The movie Cars and the whole Carse XU makes me uncomfortable. Why is there human scaled infrastructure and roles but no humans? Whi di the taxis haul? The plane crop dusts crops… for what? Why are there fighter jets?

Have you seen a local business benefit from Complete Streets—like sidewalks, bike lanes, or more transit? 🚶🏽‍♀️🚲🚆 @smartgrowthamerica.bsky.social is collecting stories that show how these investments pay off for local economies. www.smartgrowthamerica.org/knowledge-hu...

Guys, I think the WSJ found the smoking gun of what happened to the American Dream starting in the late 70s/early 80s , and guys, it wasn’t immigrants.

Since it was only on screen for like half a second.

If you can’t follow the lyrics it’s ok. I’m a native Spanish Speaker and let me give you an analogy. A new Kendrick Lamar song comes out where he’s rapping fast and how well can you follow every lyric in real time? And does it matter?

For what it’s worth, I always thought American Idiot the Musical was really good and it appears there’s currently a US production touring. Including Columbia, MD this summer.

Apropos of literally nothing, an AI image of Albert Einstein first with hair combed, and then clean shaven, reminds us how physical iconography matters for many famous people.

“Even if the warrant requirement does inconvenience the police… It is merely a part of the price that our society must pay in order to preserve its freedom.” - Justice John Paul Stevens California vs Acevedo (1990)

The Wagnerian music in the old Wonder Pets (ca 2008) is far, far better than the Sondheim-ish style the Wonder Pets in the City (2024) goes for. The former is far funnier and campy. The latter tries to be too, literally, a musical. And you can’t beat the hook: 🎼”What’s going to work? Team-work!”

“Above all else, be right” is not a call to arrogance. It is a call to discipline. ... Truth is not everything. But without it, everything else collapses. ... Speak freely and argue passionately, with conviction, for sure. But above all else, be right." mroddc.substack.com/p/above-all-...

Dan Ariely was signing his email "Honestly* yours" the same year he was publishing a paper full of data fabrications.

Re: Paw Patrol: who the hell funds this operation? That’s like hundreds of billions of dollars of militarized equipment that this kid has in his compound. And why is safety and disaster response privatised to these shadow-funded dogs? I’m sort of concerned. Is this a failed state city ?

We all need orange whistles for practical purposes, and a sign of solidarity.

Just listening to GreenDay’s American Idiot which encapsulates politics in my formative youth: hating Iraq War stuff, and questioning the malaise of suburban doldrums.

Honest question: why aren’t we seeing more hat mounted GoPros out there? I get not everyone just has one. But more surprised the people going out to fully prep gear don’t choose a GoPro type camera to free up their hand.

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

I've made the decision to be referred to as my legal, given, and Christian name, Miguel. I wrote a LinkedIn article explaining. Thank you, friends!

I’ve donated to Liam’s fund, for he is only a five year old child and does not deserve this.

Dommerism. But for the short to medium term, and enough to make decisions based on that.

From 2013 and appears relevant.

As an early Jan bday, treat your early Jan kids right. No double Xmas / birthday. All we want is a birthday gift and party equal that of some summer child, and in such a manner that does not diminish the Xmas gifts we would otherwise get. Just birthday month equality.

We’re living this.

Been into watches now as a certain kind of man in my 40s. Anyone else have this way of thinking of “I’d absolutely never do a Rolex, Tudor, or Omega” or something similar? Like if I had $50k to burn there are so many other cooler more unique brands that don’t scream nouveau riche or striving.

ok, re: "Blackrock and institutional investors are ruining the housing market, we need to ban them!" I get it. I get the vibes. And sure, there are many federal levers via Treasury, HUD, etc to effectuate this at a fed level. But curb your enthusiasm for actual impacts on housing affordability 1/

Remarkably, four years after that researcher-driven bias was revealed, Borjas published a book that ignored and repeated the mistake. Giovanni Peri and the Nobel laureate David Card then showed that essentially the same biased choice *flipped the sign* of Borjas's results. doi.org/10.1016/j.ju...

Christmas is about being together with family and fixing their AV settings on all their TVs to get rid of motion blur auto correction and calibrating color, sharpness, and brightness.

How the Puritans waged the original war on Christmas. (And partly why the US doesn’t celebrate through the full twelve days into Jan 6th, the Epiphany / Three Kings) newengland.com/yankee/histo...

Christmas lasts thirteen days. The first day of Christmas on Dec. 25th and the twelfth day (twelfth night) on Jan 5th. Jan 6th is day of the Epiphany / Three Kings.

Tired of the hits. Give me B-side and rarity Christmas carols. I want the Boars Head and Old King Wenceslas.

Today I learned hippos are not fat but, in fact, totally swole tanks and about 5% body fat.

if the triplet ducks call her "Aunt Daisy", did Donald and her finally get married, or are they just being casual and contemporary?

The “60 Minutes” scandal neatly encapsulates the triumph of the past decade’s free-speech hypocrisy, @adamserwer.bsky.social argues.

watching Pooh Christmas and remembering how solipsistic Christopher Robin is, always making his imaginary friends obsess over him.

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

Made my first British style Christmas pudding. I used suet instead of butter despite it being right wing coded because of RFK. Now I wait for “aging” in the pantry to see what I have on Christmas and if figgy pudding is, in fact, any good.

Unemployment at four year high but many still wondering if @whstancil.bsky.social will admit the economy is worse than it was a few years ago

Next time person of the year should go to “The Guy Who Always Picks Optimally Timed Bananas and Avocados and Always Eats Them Before Spoiling”

Seriously, it Thomas the Tank Engine can now just physically jump tracks and flip directions, then what the hell is the point of switches and turntables in this universe? This is garbage. It needs to be stopped.

I hate this newer Thomas cartoon series. It’s such bullshit. They can just jump tracks?! If they can do that there’s no point to like 80% of rail infrastructure. You miss entire plots about the Isle of Sodor that revolve around being in the right track and direction and how to get right!

Why is it that people are saying Americans who can emigrate, and choose to, as “privileged as fuck” or selfish. But would you have said that about ::pick your own emigrees:: 50s Cuba? Most of Latin America at different points? Franco’s Spain? Do you give them shit for not “doing the work”?

Watching “Wonder Pets” with the two year old and laughing hard because why does my toddler’s TV sound like Das Rheingold and Siegfried?

We’re five years post pandemic and I have to say the “work from home is gonna fundamentally upend real estate markets and destroy cities” was epically wrong and I’m happy to dunk on those people.

Very much worth your time!

In French, if French fries are pommes frites, but potatoes are technically dirt apples (pommes de terre) then what do they call a situation if you have fried apples?

Youngkin only had won VA by about 2pts in 2021. Spanberger winning by 15.

Home teams have won postseason extra innings games 57% of the time.

Not a good postseason unless infielders start being out on the mound

I feel old when there are at least two kids of players I remember watching: Vlad Guerrero and Dante Bichette

An insanely frustrating thing about nice old architectural structures with steps and grand entrances (museums, government buildings) so when the beautifully designed entry is never used as such and people have to scurry through some side door. It’s so insulting to the architectural vision.

But if the East Wing were taken apart slowly, piece by piece, and you one day replace it, is it still the East Wing? What if the original parts were preserved elsewhere and reassembled, which would be the true East Wing?