Median Poster
@stealmyposts.bsky.social
Learner, HS Teacher, Reader of books, good and bad, Proud Marylander. Into urbanism and transit.
Contrarian by nuture. Determined optimist by nature.
Contrarian by nuture. Determined optimist by nature.
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The Council passed the University Boulevard Corridor Plan yesterday! 🎉
WIN! Montgomery County Council approves the University Blvd Corridor Plan - Coalition For Smarter Growth
On Tuesday, December 9, the Montgomery County Council voted to approve the University Boulevard Corridor Plan by a vote of 7-3. The plan creates a strong framework for safer streets, a wider variety o...
www.smartergrowth.net
December 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
The Council passed the University Boulevard Corridor Plan yesterday! 🎉
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Elite institutions: weak, decadent, fascist-curious
Grand and petit jurors: powerful, committed to civic duty, the shore upon which the authoritarian tide shall break
Grand and petit jurors: powerful, committed to civic duty, the shore upon which the authoritarian tide shall break
December 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Elite institutions: weak, decadent, fascist-curious
Grand and petit jurors: powerful, committed to civic duty, the shore upon which the authoritarian tide shall break
Grand and petit jurors: powerful, committed to civic duty, the shore upon which the authoritarian tide shall break
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Pediatricians reject CDC advisers’ guidance, plan to continue vaccinating all newborns against hepatitis B www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va... @lizszabo.bsky.social @cidrap.bsky.social
Pediatricians reject CDC advisers’ guidance, plan to continue vaccinating all newborns against hepatitis B
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Pediatricians reject CDC advisers’ guidance, plan to continue vaccinating all newborns against hepatitis B www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va... @lizszabo.bsky.social @cidrap.bsky.social
this.
Not speaking about anyone in particular here.
Generalizing.
But:
IM SO FUCKING TIRED OF HEARING “HOW TO FIX EDUCATION” FROM PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO IDEA WHAT GOES ON IN A CLASSROOM.
Generalizing.
But:
IM SO FUCKING TIRED OF HEARING “HOW TO FIX EDUCATION” FROM PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO IDEA WHAT GOES ON IN A CLASSROOM.
December 9, 2025 at 10:55 PM
this.
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We really are on the brink of a health golden age.
Blood cancer therapy reverses incurable leukaemia in some patients
Seven out of 11 patients with incurable cancer who had the treatment appear to be cancer-free.
www.bbc.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:43 AM
We really are on the brink of a health golden age.
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I'm developing a kind of cosmopolitan-chauvinism, I guess you could call it anti-feudalism, as a through line in my politics. The peasant-brained and the local landed gentry are the enemy. Sort of funny that this could describe being either rabidly capitalist or communist.
December 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I'm developing a kind of cosmopolitan-chauvinism, I guess you could call it anti-feudalism, as a through line in my politics. The peasant-brained and the local landed gentry are the enemy. Sort of funny that this could describe being either rabidly capitalist or communist.
I had a joke about elijah but it was smote with fire from the heavens
I had a joke about Jezebel, but my dog ate it.
I had a joke about Kohelet but eh, what's the point?
December 8, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I had a joke about elijah but it was smote with fire from the heavens
Alternative: broaden the sidewalks to 10 feet
I came across *the* example I have been hammering with these food delivery robots.
A man with a mobility aid is forced to step aside because there is not room for him because the robot will not make room for a person (esp. those with a mobility aid who need addditional room)
A man with a mobility aid is forced to step aside because there is not room for him because the robot will not make room for a person (esp. those with a mobility aid who need addditional room)
December 8, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Alternative: broaden the sidewalks to 10 feet
Manifesting socials covered with Crokett with "Gerrymander This" splash across it.
alternately "Don't Mess with Texas"
alternately "Don't Mess with Texas"
December 8, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Manifesting socials covered with Crokett with "Gerrymander This" splash across it.
alternately "Don't Mess with Texas"
alternately "Don't Mess with Texas"
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🧪What an impressive track record!
The introduction of vaccines to children caused a ~99% decrease in cases of whooping cough, measles, mumps, diphtheria, rubella & polio.
Via unbiasedscipod on IG
Sack the Quack
Impeach RFK Jr.
The introduction of vaccines to children caused a ~99% decrease in cases of whooping cough, measles, mumps, diphtheria, rubella & polio.
Via unbiasedscipod on IG
Sack the Quack
Impeach RFK Jr.
December 8, 2025 at 2:39 AM
🧪What an impressive track record!
The introduction of vaccines to children caused a ~99% decrease in cases of whooping cough, measles, mumps, diphtheria, rubella & polio.
Via unbiasedscipod on IG
Sack the Quack
Impeach RFK Jr.
The introduction of vaccines to children caused a ~99% decrease in cases of whooping cough, measles, mumps, diphtheria, rubella & polio.
Via unbiasedscipod on IG
Sack the Quack
Impeach RFK Jr.
I had a joke about Icarus but it melted under the sunlight
I had a joke about Narcissus but I took a long hard look at myself first
Yeah, my joke about Daedalus got a little too labyrinthine
December 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I had a joke about Icarus but it melted under the sunlight
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Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary.
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
Important notice: AI-generated archival references
www.icrc.org
December 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
I adore Elenar Roosevelt because she was my first biography and because she was the consience of the nation.
Eleanor Roosevelt's role in the country's politics during her tenure as first lady is quite underestimated in its influence. She was both astute and morally clear-eyed. @josephhillyard.bsky.social tells the story www.liberalcurrents.com/no-ordinary-...
No Ordinary Time
Eleanor Roosevelt remains a striking example of the struggle against authoritarianism in dark times.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I adore Elenar Roosevelt because she was my first biography and because she was the consience of the nation.
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One Laptop Per Child, 10 years later: "we find no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative effects on grade progression... computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills" www.nber.org/papers/w34495
Laptops in the Long Run: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program in Rural Peru
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
December 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
One Laptop Per Child, 10 years later: "we find no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative effects on grade progression... computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills" www.nber.org/papers/w34495
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Good morning to the @mcpllibraries.bsky.social Brigadier General Charles E McGee Library (Silver Spring), which will be the world's most #TransitLibrary* when the @purplelinemd.bsky.social opens at the end of 2027.
*says us
*says us
December 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Good morning to the @mcpllibraries.bsky.social Brigadier General Charles E McGee Library (Silver Spring), which will be the world's most #TransitLibrary* when the @purplelinemd.bsky.social opens at the end of 2027.
*says us
*says us
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As a neurosurgeon/scientist, I would agree
December 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
As a neurosurgeon/scientist, I would agree
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Big Government Good
December 7, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Big Government Good
Mass deportations will jack up the prices of all new construction and leave you slowly rotting as your 1960's house decays around you as Mexico rebuilds with cheap labor
Anyone who tells you that mass deportations are a solution to the housing crisis is lying to you.
December 6, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Mass deportations will jack up the prices of all new construction and leave you slowly rotting as your 1960's house decays around you as Mexico rebuilds with cheap labor
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I’ve been writing about kei cars and minicars for years, and I’d be thrilled to see them legalized in the US. But I suspect this story/White House announcement is less than meets the eye.
Legalizing minicars is a heavy regulatory/political lift, not a “flip the switch” kind of change.
Quick 🧵
Legalizing minicars is a heavy regulatory/political lift, not a “flip the switch” kind of change.
Quick 🧵
Trump Wants Asia’s ‘Cute’ Kei Cars to be Made and Sold in US
President Donald Trump, apparently enamored by the pint-size kei cars he saw during his recent trip to Japan, has paved the way for them to be made and sold in the US, despite concerns they’re too sma...
www.bloomberg.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I’ve been writing about kei cars and minicars for years, and I’d be thrilled to see them legalized in the US. But I suspect this story/White House announcement is less than meets the eye.
Legalizing minicars is a heavy regulatory/political lift, not a “flip the switch” kind of change.
Quick 🧵
Legalizing minicars is a heavy regulatory/political lift, not a “flip the switch” kind of change.
Quick 🧵
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Nerd humor coming your way 😂
December 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Nerd humor coming your way 😂
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Bad framing: ACIP voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns.
Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.
Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.
December 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Bad framing: ACIP voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns.
Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.
Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.
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Surprising finding could pave way for universal cancer vaccine
news.ufl.edu/2025/07/univ...
news.ufl.edu/2025/07/univ...
Surprising finding could pave way for universal cancer vaccine
An mRNA vaccine boosted the effectiveness of immune therapy for cancer in mice.
news.ufl.edu
December 5, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Surprising finding could pave way for universal cancer vaccine
news.ufl.edu/2025/07/univ...
news.ufl.edu/2025/07/univ...