Increasingly feels like the fluid nature of software is more a hellish trap than a feature Like having people break into your house every night to rearrange your furniture, reprogram the tv, and swap out family pictures for stock photos and ads

Andrea Reyes E (she/her)@altibel.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Why, why, WHY @adobe.com would you add such a useless and annoying thing to Acrobat? Who the H wants to share that text via whatsapp? Has anybody figured out how to disable this? My search only showed ppl are annoyed with it and a pseudofix for Mac.

Cites aren't loud, cars are loud. A better world is possible.

2-way protected bike lane enthusiast@seachanger.bsky.social · 2d ago

i don't think we spend enough imagining how quiet and idyllic life would be if we flipped the ratio of bike/transit : car infrastructure.

It genuinely blows my mind the degree to which people in power do not grasp (or just refuse to acknowledge) that encampments are preferable to shelters for a whole lot of people, for a long list of reasons.

Wedge LIVE!™@wedge.live · 6d ago

Mayor Her says the whack a mole strategy would've worked if they'd brought more mallets.

Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager. —Susan Sontag

Just found: photographs taken in Estonia in 2005, on the location where Stalker was filmed. If you know the film you'll recognise the building towards which they travelled, the channel where the Stalker lay in the water, the landscape then littered with vehicles…

If you haven’t heard, @trufelman.bsky.social and I started a new podcast about fashion and philosophy. Each month, we read canonical text — Voltaire, Rousseau, Hegel — and talk about how the author's ideas help us understand why we dress the way we do.

Guys, I found out where that meme came from:

I walk in my neighborhood in the early morning. I might pass 3 people walking dogs, and 3 people driving the oversized cars available in our country, and each time, I’m aware of just how loud our cars are. I want to give them a report on the noise they’re making each time. Slow down, go quietly.

Miser@misernyc.bsky.social · 4w ago

Cities aren't loud, cars are loud.

If you listen closely, you can hear the sound of our future innovation capacity, prosperity, and national security crumbling. Shattering our university research system and international student pipeline will harm all Conservative & Liberal Americans. From the American Institute of Physics—>

Physics PhDs Are Leaving the US at a Record-high Rate

The exodus of non-US citizens has “certainly” been influenced by science funding and visa policy changes under Trump, a new AIP report says.

aip.org

This is what New York should be doing. Boston, a pedestrian city? Get outta here! In NYC, the pedestrian should have precedent everywhere (even over bikes, but definitely over cars and trucks).

Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · last mo.

None of what she is saying should be remotely controversial. Drivers are "emboldened" to the point that they regularly endanger and kill people!

I love this blue plastic building in East Flatbush, but it's extraordinarily difficult to photograph. I made a decent picture of it over the weekend, and even caught two birds hanging out on the roof.

Across the more than 6,300 miles of NYC's streets, the NYPD’s nearly 34,000 officers ticketed only 10 drivers for blocking bus lanes, 12 drivers for parking in a bus stop and 10 drivers for parking in a bike lane last week.

The Few: Cops Wrote Just 32 Tickets to Drivers Blocking Bus And Bike Lanes Last Week - Streetsblog New York City

Across the more than 6,300 miles of roadway throughout New York City, the NYPD's nearly 34,000 officers ticketed only 32 drivers for blocking bus and bike lanes between July 20 andt 26.

buff.ly

One of the best things about city living is that folks mostly mind their own business. (Tbf, I think cell phone guy was escorting)

See also: This comic.

A sailboat, the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, was removed from the Sail4th 250 Parade of Ships for displaying banners about climate justice and clean water. Source: ig/jackiemarieburton, ig/sloopclearwater

"I hear you're sending me a seventh prime minister"

Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio. Magic! Goodnight.

Saw this and thought of @design-law.bsky.social! Looks like the original designers of Ping Pong were having some issues with knock-offs.

“Roughly modeled after the brain.” I dunno, man; my brain runs on 20 watts and using language isn’t even its primary function.

Buried in Pope Leo's Magnifica Humanitas encyclical is a quote from Gandalf, so LOTR is now *canon* canon

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

"These may each be useful words, but they do architecture few favors, making it appear elitist and aloof. They are also often silly."

Edwin Heathcote@edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 4mo ago

My brief essay on the incessant and pernicious persistence of architectural bullshit encapsulated in language. untappedjournal.com/stories/verb...

I joined NY’s Cutest on the Bergen Bike Bus that they ride to school every Wednesday, rain or shine. We’re adding bike boulevards and more pedestrian space on Bergen and Dean Street, from Court Street to East New York Ave. It was a wonderful kind of day.

This.

Hildur Knútsdóttir@hildur.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

IF YOU BUILD A BIKE LANE THAT DOESN'T CONNECT TO ANOTHER BIKE LANE THEN YOU DIDN'T BUILD A BIKE LANE

In @hellgatenyc.com today

Hell Gate *subscribe today!*@hellgatenyc.com · 5mo ago

"We're not really out to make a ton of money. We just want to support our production, pay our bills, and just have fun." hellgatenyc.com/nytv-launch-...

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

Friends, school architecture may have peaked in the 1970s.