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John Miklos

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 10h
Caffeine doesn't replace lost hours of sleep, it only masks the fatigue signals to your brain so you don't realize how tired you actually are. You still suffer the cognitive and physiological deficits from the sleep deficiency, you just can't tell. Which is good actually and fine I've decided
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 30/09/2026
We need a War on White Collar Crime
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Man in a Blue Mantle, by John Singer Sargent, 1891, 📸 via @cjzero.bsky.social
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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The masculinity politics beat continues to be very necessary. goodauthority.substack.com/p/republican...
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John Miklos @jctmik.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Lantern Theatre had a good answer in their Measure for Measure from a few seasons ago:
Final page of Measure for Measure. After the Duke's ridiculous smug concluding monologue (which he ends by proposing to Isabel) this particular production gave Isabel the last word: an outragèd, incredulous "WTF" with into blackout -FIN-
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
chat is this good?
all construction dropping massively.
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Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
News flash: you can put cinnamon and sugar in oatmeal
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is an excellent post. These new systems in Asia are impressive. And, importantly, it's applying a lot of things that we figured out here in the 1960s and tried to build ourselves. This isn't foreign.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you care about keeping the Academy of Natural Sciences open to the public in Philadelphia, I need you to read and share this thread. Trish Wellenbach was sent from the mayor's office to oversee the Academy of Natural sciences situation. She needs to hear from us. Here comes the action item:
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Chuck @chuckie512.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This fine lady is turning 100. Bet the fireworks show will be great tonight
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 25/09/2026
i want nathan fielder to do undecided voter focus groups
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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AI Exec: We May Have Pulled Off “The Largest Theft of Labor in Human History” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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JND @jndevereux.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
An autumnal nostalgic classic.
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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is a really insane chart and it boggles my mind to think about what it must have felt like living in the 1970-1990 period. Look at that rate of change! Two giant leaps in two decades! Imagine the politics if this happened today
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John Miklos @jctmik.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
One Trillion Dollars to SEPTA
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Monorail Maoist @awildschild.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Nobody: .... SEPTA: Hey do you want a network vision including a bunch of new information on most of our ongoing planning programs dropped all at once? wwww.septa.org/accelerate/
wwww.septa.org
Accelerate – Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority
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Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
42 states to go
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Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 21/09/2026
you can just do things
In February, a company processing debit-card transactions for Polymarket's U.S. betting platform delivered some alarming news:
Fraudsters were flooding the app.
Users were linking stolen debit cards to Polymarket US accounts, then trying to use them to make wagers and withdraw the money into clean cards or accounts they controlled. Thieves tried to make off with at least $10 million.
At one point, the processor rejected as fraudulent more than 80% of the deposits it was handling, a rate that far exceeded industry standards of roughly 1%. Polymarket employees quickly raised their concerns with Chief Executive Shayne Coplan, according to people familiar with the events.
The compliance team, those people recalled, was floored by Coplan's response: Just keep growing and pay a fine if regulators ever find out.
Current and former employees said Coplan's reaction, which hasn't previously been reported, was characteristic of his plan for Polymarket-growth at all costs.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Good morning, it’s the 21st day of September
youtu.be
Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by EarthWindandFireVEVO
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026
this is a bit of an obsession of mine especially here in charlottesville. the cost of commercial real estate is prohibitive if you want to experiment and the city seems categorically opposed to small lots and small units that could allow people to start businesses without a huge capital investment
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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
For every 10cm of vehicle height, the odds of a pedestrian death rise by 11 per cent. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Researchers who analysed 10,000 crashes say car size does matter
A study of 13 years of crashes in Australia finds a link between car height and risk of pedestrian death, particularly for women and children.
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John Miklos @jctmik.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
On my mind again, since I'm driving from from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh tonight:
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
$500 rebates for e-bikes gives significantly more bang for the buck in terms of CO2 reduction than $5000 rebates for electric cars.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Pretty insightful stuff here from Bret Stephens, who admits he's literally as out of touch as possible with every New Yorker alive right now. Zohran is the most popular politician in the country, Dem leadership is historically unpopular, and he's just... the opposite. And he works for the NY Times.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
15 years ago today, a ragtag army marched on Wall Street, got pushed back into Zuccotti Park, and started an occupation that lasted 2 months Still ridiculed by the powers-that-be, Occupy Wall Street started a fight over inequality in America that's not over yet www.inquirer.com/opinion/occu...
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10 years ago, a ragtag army called Occupy Wall Street changed America, for good | Will Bunch
Ridiculed and harassed by militarized police, 2011's Occupy movement sparked a progressive movement remaking America a decade later.
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Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Design for 15 apartments on the edge of Paris A smart plan shows the benefit of a lobby, separating the private bedrooms from the living spaces. Double doors mean the living space can be opened up, permitting cross ventilation Architecture by Atelier de Chèzy
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Elon Musk: 20+ years here, hates American culture and most Americans, constantly undermines our multi-racial democracy as part of his obsession to restore the Apartheid of his foreign youth, says non-white people can't assimilate Malala Yousafzai: visits Philly once, instantly adopts local customs
Instagram post from Malala decked out in Eagles dear with text "Go birds!"
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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Look, it's not great for the economy of course, but the peak in 2008 was like $6.35 in today's money. We're not going to starve, it's just going to be expensive.
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Marco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This incapacity to perceive vehicular travel demand as elastic, especially within the North American traffic planning practice, is reflected in the technical tools used to measure project impact: intesection-based LOS where the input level of traffic is a given rather than variable.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I mean, the poem almost literally says "First they came for [a group of people] and I chose not to speak publicly..."
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The last time the U.S. reported 4 measles deaths was in 1992.
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Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Great reminder that the ongoing and intensifying American affordability crisis cannot be solved without major land-use changes (ending sprawl, accelerating infill development at scale) that enable people to ditch their cars and access cheaper/more sustainable mobility modes
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Ghost of Kyiv @samvydav24.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Art Deco goodness of Philly's suburban station.
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Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
If your city is going to have a big building boom during one architectural period, the Art Nouveau period is a good choice. This is Riga.
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PITT BASKETBALL SHOUTING @shouting.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
ELEVEN DOLLARS????????????
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026
Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).
A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/09/2026
mackenzie scott really seems like the only billionaire to figure out that you can be a literal hero to millions with a relative pittance
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
New study finds the social cost of driving a car 1 km—including pollution, crashes, infrastructure, and noise—is more than *triple* the private cost paid by the car owner. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
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Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Design for the adaptive reuse of an old printworks and butchers shop in Paris, to create new housing Note, the existing masonry buildings have 4 new storeys of lightweight timber housing added on top!
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SPFHockeyfan, Esq. 🍁 @spfhockeyfan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
RT with your home river My home river is three rivers. ❤️
Photo of point state park in the city of Pittsburgh
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the moon report 🌖 @seachanger.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
just saw a couple conservative coded order fellas cruising on trikes with no helmets on a quiet street, which gets you thinking about how easy it would be to lower carbon emissions if we just had safe infrastructure everywhere
Rear view of two older fellas on a sunny street riding three wheeled bikes
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
1/x On September 11, 2001 Coast Guard Lieutenant Michael Day, aboard the Sandy Hook pilot boat New York, keyed his radio: "All available boats. This is the United States Coast Guard. Anyone wanting to help with the evacuation of Lower Manhattan, report to Governors Island." #maritimehistory
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peter k @peterskim.org · 08/09/2026
If you don’t need to drive to work and live in a walkable area with good transit, you probably don’t need a car. Rented a car for 4 days over the Labor Day weekend. Went to a bluegrass festival and did a Costco and H-Mart run. This will be the only time I use a car for the month.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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JDKessey @jdkessey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Goebbels wanted Fritz Lang to be in charge of the Nazi's propaganda efforts. When Lang broached the subject about the persecution of jews (Lang's wife was Jewish) Goebbels laughed and responded, quote: "We get to decide who's an Aryan and who isn't."
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Airship Chronos says TRANS RIGHTS @airshipchronos.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The most enlightening quote about racism I ever heard was "I decide who is a Jew" by Karl Lueger, about why he dined with Jewish people despite his very public and constant antisemitism. People really will go "I am special!" to an absurd degree.
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the moon report 🌖 @seachanger.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
was the problem with our society that people weren’t coding enough? no, the problem with our society is that we’re self detonating from burning too much fossil fuels, and doing so unequally. climate isn’t a crisis we can code our way out of, but it is exacerbated by gas powered datacenters
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John Miklos @jctmik.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
What was subtext is now the text in its entirety. The Trump post cites subtle-as-a-sledgehammer Starship Trooper's space fascists uniforms as inspiration
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John Miklos @jctmik.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Have you ever tried to photograph a roundabout? Those suckers are WIDE and FLAT like there's no ground level angle to make it a nice comprehensible shape.
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