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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 10h

car drivers have become so feral that they're killing literal professional cyclists on "closed" courses

John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 12h

good example of the difference that normalizing by population makes - California looks bad, but net Gen Z leavers are the same proportion of California's population as net Gen Z arrivers are of New Mexico's (0.1%), just as NJ's net leavers are the same proportion as SC's in-movers (0.4%).

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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I think students would enjoy the little whiteboard too for doing presentations, plus you can face the class and not cover yourself in chalk like I do :)

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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I have used the document viewer camera with a small whiteboard before instead of my terrible chicken scratch on the board and it was cool, I feel like it could be quite fun to run a whole lecture that way with physical images and texts.

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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

yeah it's impossible to overstate how indifferent/hostile people have become to traffic signals out there

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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Do you think a direct intersection would be safer or better prevent driver impatience here? I can think of many ghost bikes I’ve seen at intersections with no geometric obstacles to high speed. Those aren’t safe for anyone either.

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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Crosswalks are set about 15-20 feet from the start of the rotary, so there is typical room for peds to cross behind the car that is waiting to go while in the other direction an oncoming car will have exited the rotary but not yet accelerated.

Aerial view of a traffic circle depicting pedestrian crosswalks placed roughly 15-20 feet from the entrance/exit points of the circle.

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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm with this, I currently live on a street with roundabouts and while I'm very disappointed that the retrofit did not include bike lanes, the roundabouts function very well to moderate speed and car-ped conflicts

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 07/10/2026

there's a lot going on right now, but the ability to buy elections in order to stay out of prison is on the ballot whether you realize it or not

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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is embedded so much more deeply in conservatism than just MAHA. Conservative thought sees all credentials and expertise as simply protectionist cartels, but conservatives don’t want to get rid of cartels, they want to *be* the cartels.

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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

the most graceless ruling class in memory, just a squalid slurry of the most venal and incurious people to ever wield power

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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

almost everything that makes life worth living is inefficient

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Manhattan Institute has never produced a useful idea and impoverishes the thoughts of anyone who comes into contact with them.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

some descriptive statistics here on the civility industrial complex on college campuses that I haven’t seen analyzed before www.uncivilcollective.org/resources

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

His vocabulary is so limited it’s like reading a transcript of Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, if Koko were a white nationalist

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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I feel like we haven’t focused enough on getting this asshole obsessed with the Titanic, especially given his documented arrogance in the submersibles department

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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

won't somebody think of the Swansea City EL run that might have been

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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Remember, I have no emotional need to be special. I’ve spent my whole life being special” OK sure little buddy

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Now this is my kind of foreshadowing

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23/09/2026

This is actually the first major de-electrification we're seeing in the mid-transition era and I cannot fucking believe my eyes in seeing the core advocates of electrification celebrating and welcoming and encouraging it www.wired.com/story/us-dat...

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Data Centers Are Driving an Alarming Gas Power Expansion in the US

There’s no clearer sign of the data center boom than rampant gas projects that have been proposed or that are already under construction.

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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“to forgive them is cruelty”

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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

bit more concerned about the verb tenses than the commas

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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

generally bad unless it's a John Grisham movie and the disbarred guy is a drunk legal genius joining your plucky David v. Goliath fight

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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

there were vigilante attacks everywhere and I was told to “swim to Cuba” while protesting against the ensuing bloodlust war of revenge that lasted over 20 years and achieved exactly nothing, but do go on about that “unity”

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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

yeah man, run up and kick that football as hard as you can, it's not going anywhere

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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

at this point the modal consultant-brained Democrat has fully internalized the idea that the feeling of flying through the air after having swung with all your might at the football you knew would be pulled away is what Doing Serious Politics means

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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

yes this is why I considered qualifying it with "born before 1980" - the education is changing but many still go out into the world and either do "one more lane bro" or work under someone who forces them to

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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I actually don't think this is true in most cases but in road planning the odds are in your favor

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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

one glaring exception might be highway engineering - a great many professionals in the field have never considered the possibility that adding highway capacity could increase congestion (it does)

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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

the gofundme for the first public bus driver to get fired for taking one of these doors out will hit 6 figures

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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

what they get will make Nuremberg look like Judge Judy

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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

his having friends easily the most outrageous claim in this exchange

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 04/09/2026

My lukewarm take on 1.5 stories is that climate is only one of many reasons to phase out fossil fuels, and probably not in the top two reasons for most people. We should do it regardless, to save millions of lives per year from air pollution, reduce exposure to high and volatile fossil prices, and..

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surlyurbanist.bsky.social @surlyurbanist.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Others have pointed it out before, but the capital counter revolution to approximately 4 years of tight labor markets and robust wage growth has been stunning

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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

we’ve all basically invented Slack channels from first principles. I have separate chats about movies and pasta with the same people

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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

the circular firing squad of your enemies is always fun but this one needs a lot more participants!

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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Behead the Robot (No Code Shall Live)

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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Every petty tyrant thinks a union will get in the way of the “special relationship” they have with their employees, there is truly nothing special about higher ed in this regard

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Chris @cperez.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"Principal investigators need cheap grad and postdoc labor to boost their own research profiles. Treating them like workers by allowing them to unionize disrupts the feudal lord-serf relationship that exists in most labs." There I fixed it for you

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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

yeah good shout. no accident that Jacobs is adored by the libertarian right. working on urban highway removal politics it's clear that rejecting bad infrastructure and undoing bad infrastructure are two very different things politically, organizationally, and economically...

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