Them: “Paris is only nice because it was built before cars and they protected all of the beautiful historic architecture.“
Paris:

Times Square Building in Rochester NY, or as I like to call it, the Dr. Doofenschmirz building, looking delightfully sinister with the cloudy weather we’ve been having.

#architecture
#evilbuildings

In Massachusetts, we somewhat recently passed a law that mandates any town serviced by MBTA must build density around transit. It’s a great policy!

The proof for this is fun. Basically, since you can construct a function that maps every element in each set to one unique corresponding element (for any n in set of all integers, 2n corresponds in set of all even integers), then you know that these sets, though infinite, have the same cardinality.

#Econsky #YIMBY

Lyon

3 dead after car crashes into coffee truck, pedestrians in Astoria Eyewitnesses said the vehicle was speeding before slamming into the parked coffee truck.

A devastating crash in Astoria has left three people dead. I'm heartbroken for the victims and their loved ones.

We can't normalize this. It's time to commit to streets that are safe for everyone.

Something that’s great about green spaces like this is that they’re much more comfortable to walk/run/bike through, since the air is fresher from plants filtering out CO2 and producing oxygen

Two photos of the same intersection in Barcelona, shown before and after transformation. The top image shows a standard urban street with parked vehicles, asphalt, and sparse greenery. The bottom image shows the same location converted into a lush public space with trees, plants, benches, and pedestrian pathways, illustrating the city's superblock redesign.

Barcelona has transformed 160 intersections into public spaces, and I think every city should implement superblocks like this immediately.

And consumers, of course.

Also think it’s worth pointing out that “15% is better than the worst-case scenario” is kind of burying the lede… 15% across the board tariff is still quite bad, catastrophic even. I don’t think we should be looking at this trade war with a “glass half full” mentality.

An outbound L Taraval glides down its namesake street (newly rebuilt with station boarding islands and safer intersections) in San Francisco.

Here is a pic I took of said subway tunnel.. realizing the redundancy of the phrase “abandoned tunnel sits an abandoned” lol

Meanwhile in Rochester, an abandoned subway tunnel sits abandoned and unused since the 50s

A tweet from Matt Walsh reads: "Dudes like this were already gay. I’ve been married for 14 years and have never been home decor shopping, or even had an opinion on the subject, except for the one time when I had a painting custom made depicting me meeting a group of space aliens. It’s now hanging above a fireplace in our home." He is reacting to a video, where a man and a woman are shopping for home decor. The original poster writes: "when will people finally acknowledge the epidemic of men marrying women and being turned gay"

For a while, it was believed that women and gay men are born with a natural sense for aesthetics. In reality, straight men, particularly American male Protestants, have simply barred themselves from taking an interest in aesthetics because they think this makes them noble.

People enjoying dinner at tables set up in the street. Two people bike down the center of the road. String lights cross overhead. Not a car in sight, just people living in the moment.

We Could Have This All The Time

A screenshot from a TV news report, with an image of Zohran Mamdani, the caption “Zohran Mamdani’s Socialist Promises”, and the text reading “if two people order fully-loaded nachos to share, one person can’t eat all the ones with the meat and cheese and stuff”

can you just say there’s a rule?

She should sell Azalea merch! Lol

OK, here is your one-minute primer on the whole concept of "trickle down economics," from the obituary of Fred Smith, the founder of Fedex.

I mean, if you still can't see it, I have no hope for you.

The streets in your city are too wide

📍Center City, Philadelphia

How Far do your tax dollars for Transit go?

After people complaining over and over that SEPTA was inefficient, I had to run the numbers of Ridership to Operating budgets and would you look at that.
Not only is SEPTA good with money, but they are literally the best in the US

CGM is a great technology as others have said, especially when used in a closed loop system w/insulin pump. They have gone from somewhat unreliable to incredibly accurate in the last 10-15 years.

Biggest upside for me though is not having to fear sudden low BGs. Very useful for exercise

As a diabetic, I welcome the effort of the medical industry to sell expensive, medically unnecessary devices to everyone else — mine will be cheaper then! Hahaha

No seriously though, I agree. Absolutely no need for anyone without diabetes.

Some interesting insights here, including that people are much more influenced by *people they follow* switching platforms than by their own *followers* switching platforms.

Preprint: "Why Academics are Leaving Twitter for Bluesky" arxiv.org/abs/2505.24801

Utopia Fiber finishes Bountiful build despite dark money campaign Utopia Fiber finishes its open access network in Bountiful, Utah ahead of scheduleIn the beginning of the project, dark money groups fought it

A community-owned fiber ISP named UTOPIA has been offering Utah locals ultra-fast, affordable fiber broadband.

This upset telecom monopolies, which then funded a dodgy proxy org named the "Utah Taxpayers Association" to try and scare locals away from the idea.

It didn't work:

Parking reform in Washington, parking reform everywhere! Washington's bold new parking reform bill will make housing more abundant and inspire other states, explain Sightline's Catie Gould and Alan Durning.

Today on Volts: parking is the "dark matter" of land use, invisibly making everything worse, but most municipalities continue to mandate minimum levels of it. WA state just passed some awesome parking reform & I dig into it with @citizen-cate.bsky.social & Alan Durning of @sightline.org.

Free parking seems great for individual drivers, but is terrible for cities. Donald Shoup’s (RIP) “The High Cost of Free Parking” is considered the seminal work on this topic.

a cartoon character laying in a pile of money ALT: a cartoon character laying in a pile of money

Sports leagues and team owners then: “gambling is bad”

Leagues and owners now: