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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 9h

It’s pretty clear at this point that algorithmic social media makes my life worse. It’s addictive and distracting and has actually done a lot of harm societally as a whole. Beyond that, the biggest Silicon Valley projects were NFTs, Crypto, & the Metaverse. Huge resource sucks providing nothing

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tschuy 🏳️‍🌈 @tsch.uy · 11h

I made another fun little @amtrak.com tool. This one shows you where along the long distance Amtrak routes it's daytime or nighttime, depending on the train and time of year! daynight.transittools.dev

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Amtrak & VIA Rail - by Night and Day

Explore Amtrak and VIA Rail routes by daylight and nighttime

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending

a graph of roadway and mass transit lights

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Timothy Ryan @tjryan02.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

The best one is 272 why are we even talking about this?

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 16h

*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.

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Yo Un-hyong Appreciator @mongyang.bsky.social · 12h

Not to relitigate old discourse, but Mao on the Long March (and quite frankly, in Manchuria in 1947 too)

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Mitch is tired 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @mitchell509.bsky.social · 13h

New reaction image just dropped

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Yo Un-hyong Appreciator @mongyang.bsky.social · 13h

Ever-so slightly a majority of Protestants in Minnesota (how this splits between ELCA and the others I am not sure of) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religio...

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 14h

and Walz is a marital convert to Lutheranism, imagining a full life Lutheran in the WH is kinda inconceivable. They’d rather dominate the boards of non-profits and mutual benefit associations.

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Yo Un-hyong Appreciator @mongyang.bsky.social · 13h

does the administrative procedure act serve as a book of rites (?)

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Yo Un-hyong Appreciator @mongyang.bsky.social · 13h

civil service as a secular priesthood (laudatory?)

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Molly Fleck @mollyfleck.bsky.social · 23h

If you ride transit in Chicagoland, you should take this survey.

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Suss-- 🥌 @suss2hyphens.bsky.social · 14h

Heading over to Honeybaked, does anyone need a cup of ham

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

yeah, and I think we'll have to start sending kids to brain gym young (like 5 or 6), obviously with age & developmentally appropriate brain workout content that they can work up through in, like, graded levels with qualified brain fitness instructors.

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 21h

Some y’all need Jesus, even more need to read a second book

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Jeff Nichols @backwardsriver.bsky.social · 21h

CTA Culture Bus routes, 1987

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Phoebe ↙↙↙ @pcberry.bsky.social · 21h

the whole reason I got into urbanism was being a teen who had to make do with the non-car infrastructure of a small town

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In @audacityofdespair.bsky.social’s HBO adaptation, he was played brilliantly by Michael Cerveris.

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Metro Transit (Official) @metrotransitmn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Our very own Skip Traffic ran in the Twin Cities Marathon Mascot Invitational on Saturday, October 3rd with many of Skip's friends! Huge thank you to twincitiesinmotion.bsky.social for having Skip join in on the fun and for all the families that cheered from the sidelines!

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Nate B @warpedhorizon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In exciting Midwest passenger rail news, starting today Amtrak's Borealis now runs with 4 Superliner coaches instead of 3, adding 75 more seats. Dash 8-32BWH #518 is on the rear of the first 4 car run, passing Imniza Ska slightly behind schedule.

A passenger train lit by the sunset. At the head is GE P42DC #54, behind it are 4 silver bilevel passenger cars, each with a red, white, and blue stripe. At the rear is a strange angular locomotive, a GE Dash 8-32BHW. Behind the train a steep wooded hillside rises, and above it are patchy clouds lit by last light.

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Yo Un-hyong Appreciator @mongyang.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

hmm ... bird colonel's insignia still has olive branches (and the eagle's head facing them)?

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Yo Un-hyong Appreciator @mongyang.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

unironically I feel like even if one does this there is some risk of a sense of ex post pain -- perhaps call it 'phantom hurt?' from opportunity cost of not being vulnerable/open to love/etc.

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think one reason it’s good to have a liberal arts education in the classic sense is that you don’t then spend time trying to invent the concept of “intellectual pursuits” from first principles

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Michael @scottgoblue314.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

California homeowners i SWAER TO GOD

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Shane Phillips @shanedphillips.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Another entry for the "impact fee nexus studies are bullshit" file! Student enrollment at LA Unified has fallen for 24 years straight, ~48%. And yet! We have an impact fee because: "As new development occurs, additional school facilities will be needed to house the growth in the student population."

A screenshot from the Los Angeles Unified School District 2026 School Impact Fee Justification Study. The text reads: "Education Code Section 17620 allows school districts to assess fees on new residential and
commercial construction within their respective boundaries. These fees can be collected without
special city or county approval, to fund the construction of school facilities necessitated by the
impact of residential and commercial development activity. In addition, these fees can also be used
to fund the reconstruction of school facilities to accommodate students generated from new
development projects. Fees are collected immediately prior to the time of the issuance of a building
permit by the City or the County.
As new development occurs, additional school facilities will be needed to house the growth in the
student population. Because of the high cost associated with constructing school facilities and the
District’s limited budget, outside funding sources are required for future school construction. State
and local funding sources for the construction and/or reconstruction of school facilities are limited."

Source: https://4.files.edl.io/0bc1/05/22/26/161250-26fd9501-6360-44fb-a158-3bb37a543fd9.pdf

A chart showing TK-12 enrollment in LAUSD declining in every year since 2002-03, from 724,000 in that year to 408,000 in 24-25, and a projected 376,000 in 27-28.
Source: https://gpsnla.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Facing-the-Decline-Building-A-Resilient-LAUSD_FINAL.pdf

Current school impact fee rates effective August 11, 2026, per square foot by construction type:
Residential: $5.38
Commercial/industrial: $0.87
Rental Self Storage: $0.32
Parking Structure: $0.44

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Michael "Fallen Coffee Pot of Shadows" Senters the Sigillite:ABD @mikesenters.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

@pmeyers7.bsky.social and @tobiasharris.bsky.social make very good points here. One of the reasons we are in the quagmire we are in is because the antisocial nihilism or "edgelord" culture of 4chan more or less won the war to define large chunks of Internet culture back in 2013-2014 against Tumblr.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/10/2026

whoever my photographer is, he sometimes liked to get a little artsy, as in this photo.

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VERTICAL📼BLANKING📺INTERVAL @vertiblank.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A Hark! A Vagrant classic

Watson: Oooh, what’s that you’ve got?
Franklin: My final report
Watson: Little Rosie Franklin’s research! I bet it’s something!
Franklin: ROSALIND.
Crick: Oh, that’s a big name
W: You’re getting fancy on us! Tell me—
F: Ah. I love this game.
W: Is it a scientific breakthrough in feelings?
F: Well, I suppose I have to go into hysterics or have a baby somewhere, good day gentlemen
W: GO, GO
[W and C slip a look at F’s notes]
C: Nice
W: Quit hogging

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Protect Bridgeport Bicyclists @stevevance.net · 05/10/2026

I DO

Same train; inside of the McCormick Place expo hall

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Daniel Herriges @dpherriges.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is the way. Passing something called "rent control" is extremely politically popular. Channel that popularity into good, non-harmful policy with an anti-gouging law that allows modest increases, stability for existing tenants, and a reset to market rate when tenant leaves (vacancy decontrol).

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

All of you have been slandering vanilla ice cream for years because you're buying the kinds without real vanilla in them, aren't you.

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Bill Lindeke @blindeke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Calling fans of ancient mountains (& the Piedmont that adjoins them)! We have North Carolina, West Virginia (@pedalingpastor.bsky.social) & Tennessee on the menu for You're Not From Here, Are You this month. Wednesday 7pm Free at the Black Hart. See you then! tcsidewalks.blogspot.com/2026/10/your...

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Stoic beauty. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Black-and-white photo of a short haired, white cat sitting on a rock on a lawn bordered by other vines and foliage.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Possibly this was also true in the past, but one thing I think is perhaps peculiar to modern life is the extreme intrusion of opportunity cost. I was reading Marguerite Abouet's wonderful series "Aya" and she describes how in the 1970s in Ivory Coast, when you had a baby, all women came to help.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 05/10/2026

this shit hits so hard if you have a degree from Business School

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 05/10/2026

I'm thankful Minnesota has a strong commitment to local journalism bc it's vital to commit these stories to a public record broader than just 1 lawsuit. And nice of the author to make me sound more professional by not using the bit where I said ICE officers would need instructions written in crayon

On the morning of Sept. 25, Alejandro was brought to the Whipple building, given his belongings and told he was being released.

Alejandro got a few steps farther than Ivan would. He made it outside the building’s front doors.

That’s where plain clothes immigration agents were waiting to handcuff him.

“One of the agents translated for me, saying just like they could release me, they could arrest me again,” Alejandro said in Spanish.

“It's bullshit,” Suitor said. “We won the case.”

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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The CTA has unveiled a 1950s neon-style sign at a revamped Blue Line stop. buff.ly/5Ifslf9

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Sol Feggio @wtdore.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I always thought combating climate change would be our Moral Equivalent of War. But it's been 100 years since William James wrote this and we haven't found one: Proposing the Moral Equivalent of War | Lapham’s Quarterly www.laphamsquarterly.org/states-war/p...

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1906: Proposing the Moral Equivalent of War

William James considers substitutes for martial experience.

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Yo Un-hyong Appreciator @mongyang.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

apropos of this, Read Theory (here regarding a history of public health)

Examining Tuskegee
The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy
Susan Reverby

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Yo Un-hyong Appreciator @mongyang.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A lot of contemporary local, state and national park infrastructure was built in big spurts in collective public works programs. yeah it's politics but maybe it would help ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Yo Un-hyong Appreciator @mongyang.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Even then, I feel like rote "go out in nature" advice can be rather lonely. imho a lot of the contemporary neature-scene is structured around individually consuming equipment, experiences, or the places themselves -- and still doesn't really solve the "my life feels empty" probelm

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Mass politics without mass membership

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Yo Un-hyong Appreciator @mongyang.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I find history important -- moreso than social science -- b/c of its emphasis on finding narrative, and focuses on contexts and contingencies particular to a situation. Social science is useful, but I think can feel effacing, and denying of agency, in its generalizations

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Yo Un-hyong Appreciator @mongyang.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

well, as a 2-for-1 there is M*A*S*H ...

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