Good! Excited for this Valkyries season

While researching the history of bringing bikes on buses, I just discovered something: in the mid 20th century, buses in Australia and New Zealand had hooks on the front or back for mothers to hang prams off! Bus pram hooks were apparently a unique NZ+Aus phenomenon, found nowhere else in the world.

It’s so important to overcome childhood fears

My local hardware and grocery route might become more tolerable!

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Not an exaggeration

The term “late 1900s” really bums me out

Last month I shared some work I’m doing on disputed national boundaries. I returned to it this week and completed an important piece: complete visual previews for new pull requests. This work is built on three ideas: OSM polygon origination, test points and delay lines. medium.com/@michalmigur...

This is correct

I believe my government will work to make it as hard as possible for me to vote. I know we are not supposed to comply in advance, but at this point I feel I must be prepared to jump through every hoop possible.

Nice spatial study of London that goes a level deeper than what principal component analysis reveals

I might just show up to this in person, I use this street for biking almost daily to get groceries and the meeting is a 5min ride from my house

Search your camera roll for “Hell”

One of the most impactful & quickest to implement things local elected officials can do to protect their community from high gas prices: (re)implement Slow Streets and other quick build bike/mobility lanes to make it safer for folks to newly try biking.

This, but for foundation models

We installed the neighbor summer months shade cloth early this year

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Republicans, when talking about war and absolutely nothing else.

Clown event

“clown event still possible”

Do these fools want republicans to reap what they sow from starting a stupid war, or not?

Announcing: Coming to PBS on April 1! LIFE UNEARTHED with Ariel Waldman is a visually striking science-driven nature series that reveals Earth’s ecosystems through radical shifts in scale—from microscopic wildlife to the planet’s most iconic species, and even the potential for life beyond Earth. 🧪🦠

PlanScore just added scenarios to play with the implications of various swings in vote share for US House elections. For instance, it thinks current generic ballot (7 point shift from 2024 = D+5 generic ballot) implies about 230 seats for Democrats. planscore.org#!predict7D-u...

This game is swingy as hell 🏀 #dubnation

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Minesweeper but it's the Strait of Hormuz. Source: sweepthestrait.com

Straits are now battlefields

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We should stop using the word “impeachable” because it suggests a legal definition for a political idea: is there enough will to do it? Then it will get done

This is how I access Bluesky

This is how I access Bluesky

This is how I access Bluesky

This is how I access Bluesky

Did some plug-in solar math on my last 12 months of utility bills. Right now a DIY set of 1.2kW plug-in solar panels would pay for itself in 3 years. Alternatively a DIY set of 2.4kW panels + 3.6kWh of battery would also pay for itself in 3 years.

If coding is your favorite part of software engineering, keep coding. AI doesn't stop you. But if coding was the only part you were good at, that's a different conversation. The job was always bigger than the code. #bransoncognac blog.bryanl.dev/posts/ai-sen...

Sky business

“No consciousness without class consciousness” is pretty good!

“The ideology is both stranger and stupider than commonly supposed: conservatism, in the final analysis, isn’t conserving any actual order, it is conserving the idea of an underlying order … wants to preserve some parts of the existing order and reform others, a fascist wants to overturn all of it.”

Nobody likes it except that one guy who gets to change the really big clock because they let him swing from all the gears while he does it. The Old Clock Master they call him. He gets up there on those gears and gets to swinging and whooping and he's the only one who likes this.

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Please add your comments to the survey, especially about the dangers of painted bike lanes Painted bike lanes on 2nd are dangerous door-zone lanes used more for double parking, and are not appropriate for a transit hub. OakDOT should follow the bike plan and install protected bike lanes on 3rd

I wonder if you could update The West Wing for 2026 by adding a laugh track.

@kerithburke.bsky.social get the rest of those goofs off the Bad Place

Good first half from Scrub Nation 🏀 #dubnation

Webster’s Dictionary defines shield as “a device or part that serves as a protective cover or barrier”

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