James Longhurst
@jameslonghurst.bsky.social
college professor in the U.S. Midwest (all views mine); author of "Bike Battles: A History of Sharing the American Road" / "Las Batallas de la Bici." Shop intern, historian of urban and environmental policy, gravel grinder.
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Bike Battles
Americans have been riding bikes for more than a century now. So why are most American cities still so ill-prepared to handle cyclists? James Longhurst, a hi...
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Oh hey, many new followers because of the bike community starter pack. Hello, I'm James Longhurst, a historian of urban and environmental policy. I wrote about the history of bike policy in the United States a few years ago; available from @uwapress.bsky.social
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Law reviews: sure a 100-page article with 200+ numbered footnotes and a 30-word title is fine with us, no problem, we have plenty of room
Bluebook style: NO YOU CAN'T HAVE ANY MORE ROOM FOR CITATIONS, that journal or reporter ONLY be written as Loy. U. N.O. Intell. Prop. & High Tech. J.
Bluebook style: NO YOU CAN'T HAVE ANY MORE ROOM FOR CITATIONS, that journal or reporter ONLY be written as Loy. U. N.O. Intell. Prop. & High Tech. J.
November 19, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Law reviews: sure a 100-page article with 200+ numbered footnotes and a 30-word title is fine with us, no problem, we have plenty of room
Bluebook style: NO YOU CAN'T HAVE ANY MORE ROOM FOR CITATIONS, that journal or reporter ONLY be written as Loy. U. N.O. Intell. Prop. & High Tech. J.
Bluebook style: NO YOU CAN'T HAVE ANY MORE ROOM FOR CITATIONS, that journal or reporter ONLY be written as Loy. U. N.O. Intell. Prop. & High Tech. J.
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they should invent a Microsoft Word where you can format the document according to your wishes
November 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
they should invent a Microsoft Word where you can format the document according to your wishes
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You would think they would at least need to *see* the ham sandwich.
November 19, 2025 at 4:43 PM
You would think they would at least need to *see* the ham sandwich.
everybody talking about "piggy" and that is understandable, but I'm really perplexed by "insubordinate." gonna think a long time about that. that's terrifying.
www.azcentral.com/story/entert...
www.azcentral.com/story/entert...
I've watched Trump for a long time. Nothing shocks. Then he defended a murderer | Opinion
President Donald Trump held an Oval Office meeting with the Saudi prince suspected of having journalist Jamal Khashoggi killed. What he said floored me.
www.azcentral.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
everybody talking about "piggy" and that is understandable, but I'm really perplexed by "insubordinate." gonna think a long time about that. that's terrifying.
www.azcentral.com/story/entert...
www.azcentral.com/story/entert...
Did Evers just “listen Linda” on here?
Listen, Linda. It’s pretty simple—you don’t have the power to do that.
This plan gets an “F” from me.
This plan gets an “F” from me.
November 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Did Evers just “listen Linda” on here?
"To Have and Have Not" (1944) is . . . bad? It's famous for Bogie and a too-young Bacall meeting, but the rest of it is . . . not good. A logy plot that Faulkner had adopted out of fragments of a Hemingway script and Hawks chopped further, this ends up feeling like a pointless copy of Casablanca.
November 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
"To Have and Have Not" (1944) is . . . bad? It's famous for Bogie and a too-young Bacall meeting, but the rest of it is . . . not good. A logy plot that Faulkner had adopted out of fragments of a Hemingway script and Hawks chopped further, this ends up feeling like a pointless copy of Casablanca.
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Nobody asks dolls what all the flim flam's about anymore
November 18, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Nobody asks dolls what all the flim flam's about anymore
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You want Scandal Guys? Chinese history's got Scandal Guys...
Meet Yingzong (朱祁镇, Zhu Qizhen), the 5th & 7th *or* 6th & 8th emperor of the Ming Dynasty [r. 1435-49, 57-64 CE].
You can probably already see that this is something of a tangled mess already. That's not going to improve...
1/17
Meet Yingzong (朱祁镇, Zhu Qizhen), the 5th & 7th *or* 6th & 8th emperor of the Ming Dynasty [r. 1435-49, 57-64 CE].
You can probably already see that this is something of a tangled mess already. That's not going to improve...
1/17
November 18, 2025 at 7:42 AM
You want Scandal Guys? Chinese history's got Scandal Guys...
Meet Yingzong (朱祁镇, Zhu Qizhen), the 5th & 7th *or* 6th & 8th emperor of the Ming Dynasty [r. 1435-49, 57-64 CE].
You can probably already see that this is something of a tangled mess already. That's not going to improve...
1/17
Meet Yingzong (朱祁镇, Zhu Qizhen), the 5th & 7th *or* 6th & 8th emperor of the Ming Dynasty [r. 1435-49, 57-64 CE].
You can probably already see that this is something of a tangled mess already. That's not going to improve...
1/17
Sounds like a plan!
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Sounds like a plan!
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"The Court recognizes that a failure to seek a new warrant under these circumstances is highly unusual." Law-knowers, is it good when the judge says this about the government's case? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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November 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
"The Court recognizes that a failure to seek a new warrant under these circumstances is highly unusual." Law-knowers, is it good when the judge says this about the government's case? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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always exciting to find out what fresh hell awaits us this week
November 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
always exciting to find out what fresh hell awaits us this week
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The central problem that emerged in Episode 1 of Ken Burns's new documentary about the American Revolution is that while he wants to integrate a wide range of voices and the historians responsible for this broader perspective, he refuses to allow it to disrupt a traditional and familiar narrative. 🗃️
November 17, 2025 at 11:48 AM
The central problem that emerged in Episode 1 of Ken Burns's new documentary about the American Revolution is that while he wants to integrate a wide range of voices and the historians responsible for this broader perspective, he refuses to allow it to disrupt a traditional and familiar narrative. 🗃️
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Very disappointed none of you told me that Lewis Mumford made a 1963 film about car dependency, and it's available on YouTube.
"The motor car inflates our private ego, proclaims our social status, and provides us with the illusion of freedom and power."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIKZ...
"The motor car inflates our private ego, proclaims our social status, and provides us with the illusion of freedom and power."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIKZ...
November 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Very disappointed none of you told me that Lewis Mumford made a 1963 film about car dependency, and it's available on YouTube.
"The motor car inflates our private ego, proclaims our social status, and provides us with the illusion of freedom and power."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIKZ...
"The motor car inflates our private ego, proclaims our social status, and provides us with the illusion of freedom and power."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIKZ...
77 miles of gravel and I ran out of daylight again.
November 16, 2025 at 7:12 PM
77 miles of gravel and I ran out of daylight again.
What does it say about me that, out of all the spam texts, this is the one I almost responded to?
November 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
What does it say about me that, out of all the spam texts, this is the one I almost responded to?
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The World Character Summit 2025 in Hanyu City today
November 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The World Character Summit 2025 in Hanyu City today
Oh I figured out my Rushmore of this trope: Lockjaw, Kilgore, Quaritch, Bovino.
It's partially not fair because Colonel Miles Quaritch is just a multi-generational xerox of Kilgore, and Bovino is not an actor in a film, per se.
It's partially not fair because Colonel Miles Quaritch is just a multi-generational xerox of Kilgore, and Bovino is not an actor in a film, per se.
November 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Oh I figured out my Rushmore of this trope: Lockjaw, Kilgore, Quaritch, Bovino.
It's partially not fair because Colonel Miles Quaritch is just a multi-generational xerox of Kilgore, and Bovino is not an actor in a film, per se.
It's partially not fair because Colonel Miles Quaritch is just a multi-generational xerox of Kilgore, and Bovino is not an actor in a film, per se.
screw this I'm going for a (late fall) ride
November 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
screw this I'm going for a (late fall) ride
I've been thinking about Sean Penn's *wild* role as Col. Steven J. Lockjaw in "One Battle After Another" as a type: a dark comedy representation of violence-addled field commander, sinewy and tense and mad? Col. Lockjaw, Col. Guano, General Turgidson, Col. Kilgore?
November 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I've been thinking about Sean Penn's *wild* role as Col. Steven J. Lockjaw in "One Battle After Another" as a type: a dark comedy representation of violence-addled field commander, sinewy and tense and mad? Col. Lockjaw, Col. Guano, General Turgidson, Col. Kilgore?
(gets out of meeting)
academia was a mistake; faculty and students should never have bound together in legally-recognized status with medieval towns in a guild-like relationship. we should let students drink as much as they want and not stop them from skipping out on debt with local tavern keepers.
academia was a mistake; faculty and students should never have bound together in legally-recognized status with medieval towns in a guild-like relationship. we should let students drink as much as they want and not stop them from skipping out on debt with local tavern keepers.
November 14, 2025 at 9:31 PM
(gets out of meeting)
academia was a mistake; faculty and students should never have bound together in legally-recognized status with medieval towns in a guild-like relationship. we should let students drink as much as they want and not stop them from skipping out on debt with local tavern keepers.
academia was a mistake; faculty and students should never have bound together in legally-recognized status with medieval towns in a guild-like relationship. we should let students drink as much as they want and not stop them from skipping out on debt with local tavern keepers.
okay anybody got any idea how I can turn off this copilot button that just appeared on the bottom right of my MS Word for Mac ( Version 16.103)?
November 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
okay anybody got any idea how I can turn off this copilot button that just appeared on the bottom right of my MS Word for Mac ( Version 16.103)?
recommended.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:29 PM
recommended.
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