Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026There's a case to be made that there are zero proper urban rail systems in the US outside the Northeast. 100
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 13/08/2026(no, actually, we're against the death penalty because even evil people don't deserve to die) 010
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 27/06/2026This is an anti-rent control account, long housing tenure is bad. 010
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 05/05/2026I really wish they'd bring back 24/7 trading hours at even one (1) supermarket. 000
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Good of her to take the correct position here, but it really does not seem like she's trying to win that primary at all. 100
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 20/04/2026After the formation of a pro-conscription unity government in 1917, the Liberals govern for most of the following seven decades, punctuated by three opposition governments: one that is ended by the Great Depression, 110
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 22/02/2026I am once again asking for a combined classical languages course (Latin/Greek/Sanskrit). 010
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 08/02/2026What they don't tell you about the Australian bush is how many random wild goats there are. 130
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Senate Dems apparently continue not to understand that you do actually have to defect eventually if your opponent keeps doing so. 030
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 07/11/2025The South when Republicans increase electricity rates, apparently. 130
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 20/06/2025An act to mandate all references to the population of a city in general discussion be to the containing metropolitan area and not the legal entity of a city with that name. 130
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 04/06/2025As a literal statement this is largely true if candidate quality means chance of winning and obviously false if candidate quality means value-over-replacement; I would assume he means the former, but that's not really the best metric to focus on. 000
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Most evil budget in history apparently passing the House *by the margin of the guy who died YESTERDAY* is probably this year's biggest piece of Dem political malpractice yet. 142
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 27/04/2025In this house we believe that the suburbs are part of the city. 110
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 04/02/2025You say "be gay, do crimes" but you do not assist the Alphabet Mafia in its operations; curious. 030
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Poor resume ↔️ No employment. Sometimes I'm not sure why I bother. 030
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Fun fact: more than a third of US rail systems (mostly cities with a tram and nothing else) get fewer riders than this suburban station in Sydney. 141
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 27/12/2024If anyone reading this knows of such a job which pays >= $24/hr, I can start immediately. 010
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 27/12/2024It is kind of annoying that there basically do not seem to be any true entry-level computing jobs on the market. 130
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 23/12/2024On principle he should have commuted the other three as well (particularly Tsarnaev, who strikes me as more sympathetic than a number of people who did make the cut), but it's a start. 020
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 16/12/2024If you count thesis supervision as collaboration, my Erdős-Bacon number is seven. 020
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 16/12/2024My take on DST discourse is that we should do reverse DST to ensure the sun doesn't set too late in summer. 140
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Taking suggestions for what to do with 1.4 kg instant ramen and 2 kg canned tuna. 110
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 11/12/2024They should make this creature the Australian national mollusc. 020
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 06/12/20245/5 (!) intercity trains that I've been on in the last two days have been >20 minutes late when I got off; we need better delay recovery procedures. 010
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 06/12/2024I do not particularly appreciate Microsoft buying every surface of this train for advertising. 130
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 03/12/2024If I had a nickel for every attempted coup in a major Western country that I slept through the entirety of this decade, I would have two nickels. 030
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 28/11/2024I would be curious to hear how Bluesky intends to handle the under-16 social media ban our Parliament seems to have just passed. 0100
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 28/11/2024"Big business steals from every little guy in existence" Disregarding the mischaracterization as stealing, this is fine; consumers in every sector clearly want big business to make things into mass markets. Copyright just makes this dynamic more asymmetric because big business has better lawyers. 020
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 27/11/2024This is an anti-property account. Free land, free commodities, free information. 040
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Sadly the aesthetic quality of the Chinese script has greatly declined over the last few thousand years. 210
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Concurrent appointment to multiple judicial districts seems like an odd relic. 050
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 19/11/2024What's the biggest city in the US that doesn't have at least one distant suburb with an inflated idea of its own importance (Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Sacramento, San Diego)? 320
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 18/11/2024China is particularly egregious about it, but it's really annoying how many historical things are known by modernized or foreign names that bear at best a tenuous relationship to what they would have called themselves. 310
Elpis @elpis.bsky.social · 18/11/2024We don't talk enough about how parenting is inherently reactionary and must be abolished. 340
