Imagine if we treated any other form of safety like this:"We should only install outlet covers in day care centers on a case-by-case basis, such as where a toddler has stuck his fingers in an electrical socket."

Why Halloween candy shows up so early in stores has never felt like a mystery to me. What does feel mysterious is why, on October 20-something when I go to buy some for the neighborhood kids, the stores have already replaced their candy displays with seasonal decorations for December.

So lemme see if I understand today’s discourse. 1. I need to be like a strategist about my vote and everything I say, which means never ever contradicting the Democratic Party line, even if it fundamentally departs from my core values.

Would be cool if the "urbanism/bike lanes/efforts to reduce car dependency are ableist" people would listen to disabled people who can't or don't drive occasionally. There's quite a lot of us.

Timeline cleanser 🐈

A good reminder that we used to refer to chatgpt as a "deep fake text generator" judged too dangerous to make public by OpenAI just 6 years ago

Use Doenet.org to create mathematical interactives to support inquiry-based learning: mathtech.org/2025/09/26/d...

Hi. It's me. 2 weeks later. This is done. 58 frames over 3 seconds, *50* layers in the final image. WOO. This was a long edit, felt like ACTUAL work so unless I get it again with the actual sunset I doubt I'll be editing more like this. Psyched for the final piece tho! 🪶

Comment period ends on Monday for a proposed rule change that would terminate student visas after 4 years. It also puts limits on exchange visitors and reps of foreign media, and shortens the length of time at the end of the visa from 60 days to 30 days. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Nothing makes America’s descent into energy irrelevance and denial of the future more evident than the approach to Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport and seeing the sea dotted with countless wind turbines.

Rest in power Assata. www.npr.org/2025/09/26/g...

How far away is fusion energy? 8.33 minutes.

Wow, way to use the campaign as leverage to further its own mission!

Worse than that. "They thought AI was making them 20% faster, but it was actually making them 19% slower. […] My argument: If so many developers are so extraordinarily productive using these tools, where is the flood of shovelware?"—Mike Judge He's exactly right. Maybe this technology will

In this video I describe all the functions that are equal to their own n-th derivative, and also define the infinite family of "spiral trigonometric functions", which include the usual exponential, sine, and cosine functions as special cases #math #differentialequation #trigonometry #spiral

I've been checking my local indie bookstore's online catalog every few days to see when preorders become available — just placed mine!

can more of y'all point out: they want to find out the "cause" of autism because they do not want us to exist finding out the "cause" is rooted in a deep hatred of autistic folks if they cared about us, they would offer us supports instead of impotently daydreaming about our eradication

Congratulations to New Haven’s cherished Claire’s Corner Copia on 50 outstanding years. Claire, thank you for all you do for your customers and your dedicated staff. Your one-of-a-kind dedication, vision, and creativity is undoubtedly the recipe to your success.

E-Bike owners Can I please poll you for your opinion regarding battery removal ability? Vote by ❤️ on the comment that best represents your need.

Good news, everyone! D and G are the same region (they join up in the Pacific)

No more ABC for anyone please. No watching shows, no streaming, no clicking links. These times demand a full end of financial support for bad actors.

This sunday is Sun Day: a pro-social, pro-solar day of actions around the world. I'll be going to a family-friendly E-bike / EV event I only just heard about today — you can find an event near you here! www.sunday.earth/events Hat tip: @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social 's latest newsletter!

This sunday is Sun Day: a pro-social, pro-solar day of actions around the world. I'll be going to a family-friendly E-bike / EV event I only just heard about today — you can find an event near you here! www.sunday.earth/events Hat tip: @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social 's latest newsletter!

Hey, so...Covid rates have gotten real high. Maybe change your behavior to fit this new risk profile? Stop eating indoors at restaurants, mask on mass transit, that kind of thing?

Can I just put out a plea to local journalists: when you're writing about a split City Council vote, *tell me which way everyone voted.* I had to dig through a dozen different articles about the Labor Relations board vote and veto override vote to get this really basic information!

"There are no grades and no hard deadlines, just the pleasure and satisfaction that comes with enriching your mind. " You do not know how badly professors would love to do away with grades and just focus on the love of learning.

Coming up fast!

I *love* this. A lot of cities concentrate housing density onto dirty, noisy, dangerous arterial roads. This motion in Vancouver would allow 6-storey apartments by default on local streets adjacent to parks or bike routes.

I think this is video on inflation is an all-time Hossenfelder moment. It's a beautiful illustration of how poorly her philosophy of science works and why she fights against progress every step of the way, to champion it only when it finally succeeds. It deserves a breakdown 🧵

We can get to 1000. Please continue to share this to show the DFL that we mean MN is a trans refuge state.

I also hate it when people park on the sidewalk

Thread but especially this

That doesn't mean we shouldn't tell Fox it's unacceptable - in fact it makes it all the more important to do so: help.foxnews.com/hc/en-us/req...

Since HOMELESSNESS is suddenly in the news in America in a shockingly monstrous way, here’s a reminder in thread form that there ARE actually solutions that work, and aren’t completely unhinged and sociopathic. Please check out and share.

The Charlie Kirk gun control law to substantially limit open and concealed carry. The Carlie Kirk release the Epstein files law. The Charlie Kirk free speech law to ensure faculty can teach their area of expertise without harassment. Just thinking of ways Congress could honor him.

Ask: I'm hoping to find someone to talk to a graduate-level planning class on traffic signal plans, with an emphasis on #pedestrian and #bicycle mobility and #safety* *actual safety, not traffic-flow-but-lets-call-it-safety Grateful for suggestions! @bikesky.social #BikeSky #WalkSky #VisionZero

It seems some of the pre-orders have begun trickling out to people today. (I'd expected it to be next week! 🙀 Eek!) If a particular story resonates with you, I'd love to hear about it 🌻

And for the people who are growing up here and wanting to stick around or return. Our longstanding land use policies have more than nudged even those who grow up here away, to the hinterlands or to entirely different regions. We must plan for all who are here now and who want to come here.

When Turkey purged their universities, "The 'to be expelled' lists were prepared by the university administrations. The few universities where massive dismissals did not take place were the ones who did not submit any 'to be expelled” lists." merip.org/2018/12/turk...

Holy crap, I went and looked at the signatories and the list is LONG my friends. Keep reposting, keep sharing.

Protest puts yourself at risk to hold the powerful to account Terror is putting others at risk to gain personal power

Story is not what you have instead of reality. It is how you explain the reality you care about to people who don’t.

It happened with our version here in Connecticut this summer: Ned Lamont vetoed the massive housing bill that made it through both chambers after years of work and days of debate. So calling Newsom's office and making your voice heard is still important!

Walkable density is needed for cities to thrive. Not gigantic 50+ floor buildings & obviously, NOT single fam housing. 3 leaders of New Urbanism explain why density matters, how it impacts cities, and importance of design. David Dixon, Laurie Volk, Marina Khoury bit.ly/4n3BBbf

California's SB 79 has now passed the State Senate, after passing the State Assembly yesterday. It's now on to the governor's desk. It's a big change in zoning policy for California's cities that will encourage substantial additional housing in neighborhoods around the state's transit stations.

Does anyone know of a journalist who is doing stories on how the gun violence environment is affecting kids? My friend's kindergartner had a lockdown drill at school yesterday. He's now TERRIFIED to go to school.

Some people on my campus seem skeptical of what I'm saying so let me be clear. Here's the announcement from my campus as well as the photo evidence from this morning.

We're close to reaching a chilling moment; the first time in history where the single largest group of people arrested by ICE in the interior and held in detention are people with no criminal record. The gap is now down to fewer than 300 people.

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