absolute hilariously bizarre thing to do when the two most ambitious of your officials and heirs apparent (weiser and griswold) are primarily well-known for going hard against trump for the election denial

Thinking of that one climate science comic but edited with urbanism stuff instead. On the screen: "less pedestrian deaths" "cleaner air" "safer neighborhoods" "healthier, more active lives" etc etc. And the scientist going, "what if it's all a hoax and we build better cities for nothing?"

i think about this a lot wrt decarb and pedestrianization: EVEN IF climate change *wasn't* happening, don't we want kids to be able to freely and safely ride their bikes to school without getting buzzed by massive SUVs and huffing exhaust the whole time?

i just finished my first woodworking project: a coffee bar made from an unfinished ponderosa pine slab we picked up from a reclaimed urban lumber place!

I genuinely think some people do not want to look this in the eye/think about it because it is so awful. We wrote what I thought was a pretty eye-opening story about all this and I was surprised by the lack of engagement tbh

Zohran dropping a Mario Kart reference in his press conference

people really have a hard time understanding just how much empty and sun-drenched space there is in the united states in europe, this might make sense; in the us, it's way more financially efficient to just invest in megaprojects in the deserts and transmission lines to get the energy to batteries

well back in 2015 when I wrote this I never thought it'd be *this* relevant to modern discourse, but here's the paper I did on aquinian (and agustinian) just war theory docs.google.com/document/d/1...

the only person i will ever allow to be memed with laser eyes is spanberger

i will forever maintain that tiltrotors are the coolest looking aircraft on the planet (although only if you exclude ground-effect vehicles)

this is a tragedy for me personally on par with the fall of rome

lmao

always found it fascinating that the columbine shooters were not actually bullied (and likely *were* the bullies) but convinced themselves that they were the victims perception motivates more strongly than reality

as of this morning, your guy is officially ABD as I have passed my dissertation prospectus defense 🫡

what if instead of bicameral legislature we went back to having bicameral *minds* as demonstrated scientifically in the iliad where the vocabulary later used for thoughts and ideas in the odyssey was instead somatic, and described the breath

been saying that scripture should never have been translated

mersenne twister remains goated in terms of names of things in stats

how many lettuce Trusses, how many scaramuccis

The Diet of Brainworms

woke 2 should go hard on reasserting native sovereignty, establish joint control over national parks between tribes and NPS, and give statehood votes to whoever wants it

i think the strangest thing in 21st century american history might actually be gorsuch casting the pivotal vote and writing the opinion to give half of oklahoma back to the tribes, and then also being a more or less stalwart ally in trump's effort to overthrow the democracy

not what cantor was referring to, but i'm looking back on my Aquinas research paper from 2015 and damn i was cooking (and so was Aquinas)

Growing up as the technical lead in your 90s/00s suburban American home is the best way to learn Computer. Unfortunately we haven't figured out how to replicate it in a lab.

someone should tell him about the ice-and-sawdust aircraft carrier project

increasingly of the opinion that having to find ways around content blockers in school computer labs to play flash games during the 1 hour per week I got access to a computer was actually instrumental in my development as a person, as it required collaboration, technical learning, and socialization

one of the main reasons that Young Millennials are the only well-adjusted age group: we had to play mathblasters and bugdom on translucent colorful iMacs and then later learn how to load N++ on a 128MB sandisk usb drive to play in the computer lab this is how computers are meant to be used

is it too late to put him back

Watching ultimate showdown *over* and *over* on Albino Black Sheep dot Com is, in fact, my culture it also took me until I listened to Mouth Sounds to learn that the guy who made that is also the guy who made Ultimate Showdown and also the guy who made Potter Puppet Pals @neilcic.com is a hero

the main character today is a type of "anti-imperialist" who: - hates the US - hates all agencies of the US, including those set up to protect democracy - hates people who criticize the US but say that we should use those agencies to *actually* protect democracy - uses slurs against the above

as will implies here and as I yell about constantly, being a force multiplier for an existing phenomenon IS ITSELF NEW AND TRANSFORMATIVE and can in fact bring that phenomenon from being tolerable to being catastrophically destructive

i am adamant that QDA should never be replaced by AI, and I am also of the opinion that solo researchers should be able to get some of the benefits of multi-coder analysis even if they do not have the resources themselves. Thus I am working on a fully local, replicable, LLM-enhanced QDA pipeline

i am mostly the type of english that got kicked out of england for being too annoying, but they then did proceed to kick the british out of the colonies and a good number of my ancestors were appalachian scottish and irish so clearly i was genetically predestined to be one with gaelic antifascism

we're going to electrify the world and it's going to be solar and wind and we're going to be able to actually consider how to cool the planet it's going to happen whether certain people like it or not

After extensive testing, I have developed the Perfect Post-Endurance Training Order: 3x3 protein style with grilled onions Well-done fries Large neapolitan shake

instead of dumb symbolic politics around tax cuts, may I offer: "A rec center and library for every person!" "A national park in every state, and a free and fast train to every park!" "Functional plumbing for everyone, and gold plumbing for no one!"

"We will make rich people pay their fair share and we will go to the mat to make this government Do Good Things with the tax money. The current administration makes your life worse and steals your tax money; we will actually use tax money to make life better." see, not hard!

I will forever be baffled that "better things aren't possible, the best was actually in the past, the future is something to be burnt down" continues to be a winning position in many elections

I remember clearly when I lived in SF seeing folks in wheelchairs (electric or otherwise) having to navigate broken sidewalks, rough terrain, etc. while cars buzzed them a few feet away. what about those people? don't they have value? shouldn't we be aggressively protecting their ability to move?

Yes! And car-centric development has isolated disabled non-drivers. It's just that non-drivers are always seemingly left out of these conversations.

also "safer streets" has been used as a trojan horse for decades to make biking and pedestrian infra _worse_, which means that I am often impatient (probably unfairly) with people who suggest that urbanists pump the breaks on anti-car activism

girl thought she was becoming a magick wizard and then met the actual nazi wizards

what if... haha jk unless...?

I'm going to share this story one more time, because I think the problem it describes -- being unable to determine what is true online or in the news, and just giving up entirely on trying -- is going to get more and more common. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

what's funny about Spain is that it is continually in a state of both having capital-P Problems and also capital-S Solutions maybe we all should be taking naps at 2pm every weekday

This is Art

words cannot describe how much I wish I could afford an urban arrow for grocery store and large shopping runs

Related: Anything with "Alt" in the username is just peddling engagement bait and conspiracy nonsense

similarly, the trustworthiness of a *natsec* source on Bluesky is directly proportional to how dumb their pseudonym is

If you’re in line to fill up your cement mixer at the Costco pump, STAY. IN. LINE.

this sounds like a party that must be investing heavily in solar and wind energy in their country that is full of empty, sunny land, right? right?