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@kavi.bsky.social
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PhD student posting about politics while I wait for experiments to run. endorsements != endorsements. min flow is max cut she/they Developer and operator of urbanstats.org 📍 Cambridge Mass

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 9h
Genuinely so many issues are created by intermediate scrutiny meaning we never did gender desegregation
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 9h
I mean like, I think that this is a good question to ask? For example, the unilateral pardon is one of the stupidest ideas in human history. Checks and balances should exist, but they should be a low bar to pass, so that extreme stuff can be filtered out while allowing for decisions to be made
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 11h
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 12h
Social norms around getting up for people on buses are weird because you don't want to get up for someone who is old but not that old. In case what you're actually communicating is the idea that they look really old
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 12h
There's this thing people on here do a lot where they get upset at you rephrasing an argument to sound worse without actually changing the logical content. I feel like there's this version of thought that just kinda rejects the idea that sentences carry denonational content beyond tone
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 14h
Preferred shares 🤝 Aldermanic Perogative Making large companies/cities take on all the disadvantages of small companies/cities
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 17h
Genuinely kinda crazy the degree to which this isn't the default, I feel like every Indian I know who doesn't see it primarily through the lens of islamophobia sees it as a colonial issue
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I do think the funniest part of that letter is when the guy goes "oh and you keep bringing up the trifling 1 mina of silver I owe you when I've done 1080 pounds of copper of business with you" when 1080 pounds of copper is worth like 5-10 mina
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 21h
I feel like the broader issue with this discourse is that like, the problem with Bruce Wayne is not that he's a rich guy who isn't helping out. It's that he is the reason that half the villains exist in the first place He's like a very poorly managed counter-terrorism program
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ok legit do people just not know what property is
There are even unanswered fundamental questions of how exactly wealth will be measured. Walczak has pointed out how the language of the initiative could be interpreted such that equity would be determined by voting power, a bizare calculation that could create tax liabilities in excess of the actual financial stake. This is not a responsible way to budget the fifth-largest economy in the world.
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I do think the funniest part of that letter is when the guy goes "oh and you keep bringing up the trifling 1 mina of silver I owe you when I've done 1080 pounds of copper of business with you" when 1080 pounds of copper is worth like 5-10 mina
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Rationalism is at its core the realization by certain neurodivergent people that you can explain a lot of "normal" behavior via a set of cognitive biases and game theory and then spinning that out into a Theory of Everything. The main problem with this is the Theory of Everything part
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Look if you write me in for the CA-11 general election I will make sure the government gives everyone $5001 checks 😤😤😤
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Average Pratt voter: "food is too expensive at least the local taco stand will sell me a $10 burrito" Average Pratt voter that Karen Bass talks to: "unlimited jihad against the running dog food vendors who are stealing my customers"
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
2 stars. The last step in your recipe says to "Enjoy" but I substituted enjoyment with ennui, and it came out terrible. Do NOT make this recipe
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I feel like people are reading way too much into the tradwife thing. The reason it's so one sided is it is not meaningfully attempting to appeal to women en masse (the few who do get swept up in it are incidental). Because it's not really attempting to appeal to women it can be very one sided
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In general I feel like PMC/lawyer norms around nondisclosure of misconduct, trying to get things settled quietly, etc have kinda reconstructed the Catholic church's coverup policy from first principles
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Average Pratt voter: "food is too expensive at least the local taco stand will sell me a $10 burrito" Average Pratt voter that Karen Bass talks to: "unlimited jihad against the running dog food vendors who are stealing my customers"
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Really good video on the Reckless Ben situation youtu.be/J96uuxoakag?...
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Reckless Ben and YouTube Journalism
YouTube video by The Morbid Zoo
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I feel like the fact that cats are kind of small has made people forget that they are, in fact, extremely dangerous predators that will destroy anything in their wake
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Honestly I do not get the whole southern white liberal victim complex, like regions looking down their nose at each other in the US is basically entirely symmetric but the south treats it like it's some kind of institutionalized bigotry from northerners
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It is very funny how for some reason every neolib I know's main takeaway from Europe is "sales taxes are how you fund a welfare state" for some reason
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
allow housing construction for pell grant recipients who start a small business that operates for at least 3 years in disadvantaged communities
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Honestly, I feel like one of the bigger issues here is less the fact that there are that many people who are expressing the shallow opinions and more the fact that there is an enormous community of people who are extremely interested in defending the honor of people who express the shallow positions
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Interview discourse on here has me once again being thankful that the relevant industries that I'm interested in (academia and tech) don't have the weird dance of 100000 arbitrary social rules that everyone in the field thinks are "basic professionalism"
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ok good I was going to submit an amicus on behalf of urban stats smh
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Full on Know Nothing, with their particular concerns about specifically Catholicism and Southern European immigration
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We need a term for tactical voting that actually makes no sense whatsoever (an anti-Pratt primary vote would have to be for a candidate likely to get second, not first)
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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
this website churns out idf-tier apologia anytime the genocide of indigenous peoples comes up
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Everyone on here thinks their politics is uninfected by aversion to cringe because they don't use the term, but they are also clearly defining their politics around a strong cringe reflex against anti Americanism
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Imo: if you don't know a term, simply look it up? I feel like the fundamental issue here is that parents feel like they have a fundamental human right to never have to learn anything again
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If YouTube shorts is to be believed every single bird in Istanbul must be dead. How are there so many outdoor cats??
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If Raman wins she will have possibly the funniest coalition ever
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Need the Raman Meija regime to do some left-austerity on these clowns
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My brain is completely cooked by Factorio because my first thought was "just slap down some more chemical plants for cracking smh"
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Kingston MA and Kingston ON, they must really just like Kingstons huh
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I mean like a limit on how many applications you can send at a time makes sense but **money** is an extremely stupid way to do this. Ideally the government has some highly secure and end-to-end encrypted database where you register all your open applications with companies that opt into this
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Evil Zohran Mamdani: we need more affordable housing, but only for cops
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🚨 Urban Stats 32.3.0 🚨 OK now that I think all the districts are set in stone (thank you SCOTMO), I've updated them in Urban Stats, to help baseline polling & election results! You can access the previous ones by clicking "Include Historical Districts"
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Twilight zone was really the Dahr Mann of the 20thC frfr
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just require that historical preservation only target at most 0.5% of the structures within any given urban area, and be determined by an impartial board selected among tenured history from the tentpole public university furthest away from the relevant urban area
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