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Kevin Germino @kgermino.bsky.social · 8m

Fair I guess. Not sure I’ve ever charged at a strip mall. It’s usually truck stops or Walmarts IME. Occasionally an Electrify America at a real mall which is kind of a bummer but w/e

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Kevin Germino @kgermino.bsky.social · 1h

Seems like an odd connection?

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“now show the north side”

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is a ‘good strategy’ in game theory terms if you assume Trump will punish you for not rolling over and showing deference and democrats won’t. Democrats should think about altering those incentives.

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Kevin Germino @kgermino.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Politics is part of the challenge - have you complained to your alderwoman today? ;) - and everything moves slower than you'd like, but I think a lot of the pieces are there. Can definitely send links or walk through them if you want too, I'm sure we'll see you int he next couple weeks :)

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Kevin Germino @kgermino.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's a bit circuitous - partly geography, partly politics - but the plans are pretty much all there. OLT - Michigan - Jefferson - KKRT over the river and along Water - Bay St Connection (which IIRC gets you to the OLT South) Plus a few other projects planned and often funded connecting to those

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Kevin Germino @kgermino.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

That’s kind of impressive, in a depressing sort of way

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Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Today is the second time in franchise history the White Sox will play a home game with a chance to clinch a postseason series Joining: 1906 WS G6, which they won

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Kevin Germino @kgermino.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Coding and related deterministic generative uses - very powerful, but if anything more dangerous in an untrained hand than what we had before Then everyone uses it to make the ugliest flyers imaginable because there's pretty colors and they want a shortcut 😭 Not to mention al the text spam...

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Kevin Germino @kgermino.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's an incredibly powerful tool that's just _massively_ misused because it's fun and people are lazy + have no sense of taste. Parsing through massive data sets to find niche answers no human could keep in their brain - incredible

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Kevin Germino @kgermino.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

""It can only good happen" - Donald Trump" - @sky.skymarchini.net

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Kevin Germino @kgermino.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Home alone, and I know I set my glasses down _somewhere_ in this house… Pretty sure they’re inside anyway. This is going to be an adventure

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Kevin Germino @kgermino.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

OK, I get that like weather is a thing (though not as much indoors…) but 49° launch angle is not going out in a major league park without wind assistance

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

from 2001. no one’s doing product testimonials like this anymore. t.co/PEswCtbEZz

Toyota's unease at being associated with the Taliban and Al Qaeda is evident. In its September statement, the company said,
'Toyota does not have a sales or distribution channel in Afghanistan, and we do not export vehicles to that country."
Somewhat less laconic was Wade Hoyt, Toyota's spokesman in New York, who put the best corporate spin on the situation this week.
"It is not our proudest product placement," he said. "But it shows that the Taliban are looking for the same qualities as any truck buyer: durability and reliability."

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Kevin Germino @kgermino.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Focusing on the important issues I see

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Kevin Germino @kgermino.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"no alternatives" is a hell of a thing to say about Chicago, but regardless the main anti-car point in that thread is closer to "use what you want, but pay market price" than "ban all cars"

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Kevin Germino @kgermino.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What does a parking lane have to do with “roads into, through, and from” Chicago? You are definitionally not using that asphalt to get anywhere since there’s a parked car in the way

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Kevin Germino @kgermino.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Line Go Up. Obviously everything is fine

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Kevin Germino @kgermino.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Why make it northbound? I’m sure you have a reason, but my instinct is that southbound makes more sense, both because that’s the side of the road you’re on and because you’re going to be essentially coupleting it with Columbusfor most of the length

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I love that the U.S. government now has ideas so dumb that the fact checks are simply “yeah this isn’t a parody, it’s real”

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Kevin Germino @kgermino.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This related to the seasonal changeover/Joliet outage?

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Kevin Germino @kgermino.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’m sorry, are we saying it was “a terrible decision to make” BY THE WOMAN to be assaulted?!

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Kevin Germino @kgermino.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Outside my skills here. 2% or 2 points? (i.e. 10% to 10.2% or 10% to 12%) One seems pretty small and the other seems really large, though I could be way off on the impact either way

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Kevin Germino @kgermino.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think the 5 team playoff was peak. Winning the division mattered (a lot) but you could get in through a 1 game wildcard if you were close. Kept the divisions important and the fact it was a one game “series” made it easy and exciting to watch

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Kevin Germino @kgermino.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My understanding is that CAFE standards sometimes backfired because the allowances for bigger cars exceeded the actual efficiency loss from getting larger. Would be funny if loosening CAFE + the fuel crisis kicked off a new push to smaller cars

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Kevin Germino @kgermino.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is more the roadside chargers. You’d still want to have that at home to charge for daily use since the cost/inconvenience means the fast chargers are unlikely to be worth is no matter how fast they are

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Kevin Germino @kgermino.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sometimes walking to the corner store is a fun adventure with my daughter, and other times I just need something quick to make dinner. I can't imagine building my life around a 20+ minute trip to a big box store in either case.

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Kevin Germino @kgermino.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ya the corollary to OPs point is that a 6'2"ish person can really upset people by not caring and casually saying they're 6' tall.

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Kevin Germino @kgermino.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The obvious answer is electrification to make the locals go brrr too!

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David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Anyway, this thread got way longer than I meant it to be, and can be summed up, I suppose, in one sentence: Start figuring out how to live with a nuclear armed Iran.

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David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We can wish things were different, but that ship has sailed, and is largely our fault. We broke the JPCOA. We attacked them at the behest of Israel. We attacked Venezuela during negotiations. We then attacked Iran in negotiations.

Scene from The Wire, where Marlow Stanfield says "You want it to be one way, but it's the other way."

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Kevin Germino @kgermino.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

NITA can just do it too right? Would obviously need some political cover/buy in. But a mayor pushing for it and NITA using their authority would probably work well

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Kevin Germino @kgermino.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

They haven’t shown a tremendous ability to do math so far (Preemptive this is a politics joke, not an education one)

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 23/09/2026

A fatal crash killed a motorcyclist over the weekend on N Ash. So today, Spokane’s traffic crews deployed its first “Emergency Streets” installation—rapid traffic calming to slow drivers, close a lane, and evaluate whether street design played a role. More info: my.spokanecity.org/news/release...

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Kevin Germino @kgermino.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Annoyingly my Buzz doesn't have an AM radio which I only learned when trying to use it for the Cubs game

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Kevin Germino @kgermino.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Uhhh what?! What a terrible idea

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22/09/2026

investigating Elon Musk, subpoenaing him, making him testify under oath, and working toward significant prosecutions should be one of the leading Democrat campaign promises right now not just for DOGE, for a decade of self-driving fraud that has killed more than 60 Americans, and many other crimes

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22/09/2026

to start: -a decade of Clean Air Act violations at Tesla's Fremont plant -multiple stealth recalls and other auto safety law violations -a long record of systematic workplace abuse -blatantly buying votes to throw the last presidential election -DOE loan fraud -interference in US foreign policy

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Kevin Germino @kgermino.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So the plan is “no coordination, just vibes” then?

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Kevin Germino @kgermino.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We have a local journalist who likes to add dry commentary after these quotes. “Commenter said ‘this is like Nazi Germany’ describing the proposal to move the bus 2 blocks west”

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Kevin Germino @kgermino.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I think removing the industry goes a long way on this. "United Center" feels like a place, "United Airlines Center" feels like an ad.

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Know anyone in Milwaukee, Wisconsin? Please forward them this. We need their feedback on difficult choices facing the transit system. www.ridemcts.com/programs/mct...

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MCTS Forward

MCTS Forward is a collaborative effort to think about the future of public transit in Milwaukee County.

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Kevin Germino @kgermino.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

And also 1/4 the number of people killed directly by cars

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Kevin Germino @kgermino.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Not to mention that LA has twice the population ad 4x the area as Cook... Plus the geography might actually justify some municipal separation there, at least more than it does in Chicagoland

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Kevin Germino @kgermino.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Which is doubly weird to me, since the "sober and uncomfortable around drinking" things seems _much_ bigger than it was when I was younger

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