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Dan Miller @meelar.bsky.social · 2h

But if he can't, he'll tell you to get a new car. Getting a new government is less of an option, and Chuck Schumer sure isn't saying we should do it.

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Dan Miller @meelar.bsky.social · 7h

This could be Bleecker Street, if @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social has the courage

A pedestrianized street in Montmartre, with bioswales in the middle

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Dan Miller @meelar.bsky.social · 9h

A graph showing real median wages rising steadily from 2015-2025 (with an anomalous spike in 2020 due to pandemic furloughs)

Dan Miller @meelar.bsky.social · 10h

Same goes for sports; most organized sports in their modern form originated in this period. Basketball was invented 1891, American football 1869 (and took its modern form over the next decades), baseball around the mid-19th c, modern association football about the same

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Dan Miller @meelar.bsky.social · 11h

The hukou system and international borders have many of the same downsides, and we shouldn't treat them as if they're entirely separate categories.

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 23h

I used this interview in my World History classes when I first read it in 2015. I've been thinking about it a lot recently in light of our current situation and it informs a lot of my thinking.

SPIEGEL Interview with a 91 Year Old Former Auschwitz Guard

As a young man, Jakob W. worked in the watchtowers of Auschwitz. Charges against him were recently dropped, but he described to SPIEGEL what it was like to be a cog in the Nazis' horrific machinery of...

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Dan Miller @meelar.bsky.social · 1d

Good thing I didn't say it was!

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 1d

A huge part of current twitter is eating disorder content for racist guys

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Dan Miller @meelar.bsky.social · 1d

Well, unless its citizens are Uyghur. Or want to vote in a contested election.

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Doug @doug.city · 1d

The standard—and not totally incorrect—narrative is that the US basically abandoned transit after WWII, but there was a real revival underway in the 1970s that stalled out by the mid-1980s as the political winds shifted. Things have improved since, but we've never fully recovered that ambition.

City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 1d

UMTA R&D spend from 1972-1989. The amounts in the 1980s appear to be overstated as a lot of those projects were commissioned in the 1970s and were finishing up. Dollars are not adjusted for inflation.

New spend by the late 80s was down to $13m/yr, $3m/yr of which went into 'privatization' =>

Tables of new R&D spend between 1985-1989. Spending on research related to train and system design had been entirely zeroed out.

Table of R&D spend from 1972-1985. The wind-down begins in 1982.

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Dave (@6502_ftw from Tweets) @cursed.monster · 2d

Oh hell yes (from wideawakes.army)

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David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 1d

“Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed as the region warms, with new seeps being discovered at an ‘astonishing rate,’ scientists have found.” www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/c...

Scientists discovered something alarming seeping out from beneath the ocean around Antarctica | CNN

Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed, with new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing rate,” raising fears that future global warming predictions may have been und...

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Dan Miller @meelar.bsky.social · 1d

Ebikes help a lot with weather--they're great for hot days, and surprisingly helpful for cold too (since you sweat less). Rain is still a factor, but a rarer one.

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Dan Miller @meelar.bsky.social · 1d

Say what you will about the Long Island City TJ's, at least I've never had to park there

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Trader Joe's Exec1: we'll sell lots of really good stuff at good prices

Exec2: that doesn't sound at all evil. We're a big company, we're supposed to be evil

Founder1: we are going to have the most inadequate, cramped, badly designed parking lots in the fucking world

Founder2: ok that works

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Dan Miller @meelar.bsky.social · 1d

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Dan Miller @meelar.bsky.social · 17d

The simple ability to be a shut-in and not be constantly bored out of your mind is pretty new, historically, and we're going to have to learn to deal with it as a society, the same way we're adapting to an environment of overabundant junk calories and desk jobs.

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Dan Miller @meelar.bsky.social · 1d

Dogs rock

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2d

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2d

See below for the incredible way Meta’s AI tool describes this video.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 2d

An old work rule means that the MTA would have to pay millions of dollars just to provide a little extra service after special events like Mets games or the Ryder Cup.

MONEY TRAIN: How LIRR Unions 'Game' The System - Streetsblog New York City

An old work rule means that the MTA would have to pay millions of dollars just to provide a little extra service after special events like Mets games or the Ryder Cup.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 2d

Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths:

"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."

"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."

Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US?

It’s unfortunately not uncommon for pedestrians to be killed by cars in the US.

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Cross-laminated & Skinned her 👻 🦇 🎃 @nickhasthoughts.com · 2d

this fuckin sucks man

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

That TikTok account has a few fake videos of reporters getting detained. They make these videos because it’s a big story in the news. Real reporters are getting arrested. And so people are making AI videos to get engagement on TikTok.

dontbeonline • 1d ago
Journalist gets detained while doing her job #ForYou, #viral, #foryoupage, #tikto... more
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Dan Miller @meelar.bsky.social · 2d

That, plus the opportunity cost. If we have an extra $750m/yr for transit, free buses are a lower priority than better service.

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Shabazz Stuart @shabazzstuart.bsky.social · 2d

I actually thought this was satire. There are good, real grounded arguments against free busses.

Cuomo has picked (easily) the most nonsensical one.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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