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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/09/2026

Trade xkcd.com/3290/

Comic. [Person standing holding hammer above raised knee.] PERSON: Listen up, leg. I’ve been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off! [caption] Tariffs

frozenchippy from twitter @fchippy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

i wish. DCPS school lunch requires 2 factor authentication that barely works to money in. DCPS aftercare requires an unstable app to check my kid out.

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frozenchippy from twitter @fchippy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Still dont know if he was a nimby or an idiot. Unclear.

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frozenchippy from twitter @fchippy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Yeah. Costco also solves the paradox of choice problem for me.

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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

A Maryland woman has been charged with involuntary manslaughter for allegedly hitting and killing 61-year-old D.C. resident Dawn Ciccone as she crossed the street in a marked crosswalk in Foggy Bottom on April 18: mpdc.dc.gov/release/mpd-...

mpdc.dc.gov

MPD Arrests Driver in Foggy Bottom Fatal Crash

The Metropolitan Police Department's Major Crash Investigations Unit has arrested the driver involved in a fatal crash that occurred in Northwest.

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Emily (spooky) @emilyrose.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

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Elise Joshi @elisejoshi.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Your friendly neighborhood bench builders were back at it this weekend 🥳

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frozenchippy from twitter @fchippy.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

how is this different from mamdani's grocery stores?

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frozenchippy from twitter @fchippy.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

It feels like one out of every five kids at the evanston children 4th festival is wearing a pulisic 10 jersey.

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Paul Guinnessy @paulguinnessy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I assumed everyone knew this was predicted to occur when they sacked 50% of the NOAA staff and started canceling weather balloons that collect data last year; but if not. 👇

gizmodo.com

Here's Why Weather Forecasts Have Seemed So Inaccurate Lately

Meteorologists simply aren't able to gather as much data as they used to, and you're suffering for it.

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frozenchippy from twitter @fchippy.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

People are going to dunk on this, with good points. But NIMBYs have made housing prices out of control in many cities. Tech salaries are just transfers to SF landlords.

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Sarah O @erniebufflo.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

LOL, fave comment while I was sleeping has to be the person who replied to my posts about buying a new EV being concerned about me using "oil." Baby, it's an electric car, I have solar on my house, and soon I'll have a home battery system, too. I'm breaking up with oil, that's why I'm buying the car

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frozenchippy from twitter @fchippy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Renault sells an official baguette holder for their EVs. It cost 120 pounds. Not only will they not sell us this car, but we can't even buy OEM baguette holders in America.

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frozenchippy from twitter @fchippy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Our rarely driven car is an EV. Gas seems so 20th century. Solar panels charge the battery while is sits in the driveway (next to the bikes)

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Moderately MOCO @moderatelymoco.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

A Good Samaritan helped Montgomery County police apprehend a suspect accused of soliciting a minor for sex by lending his bicycle during the chase. www.mymcmedia.org/good-samarit...

mymcmedia.org

Good Samaritan loans bike to help police apprehend suspect in sexual solicitation of minor

The suspect began to flee on foot, and that's when a community member loaned his bicycle to the officer to continue the chase.

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frozenchippy from twitter @fchippy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

To be fair i think that faction was just 5 terminally online dc voters and a bunch of people who dont live here.

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frozenchippy from twitter @fchippy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

My little neighborhood is the JLG one surrounded by the McDuffie voters.

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frozenchippy from twitter @fchippy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Btw, if you already have solar this bill means you can add capacity without repermitting. (Hence is looking at covering the shed/garage since we have panels on the house already)

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frozenchippy from twitter @fchippy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Last hearing was in march. Hope it isnt stalled. lims.dccouncil.gov/Legislation/... Note, MD already approved. Nothing really stopping you from going to MD and just buying and connecting a device.

lims.dccouncil.gov

DC Legislation Information Management System

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frozenchippy from twitter @fchippy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Allen already had a bill that is in committee. I thought pepco was going to stall it.

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frozenchippy from twitter @fchippy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

It passed?? When does it go in effect? Im covering my shed then.

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frozenchippy from twitter @fchippy.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

because many economists are still in the stone age. don't ask me what I do...

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frozenchippy from twitter @fchippy.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

No it’s confusing since it has a very specific purpose and everything to do with industrial/agricultural structure and almost nothing to do with ‘green’ energy.

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Fascinating paragraph from Scott Alexander, where he admits he’s the dog that caught the car

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frozenchippy from twitter @fchippy.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

15 years ago this entire demographic would have been at private schools/suburbs. remarkable buy-in to DCPS/charters. (disclosure: we did mexico)

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frozenchippy from twitter @fchippy.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Folks. We really need to pedestrianize the mall and rock creek drive. Like ASAP.

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frozenchippy from twitter @fchippy.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Weirder that the house republicans are seemingly cool with this too.

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frozenchippy from twitter @fchippy.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Huh, economists are pretty united in saying the only thing going really well in the US economy is for those who directly benefit from data centers.

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frozenchippy from twitter @fchippy.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Noooo! Im in new york. We have to this again.

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frozenchippy from twitter @fchippy.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Your semi-regular reminder that @bikeshare.bsky.social is the best value in bikeshare. I have 4 bikes and a car and i still use a cabi weekly.

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frozenchippy from twitter @fchippy.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

13k for 6kw with near optimal angle for our latitude. Payoff with tax credits and net metering was under 5 years.

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frozenchippy from twitter @fchippy.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I got solar panels. Charges the car and bikes.

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frozenchippy from twitter @fchippy.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Fyi, trader joes insulated bags perfectly fit inside our standard monkey bars on the cargobike. Fit one with a kid. Up to three without a kid seat.

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frozenchippy from twitter @fchippy.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Our daycare needs more room for bike parking. And yes there is an urban arrow out of the picture.

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frozenchippy from twitter @fchippy.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

just do it. I did it 6 years ago. been in the black for 2 years now. fed incentives are less important than you think; prices are endogenous to the existence of incentives.

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Gary Erskine @garyerskine.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

So it's a comic about a kid with an imaginary lion as a friend? The comic:

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frozenchippy from twitter @fchippy.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

The easiest way to get an elite clerkship is to be conservative in law school. since there was such a death of such candidates they all got DEI jobs.

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frozenchippy from twitter @fchippy.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

So obviously ‘we’ cant buy new. So let me look for 4 year old midsized used compact SUVs. A 2021 tiguan is $19k. A 2021 id4 is $18k.

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frozenchippy from twitter @fchippy.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

A ton of new gsds in my good. And by ton, a handful. But noticeable.

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frozenchippy from twitter @fchippy.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Car addiction has destroyed the US. More deaths than the opioid crisis. Huge cost of living. Screwed up housing markets. EVs are a bandaid at best (and yes i have one)

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Los Angeles engineered its housing crisis by prioritizing car storage over human shelter. Mandating parking minimums made affordable housing illegal and forced 130 km of suburban sprawl. This is exactly what happens when you build a city for cars instead of people.

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How LA Became A Dystopia

YouTube video by Hoog

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frozenchippy from twitter @fchippy.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Let’s say we spent $300M in capital and operating. That is 150,000 $2,000 ebikes. Imagine if cabi had 10,000 more ebikes in DC proper.

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frozenchippy from twitter @fchippy.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

basically change a few words and this is evergreen: A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation. EVERYONE gets services. we can tax incomes on the back end.

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frozenchippy from twitter @fchippy.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

In DC, universal free prek may have kept a number of ‘rich’ families in DC and stay in the public school system (for elementary) and not move to the suburbs. This is a good thing for both integration and a healthy tax base. We should do the same for all local things.

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