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Structural engineer working with old buildings. Stubbornness is underrated: where else will you get a double b, double n, and double s?

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N__B @nedbeaumontjr.bsky.social · 14h
Pitt is supposedly running a civil engineering firm when he’s not an assassin.
The advertising poster for Mr. & Mrs. Smith, with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie at maximum hotness.
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If you're in the NYC area, join @brodner.bsky.social , @adamzyglis.bsky.social, @pxmolina.bsky.social, and me talking about satire and free speech. Society of Illustrators @soi128.bsky.social on Thursday, October 8th at 6pm. societyillustrators.org/event/republ...
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Cartoonists Celebrate America 250 and the Republic of Satire - Society of Illustrators
As Americans go to the polls for the midterm elections in America's 250th year, join us for a high-energy evening with political cartoonists and scholars to hon
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
Counter-proposal to Sam Altman: Go fuck yourself www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman
Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Spy had, and has, the goods. spymagazine.substack.com/p/the-ten-mo...
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Guess Who’s One of the 10 Most Embarrassing New Yorkers?
Spy’s first cover story, in October 1986, was “The Ten Most Embarrassing New Yorkers.” On the list: Yankees owner and former felon George Steinbrenner, hotel owner and future felon Leona Helmsley, and...
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Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.
Grenfell Tower, a black smouldering carcass of the building shorty after the fire, in 2017.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 03/10/2026
You'd think that the Democratic party would be making hay over their opposition's biggest donor fighting to let his bot keep making revenge porn.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 03/10/2026
If they can ignore Congress and not spend 20% of the funds Congress told them to invest the country’s science capabilities, than all involved have lost the justification to remain in a position of public trust.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 02/10/2026
Brooklyn Bridge Arthur Leipzig, 1946
two men on brooklyn bridge, not walking on it, hang from it, working on the cables
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 01/10/2026
If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else
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Deep State Nepo Baby @ambiguouswoman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
These people have not been outright called stupid enough. I despise the ritualistic disclaimers about how these people are visionaries or whatever when they’re just misogynist nerds.
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 30/09/2026
NEW: MTA officials warned that “high and unpredictable” tariffs brought on by the Trump administration could jack up the cost of new trains and buses by $1 billion by 2030.
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Trump Tariffs to Add $1B to Cost of New Trains and Buses in NYC: MTA
The transit agency says thousands of parts are sourced from all over the world.
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Piper Furiosa 🇵🇸🏴🌲🏴‍☠️ @piperfuriosa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's very important that none of us share her name. Not even in "awareness" of what has been done to her. Not in sharing images of her doxxing. She's Jane Doe unless *she* chooses not to be. Then, we pursue vengeance against all rapists & their enablers until none of them are fucking left.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 26/07/2024
Me: "I like to dump the dry ice from shipments into the sink and add a bunch of water so it looks like I'm a mad scientist tinkering with forces beyond my understanding, spitting in the face of the gods with my intellectual hubris." Priest: "Okay, again; kind of weird, but not technically a sin"
Don't do this to your plumbing, because it can really mess it up, and this isn't my lab, but it's a sink filled with dry ice that is boiling over with CO2.  A black lab bench with carboy of water next to the sink, and a centrifuge on the bench in fashionable "science beige".

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https://www.reddit.com/r/labrats/comments/xuo2kt/lpt_dump_excess_dry_ice_from_shipments_into_the/
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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N__B @nedbeaumontjr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Niche - micro niche- music question. I can think of two rock songs that use instruments to imitate the sound of a steam locomotive. The obvious one is Locomotive Breath. The less known one is Bob Seger’s version of Jesse James. Are there more?
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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
But here's the thing: the men being antisocial all the damn time don't listen when a woman tells them to knock it off. They might listen to you, a man. Step up. Say something. Stop making excuses for your passivity.
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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Starlink and other low orbit arrays have this problem. Satellite lifespan is 5 years. The endeavor is linked to unending significant capex. If they stop launching, the array falls out of the sky. This is why making the US Gov't dependent on Starlink is a huge priority for Musk and SpaceX.
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ChrisTS9 @christs9.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Brilliant. Why should shoppers work for the store for free?
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
just from a quality-of-industry-feedstock perspective this can't possibly be worth it. you are losing more smart women than you're gaining smart sex pests
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N__B @nedbeaumontjr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just stepped into the living room and Mini__B was explaining the terminal moraine to Mrs__B. I like my family.
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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The combined undergraduate and graduate student populations of all Ivy League schools is about 140,000 students. The CUNY system alone is 250,000.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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N__B @nedbeaumontjr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Beautiful golden sunset out the window. The nor’easter arrives in a few hours.
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Calm down, I already think Mamdani is great, you don’t have to lay it on so thick!
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John Holbo @jholbo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I would watch the heck out of a Columbo episode in which interviews 20 bears.
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm not the kind to say it all points back to a single historical episode, but so much of what Trump is doing with ballroom & Kennedy Center—the wanton destruction, the callous indifference to the past—was evident when he destroyed Bonwit Teller's irreplaceable sculptures nearly a half-century ago
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Heads of state, governors, mayors visit Trump, he drags them to his golf club, makes them eat steak with ketchup. They visit Mamdani, he gives them a bus tour and they go meet some adorable second graders.
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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I just wanted to write about physics! But noooo, a fucking sex cult had to take over Silicon Valley and the entire public discourse about technology and the future while aiding the rise of fascism, and I felt duty-bound to write about that instead LOOK WHAT THEY MADE ME DO
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More Everything Forever
This "smart and wonderfully readable" (New York Times) exposé shows why Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions—with escaping death...
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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
E.B. White established this in 1949! Move on already!
Screenshot from E.B. White's essay "Here is New York": "There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter —the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. Of these three trembling cities the greatest is the last— the city of final destination, the city that is a goal. It is this third city that accounts for New York's high-strung disposition, its poetical deportment, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements. Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion."
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
like all great cities New York is vibrant and alive and made important precisely because people come to it from everywhere! cities without an ever-flowing wave of new people become moribund and stale
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
other things found in an old photo folder: this remarkable headline about the time the Mets went all-out for one special fan
newspaper headline: "Mets Blow a Save and Fan 18 Times in Opening Loss"
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N__B @nedbeaumontjr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
No, online word game, “thicc” is too a word.
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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hey all, this is a very important video and it's not being seen. The border wall is violating sovereignty for the Tohono O'odham nation and destroying sacred cultural heritage Please share widely and support those advocating on the ground
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 20/09/2026
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N__B @nedbeaumontjr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A Boebert sex scandal is mildly less repulsive than a Kash sex scandal.
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 20/09/2026
“As you finalize the plan, we urge you to adopt metrics tied to affordability, liability and the freedom to move,” reads the letter, which was provided to The City Reporter.
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Mamdani, Here’s How to Do Better on Street Safety, Advocates Plead
After failure by the Adams administration to meet bus and bike targets, safety activists want a lot more accountability from the current mayor.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's pretty damn impressive how much ground Mayor Mamdani has been able to cover after only nine months in office on a wide range of basic quality-of-life issues in NYC. I was reading through the numbers this morning, and they're kinda astonishing. (thread)
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.
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Darkrose @darkrose.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is some absolute bullshit. 🤬
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/a...
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A New York City Comic Book Offers Tips on Rights and ICE Encounters (Gift Article)
“Know Your Rights” is the latest publication from the public schools’ educational comics program Civics for All.
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N__B @nedbeaumontjr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
@malaclypse.bsky.social
Screencap of a mastadon post. Adding streamers to a cargo bike handlebars made drivers more polite.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Despite the mayor's big announcement yesterday, I'm not sure New York can achieve Vision Zero when the police commissioner allows sidewalk parking and won't punish cops who brutalize citizens for trying to get them to stop.
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NYPD Commissioner Tisch Declined To Punish Cops Who Used Force So Other Cops Could Park Illegally - Streetsblog New York City
The top cop's decision came even though the NYPD's patrol guide prohibits both excessive force and bars officers from parking on the sidewalk.
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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I would go so far as to say that the impeachment of Trump is utterly irrelevant unless Jeffries and Schumer think they can get to 67. The impeachment of Kennedy, Hegseth, and Vought, on the other hand, is imperative.
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Loren @withano.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Roko's Basilisk is just Pascal's Wager for people who have read I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.
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N__B @nedbeaumontjr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Is there a causal link between Aella and paella? AFAF.
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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Rough week to tell people that your application to join the FBI finally went through.
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N__B @nedbeaumontjr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Remember, all parakeets have the same title for their memoirs: In the Land of the Insane Giants.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 03/09/2026
“The tech industry wants us to believe that AI in early education is not only inevitable, but that it is necessary. We do not see it that way.”
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Mamdani issues AI moratorium in NYC schools
Kids "need to wrestle with tough problems on their own,” New York's mayor said Wednesday.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The minute you make any change to your normal behavior because of pressure from one side or the other, you are taking a side. You are not doing what you want to do. You are doing what someone has pushed you to do.
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