Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialFietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 28/12/2025When infrastructure design details are rigid enough to give consequences rather than forgiveness to motorists, only then will we see a shift from recklessness to attentiveness behind the wheel. 916229
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialJoey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Official data is in today, and US solar continues to grow rapidly, with generation up 21% compared to last year! 8776149
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15/12/2025Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year. 357238357186
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 11/12/2025he's weak and he's flailing and he's never had less juice in his political life know that, even as he does untold damage on the way down, we are going to win 211949325
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialNick @nicksattele.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Was this the plan all along? 1721233
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialsarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 10/12/2025are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson 722801523
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialHank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 06/12/2025One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back. Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance. Be a housing fan. 1243180374
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialJ. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Monsters. They've abolished universal newborn Hep B vaccination, in an 8-3 vote. Since 1991, that dose prevented 6M+ infections, almost 100k deaths, & millions of chronic liver disease/cancer cases. This is class warfare via crimes against public health. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/... 15929
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 05/12/2025this is your fault, Bill personally, specifically, your fault you could have blocked this guy, you more than anyone had the power, and you chose not to do it you own this and I hope you choke on it 161745326
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/12/2025i made a video about the president's gutter racism against somali-americans and how a scandal became a smear became a call for de facto ethnic cleansingyoutube.comDonald Trump’s racist attack on Somali AmericansYouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie 753548898
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialGarth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 29/11/2023Japan understands the true spirit of Christmas 6955351552
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialDebjit Dutta @debjitduttaart.bsky.social · 28/11/2025What a great headline 2924037211158
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialMax Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 27/11/2025Happy Thanksgiving 131425318
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialNorm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 27/11/2025Instead of watching Stranger Things, maybe we should start building stronger things, like the rule of law and a commitment to democratic norms 221256143
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialJoey the Jack o’Lantern 🎃 @spiceboyjoey.bsky.social · 27/11/2025Happy Thanksgiving, please rise for the national anthem 227485
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/11/2025Today, in Utah, homeowners *or renters* can simply buy a solar panel at Costco, take it home, and plug it in to a wall socket, like an appliance. It just sits there & trims about 15-20% off a residential power bill. If you move to another apt., you can take it with you. 19914210
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialAndy @alleysofmpls.bsky.social · 21/11/2025If we’re gonna keep the skyways in Minneapolis, at least do something like this. 24811
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21/11/2025It's a censorship engine designed to promote ideas that Elon Musk likes and suppress ideas that Elon Musk does not like. I really don't get why this evident fact - that Musk openly admits! - is so hard for so many people to understand 372991742
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/11/2025This is really important. The main thing that makes it hard to achieve integrated nature and green in cities isn’t density of buildings or density of people — it's density of cars. And the more well-designed and integrated density of people & buildings you achieve, the fewer cars you need or want. 7410109
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialSoccerwise @soccerwisehq.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Game 3 between Minnesota and Seattle will go down as one of the best playoff matches in MLS history ✍️ @tombogert.bsky.social @mattdoyle.bsky.social 1151
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialRyan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 07/11/2025URGENT BOLLARD ALERT. SDOT is going to the Pike Place Market Historical Commission next Wednesday to get initial guidance on the "physical protective barriers" planned ahead of the FIFA World Cup. The board is getting its temperature taken on a "hybrid approach" of bollards and vehicle barricades. 715126
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 07/11/2025I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul 5560211354
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc 242614911
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialTony Zombie-ano 🎃 @tonydamiano.bsky.social · 06/11/2025I know some folks were asking for something like this (@meshm.bsky.social iirc) So I made a quick dot density map of the first choice Minneapolis mayoral results. This allows you to see two things that choropleth maps can't show... umn.maps.arcgis.com/apps/mapview... 1215249
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/11/2025I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is. 210147442621
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialAlex Schieferdecker @alexschief.bsky.social · 02/11/2025New bikeways that have opened (or are very close to opening) in Minneapolis this year: - Hennepin Avenue S - University Avenue SE - 24th Street E - 1st Avenue S (1/2) 1029739
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialLindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 31/10/2025New Yorkers vote today if you haven’t and you get this 312186539
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 30/10/2025"When you open me, you might be looking for a spot where someone, anyone, ideally the doctor, explains me to you. It gives me more pleasure than I care to admit that there will be none of that here." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...mcsweeneys.netI’m Your Uploaded Bloodwork Results, and No, I Will Not Explain Myself to YouI’ve finally arrived. That’s right, it’s me, your bloodwork results, in your inbox three days after that chatty nurse couldn’t find your vein and l... 29716
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialDan Hon @danhon.com · 29/10/2025star trek: tng, but Computer has an obsequious attitude like ChatGPT picard: tea, earl grey, hot computer: a nice hot earl grey sounds like an excellent choice! it's aromatic, a little citrusy, and will do a lot to perk you up. it's certainly easier on your body than coffee! if you want to maximi 2228
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialMike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 29/10/2025thread on how single stair enables not just more family-sized homes - but higher quality and much more livable: bsky.app/profile/holz... 1215
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialMike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 29/10/2025just going to keep hammering this home - if US politicians actually want more 3- and 4-bedroom homes in multifamily housing... single stair is how you do it. the shaded units here are all 3-bedroom homes. good luck doing this in a double loaded corridor. note they are all dual aspect as well 1598
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialSam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 12/10/2025So when I say Minnesota takes apples seriously… 69410
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/09/2025IT IS TIME.buff.lyIt’s Decorative Gourd Season, MotherfuckersFirst published on October 9, 2009, this classic by Colin Nissan is our most-read article of all time. We’re celebrating the 16th anniversary of th... 201632582
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialBill Lindeke @blindeke.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Happy Broad Street pump handle day to those who celebrate! 26322
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialAnna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 06/08/2025We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death 17976532400
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialJoey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Unquestionably the most dangerous and corrupt attack on the independence of US economic data in American history. Trump is firing the head of the BLS, a longtime civil servant confirmed 86-8 by the Senate, simply because the job numbers came in below his expectations today 26650731690
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 30/07/2025for anyone who looks at the predicted electoral college realignment in 2030 and starts running around with their hair on fire, here's the blue state problem in a nutshell: people want to live there but can't build more houses 1629553
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialLaura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 28/07/2025The U.S. has led the world in science since the mid-20th century for two reasons: funding & welcoming students and researchers from around the world. The Trump administration is destroying both advantages (1/2) 171073413
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialJosh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social · 26/07/2025When you strip away humanity 514190787988
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/07/2025This is an executive order that lays the groundwork for sending homeless people and people with mental illness to concentration camps to be "civilly committed." It was never going to stop with immigrants. This is horrifying beyond words. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...whitehouse.govEnding Crime and Disorder on America's StreetsBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and 24257123075
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/07/2025when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet 668197794361
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialAnthony DiCicco @adicicco.bsky.social · 24/07/2025MLS, almost every sport entity wrongly conflate human rights with “politics.” Abductions of people off the street by masked, secret police is not political, it’s human rights violations. Killing unarmed, starving people at food distribution sites isn’t political, it’s genocide. Do better. 312936
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialMichael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 23/07/2025imo, if someone believes some races or ethnicities are genetically inferior to others, that person has revealed a weakness of mind and character that casts extreme if not irrefutable doubt on their other ideas. why would i expect them to use more rigor on, eg, housing than they do on human nature? 9670221246
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18/07/2025ok everyone's seen the trump with epstein photos by now, after years of the media pretending they didn't exist. good progress. next step is making sure everyone who is like "uh this all is sketchy but surely the president isn't literally a pedophile" sees this gross photo 1903981991
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialJonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 18/07/2025The day the Access Hollywood tape was released. 9944661075
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18/07/2025keep this imagine in mind when the media writes "is the MAGA base rallying back to Trump?" pieces to try to end the scandal and help Trump. 527652
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Glad to hear he is safe and back with his family. But if they can disappear a U.S. citizen and terrorize his family this way, imagine what they are doing with immigrants in ICE facilities. 22272462176
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialJohn Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 09/07/2025Minnesota United became the most aggressive set-piece team on the planet with old-fashioned tactics backed by new analytics — and now they can’t stop scoring from it. My first for The Guardian:theguardian.comThe most aggressive set-piece team in the world plays in MinnesotaUnder the guidance of a former Manchester United assistant, Minnesota United are finding MLS success with a surprising tactic 725453
Reposted by @readingthis.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 23/06/2025we're living through one of the greatest technological revolutions in the history of mankind and it's not AI 4768131993
