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Alex Hodges @quantumalex.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Honestly I'm shocked that most Americans say political violence is never justified, even in the abstract. Your country was founded in revolution! Was the civil war, the emancipation of millions, not justified political violence???

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Brutalismbot @brutalismbot.com · 13/09/2025

Okinawa r/brutalism

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Alex Hodges @quantumalex.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Full agree we're using way too much water as a society, especially in these literal deserts! The Colorado doesn't reach the sea anymore! I do wonder if fixating on individual use, or (in absolute quantities) small users like data centers is helpful when agriculture uses 80% of the water supply.

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Alex Hodges @quantumalex.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

The average person uses 80 gallons of water a day, which means this entire data center uses as much water as 247 people. Honestly, seems like a good deal? Not obviously an environment catastrophe.

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Alex Hodges @quantumalex.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Gotta switch to the matching winter version! Which is also excellent

A London Underground poster, with gray rainy London above, then the brightly lit tube train below, with the blazing core of the earth glowing red with the text "It is warmer below."

By Frederick Charles Herrick, 1927

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Japanese American National Museum @jamuseum.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Euphemistic language is a tool often used to sanitize grave injustices. When referring to the WWII incarceration of people of Japanese ancestry, it is important to use the correct terminology: concentration camps, not relocation centers; forced removal, not evacuation; citizens, not non aliens.

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Alex Hodges @quantumalex.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Well, you can get funds and ETFs which try to filter the worst offenders out, and they're barely more expensive than just buying the SP500. If anything, they're a way for you to vote with your money that ordinary people didn't have at all until recently!

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Alex Hodges @quantumalex.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Should note it's not Guantanamo *again*, because we never stopped. It's still an active operating illegal prison. This is *another* Guantanamo, because one concentration camp wasn't enough for us.

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Alex Hodges @quantumalex.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

But also, most people in England live in the South - there's about 15 million in the North, and the other 40 million in the South. Kind of makes me wonder whether the North is overrepresented in football?

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Alex Hodges @quantumalex.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

No! It's not the bedrock at all. The deeper theories are quantum field theory and general relativity. Newtonian physics is just a good approximation to those, sometimes.

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Alex Hodges @quantumalex.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Oh I totally get how cars have immense costs (building roads, using space, pollution...), as you say, and that walking is cheaper to society. Are all four of the stats here factoring in the cost of the traveler's time? That sounds like a much harder stat to compute

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Alex Hodges @quantumalex.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

How does walking cost you a dollar? The others I get, but walking is free, right?

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Alex Hodges @quantumalex.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Where's the town in that photo!? That's basically all parking lot!

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Alex Hodges @quantumalex.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Songkick is really good for this! You can put in locations to track and connect your Spotify, then it'll tell you when bands you like are in town. Works well for me!

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Alex Hodges @quantumalex.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Mandatory: bye to the fascist other place

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dentontransitposts @dtxtransitposts.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Probably shouldn't draft threads at 1:18AM but I have very little other than disgust and anger today so here it goes. The world's richest man just seig heiled today. My community is about to lose immeasurable rights. Deportation raids are about to drastically ramp up. And what have liberals done?

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joyeux no-hell 🎃 @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

The sentiment really chaps my ass as a former engineer because technology has already saved you! It continues to save you again and again and again - the miracles of vaccines and wastewater treatment and a thousand other things are the bulwark holding back an incredible amount of suffering

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Alex Hodges @quantumalex.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Maybe I'm missing something, but is that a bad thing? To me it makes sense that a city should have control over its ports and crossings, no?

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