I love how the John Brown account is just such a dumbass

This is a good old fashioned crime

The Old Tower at Nuenen with a Ploughman - February 1884 https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/3109170

“so what’s your take?” “the city of New York must pay me $1 million cash in the next hour and I will kill one person for every minute they are late” “100% disagree”

What did Jerry know. bsky.app/profile/jcsa...

if we try really hard, we can make the adjective for a mayor's race "mubernatorial"

Lol i love this paper

Anyway the Speaker of the House plowed into two cars on Capitol Hill in 1972 then told the cops who he was and they took him home and told all the witnesses to forget about it. DC cops driving some wasted high-ish ranking politico home was more or less a nightly routine in that era.

Don’t judge me for the things I did 14 days ago I’m a new man now

(in the seventh month of defending a candidate who has slowly revealed himself to be a werewolf) so actually I think most guys get worse under the full moon

NEW ESSAY: Origins of the Anti-Trans “Groomer” Slur. it provides historical context, a timeline of how it spread, & how it shapes anti-trans/LGBTQ legislation. pls share! on Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/origins-of-t... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/origins-of...

Classicist here to inform you all that this is ancient Greek for summoning a cat

This game

Interesting piece but it’s one of those that kinda makes me wish the idea of induced demand hadn’t breached containment, bc arguments like this usually miss the point of it in transportation terms and use it disingenuously in housing terms

Why does it somehow remind me of this

"My family has over 150 hours playing Stardew Valley. It is rare that we find an activity that the whole family enjoys this much, but Stardew Valley has become that. My kids will now not ask for just screen time—but instead ask for Stardew Valley family time." www.crossplay.news/p/stardew-va...

This is a great writeup that anyone interested in civic tech should read. Colorado is fundamentally shifting its IT department to act more like the digital service teams that have been in vogue. This is a big bet on actually scaling & institutionalizing that approach.

‘The hukou is, above all, a tool for realizing enhanced exploitation of the rural population via mobility control’ This is one of the fundamental things about China Americans choose not to know about positionspolitics.org/eli-friedman...

Grogugarry Grogu Ross

First try 71-11 oof www.82-0.com/share?id=3ol...

it is concerning how addicting this game is 82-0.com

My new research, summarized in the "Congestion Costing Research Slideshow: New Insights and Better Solutions" (vtpi.org/ccrs.pdf ). If you dislike congestion, your best solution is to live in a small city, or in a compact, multimodal urban neighborhood where you can minimize urban-peak driving.

one of my favorite SNL skits ever www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QcV...

It’s like someone took the ads on Metro and turned them into Buzzfeed articles

“It’s working for me.” is legend stuff

Aside from some weird swipes at YIMBY policy (pretty much all of whom would agree that zoning reform is necessary but not sufficient to build more housing)... This is a really thoughtful report with clear historical examples of bottleneck of project finance, with ideas for how to get around.

The Kornet block on Hattenstein was basketball nirvana.

Holy shit

"kelly olynyk has entered the game"

Was listening to this episode the other day, and thought "In Brazil, this behavior is explicitly illegal and these guys would be quickly arrested." www.patreon.com/posts/108-ri...

Anti-vax RN hooooo boy what a type

Just Great Falls things

“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...

They’re doing the slow DOGE now. Like what they have FTA doing with transit capital grants

Rembrandt van Rijn, Lion Resting, Turned to the Left, c. 1650-52

i'm obsessed with taylor swift's 2007 myspace bio

Accurately renders Big Tex’s Chucky energy

Ok this is a truly great tweet

"average texan commits 3 crimes per year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average texan commits 0 crimes per year. Crimes Paxton, who is attorney general (??) and commits 10,000 crimes per day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

He’s insider trading in a better place now

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

You’re watching Spurs-Thunder, I’m watching Microsoft Excel world championships on ESPN

There was a guy in college who called me Matty Light even though I didn’t drink. That’s what this whole thing reminds me of for some reason.

It remains there to this day

Some real esoteric North Jersey interstate transit history in this thread.

🚨 🚨 🚨 NEW: A shocking @USCIS memo seems to declare that hundreds of thousands of immigrants living in this country and applying for green cards must instead apply for visas abroad; which could MASSIVELY disrupt lives. 🧵 on what we know, and what we don’t.

Southeast Asia is just such a different world