SubGothius
@subgothius.bsky.social
Webmaster in Tucson, Arizona
Schooled in Green Bay & Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Born & raised in Lincoln, Nebraska
Schooled in Green Bay & Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Born & raised in Lincoln, Nebraska
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SubGothius
@subgothius.bsky.social
· Jan 20
In the days to come, remember who you are & what you stand for—your values, principles & ideals. As an abiding, born & raised Unitarian Universalist, this is what matters to me:
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I've been waiting for someone to write a deep dive on how US Fire Departments get in the way of denser housing and safer streets.
New post: a week of hectic back and forth with fire officials and city council over Berkeley street festivals brings out into the open a conflict in city halls across USA. Fire depts opposition to traffic calming and safety measures. Is there a solution?
darrellowens.substack.com/p/the-fire-d...
darrellowens.substack.com/p/the-fire-d...
The Fire Department vs. Traffic Safety Advocates
Street safety advocates are butting heads with fire officials. Swift fire response does not have to come at the cost of lives on the roadway.
darrellowens.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I've been waiting for someone to write a deep dive on how US Fire Departments get in the way of denser housing and safer streets.
"A head of state using prosecutorial powers to target their enemies is not a new idea. It is one of the oldest abuses in human government."
We have spent more than 1,000 years trying to separate the awesome prosecutorial powers of the state from the personal whims and vendettas of the head of state.
Trump’s actions and ideology seek to reverse those gains.
Here’s the history he’d like to reverse www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-oldest...
Trump’s actions and ideology seek to reverse those gains.
Here’s the history he’d like to reverse www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-oldest...
The oldest abuse in human government
Donald Trump and the ‘king’s justice’
www.ifyoucankeepit.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:37 AM
"A head of state using prosecutorial powers to target their enemies is not a new idea. It is one of the oldest abuses in human government."
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“I don’t agree with trans people in society.”
“OK, well trans people do exist in society, but I respect your right to your beliefs so much I’m willing to move you out of society for as long as you hold those beliefs. What? You thought we should’ve moved them out? Why? These aren’t THEIR beliefs.”
“OK, well trans people do exist in society, but I respect your right to your beliefs so much I’m willing to move you out of society for as long as you hold those beliefs. What? You thought we should’ve moved them out? Why? These aren’t THEIR beliefs.”
November 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
“I don’t agree with trans people in society.”
“OK, well trans people do exist in society, but I respect your right to your beliefs so much I’m willing to move you out of society for as long as you hold those beliefs. What? You thought we should’ve moved them out? Why? These aren’t THEIR beliefs.”
“OK, well trans people do exist in society, but I respect your right to your beliefs so much I’m willing to move you out of society for as long as you hold those beliefs. What? You thought we should’ve moved them out? Why? These aren’t THEIR beliefs.”
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Republicans want you to think they’re steely-eyed realists
They’re actually just assholes
They’re actually just assholes
November 30, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Republicans want you to think they’re steely-eyed realists
They’re actually just assholes
They’re actually just assholes
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I wanted to find out when the deformation "dagnabbit" was coined and wound up finding out that "bear" is the same kind of word, used because you're too scared to invoke the actual thing
The Long Linguistic Journey to 'Dagnabbit'
This piece of pseudo-profanity is what's known as a taboo deformation—a word we say when we don't want to say the word.
www.atlasobscura.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I wanted to find out when the deformation "dagnabbit" was coined and wound up finding out that "bear" is the same kind of word, used because you're too scared to invoke the actual thing
I don't call it Home Despot just for shiggles.
Shop Lowe's instead.
Shop Lowe's instead.
🧵 Lowe's CEO, one of 8 Black Fortune 500 CEOs, stands firm on DEI.
"Championing Diversity Through Action: Ellison’s approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is rooted in practical change rather than public statements"
Home Depot, meanwhile, allows ICE agents to raid its parking lots.
"Championing Diversity Through Action: Ellison’s approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is rooted in practical change rather than public statements"
Home Depot, meanwhile, allows ICE agents to raid its parking lots.
November 29, 2025 at 7:38 AM
I don't call it Home Despot just for shiggles.
Shop Lowe's instead.
Shop Lowe's instead.
TL;DR: Always always always appeal a denied claim & request an external review.
Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.
Here’s what experts say you need to know.
Here’s what experts say you need to know.
This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It.
When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...
www.propublica.org
November 28, 2025 at 6:11 AM
TL;DR: Always always always appeal a denied claim & request an external review.
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Started / Going
November 27, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Started / Going
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Our first foray into messaging research for trans folks, we did focus groups asking all sorts of people: have you ever felt trapped/expected to act certain way bc of something about you? This opened the flood gates. /1
November 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Our first foray into messaging research for trans folks, we did focus groups asking all sorts of people: have you ever felt trapped/expected to act certain way bc of something about you? This opened the flood gates. /1
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Way back in 2018 I did a walking tour of Vancouver with @brenttoderian.bsky.social and he explained how that city overcame this problem. You need family-sized units & also, crucially, *good urban schools*.
Young families typically leave cities for the suburbs. Here’s how to keep them downtown.
Urbanist Brent Toderian explains how Vancouver held onto its families.
www.vox.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Way back in 2018 I did a walking tour of Vancouver with @brenttoderian.bsky.social and he explained how that city overcame this problem. You need family-sized units & also, crucially, *good urban schools*.
Better & simpler than ranked-choice voting
We are often asked, where Approval Voting has been used... that's easy! We have detailed reports always available at https://approval.vote/
Check it out!
Check it out!
November 27, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Better & simpler than ranked-choice voting
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90% of the responses: "It's not about our public safety lies. It's just the fact they're here illegally." But that's a lie too! They're canceling millions of people's status. Every other week, it's 100K more stripped of status. FFS they're even trying to deport US-born children!
NEW data I've received: Just 5% of people detained by ICE since October 1 have had violent criminal convictions, 3/4 had no criminal convictions at all. Most "criminals" had immigration, traffic, and vice offenses. Not the "worst of the worst"...
November 27, 2025 at 1:33 AM
90% of the responses: "It's not about our public safety lies. It's just the fact they're here illegally." But that's a lie too! They're canceling millions of people's status. Every other week, it's 100K more stripped of status. FFS they're even trying to deport US-born children!
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There are so many different reasons to believe that LLMs cannot have beliefs, cannot know anything, cannot reason and cannot be a form of intelligence.
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
There are so many different reasons to believe that LLMs cannot have beliefs, cannot know anything, cannot reason and cannot be a form of intelligence.
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This is so so good
If Carl von Clausewitz were to advise Secretary Rubio on peace in Ukraine, he might say something like this: lnk.thebulwark.com/4pzTkrK
A Letter from Clausewitz to Secretary Rubio
Channeling the author of ‘On War’ on the U.S. pursuit of peace in Ukraine.
lnk.thebulwark.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:34 AM
This is so so good
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear."
~Nemik's manifesto, Andor
~Nemik's manifesto, Andor
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 25, 2025 at 6:54 AM
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear."
~Nemik's manifesto, Andor
~Nemik's manifesto, Andor
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And I do think, to anticipate a Q, that the general sense of social dislocation & uncertainty is increasing. In large part this is what reactionary politics is reacting to. It promises a return to clearly defined hierarchies, to clarity, to *certainty*. "In our world, you'll understand your place."
November 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
And I do think, to anticipate a Q, that the general sense of social dislocation & uncertainty is increasing. In large part this is what reactionary politics is reacting to. It promises a return to clearly defined hierarchies, to clarity, to *certainty*. "In our world, you'll understand your place."
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NEW data I've received: Just 5% of people detained by ICE since October 1 have had violent criminal convictions, 3/4 had no criminal convictions at all. Most "criminals" had immigration, traffic, and vice offenses. Not the "worst of the worst"...
November 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM
NEW data I've received: Just 5% of people detained by ICE since October 1 have had violent criminal convictions, 3/4 had no criminal convictions at all. Most "criminals" had immigration, traffic, and vice offenses. Not the "worst of the worst"...
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what was it that you did here exactly?
A DOGE Exit Interview
It’s the agency’s turn to send a pointless, time-consuming email explaining its accomplishments.
www.theatlantic.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:08 AM
what was it that you did here exactly?
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November 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Some of us have been advocating this going back since chatGPT launched. It also has other benefits: correcting someone else's work is actually a really good way to learn something yourself.
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Some of us have been advocating this going back since chatGPT launched. It also has other benefits: correcting someone else's work is actually a really good way to learn something yourself.
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European counter plan to the Russian authored Trump Ukraine surrender plan.
November 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
European counter plan to the Russian authored Trump Ukraine surrender plan.
Because of course they are, so of course he did.
American minds were poisoned and conned by propaganda on Twitter.
November 23, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Because of course they are, so of course he did.