EssayWells
@essaywells.bsky.social
Scientist, husband, parent, possibly a little too into Dungeons and Dragons. @essayWells on Twitter (Ex-Twitter?)
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In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)"
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Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs | Cornell Chronicle
Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s fiv...
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December 9, 2025 at 2:19 AM
In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)"
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
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"Farming is stupid," says @sarahday.org as we walk back in from disentangling the LGDs, who had managed to get their collars hooked together, terrifying the sheep with a vision of a very low rent Cerberus at 0445.
December 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"Farming is stupid," says @sarahday.org as we walk back in from disentangling the LGDs, who had managed to get their collars hooked together, terrifying the sheep with a vision of a very low rent Cerberus at 0445.
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It’s not much more complex than: Labour, Tories and Reform all regard Thatcherism, crackdowns and migrant terror as non-negotiable Grown Up politics, and everything to the left of that as idiotic, foofy, probably treasonous lunacy that has to be crushed utterly. The press agrees, and enforces this.
Labour, a supply side explanation for the rise of populism, and the growing acceptability of xenophobic discourse in the UK
I never cease to be amazed at how bad Labour politicians are at politics. It may seem arrogant for an economist to say that, but it’s not ...
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December 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
It’s not much more complex than: Labour, Tories and Reform all regard Thatcherism, crackdowns and migrant terror as non-negotiable Grown Up politics, and everything to the left of that as idiotic, foofy, probably treasonous lunacy that has to be crushed utterly. The press agrees, and enforces this.
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this perfectly captures this entire administration’s “the emperor has no clothes” energy
we are all expected to pretend this man is the King of Health, and he himself believes it, which is why he confidently in front of witnesses attempted a thing he cannot do, knowing they will all say that he did
we are all expected to pretend this man is the King of Health, and he himself believes it, which is why he confidently in front of witnesses attempted a thing he cannot do, knowing they will all say that he did
December 9, 2025 at 10:22 AM
this perfectly captures this entire administration’s “the emperor has no clothes” energy
we are all expected to pretend this man is the King of Health, and he himself believes it, which is why he confidently in front of witnesses attempted a thing he cannot do, knowing they will all say that he did
we are all expected to pretend this man is the King of Health, and he himself believes it, which is why he confidently in front of witnesses attempted a thing he cannot do, knowing they will all say that he did
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cannot stress enough how willing i am to point another scholar in the direction of resources in my field. i have access to one of the greatest libraries in the world and i have on many occasions called up centuries old books to photograph a page for someone on here. and i'll do it again
They could slide into our DMs for free half the time but would rather do anything than work with another human being
December 9, 2025 at 10:43 AM
cannot stress enough how willing i am to point another scholar in the direction of resources in my field. i have access to one of the greatest libraries in the world and i have on many occasions called up centuries old books to photograph a page for someone on here. and i'll do it again
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I love that my mum is like “autism does not run in the family” and when I come to visit every sink is filled with ferns and orchids and she has an inexplicable collection of wooden fish sourced from across 300 second-hand stores
December 9, 2025 at 9:46 AM
I love that my mum is like “autism does not run in the family” and when I come to visit every sink is filled with ferns and orchids and she has an inexplicable collection of wooden fish sourced from across 300 second-hand stores
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Springer Nature retracting papers based on bonkers dataset
www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/e... Good. #autism
www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/e... Good. #autism
Springer Nature retracts, removes nearly 40 publications
The dataset contains images of children’s faces downloaded from websites about autism, which sparked concerns at Springer Nature about consent and reliability.
www.thetransmitter.org
December 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Springer Nature retracting papers based on bonkers dataset
www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/e... Good. #autism
www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/e... Good. #autism
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The “retired engineer” has absolutely no business making a dataset of autistic faces, but what on God’s green earth are researchers thinking when they *use* a dataset like this? Come on. Use a single brain cell.
December 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The “retired engineer” has absolutely no business making a dataset of autistic faces, but what on God’s green earth are researchers thinking when they *use* a dataset like this? Come on. Use a single brain cell.
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one of the main reasons you should still seek out the "this bitch is trans" letter in germany is so you can force a psychologist to describe your appearance in writing
December 8, 2025 at 10:24 PM
one of the main reasons you should still seek out the "this bitch is trans" letter in germany is so you can force a psychologist to describe your appearance in writing
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“wearing a face mask can help significantly stop the flu and other respiratory viruses from spreading.”
When The Mirror is suggesting people mask… things must be bad.
Mask up folks! Ideally N95 or better!
A good respirator will protect you and those around you from flu, covid, rsv and more
When The Mirror is suggesting people mask… things must be bad.
Mask up folks! Ideally N95 or better!
A good respirator will protect you and those around you from flu, covid, rsv and more
NHS 'cover your mouth and nose' UK-wide update as H3N2 strain spreads
People are being urged to follow safety procedures as the virus spreads
www.mirror.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 9:10 AM
“wearing a face mask can help significantly stop the flu and other respiratory viruses from spreading.”
When The Mirror is suggesting people mask… things must be bad.
Mask up folks! Ideally N95 or better!
A good respirator will protect you and those around you from flu, covid, rsv and more
When The Mirror is suggesting people mask… things must be bad.
Mask up folks! Ideally N95 or better!
A good respirator will protect you and those around you from flu, covid, rsv and more
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Searching for a new litterbox and dying laughing at this cat who looks like a toilet astronaut.
December 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Searching for a new litterbox and dying laughing at this cat who looks like a toilet astronaut.
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Why stop at asking LLMs to generate references for you? The logical response if you can't find an article reference generated by LLM in a library is to get the LLM to generate the article for you, as it is clearly all-wise and knows everything. Job done.
Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary.
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
December 9, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Why stop at asking LLMs to generate references for you? The logical response if you can't find an article reference generated by LLM in a library is to get the LLM to generate the article for you, as it is clearly all-wise and knows everything. Job done.
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BREAKING: A federal judge ordered the government to restore Rümeysa Öztürk's SEVIS student record after it was wrongfully terminated in retaliation for exercising her freedom of speech.
This allows her to fully engage with the opportunities of her PhD program.
This allows her to fully engage with the opportunities of her PhD program.
December 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
BREAKING: A federal judge ordered the government to restore Rümeysa Öztürk's SEVIS student record after it was wrongfully terminated in retaliation for exercising her freedom of speech.
This allows her to fully engage with the opportunities of her PhD program.
This allows her to fully engage with the opportunities of her PhD program.
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"You're a big account, so you have a duty to ..."
Look, at some level, I get that.
But also ... I didn't run for the office of Big Account with a promise to you, the Bluesky voter, to deliver on certain issues.
I just logged onto the same site you did, made some posts, and people followed me.
Look, at some level, I get that.
But also ... I didn't run for the office of Big Account with a promise to you, the Bluesky voter, to deliver on certain issues.
I just logged onto the same site you did, made some posts, and people followed me.
December 8, 2025 at 8:43 PM
"You're a big account, so you have a duty to ..."
Look, at some level, I get that.
But also ... I didn't run for the office of Big Account with a promise to you, the Bluesky voter, to deliver on certain issues.
I just logged onto the same site you did, made some posts, and people followed me.
Look, at some level, I get that.
But also ... I didn't run for the office of Big Account with a promise to you, the Bluesky voter, to deliver on certain issues.
I just logged onto the same site you did, made some posts, and people followed me.
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The IPC cell minutes revealed at the COVID inquiry exposed the main barrier. Saving face matters more than saving lives:
"if you wanted to change the guidance itself, it would need a very careful narrative, otherwise it would be easy to give the impression that we got it wrong..."
"if you wanted to change the guidance itself, it would need a very careful narrative, otherwise it would be easy to give the impression that we got it wrong..."
UK Covid 19 Inquiry - Module 3 Hearing - 16 September 2024 PM
YouTube video by UK Covid-19 Inquiry
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September 11, 2025 at 11:50 AM
The IPC cell minutes revealed at the COVID inquiry exposed the main barrier. Saving face matters more than saving lives:
"if you wanted to change the guidance itself, it would need a very careful narrative, otherwise it would be easy to give the impression that we got it wrong..."
"if you wanted to change the guidance itself, it would need a very careful narrative, otherwise it would be easy to give the impression that we got it wrong..."
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The guidance changed over the Summer for #NHSStaff to wear ffp3 respirators to protect themselves from airborne transmission. This is vital, especially with 13 million clinically vulnerable unvaccinated this Winter. Would Labour like to explain why there has been no messaging on this?
September 11, 2025 at 10:34 AM
The guidance changed over the Summer for #NHSStaff to wear ffp3 respirators to protect themselves from airborne transmission. This is vital, especially with 13 million clinically vulnerable unvaccinated this Winter. Would Labour like to explain why there has been no messaging on this?
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IMPORTANT SEAFARING BANANA UPDATE
December 8, 2025 at 11:25 AM
IMPORTANT SEAFARING BANANA UPDATE
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The thing I try to explain the most to those who don’t live here is that the Nuzzis of the world live in Washington (the place that deserves your ire) and the rest of us live in D.C., a collection of diverse, mostly quiet, walkable residential neighborhoods with no federal representation
I live in DC. You think “official Washington” didn’t care what Trump administration 2 was likely to do?
Talk to someone who works at NIH. Or State. Or CFPB. Or DOJ. They all knew what was at stake. They were all scared + furious.
And reporters like Nuzzi saw none of it because they didn’t care.
Talk to someone who works at NIH. Or State. Or CFPB. Or DOJ. They all knew what was at stake. They were all scared + furious.
And reporters like Nuzzi saw none of it because they didn’t care.
December 8, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The thing I try to explain the most to those who don’t live here is that the Nuzzis of the world live in Washington (the place that deserves your ire) and the rest of us live in D.C., a collection of diverse, mostly quiet, walkable residential neighborhoods with no federal representation
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Them: we made a whole tv commercial out of AIs
Me: ***whatever the heck this is intensifies***
Me: ***whatever the heck this is intensifies***
December 8, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Them: we made a whole tv commercial out of AIs
Me: ***whatever the heck this is intensifies***
Me: ***whatever the heck this is intensifies***
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I hear this but I also see the same US public out for No Kings and chasing away ICE agents and voting in off elections and organizing for food banks.
"Rebuild." Pssh. Look around you at the absolute wretched state of the US elite. Look at the sad, corporate-captured, power-worshiping media. Look at the distracted, deluded, increasingly spectacle-addicted US public. Look at the denuded, decrepit set of ideas allowed in our discourse. Look.
December 8, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I hear this but I also see the same US public out for No Kings and chasing away ICE agents and voting in off elections and organizing for food banks.
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Some of you may be like “what about people who can’t breastfeed or babies who can’t latch” and the answer is that he wants your babies to die
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Some of you may be like “what about people who can’t breastfeed or babies who can’t latch” and the answer is that he wants your babies to die
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I’ll be honest, ADHD was not where I saw TERFs headed next. I mean, I knew they were always gonna go after somebody, trans people were always the thin end of the wedge, but of all the bigotry available to choose from, we’re awfully niche.
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I’ll be honest, ADHD was not where I saw TERFs headed next. I mean, I knew they were always gonna go after somebody, trans people were always the thin end of the wedge, but of all the bigotry available to choose from, we’re awfully niche.
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The #PaxU Acquisitions Inc game went up on YouTube this past week, so I'd like to take this opportunity to point out some things @ghostyghosty.bsky.social and I observed at the time - in particular, what makes @cwtycho.penny-arcade.com an excellent player & worth paying attention to. 🧵:
December 7, 2025 at 12:38 AM
The #PaxU Acquisitions Inc game went up on YouTube this past week, so I'd like to take this opportunity to point out some things @ghostyghosty.bsky.social and I observed at the time - in particular, what makes @cwtycho.penny-arcade.com an excellent player & worth paying attention to. 🧵:
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What is this high school debate shit?
Everyone wants peace!
Adults just realize that any peace which lasts beyond a Russian re-arming / recruitment cycle has to be on terms that don't reward Russia's initial invasion with land and legitimacy, and which meaningfully deter future aggression.
Everyone wants peace!
Adults just realize that any peace which lasts beyond a Russian re-arming / recruitment cycle has to be on terms that don't reward Russia's initial invasion with land and legitimacy, and which meaningfully deter future aggression.
December 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
What is this high school debate shit?
Everyone wants peace!
Adults just realize that any peace which lasts beyond a Russian re-arming / recruitment cycle has to be on terms that don't reward Russia's initial invasion with land and legitimacy, and which meaningfully deter future aggression.
Everyone wants peace!
Adults just realize that any peace which lasts beyond a Russian re-arming / recruitment cycle has to be on terms that don't reward Russia's initial invasion with land and legitimacy, and which meaningfully deter future aggression.