Christo Silvia
@christosilvia.bsky.social
Housing 🏘️, transit🚇, walking🚶♂️ and cycling 🚲 advocate in Woburn, MA, USA
Car lite advocate, ebike owner
Historic 🏠 owner, renovation amateur, and marriage enthusiast
Vegetarian
Senior RF Design Eng
The opinions on this account do not represent my employer
Car lite advocate, ebike owner
Historic 🏠 owner, renovation amateur, and marriage enthusiast
Vegetarian
Senior RF Design Eng
The opinions on this account do not represent my employer
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This article is something else!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u... the framing is wild
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u... the framing is wild
Two Men. One Identity. They Both Paid the Price.
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:29 PM
This article is something else!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u... the framing is wild
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u... the framing is wild
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good work guys you picked a fight in which Dems can stand up out of their permanent defensive crouch and go “our guy is a fucking astronaut and you’re an alcoholic tv host”
Gallego to Hegseth: "You will never ever be half the man that Sen. Kelly is. You, sir, are a coward. And the fact that you are following this order from the president shows how big of a coward you are. I can't wait until you are no longer the secretary of defense."
November 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
good work guys you picked a fight in which Dems can stand up out of their permanent defensive crouch and go “our guy is a fucking astronaut and you’re an alcoholic tv host”
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I always laugh when people think that water efficient shower heads are the solution to the problem that >80-90% of water use is agriculture.
‘But drought is a terrible problem for feeding the world, look at this dried up crop!’
The crop? Corn.
‘But drought is a terrible problem for feeding the world, look at this dried up crop!’
The crop? Corn.
November 25, 2025 at 5:31 AM
I always laugh when people think that water efficient shower heads are the solution to the problem that >80-90% of water use is agriculture.
‘But drought is a terrible problem for feeding the world, look at this dried up crop!’
The crop? Corn.
‘But drought is a terrible problem for feeding the world, look at this dried up crop!’
The crop? Corn.
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This is a crime against graphic design. I had to re-read the blurb before I could figure out what the second line said. Was thinking it might be some word in one of the local Indigenous languages. Sczy? Wasn't that a printer interface standard?
I’m very sorry to announce this to the rest of the country & the world, but a transitional logo has been chosen for the 2034 Salt Lake City Olympics & this is it. Why does it say Utah? We don’t know. Why is the font illegible? Yet another mystery. Did they go ugly on purpose? Again, no idea.
November 25, 2025 at 6:55 AM
This is a crime against graphic design. I had to re-read the blurb before I could figure out what the second line said. Was thinking it might be some word in one of the local Indigenous languages. Sczy? Wasn't that a printer interface standard?
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We should Guangzhouificuay the peninsula
November 25, 2025 at 6:45 AM
We should Guangzhouificuay the peninsula
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Since January, I have asked elected officials at the state and federal levels to make an affirmative case for gov't spending. What makes transport cheaper to build? Gov't expertise. Cheaper heathcare? Medicare negotiations. Clean tech deployment? Agency staff. Effective diplomacy? Gov't capacity.
I just feel we need to keep saying, over and over, that the problem with DOGE was not its failure to cut spending. the problem with DOGE is that it CUT GLOBAL AID LEADING TO THE DEATHS OF 600K PEOPLE AND COUNTING. 1
DOGE is one of the greatest failures of the Trump administration. The next Democratic administration should pick up that issue and actually work to cut government waste, fraud, and abuse. I’d suggest starting by taking a look at Elon Musk’s government contracts.
November 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Since January, I have asked elected officials at the state and federal levels to make an affirmative case for gov't spending. What makes transport cheaper to build? Gov't expertise. Cheaper heathcare? Medicare negotiations. Clean tech deployment? Agency staff. Effective diplomacy? Gov't capacity.
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If MTG truly believes that she can run for president, she would do well to read the Epstein client list into the congressional record, then move to vacate the Speaker’s chair. Might as well go out with a bang.
November 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
If MTG truly believes that she can run for president, she would do well to read the Epstein client list into the congressional record, then move to vacate the Speaker’s chair. Might as well go out with a bang.
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Just want to remind everyone that Mike Flynn told a crowd of rabid QAnon troglodytes in no uncertain terms that the military should conduct a coup in order to reinstall Trump as an unelected dictator, and he never once was subject to the penalties that the UCMJ demands for that sort of thing
November 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Just want to remind everyone that Mike Flynn told a crowd of rabid QAnon troglodytes in no uncertain terms that the military should conduct a coup in order to reinstall Trump as an unelected dictator, and he never once was subject to the penalties that the UCMJ demands for that sort of thing
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When I think "where the vast majority of Americans actually are," I think about the millionaire lawyer for Jeffrey Epstein & Harvey Weinstein & Donald Trump who was recently in the news for threatening to sue a pierogi seller in Martha's Vineyard, where he has one of his homes.
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 3:57 AM
When I think "where the vast majority of Americans actually are," I think about the millionaire lawyer for Jeffrey Epstein & Harvey Weinstein & Donald Trump who was recently in the news for threatening to sue a pierogi seller in Martha's Vineyard, where he has one of his homes.
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They genuinely have no idea he ran as far away from these guys and towards being a median Dem as soon as these idiots signed onto him. They’re a cult and nothing moves them off their chosen one
November 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
They genuinely have no idea he ran as far away from these guys and towards being a median Dem as soon as these idiots signed onto him. They’re a cult and nothing moves them off their chosen one
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People say they expected Mountain View or Los Altos but this seems right to me - Portola Valley, Atherton, etc, with big low density lots that rarely change hands & thus don’t get re-appraised often
"We label jurisdictions like [these dark blue ones] “municipal tax havens” for the way they shield property wealth from taxation."
Are the dark blue areas the ones that you expected based on that description?
Are the dark blue areas the ones that you expected based on that description?
November 25, 2025 at 6:21 AM
People say they expected Mountain View or Los Altos but this seems right to me - Portola Valley, Atherton, etc, with big low density lots that rarely change hands & thus don’t get re-appraised often
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For all the discourse over Bay Area inequality, LA is on a totally different level
November 25, 2025 at 6:14 AM
For all the discourse over Bay Area inequality, LA is on a totally different level
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Two adults in our home tonight playing video games, after a run of dying too many times:
“Where do we go to get lives?”
My reply:
“Not to a video game console.”
(apologies to gamers out there, but it was right there, I had to take it)
“Where do we go to get lives?”
My reply:
“Not to a video game console.”
(apologies to gamers out there, but it was right there, I had to take it)
November 25, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Two adults in our home tonight playing video games, after a run of dying too many times:
“Where do we go to get lives?”
My reply:
“Not to a video game console.”
(apologies to gamers out there, but it was right there, I had to take it)
“Where do we go to get lives?”
My reply:
“Not to a video game console.”
(apologies to gamers out there, but it was right there, I had to take it)
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Would a nutjob do *this*? (proceeds to have an affair with my phone’s autocorrect)
November 24, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Would a nutjob do *this*? (proceeds to have an affair with my phone’s autocorrect)
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"Like how Ouija boards work" I'd argue this is the on-the-money thought in this whole story
November 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
"Like how Ouija boards work" I'd argue this is the on-the-money thought in this whole story
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When I say that locking mothers in the suburbs with small children breaks them? This is what I mean.
It’s why we need universal daycare, paid parental leave for a full year, with gradual return to work schedules.
Babies do best in groups of peers (siblings are not peers). And adults NEED peers!
It’s why we need universal daycare, paid parental leave for a full year, with gradual return to work schedules.
Babies do best in groups of peers (siblings are not peers). And adults NEED peers!
I'm literally just living a normal life while also experiencing a theophany via communication with the satellite called VALIS.
November 25, 2025 at 6:07 AM
When I say that locking mothers in the suburbs with small children breaks them? This is what I mean.
It’s why we need universal daycare, paid parental leave for a full year, with gradual return to work schedules.
Babies do best in groups of peers (siblings are not peers). And adults NEED peers!
It’s why we need universal daycare, paid parental leave for a full year, with gradual return to work schedules.
Babies do best in groups of peers (siblings are not peers). And adults NEED peers!
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The problem is if you want to do transit advocacy in the USA you do really need to know what a shoefly is, and weird shit about fire safety, and a million other things.
I'm guessing 10% of the people in this room were looking for this level of detail. A phrase comes to mind (build the damn trains, I don't need to know what a shoofly is.)
November 25, 2025 at 5:24 AM
The problem is if you want to do transit advocacy in the USA you do really need to know what a shoefly is, and weird shit about fire safety, and a million other things.
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I think a big part of that was that many people lost their minds and became completely unbearable in those years, and a lot of the ones that did have still never gotten past it. I know several of those.
November 25, 2025 at 5:09 AM
I think a big part of that was that many people lost their minds and became completely unbearable in those years, and a lot of the ones that did have still never gotten past it. I know several of those.
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It's a lot easier to cover the soap opera of the Trump attacks on Comey & James than the destruction of NASA, the Department of Education, EPA, NOAA, the IRS, etc
November 25, 2025 at 1:30 AM
It's a lot easier to cover the soap opera of the Trump attacks on Comey & James than the destruction of NASA, the Department of Education, EPA, NOAA, the IRS, etc
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@brendannyhan.bsky.social is right: young people are reluctant to come to the defense of institutions that have excluded them, ignored them, and crushed their movements
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
November 25, 2025 at 3:37 AM
@brendannyhan.bsky.social is right: young people are reluctant to come to the defense of institutions that have excluded them, ignored them, and crushed their movements
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
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The Gaza protests not only “provoked intense political conflict.” Liberal and Dem leaders are still calling them antisemites for caring about liberal principles like human rights and international law…and they expect these same kids to come defend liberal democracy!
November 25, 2025 at 3:43 AM
The Gaza protests not only “provoked intense political conflict.” Liberal and Dem leaders are still calling them antisemites for caring about liberal principles like human rights and international law…and they expect these same kids to come defend liberal democracy!
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i did not want a degree and i have one because basically all of the good avenues up without one seemed to have become mythological by the time i was in motion :)
one of the things i objected to most at at GOOG over the years, from the labor perspective, is the slow decay of the blue-collar routes up into corp. you used to encounter guys who started out swapping drives in 120 degree heat in the hot aisles and who were now SREs, and that's gone.
Yes. I probably could have put it better in the original post and tried to clarify in the next one
November 25, 2025 at 3:13 AM
i did not want a degree and i have one because basically all of the good avenues up without one seemed to have become mythological by the time i was in motion :)
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There was a period of time where Rad was *the* recommended bang for your buck ebike!
November 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
There was a period of time where Rad was *the* recommended bang for your buck ebike!
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this is far too common to be dismissed as anecdota tbh. the sheer number of clubs and social groups that couldn't survive remote, or stayed permanently remote, had a huge impact on the social lives of like 100 million americans bsky.app/profile/adis...
this is just anecdotal but among my social circle like 90% of regularly scheduled in-person hangouts simply imploded over COVID and never returned. it's way, way harder to start these things than end them.
November 24, 2025 at 5:12 AM
this is far too common to be dismissed as anecdota tbh. the sheer number of clubs and social groups that couldn't survive remote, or stayed permanently remote, had a huge impact on the social lives of like 100 million americans bsky.app/profile/adis...
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