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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 4h

But then we got housing slopulism to close the answer :( Still, he's a YIMBY at heart.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Machete opened a bad taco restaurant.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 07/10/2026

One of the most salient divisions in American urban politics is between people who choose to live in cities because they actually like urban life and temporarily embarrassed suburbanites.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That odd feeling when someone you worked with for years is running for Congress and you are like "yeahh...". Like I need you to win to add to the majority, but I am skeptical of you given that I saw you not do a good job.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sure, we can think bigger and reconsider the whole BQE. However, there is no support at the federal level (which they would have to approve), and limited support at the state level. So what the hell is the city supposed to do with the sections they manage? Folks really need to be specific.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Spending time on Twitter means you bump into simps promoting how great the billionaire class is, and you realize how much you find Robespierre inspiring.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The problem with what teachers want is that our current approach to grades makes it clear: any capstone project would yield widely varied results with pressure to race towards the bottom, or mastery driven by production rather than knowledge.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That's the funny part; this man and the world he lives in is sociopathic that even a suckup writer can't help make him feel like a ghoul.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Also, hi, as someone that creates evaluation systems professionally; a lot of things that can't be 'quantified' actually can be in some way, but it turns out folks are bad at those things too.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Trump permanently raising American gas prices might be the most pro-urbanist thing done by an American president in the last four decades.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I've given in and started going on X; I'm sorry, the discourse around the Western Mass Lesbian Bar and NHJ is sooo much more interesting over there.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Private schools make gatekeeping slightly easier if desired, but the gatekeeping is pretty easy in other ways. Hell, many private schools want a certain amount of low income diversity in a way most suburbs aren't.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There is a big part of the left that gets stuck on private schools as the big bad, but I think this is an artifact of them being Northeast based. Go to other places in the country and plenty of rich people just are in nice suburbs and have no interest in being in a public with poor folks

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is basically MAGAism, but on the left. The great irony is that this comes from a climate journalist, and we know that actually, people moving to dense cities and continuing to densify is one of the best things you can do for the climate.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Not in the 'they are dumb' (though some are), but in the literally, it asks you to think about too much at all times

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My usual bit is there modern society is too cognitively demanding for the vast majority of people.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Eh, I have seen a non insignificant amount of schools that don't teach very well or aren't effective, but the school itself is safe. But that tends to happen either in more middle income burbs, some ineffective charters, and some rural areas.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Have you considered sharing these thoughts with your therapist? Perhaps they can help you.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm sorry you failed the tests and this has influenced your analysis.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

No, I have a 16 year career in education in actually high performing schools, and have worked as a assessment resetarcher and writer. But thanks for playing.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I think most importantly though was that she failed in a very obvious way that is solely because of current anti racist lefty thinking on education: that standardized testing isn't real and doesn't measure something meaningful.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Lol, the Bari Weiss University for kids who are scared of brown people is now running a Federalist Society law school.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I mean, you could always Butlerian Jihad + Pol Pot a lot of these people. Not saying that would solve the problem fully (or is a good idea), but it's also clear that the AI folks are not concerned that future humans will want to do this to them for their arrogance.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Controversially, I basically agree with this report and its critiques of education schools. www.aei.org/research-pro...

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The problem is that we are in a great moment of individualized truths and we have a large scale social and economic structure that enables it, so, tradeoffs.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This doesn't explain why women in the 60s vaccinated their kids and these women don't.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

You know, I should have looked at her doctorate. Doctors probably shouldn't take her questions seriously.

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"Conspiracy theories are the language of the dispossessed" is the "Charlie Brown had hoes" of populism. No they aren't that isn't true.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Fucking the most carbrained people on the planet.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The crazed panic around Flock (and by extension, it's now taking out speeding cameras) and data center water consumption is a bad sign for good left-wing policy and politics in the future.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The median municipal voter

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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 26/08/2026

8/24 Humanity: “We need you to take care of an 80 year old, everyone know them, has had a worldwide impact.” Death: “On it.” 8/25 Humanity: “Look, this is our fault. We should have been more specific. But this one was in Home Alone 2.” Death: “Say no more.” 8/26 Humanity: “LISTEN FUCKO…”

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Once again, a situation where only two future outcomes are viable: 1) Jail for all involved. 2) Pure retaliation by Dems, e.g. no delivery of social security checks to registered Republicans. Any other scenario means GOP fascism always wins because there's no penalty for their lawlessness.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

When we take power again, we break these people with actively confiscatory tax rates.

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People Magazine @people.com · 25/08/2026

🔗: bit.ly/4qC1fWV Legendary singer-songwriter and country music icon Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80. Her nephew revealed the news in a Aug. 25 Instagram video. 📷: Getty

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I mean, the fact that Gustavo was a kid who grew up rich is not controversial. Whether he did what he did seems immaterial to that fact, which is what I was pointing out.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I mean, if the working class is 95% of people, than basically everyone can claim they do, because like, shrugs, it would be hard not to. And again, this is why I find Marxist class dialectics so boring. I'm just saying, go ask someone in that makes the median income if Gustavo reps them.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I mean, yes, by definition that's the case; but I don't see that as a meaningful statement. The people I grew up were working class Mexicans who weren't particularly supportive of LGBT issues (and additionally, any kind of 'difference', really), so like?

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I mean, I hate the NY Post, but like, shrugs, I don't evaluate the accuracy of statements solely by who said them.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I don't claim to represent the working class, unlike a lot of the DSA, while most of its leadership has very little to do with the working class. Or rather, only doing so if the definition is Marxist, which, good luck convincing anyone else that a doctor and a grocery worker are in the same class.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I mean, if my lived reality was a myth, it was a pretty realistic one.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

And for the record, no, I mean, I don't actually believe a democracy gives power to the moral, and that's better than the alternative, which is why I do actually think there is a tension between liberalism and democracy.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I read it. I still think it's bad. *Shrugs*

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Since I was a teenager, I have loved this quote from the WW: "the voters that you champion and that I can’t stand” There is no way to get liberalism without democracy, but democracy may not be a good way to get good long term choices because as material reality gets easier, the voters get dumber.

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Ferny Reyes @fernyreyes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Oh dear, are we doing the 'working classes are defined by work / access to means of production" versus otherwise? God. I find actual marxism so droll.

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