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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 18h

Maybe not the right analogy to make in a Yankees +9 environment

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 20h

Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...

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In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault

Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.

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𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

"ending the triple lock to fund social care is" a pretty meaty "actual politics" kind of announcement

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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We've got a second opening to join the team designing, bidding and building the trains and buses that move millions. We're looking for someone who loves data and can mine datasets with hundreds of millions of rows and extract meaning from them. AND… 1/2 — careers.mta.org/jobs/1828831...

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Associate, Rolling Stock Strategy & Analysis in New York, New York, United States

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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

God, the inadvisability of this ad is insane. this is doubling down on the fact that you are a specific kind of hateful evil that most middle-class-and-above people do not even have to contemplate the existence of

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 28/09/2026

Jersey City reveals plans for the redevelopment of the Holland Gardens public housing, taking a moderate density, monofuctional, 192-unit complex and replacing it with a high-density, 753-unit project with commercial space, a community center, & a public library! newyorkyimby.com/2026/09/plan...

The new project, showing ground floor commercial

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

This behavior in Silicon Valley AI circles very effectively shuts most women (and anyone else who’s not cool with group sex events with your colleagues) out of access to some of the most prestigious and well-paying tech and policy jobs on the planet today.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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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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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

LG is often a springboard in other states but since its creation New Jersey LG has been a singularly cursed position. first one immediately lost her first and only bid for the top job, next one fucking died, one after that got stomped in a House special by Analilia Mejia, and then comes Caldwell.

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Ben Ross @benrosstransit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A Democratic wave is on the way, even if Cook, Sabato & IE refuse to see it. All 3 rate the Vermont governor race Safe Republican. The first public poll of that race in 2 months just dropped. It's from an NYT-rated quality pollster. It shows Democrat 6 points ahead. scholars.unh.edu/survey_cente...

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Partisan Headwinds Hamper Scott in Race With Janoo for Governor of Vermont 9/24/2026

Democratic nominee for governor Amanda Janoo has increased her support significantly since winning the Democratic Primary last month and is now in a statistical tie with Republican incumbent Phil Scot...

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Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Regional night trains are an untapped market in the U.S.: trains don’t need to be fast if you’re asleep. High-speed rail is great but leaving CUS at 10pm, leaving Milwaukee at 11:30pm, and waking up in Minneapolis could end up being more popular than spending eight daylight hours on the Borealis.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/09/2026

"We were letting actual 8th graders sneak into our wild drug and sex parties at our Silicon Valley AI group house" is the most eyebrow-raising quote among many from that New York Times piece, IMO. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/t...

The house quickly became a hub for events. Eric Zhu, 19, a tech entrepreneur, said he used to sneak into parties there when he was about 13. No one checked anyone’s age, he said, and “it was pretty crazy.”

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Matt da Silva @mdasilva.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The crossroads every young professional finds themselves at when the cramped overpriced Manhattan studio just doesn’t quite do it for them anymore.

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Ben S @bensh3.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In addition, the Reimagining Regional Rail master plan has been released! We finally might get the S-Bahn Philadelphia deserves. Read now: wwww.septa.org/initiatives/...

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

> ban youth from doing anything outside because of helicopter parenting > ban youth from going to public spaces because people get suspicious of young people in third spaces mfw youth go outside

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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I truly don’t understand this “transplant” nonsense. The whole THING about NYC is that ppl come here from other places to mutate into New Yorkers! TO SEE IF THEY CAN BE KING OF THE HILL, TOP OF THE HEAP! Imho a rando who moved here a year ago is the MOST NY person. Welcome Ohio rando, have a bagel

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Matt da Silva @mdasilva.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Post-material vibe voting is rooted in ignorance with regards to all of the load bearing functions government performs every day to make your life better (or sometimes make it worse).

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 20/09/2026

We should maybe have an economy that's completely isn't dependent on the price of oil.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 19/09/2026

anyway congratulations to Calvin’s Dad on diesel prices

Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin’s dad hopes gas goes up to eight bucks a gallon

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

sooooo.... if someone paints colorful circles on a street using some secret method to make them impossible to remove, the street has to become a pedestrian street? That's what I'm hearing here. Does anyone knows the method used and wants to spill details...? www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

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35 circles and 5 thick white lines are painted on this downtown street. It won’t come off

A block of Ninth Avenue can’t reopen until the colorful design is gone. The center has tried graffiti remover and pressure washers, but the work is ongoing.

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Matt da Silva @mdasilva.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

While biking this morning, I found a lonely Lime scooter admiring Roman ruins along the Appian Way.

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NYC Water @nycwater.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If you’re flushing wet wipes, your little secret won’t be a secret for long. Sewers don’t lie.

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Matt da Silva @mdasilva.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Welcome to Rome, free sparkling water on demand is a human right.

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Matt da Silva @mdasilva.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My “Freccebianca” from La Spezia to Rome turned out to be a Frecciargento-branded ETR 485 Pendolino tilt-train. The ETR 485 is holding down the fort for the recently-retired ETR 460 which was the workhorse of the Genoa-Rome expresses since the 90s. The 485 is itself also undergoing retirement too.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 12/09/2026

I thought I knew what depression was, but then I walked into a Kroger after three weeks in Europe

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Matt da Silva @mdasilva.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

🇮🇹 Trenitalia 🤝 Nj Transit 🗽 Running push-pull multilevels on commuter trains just to spite the efficiency gods.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Middle school children in my little liberal oasis were apparently wishing each other “Happy Kirkaversary” today so that’s how it’s going, if you wanted to know.

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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

never let it be said I don't work fast when I want to. I trust the county parties as far as I can throw them but I want the NJ GOP ground into the dirt and most of these candidates are genuinely flat broke in eminently winnable counties.

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Matt da Silva @mdasilva.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

PATH continues to show amazing growth since they enhanced weekend and late night service this spring.

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Matt da Silva @mdasilva.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Safe to say I’m a Jersey Boy, though I don’t like how many Phillyisms popped up.

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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Fetterman/Mamdani have single-handedly persuaded me that the way politicians dress in public should be part of how they’re evaluated.

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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Raritan Valley in from High Bridge to NYP would take about 86 minutes down from the current 108 minutes, a 22 minute trip time savings.

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Matt da Silva @mdasilva.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

My electric train I rode to work looked at this and laughed. We need to fund more transit, more electrification, and more freight rail. It’s a matter of energy independence and national security.

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Jake Berman @lostsubways.com · 31/08/2026

This is completely insane. 75% of Suffolk County and 10% of Nassau County have no sewers? These are two of the richest counties in America - Suffolk has 1.5 million people and Nassau has 1.3 million. What the hell are they doing on that slender, riotous island?

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Long Island’s never-ending search for a better sewage system

Exactly where you live on Long Island may directly affect the impact you have on the environment.

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Matt da Silva @mdasilva.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This old pamphlet from 1947 extolling the virtues of and planning decisions behind what would become the Garden State Parkway is going to turn me into the joker. archive.org/details/newj...

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Na the actual revealed preference is a McMansion in the equivalent of a street car suburb that’s like a 5-10 minute drive to the city center. We can determine this as neighborhoods like this are the most expensive in the country on a cost per sq ft basis.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

My Lyft driver today was French Cameroonian and was listening to a country music station that was paying tribute to Dolly Parton. Somehow, I think Dolly Parton wanted that America to exist and worked hard to make it a reality.

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The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Some key stats here: "Spain’s high-speed rail sees passenger numbers double as fares fall by 40%... Liberalisation has not simply redistributed passengers between competing railway companies. Rail has attracted travellers who might previously have chosen to fly." www.railwaypro.com/wp/?p=141129

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.

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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
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Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.

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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I like how Rwanda is upgrading slums but I think their approach to housing in Kigali is far too small scale. We are talking around a million -3 million new residents in the next decades. You need bigger buildings

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Mpazi model will solve the affordable housing puzzle

Kigali’s housing challenge has been building for years. As the city’s population continues to grow, demand for decent and affordable housing has risen faster than supply,...

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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Craziest thing about Silicon Valley is that it’s nothing but single family homes and yet so many people struggle to touch grass.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 25/08/2026

There are so many donations happening right now that the site has crashed.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/08/2026

dolly parton taught millions of children to read dolly parton raised millions of dollars for cancer research and disaster relief dolly parton stood by the lgbtq community her entire life dolly parton personally helped fund the moderna vaccine if there was a right side of something she was on it

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talyaschwartz.bsky.social @talyaschwartz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Spending $4B to keep the status quo is a shame. Current conditions are: too much congestion, bad air quality, noise, and divided communities. The IBX is costing $5.5B and creating: new housing, businesses, improving commutes, reducing car reliance. Now that is a good investment.

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Matt da Silva @mdasilva.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I get needing to connect passengers from Milwaukee to their long haul flights out of O’Hare, but shouldn’t the connection be a bus?

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