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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3h

Holy shit.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 2h

I seem to be everywhere.

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Ned @thewesterhazys.bsky.social · 7h

Can’t help but notice that one of the few journalistic writing assignments left that still pays is also the most intrinsically rotten one.

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Ned @thewesterhazys.bsky.social · 7h

The fact that for so many people the wealthier they are the more money they feel like they need should be studied. It appears to never be enough.

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Ned @thewesterhazys.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If nothing else politicians should love the places they represent the way this guy does.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars. Even if those cars are electric. And then there’s all the parking. OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money, emissions, pollution, noise etc. Choices. Simple.

Graphic showing a single lane 9 m wide track for metros, a 35 m wide road for buses with four lanes, and a 175 m wide road for cars with seven lanes, making the point that one single track of Metro replaces seven lanes of car traffic. Mobility in cities is about space.

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Ned @thewesterhazys.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I know people are dunking on this but I’m not ashamed to say that I find it very moving and won’t apologize for that.

Pope Francis on the pope mobile in a crowd looking down and cradling, vai slapdash photoshop, a beat up trash can shaped robot with big eyes and one leg type appendage from the movie The Black Hole in place of the baby from the original photo.

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Ned @thewesterhazys.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It is an embarrassment that anyone takes the political reporting of @nytimes.com seriously.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Paris has been praised in recent years for their visionary, progressive city-building, but they don’t get enough credit for just being really pragmatic! Everything they’ve been doing is common sense. They’re moving a lot more people with less space while cleaning the air and cooling the city.

People riding bikes in a full separated bike-lane in Central Paris.

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Ned @thewesterhazys.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

America feels like… [only the whale ship is sinking]

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Ned @thewesterhazys.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don’t use the MacOs Photos app but holy shit trying to help someone with their setup moving some photos to a different place is a revelation in utterly atrocious UX. Psychotically bad. It is crazy that people still think Apple is good at this.

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Ned @thewesterhazys.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

People love to talk about the “male loneliness” problem but the “males insecure in their masculinity” is the crisis that is truly plaguing the country.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This will be a thread of essays I recommend to students in my creative nonfiction workshop:

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Ned @thewesterhazys.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Forced to break with @davidjroth.bsky.social after finding out that he’s using Bluesky for “jokes” - a frankly appalling betrayal.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:

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Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people

Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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Ned @thewesterhazys.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sitting in a meeting with my pr people and hearing that my delusions of being president can’t even get me back on Megan Kelly but they have an idea: “we think if you start eating worms, that could be something, there a space for candidate gut biomes that you could own”

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Also “If he’s going to start providing childcare for municipal workers, he should provide parking for teachers,” is an A+ car brain quote. Care and feeding for children is just as important as car storage? Okay.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026

Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.

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Ned @thewesterhazys.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Twitter tough guy in the streets, billionaire bff in the regulatory sheets.

Gavin Newsom smiling broadly looking offscreen presumably at a Billionaire TechBro he just made happy.

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Ned @thewesterhazys.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Susan Collins new campaign slogan, “I’m not just a pretend brake on Trump’s “concerning” lunacy but I’m corrupt af too!” Seems like a long shot but let’s see how it plays out.

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Ned @thewesterhazys.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Oh good, for a second there I was worried that things weren’t stupid enough.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Marsrover Perseverance Sol 911 - From Simeon Schmauß (stim3on.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2p3ZLt7

This panorama was taken by the right Navcam of the NASA Perseverance rover in the afternoon of Sol 911 (September 12, 2023), I also added sky images taken at around the same time of day on Sol 909.

View on 360cities: www.360cities.net/image/marsrover-perseverance-navcam-sol...

The rover has now arrived at the Margin Carbonate Unit, specifically the Mandu Wall region. This area is thought to have formed on the shores of Jezero lake. The Team hopes that the Carbonate rocks in this region will give insights about the climatic history on Mars. These rocks may also help to determine if life existed on Mars in the past.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Simeon Schmauß

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Ned @thewesterhazys.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I wish I could turn this show. Has really really jumped the shark.

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Ned @thewesterhazys.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It turns out having an aggressive social media team sniping at Trump can’t hide that you are a billionaire class bff …forever.

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Ned @thewesterhazys.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Oh no this museum I’m at is ready to join today’s discourse

A sign in a museum with a picture of a modern Native American woman and the words “WHO IS A NATIVE NEW YORKER?”

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Ned @thewesterhazys.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The nyc transplant shit is so embarrassing. Little daylight between it and how shitty people talk about immigrants not being welcome in America. Just Little Trumpers all around. More nyc residents were born elsewhere than in nyc itself. Thats what kicks ass. It is a city from everywhere. .

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 21/09/2026

None of us can top E.B. White on this argument

“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.”

-E.B. White, "Here is New York"

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I love New York but without every kind of person coming from every kind of place it’s, you know, concrete and a clever grid

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Ned @thewesterhazys.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Democratic consultants are a plague to decent (and winning)

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Ned @thewesterhazys.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This guy has been babbling authoritatively on Russia for years and here is a babe in the woods with no understanding of the most basic travel things imaginable. Here he explains with wonder what he didn’t know over and over as if he needs to repeat to himself or he’ll get confused again.

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Ned @thewesterhazys.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Aside from the well documented weird looking food I’m exhausted by the sloppy paint stripe fonts (and painty backgrounds for regular text) that all these AI posters use. How did this become the lazy man standard?

A crappy AI poster with a bizarre-meat burger covered in a cheese like blob and weird looking fries along with a bunch paint stripe text and arrows and regular text over larger paint stripe backgrounds.

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Ned @thewesterhazys.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Every other headline: “whistleblower says AI too dangerous!” “AI taking over air traffic control” “AI co. says AI is going to kill everyone” “AI company raises $500Bn” “AI to take over war planning!” Weird that the same people who say AI may end humanity love to give it more responsibilities.

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Ned @thewesterhazys.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In WarGames, as the WOPR tries to start WWIII for *2nd time* the Gen says to the tech guy “your defense system sucks” and tech dude is furious beyond reason at this obvious truth. WOPR is starting a NUCLEAR WAR and the tech dude will not hear that his computer isn’t awesome. The accuracy.

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WarGames (9/11) Movie CLIP - Joshua Searches for Launch Codes (1983) HD

YouTube video by Movieclips

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Ned @thewesterhazys.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

No matter how deep and pervasive you think the brain rot of the rich is, it is much deeper and more rotted than that. Not only is this obviously morally bankrupt it is an extremely stupid way to think about both the present and the billion year future. This person is as dumb as they are soulless.

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NYC Water @nycwater.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Take a trip down this Delaware Aqueduct shaft during excavation in 1937, when buckets on a mine hoist carried workers, equipment, and excavated material in and out. The depth reached nearly 300 feet by the time the workers’ group portrait was taken on September 17. #tbt

Delaware Aqueduct shaft sinking in 1937: small group of workers in a bucket at top of shaft.

Delaware Aqueduct shaft sinking in 1937: view looking down deep shaft.

Delaware Aqueduct shaft sinking in 1937: workers at bottom of shaft viewed from above.

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Ethan Siegel @startswithabang.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Do gravitational waves show evidence of wave-particle duality? All particles, both fundamental and composite, exhibit wave-particle duality at some level. If gravitational waves do, too, then gravity can be proven to be quantum in nature. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #astro #gravity

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Do gravitational waves show evidence of wave-particle duality?

All matter particles can act as waves, and massless light waves show particle-like behavior. Can gravitational waves also be particle-like?

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Ned @thewesterhazys.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What if there was a guy who understood the economy at about the same level that a shit eating donkey does but then that guy also had soup for brains? Should that guy be making unilateral and wide ranging economic choices for everyone else? I leave it to you, congress!

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Ned @thewesterhazys.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Lindsey Graham died before he could see the only real thing he ever said, that Trump would destroy the gop, be fully realized.

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Ned @thewesterhazys.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Trump casually asking around right now about how Putin gets so many guys to stand close to high windows

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Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The NYPD has long been on notice that its Community Response Teams are responsible for disturbing levels of unlawful policing. As those warnings have mounted, the NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch has continued to assign cops with troubling histories to the units. hellgatenyc.com/jessica-tisc...

A Hell Gate analysis of public CCRB records, legal settlements, and officer histories shows that the commissioner has assigned at least 17 officers with troubling histories to CRTs, promoted at least 13 officers with significant histories within the units, and retained at least 10 officers with significant misconduct histories in leadership positions within the CRTs.

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