firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now (copy paste-able in the alt text)

Read this as an American woman and then go break something.

Welp, going to need a new source for international news. Any suggestions? www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...

Trains have got winter sorted. Next challenge, please.

More bikes in Boston: “The Better Bike Lanes project in the metropolitan area of #Boston has led to a substantial increase in bicycle trips and a modest decrease in the number of motor vehicles on the roads at any given time.”

Are you a city planner, or interested in the profession of city planning? We talk about how the profession can be better, more successful, more persuasive, more impactful, in this interview. Because it NEEDS to be all those things. Plus we talk about a bunch of other interesting stuff.

Riding on Amtrak behind a young woman with black-rimmed glasses who is knitting and gazing out the window at the snow. This is the future leftists want.

I'm currently locked into the "kids" profile on Netflix, so I need you all to tell me if it's worth watching!

This brilliant solarpunk TV show is now on Netflix. Watch it. Love it. Convince the algorithm to show us more deliciously sustainable futures 🌱📺🙏 Link in comments #Solarpunk #Moonhaven

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous this is worth sharing and educating people about

Here's a fun thing I just learned: If you're a magazine or catalog or other bulk mailer who is willing to add AI-generated content to your mailing, USPS will reward you with a 5% discount—potentially many thousands of dollars! How on earth does this benefit USPS? www.usps.com/business/pro...

more power to any Dean who makes the case that their discipline-specific standard for AI is refusal, and AI refusal will be what they integrate into the curriculum

Concept: the entire federal transportation budget goes to Connecticut

In which the local alder fights in favor of keeping the abandoned industrial lot

I feel like the "if everyone was running off a cliff, would you run off one too" theoretical hectoring from my childhood is extremely fucking relevant to our times.

‪Check out Around the World with “Rewilding our Stories” from @dragonfly.eco and meet #climatefiction writers from around the world! dragonfly.eco/rewilding-ou...

I’m sorry, $50K per curb ramp? US dollars?

No thanks. I prefer living in a society where I am free to be as weird as I want providing I harm no one.

a lot of people discussing this story are focussed on if the ad company should have taken into account how schizophrenic people will react (which is important to consider), but in my personal opinion we're not talking enough about why the hell there are ads on fridges now

In light of...everything, I am looking for a sticker or small sign or some small art I can conveniently hang in my office or on my door that says "Protect Trans Students." If you know/are a trans artist who sells something like this (or similar!) can you drop a link?

Here's a gift link: wapo.st/4oIX1KP

My critique of #FrankGehry and his Guggenheim Bilbao from my 2003 visit: www.pps.org/places/gugge...

I think we need more people to leave that party.

Yay my History of Utopian Literature course got approved! Now I have to…design it… Anyone who has taught on the subject before, I’d love to get your recs on articles etc #litsky #booksky #utopia #solarpunk #teaching

Hear me out what if everybody drove slightly slower when it's dark out

Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it. So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:

Another new blog post called "Jenga Variations", about two different ways to play Jenga that have more variation and so are more interesting and more fun. davidkbutler.xyz/2025/12/01/j...

nice anecdote which reminds me about the value of the humanities

Happy December! Here's a little something about shapes: mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolum...

This explains something that has always mystified me about drivers who rail against bike lanes and transit. Why WOULDN'T you want people to have options not to drive? It would make your own driving better! But they don't just want good traffic, they want to reinforce the NORM of driving

For my Chicago neighbors, here's the petition to sign to oppose the delivery robots: nosidewalkbots.org

Remember this picture, & others like it, every time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam." This was #Amsterdam in the 1970s. Many of the cities we admire made better choices regarding cars in the past. and are still making better choices today. Better choices instead of excuses.

This piece is as good as people say it is. Read it to appreciate that writing isn't just about content, but style. AI can't do this.

I have been reading all the "students these days" threads from various sides and I have an essay's worth of thoughts -- there's a lot of complexity and heterogeneity that is hard to communicate on social media. There are a couple of things I will say here though. 1/

It’s #BlackFridayParking day, so we took a visit to the Danbury Fair Mall in Danbury, CT. Even on the busiest day of the year—a day where the front side of the mall is packed—the back side and parking garage has more than enough space!

This is definitely a factor in our household. Other questions include: Can you learn as you play your first game? How easy is it to remember from the game design/theming what is allowed? Are there default strategies that must be explained with the rules or there will be no hope of winning?

Another example of a weird American domestic decorating & design taboo: no depictions of cars allowed, except in man caves & boys' bedrooms. Otherwise, landscapes & cityscapes must be car-free to earn a place on the wall or your holiday cards.

yeah I feel a very high sense of alarm about what the "incapable of loving our country" goalposts are going to include quite certainly they're going to try very hard to use it on elected Democrats which is at least one reason I feel like we need to be TALKING ABOUT IMPEACHMENT WAY MORE THAN WE ARE

It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality

Almost 3 years of occasional work in less than 1 minute, now that’s what I call efficiency

#BlackFriday at Target in Ames, Iowa Our minimum parking requirements are unnecessary. #BlackFridayParking

Black Friday parking sucks, so let's make sure parking mandates become of a thing of the past #BlackFridayParking #ldnont #strongtowns

#BlackFridayParking Every excess retail parking space is a failure for land use policy, the climate, wildlife, the economy, municipal finances, and public health. Black Friday reveals how big retailers build too much parking. Let's end parking minimums and retrofit suburbia.

Have you ever seen a bike lane sweeper - pulled behind a bike? Volunteers in Kirkland have a new tool that attaches to the back of an e-bike. It's good for protected bike lanes, sidewalks, and narrow trails. My @kuow.org story: www.kuow.org/stories/clea...

And then there were FOUR 🎉🎉 Congratulations to Connecticut, which earlier this week became the 4th state to pass statewide Parking Reform in 2025: bsky.app/profile/ctpa...

In Seattle our DOTs would be reminding you that it’s *your job* to shovel off their sidewalk too

Every prompt to chatbot software is “generate me some text.” If it generated you some text, it performed its function correctly. It never lies, it never wants anything, it’s text generating software that generates text.

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

Every time I get behind the wheel of a car, I remember that I am wielding a weapon that can cause untold destruction, I wish more drivers thought about that, especially the ones that cavalierly almost run me over on a regular basis.