Reposted by Topshelf ThomasAnnie @femalecenobite.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I would rather be hit by a bike than a car. And it would be an honor to get hit by a bus 5757103
Topshelf Thomas @frostyaf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Killing the OTA can only be understood as part of the broad, long-running conservative effort to make everyone—including and especially elected officials—dumber and more reliant on the private sector. 03616
Topshelf Thomas @frostyaf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The original is a true classic popula.com/2019/04/02/h...popula.comHeaven or High WaterSelling Miami's last 50 years 000
Topshelf Thomas @frostyaf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I’ll always read any and all versions of this kinda story heated.world/p/the-open-h...heated.worldThe open houses at the edge of disasterWhat are buyers being told about climate risk in Miami? I posed as one to find out. 101
Topshelf Thomas @frostyaf.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This administration has to count as villainous, right? Like this is something a cartoon nemises would attempt before being bested by Roger Rabbit www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/c...nytimes.comTrump Administration Moves to Gut a Core Endangered Species Protection (Gift Article)An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal. 034
Reposted by Topshelf ThomasRural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 06/09/2026St. George Catholic Church Linn, MO 731436
Topshelf Thomas @frostyaf.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Few things as morally repugnant as this. Few writers lay it out as concisely as Bouie. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Pierre Damas Bel Should Not Be Dead (Gift Article)Pierre Damas Bel should still be alive. 022
Topshelf Thomas @frostyaf.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Brutalism gets so much hate now (sometimes fairly sometimes not), but just imagine how preposterous this kinda thing will look even ten years from now. So blatantly authoritarian! Cybertruck warehouse. Never mind the fact Frank Ocean decreed matte black to be “stale” almost a decade ago. 000
Topshelf Thomas @frostyaf.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Between this and the post about tots > fries, culinary wisdom is winning today 000
Reposted by Topshelf Thomaslauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/08/2026i'm tired of restaurants treating fries and tots as equally valid choices for a side. tots are an iterative improvement over fries by any metric we can measure. fries are a fully outdated technology. if you're still playing the fry meta in 2026 you're already behind the competition 116102864
Reposted by Topshelf ThomasRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 25/07/2026bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph. 415159763944
Topshelf Thomas @frostyaf.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Yes, YES!! www.jameskboyce.com/the-case-for...jameskboyce.comThe Case for Carbon Dividends — JAMES K. BOYCE 000
Topshelf Thomas @frostyaf.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Not sure if you’ve seen Sarah Seo’s great book “Policing the Open Road,” which traces how cars upended and influenced 4th amendment cases. Really enlightening for understanding current conceptions of privacy, safety, and police discretion and abuse. 010
Reposted by Topshelf ThomasMaterialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 29/04/2026we're going to kill ourselves failing to realize that the pension crisis and the border crisis solve each other 39520
Topshelf Thomas @frostyaf.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Peter Norton’s book Fighting Traffic is always my #1 recommendation to anyone interested in understanding how we got here. So damn good 010
Reposted by Topshelf Thomashi their BOO! @mikemay.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Apple slices and peanut butter is the perfect snack because as long as you're reasonably close any amount of peanut butter can match any amount of apple. You just need to adjust as you go along and you're good. 1121
Topshelf Thomas @frostyaf.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Lowkey damning indictment of a premier franchise 010
Topshelf Thomas @frostyaf.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Wonderful thank you so much!! I’ll definitely get into these, starting with Pacey. I’ve seen Nye’s “Electrifying America” recommended before, and I like that he’s got a more broad (yet still US-centric) work too 000
Topshelf Thomas @frostyaf.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Do you have any must-read recs? I study the economic/social history of automobiles and run into some tech history stuff. Curious what you’d recommend! 110
Reposted by Topshelf ThomasSki Mask Shawty @haveyouheardofg.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Ice T gotta be the only real person 27842
Reposted by Topshelf ThomasJoseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 15/01/2026oh I'm cooked? I'm washed? well joke's on you. cooking and washing are important household chores and I take them as a compliment. 1691124
Reposted by Topshelf ThomasNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 11/01/2026This is tremendously exciting, especially to me, a person who loves talking long walks in New York City and drinks a lot of coffee and seltzer. 917814
Reposted by Topshelf ThomasBen Ross @benross.bsky.social · 10/01/2026"It's shameful that the government can come out and lie about what happened when there's video and witnesses who have all come out and disputed what the government is saying." Warriors coach Steve Kerr was asked about the ICE shooting in Minneapolis. Here are his full comments: 6552311094
Reposted by Topshelf ThomasStephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 17/12/2025theonion.com/no-blood-for...theonion.comNo Blood For Oil vs. Exactly How Much Oil Are We Talking About?Contrary to what he would have you believe, President Bush’s plans to invade Iraq have nothing to do with such high-minded goals as liberating the Iraqi people or saving the world from terrorism. His ... 211919
Topshelf Thomas @frostyaf.bsky.social · 28/11/2025Thanksgiving almost over but this mf still cookin ! 010
Reposted by Topshelf ThomasThe Jarmer Fones @thefarmerjones.bsky.social · 23/11/2025Me when I’m sick of defeating all the battle rappers in my neighborhood. 2373
Reposted by Topshelf ThomasEnce Morse @ence.bsky.social · 21/11/2025We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans. washingtonpost.com/politics/int... 16349622620
Topshelf Thomas @frostyaf.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Nurse Jackie, GLOW, and now Death by Lightning. Somebody with a budget needs to give her the keys to the bus 000
Topshelf Thomas @frostyaf.bsky.social · 11/11/2025I would risk it all for the consistently outstanding supporting actress Betty Gilpin 100
Reposted by Topshelf ThomasJames Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 03/11/2025You are allowed one (1) Democratic messaging advice post for every two (2) posts about movies or four (4) posts about sports 1421822
Reposted by Topshelf ThomasBeautiful Women Updates @aoife.bsky.social · 29/10/2025i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times 11140363986
Reposted by Topshelf Thomasghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 06/10/2025yeah we’re gonna win 1050448
Topshelf Thomas @frostyaf.bsky.social · 06/10/2025The fundamental idea, that people should reap the fruits of their labor and exercise power in their society, is eternal. Every nazi nutcase opining about “civilization” tries to obfuscate this, replacing racial categories for material reality 020
Topshelf Thomas @frostyaf.bsky.social · 23/09/2025I know we appropriately glaze The Onion on here, but they really are crushing it lmao 010
Topshelf Thomas @frostyaf.bsky.social · 14/09/2025One of my favorite things in college football is now many interceptions *almost* happen. So many DBs get 1.5 hands on the ball, only to end the play with their head in the turf mourning the glory that coulda been 000
Reposted by Topshelf Thomasonion person @junlper.beer · 14/09/2025they literally want to round us up man. can democrats please get a fucking spine and stand the fuck up for us now? we literally cannot counter this ourselves when they want our voices and rights taken away. please do fucking something 15295942131
Reposted by Topshelf ThomasMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Mamdani: We need to make public transportation so good that “no matter how much money is in your pocket, you say: I’m gonna use this.” 262887389
Reposted by Topshelf ThomasAmerican Public Transportation Association @apta-info.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Happy Labor Day! It takes a lot of hard work to move 35 million American passengers each day on public transportation, and we are grateful to the 410,000 public transportation employees who make it possible. 1175
Reposted by Topshelf ThomasYour Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 27/08/2025So the sandwich guy ... beat the wrap 199183812674
Reposted by Topshelf ThomasAllison Lirish Dean @ear2thepavement.bsky.social · 21/08/2025To defeat Trumpism, the administrative state must once again become a powerful force for good in ordinary Americans’ lives. My latest for @currentaffairs.bsky.social www.currentaffairs.org/news/make-bu...currentaffairs.orgMake Bureaucracy Great AgainIn the past, the administrative state was a powerful force for good in Americans’ lives. To defeat Trumpism, it needs to become one again. 2197
Topshelf Thomas @frostyaf.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Oklahoma disrespects their public educators so much that Texas ran a billboard campaign to recruit them. OK teachers led a brave strike in 2018, but Republican governance continue to fail. 000
