Teens…and the poors.

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 5h ago

Even hotter take: the fact that ebikes let teens in the suburbs suddenly have freedom to move around the public realm unsupervised is precisely why many older people are trying to ban them (using safety as a pretext)

Most TV is just this now.

gotta say there’s something almost poetic about Trump incentivizing less fuel efficient vehicles as the Iran war keeps pushing up the price of gas

Amee Vanderpool@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 4d ago

Trump announces he will sharply scale back fuel-efficiency rules for new cars and light trucks, gutting one of the government’s most significant efforts to reduce gasoline consumption and speed the country’s shift to electric vehicles.

Regular reminder that the most progressive place in the world cannot protect people who can’t afford to live in it, and I do not care about your “neighborhood character” as much as I care about that, and it is not close

Decades and decades of a national policy and zeitgeist that amounts to 'nobody needs to care about social studies' and we're now in an unwinnable war with a foreign country whose culture and leadership we did not understand based around geography we ignored. 🤷‍♂️

Mike Smith@msmith1047.bsky.social · last wk.

Been considering starting to teach and drill my 5th graders on basic map locations, even though nobody gives a shit about social studies.

Among the right-wing real estate grifts looking to cash in on the blue state "refugees" moving to my home state of Tennessee, this one - feels like pure vaporware: a "true conservative" Cracker Barrel knockoff on a which, according to TDOT, sees an average of 146 cars per day. rockwellsgas.com

Two crazy things takeaways from this article: the Baltimore Sun's daily print circulation is down to 11,800 and the newspaper in The Villages - the giant retirement community in Florida - has the ninth highest circulation of any daily in the country. pressgazette.co.uk/north-americ...

US newspaper circulations 2026: Villages Daily Sun is only one of 50 biggest print titles to see annual growth

Just one of the 50 largest audited newspapers in the US grew its average daily print circulation year on year to March 2026.

pressgazette.co.uk

Ironically a good argument for DEI is “it would help the NYT find someone other than a Princeton grad, suit wearing right wing magazine editor dweeb to write about rural America” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/o...

The only person I don't want to participate in sports is me

I do appreciate it when NIMBYs just say "the thing," instead of trotting out a bunch of bullshit about imagined sewer capacity or whatever

Sam@samd.bsky.social · 3w ago

“No to rental apartments No to forced mixing” the far right party in Sweden (SD) is turboNIMBY, of course. god far right parties are such a fucking joke everywhere

It’s so strange that these anxieties about housing, infrastructure, and carrying capacity are never articulated before the speaker moves into a community.

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 4w ago

The modal NextDoor post.

Can architects and design review boards please recognize that clean-lined, well-proportioned boxes are better than a box pretending to be a bunch of smaller boxes.

"emotional support munitions"

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 4w ago

Basically, the United States is running short of key munitions because the insecure man-children running the country keep firing off expensive stand-off emotional support munitions as a desperate act of gender-affirming self-care. Alas, there are not enough TLAMs to make Trump or Hegseth into men.

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, and two orders of whatever that is - it looks delicious."

I get lightheaded whenever I think too hard about how the same people who have been working themselves into a frenzy about the ATF and black helicopters and the new world order for decades are now seeing the actual military occupation of a US city and going "just what they needed! Nice and safe!"

I Travel Like Sound Dog@chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4w ago

I get on the metro and there’s federal police parked and posted outside the station, I get off the metro and there’s 15 FBI agents standing around.

Can we get weekend service From Frederick to DC? Sorry, a new daily train from Brunswick to Baltimore is the best we can do... top.com/maryland/2026/09/marc-train-introducing-new-service-between-montgomery-county-baltimore/

“Established cities that are dispersed and auto-centric are likely to have higher per capita emissions and thus can reduce emissions by focusing on creating modal shift and improving public transit systems… as well as focusing on infilling and densifying,”

Greater Greater Washington@ggwash.org · 4w ago

Climate action in DC could mean moving more people into the low-carbon communities we've already created, along the transit lines we've already built.

Reminds me of a few years ago when our local hospital wanted to add a back entrance to its parking garage that would route traffic through a dense, walkable residential neighborhood. An administrator said the goal was “ to keep the traffic away from where people are walking.” (ie: the parking lot).

OB Chargn@obchargn.bsky.social · 4w ago

A public health professor is walking through a PARKING LOT and has an epiphany that society doesn’t allow for physical exercise anymore. She decides it must be due to the rise of e-bikes: www.forbes.com/sites/bernad...

New York’s congestion pricing program has resulted in a statistically significant reduction in travel times for EMS vehicles

Urban Congestion Pricing and the Response Times of Emergency Medical Services

nber.org

I'm sorry, but that last part is just bullshit. Loudon County, VA (home to the highest single concentration of data centers in the country) is literally the wealthiest county in the entire United States. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

“You have this post-economic, older, economically insulated voting bloc that could afford to be anti-growth almost as a luxury, because they don’t have to care about economic outcomes.” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

How the U.K. Became One of the Poorest Countries in Western Europe

Britain chose finance over industry, austerity over investment, and a closed economy over openness to the world.

theatlantic.com

starch mogul@posts-cards.bsky.social · last mo.

the clear demographic split of the protestors/counter-protestors the elderly are trying to force this country into their tombs with them

Saruman was driven mad by his Palantir groupchat.

Andrew@athomashemlock.bsky.social · last mo.

This is literally the difference between Saruman and Gandalf. Tolkien is very clear about the necessity to go out into the world and yap with strangers, preferably while smoking and drinking.

Were you raised in a barn? www.barndominiumlife.com

"when I was young. I packed my bags, left my major city, and moved all the way to a redlined suburb...built specifically for people who looked like me. If I can do that, young people should be willing to live on an active Superfund site" www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/why...

Why Aren’t People Moving to This Town with Cheap Housing and Literally Nothing Else

“Sure, this city is in the middle of nowhere, isn’t near major job markets, and doesn’t have maintained roads, well-funded schools, or functioning emergency ...

mcsweeneys.net

Interesting piece. Back in the late 80s/early 90s (at least in the South) living in the center-city was a bit like rummaging around in very big junk store. Nowadays it's more like a "vintage" store - curated...and with a substantial markup. www.ruins.blog/p/in-praise-...

In praise of junk stores

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ruins.blog

The beautiful chaos of a used bookstore is unmatched.

Remember, Dolly "wasn't political..."

okie (they/them)@okie.gay · last mo.

Texas’s drag ban was found to be unconstitutional this morning and one of the plaintiffs who brought the suit was an Austin-based drag queen who often impersonates Dolly Dolly was named in the final judgement itself and after hearing about the lawsuit, she sent that drag queen a signed guitar

As a post down thread notes: Immigrants share of US population was at its lowest in 1970.

Payton Chung@westnorth.com · last mo.

"It is no coincidence that the period when the cities began to fall apart was the same period during which immigration hit its lowest level. There was no new demand to occupy the empty apartments, so they burned." - Joel Millman, Intl Org for Migration; Ada Calhoun, "St. Mark's is Dead" p 209