called The Critical Suckler, with 469k views, entitled “She Was Always There - PEEKABOO Analysis and Theory.” The thumbnail image of the fake video features a wide-eyed baby and a woman with her hands over her face, superimposed with the text “Where did she go? Peekaboo explained.”
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Scissors @scissors.myatproto.social · 29/06/2026
Telling my kids these were cd’s
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
researching baseball
The Circleville Herald
Sat., Nov 28, 1970 - Page 9

Washington rookie pitcher Dick Suck, 25, hurled for Savannah and Buffalo in 1969.
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another morgan @mheslin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar
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Alt Boo-reau of Lake-Monster Spook-tistics @domesticshoggoth.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Having sex is cool but asking people out is cringe. Being strong is cool but going to the gym is cringe. Everything that exists between desire and achievement is cringe, because it raises one‘s awareness of the gap between self-concept and reality
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Putri Prihatini @putriprihatini.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Singaporean artist Leia Ham reimagined LotR as Tale of the Middle Kingdom, since Chinese name for China (Zhōngguó) means "The Middle Kingdom." Her concept art includes the Fellowship, armors, buildings like Bag End, props like Aragorn's banner and Fellowship brooches, and more. #TolkienTrewsday
An illustration of the Fellowship, reimagined with Chinese-style period outfits.An illustration of armors of Gondor, Rohan, and Rivendell Elves, reimagined using different periods of Chinese armors as concepts. On the top right are three side profiles of Rohan man, Gondorian, and Elf with different Chinese hairstyles. On the bottom right is Aragorn's banner redrawn with Chinese influence.A concept art of Bag End reimagined as Chinese court houses, with tall stone gates, round wooden doors, curved roofs, and open courtyard, nestled in a hill.A concept art of Rivendell in the style of Chinese painting. Next to it are several props drawn in Chinese style such as Fellowship brooch based on gingko leaves, lembas in the shape of mooncake, Elfstone as round jade, Galadriel's phial in a green jade bottle, and shards of Narsil.
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Jim Paul @jamespaul3.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Spurs had it won and then somebody "found" a whole bunch of Knicks points in the middle of the night.
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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
They're calling it the Trump Curse folks and people are saying it brings blight to the land. "Blight," that old fashioned word you don't hear much any more.
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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
ok, this place has the juice
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Hal O'Wien @kbuts.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
ISB agent whose job is to monitor the Galactic Thunder holoforums for when someone posts classified TIE fighter specs to win an argument
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