Aw, MAN

"Underbussing" is a word I have only seen in print in the last two days, & gotta say, as neologisms go this is a good one. From @hcrichardson.bsky.social's (invaluable) Letters from an American:

“There’s a public health imperative to quickly expand the adoption of autonomous vehicles.” Would the author say the same about building bike lanes? Installing automatic traffic cameras? Requiring Intelligent Speed Assist? All of those are proven to save lives — and at a fraction of AVs' cost.

This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"

@kavehmd.bsky.social forensic proctologist? I am ON it.

day 1 is "penzeys revolution blend" and i cant stop laughing at "we have to GET RID of this lying, cheating, CORRUPT SCUMBAG PRESIDENT!! RESIST! REVOLT! REVOLUTION NOW!! good on roast poultry and carrots"

Normally the creators of beloved children’s cartoon characters would not need to disavow the U.S. Secretary of Defense, but ours is a drunken miscreant, a loutish boor with the dignity and nobility of a counterfeit butt-plug

There it is. We just reneged on Paris. FYI @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social & @ukparliament.parliament.uk

I’ve added an Excess Deaths Comparison page to my analysis on that topic. Here I’m comparing the UK, Sweden, Australia and New Zealand, to June 2025. My method projects "Expected Deaths" using a linear regression on the weekly deaths (4-week average) from a baseline of 2015-2019 deaths. 🧵

🦠 #NZ #measles We’re still seeing new cases of measles. One more, this time in Wellington, linked to a previous case. New locations of interest have been added ⬇️ More may be added. See info.health.nz/conditions-t... for the full list For further information: www.tewhatuora.govt.nz/corporate-in...

Has this been posted yet

I'm grateful every day for my editorial independence. No corporate executive or shareholder will ever be able to pull the plug on my reporting. The flip side is I have to cover all of my operating costs. This weekend I kicked off my year-end fundraiser: laurabelin.substack.com/p/why-i-writ...

Hehehehehe...this is not wrong

Me showing an interest in my dog's hobbies

There’s lots of interesting detail in this article. But the gist is that Chinese short & medium haul BEV trucks beat western ones on cost even after regulatory upgrades. Long haul versions are cost competitive. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 🧵 cleantechnica.com/2025/11/26/c...

Heroic work

Headlines like this are extremely dangerous. Because moms of young kids are the people who make the bulk of the vaccine decisions for famillies. And for a lot of them, "reading the news" looks like scrolling past headlines on social media in the spare moments of the chaos of caring for kids.

Shame on Stop & Shop, Star Market, Shaw's (both owned by Alberton's). Seek out a Market Basket, townies! www.shopmarketbasket.com

"there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it."

“There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.”

Follow-up reading for @99pi.org Power Broker book club: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I've heard from my friends in Churchill that the ice has arrived and the bears are finally heading out to break their over 150 day fast. (this photo is from a few weeks ago) Hudson Bay is still a long way from fully frozen, but at least they can get out and start hunting. #BearSeason2025 #Mammals 🌿

#NorthwesternUniversity caved.

oscar the couch

Have you ever seen a bike lane sweeper - pulled behind a bike? Volunteers in Kirkland have a new tool that attaches to the back of an e-bike. It's good for protected bike lanes, sidewalks, and narrow trails. My @kuow.org story: www.kuow.org/stories/clea...

just a reminder that the current best explanation for why this was necessarily or desirable is that the President wanted to see some video of it

For you who have read our book #WorkingStiff, yes, this is baby Danny! Happy #Thanksgiving!

A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving

The Secretary of Transportation is terrified

No, sorry, I mean, fucking Christ, how many nurses is that we could have kept in ANZ? How many radiologists/radiographers is it? Enough to clear the eight-month wait list for a basic CT?

My favorite (sorry—favourite) #NewZealand bike shop, Bicycle Junction in Wellington, will be closed on Friday for #SlackFriday. I salute them! www.bicyclejunction.co.nz/blogs/bicycl...

As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store. Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.

"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts." www.wcvb.com/article/karo...

No, Trader Joe! What you are offering there is not “#NewZealand Cheddar.” It is New Zealand Tasty Cheese. Speak its name! Respect the provenance!

No, Trader Joe! What you are offering there is not “#NewZealand Cheddar.” It is New Zealand Tasty Cheese. Speak its name! Respect the provenance!

A wee tale of multiculturalism & fruit. I'm of Irish-Italian-Polish heritage, a common combo in my native #Boston. My #Italian family are from Calabria, specifically part of Cosenza's Tyrrhenian coast known to the locals as the Costa dei Cedri & to tourist agencies as the Riviera dei Cedri. 1/7

when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean

A reminder that cars aren’t a technology problem. They’re a geometry problem.

The Republican Party in charge of the US govt is targeting propaganda to countries it perceives as suceptible to its export of white supremacism & loves to hit up Aotearoa #NewZealand, which it wrongly sees as a monoculture that'll reject "people of a migration background." Careful, Kiwis. Kia kaha!

The new owners of #SanFrancisco's Dirt Alley didn't read the fine print, payed more than twice what anyone else did for an equivalent strip of unusable land, & can't do backsies b/c their District 4 has disenfranchised itself in a fit of pique, an effort they supported sfstandard.com/2025/11/21/s...

Appealing the dismissal instead of re-indicting is a way to kick the can down the road and avoid a lot of short-term humiliation over the other flaws in the case.

I know I've posted this before, but: The core backstory of Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story is that a misguided war in Venezuela in the final failure that completely shatters the US, to the point that it gets sold for parts to the Chinese and Norwegians.

Just stopped by the Fordham Lincoln Center bookstore for the first time in a while, and it’s been wholly remodeled—to have zero books, just gear. Clearly a casualty of Amazon. But. Man. I LOVED to wander the bookstore as an undergrad, see all the cool stuff OTHER courses were reading.

Met some heroes today

Home Depot could implement a policy requiring ICE to present a judicial warrant before operating on its property. Businesses are fully within their rights to decide who is allowed on their premises.

Mike Hosking is wrong about the results of the UK Covid Inquiry this morning. The inquiry found an earlier lockdown could have saved 23k lives. It did find that "stringent restrictions short of a mandatory lockdown" if imposed earlier could have avoided a lockdown – which is diff from "unnecessary".

Your Thanksgiving gravy tastes better when you use union mushrooms. Let's give a huge thanks to workers like "Adan" who harvest mushrooms for Monterey Mushrooms under a UFW contract. On an average day, he picks 240-280 of the blue baskets you see in this vid. #WeFeedYou

So Bezos is in them too then?

Brazil’s federal police on Saturday arrested former president Jair Bolsonaro over suspicion he was plotting to escape and avoid starting a 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt. https://to.pbs.org/48bW5Z7