Ok, here's my top 5 TSP operations in Madison. Notes on each to come starting with #5 5. Peer-to-Peer (Univ. Ave.) 4. East Washington & North 3. East Washington & Mendota 2. Cap City Square Coordination 1. Mineral Point & Whitney Way

Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.

Get plunked!

Brewers Radio Network bumper music update: The subtle suggestion to Blake Snell in the bottom of the 8th is from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Give It Away"

Brewers Radio Network bumper music update: "Voodoo Child" leads into Jacob Misiorowski's postseason debut

Happy Kitrick Taylor Day to all who celebrate. www.latimes.com/sports/story...

Brewers Radio Network bumper music update: "Hit Me With You Best Shot," Pat Benatar

Brewers Radio Network bumper music update: "Turnin' Up the Heat"

Some very welcome @joepernice.bsky.social. joepernice.substack.com/p/peace-in-o...

Definitely one of those days when you are deeply jealous of a science writer colleague at another university. Way to run with this, @joshuaebrowncom.bsky.social. www.uvm.edu/uvmnews/news...

Monkey see #footupfriday ...

" ... Unfortunately, the world is now acting in such a way as to eliminate that courtesy -- among many others. So, I can only ask your forbearance."

Alan Furst, from "Dark Star": "Polite people avoid certain topics. Experience shows the wisdom in that. Like one's dreams or medical condition, it's just better to find something else to talk about. ...

RIP George Tice — The photography legend is dead at 86. www.flakphoto.news/p/rip-george...

Definitely a positive I remember from my school-board covering days. Kids have prepared a statement, and they can't even imagine saying one word they haven't thought out carefully. Can you imagine.

A few years ago, I wrote a story without *any* em-dashes. I still think about framing that thing.

this is so petty lmaooo

We need to plan and build so many regional walking/cycle tracks in every metro in this country: (The 606, Chicago) 📷 Jason Thorne

You don't have to be better in 2025. You can be worse.

Going round.

Human factors engineering

More Green Bay content!

Flowchart of human history: 1. Suffer incredible hardship. 2. Amazing science and hard work fixes hardship. 3. Everything is much better for about 50 years. 4. Nobody remembers hardship anymore. 5. Solution to hardship now considered unnecessary. 6. GOTO 1.

Motorola V70 still the coolest phone I ever owned. Shocking SAR, though.

Massachusetts last year made phone calls from prison and jails free. It also wiped charges for other forms of communication between incarcerated folks & their loved ones. You can see how hugely important it is for people in this piece. 1/2 boltsmag.org/massachusett...

a thread of some of my dumbest bird comics to date

Some stats from Nature survey of science-policy experts: • 70% said governments are not routinely using science advice • 80% say policymakers don’t understand science…. • ….but 73% say researchers don’t understand policy! by @helenpearson.bsky.social in Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This book makes a great gift, because it takes care of your next gift-giving opportunity for the same person. "You loved CROSSINGS, right? Well, same person wrote THIS one about BEAVERS!"

cargill owns diamond crystal salt btw, something i have thought about constantly since reading it in alicia kennedy’s newsletter www.aliciakennedy.news/p/on-salt

Thanksgiving is upon us! So...how best to show your distain to your terrible relatives? How about eel pie? In his 15th C. cookbook, Bartolomeo Platina includes a recipe for eel pie w/ instructions to feed it to your foes when it's done, because eel pie has no redeeming features. 🗃️🧪

Intrigued by the People’s Bookshelf at the National Library of Latvia. Each book in the collection has been donated by a member of the public and is inscribed by its former owner, telling a personal story relating to the book.

Me: Finally, a hipper crossword with current references! Me, 8 minutes later, in the bottom right corner: Oh, thank god, three letters for "___ Speedwagon."

Reading about all the great things Scientific American did during Laura Helmuth's tenure makes me want to subscribe *so* bad. BUT ...

Local Man (@prowag.bsky.social) Recalls Best Local Onion Headline www.livenowfox.com/video/1548370

Good morning. Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.

Caught some mallards and green-winged teal for a fall hunting disturbance project today! Also, caught a coot! Love me some coot feet. 🪶🌏🧪

Look, things are tense right now. Maybe take a minute to marvel at this stunning new JWST image of the star cluster NGC 602, out near the edge of the Small Magellanic Cloud. 🧪 🔭 Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, P. Zeidler, E. Sabbi, A. Nota, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb)

I can't just tell my family the kitchen music is Vangelis. I have to sorta stage whisper "This is ... *Vangelisss*." I think that means the Vangelis is working? youtu.be/I-0Z5D7eRh8?...

Ninety percent of the too many accounts I follow are nature photographers. This place is just lousy with you people posting beautiful, amazing things.

Possibly the ultimate movie viewing experience?

If you see this, post something purple.

Almost everything I know about the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Aw, come on algorithm. Be nice. [clickclick<grunt,moan>clickclickclick]

FREDDY KRUEGER: (waving his scary gloves at me in a dream) Waugghhh! ME: Whoa Freddy, I haven't seen you all semester, dude. We've got that big math test today, didn't you study? Uh oh, you're in big trouble, buddy.

The difference between men's and women's pro sports is the Liberty players carefully removing pieces of trophy-presentation confetti that got caught in their team owner's hair while she talked to ESPN.

Quite the suggestion.

Parents, make sure to check your kids' Halloween presents. I found a knife in this gameboy.

In 1693, a Manila Galleon full of goods and bound for Acapulco, wrecked on the coast of what is now Oregon, never reaching its destination. A craftsman from the Nehalem-Tillamook and Clatsop peoples made this arrowhead (in the Tillamook Pioneer Museum) out of Qing dynasty porcelain from the wreck.