California has the longest light-rail line in the world. It doesn’t quite work. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Medical science just keeps racking up Ws. Humanity is vanquishing our ancient foes one by one. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Today we laid Stolperstein for my distant cousins’ great-uncle and his second wife. I like the manual process of Stolpersteinverlegung. They kneel down close and get in there with custom hand tools. Takes maybe ten minutes, just the right amount of time for a speech.

“Theophilus, you dog, don’t perform oral sex on girls against the city wall!” via www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Check out Fujinokawa x Roga on day 7 of the current basho. Timestamp 8:44 youtu.be/TjlfW1nCZCM?...

"A true pacifist is able to kill or maim in the blink of an eye, but at the moment of impending destruction of the enemy he chooses non-violence. He chooses peace. He must be able to make a choice." –Yukiyoshi Takamura aikidojournal.com/2012/06/11/i...

"Streets before trust" versus "trust before streets" "Low-trust people notice results... Build the streets and trust will follow." pedestrianobservations.com/2020/12/31/s...

It's the time of year where I dream about making the street in front of my kid's school car free.

A fun little effect system in a proglang sharing a name with the least possible score in judo koka-lang.github.io/koka/doc/boo...

These files show how some departments have treated drunk driving as an H.R. issue, not a crime. Read the full investigation by @sammysussman.bsky.social for New York Focus and @nytimes.com.

The German ability to drag their feet in emergencies is truly world-class. Police shoot down foreign spy planes? Nah, ask the military. Military defend our airspace? Nee, das wäre *illegal*. Amend the law? Naw, the CDU wants to grandstand. www.euronews.com/2025/09/05/r...

Berlin just opened a new urban motorway stretch, ostensibly to reduce traffic congestion. A few days later, this is the situation.

Berlin's new A100 section has now forced BVG to suspend service on multiple bus routes. The Stau is endless. Experiencing significant Charlton-Heston-end-of-Planet-of-the-Apes feelings. You really did it. You blew it up. Damn the CDU. Damn them all to hell.

Looking for a new project? Want to help out jank and the #clojure community? Help us build out the clojure-test-suite! Anyone who knows Clojure can do this and the workflow is very easy. Try it out! github.com/jank-lang/cl...

It regularly surprises people that Clojure regex literals don't equal each other. It actually makes a lot of sense. I wrote about it. gist-press.com/daveliepmann...

A few days ago, Berlin opened a new stretch of urban motorway, with the stated aim to reduce congestion. Today, the stretch was temporarily closed because of too much congestion.

@annikagerold.bsky.social Danke für die Sanierung der Blücherstraße. Der Plan sieht gut aus 💚 www.berlin.de/ba-friedrich...

This is just a small portion of the interview, which covers everything from parking ordinances and zoning to Japanese bar culture and loneliness among seniors. @resnikoff.bsky.social has the range! More: www.fingers.email/p/the-housin...

🇩🇪 & 🇺🇸 zoning vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/server/api/c...

Hey the people doing good work for traffic safety need your help telling the USDOT to get their act together. Deadline tomorrow! Please take a minute and put in a good word for one of their recommendations. There's so much room for improvement. usa.streetsblog.org/2025/08/18/a...

Dricus x DDP : Caucasian wrestling :: GSP x Koscheck 2 : jab Total inability to defend a non-fight-ending technique makes for oddly lopsided matches.

"Taco trucks on every corner" energy from last century's urbanism wars. As a Berliner I can strongly endorse pretzels and drinks at the park.

It should not require special knowledge to know how to bike around safely in a city

Zachary Mason is a sorcerer with storytelling. Old news but bears repeating.

I'm totally immune to the kidnapping scare stories that cause people to keep their kids inside but I'm very susceptible to stories like this. We need laws delineating an affirmative right. I don't want to have to have a theory of mind for a social worker in order to parent reason.com/2025/08/09/c...

Blade runner urbanism "ground level = mucho bicycles + cars banished" seems like it has benefits...other dystopian elements notwithstanding

This doco about Aonishiki, the incredible sumo technician from Ukraine, does a good job showing his style along with telling his story. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoVb...

Kotoshoho in interview after day 13, when he's tied to win the basho with two days left. "I'm giving it everything I've got, day by day. It's not so much a sense of fulfillment. I'm just desperately doing my best."

"You can think of Left-NIMBYism as a single-minded focus on price: new market-rate housing is bad because it's expensive—ignoring how it takes pressure off older housing. Social housing is good because it's cheap—ignoring the often years-long waitlists or lotteries." www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvTa...

Incredible progress on child/mother mortality, inherent challenges to experimentation, and arguably over-medicalization of pregnancy have distracted us from the important ongoing project of making pregnancy & childbirth less miserable.

Thracian culture practiced #tattooing in antiquity, especially of women, as a mark of high social status (Xenophon). Domestically, Greeks would usually encounter Thracians as slaves. This woman's short hair suggests her status as a slave, the child suggests her occupation as a wet nurse. #ancientsky

NEW How did ancient tattooers learn their craft? High-res, near infrared photography and collaboration with modern tattooers reveals the complex process behind tattoos on Siberia's 'ice mummies'. #AntiquityThread 1/14 🧵 Warning: this thread contains images of human remains

Unspeakably metal ink on this woman who lived in Siberia 25 centuries ago.

The output of your tools but not your tools

Software history nerds don't miss Casey Muratori's long-ass talk tracing the origins of OOP www.youtube.com/clip/Ugkx9Di...

Dynamic cigarette taxes based on number of cigarette butts found in the latest street sweeper

Fascinating to watch my old upstate NY neighborhood mailing list flail at reducing speeding. By refusing to consider any significant changes they've concluded the speed limit signs should say "25" instead of "30". Transformative!

this is a very good piece and makes me think that Ireland (which has historically disliked such comparisons) currently has the culture of a UK with options. How that weathers over the next several years is a different question.

What a biker actually hitting a pedestrian looks like

Today’s Deutsche Bahn trip was cursed by the god of fire, but blessed by the goddesses of dense networks and fault-tolerant routing 🚄

The next battle for good bike lanes in New York City might actually be happening 150 miles upriver.

Like why the fuck is a Fox News reporter randomly suggesting to deport an American citizen completely out of nowhere? Shit like this is why this clown should never be allowed back into the press room under a Democratic administration. No tolerance for scum.

Do any swimming pools in America 🇺🇸 have a sea of bicycle parking out front? I’ve lived overseas too long to know and it’s so clearly the superior way to run an urban pool. Nothing better than cycling along bike streets and parks to take the fam for a swim.

The small % of parents who drive make it hell for everyone else. They illegally park all over bike lanes, bus stops and crosswalks. They unload in the bike lane. And since they're carrying precious cargo, they're defensive despite being in oversized SUVs.

A friend is building an app to help immigrants detained by ICE. They're a web app dev & need help with the mobile app. Anyone have experience building/deploying mobile apps and interested in volunteering time to help a new app with a good cause? Feel free to share with others or boost for reach.

Give me your best links to visual programming projects that aren't node-wire, projectional, block, Petri net, or 2D ascii (Orca, Befunge). I want your wildest interfaces!

this post is good

It’s kind of insane that Europe’s reliance on Russian oil and gas is funding their war against Ukraine.

I also like calling it "proportion transportation". We use transportation and infrastructure that is proportional to the required task. I don't need 2 tons of steel and rubber to haul my 70kg, nobody does.