I've been learning a thing about myself which is that over the course of weeks / months I can subconsciously process and understand very complex ideas, but presented with even a simple "trick" problem I tend to kinda freeze up. these are perfect for me

Randall Munroe@xkcd.com · 10h ago

My mom sent me some papers that belonged to my grandfather, Darwin Randall Crum, which included a collection of “Disfrustrating Puzzles” he created

My mom sent me some papers that belonged to my grandfather, Darwin Randall Crum, which included a collection of “Disfrustrating Puzzles” he created

this certainly casts a different light on Doug Ford opting not to do province-wide upzoning

Michael Paulauski♨️@mike10010100.com · 14h ago

Texas Republicans spent 15 years bragging about their low-regulation housing boom. They accidentally built their own blue wall. From 2010 to 2024, Texas permitted 2.77M homes (nearly 3x California's per-capita rate). 80% went up in four metro areas, and they filled up with college grads.

Last 48 hrs. of combined GOES Satellite Day/Night + Radar data over SONT. #onwx #onstorm (7:28PM Nov. 5th till now)

this is a GREAT thread, to which I'll add that it's a good idea to think about where mobile home parks are often located [read: the cars you need to own to facilitate living in one]

Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE@leftistlawyer.com · 2d ago

Let's talk about mobile home parks. Over the past several months, I've seen well meaning left and progressive groups recommending marginalized people buy into mobile home parks, saying that the fact you own your trailer means it's an investment and a chance at generational wealth. They're wrong.

I urge you to maximize passive measures for your shelters to make the dependence on AC as low as possible. This graph shows that a realitvely cheap straw bale passiv house insulation measure can practically almost decouple you from the outside temperatures for a while, with conscious design choices.

i've been learning recently that cootes drive was designed as a precursor to the modern provincial highway in Ontario and... good Lord, what a depressing fact about Hamilton 🤦

Vests should come with sleeves that are permanently attached

Matt Pearce@mattdpearce.com · 3d ago

Now that Bluesky is the official social media app representing the popular will of the United States of America™️, what is our first cultural decree?

I'm on board with this, in the sense that I think mass parking is bad land use and requiring solar carparks would be an extremely funny way to discourage them. subsidies absolutely not

Sam Haney Press@samhainpress.bsky.social · 3d ago

Solar panels over every open-air parking lot. I'm tired of my car baking in the heat when that sunlight could be put to better use.

I don't think I'm mentally prepared to witness this much electoral consequences for bad governance *stares in Ontario*

Pre-reminder to shop for a new phone plan at the end of November during Black Friday. Don’t shop now. No loyalty! Change carriers just to spite them and make them try and earn you back! Fuck them all!

A new record’s being set right now, at least that I’ve seen: CHPE, the big new clean energy project, is delivering almost TWENTY SIX PERCENT of NYC’s electricity. 💪👏

Pete Sikora@petesikora.bsky.social · 6d ago

The big new transmission project from Quebec to NYC is delivering 1,250 megawatts of clean electricity right now That’s TWENTY FOUR PERCENT of NYC electricity!💪 ✅ lower bills ✅ good jobs ✅ less pollution Sadly tho Hochul’s stymying more like this. Make a plan, gov!

When can we have a “project of national interest” that supports growing hemp in the prairies to insulate homes across Canada

Was reminded of one of my favourite Halloween stories

If you cannot hear, you are not safe. This is why drivers are banned from rolling their windows up and/or listening to music.

Jason@jrock08.bsky.social · last wk.

"It doesn’t matter if you are walking, riding, or driving... if you cannot hear, you are not safe" Yet another victim blaming traffic violence op ed that ignores that deaf people exist and deserve to be safe while using our streets.

consider not driving at all, even!

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · last wk.

🎃 Heads up for anyone driving tonight: be extra careful, drive slow, be alert! 🚨

Every time I read a research paper about minimizing energy costs I feel like the energy field should be asking: why are we designing energy systems around what people can manage to pay, instead of around what people actually need energy to do (i.e. refrigeration, heating, cooling, telecom)?

You can uncensor it using this prompt engineering technique I invented

I don't understand this to be honest. like, is Anthropic not currently serving LLM usage at scale and even giving away compute on free-tier accounts? what are they at risk of? small IPO?

Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)@doctorvive.bsky.social · 2w ago

It really seems implausible that the need to pass BAAJA 👏 RIGHT 👏 NOW has absolutely nothing to do with supplying data centers with energy. www.wired.com/story/anthro...

Don’t drive on Halloween. Let the kids have a night.

Flynn Rider's Confident Smirk

Alt: Flynn Rider from Tangled’s confident smirk as dozens of people point swords at him meme.

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Most people don’t realise that you don’t actually need fired bricks to build masonry houses. That’s why bricklayers aren’t called ‘bricklayers of fossil-fuelled fired bricks’. Don’t let yourselves become dependent on them – you have excellent jobs and skills. #earthbuilding

The other day, I got a press release claiming that ER visits among kids linked to e-bike crashes had increased *19.1 times over* in just 3 years. It almost certainly isn't true —  but the injured children are very real. Broke down what's really causing the bloodshed and who can finally stop it.

Why Deadly, Illegal E-Motos Are On The Rise – And Why E-Bikes Are Being Blamed When They Crash — Streetsblog USA

...and what we can do to protect our kids *and* the e-bike revolution.

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A reminder, because it is almost that time of year: More children are killed by cars on Halloween than any other day of the year, by far. www.vox.com/future-perfe... If you're a parent, I hope you'll do what you can to keep kids safe. If you're driving on Saturday, PLEASE exercise extra caution.

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Brad Bradford ran an explicitly anti-bike-lane campaign. It was front and center. Once again, it’s a losing political position. What we’re seeing in Toronto and elsewhere is the dying gasps of the dinosaurs.

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…and it doesn’t and they don’t. Developing 100 units? In the US that’ll get one, maybe two elevators. In Switzerland they’re cheap so they’ll break the site up into separate point access blocks and buy eight elevators.

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