Christo Silvia
@christosilvia.bsky.social
Housing 🏘️, transit🚇, walking🚶♂️ and cycling 🚲 advocate in Woburn, MA, USA
Car lite advocate, ebike owner
Historic 🏠 owner, renovation amateur, and marriage enthusiast
Vegetarian
Senior RF Design Eng
The opinions on this account do not represent my employer
Car lite advocate, ebike owner
Historic 🏠 owner, renovation amateur, and marriage enthusiast
Vegetarian
Senior RF Design Eng
The opinions on this account do not represent my employer
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The elite group chats are surely noxious, but I have some bad news about what millions of Americans are saying in their own group chats, texts, posts, & comments online.
December 7, 2025 at 8:49 PM
The elite group chats are surely noxious, but I have some bad news about what millions of Americans are saying in their own group chats, texts, posts, & comments online.
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Honestly if he has the quant chops to be an astrophysicist, he should just go into banking or engineering.
My teen, who had dreamt of being an astrophysicist, just told me he wants to go to law school because, “Science isn’t going to be a priority in the US in the future…I don’t want a job where I’ll be constantly worried my funding will be taken away.”
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
December 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Honestly if he has the quant chops to be an astrophysicist, he should just go into banking or engineering.
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They can afford extremely smart traffic signals that detect pedestrians, etc because they only have 5,000 in the whole country.
(Chicago city proper has 3,000)
(Chicago city proper has 3,000)
The Netherlands has a total of just 5,500 signalized intersections bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2016/06/21/t...
Traffic lights in ’s-Hertogenbosch; an interview
“We want people to believe our traffic signals are really helping them. Nobody likes to wait unnecessarily long at a red light. Signals are an aid and they should only be used when there is no alte…
bicycledutch.wordpress.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
They can afford extremely smart traffic signals that detect pedestrians, etc because they only have 5,000 in the whole country.
(Chicago city proper has 3,000)
(Chicago city proper has 3,000)
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"Be less judgmental," say the people who think queer folks are icky and should be pushed out of all facets of society.
December 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
"Be less judgmental," say the people who think queer folks are icky and should be pushed out of all facets of society.
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If only there was a giant dance and music stage pageant somewhere that showed China before Communism! But alas no.
December 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
If only there was a giant dance and music stage pageant somewhere that showed China before Communism! But alas no.
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just kidding it's this one
December 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
just kidding it's this one
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Assigned's mentions for this post are flooded with people who want to jeer at Biden so may I just say: When a Democratic former president makes a point of standing up for trans rights in a situation where he is absolutely not required to do so, for God's sake, just take the W.
6 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Biden, generally a lukewarm backer of trans rights as President, uses Intl International LGBTQ+ Leaders Conference speech to slam Reps/Trump for turning trans rights into "political football...into something scary, something sinister."
Joe Biden slams Republicans for turning transgender rights into ‘political football’
The former president gave a speech expressing support for LGBTQ+ rights at an LGBTQ+ leaders conference on Friday
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Assigned's mentions for this post are flooded with people who want to jeer at Biden so may I just say: When a Democratic former president makes a point of standing up for trans rights in a situation where he is absolutely not required to do so, for God's sake, just take the W.
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It was very naive how many STEM people thought Republicans would stop at the humanities
Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
It's over.
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
December 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
It was very naive how many STEM people thought Republicans would stop at the humanities
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If the Court arbitrarily strikes down this key part of the fourteenth amendment, I think Americans lose any moral obligation to show any allegiance to the laws enforced by a fundamentally lawless regime
Birthright citizenship is probably not integral to liberal democracy, but it is integral to *American* liberal democracy. Our vision of what we are as a country, as a nation beyond an ethnicity, requires it.
December 7, 2025 at 6:16 AM
If the Court arbitrarily strikes down this key part of the fourteenth amendment, I think Americans lose any moral obligation to show any allegiance to the laws enforced by a fundamentally lawless regime
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Anyone who knows this history should know there’s no contested issue.
December 7, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Anyone who knows this history should know there’s no contested issue.
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the more transatlantic I get the more annoying I find it how both americans and euros online have this strange othering thing they do where both sides pretend that the other is essentially alien despite the cultures really not being very different, in the grand scheme of things
like genuinely what the fuck is wrong with my countrymen that you all act like this. Bulgaria isn't the Moon. you can just go there. different cultural affects don't make a person non human for fucks sake
December 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
the more transatlantic I get the more annoying I find it how both americans and euros online have this strange othering thing they do where both sides pretend that the other is essentially alien despite the cultures really not being very different, in the grand scheme of things
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Calling Biden a lukewarm trans rights back is such historical revisionism and genuinely harmful to the cause you think you're protecting.
6 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Biden, generally a lukewarm backer of trans rights as President, uses Intl International LGBTQ+ Leaders Conference speech to slam Reps/Trump for turning trans rights into "political football...into something scary, something sinister."
Joe Biden slams Republicans for turning transgender rights into ‘political football’
The former president gave a speech expressing support for LGBTQ+ rights at an LGBTQ+ leaders conference on Friday
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Calling Biden a lukewarm trans rights back is such historical revisionism and genuinely harmful to the cause you think you're protecting.
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My teen, who had dreamt of being an astrophysicist, just told me he wants to go to law school because, “Science isn’t going to be a priority in the US in the future…I don’t want a job where I’ll be constantly worried my funding will be taken away.”
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
December 7, 2025 at 1:23 AM
My teen, who had dreamt of being an astrophysicist, just told me he wants to go to law school because, “Science isn’t going to be a priority in the US in the future…I don’t want a job where I’ll be constantly worried my funding will be taken away.”
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
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Prime Minister of Poland. 🇵🇱
December 6, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Prime Minister of Poland. 🇵🇱
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Breaking bad was about a guy who had many opportunities for his healthcare to be paid for (his former business partners, jrs accidental money laundering go fund me), but he preferred selling meth because ruining other people's lives feels more manly than accepting gifts.
December 7, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Breaking bad was about a guy who had many opportunities for his healthcare to be paid for (his former business partners, jrs accidental money laundering go fund me), but he preferred selling meth because ruining other people's lives feels more manly than accepting gifts.
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One of the things almost all the anti-hero shows of the past decade have shown is a large part of society is so ingrained with the idea the protagonist *must* be the good guy that they're utterly incapable of engaging with show's basic messages or morality.
Breaking bad was about a guy who had many opportunities for his healthcare to be paid for (his former business partners, jrs accidental money laundering go fund me), but he preferred selling meth because ruining other people's lives feels more manly than accepting gifts.
December 7, 2025 at 9:56 AM
One of the things almost all the anti-hero shows of the past decade have shown is a large part of society is so ingrained with the idea the protagonist *must* be the good guy that they're utterly incapable of engaging with show's basic messages or morality.
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I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.
December 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.
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This is, weirdly, often true about local access cable as well. I walked in with something I wanted to record, and ended up with my own political show.
I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.
December 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
This is, weirdly, often true about local access cable as well. I walked in with something I wanted to record, and ended up with my own political show.
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anyways. the struggle between maga and freedom is not new, but a struggle that goes back to the founding of the republic--a slow-rolling religious civil war, two sides of a schism on what the meaning of america ever was
now it is simply our turn to take up that fight
now it is simply our turn to take up that fight
December 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
anyways. the struggle between maga and freedom is not new, but a struggle that goes back to the founding of the republic--a slow-rolling religious civil war, two sides of a schism on what the meaning of america ever was
now it is simply our turn to take up that fight
now it is simply our turn to take up that fight
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Yeah...
We are officially less than two years away from the events of CHILDREN OF MEN
Matters seem to be right on schedule
Matters seem to be right on schedule
December 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Yeah...
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Great thread. And a key point: the transphobia of today is very similar to the homophobia I saw growing up.
Something I'd like to address. There's this idea that TQ+ folk are all 21 year-old art students... and all the 'normal' old school folk are LGB and entirely left behind and confused by 'pronouns'...
Every talk I give, know who the most outspoken trans allies are? Queer folk in their 70s!!
Every talk I give, know who the most outspoken trans allies are? Queer folk in their 70s!!
December 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Great thread. And a key point: the transphobia of today is very similar to the homophobia I saw growing up.
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Your periodic reminder that transit and bus shelters are essential infrastructure. This isn’t rural, it’s 150 m from Bayshore mall #ottawa
December 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Your periodic reminder that transit and bus shelters are essential infrastructure. This isn’t rural, it’s 150 m from Bayshore mall #ottawa
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Something that just occurred to me is for all Hegseth's machismo prostrating it's like a classically cowardly thing to kill defenseless men in war. Like by millennia-old standards of honor.
December 7, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Something that just occurred to me is for all Hegseth's machismo prostrating it's like a classically cowardly thing to kill defenseless men in war. Like by millennia-old standards of honor.
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see the thing about them all being the worst people in the world is that even when one of them gets killed they can't create a proper cult of martyrdom around him because the others get jealous he's getting all the attention.
December 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
see the thing about them all being the worst people in the world is that even when one of them gets killed they can't create a proper cult of martyrdom around him because the others get jealous he's getting all the attention.
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> they were “identified terrorist targets”
>> neat, you don’t have an AUMF
>> even if there were one, they were SHIPWRECKED and hors de combat
> we were actually targeting *the cocaine*
>> by your own admission IT WAS NOT HEADED TO THE UNITED STATES
>> neat, you don’t have an AUMF
>> even if there were one, they were SHIPWRECKED and hors de combat
> we were actually targeting *the cocaine*
>> by your own admission IT WAS NOT HEADED TO THE UNITED STATES
So “the shipments directly threaten Americans” huh? The shipments were headed to the U.S. then?
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Oh. Okay.
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Oh. Okay.
December 7, 2025 at 1:58 AM
> they were “identified terrorist targets”
>> neat, you don’t have an AUMF
>> even if there were one, they were SHIPWRECKED and hors de combat
> we were actually targeting *the cocaine*
>> by your own admission IT WAS NOT HEADED TO THE UNITED STATES
>> neat, you don’t have an AUMF
>> even if there were one, they were SHIPWRECKED and hors de combat
> we were actually targeting *the cocaine*
>> by your own admission IT WAS NOT HEADED TO THE UNITED STATES