Guy @guyt.bsky.social · 03/04/2025The economic tradeoff between America and Europe is that America has much more expensive costs for essentials like health care but much more (relatively) affordable consumer goods. Once that's out the window, whew. 030
Guy @guyt.bsky.social · 02/04/2025I love it when my LaTeX problem ("why is my multirow cell ragged right instead of justified") can be answered by reading the documentation. 030
Reposted by GuyMetropolitan Transportation Authority @mta.info · 02/04/2025Say hello to a new subway map! 🗺️ Today, the MTA unveiled a new subway diagram that provides riders with essential travel information in an easily readable, bright, and orderly manner. 621272281
Guy @guyt.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Two months after its long-awaited reopening and one month after apparently missing its projected date for returning to full capacity, the Trieste-Opčina tram, now running once every 45 minutes, is a big draw for locals and tourists alike on a mild spring Sunday. 040
Guy @guyt.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Ron Darling praising Lindor's fundamentals in practice, we're back baby! 000
Reposted by GuyThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat? 1624345788564
Reposted by GuyBill DiFilippo @billdifilippo.bsky.social · 23/03/2025think it's important everyone understands what is happening on tiktok: right now, people are making increasingly ridiculous lebron-centric covers of songs. it is getting weirder by the day. see here: 16512101
Guy @guyt.bsky.social · 24/03/2025For many years until last week I thought Travis Scott was the lead singer of Gym Class Heroes who had gone solo. 000
Reposted by GuyGuy @guyt.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Does anyone know anything (or know anyone who would know anything) about the cross-border connections between Ukraine and Romania in Zakarpattya/Maramureș? They were reopened in 2023 (see article) but trains were cancelled a few months later. Will they be back? www.aviation24.be/railways/ukr...aviation24.beUkrainian Railways relaunches Ukraine-Romania railway connectionThe twice-daily connection between Ukraine and Romania has reopened. Back in August 2022, amid the Russian aggression and invasion of Ukraine, railway 011
Guy @guyt.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Does anyone know anything (or know anyone who would know anything) about the cross-border connections between Ukraine and Romania in Zakarpattya/Maramureș? They were reopened in 2023 (see article) but trains were cancelled a few months later. Will they be back? www.aviation24.be/railways/ukr...aviation24.beUkrainian Railways relaunches Ukraine-Romania railway connectionThe twice-daily connection between Ukraine and Romania has reopened. Back in August 2022, amid the Russian aggression and invasion of Ukraine, railway 011
Reposted by GuyJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 19/03/2025I published a piece yesterday about the impossibility of teaching Jewish Studies at this moment in history, and in particular how ridiculous it is to try to teach Jewish History amidst bans on DEI: slate.com/life/2025/03...slate.comI Teach Jewish Studies. There’s a Bitter Irony to What the Trump Administration Is Asking of My Campus.Students were willing to be honest in class. Now they're worried. 626758
Reposted by GuyBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 18/03/2025'sold as slave labor to El Salvador' is I honestly think a fair way of describing it 11670381767
Reposted by Guyjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/03/2025“This is one reason why conservatives (and fellow travelers like Arnade) hate liberalism so much: free choice disproves their biological essentialism.”liberalcurrents.comMost Men Don't Want To Be Heroes (And That's Okay)Despite the self-pity of some, there has never been a better time to be a man. 943206526
Guy @guyt.bsky.social · 17/03/2025In the 17th century, a village in Zakarpattia changed its name from Fuckville to Nonamevilleen.wikipedia.orgNevetlenfolu - Wikipedia 071
Reposted by Guymcc @dryad.technology · 16/03/2025LOL wow a dude just argued in the EU courts that misgendering is a GDPR violation and he *won*. www.wearequeeraf.com/a-trans-refu...wearequeeraf.comA trans refugee's court case against Hungary just improved Trans+ rights across all of EuropeA landmark case at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on Thursday set a significant precedence for Trans+ rights across Europe. 3540921504
Reposted by GuyAndrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Researching concentration camps, I often saw governments justify atrocities and genocide against a violent opposition by saying "they would do worse to us if they could," without acknowledging that these opponents lacked any real capacity to rival the level of state violence that had been unleashed. 19964324
Reposted by GuyMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Schumer's whole plan, in his words, is "I am focused on bringing Trump’s numbers down, his popularity down, exposing what he has done to America and what he will do," but when asked about specifics like Columbia & Khalil, he leaps to Trump's defense while admitting he doesn't even know the details. 531345276
Guy @guyt.bsky.social · 14/03/2025When Sade says "coast to coast, LA to Chicago", what coasts does she have in mind? 100
Reposted by GuyDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Students were told for years that, actually, hate speech was protected speech and what was needed at universities. They were told that heckling such speech was itself a sign of intolerance. 522980712
Guy @guyt.bsky.social · 13/03/2025In awe of our local supermarket chain's upscale house brand, which is currently selling four different regionally protected olive oils. 020
Guy @guyt.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Excited about the new @jetlagthegame.bsky.social season but pilsners are not named after a place in Germany! 🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿 010
Reposted by GuyOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11/03/2025turns out when you legitimate a taste for bigotry people gravitate to the parties that serve it as an entree rather than as a garnish 3745611138
Guy @guyt.bsky.social · 11/03/2025The sforim behind her are really bothering me, leave us out of this nonsense. 010
Reposted by GuyMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/03/2025As a Jewish person it is so uniquely painful to exist in a world where Jews are the ones making lists of people for the government to target.forward.comJewish groups targeted Columbia grad Mahmoud Khalil — then ICE arrested himPro-Israel Jewish groups targeted Mahmoud Khalil, a recent graduate of Columbia University, days before ICE agents arrested him. 1214337722
Guy @guyt.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Switch all your group chats from Meta products to Signal, if you haven't already. 053
Reposted by GuyBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 10/03/2025I don’t know what can be done about it, and it’s one of the scariest things I can think of - accounts like LibsOfTikTok that target individuals are now going to be backed by the full force of the Trump administration and anyone who says anything they don’t like is going to be a target. 8818192
Guy @guyt.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Put my phone on grayscale in an attempt to slowly fill up all my screen time with NBA highlight videos and nonograms. 010
Reposted by GuySecond Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 06/03/2025Blessing your timeline with the Cardvaark. 413228
Guy @guyt.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Serena Williams is now part-owner of the WNBA team in...Toronto? Is this also a Drake troll? 000
Reposted by GuyMichael Cysouw @cysouw.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Konstantin Fedorovich Petrov (1850-1914) wrote a two-volume *Русскій язык* in 1880. Around 1906 it was extended by an extra page with dependency-like trees. Any information about this author or his inspiration for adding graphics is highly appreciated! #linguistics cysouw.github.io/graphicalgra... 0155
Reposted by GuyMicah @rincewind.run · 03/03/2025bathroom bills were considered a hugely bigoted overreach a decade ago and the backsliding on trans rights is the result of a sustained propaganda campaign by elites the pendulum can swing back the other way if you try, and anyone who is not willing to do so is showcasing their own bigotry 3869941798
Reposted by GuySharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 03/03/2025idea: we force op-ed writers to place their takes on a quasi-prediction market and whoever gets the most correct gets to write more op-eds 1933635
Reposted by GuyTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Hungary’s government is banning Pride in Budapest, saying Trump’s election has given them the cover they need to do this.france24.comHungary will no longer 'tolerate' public Pride marchHungary's government has proposed legal changes to stop the annual Pride march from taking place in the "same public form" as previously, a top official said Thursday. 18442256
Guy @guyt.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Thanks to San Remo I learned that the Italian word for "outlaw" is fuorilegge. I thought it was silly that the word means "outside-law", and then I felt silly myself. 130
Reposted by GuyOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27/02/2025just gonna be the thousandth person to remind you all that segregationists start the open bigotry with people they feel they can target most easily but do not end there 5161872023
Reposted by GuyHeba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 26/02/2025A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this. 13655631824
Guy @guyt.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Fear of mortality strikes again. The Gates were incredible and moving, they will never happen again. Accept it.hellgatenyc.comWe Used to Make Real Gates in This CountryReanimating landmark ephemeral artworks with augmented-reality wizardry is bad. 020
Guy @guyt.bsky.social · 23/02/2025At the Gorizia carnival, one chicken-themed group takes a stand against the controversial proposed Trieste cable car (ovovia, or "flying egg" in Italian). The tram is better! 030
Guy @guyt.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Deeply embarrassing for the JTA to outsource its Jewish onomastics to a "German research company" and not be able to tell that the company got it wrong. 220
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