Leif Hancox-Li, PhD
@struthious.bsky.social
Applied scientist working on LLM evaluation and publishing in AI ethics. Formerly: technical writing, philosophy. Urbanism nerd in my spare time. Opinions here my own. he/they 🏳️⚧️. https://boltzmann-brain.github.io/
finally summoned the motivation to replace the tube on my touring bike and only after wrangling the tire back on, trying to pump it up, trying a different pump which also didn't work, then trying both pumps on a different bike, did I realize that the presta valve on the new tube must be broken =/
November 15, 2025 at 9:11 PM
finally summoned the motivation to replace the tube on my touring bike and only after wrangling the tire back on, trying to pump it up, trying a different pump which also didn't work, then trying both pumps on a different bike, did I realize that the presta valve on the new tube must be broken =/
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You should build bike lanes for people who are not currently biking and build housing for people who don't currently live in your neighborhood.
November 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
You should build bike lanes for people who are not currently biking and build housing for people who don't currently live in your neighborhood.
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perfect because everyone will complain it’s in the way and it will end up getting destroyed
November 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
perfect because everyone will complain it’s in the way and it will end up getting destroyed
i should stop being angry about LA NIMBYs and just sit back and enjoy my home equity rising faster than it otherwise would, plus the unfair windfall from prop 13
November 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
i should stop being angry about LA NIMBYs and just sit back and enjoy my home equity rising faster than it otherwise would, plus the unfair windfall from prop 13
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in many states, the same procedures and treatments performed on intersex infants who are unable to consent have been banned for adolescents who want them and have parental permission
Restrictions on gender-affirming care for minors consistently allow exceptions for minors with intersex traits, a new study finds. www.statnews.com/2025/11/14/i...
Advocates decry intersex exceptions in trans health bans
Restrictions on gender-affirming care for minors consistently allow exceptions for minors with intersex traits, a new study finds.
www.statnews.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
in many states, the same procedures and treatments performed on intersex infants who are unable to consent have been banned for adolescents who want them and have parental permission
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I've been radicalized against "community" because of this tendency (as exemplified in that silly prisonculture story). Fuck community, give me the bureaucratic impersonal state that will protect unpopular individuals' rights *against* the community.
there's a tendency in parts of the left to believe that 'community' is the answer to everything but communities are often horrendous!
did not realize that prisonculture's "abolitionism" consists of believing that lynchings would be better if they were conducted at lilith fair
September 28, 2025 at 3:34 AM
I've been radicalized against "community" because of this tendency (as exemplified in that silly prisonculture story). Fuck community, give me the bureaucratic impersonal state that will protect unpopular individuals' rights *against* the community.
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I don't know how bad this is on the GOP side, but Democrats have a huge "club" problem. There are dozens of people I could name off the top of my head who have more to say about housing policy than Larry Summers but unfortunately, none of them are DC insiders.
NEW: Before the recent Epstein disclosures, Larry Summers was poised to lead the economic policy plank for the Democrats' "Project 2029" effort at the Center for American Progress. He signed off on a housing policy paper CAP was prepping for next week.
prospect.org/2025/11/14/e...
prospect.org/2025/11/14/e...
Epstein Confidant Larry Summers Guiding Democrats’ ‘Project 2029’ - The American Prospect
Summers was overseeing the economic policy plank of the Center for American Progress’s effort. Emails released this week show him in regular contact with Jeffrey Epstein.
prospect.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I don't know how bad this is on the GOP side, but Democrats have a huge "club" problem. There are dozens of people I could name off the top of my head who have more to say about housing policy than Larry Summers but unfortunately, none of them are DC insiders.
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Speaking only as a gay man, but I fucking hate the insinuation that to be truly Queer, I must also be a radical anarchust counter culture circus freak.
No I’m a Methodist church lady who wants to drive a Volvo and suck other dudes dicks!
No I’m a Methodist church lady who wants to drive a Volvo and suck other dudes dicks!
November 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Speaking only as a gay man, but I fucking hate the insinuation that to be truly Queer, I must also be a radical anarchust counter culture circus freak.
No I’m a Methodist church lady who wants to drive a Volvo and suck other dudes dicks!
No I’m a Methodist church lady who wants to drive a Volvo and suck other dudes dicks!
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you know what? fuck that. do any JOURNALISTS want to follow up on if THE HOUSE OFFICIAL DOWNLOAD REMOVING DOCUMENTS FROM THE EPSTEIN FILE RELEASE is newsworthy
@iwriteok.bsky.social @ryanlcooper.com
anyone who wants to tag more journos is welcome that's who i remember being active here
@iwriteok.bsky.social @ryanlcooper.com
anyone who wants to tag more journos is welcome that's who i remember being active here
November 14, 2025 at 5:21 PM
you know what? fuck that. do any JOURNALISTS want to follow up on if THE HOUSE OFFICIAL DOWNLOAD REMOVING DOCUMENTS FROM THE EPSTEIN FILE RELEASE is newsworthy
@iwriteok.bsky.social @ryanlcooper.com
anyone who wants to tag more journos is welcome that's who i remember being active here
@iwriteok.bsky.social @ryanlcooper.com
anyone who wants to tag more journos is welcome that's who i remember being active here
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@thenewjerseyer.bsky.social has unearthed a crazy nugget here, from an interview with incoming NJ governor Mikie Sherrill. She clearly says that she stopped talking about building new housing, even though she thinks it's a good idea, because most every voter she spoke to hated the idea!! (1/5)
November 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
@thenewjerseyer.bsky.social has unearthed a crazy nugget here, from an interview with incoming NJ governor Mikie Sherrill. She clearly says that she stopped talking about building new housing, even though she thinks it's a good idea, because most every voter she spoke to hated the idea!! (1/5)
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for example: we just watched Joyce Carol Oates break Elon Musk’s psyche into 20,000 wriggling maggot-like pieces, and she said nothing anyone could ever construe as a bannable threat in the process
also the self-censorship people on here just sound Iike naive children to me
you can in fact viciously and highly effective criticize evil people without giving them needless points of vulnerability to get you back with
you can in fact viciously and highly effective criticize evil people without giving them needless points of vulnerability to get you back with
November 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
for example: we just watched Joyce Carol Oates break Elon Musk’s psyche into 20,000 wriggling maggot-like pieces, and she said nothing anyone could ever construe as a bannable threat in the process
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Was sent this by a friend and thought of @carloshasanax.bsky.social on account of being about the cursed, tragic town of Cairo, IL.
Going to have to try the sauce, which sounds the very thing for a fatty cut of pork.
substack.com/@midwesterne...
Going to have to try the sauce, which sounds the very thing for a fatty cut of pork.
substack.com/@midwesterne...
The Last Barbecue Joint in Cairo
With a recipe for Cairo-style barbecue sauce
substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Was sent this by a friend and thought of @carloshasanax.bsky.social on account of being about the cursed, tragic town of Cairo, IL.
Going to have to try the sauce, which sounds the very thing for a fatty cut of pork.
substack.com/@midwesterne...
Going to have to try the sauce, which sounds the very thing for a fatty cut of pork.
substack.com/@midwesterne...
it's nuts that most cities don't have an office of economic analysis and that the state housing agency doesn't do economic analysis
November 14, 2025 at 3:38 AM
it's nuts that most cities don't have an office of economic analysis and that the state housing agency doesn't do economic analysis
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the idea of changing the law is so dead in america that the idea that something might be banned by statute rather than by arguing that it is already banned (in terms of water use, in terms of copyright) seems completely alien
November 14, 2025 at 2:57 AM
the idea of changing the law is so dead in america that the idea that something might be banned by statute rather than by arguing that it is already banned (in terms of water use, in terms of copyright) seems completely alien
I'm curious how much (if any) of pittsburgh's 'revival' in the last 25 years is due to large coastal cities becoming less attractive as places to live as the disparity in housing costs grew larger.
November 14, 2025 at 2:45 AM
I'm curious how much (if any) of pittsburgh's 'revival' in the last 25 years is due to large coastal cities becoming less attractive as places to live as the disparity in housing costs grew larger.
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Honestly if billionaires and diehard MAGA people only cared about making money, we'd probably be in considerably less danger right now.
November 13, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Honestly if billionaires and diehard MAGA people only cared about making money, we'd probably be in considerably less danger right now.
There’s a local bar that has imported German beer types that are hard to find in the US, and also brew their own German styles, but whenever I try to order stuff with actual German pronunciation (or at least more accurate than what most anglos would do) they don’t understand
November 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
There’s a local bar that has imported German beer types that are hard to find in the US, and also brew their own German styles, but whenever I try to order stuff with actual German pronunciation (or at least more accurate than what most anglos would do) they don’t understand
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post your guess about what this is about in the comments before you check
Because criticizing grammar is ableist bullshit most likely. You ARE an arrogant SOB.
Doubly so, given not a single part of your post follows traditional Western grammar rules.
Plebeian.
Doubly so, given not a single part of your post follows traditional Western grammar rules.
Plebeian.
November 13, 2025 at 2:00 AM
post your guess about what this is about in the comments before you check
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Kevin Kiley introducing a bill to ban partisan gerrymandering at the national level and desperately trying to become a Reasonable Bipartisan after Newsom deleted his district shows how you *acutally* uphold norms btw: you impost costs for breaking them
November 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Kevin Kiley introducing a bill to ban partisan gerrymandering at the national level and desperately trying to become a Reasonable Bipartisan after Newsom deleted his district shows how you *acutally* uphold norms btw: you impost costs for breaking them
This is how Yimbyism started out
My plan to be too weird, boring, and obscure to draw mass public interest is going swimmingly.
November 13, 2025 at 2:33 AM
This is how Yimbyism started out
I got a lava lamp, am I sufficiently queer now?
November 13, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I got a lava lamp, am I sufficiently queer now?
I have no idea why bikepgh shared this study 4 years after it was published, but anyways, the Forbes Ave protected bike lane in Oakland reduced motor traffic volumes, increased bicycle volumes by much more than motor traffic decreased, and decreased air pollution. ascelibrary.org/doi/full/10....
Societal Impacts of a Complete Street Project in a Mixed Urban Corridor: Case Study in Pittsburgh | Journal of Infrastructure Systems | Vol 27, No 2
AbstractComplete streets facilitate multimodal travel by improving both transportation access and safety by emphasizing the user, not the automobile. This case study evaluates the impacts of a complete street retrofit on a mixed urban corridor in ...
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November 12, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I have no idea why bikepgh shared this study 4 years after it was published, but anyways, the Forbes Ave protected bike lane in Oakland reduced motor traffic volumes, increased bicycle volumes by much more than motor traffic decreased, and decreased air pollution. ascelibrary.org/doi/full/10....
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The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed 4 years ago. In new research @urbaninstitute.bsky.social we study its effects.
US transport spending increased by 30%, but:
—Funding for non-highway projects flatlined
—Construction cost increases resulted in no actual increase in infrastructure
US transport spending increased by 30%, but:
—Funding for non-highway projects flatlined
—Construction cost increases resulted in no actual increase in infrastructure
Federal Infrastructure Spending on Transportation, Four Years after the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is up for reauthorization in 2026. New analysis shows that the act increased spending on transportation infrastructure, but…
www.urban.org
November 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed 4 years ago. In new research @urbaninstitute.bsky.social we study its effects.
US transport spending increased by 30%, but:
—Funding for non-highway projects flatlined
—Construction cost increases resulted in no actual increase in infrastructure
US transport spending increased by 30%, but:
—Funding for non-highway projects flatlined
—Construction cost increases resulted in no actual increase in infrastructure
communal dumpsters when ? 😭
This one is probably my favorite. I like how they lined them all up neatly in a row and then left the couch 😑
November 12, 2025 at 5:25 PM
communal dumpsters when ? 😭