ICYMI: Suburban development costs 38% more in upfront public costs & 10% more in ongoing costs than compact development, PLUS has only 1/10th the tax revenue per acre, confirms report summarizing 17 studies. Via @smartgrowthusa.bsky.social The blunt truth? Sprawl is heavily subsidized by ALL of us.

BREAKING: A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that New York’s congestion pricing toll is legal and may continue, handing a major victory to the state in its defense of the first-in-the-nation traffic reduction plan, which the Trump administration had tried for more than a year to kill.

hell naw

Gotta love how academic books don't earn you money, but LLMs can make money off of stealing them in the aggregate and if you write enough, they can also profit from stealing your personality after you are dead.

clearly the secret correct answer is that both of these are worse than the gen x option: to have cognition so dulled by lead poisoning that you are entirely insulated from any possible impact of these intrusive thoughts.

acid rain! a rare but real success. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

"When the field of history is left uncrowded by historians with full-time employment, historical actors—with self-serving intentions—who wish to exculpate and justify their actions will fill the vacuum."

Whole mornings you’ll lose, and whole afternoons To trolling and arguing with faceless buffoons Like MAGABro69 and DixieBrunette — You may even say a few things you regret. But it’s okay! You’ll be tenured! And joy will abound (Until the university itself closes down)

Operation Just Cuz.

epistemology teleological orthogonal

​Greetings from the Northwestern University Transportation Library, where Rachel just showed me the original!

have now completed mandatory annual security training and I am going to start to refer to some *specific* colleagues as "unintentional insider threats"

today i am grateful for yuengling (in stores now)

the son of the SHAH are you KIDDING me

huh. I wonder if this bill has a snowball's chance; the prohibitions on local regulation, inspection, or certification of rental properties was out of the landlord caucus of the wisconsin state lege. I don't believe that's disappeared? yet? docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/related...

What if you took World War II and made it a comedy? Hogan's Heroes did just that. My friend @milhistlee.bsky.social looks at this series through some new eyes. If you're a fan of the show or military history, check it out. www.youtube.com/@HogansHeroe...

Come for the dopey banter, the unabashed middle-age film-nerdom on display, Jason "Crusher" Bailey's matinee-idol mug, and the fact that this podcast is based on the greatest book ever written. Stay for the neighing horses that accompany every mention of Cloris Leachman [cue neighing horses]... 📽️

on a different topic: this is your friendly reminder to cancel your one-month Peacock subscription that you signed up for at the start of the olympics, if you don't want to be auto-charged for another month

WELCOME TO BC MARCH MADNESS - LOSERS EDITION! In our first matchup, we've got Robert De Niro's totemic performance as Jack LaMotta in Raging Bull vs. Al Pacino's totemic performance as Al Pacino in Jack & Jill. It's MARTIN SCORSESE (1) vs DENNIS DUGAN (8) Vote: www.blankcheckpod.com/march-madness

"The 15-Hour City believes everything has its place. Houses go in one location, businesses in another, and in between is a dark sea of soul-crushing concrete and asphalt." buff.ly/fLNN71n

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

American foreign in 2026. youtu.be/5mEsXz-Bpog?...

Feb. 29, 1776: “'We are now very employed in preparing the horrid machines of war, death and destruction.” Joseph Trumbull, the commissary general of the Army, writes to his father, Jonathan, the governor of Connecticut, about the preparations to tighten the siege of Boston. 1/2

It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

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Teachers: Today is the last day to apply for NHD’s Revolutionary Ideals webinar series. Don’t miss this amazing professional development opportunity to learn with leading historians about American principles throughout history! Apply at https://tinyurl.com/NHD-RevIdeals or the link in bio.

Highly recommend Adam Savage’s latest video! He spent years using a bike as his primary transit in NYC and understands the freedom it brings. Nice to see a prominent voice validating that we don't need 4,000lb boxes just to navigate a city.

"unexpected guns"

I don't know about you but I make anxious Curly sounds when I read the news

I have now read this news story, which has more information in it, but while I feel more informed, I fear that I understand that information even less www.wfla.com/news/florida...

Maybe I shouldn't be, but I'm surprised people take this Alpha School thing at all seriously. Does no one remember Rocketship or AltSchool or the other attempts at this digitally automated schooling? Time to re-up this from the AltSchool days. www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-v...

As a public service, I thought I'd offer a little constructive criticism of the most popular styles of bike racks, since it appears that the entities that manufacture and install these racks are clueless about the needs of actual bike riders.

We live in hell but do our best

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“I don’t know, it’s a very strange time.” www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8xSCtE3/

anyway good luck to Jennifer Mnookin.

iiiiiiiiiinteresting. and the details of the deaths are also fairly disturbing, so a warning on that. www.gasp-pgh.org/about-the-wr...

currently working with some oral history interviews conducted really before professional methodology of oral history was established, and it turns out . . . there's no date for the interview in the recording or documentation! Nothing! It's undated! Not even a year. Come on, man. What are we doing.

Adam Savage has some delightful reminiscence of his own cycling history, as well as the impact and memory of the film "Breaking Away," (1979) in this recent shop video. It turns out you can go home again? Or perhaps you can just rebuild a bike you remember fondly? #bikesky youtu.be/F3t9FhTnyvA?...

Feb. 26, 1776: A writer identifying himself only as “Essex” puts forward an argument that America’s separation from Britain has been inevitable since the first blood of the war was shed. The colonies must now consider what form of nation they should form, and think big. 1/5

everybody out here making comparisons to the gestapo, sure, but come on: the historical comparison of the Cheka is RIGHT THERE. Complete with overly dramatic clothing, throwing victims in unmarked vehicles, and disappearing them into an unaccountable gulag system, all to cause terror.

bay of piglets

THIS IS AMAZING OMG so many of my idle interests brought together www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIGy...

that's not too bad, that date was only 22 years ago. I'm still young.

hey if "strategic leader" is anywhere in your linkedin bio, there's a good bet we're not going to have much to talk about, so I am not going to be accepting your invite.

It's now up to Big Bike to bring down this administration.

If anyone reading this is absurdly wealthy and wants to vicariously live out a bit, give me $3 million so I can buy the Betty Danger's location, open a year round Stump Party bar, and drive the whole thing into the fucking ground in about 18 months.

wut. "The best informed theory ... is that ECG procedures must involve some functioning 'rump' Congress... perhaps even as small as just the four party leaders from the two chambers — who would be able to operate with the full powers of Congress ..." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-big-se...

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