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so, while I don’t personally support rent control policies in general, my understanding is that the literature is at least slightly more complicated than this, and I am willing to compromise if it brings people into the YIMBY tent.

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 2h

The quants just have it so backwards on how opinions are formed. People believe whatever their side believes. When momentum is on our side, tell them what their new side believes and they will believe it.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1h

my soul is ready to see the elizabeth holmes movie

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Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 1h

My cohort isn't in the Nostalgia eye of Sauron until we get the big budget Bionicle movie

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 2h

Everytime you make a post, ask yourself, is this post horny or is it computer

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 5h

the cynic in me thinks that a lot of this is that we're preemptively maneuvering around the fact that pretty soon a bunch of things-- LLMs and probably some animals we'll be able to understand because of LLMs-- are going to ask us for moral standing, in their own words, and boy that's a hard one

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Look Both Ways with David & Wes @lookbothwayspod.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

On the latest episode, @davidzipper.bsky.social warned urbanists that self-driving cars are not a parking "solution": "If you're saying 'I love AVs because we won't have so much parking at the curb,' you're dangerously limited in your scope."

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Arlo @arlostrains.bsky.social · 4h

Shhhh don’t tell the tourists it’s absolutely peak fall in Vermont right now it’s too bad winter has to come after this

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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Considering that a major constituency for MAGA and Bolsonarismo is Evangelicals, I would say this is right on the money. Play soccer like gringos; vote like gringos.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 4h

I know it is never going to happen, but if fraternities are the source of so much harm in American society and its universities then surely there are strong arguments for having them abolished?

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Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 4h

I have no idea who this Tom Morello guy is

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donoteat @donoteat.bsky.social · 5h

"hi welcome to jury duty, you may be asked to come in for a whole week to ruin a man's life over a non-violent crime"

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 6h

their vile p-hacking, our inventive and curious exploration of diverse model specifications

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ellen teapot 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @ellenteapot.ca · 7h

I am once again asking for a Canada Rail Electrification Strategy.

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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 12h

I don’t understand: 1. the seemingly vibes-based opposition to center-running lanes, 2. how curbside lanes are now good enough, 3. what Mayor Wu is about anymore, 4. what Boston’s transpo plan is.

bostonglobe.com

Boston, T scrap plans to extend region’s first-ever center-running bus lane on Columbus Avenue - The Boston Globe

The Wu administration and the T altered the latest design for Columbus Avenue to instead include side-running bus lanes in both directions between Jackson Square and Ruggles.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 7h

One of our stops in Denmark was a new arts district in Aarhus where, among other things, we met this guy who builds custom offices that you can pull behind your car like a trailer. Just builds them custom, one at a time.

tinyoffice.dk

Welcome to Tiny Office

At Tiny Office, we build unique offices for both rental and sale. We are good at our craft and always working on exciting projects.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 7h

One thing Climate Week convinced me of is that Volts is creating a lot of value for a lot of people, not least the people who appear on it, and I am receiving very little of that value myself. I'm tired of being the only poor guy in these rooms.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 10h

This is really good, unsurprisingly. I will only add that "state vs. state" warfare being the norm is itself only really true in Europe for a few centuries; for most of history states spent more time fighting non-state actors and policing unstable frontiers in perpetual low-level conflicts.

liberalcurrents.com

The Return of the Cutting-Off Way

Structural changes are driving us towards a more chaotic world, defined by "neither peace nor war, but conflict."

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 7h

ICE took two more people from my local courthouse today. The wife of one of the guys who was taken showed up shortly after. She just had surgery. She was worried about paying rent and feeding her kids. This is happening *every day* in Massachusetts. Lives are being destroyed every single day.

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Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 12h

Hey profs, what do you do when students don't read

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☠️𝔖𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰🦇 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 7h

>papal schisms >recurring plagues >antisemitism >magical thinking Which one of you cowards called Medieval Studies useless??!!

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Micah @rincewind.run · 7h

I think that Cohen and Tacitus would have gotten along fabulously, assuming they were not on opposite sides of a battle

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ponder @ponder.ooo · 9h

it would be funny if mold learned to eat plastics and it spread like wildfire around the globe and it just became a fact of life everyone had to deal with that sometimes plastic just gets moldy

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 8h

I will believe anti-AI ppl actually care about the AI’s water use when I see anti-AI ppl care about literally any other, more water-intensive industry’s water use with the same level of outrage.

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Miles Howard @milesperhoward.bsky.social · 10h

Here are the cities I'll be visting for additional field research between mid-October and late spring next year. Tips for good food, good trails, and budget lodging are highly appreciated! - Chicago, IL - San Antonio, TX - Chattanooga, TN - Toronto, ON - Birmingham, UK

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Miles Howard @milesperhoward.bsky.social · 10h

So I've got some big news. All my ramblings and ravings about urban hiking and how it can change our lives are going to become a book! I'm in Pittsburgh now, doing field research for Chapter 2, and I can't wait to share this with you all in 2028. (Also, I might be visiting your city soon.)

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ednl🇪🇺 @ee1.nl · 8h

Another accent-related one seen below, made me laugh but he quoted himself so it's artificial

aaron <@rornronrnron>: "boston ppl when their friend is trying to drive drunk:"
quoted aaron <@rornronrnron>: "put. the khakis. down."

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 8h

This is genuinely cool and I love bike lanes and agree with everything in this post except the first two lines. Not every disabled person is capable of independent mobility and if you tried to invent the device my legally blind mom needed, it would probably look like a car.

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Rob @robertferry.bsky.social · 8h

To safeguard a habitable planet for future generations we can’t be building any new gas power infrastructure period. The era of gas as “bridge fuel” is officially over and good timing because solar and wind with storage is now more economical.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 9h

I think the problem is that for whatever reason, society/the media/whoever have correctly determined we need a way to reintegrate millions of people into society and from that incorrectly determined the way to do so is for the people who were wronged to apologize to the people who wronged them.

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Rebecca Bodenheimer @rmbodenheimer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My son's high school did a presentation on the dangers of fentanyl yesterday. This morning I emailed an administrator to ask if they have plans to hold a similar event related to sexual assault/violence. We need to get to these boys way before they get to college.

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 13h

Our built infrastructure robs kids of their freedom of independent mobility. Streets are dominated by oversized vehicles, piloted by aggressive and distracted drivers where one mistake can turn lethal. We sacrificed child development to subsidize the auto industry.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10h

On Wednesday I am recording a podcast on the hot subject of the moment, PERMITTING REFORM, with Daniel Palken of Arnold Ventures. There is, to say the least, much to discuss. What are your big questions? What do you want clarity on? What are your worries/fears/hopes? Hit me.

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 11h

Incidentally I gave “what is Father Christmas doing in Narnia when nobody is a Christian” some thought while waiting for a train, and I have come to the Watsonian conclusion that Frank and Helen decided that you didn’t need Anglicanism when everyone gets an unmediated experience of the divine, but…

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Dumbstash @dnlmsstch.bsky.social · 9h

I am coming to the realization that the stable political settlement requires splitting the potential natural fascist coalition ... and I am not sure this is possible anymore

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 9h

i don't think Tom Morello should have tried to get people to vote third party in 2024. i think that was a mistake. i don't know if he thinks that was a mistake or what. this is one of the many ways in which, while there are lots of ways I can make common cause with Morello, our politics differ

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 22h

One of my relatives commented on FB they were very surprised that I would hunt a bird given that I'm an ornithologist, and sometimes I forget that "have you eaten your study organism?" is one of those common conversations biologists have that the general public is completely unaware of lmao

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 9h

i study political elites, and this comes up all the time with us too tbh

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 21h

Eg: ‘do you want to take home more of your paycheck, or do you want clean and frequent public transit’ actually gets at what the tradeoffs and differing priorities between the US and Europe are, for example.

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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 9h

So much of the coverage of the current diesel shortage and its effect on food prices completely ignores that there are market-ready, cost-saving alternatives to diesel trucks. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

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China sets sights on heavy truck electrification in blow to diesel demand

China rolled out a push to electrify heavy trucks, a policy that is ‌likely to accelerate a shift away from diesel that is cutting into fuel demand even as it creates new opportunities for domestic tr...

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Gay ISIS Brony @rainbowdaesh.bsky.social · 9h

Taps sign until my fingers are reduced to a bloody stump.

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zenlike @zenlike.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So, this very sympathetic piece where the subject is “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024”. 5 minutes of checking his facebook shows pro Trump posts as far back as 2019, and a post saying that he “stands with Trump” posted just a couple of days after Trumps coup.

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 15h

The press is so invested in a “these aren’t bad, racist people, they were hoodwinked!” whitewash of the Trump years.

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 9h

Part of the reason I keep stating that we can tell these people to just go pound sand is not just because that's a legitimate option in drafting a new social contract, so far we've seen zero evidence they have any intention of accepting even the slightest whiff of accountability.

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 9h

Vanilla is consistently a best seller because people usually choose vanilla when serving things like pie, cake, brownies, cookies, etc. with ice cream. It's a good base and compliments basically every other flavor. Most people choose vanilla for ice cream sundaes for the same reason.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 10h

As an undergrad I helped found Duke Safewalks, which provided escorts to people who didn't feel safe walking across campus alone at night. However bad you think the stories are, they are so much worse.

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Drew Starr @thedrewstarr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The good news is all the health reporters have their "no, you probably do not have to worry about the plague" articles ready to file because it's an endemic virus that most people forget exists. The bad news is they have to compete against an information environment at least 1000x worse than 2020.

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Cadence “Not A Coffee Civet” Andrysiak @supportourpoops.bsky.social · 10h

I’m probably going overboard when I say this: The internet being ruined ’not because people want to make money on it but a few wanted to make a lot’ is already a bad premise on a foundation that hasn’t encountered the sheer amount of ‘Amazon/Audible/Youtube/Etsy/eBay/Google Automation bits, or MLMs.

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 10h

Gender is paying $777,000 to bring a steel job into town rather than hire ten teachers & caregivers

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