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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3h
Trump’s ballroom must be instantly torn down for rule of law, fire code hazards, damnatio memoriae, and symbolic reassertion that We the People are sovereign. But also clearly for national security. Like the bribe plane from Qatar, we know foreign interests are involved but don’t know all they did.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 7h
Still annoys me that Brexit is seen as somehow different to political trends in the EU, particularly France and Germany, when their parallel is so obvious. Similarly what is happening now, a shared politics of nostalgia, with very little vision for the future of Europe.
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China Space Watch @chinaspace.bsky.social · 5h
A peek inside LANDSPACE's Zhuque factory.
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etbadaboum @etbadaboum.bsky.social · 5h
‘Tuesday’s speech was therefore authentically Andy: more the stuff of emotional instinct than of growth theory. It was partly why it jumped out of the TV screen and transfixed the conference hall.’
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Will Judd 威廉 @wsjudd.bsky.social · 22h
TIL someone is making a spiritual sequel to SimCity 2000 with the original composers store.steampowered.com/app/2287430/...
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Metropolis 1998 on Steam
A fresh, modern city builder with charming aesthetics. Detailed agent-based simulation and scheduling. See inside buildings. Design and customize almost anything. Business-specific zoning, and mixed u...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 22h
Were you feeling left out, Mumps? Measles getting all the attention? And since you're back... any word from Rubella? Some antivaxxers would like to introduce it to pregnant women.
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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 22h
"Something will crack. The nonsuburban electorate will decide that the system has failed and start looking for a strongman to vote for...All the sadism which the academic Left has tried to make unacceptable to its students will come flooding back." - Richard Rorty, ACHIEVING OUR COUNTRY, 1998
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EmmanuelSPV @emmanuelspv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Before (2020) / After (2026) Rue des Cheminets in the 19th arrondissement of Paris. The street was turned into a school street with barriers at both ends of the street in 2021, and trees were planted in 2025.
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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 02/10/2026
Here’s how this played out in Long Beach, where the grocery workers union prevailed with the punitive self-checkout rules they’ve been pushing around the country: “Of 13 stores included in a city survey, 10 said that they had closed down some or all of their self-check out kiosks.”
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 01/10/2026
Transportation issues have, indeed, become more differentiated by partisanship. In 2000, the counties with the least transit use voted 39% Democratic vs. 47% for the counties with the most transit use. By 2024, that difference had climbed to 25% vs. 49%! www.thetransportpolitic.com/databook/pol...
Democratic vote share in the presidential election, by county's share of workers riding transit to get to work, 2000 to 2024. Counties are grouped into five sets, based on their share of transit commuting.
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 02/10/2026
Montreal’s automated metro REM is considerably surpassing ridership expectations this fall, with average daily ridership settling in at 130,000, even before the opening of the airport branch, expected next year.
lapresse.ca
Réseau express métropolitain | L’achalandage du REM bondit
Loin d’être en retard, l’achalandage quotidien du Réseau express métropolitain (REM) a bondi de plus de 60 % durant l’été, au point où il est dorénavant bien au-delà de ses cibles, selon La Caisse, qu...
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
American factory construction inched down to the lowest level since 2022 in official data released today as CHIPS Act projects finish and tariffs weigh on nearly all industries Total US factory construction is down 33% from its 2024 highs and 20% over the last year alone
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
it continues to absolutely boggle my mind how few people realize that refineries in the US Rockies, Plains, Midwest/Great Lakes rely so heavily on millions of barrels of Canadian crude oil *every day* and have since the 1950s
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Harper’s Magazine @harpers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Until recently, the town had little connection to the rest of Panama, much less to the rest of the world, but things began to drastically change back in 2021.” Belén Fernández on migration boom towns in the Darién Gap. buff.ly/Lp08mcv
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At The Edge of Empire, by Belén Fernández
The rise and fall of immigration boomtowns
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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Coming back from Lyon earlier this summer, the streets in Montreal felt very wide and the buildings very short. And Lyon has half the metro area population.
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Oliver Mackenzie @oliemack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sony has created a version of PSSR for the base PS5 - and the early results look promising. youtu.be/FQW6K7TLvQA
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Hands-On with QSSR - AI Upscaling For Standard PS5 - Image Quality, PSSR Comparisons + More
YouTube video by Digital Foundry
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BicycleDutch @bicycledutch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New Video by Nic Laporte (nicthedoor.bsky.social) with the 5 cities in the Netherlands (excluding Amsterdam) that you should visit as an urbanist in his opinion (at the moment). youtu.be/6cpAeZnL16s?...
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5 Dutch Cities Every Urbanist Should See
YouTube video by Nic Laporte
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Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
From asking around today the sense seems to be that he’s genuinely worried about the impact on Mcr - he also said something about wanting to “review” decision when it first leaked - and has made an unusual error in not reading the room (+mistakenly equated it too closely to the Everton situation)
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Not the least bit surprising but still extremely grim to read. time.com/article/2026...
Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
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China Space Watch @chinaspace.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
LandSpace release some stunning photos of Zhuque-2E engines and fairing.
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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 01/10/2026
Talk about driving themselves into a corner…
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There is sci-fi smut you can read with more realistic and coherent plots.
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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 01/10/2026
This is an insane restriction for a city that draws its multifamily zoning envelopes such that an apartment in a five-story building in effect must have its only windows looking directly into another five-story building that’s six feet away
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 01/10/2026
Bonds on the splash again lads. They only do this when they are very upset
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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
4 out of 5. Absolute trash at doubly-landlocked countries. Answers in the Alt
a little geography round, starts easy and gets mean. answers are spoilered
1. what's the smallest country in the world by area'?
2. which african country has three capital cities?
3. which country's flag isn't a rectangle or a square?
4. which country has the most time zones, counting overseas territories?
5. name both doubly landlocked countries (landlocked, and every neighbor is landlocked too)
answers:
1: vatican city
2: south africa (pretoria, cape town, bloemfontein
3: nepal
4: france, 12 (13 if you count its antarctic claim
5: liechtenstein and uzbekistan
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 01/10/2026
Always a tonic to read actual reporting from the "network state" movement rather than historical reproductions of their own rhetoric with the valence flipped. Uliasz is great here 👇 brooklynrail.org/2026/10/fiel...
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Society as a Service | The Brooklyn Rail
On July 21, 2026, the American venture capitalist Balaji Srinivasan took to X to announce a signed memorandum of understanding between himself and the Republic of Kazakhstan. Soon the city of Astana, ...
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etbadaboum @etbadaboum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Le Clasiko
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Marco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"The share of non-paying passengers is lower than the perception that most of the population has of "large numbers": the estimate is 2.5%-3.7%" from a recent article by Cityrailways analyzing recent ridership trends of Rome's metro: cityrailways.com/speciale/big...
Evidence on non-paying passengers
The method adopted—integration of turnstiles, external surveys, and floating cellular data —allows us to estimate the proportion of illegal passengers, i.e., how many travelers jump the turnstiles . First of all, the external section of Line C has a ground-level emergency exit on the north side, on the platform heading toward the city center, accessible from the outside if someone opens the exit door from the inside. These doors are alarmed, but, while remote monitoring at the Central Station remains in place, the local siren is deactivated. The number of entries detected was 43,694/month in the first period and 35,209/month in the second period, equal to approximately 1,551/1,202 per weekday. Compared to the legal demand , this represents a share of 2.3% for the first survey period and 1.6% for the second period.

Even at the network level, the share of non-paying passengers is lower than the perception that most of the population has of "large numbers": the estimate is 2.5%-3.7%, or 19,900-28,500 passengers per weekday.
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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 01/10/2026
"Compared with cars, railways are relatively non-polluting. They are safer, for there are years when highways claim thousands of lives, and there are no fatalities on railways at all. They are efficient users of land, and demonstrably the most efficient movers of masses of people." 🧵 1/2
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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 01/10/2026
How do Americans feel about data centers? 🤖 👀 U.S. adults have grown more negative toward the possible effects of data centers since we last asked in January. And a majority say they’d be uncomfortable if a new data center started operating in their area. What are your thoughts on data centers?
Chart showing how Americans feel about data centers' impact on the environment, home energy costs, people's quality of life nearby, local jobs and local tax revenueImage of the inside of a data center. Text overtop reads, "over the last six months, a variety of subgroups of Americans have become more negative toward data centers"Chart showing demographic breakdowns of Americans who say data centers are mostly bad for the environmentImage of the insight of a data center. Text overtop reads, "60% say they would not be comfortable with a new data center operating in their area"
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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 01/10/2026
That high-speed rail line between Edmonton + Calgary? It's greenwashing. The West Coast Oil Pipeline, announced by Danielle Smith + Mark Carney is the real news—and it's not good. How is a million more barrels of oil a day, through lands already devastated by wildfires, in the national interest?
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West Coast oil pipeline becomes 1st project designated in national interest | CBC News
The federal and Alberta governments have announced that a proposed pipeline carrying one million barrels of oil a day from Alberta to the B.C. coast has become the first project designated in the nati...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We already won the war, we just have to keep fighting the war so that we don't lose the war.
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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 01/10/2026
Remember June's fatal rail crash in Bedfordshire? We've learnt today that the driver of the train that caused it received an automated safety warning but disregarded it: as.ft.com/r/694d25bf-b... The report also reveals equipment at the signal in question sometimes issued false danger warnings.
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Driver received warning before fatal Bedfordshire rail crash, report finds
Investigators say ‘black box’ showed Shaun Burton acknowledged automated alert but train continued to accelerate past red signal
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EmmanuelSPV @emmanuelspv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Before (2012) / After (2026) Rue Jean Veber in the 20th arrondissement of Paris. The street was changed during the first half of 2026. It is I think the last street of Paris that have been changed like this in the pre-election final rush of changes.
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etbadaboum @etbadaboum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
‘Alongside Burnham’s policy platform is a shrewd political strategy, calculated to rebuild the electoral coalition on the left and then drive through voting reform in the explicit belief it will keep the right out.’
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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 01/10/2026
"Fast + free." Mamdani hasn't been able to make buses free (the MTA is a state agency). It still costs $3, though apparently lots of riders simply aren't paying. But NYC buses have gotten faster—up to 8.5 mph!—as the mayor unblocks stalled Adams-era busways. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/09/29/w... 🧵
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Before Cars, there was actual Horsepower. Horses pulled streetcars & delivery wagons in cities. On farms, horses plowed fields, hauled manure. Tractors and cars only overtook horses in ~1930s! And they got BIG. Energy Transitions all about #ShockOfTheOld www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
An interesting read. engelsbergideas.com/essays/smrs-...
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SMRs: a short history of a nuclear pipe dream
Small modular reactors (SMRs) were first conceived for military use and deployed on polar bases. Seventy years on, their record remains dismal.
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EmmanuelSPV @emmanuelspv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Grand frère surveillant le petit à l'arrière du vélo familial
Vélo allongé avec le petit en siège bébé tout à l'arrière et l'enfant de quelques années de plus devant lui, lui faisant face, donc dos au cycliste.
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
From electric vehicles to “DEI bike lanes,” transportation has become a partisan battleground. But 50 years ago, Washington came together to save transit systems, address deadly car designs, and reduce vehicle pollution. Much has changed—and it’s not just MAGA. My exploration (gift link) 🧵
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Why US Transportation Policy Became a Partisan Battleground
Republicans and Democrats keep clashing over what was once a comparatively nonpartisan issue. When did getting around turn into another thing for Americans to fight about?
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Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A number that I think helps elucidate the problem, people per rail route km: Switzerland: 1,631 France: 2,374 Germany: 2,482 Japan: 4,647 UK: 4,178 China: 8,865 South Korea: 10,716 Of note major urban British and Japanese lines are often 4 tracks (or more), which this number underplays.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 01/10/2026
"I recently joined the experimental 600,000-person polycule known as Portland, Oregon. Here, it’s only a matter of time before some bearded lumberjack gets off his kayak, blends up shrimp and grits, and serves it as a folksy ice cream flavor at Salt & Straw." buff.ly/IAyoUjD
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Reviews of New Food: Chicken and Waffles Oreos
“The smell and taste of artificial pancake syrup is so overpowering that I had to remove the box from my kitchen with a pair of tongs and relegate it to a co...
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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Man City’s Emirati chair was granted diplomatic immunity 6 yrs ago in a move that could complicate any legal action resulting from findings that the club artificially inflated its finances by more than £900mn - scoop by Caroline Binham @journosooz.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/d717fb9e-2...
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 01/10/2026
As the famous Al Capone saying goes, "you eventually get the mafia by focussing on their failure to make the monthly NICs payments to HMRC Cumbernauld".
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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We got lots of questions and discussion on what exactly makes high speed metro different, this new post hopes to clarify why this really is something distinct! open.substack.com/pub/thetrans...
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High speed metro really is something new.
Not an interconnected suburban line, but a very fast metro.
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Rory Johnston @roryjohnston.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Spoke with the @newrepublic.com’s @gracesegers.bsky.social about the diesel crisis and how consumers can’t get away from the fuel even if they wanted
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Evan Simko-Bednarski @simko-bednarski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Trump’s “high and unpredictable tariff rates” on specialized components that have to be imported to the U.S. have driven up the cost of building a subway car by 27.9% since August 2025, according to Jesse Lazarus, head of the MTA’s rolling stock program.
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Trump tariffs will add $1 billion to cost of new NYC subways, trains and buses: MTA
Trump’s “high and unpredictable tariff rates” on specialized components that have to be imported to the U.S. have driven up the cost of building a subway car by 27.9% since August 2025, according to J...
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Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a quiet but live debate among many people I know here atm about the fallout from this for the city’s reputation, exactly at the point it’s been talked up to the nth degree
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pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If you apply your rent controls too tightly, the housing crisis will probably worsen, as offer will dry up. Not to mention your plans to open wide borders. Where are you gonna house those new immigrants?
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Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Why do we need politicians and economists while we have the Reserve Bank governing our lives? Richard Sykes, Bell Park @theageaustralia.bsky.social letters
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