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robjackel.bsky.social @robjackel.bsky.social · 33m

I tried it for the first time just now and it read my mind and I don't know how it did that.

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robjackel.bsky.social @robjackel.bsky.social · 56m

True for many of us!

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robjackel.bsky.social @robjackel.bsky.social · 1h

They're asking us to wear yellow on Saturday. Intentionally setting that stage.

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robjackel.bsky.social @robjackel.bsky.social · 1h

We need to get preliminary studies/engineering done fast enough that a change in the party in power doesn't repeatedly kill big projects.

Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 3h

Why do US infrastructure projects cost so much & take so long?

Consider the Hudson rail tunnel:
1995—Studies
2009—Construction
2010—NJ Gov Christie kills it
2011—Project relaunch
2015—Fed support
2017—GOP Congress kills funding
2021/22—Biden funds it
2023—Construction
2025—Trump claims to cancel it

Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 12h

Trump announced today, seemingly at random, that he is cancelling fed funding for Gateway Tunnel, a tunnel for intercity & commuter trains under the Hudson River.

The motivation for the cancellation—which is likely to be contested—appears to be purely the president’s hatred of Sen Schumer.

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robjackel.bsky.social @robjackel.bsky.social · 3h

Everyone in Philly should come!

Noah Levine @internetwebsiteofnoah.com · 3h

I am proud to say I will be at the No Kings protest on Saturday in Philly.

I hope you will join me! If you support the event but are not planning to come, please help spread the word.

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Blue Bear @321steve.bsky.social · 17h

Here is a map to the NO KINGS protests.
www.nokings.org#map

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 21h

Fossilized Northeast Democratic machines running sclerotic candidates is going to be the death of America

City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 21h

"NJ Governor's Race: Sherrill 50%, Ciattarelli 44%, Quinnipiac University New Jersey Poll Finds; Ciattarelli Holds Edge On Enthusiasm" -- poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

NJ Governor's Race: Sherrill 50%, Ciattarelli 44%, Quinnipiac University New Jersey Poll Finds; Ciattarelli Holds Edge On Enthusiasm | Quinnipiac University Poll

"While Jack Ciattarelli holds a fairly solid eleven percentage point lead among male voters, Mikie Sherrill has nearly double that lead with female voters," said Quinnipiac University Polling Analys...

poll.qu.edu

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robjackel.bsky.social @robjackel.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not agreeing with this person! It's dumb! But I don't think they recognize what they're doing as defrauding - certainly they're not claiming they jump turnstiles themselves.

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robjackel.bsky.social @robjackel.bsky.social · 1d

This is a tricky one in part because lots of prominent lefty politicians also advocate for free transit (busses, anyway). Like, I don't think there are people advocating for social security fraud.

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robjackel.bsky.social @robjackel.bsky.social · 1d

Wait, where do they say the latter?

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Daniel Trubman @danieltrubman.bsky.social · 1d

How many times would you wait an extra 2 hours to get home because SEPTA can't keep trains running and evening service is atrocious before you permanently gave up on Regional Rail?

Ongoing collapse will depress ridership for decades, even if things quickly improve (they won't).

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robjackel.bsky.social @robjackel.bsky.social · 1d

Reminded once again of John Ganz's Jock/Creep theory of Fascism.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

robjackel.bsky.social @robjackel.bsky.social · 1d

Reminded of the plans in PHilly to replace South St/Bainbridge with an interstate, and to do the same for for 52nd.

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robjackel.bsky.social @robjackel.bsky.social · 2d

This is quite a subtweet.

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robjackel.bsky.social @robjackel.bsky.social · 2d

Submit it to the list!

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885 Greatest Cover Songs Countdown - WXPN | Vinyl At Heart

What makes agreat cover song? The ones that flip the script, turn a classic inside out, or breathe new life into a tune you thought you knew best. This fall, listeners help build the list of the 885 G...

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Adam Halls @adamhalls.bsky.social · 2d

Illyana's storyline had a perfect ending in Inferno and her dying of the legacy virus was a good use of a character with no more stories to tell. Bringing her back cheapens her original perfect arc and nothing they have done with the character since has justified it.

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robjackel.bsky.social @robjackel.bsky.social · 2d

The 34 is truly the raccoon of urban transit lines.

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Friz(ombie!) @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 2d

STATLER; "This funeral is so boring, I'm jealous of the guy in the coffin! Ah ha ha ha ha!"
[Statler turns to the empty chair next to him and sheds one tear]

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

You're living through one of the biggest technological transformations in world history and it has nothing to do with AI

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 3d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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robjackel.bsky.social @robjackel.bsky.social · 2d

I read the Tom Bombadil chapter to my son *tonight* and yes it both feels super important and it's annoying as hell that Ned Flanders just shows up for a bit.

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robjackel.bsky.social @robjackel.bsky.social · 5d

There are days where I tell myself "ok, we're working on the table of authorities and double checking citations"

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robjackel.bsky.social @robjackel.bsky.social · 6d

For a lot of kids it's whatever costume they're selling at the store.

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robjackel.bsky.social @robjackel.bsky.social · 6d

I was on and saw you speak. Well done!

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robjackel.bsky.social @robjackel.bsky.social · 6d

Perfectly acceptable for a weird hippie drifter in 1995 to say this shit, but now we have billionaire tech CEOs going off on it too.

Panel from the invisibles where a weird hippie hitchhiker goes on about AI and how humans will evolve to spiritual realm while the machines take our place.

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robjackel.bsky.social @robjackel.bsky.social · 6d

A perfect prediction of how old people would complain about the youngs in the future.

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