Reposted by Goseg Train ThreadJimothee Chalamet @outpaigeous.bsky.social · 19h“The loudest person doesn't get to influence basic safety infrastructure that we know works,” Lewis George said. “It's time that we stop believing that everyone has to love an idea in order for an idea to happen. That's not what governance calls for us to do.” Hell yes. 051
Reposted by Goseg Train ThreadMusicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 10hbut anyway all I did was bike to the gym, get dinner near the gym, and take the metro back and I’ve seen ~50 armed soldiers 126635
Goseg Train Thread @wvistheduck.bsky.social · 10hHave been beating this drum forever but cities are waaaaaay safer than the rest of the country and they are all lying to you about it. 060
Goseg Train Thread @wvistheduck.bsky.social · 19hFor Woke 2, the Left has to stop falling for the hypocrisy double standard The Right doesn't care about hypocrisy, at all, but it gets effectively weaponized into paralyzing The Left. This imbalance has to end. 020
Goseg Train Thread @wvistheduck.bsky.social · 23hAt what point will we start seeing the effects of LLMs that people promise? "They're amazing at writing software" okay so why is our software getting worse every year? "They fight conspiracies" okay so why are conspiracies worse than ever? 010
Goseg Train Thread @wvistheduck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Our nation's pundit class are a bunch of suburbanites living in gated communities telling everyone else they live in a bubble 🤔 040
Goseg Train Thread @wvistheduck.bsky.social · 03/10/2026They always say The Left is a bunch of egg heads out of touch with normal people Now with AI they say The Left isn't egg head enough and too in touch with normal people 🤔 020
Goseg Train Thread @wvistheduck.bsky.social · 03/10/2026One reason you know AI hype is scam is bc they say both "it's so easy even a plumber can master it" and "you better hurry up and try it or you're gonna get left behind, hurry, hurry, HURRY!" Both things can't be true, gotta be one or the other. 050
Reposted by Goseg Train ThreadChelsea Ritter-Soronen @chelsearsoronen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“We don’t need to study the study” is a magical quote tbh 072
Reposted by Goseg Train ThreadNicole McEntee @nikkimcentee17.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Here's a picture of DC's existing/known bike bus routes (let me know if I'm missing any!) Seaton Elementary Bancroft Elementary Oyster-Adams Elementary Mundo Verde P St Mundo Verde Calle Ocho 4136
Reposted by Goseg Train Threadsweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026have you tried unplugging it and never plugging it back in again 5387111
Reposted by Goseg Train ThreadWalker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026“It’s not left vs right, it’s misinfo vs truth” says a misinformation peddling right-wing operative. 312014
Reposted by Goseg Train ThreadPayton Chung @westnorth.com · 02/10/2026DC's planning director: “When you increase housing capacity, that... particularly it puts market pressure on renters, right?” 51st.news/dc-flum-hous... Wrong! The world's most ambitious "large-scale upzoning had an immediate depreciative effect on preexisting intensive housing"51st.newsA new map is fueling a debate on housing and displacement in D.C.Critics of the proposed Future Land Use Map say it isn't thinking big enough. 261
Reposted by Goseg Train ThreadCommissioner Aru Sahni (5F02) @aru5f02.bsky.social · 01/10/2026To kick off #weekwithoutdriving I'll be joining the wonderful #MBTPubroll crew on a bike ride up from LostGen to Dew Drop Inn. Join in by showing up! 071
Goseg Train Thread @wvistheduck.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It's a beautiful October day in DC and #MBTpubroll is starting 5:30pm at Lost Generation then biking up the trail to Dew Drop. Come one, come all, come pub roll 🚲🍻 190
Goseg Train Thread @wvistheduck.bsky.social · 01/10/2026We're living through The Tolerance Paradox being played out in real time 011
Reposted by Goseg Train ThreadDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026"Normative appeals to civility and harmony, when applied indiscriminately, can obscure the moral distinction between domination and resistance—condemning confrontational opposition even in contexts where democratic survival or basic human dignity is at stake." 🎯 420340
Reposted by Goseg Train ThreadPayton Chung @westnorth.com · 25/09/2026My bit is celebrating Metro line extensions with pub crawls, and doing up old-timey flyers for them. 2454
Goseg Train Thread @wvistheduck.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Standing tables reserved for alcoholic customers only 051
Reposted by Goseg Train Threadmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026remember when smart business meant designing products that people like and want rather than coming up with ways to sell shit that everyone hates and thinks is bad? 838591
Reposted by Goseg Train ThreadRob Tracinski @tracinski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Theory: It's just that they are all still on Twitter, and they credulously mistook Musk's manipulation of the algorithm as the manifestation of a genuine cultural change. Maybe it's not any more complicated than that. 46138579
Reposted by Goseg Train Threadmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026i strongly suspect the reason that they are hiding this is not because cops are moonlighting for ICE contractors off duty but because many of them are working for ICE contractors *while clocked in* 18871203
Goseg Train Thread @wvistheduck.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Always been infuriated that The Left doesn't tout that we're the strongest on crime. It's literally true! 130
Reposted by Goseg Train ThreadIt's Chaos, Be Kind @atomicovermind.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Completely insane graphic/information design decision by @wmata.com. (Bottom is the old, top is the new.) 5355
Reposted by Goseg Train Threadjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026my takeaway from this is that she is thinking of these things in the right terms. she is asking whether she truly wants to do it since, if the answer is yes, it is absolutely the case that there is no better time than now. 1584444437
Reposted by Goseg Train Threadjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026huh, this piece nailed the AI bros like a decade ago 511774284
Reposted by Goseg Train ThreadDavid Cooper @davidbcooper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Starting my day making some art. 281625488
Reposted by Goseg Train ThreadJeff Rueckgauer @capitaljeff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I'm running for re-election as ANC 2B02. West Dupont has been home since 1992. I became Commissioner in 2021, re-elected in 2022 & 24. I welcome questions, comments. Happy to meet w/residents & gatherings. @ or DM me, or email jardupontanc[at]gmail.com. 085
Reposted by Goseg Train ThreadEmily Guskin @emgusk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026H Street Fest today was full of AI slop food signs. Except for this perfect sign from Ethiopic, which I already know is delicious. 1196
Goseg Train Thread @wvistheduck.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I think it's especially hard for soccer fans bc we get to watch the actual real game of soccer without commecials. They don't make us watch the 4 minutes game 6 minutes commercial version of the game. 010
Reposted by Goseg Train ThreadDilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽♀️ 159167354690
Goseg Train Thread @wvistheduck.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Can we talk about how the majority of football games is commecials now They're making us watching an hours-long-commercial-show that takes brief breaks for a football game at this point 🚨 120
Reposted by Goseg Train ThreadGoseg Train Thread @wvistheduck.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"We need to separate outcome from motive" is only a platitude and so we don't actually need to do it. It's not a like a law of the universe or anything, it's just an empty quip used by the powerful to avoid accountability. 051
Reposted by Goseg Train ThreadFree DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 18/09/2026“the primary goal was never to stop crime.” Solidarity with our beloved community members in Memphis who are also under occupation by this corrupt administration. 17228
Reposted by Goseg Train ThreadMetro @wmata.com · 19/09/2026Attention professional artists! 📣 We’re looking for an artist to create an original work of art for the Northern Bus Garage Reconstruction Project that will serve as a welcoming landmark for the community. Apply by Sept. 24: opportunities.wearecreativewest.org/opportunity/... 2225
Reposted by Goseg Train ThreadPoPville @popville.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Yo! H Street Festival is Saturday!! - More info here: www.popville.com/2026/09/yo-h...popville.comYo! H Street Festival is Saturday!! - PoPvillephoto by Ted Eytan "H Street Festival is one of the most anticipated and highly attended single day festivals in Washington D.C. The festival is 12 blocks long and has 15 staging areas that are divers... 062
Goseg Train Thread @wvistheduck.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It's crazy that the "Pro-disease" party doesn't get demolished in elections by a landslide, crazy that the Democrats are too afraid to effectively brand the gop this way 010
Goseg Train Thread @wvistheduck.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Once you notice how local news exposes their bias via word choice you can't unsee it. The side they agree with they'll refer to using words evoking sympathy like "concerned neighbors/families", and the other side they'll call words evoking annoyance like "activists/critics" 🚩 020
Reposted by Goseg Train ThreadFelipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Not trying to pile on OP but this framing is a 1:1 example of what I teach my students to avoid. You don’t have to repeat lies just because officials say them. Reporters have the right — the obligation — to represent reality and the objective reality is this is not to fight crime and it is overkill 34410
Reposted by Goseg Train ThreadPayton Chung @westnorth.com · 18/09/2026Sunset view from Harp patio #mbtpubroll 2101
Reposted by Goseg Train ThreadGoseg Train Thread @wvistheduck.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It's not a fact that DC is being occupied "to fight crime" Publishing that is not "reporting facts" and it's not how journalism is supposed to work. Would you have said the nazi SS were just "fighting crime"?? 1103
Goseg Train Thread @wvistheduck.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Calling the most over-discussed person in America rn "under-discussed" speaks to the root of all of our problems (culture war) 010
Reposted by Goseg Train ThreadRoger Senserrich @4freedoms.es · 17/09/2026This is peak brutalism, peak metro, and peak America, all in one perfect station. Sorry, this is fact. 66215
Goseg Train Thread @wvistheduck.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The journalists doing this "neutral" reporting today would have been writing stuff like "The nazis say what they're doing is about public safety" if they were working in the 1930s 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 020
Reposted by Goseg Train ThreadJessica Sidman @jessicasidman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Can the affordable bar make a comeback? washingtonian.com/2026/09/17/c...washingtonian.comCan the Affordable Bar Make a Comeback?Carla in Adams Morgan doesn't sell cocktails over $13. 031
Reposted by Goseg Train ThreadPayton Chung @westnorth.com · 17/09/2026#MBTpubroll itinerary in Brookland for a warm evening: 5:30 Dew Drop Inn, 2801 8th St NE 7:00 The Harp, 3126 12th St NE Also, get ready for Oktoberfest this weekend: bsky.app/profile/dcbe... 285