Do you know why I like it here? I can stop scrolling, go up and watch a dumb video and I won't have to pay for it the way I do with the Instagram algorithm. Like, no, I don't want to watch thousands of baseball clips from the '90s, I just paused to see where one single home run would land, sue me.

Throwback of Michigan's old 14th Congressional District as Matilda

NEW: “Toderian says it’s easy to be distracted by futuristic innovations like electric cars, drone delivery networks & hyperloops. ‘The real solutions are a lot less sexy and a lot more common sense… Tech won’t save us if we get the fundamentals wrong.” I was 1 of 3 urban experts asked to weigh in.

Writing job applications messes with your head. You can’t just use a food processor anymore, you “demonstrate expert-level use of Microsoft Food.”

Sounds interesting!

The dawn of darkness / the edge of night The toasted tartlets / with Vegemite

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🚨Important thread.🚨 When we don't stand up for Black and Brown folks, we ALL lose. @itsafronomics.bsky.social with the receipts. 👇🏾

Kalamazoo rn

Very generous!

This was the original study by Kelly Clifton showing that active travelers are competitive consumers: share.google/fwnwSHwCwTjd... It was followed up by studies from PSU's Jenny Liu showing economic outcomes of bike/ped street improvements: wsd-pfb-sparkinfluence.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020...

Nice shout out here to @kellyjclifton.bsky.social who set a lot of this rolling in 2012 @trecpdx.bsky.social

My latest. Giant blighted area of crumbling pavement to become new neighborhood of homes. City of Kalamazoo has a first-draft plan, Edison Neighborhood Association wants a say.

Jack-O-Lantern Left on Porch Until December Says He Can Diagnose Children Just by Looking at Them

I've never had an urge to eat at Subway before this morning.

Bluesky is so endearing. Someone posted this Aug. 27, 2023. It got its first reply on Aug. 27, 2024. Today, Aug. 27, 2025, that comment got its first like.

My free advice is to split the soft drink and coffee business in two right now. Calling your company "Keurig Dr Pepper" makes people think of hot nasty pop strained through plastic pods.

This action by Lisa Cook is courageous, principled, and deserves broad support.

Ooh, I can't wait to get this book! She's an amazing writer.

This just in: They're moving the nation's capital to Chicago and I say it's about time.

"Technologies aren’t a rising tide that lifts all boats, unless we very specifically design them that way."

"Dan Gilbert and other developers have taken advantage of" tax incentive and other subsidy programs, "but the Michigan Department of Treasury is refusing to release documents that would show whether these developers are keeping the promises they made."

Gonzalez says the White House list reminds him of the "degenerate art" exhibitions in 1930s Germany. "The Nazis gathered modern artists they deemed to be not within the context of their ideals."

Literally in the “well we don’t want to get too political against the Nazi’s, it might backfire” stage of fascism. WAKE UP. OMG.

When pillow fights escalate

Doing things with a cello I've never seen (and haven't heard outside of maybe Claude Lamothe)

Political infighting? Getting crosswise with someone named Anne Boleyn? Does he think he's Thomas Cromwell?

Narrating my days like

The economist Lisa Cook sits on the board of the Federal Reserve. She is an accomplished academic with a posting at Michigan State . You can see her work here lisadcook.net.

ICE Community Response Emergency Action Mobilization. aka ICE CREAM

That's the first time I've seen the word "subsidence" in popular media.

Locally, several Michigan communities have a guaranteed income cash prescription program, with talk of statewide expansion: www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...

This review of hit songs by bands that don't exist is Milli Vanilli erasure.

I guess they took down the video where Lincoln says “to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."

My mistake, these weren’t the droids we were looking for.

Very interesting. I’ve been trying to make sense of so much of what we call AI, and these frameworks are useful in that process.

What happened to "presumed innocent until proven guilty in a food court"?

Is this the kind of thing we need to specify these days?

This is appalling and unacceptable. We don't need conversations with Amish communities about making their buggies more visible. We need to hold people who drive recklessly accountable.

Portland, Portland, a thousand times Portland. The airport so nice they refer to the whole city by its name.

It's an expansive pronunciation guide. Mostly place names, then some random people. I stumbled across one guy I went to middle school with.

"When I say liberate financial capital, it’s just that. It’s recognizing that individuals are all deserved of a life that they envision for themselves and their family. They should not be predicated on their race, their gender, their zip code."

You kan not run educacioun lyke a businesse. A businesse ys ther to make a profit. Educacioun ys ther to make the future.

I read the context and laughed through my whole breakfast

"When tits call it splits" was right there

The Gray Lady bows to America's Finest News Source

The Finnish approach isn't the only way, but it's one that provides a clearer roadmap for North American contexts. We know what it takes to achieve zero deaths and we have to demand it.

In Bluesky news, I learned that my son's camp counselor woke the kids up each morning blaring "Mr. Blue Sky" by ELO and now I've got a fun new way to confuse and infuriate my son.

OK, Kalamazoo, your turn!