Guy who only sends a dick pic as his opening message is also a data wonk.

Hack take but it really sucks how everything must connect to wifi now. I just want a simple blu ray player. I don't need it to be smart or have streaming apps. These could prob be so much cheaper without.

Imagine! How could wind and solar ever compete with fossil fuel electricity across an entire year, across an entire block of 450 million people!?😉

As usual in NJ, perhaps progress will only come through the courts.

Ex-Rep. Malinowski leads fundraising in special House race newjerseymonitor.com/2026/01/27/m...

Construction will soon stop on the Gateway tunnel—the new intercity rail link between Manhattan and New Jersey—unless the Trump admin restores funding for the project. The president paused federal funding several months ago because he claimed its contracting was too DEI. (Gift link)

Holy shit this law is confusing. You actually don't need insurance for a low-speed e-bike, maybe, except the law contradicts itself on this & tons of PDs are saying the opposite (the post here says they are wrong).

Lots of Assembly Dems are listed as "Not Voting" for the e-bike bill. Is there a reason they'd do this instead of voting No? My reps say they did not vote for the bill bcs they believe it imposes unfair regulations on recreational riders. So why not vote No? www.njleg.state.nj.us/bill-search/...

ICE is leaving Vietnam-style death cards in the wake of their kidnappings because they are the saddest, most embarrassing military wannabes to ever live coloradosun.com/2026/01/23/a...

Ahh! I love love love Amano’s work! This year I made a tiny Over the Garden Wall fan game, with the help of @patrickmchale.bsky.social, @forkfrenzy.bsky.social, @blastingcompany.bsky.social & Elijah Wood! It’s free to play in browser on itch.io! juliaminamata.itch.io/otgw

County Executive for > $200k per year. Now county Dem party chair. Busy guy.

The perfect book for a snow day. No other author has ever described snowflakes as much or in as much detail. The protagonist's perilous journey through Jeju island during a blizzard is the best vibe.

I agree with these. Naive chatbots produce bad code or just don't know what they're talking about. I'll try to be better about providing context to AI models.

Montgomery County, Maryland sounds pretty great. Social housing, a reforestation program, a bicycle master plan, & this. If only it was more affordable... (more social housing when?)

One of the weird aspects of the NJ E-bike law. Class 2 cargo bikes (motorized bicycles) that carry kids are now illegal in NJ. law.justia.com/codes/new-je...

It's the 9am peak on a weekday morning, and there is no congestion to be seen on the Newark Bay Bridge. There's the usual congestion at the Lincoln Tunnel. $6B for two new bridges is the wrong way to spend precious dollars. One bridge, not two, and we can invest billions in transit instead.

In Philly, Feds removed an exhibition about George Washington owning slaves.

The abundance movement & YIMBY allies call for upzoning as a strategy to lower housing costs. Rightly so. But such reforms also reduce residents’ travel expenses. That gets much less attention, but it shouldn't. I can’t think of a better way to pursue abundant transportation than densification.

At this point I need JC to understand we elected a mayor who's gearing up to kill thousands of new homes/yr. A guy who'd repeat all of San Francisco's policy mistakes over the last 50 yrs w 0 regrets. If we don't start organizing+getting engaged now we'll be in a lot of trouble. Sign up below:

Uh oh. 10 inches of snow coming. Scramble the National Guard.

Based on what I'm reading today, it seems that new NJ Governor Mikie Sherrill will use Clean Energy Fund and RGGI revenues to subsidize the bills of NJ rates payers. Those funds were supposed to be used to promote clean energy, but I guess that is out the window now. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Ok. So what do we do about this?

The important stuff. mercerme.com/murphy-signs...

Good. It's unheard of for a public school district to give stuff to private schools for a reason.

Ryder is a friend of mine who is a passionate progressive urbanist running against a field of NIMBYs. the only way we can make progress in Albany is if we elect people like him to push back against the Long Island conservatives strongly recommend supporting him if you are in NYC!

Praise be Gottheimer didn't become governor.

If you live in one of 46 towns in Essex, Morris & Passaic in NJ CD11, you've got another 24 hours to register to vote in the upcoming special primary to fill the seat of Gov.-elect @MikieSherrill. Deadline Jan 15. Find more info from @njspotlightnews.org www.njspotlightnews.org/nj-decides-2...

This rules. Prayers up that Kolluri cancels the TP expansions & redirects money to transit: HLBR extension, GCL, the other stuff ETA outlined in their report.

lol so much for Western values.

Worth a shot. When I called, the person asked if it was about the e-bike bill, so you're not alone.

What urban areas in the world have the longest existing/under construction metro networks per capita? In a quick analysis using Transit Explorer & EU GHS-UCDB 2024 data, the top urban areas are: 1—Chengdu 2—Hangzhou 3—Ningbo 4—Xuzhou 5—Stockholm 6—Zhengzhou 7—Singapore 8—Xi'an 9—Hamburg 10—Changsha

Based on this & past comments, Terrence McDonald seems to not like it when state legislatures get paid more, but actually it's good. It means non-lawyers can actually afford to hold office. Also, they're considered 3/4 PT. They should be FT, but it's not that far off.

Can someone helicopter Mario DeSantis back into Glassboro so he can primary Burzichelli?

Even worse news: the NJ bill requiring insurance and registration of all e-bikes, including low-speed e-bikes, has now passed the state assembly as well. Vote was Yes: 53 No: 10 Not Voting: 16 Abstain: 1. The bill now goes to Gov. Murphy's desk for signature into law. He could veto it. Doubtful.

Wow, what a bold, brave leader our Senate President is.

wine mom (laudatory) temp check: Beth Adubato, a professor and former journalist who comes from a prominent New Jersey political family and is running for the light-red NJ-07, calls for abolishing ICE at a candidates' forum www.insidernj.com/cd-7-flashpo...

I just got hit by enshitification. Outerjoin.us used to be a curated collection of job postings. Low volume, but high quality. No recruiter slop. Real companies. High response rate. No signup. Now it appears to have become yet another job board crawler. Crappy redesign. Signup required to see all.

Unless they're rushing a committee vote today, the NJ bill that would prevent the MVC from allowing NYC to enforce traffic law against NJ violators is dead.

The Ridgewood Blog, which claims it has a "pro free market point of view", is in favor of expensive parking mandates. theridgewoodblog.net/proposed-nj-...

Of the bills I'm tracking, just 2 could possibly be voted on today: A4370/S2347 would allow ADUs statewide on lots w/ a single-family dwelling. A6166/S4894 would require health insurers to cover vaccines recommended by the NJ DOH, not just our ghoulish Federal gov't.

Checking in on Mamdani this morning & he's good, folks. Bathroom abundance. (Horrible headline.)

ICE has kidnapped four members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe www.kotaradio.com/2026/01/09/o...

Incredible. NYT describes the plan as "complex & expensive" but it'll be well worth it. Meanwhile in NJ... www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/n...

New NJ law to require insurance and registration of all e-bikes is likely to get final vote in state Assembly and Senate on Monday or Tuesday of this week. Still time to register objections with your state elected reps if you have not done so yet. Bike JC has a great guide how to do it here:

How can I ask NJ Transit to run more buses on this route?

insane new NJ story: Brendan Gill and by extension the Essex County Democratic machine is supporting a Republican, pro-insurrection mayor for reelection in a deep-blue town because his Democratic opponent is anti-machine newjerseyglobe.com/congress/nj-...

Of all the choices newrooms must make these days, "cover a single house that will be demo'd to build more (student) housing" is not a good use of scarce reporter resources. www.courierpostonline.com/videos/news/...

It's happening. Don't worry, I'm not involved with this one. betterblocksnj.org/2026/01/07/t...

The Green Bay Packers are owned by a publicly held nonprofit. @ptrchn1.bsky.social, any hope the NJ Devils & others NJ teams can be friendily taken over by the state one day?