HellaBoris
@borisbikes.bsky.social
For liveable spaces with less cars. Against cruelty. For inclusiveness. Outdoor enthusiast.
Big win for NYC. I’m looking forward to (even) more enjoyable Manhattan visits. Too bad for 47.
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
December 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Big win for NYC. I’m looking forward to (even) more enjoyable Manhattan visits. Too bad for 47.
It’s taken me years to figure it out but this is exactly the case and has been for long time.
There is no batshit far-right idea that the NYT's "reasonable" conservatives will not launder into polite discourse.
November 18, 2025 at 2:33 AM
It’s taken me years to figure it out but this is exactly the case and has been for long time.
Great movie!
FRANKENSTEIN is on NETFLIX but- still in many theatres- please consult your local listings and choose your watch/rewatch preference!
Where do I even begin? Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social has created an absolute masterpiece. I only wish I’d had the chance to experience it on the big screen. The story of Frankenstein has been told countless times, but never like this.
November 8, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Great movie!
F*in unamerican www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...
Opinion | ‘1984’ Hasn’t Changed, but America Has
www.nytimes.com
July 28, 2025 at 3:42 AM
F*in unamerican www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...
I feel like most of America has not seen this. Searching for it on the web yields little, in my limited experience.
July 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I feel like most of America has not seen this. Searching for it on the web yields little, in my limited experience.
Imagine… it’s easy if you try.
Imagine if the Democratic Party actually helped Zohran instead of trying to kneecap him at every step. A better party is immediately possible if they stop shoving money into the anti-trans combination Racism Dial/Money Toilet and instead get behind candidates people actually want.
June 25, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Imagine… it’s easy if you try.
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the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states
June 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states
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April 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Shocking
Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.
June 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Shocking
Yup
June 15, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Yup
keeping up with the madness at home while in Berlin. Extra weird.
June 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM
keeping up with the madness at home while in Berlin. Extra weird.
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This is correct. Sorry for taking 3500 words to say it
tl;dr — is this correct?
1) Post 2008, hedge funds are the source of market liquidity
2) Hedge funds have to unwind their positions/mitigate risk quickly when things go badly; "badly" includes periods of high volatility
4) Trump = volatility = no way to escape a liquidity crisis
1) Post 2008, hedge funds are the source of market liquidity
2) Hedge funds have to unwind their positions/mitigate risk quickly when things go badly; "badly" includes periods of high volatility
4) Trump = volatility = no way to escape a liquidity crisis
April 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This is correct. Sorry for taking 3500 words to say it
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A grim detail in this story is that university officials are doing *daily monitoring* to see which students have had their visas revoked. Federal officials never informed the schools.
US revokes more Mass. university student visas as schools offer support
The visas of 17 students at two universities in Massachusetts have been revoked by the federal government this week.
www.masslive.com
April 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
A grim detail in this story is that university officials are doing *daily monitoring* to see which students have had their visas revoked. Federal officials never informed the schools.
Very good, long read that illustrates the problems with making stuff in the USA from a bike company POV, but it’s generalizable. We don’t want to work low wage factory jobs yet we have still been an innovative and productive country, despite all the BS doomsaying from the current regime.
This is a long read and a really good deep dive into how one small bike manufacturing company is preparing to navigate tariffs. For them right now, the only certainty is uncertainty.
Tariffs! So what now? – Rodeo Adventure Labs, LLC
www.rodeo-labs.com
April 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Very good, long read that illustrates the problems with making stuff in the USA from a bike company POV, but it’s generalizable. We don’t want to work low wage factory jobs yet we have still been an innovative and productive country, despite all the BS doomsaying from the current regime.
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Ohh "America First" was a hit list
April 3, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Ohh "America First" was a hit list
tombstones and skyscrapers
March 30, 2025 at 1:28 AM
tombstones and skyscrapers
It IS happening here. not hypothetical anymore. First amendment and fourth amendment rights violations, to begin with.
The "Is it a constitutional crisis yet?!" discussion is so absurd: Of course you can construct increasingly esoteric definitions for why this current moment doesn't meet your exact criteria yet. But meanwhile, this is where we are: Masked agents of the states abducting people for writing op-eds.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
It IS happening here. not hypothetical anymore. First amendment and fourth amendment rights violations, to begin with.
yo babe, look at me
March 26, 2025 at 5:07 AM
yo babe, look at me
this is the new America, pariah nation
When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.
March 26, 2025 at 4:50 AM
this is the new America, pariah nation
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Was just reading John Quincy Adams' oral arguments before SCOTUS in the Amistad case and this part seems, uh, pretty relevant
March 26, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Was just reading John Quincy Adams' oral arguments before SCOTUS in the Amistad case and this part seems, uh, pretty relevant