Andrew Blum

People from a beautiful, sunny place in America it seems 🤷‍♂️

Try not to judge by what parent gives their kid a whistle :-)

Kudos to the folks who created a temp bike lane for this road work. Not perfect by any means but progress.

Kiss Off is one of the very few songs I can remember exactly when and where I heard it for the first time.

Perfection

In culture war backlash, Democrats sweep school boards The party recruited and invested in school board races to oust Republicans. It worked.

This is the way

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Kurt Vonnegut, Galapagos, 1985.

just read a piece calling Nuzzi a "modern day political version of Hunter S. Thompson" and I think I need to log off

What’s the reason farthest from the center and greatest velocity are different?

UC San Diego finds 1 in 8 incoming freshmen performing below a middle school math level A UCSD report found that the number of students needing to take remedial math courses has significantly increased since the pandemic.

This story starts out as some students are bad at math but ends up pointing to a pretty comprehensive systemic breakdown.

www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/11/17/u...

Prob two years or so.

Not cheap. But legitimately top tier.

BONUS: "Life After Cars” (w/ The War on Cars) What would society look like if people no longer needed their cars? That's the premise of the new book “Life After Cars,” written by Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear.

Really enjoyed talking with @brooklynspoke.bsky.social and @sgoodyear.bsky.social while they were in San Diego promoting "Life After Cars." They met me in Balboa Park (in the pouring rain!) so we could see, hear and discuss the ways cars have impacted our most precious public spaces.

Have a listen!

Best falafel I’ve had in San Diego and it’s not close.

This was a real Brooks or Chait moment for me.

Best falafel I’ve had in San Diego and it’s not close.

One of my favorite kinds of LinkedIn posts is the long, passionate post about the most niche practice in a niche area.

Today, "Stop calling an evaluation report a means of verification (MOV)!" Proceed to an eight paragraph argument.

Lots of good blocks to be found in the replies here.

Seriously

Ah fucking hell

First entry - adjusting a rear derailleur?

That’s like saying the first Mexican food you should cook is mole.

Both are witchcraft.

U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”

Just a reminder that I'm happy to speak to any journalist, or to recommend other scholars to do so, about why prejudice and "potentially divisive symbols" like swastikas (!) are so harmful to morale and cohesion in militaries

Ban all cars except this one.

UC San Diego finds 1 in 8 incoming freshmen performing below a middle school math level A UCSD report found that the number of students needing to take remedial math courses has significantly increased since the pandemic.

This story starts out as some students are bad at math but ends up pointing to a pretty comprehensive systemic breakdown.

www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/11/17/u...

Ban all cars except this one.

Trials bike lol

Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made.

Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊

Quick review of my new Ortlieb Commuter Daypack. I'm coming from a more traditional-style Osprey pack, the Radial 25 (which I don't think they make any more). So things I love. All the straps work perfectly and are well thought out. Roll top enclosure is easy and probably quicker than a zipper. 1/n