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Want to walk more without trying? Move here Researchers found that walkable city design—not personal motivation—was the key factor behind people taking 1,100 more steps per day

🚶🏾‍♂️Walking 1,100 extra steps a day doesn’t require more willpower—it just requires better city design. 🏙️

When our streets are interesting and walkable, we exercise "by accident." Design matters for our health! 🚶🏾‍♂️
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Very happy to announce that The Chadha Presidency is now forthcoming in the @georgetownlj.bsky.social! ssrn.com/abstract=536...

I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center:

If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.

Shaina Taub's Suffs to Air on PBS' Great Performances in May The broadcaster will also air Kathleen Marshall's staging of the Irving Berlin musical Top Hat .

SUFFS HAS A PBS AIR DATE!!!!

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Went to watch a Tokyo train jingle video (yes.. I’m a nerd) and all the ads were for right wing issues. I feel like the ads are targeting the wrong audience…

When the CIA did this to the Senate it was one of the biggest intel scandals of the 21st century. But here it’s not just a huge scandal, it’s dumb: Pam Bondi is so bad at her job she brought the evidence herself to an open congressional hearing. www.theguardian.com/world/2014/j...

as a college football guy, i know this might sound funny to say but: the very stiff jingoistic paegeantry for the super bowl is so ridiculous.

welcome to the final football thread of 25-26.

Proper weights are important for both

Watched the new Muppet Show episode and I really enjoyed it! The humor felt like the original show. And Sabrina Carpenter was absolutely perfect for it. She achieved the dream so many of us queers hope for, to perform with Miss Piggy.

There’s so much going on today I haven’t even fully been able to process that Bobby Hauck is out at Montana

What is this map lol

Stop Work Order Issued to Children Building Igloo Without Permit TAKOMA PARK, MD – A group of local children building an igloo were issued an immediate stop work order Tuesday after Montgomery County officials responded to anonymous online complaints that …

“One of them said, ‘We're just trying to have some fun.’ I'm sorry, Billy, but there’s nothing fun about structural deficiencies.”

“Whatever call we make about schools somebody is mad, so we have to use our best judgement,” says Bowser, speaking the truest truth ever spoken. (People on a DCPS group I’m a part of are currently mad that schools will reopen tomorrow.)

NEW: Snow showers could put down a coating between 3 and 8p TODAY, coinciding with pm rush

* Hit-or-miss snow showers/flurries
* What falls will stick
* Starts 3-4p in western areas, 4-5p around Beltway, exits 8p
* Could cause travel delays

More info: www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

and by the way, i’m not just saying this as rhetoric. that is actually what the numbers are, and i’m qualified to say that, as someone in the field

I’m so happy with all the snow! Winter is the best season. (Shoveling the snow wasn’t too too bad either.)

Awesome news: Trinity Rodman is staying with the Washington Spirit!

Me going to call my representative and remembering that I live in DC which famously lacks voting representation so we just get to keep watching things happen in Congress out of our control

UKMet: 15-plus inches European model: 12 to 13 inches (primary simulation) | 10 to 11 inches (system average) Canadian and German models: 10 to 11 inches European AI model: 9 to 10 inches (primary simulation) | 11 to 12 inches (system average) American AI model: 8 to 9 inches (primary simulation) | 10 to 11 inches (system average) American model: 8 inches (primary simulation) | 9 to 10 inches (system average)

Models have the snowiest signal we’ve seen in a while -- several suites even hitting double digits for DC. ❄️

Trend: snowier, odds of significant accumulation rising.

Caveat: 4–5 days out and multiple disturbances interacting. Still room for a shift.

❄️ Promising | ⚠️ Not locked in | 📅 Stay tuned

If Indiana wins tonight, Curt Cignetti will have more national titles than Bobby Hauck.

That actually reads weird thinking about it.

The placeholder bill + rule + related discharge petition remains one of the more interesting procedural innovations of last two congresses.

amtrak cost starlight advertisement sign, it reads: come rediscover one of the world's most scenic travel experiences the journey begins mid-2008

this sign is old enough to vote lmao

see also: my touching faith that surely this will be the Amtrak ride during which I tire of just staring out the window

It's the first legislative week of the year, and the House AND the Senate have both seen successful motions to discharge a committee. The 119th Congress, everyone.

Never going to opt for ignorance, but one of my least favorite of myriad current psychological threats is the implication that you are a bad person if you don’t watch the latest graphic video of violent murder

Hey Bluesky lovelies,
I launched this campaign over on Instagram @mr_jrt, but wanted to do it here too since some of yall had expressed interest in my bakes. I’m raising $$ for the AIDS Foundation Chicago, and if you donate a certain amount and are in the US, I’ll ship you cookies! More in the vid:

This is absolutely a huge problem in protest culture and it’s a major obstacle to allowing protests to grow. People are turning up to protests to fight Trump, ICE, recent abuses. Invariably the speakers are going off about 200 years of stolen land or US imperialism, and many of those people leave.

on 4th and 10 in OT, Taco Dowler scores and the XP gives Montana St the win

FCS national championship was the college football game of the year. Congrats to Montana State and if you're an Illinois State fan I am so so so so so so so so so so so sorry

MONTANA STATE ARE YOUR 2025 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!