James Longhurst

King and 9th. I’ve already put in a 311 request.

A crumpled street sign has been knocked to the ground. It had a black arrow on a white background saying keep right and a black arrow. Now it’s just trash

I guess we can go left now?

And check your voter registration

…. I might take the exploding as a bonus. Apple’s surprise and delight.

oh no

Henrietta Lacks' Family Reaches Settlement in Fight Over Her Stolen Cells Details of the Novartis agreement aren't public, but the family says it is pleased with the outcome.

A long overdue reckoning for Henrietta Lacks — the Black woman whose cancer cells led to breakthroughs but were harvested without her consent. Novartis has settled a lawsuit by Lacks’ estate that alleged the pharmaceutical giant profited off her cells.
https://bit.ly/3NgCeBs

YouTube video by NPR Music De La Soul: Tiny Desk Concert

hell yeah

youtu.be/5AVYDHTOixU?...

in my experience -- mostly limited to county highway programs -- the problem is that guardrails and crash attenuators are installed (or upgraded) in capital improvement budgets, not out of maintenance or operations budgets. So full replacement has to wait on capital budgeting, ~5-10 years or so.

The Manly Sport of American Politics: Or, How We Came to Call Elections "Races" - Commonplace Nineteenth-century Americans abandoned the traditional English phrasing of "standing" for election and begin to describe candidates who "run" for office. The race was on.

On a related note, see Ken Cohen’s excellent Commonplace piece on why American candidates “run” in “races” instead of standing for election.

commonplace.online/article/manl...

Quantifying the Cost of Sprawl In infrastructure, service delivery and tax receipts.

ICYMI: Suburban development costs 38% more in upfront public costs & 10% more in ongoing costs than compact development, PLUS has only 1/10th the tax revenue per acre, confirms report summarizing 17 studies. Via @smartgrowthusa.bsky.social

The blunt truth? Sprawl is heavily subsidized by ALL of us.

Congestion Pricing Wins in Court After Lengthy Battle With Trump

BREAKING: A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that New York’s congestion pricing toll is legal and may continue, handing a major victory to the state in its defense of the first-in-the-nation traffic reduction plan, which the Trump administration had tried for more than a year to kill.

hell naw

I wonder if the v2 does any better at staying upright.

Gotta love how academic books don't earn you money, but LLMs can make money off of stealing them in the aggregate and if you write enough, they can also profit from stealing your personality after you are dead.

oh look the company that made mine still exists. I must have the V1.

www.flypedals.com/pages/about-us

also not the easiest to attach and remove from the spd

they are heavy enough that when you take your foot off they always rotate the pedal face-down, so that you are constantly futzing with them to rotate the flat pedal to the top again. Also they immediately make your pedal into cheese graters for your shin, just like any toothy flat pedal.

This has indeed previously existed; I own a pair of cast aluminum adapters I bought ~ 15 years ago. They’re quite sturdy but have some functional drawbacks.

A detail of an FAA table shows that 60 ft qualifies as the minimum runway width for the two smallest design groups

If you put two 30’ lanes together you don’t have a road you have a runway, according to the FAA

clearly the secret correct answer is that both of these are worse than the gen x option: to have cognition so dulled by lead poisoning that you are entirely insulated from any possible impact of these intrusive thoughts.

tag me I'm gonna need to stock up for holiday gifts

acid rain! a rare but real success.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

A Known and Unknown War Twenty years later, I am living through the making of the Iraq War as history.

"When the field of history is left uncrowded by historians with full-time employment, historical actors—with self-serving intentions—who wish to exculpate and justify their actions will fill the vacuum."

Oh, the Shit You’ll Do After You’re Tenured! We regret to inform you: Today’s not your day Though you’ve sweated and labored Every August through May You have brains in your head And a CV for ...

Whole mornings you’ll lose, and whole afternoons
To trolling and arguing with faceless buffoons
Like MAGABro69 and DixieBrunette —
You may even say a few things you regret.

But it’s okay!
You’ll be tenured!
And joy will abound
(Until the university itself closes down)

Operation Just Cuz.

epistemology

teleological

orthogonal

a man says give me a ping vasili in a dark room Alt: a man says give me a ping vasili in a dark room

also

a man in a military uniform stands on a boat looking at the camera Alt: the actor (and politician) Fred Thompson in a navy uniform stands on a carrier looking at the camera in the movie "The Hunt for Red October" and delinvers the line: "This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we will be lucky to live through it!"

it's in the bsky/tenor gif library now, I like to think I used it so much I caused that to happen

a screenshot showing that this link has been auto-modded as "Graphic Media"?

why has this been auto-modded by BlueSky as "Graphic Media"?

watermelon truck merchandise when?