The California state legislature decades ago required civil engineers to pass two separate exams on seismic and surveying. Now so few civil engineers do any survey work, that they are desperately looking for people to write and review questions.
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Please, Mayor Mamdani, my nation cries out for liberation, etc, etc, things of that nature
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 6h agoBig futures begin with strong foundations — and for New York’s cutest, that starts as early as 2-K. This back-to-school season, we’re proud to provide free 2-K and lay the foundation for universal childcare across our city. Class is officially in session!
Help with what?
Tom Roussey@tomroussey.bsky.social · 9h agoEven though Reagan National had nearly as many passengers as BWI Marshall last year & was within 4 million of Dulles (IAD set a record last year), it has way fewer parking spaces. A new garage is expected to help, but it's not fully open yet. #DCA
I listen to a LOT of nonfiction audiobooks and it's amazing how much of a tell "the hot dog thing" is that you are listening to someone who turned a wikipedia page into a 300-page manuscript
Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 9h agothinking about this tweet again, and the fact that it's got such a hold on me that I genuinely think about it whenever I write a feature because I don't want to do "the hot dog thing"
Tony Soprano's Disappointed Look
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Halimede.@halimede.bsky.social · 12h ago#Notallmen. Jon Snow independently reconceptualized cunnilingus in an ice cave, by kissing his lovers body all over till he tasted her, and kept going. And you know what? I think that makes him a good person.
Had a routine appointment today and I think "pediatrician for middle class white folks" must be one of the easiest jobs on earth. I came in with 10 super specific questions and the doctor's answer to each was "who cares?" and "that's totally normal."
kudos to macklemore here for —right off the bat— the perspective and acknowledgment of who the real victims are
Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 12h agoNew: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.
I would say "a song about Hitler" is being overly generous to the contents of Mr. West's song about Hitler en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heil_Hi...
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Chad C@chadc.bsky.social · 11h agoThis is particularly crazy when you see how many NFL venues are scheduled to host Kanye West, a guy who literally released a song about Hitler. Including two of the stadiums who threatened Sheeran! But he didn’t say anything good about Palestinians so it’s fine.
When you say we need "market-rate" housing these are the people you are saying should be in charge of determining the market rate: criminals.
PoPville@popville.bsky.social · 12h ago“JBG Smith and Mid-America Apartments Settle in OAG Lawsuit Alleging Companies Conspired to Keep DC Rents Artificially High” - See the full OAG release: www.popville.com/2026/09/jbg-...
The correct way to introduce children to your favorite books is to have them lying around on a shelf, preferably in a room they're not really supposed to be in
Too Big to Fail@toobigtofail.bsky.social · 12h agoThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was published 41 years before my son was born. Among the books published 41 years before I was born: that I've Agatha Christie book with the n- word in the title; Finnegans Wake; the T.S. Elliot poetry book Cats was based on.
[explaining the lyrics of "Hair" to my child in Trump voice] Sodomy, it's a very antiquated term, nobody has ever heard of it before, but it's very accurate
It's crazy there's no way in the MLB app to see what the score was or who won.
Men used to have ROMANCE Men used to be SPONTANEOUS Men used to come home and surprise their wives with COORDINATED OUTFITS and say YOU HAVE TO PLAY THE DRUMS, WE ARE IN A BAND, we are called THE WHITE STIPES, you are now my SISTER
This is also how I talk to my infant child when they're being fussy. "Hey, I agree with you! I'm on your side! Well put! That's exactly what I was thinking!" I don't even think a newborn buys it though
I want to thank the great industrialists who brought us the innovation of walking
Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 2d agoThe Washington Post opinion section is an elaborate experiment to find the least compelling angle on everything
Unlike a lot of people in the Moderate Sensible Center I think Trump genuinely admires Hitler, thinks that his affect, tactics, and strategic vision mirror Hitler's, and that he just needs to correct one or two errors in Hitler's judgment in order to rule the world for 1000 years.
What about reduced fares for entrepreneurs who start a small business in a low-income census tract that employs at least 5 people in 3 of the last 5 years
Metro@wmata.com · 2d agoToday is #NationalGrandparentsDay! Many older adults depend on public transit to provide the freedom, mobility, and independence they need to maintain a high quality of life. Senior Smart Trip program plays such an important role. www.wmata.com/pay/fare-programs/senior-smart-trip.html
My Russian teacher joked that in the dubbed version of some mafia movie there's a funeral and all the gangsters walk past the widow using the Russian word for apologizing instead of expressing condolences, suggesting they had all been involved in killing her husband
tinyobscurae@tinyobscurae.bsky.social · 2d agomy “when i say ‘i’m sorry that happened to you’ i mean ‘i am sorrowed on your behalf’ rather than ‘i am apologising’” t-shirt appears not to be answering as many question as i’d hoped
Why would Iran seek a fruitful path to leverage in the war which, I'm assuming from the headline, it started with the U.S?
Honestly, "big-name studios can't agree on the premise of the Muppet Show" sounds like the premise of the Muppet Show
It’s always fun when you have a friend living in a giant city and you text them because you saw a story about a grocery store being robbed there and they’re like yes 10 million people live here
He is describing the plot of a children's book he read in middle school, "Children of the Mind," where Ender's AI Jane survives the shutdown of the ansible. Literally just barely-remembered sci-fi plots they think they came up with on their own through "research"
brasidas@brasidas.bsky.social · 3d agoAnthropic's models run on terabytes of VRAM. It's not going to "just copy itself to other computers."
TRACY: New York City needs another 9/11. GRIZZ: Why would you say something like that? TRACY: I’m sick of having to go to midtown for a Big Gulp! GRIZZ: Tray, 9/11 was the day Osama bin Laden killed 3000 people. TRACY: Osama did that? Damn. I told him not to take so many double shifts at the 9/11.
I finally found a game my hardware supports (the "Hitman" iPhone game) and it's pretty fun even without killing anybody, which gets pretty stressful. I'm on the Opera (second) level and it's neat to find all the goofy assassination techniques that don't actually work (there's a chandelier!)
Free-quent Flyer@freequentflyer.bsky.social · last wk.Every once in a while I look into "gaming" and if you only do this once in a while it is a completely bewildering experience. I don't blame gamers for not having full time jobs or paying attention to their partners or kids, gaming genuinely appears to me to be an utterly exhausting full-time job.
