John Carolin
@johncarolin.bsky.social
Dawgs, ATLUTD, urbanism, transit, trains
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This one has been making me laugh for hours
January 25, 2026 at 4:30 PM
This one has been making me laugh for hours
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In some countries the outbreak of bloodshed inspires the opposition party to call for the leader to resign
January 24, 2026 at 8:24 PM
In some countries the outbreak of bloodshed inspires the opposition party to call for the leader to resign
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When you do observer training, they make clear that your role is to observe, alert, and DEESCALATE. Because escalating against ICE does ICE’s job for them. Thrill seekers looking for a riot create the opposite of what the successful mass movement of observers seeks to provide: safety, awareness.
January 24, 2026 at 7:03 PM
When you do observer training, they make clear that your role is to observe, alert, and DEESCALATE. Because escalating against ICE does ICE’s job for them. Thrill seekers looking for a riot create the opposite of what the successful mass movement of observers seeks to provide: safety, awareness.
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participating in the general strike by being kind of shit at my job
January 23, 2026 at 3:20 PM
participating in the general strike by being kind of shit at my job
Hey, weather folks (@brobroma.bsky.social?), quick question
This is the NWS's current probabilistic snow forecast (Baltimore/Washington office). Why, for Charlottesville, does it show the expected snowfall amount as 9" but only a 35% chance of 8" or more of snow? Is "expected" not a median?
This is the NWS's current probabilistic snow forecast (Baltimore/Washington office). Why, for Charlottesville, does it show the expected snowfall amount as 9" but only a 35% chance of 8" or more of snow? Is "expected" not a median?
January 23, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Hey, weather folks (@brobroma.bsky.social?), quick question
This is the NWS's current probabilistic snow forecast (Baltimore/Washington office). Why, for Charlottesville, does it show the expected snowfall amount as 9" but only a 35% chance of 8" or more of snow? Is "expected" not a median?
This is the NWS's current probabilistic snow forecast (Baltimore/Washington office). Why, for Charlottesville, does it show the expected snowfall amount as 9" but only a 35% chance of 8" or more of snow? Is "expected" not a median?
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Y'all, he's our boy. We knew he had it in him.
Can't give up a game-clinching INT/pick 6 if you didn't help keep the team in the game up to that point, right Carson?
a man in a suit is standing in front of a building and looking at the camera .
Alt: think about it dot gif
media.tenor.com
January 20, 2026 at 4:16 AM
Y'all, he's our boy. We knew he had it in him.
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for @amandamull.bsky.social and Bulldogs who have to go to work tomorrow
January 20, 2026 at 4:26 AM
for @amandamull.bsky.social and Bulldogs who have to go to work tomorrow
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Miami lost three games this season and their last offensive play of each one of them was a Carson Beck interception
January 20, 2026 at 4:17 AM
Miami lost three games this season and their last offensive play of each one of them was a Carson Beck interception
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It’s sort of insane how pervasive the framing that multiculturalism is some weird liberal experiment has become.
It’s the default state of what happens when people have easy movement and aren’t actively being told to hate each other. You can prove it by going outside in almost any city.
It’s the default state of what happens when people have easy movement and aren’t actively being told to hate each other. You can prove it by going outside in almost any city.
Hard agree. I'm increasingly just zero sympathy for the cowardly chauvinists who can't handle places where lots of different people get along together.
I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"
January 17, 2026 at 8:24 AM
It’s sort of insane how pervasive the framing that multiculturalism is some weird liberal experiment has become.
It’s the default state of what happens when people have easy movement and aren’t actively being told to hate each other. You can prove it by going outside in almost any city.
It’s the default state of what happens when people have easy movement and aren’t actively being told to hate each other. You can prove it by going outside in almost any city.
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The Nobel Peace Prize becoming so prestigious that wars are fought over a head of state coveting it is some real monkey paw stuff for Alfred Nobel.
January 19, 2026 at 8:47 AM
The Nobel Peace Prize becoming so prestigious that wars are fought over a head of state coveting it is some real monkey paw stuff for Alfred Nobel.
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“Oughtposting vs isposting” is immediately load bearing for me
I have a theory that the general epistemic crisis has led to a lot of very online people getting used to communicating primarily through oughtposting and kind of forgetting how to deal with isposting
people gotta chill out about making normative vs. descriptive claims. it’s tedious to have to specify “of course, I do NOT support fire” if you’re talking about a house burning down.
January 16, 2026 at 3:44 PM
“Oughtposting vs isposting” is immediately load bearing for me
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I have a theory that the general epistemic crisis has led to a lot of very online people getting used to communicating primarily through oughtposting and kind of forgetting how to deal with isposting
people gotta chill out about making normative vs. descriptive claims. it’s tedious to have to specify “of course, I do NOT support fire” if you’re talking about a house burning down.
January 16, 2026 at 3:30 AM
I have a theory that the general epistemic crisis has led to a lot of very online people getting used to communicating primarily through oughtposting and kind of forgetting how to deal with isposting
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The national media, the ADL, corporate leaders, etc. are not revisiting their decisions about Musk now afaict. Musk is just allowed to be a very public Nazi accelerationist as well as a CSAM publisher without any mainstream scrutiny.
Every week is overwhelming evidence of what we saw with our own eyes, but which our credulous media was afraid to print: the Nazi salute was a Nazi salute
Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
January 12, 2026 at 2:24 PM
The national media, the ADL, corporate leaders, etc. are not revisiting their decisions about Musk now afaict. Musk is just allowed to be a very public Nazi accelerationist as well as a CSAM publisher without any mainstream scrutiny.
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I believe aliens visited New York City in 1900 to build the subway. Proof: a subway was built in New York and New Yorkers have not really been able to build one in the last 85 years.
Theories that aliens constructed ancient human buildings are, at their core, racist.
January 11, 2026 at 7:30 PM
I believe aliens visited New York City in 1900 to build the subway. Proof: a subway was built in New York and New Yorkers have not really been able to build one in the last 85 years.
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The supplanted of 69 by 67 as the funny number is an indication of Gen Z's absence of erotic desire. In this essay I will
January 6, 2026 at 5:07 PM
The supplanted of 69 by 67 as the funny number is an indication of Gen Z's absence of erotic desire. In this essay I will
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And I think liberals should stop taking the bait and ceding ground on immigration.
Immigration is good. Multiculturalism is good. Free trade is good. Stop being embarrassed to say so.
Immigration is good. Multiculturalism is good. Free trade is good. Stop being embarrassed to say so.
December 31, 2025 at 11:31 PM
And I think liberals should stop taking the bait and ceding ground on immigration.
Immigration is good. Multiculturalism is good. Free trade is good. Stop being embarrassed to say so.
Immigration is good. Multiculturalism is good. Free trade is good. Stop being embarrassed to say so.
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this game is an escort mission for the colts. they have to gain yardage in small chunks and wait for philip rivers to walk up to the line. every couple minutes he spits out some dialogue like "hurry – we have to reach the satellite uplink so we can deliver evidence of the ambassador's wrongdoing"
December 23, 2025 at 1:24 AM
this game is an escort mission for the colts. they have to gain yardage in small chunks and wait for philip rivers to walk up to the line. every couple minutes he spits out some dialogue like "hurry – we have to reach the satellite uplink so we can deliver evidence of the ambassador's wrongdoing"
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My entire X timeline is anti-EU posts from people I don't follow.
Even if I change it from 'for you' to 'following', it switches back to 'for you' each time I open the site.
X is being weaponised against the EU. And unfortunately X is still the public square for European journalists & politicians.
Even if I change it from 'for you' to 'following', it switches back to 'for you' each time I open the site.
X is being weaponised against the EU. And unfortunately X is still the public square for European journalists & politicians.
December 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
My entire X timeline is anti-EU posts from people I don't follow.
Even if I change it from 'for you' to 'following', it switches back to 'for you' each time I open the site.
X is being weaponised against the EU. And unfortunately X is still the public square for European journalists & politicians.
Even if I change it from 'for you' to 'following', it switches back to 'for you' each time I open the site.
X is being weaponised against the EU. And unfortunately X is still the public square for European journalists & politicians.
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a lot of the “men love _____ (war, obscure historical factoids, pressure-washing a deck, The Simpsons, fixing a faucet, etc.)” posts are not relatable to me in the least, but this one…whew buddy. I fucking love a good map
Not sure what to get him for Christmas? Get him a map. Dudes love those things.
December 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
a lot of the “men love _____ (war, obscure historical factoids, pressure-washing a deck, The Simpsons, fixing a faucet, etc.)” posts are not relatable to me in the least, but this one…whew buddy. I fucking love a good map
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one thing that doesn’t get enough coverage or comment with regards to this administration is it how much it hates the actually existing united states
Trump Administration Scraps Plan to Mint Quarters Featuring Abolition, Suffrage
The move comes as a controversial $1 Trump coin for the nation’s 250th birthday is also being considered.
www.wsj.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
one thing that doesn’t get enough coverage or comment with regards to this administration is it how much it hates the actually existing united states