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A Pile Of Vegetables @pileofvegetables.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

@joshuajfriedman.com one of my favorite ways to use Bluesky is to follow live-skeets of court hearings/arguments (by professional journalists, law profs, or whoever) but I find discovery isn’t always easy. is there anything you’d recommend to help me know when those threads are happening?

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A Pile Of Vegetables @pileofvegetables.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

@sarahmackattack.bsky.social Just wanted to say thank you—my family has the frog fact calendar hanging in our living room. The adults and our one year old all love it!

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A Pile Of Vegetables @pileofvegetables.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

@indiegameclinic.bsky.social Hey, just wanted to say how much I loved Strange Voyage. I left Twitter a while ago and it’s been one of the things I miss the most. Would make me stop and reflect multiple times per week. Thanks for putting it out there, it was so beautiful.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

New study: Cities that encourage cycling are safer for everyone -- including those who don’t bike: "Higher-bicycling cities are significantly associated with better overall road safety outcomes." doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 27/12/2023

We know how to stop Covid (and it would probably do for a lot of other diseases too). We lack the will.

Chart from a study on filtering air, which shows proper filtering can bring airborne levels to practically zero.

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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social

I'm still confused why Big HVAC didn't squeeze 100 billion out of Congress to absolutely ventilate the shit out of every classroom in America.

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Heather Lynn Weaver @heatherweaverdc.bsky.social · 27/12/2023

Having isolated myself for the past five days to avoid getting COVID from the spouse, I am once again falling into despair about the collective decision to just pretend that COVID is no longer a problem, that it's fine if people experience multiple reinfections, and that precautions are unnecessary.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 27/12/2023

The deal seems to be that people can largely live like in pre-pandemic times as long as we accept getting miserably ill maybe twice a year (especially during family holidays), accept heightened risks of long-term health problems, and let old/vulnerable folks die. Doesn’t seem like a good deal to me.

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

Anyway take this with you into the holiday season

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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 18/12/2023

Reclaiming our communities from the car is about more than saving the planet. It’s about saving ourselves from the inequitable, unliveable, financially-ruinous places we’ve built. Ten books we read this year that changed how we think about mobility. An #urbanismbookclub thread.

A collage of nine book covers of various titles in the fields of mobility and urban planning.

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Katja Diehl @katjadiehl.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

Narrow the streets! "If cities embrace narrower lanes, there are a range of possibilities for re-designing city streets to make them safer and more accommodating for pedestrians and cyclists." www.wri.org/insights/big...

Graphic showing that fatalities on narrow roads are less as on very broad roads.

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zupa grochowa @grochowa.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

oh yeah, ugh, sounds terrible

Many young people—of all genders—want jobs that leave plenty of time and energy for the rest of life, which they see as more meaningful than work.

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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

Modest proposal that the starting point for everything be the acknowledgement that humans are a dependent part of a finite and indivisible larger living system.

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ianthemouthofmadness.fenrisgames @fenrisgames.com · 13/12/2023

Because it's seasonally relevant (again), just a reminder that we small Indie manufacturers don't have shareholders to satisfy, just bills to pay. And that while there's no algorithm here, Reposting stuff is the best way to help with visibility for us.

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

No, The Atlantic, I don’t want a weird car, electric or not. I want viable public transit and a secure place to lock my cargo trike, fewer trucks & smaller cars so 3rd graders can safely cross streets, more rental availability for the 1 time a year someone needs a big vehicle & an end to stroads.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/08/2023

You may not know this but I am in fact a climate modeller. Here is my climate model

"We can't act on climate change now, it'll be too disruptive"

linked in a self-reinforcing feedback loop to:

[Time passes with no action, meaning more disruptive changes are required than if action had begun earlier]

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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

Even if the centers of power don't acknowledge it, even if the flashy events don't acknowledge it, the world has always been and always will be an indivisible whole. No one wins if other peoples or other species sink into climate devastation.

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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

"About 57,000 students attend Harvard, Penn and MIT. Florida’s state university system, by contrast, educates more than seven times as many students."

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 09/12/2023

No. But unions could.

Headline asking "Could AI lead to a four-day week?"

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Hello MCDM @hellomcdm.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

mcdm.gg/RPG

Screenshot of the MCDM RPG Backerkit webpage. At the top is a banner that states "Launching in: 19 days 13 hrs 41 mins 7 secs". Below that is a large hero image showing a table of adventuers with a header overlayed: "The MCDM RPG tactical heroic cinematic fantasy". Text below gives instructions to hit a button to get an email when the crowdfunding campaign starts on Dec 7th.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

Carsized.com is a great tool for illustrating car bloat. Here's a Yukon next to a Civic www.carsized.com/en/cars/comp...

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

/3 Meanwhile, actual genuine no-nuance-about-it Jew-hatred is on the rise, wearing many guises, and making many American Jews reasonably feel unsafe, but why substantively address that when you can opportunistically call out your geopolitical foes.

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Taras Grescoe 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 05/12/2023

"We'll always need big diesel trucks in our cities to deliver freight. It's just reality." Not so fast. The electric "Cargo Tram" has long been a fixture in many cities in #Europe TramFret employs old trams to shuttle groceries around in the city of Saint-Etienne, #France. 🧵

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Rob @robertferry.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

We did a comparison last week after the NYT article. To keep flying in the future on corn ethanol would require monoculture of corn planted on an area larger than India. Imagine the fertilizer. landartgenerator.org/blagi/archiv...

Land Area Required to supply the world with 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) and keep us all connected.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

Similar to abortion, it's exasperating seeing "democrats and republicans are the same" when every map of state policy outcomes looks like this - policies so reactionary only federal law holds them at a lower bound in GOP trifecta states and reasonable center-left policies in Dem trifecta states

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

As far as I'm concerned, HIS GIRL FRIDAY is the greatest rom-com ever made, and not just because of that hat. Join us for a watch along tomorrow, Sunday Dec 3, at noon pacific/3pm eastern over on Twitch! twitch.tv/mattbaume

screengrab of cary grant and rosalind russell in his girl friday

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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

OH WELL - dashare.zone ADMIN

A SKELOTON TRYEN TO RELLAX AND TAKE ER EASY BUT THERE HAVEN TROUBLE NOT THINKEN ABOUT HOW JUST A HAND FULL OF BILLONARES FUCKED EVERY THING UP FOR DA REAST OF US ,THERES ENOUGH FOOD FOR EVERY ONE BUT ALOT OF IT GETS THROWN AWAY ,LOCKED DUMPSTERS, MANAGER'S PORING BLEACH OVER DA THROWN AWAY FOOD, EMPOTY HOUSE'S AND APARTMENT'S FOR RENT WHILE PEPOLE SLEEP OUTSIDE IN DECEMBER ,LAND LORD RASIES RENT NO REASON ,EVERY ONE PUSHED TO MAKE MORE MONEY EVREY YEAR AS PRICE'S GO UP FOR EVERY THING,NO ONE SIEZE'S DA WELTH BECUASE THERE WORRIED ABOUT SOME ONE DOIN IT TO THEM IF THERE EVER RICH ,NATION OF GREEDY DREAMER'S ,THEY FOUND OUT WERE JACKEN OFF FOR FREE AND THATS WHY THERE MAKEN US VEREFY OUR DRIVERS LICENSE TO GET TO DA PORNOS ,DA BIG BOY'S IN WASHINGTON WHANT TO CONTROL YOUR DAMB GENITAL'S AND IF WE DONT LIKE IT WE CAN VOTE LOL , ANY WAY DA TEXT SAYS "EVERYTHIG COULD BE FIND IF RICH PEOPLE HAD SLIGHTLY LESS MONEY , OH WELL I GUESS IMPROVING DA WORLD IS IMPOSSIBLE - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 04/12/2023

Something that's starting to really annoy me is headlines claiming that AI is "doing" things, like denying people healthcare or detaining sex workers at the border. No, people are still doing that, they're just using AI specifically to avoid being blamed for it

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A Pile Of Vegetables @pileofvegetables.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

Had to run an errand with my car today--which I do maybe once or twice a month. Struck by how unpleasant it was. Driving through dull highways. Dodging crazy drivers. Even when I got to the store--a large box in a strip mall--it was eerily empty. I feel lucky most errands are walkable for me!

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Sharkhand @sharkhand.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

New Orleans is flooded today because Governor-Elect Jeff Landry refuses to stop blocking the funds needed to make repairs due to local politicians not prosecuting women for abortions. wordinblack.com/2023/11/loui...

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Louisiana's New Governor Put Abortion Politics Over Fixing Pipes

Jeff Landry won't give New Orleans public funds to fix its water system after officials refused to prosecute people seeking an abortion.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

There’s no take backs on fascism. There’s no easy undo button. You don’t get a do-over on both-sidesing the big ol whoopsie of mass suppression and cruelty. Not adequately portraying the threat is both awfully short sighted and almost always viewed as complicity in the eyes of history.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

The is connected to one of my other pet peeves, when people imagine the 19th century (or earlier) as basically the same as 20th century sprawl but everyone had horses and carriages instead of cars.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

"you have to drive everywhere to get to every destination" thing is presented like it's just The Natural Order of Things and not something that's only really existed (or even been possible) since the 1960s.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

In 2020, only 3.6% of the world’s population lived outside their country of birth. This has already led to a lot of anti-migrant rhetoric and policies. Imagine if 33% of humanity have to migrate.

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A Pile Of Vegetables @pileofvegetables.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

This was such a good episode--really want to read the book! Even as someone who already joined TWOC, it's an eye opening way to frame these issues. The ways we accept and rationalize thousands of automobile deaths per year is absolutely indefensible.

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

"It makes everything in my life more convenient, and I absolutely love it. Possibly more importantly, it’s also just downright fun." Via @collinwoodard.bsky.social

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I Bought An E-Bike, And It's Now Become My Entire Personality

Give me a couple of weeks, and I promise I'll go back to normal. Maybe.

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A Pile Of Vegetables @pileofvegetables.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

"[I]f we thought there was a 50 percent chance of an asteroid crashing into North America a year from now, would we be content to hope that it wouldn’t? Or would we be taking every conceivable measure to try to stop it . . .?" Well-written & thought-provoking. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Opinion | A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending.

There is a clear path to dictatorship in the United States, and it is getting shorter every day. So why is everyone behaving like normal?

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