Alon (they/them)
@alonlevy.bsky.social
Transit researcher in Berlin. Lived in Tel Aviv, Singapore, the Riviera, New York, Providence, Vancouver, Stockholm, Paris. https://pedestrianobservations.com/ http://patreon.com/alonlevy [email protected] @[email protected]
Canada should declare English as its sole official language. All education, laws, government communications, and mass media should be in English. Translations into non-official languages such as Mandarin and Punjabi should continue and even expand, but the canonical language should be English only.
November 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Canada should declare English as its sole official language. All education, laws, government communications, and mass media should be in English. Translations into non-official languages such as Mandarin and Punjabi should continue and even expand, but the canonical language should be English only.
Paul Johnson's Modern Times literally connected Einstein's theory of relativity with Freudian psychology, Marxism, and cultural relativism.
Special Relativity - ah so there's no absolute reference frame? I don't want to live in a world where up is down, left is right, white is black and man is woman.
November 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Paul Johnson's Modern Times literally connected Einstein's theory of relativity with Freudian psychology, Marxism, and cultural relativism.
Describe your favorite course as though NY Mag just found it.
*Real Simple Lie Algebras*. If they're real simple, why are they a graduate seminar? And why are students taught to lie?
*Real Simple Lie Algebras*. If they're real simple, why are they a graduate seminar? And why are students taught to lie?
Describe your favorite course as though NY Mag just found it.
*Algebraic Geometry.* From radical ideals to blowing up schemes, this course is a prime example of how college campuses are training grounds for America-hating students.
*Algebraic Geometry.* From radical ideals to blowing up schemes, this course is a prime example of how college campuses are training grounds for America-hating students.
Describe your favorite course as though NY Mag just found it.
*Modern Algebra.* How modern can it be when it stops around 1910? Students learn useless things like how to build an unsolvable quintic polynomial, all while writing papers about it in this very unserious liberal arts "math" class.
*Modern Algebra.* How modern can it be when it stops around 1910? Students learn useless things like how to build an unsolvable quintic polynomial, all while writing papers about it in this very unserious liberal arts "math" class.
November 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Describe your favorite course as though NY Mag just found it.
*Real Simple Lie Algebras*. If they're real simple, why are they a graduate seminar? And why are students taught to lie?
*Real Simple Lie Algebras*. If they're real simple, why are they a graduate seminar? And why are students taught to lie?
The Hasmoneans survived as an independent polity 78 years. Bibi is desperately making moves that would ensure the modern State of Israel wouldn't beat this record. Do we think he cares enough about tradition to ensure the state should be dissolved on the 9th of Av?
November 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The Hasmoneans survived as an independent polity 78 years. Bibi is desperately making moves that would ensure the modern State of Israel wouldn't beat this record. Do we think he cares enough about tradition to ensure the state should be dissolved on the 9th of Av?
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Santa knows when you're sleeping and he knows when you're awake.
Judah Maccabee knows if you've been assimilating into the surrounding culture and he is NOT going to be okay with it
Judah Maccabee knows if you've been assimilating into the surrounding culture and he is NOT going to be okay with it
Judah Maccabee, auditing your religious practices over the year for any evidence of Hellenization.
November 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Santa knows when you're sleeping and he knows when you're awake.
Judah Maccabee knows if you've been assimilating into the surrounding culture and he is NOT going to be okay with it
Judah Maccabee knows if you've been assimilating into the surrounding culture and he is NOT going to be okay with it
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People call Santa Claus "Father Christmas" or "Kris Kringle" or "Jolly Old Saint Nick."
People call Judah Maccabee "sir."
People call Judah Maccabee "sir."
November 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
People call Santa Claus "Father Christmas" or "Kris Kringle" or "Jolly Old Saint Nick."
People call Judah Maccabee "sir."
People call Judah Maccabee "sir."
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If you say "Bah, humbug" to Christmas, you may be visited by three ghosts, each with an important lesson to teach.
If you say "Bah, humbug" to Hanukkah, Judah Maccabee's gonna come teach you a lesson personally
If you say "Bah, humbug" to Hanukkah, Judah Maccabee's gonna come teach you a lesson personally
Hanukkah already has a mascot: Judah Maccabee, the friendly violent religious extremist
November 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
If you say "Bah, humbug" to Christmas, you may be visited by three ghosts, each with an important lesson to teach.
If you say "Bah, humbug" to Hanukkah, Judah Maccabee's gonna come teach you a lesson personally
If you say "Bah, humbug" to Hanukkah, Judah Maccabee's gonna come teach you a lesson personally
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“Witkoff is Russian” is the new “Mileikowsky”
Americans, you barely understand your own country's geography and language, just shut up.
Americans, you barely understand your own country's geography and language, just shut up.
November 27, 2025 at 3:39 PM
“Witkoff is Russian” is the new “Mileikowsky”
Americans, you barely understand your own country's geography and language, just shut up.
Americans, you barely understand your own country's geography and language, just shut up.
This would be true if there were no international connections - Czechia is a small country. But there are, to Berlin, to Bratislava, maybe to Munich, to Vienna and thence Budapest, to Katowice and thence Warsaw. So 300 km/h is more justified in this case, on the same basis as Paris-Brussels.
@alonlevy.bsky.social the "Adam Something" YouTuber was recently a guest on @theurbanistagenda.com and was skeptical about high speed rail, saying among other things that for a country like the Czech Republic 250 km/h lines where trains usually go 200 km/h make more sense
November 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
This would be true if there were no international connections - Czechia is a small country. But there are, to Berlin, to Bratislava, maybe to Munich, to Vienna and thence Budapest, to Katowice and thence Warsaw. So 300 km/h is more justified in this case, on the same basis as Paris-Brussels.
I've had a lot of friction with @liberalcurrents.com, but they're the best English-language magazine on queer rights that I can think of right now. Both their cis and trans writers understand these issues deeply and connect them with normal politics well. www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
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November 27, 2025 at 5:53 AM
I've had a lot of friction with @liberalcurrents.com, but they're the best English-language magazine on queer rights that I can think of right now. Both their cis and trans writers understand these issues deeply and connect them with normal politics well. www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
On guns: France is at least as racist as the US; if anything I think average white views of minorities are worse in France. It is also much more anti-Semitic. But it doesn't have mass shootings or school shootings or mass terror shootings like Pittsburgh Tree of Life.
I'm just going to keep repeating that if they *actually* profiled for perpetrators of mass shootings, white men wouldn't be allowed to have guns.
It didn’t even take 6 hours.
November 27, 2025 at 5:31 AM
On guns: France is at least as racist as the US; if anything I think average white views of minorities are worse in France. It is also much more anti-Semitic. But it doesn't have mass shootings or school shootings or mass terror shootings like Pittsburgh Tree of Life.
New Atheism 2.0, let's go.
November 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
New Atheism 2.0, let's go.
I just read the Oxford math curriculum and I don't get why people consider it a global top university on a par with the American elite ones, sorry. It's full of fluff to the point that it takes two group theory courses to get to Sylow's theorems and ends up being noticeably slower than Columbia.
November 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I just read the Oxford math curriculum and I don't get why people consider it a global top university on a par with the American elite ones, sorry. It's full of fluff to the point that it takes two group theory courses to get to Sylow's theorems and ends up being noticeably slower than Columbia.
Ditto racism in general. European politicians cancel Schengen on trains because they see a black person on the train and think "must be an illegal immigrant" and not because Putin bribed them.
No, America's rising anti-Semitism is not an online illusion created by foreign-run social media accounts on X. I wrote about how this comforting fiction is contradicted by real world events and survey data. Foreigners can fan the flames, but they didn't start the fire. We did. Gift link:
People Are Underestimating America’s Groyper Problem
Rising American anti-Semitism isn’t a foreign influence operation.
www.theatlantic.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Ditto racism in general. European politicians cancel Schengen on trains because they see a black person on the train and think "must be an illegal immigrant" and not because Putin bribed them.
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I am high and listening to Snoop reading me Danish jokes about Germans from World War II
I have an app that reads to me in Snoop Dogg‘s voice. Also, I study the Holocaust so the stuff I need read is pretty terrible — but somehow easier to get through coming from Snoop
November 26, 2025 at 2:41 AM
I am high and listening to Snoop reading me Danish jokes about Germans from World War II
20,000 is a tripwire. 200,000 *might* be a deterrent if they're entirely armored and mechanized and if there are a couple tens of divisions behind them ready to mobilize in case the tripwire is triggered.
Former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has called for Europe to deploy up to 20,000 troops behind Ukraine’s front lines, establish an air shield with around 150 combat aircraft and unlock frozen Russian assets.
November 26, 2025 at 2:24 AM
20,000 is a tripwire. 200,000 *might* be a deterrent if they're entirely armored and mechanized and if there are a couple tens of divisions behind them ready to mobilize in case the tripwire is triggered.
The extensive reporting on the Mamdani transition - hundreds of appointees to various working committees, 179 Adams staffers to be replaced - just underscores how enormously politicized American governance is. Israel, a sovereign state similar in population to NYC, doesn't see this much turnover.
November 25, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The extensive reporting on the Mamdani transition - hundreds of appointees to various working committees, 179 Adams staffers to be replaced - just underscores how enormously politicized American governance is. Israel, a sovereign state similar in population to NYC, doesn't see this much turnover.
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It’s very funny how Anglo center left parties are the parties of stuck up technocratic elites when they never actually consult subject matter experts, rather law school professors and consultants
November 25, 2025 at 10:55 PM
It’s very funny how Anglo center left parties are the parties of stuck up technocratic elites when they never actually consult subject matter experts, rather law school professors and consultants
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If you ever wonder why people say "slippery as an eel" I can confirm that one time we had to hold an eel for a vet to do a blood draw and that eel ended up on the floor 47 times out of 48 attempts
November 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
If you ever wonder why people say "slippery as an eel" I can confirm that one time we had to hold an eel for a vet to do a blood draw and that eel ended up on the floor 47 times out of 48 attempts
The value of statistical life in the US is $13.7 million and not $81.7 million. Wrongful deaths in the US average high six figures, maybe low seven in New York (I'm using this calculator: www.scheuermanlaw.com/wrongful-dea...). The jury is trying to do judicial transport planning. It never works.
November 25, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The value of statistical life in the US is $13.7 million and not $81.7 million. Wrongful deaths in the US average high six figures, maybe low seven in New York (I'm using this calculator: www.scheuermanlaw.com/wrongful-dea...). The jury is trying to do judicial transport planning. It never works.
Why do I have so many mutuals following this asshole? Please block. (The screencapped post is about 7.10; "the resistance" is 7.10.)
November 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Why do I have so many mutuals following this asshole? Please block. (The screencapped post is about 7.10; "the resistance" is 7.10.)
Netanya is going to need to build a lot of housing.
France, Odoxa poll:
Presidential run-off election
Bardella (RN-PfE): 53%
Philippe (HOR-RE): 47%
Bardella (RN-PfE): 58%
Glucksmann (PS/PP-S&D): 42%
Bardella (RN-PfE): 74%
Mélenchon (LFI-LEFT): 26%
Bardella (RN-PfE): 56%
Attal (RE-RE): 44%
Fieldwork: 19-20 November 2025
Sample size: 803-689
Presidential run-off election
Bardella (RN-PfE): 53%
Philippe (HOR-RE): 47%
Bardella (RN-PfE): 58%
Glucksmann (PS/PP-S&D): 42%
Bardella (RN-PfE): 74%
Mélenchon (LFI-LEFT): 26%
Bardella (RN-PfE): 56%
Attal (RE-RE): 44%
Fieldwork: 19-20 November 2025
Sample size: 803-689
November 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Netanya is going to need to build a lot of housing.
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
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This post is sent from… 🥁 Moscow!
Really! Look! Russian IP address
I’m actually in a train near Melun 🇫🇷 (pic 2)
Really! Look! Russian IP address
I’m actually in a train near Melun 🇫🇷 (pic 2)
November 25, 2025 at 7:20 AM
This post is sent from… 🥁 Moscow!
Really! Look! Russian IP address
I’m actually in a train near Melun 🇫🇷 (pic 2)
Really! Look! Russian IP address
I’m actually in a train near Melun 🇫🇷 (pic 2)
I rarely eat the indigenous cuisine of Europe. I also think European civilization comprises a millennium of pogroms culminating in the Holocaust and colonial genocides. However, these two things are unrelated. I limit my consumption of indigenous European food out of taste.
November 25, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I rarely eat the indigenous cuisine of Europe. I also think European civilization comprises a millennium of pogroms culminating in the Holocaust and colonial genocides. However, these two things are unrelated. I limit my consumption of indigenous European food out of taste.