Francis Leslie M. Forster’s ‘Regent Street Quadrant at Night’ (1897–1898), Museum of London
Earlier today I heard someone say that they're going to stick Mitch McConnell's brain into John Fetterman's body like Krang and I have no self control
Mamdani loves city staff. In govt, execs have little control over hiring, firing, bonuses, promotions or demotions. Mamdani knows the trick is tapping govt workers' love of the meaningfulness of their work, inspiring them to their best, and protecting them in tough times
Warren Wells, AICP@warrenjwells.bsky.social · 2mo agoMamdani just keeps on smashing the "do good things actually" button that every other US mayor keeps locked in the basement.
Unbelievable. In 2024, 378 North Carolinians were killed in speed-related crashes and almost 8,000 more were injured.
NC man was caught driving on a revoked license 28 times. Then he killed my husband.
Every one of those 28 stops was a moment when North Carolina had this driver in front of it. Here’s what the state could do now. | Opinion
newsobserver.com
10,000 fewer on-street car parking spaces. That's the pledge from Amsterdam's new coalition government over the next four years. While many cities still argue whether change is possible, Amsterdam is reclaiming its public realm one tree, bench, bike rack, terrace, playground, and garden at a time.
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” ― James Baldwin
“The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you”
The_Lady_Red@theladyred.bsky.social · 5mo agoA PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.
Proust, a biography of Proust, lectures on Proust
Doctora Malka Older@older.bsky.social · 9mo agowhat are we reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaading?
NOT NOW, MYSTERIOUS LARGE STEEL CYLINDER
Mysterious large steel cylinder suddenly emerges from the ground in Japan
Japanese authorities were investigating Friday how a large steel cylinder suddenly emerged from the ground during sewer construction work and rose to the height of a four-storey building in the city o...
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Here's a scene from The Blues Brothers that I reference a lot. The editing is exquisite. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0etJ...
Blues Brothers' Restaurant Ruckus | The Blues Brothers 4k
YouTube video by HaHa Picks
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I'm at the old world dying / I'm at the new world struggling to be born / I'm at the ccccccccccombination old world dying and new world struggling to be born
Would love to hear a Microsoft designer explain how they decided that if you try to follow up on your own email in an email thread in Outlook, it should have you just send that email to yourself
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
politico.eu
also noise pollution in the U.S. is almost entirely from cars and it’s literally giving people heart attacks I wrote an article about it because it’s so absurd
We Need To Do Something About Noise Pollution
Excessive noise isn't just annoying... it's dangerous
bettercities.substack.com
onion person@junlper.beer · 8mo agonoise pollution causing actual real physical health problems in humans is one of those things that sounds fake but isn’t
Aspen (1991) is my favorite film of Wiseman’s (so far); for its quiet empathy and unobtrusive omniscience, a fantasy of seeing and hearing through walls.
Brian Goldstone@brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 8mo agoIn film after film, Frederick Wiseman watched with preternatural patience as systems revealed themselves through the tenacious, irreducible vitality of the people inside them. I kept returning to his films while reporting my book, hoping to absorb some of that patience. Such a profound loss.
call me a carceral urbanist or whatever but i think that if you murder an entire family with your SUV, at the very least, you should never be allowed to drive again
Dan Nguyen@dancow.bsky.social · 8mo agoShe fucking killed an entire family while speeding in her Mercedes SUV and they’re not going to even take her license away??