Krankenbruder
@krankenbruder.bsky.social
Director of Free Air, Great Male Renunciation denunciation
Mayed, gruntled, and illusioned
"Vorwärts immer, rückwärts nimmer!"
Free State of Illinois
Mayed, gruntled, and illusioned
"Vorwärts immer, rückwärts nimmer!"
Free State of Illinois
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Another cool paper from Broockman et al. showing people oppose new housing not just because of NIMBY, but because they genuinely don't want others to live near ugly buildings.
I wonder how much of the so-called "cultural" concerns about migration are similarly about aesthetics.
I wonder how much of the so-called "cultural" concerns about migration are similarly about aesthetics.
NEW PAPER w/ @cselmendorf.bsky.social & @jkalla.bsky.social:
An under-appreciated reason why voters oppose dense new housing, especially in less-dense neighborhoods: they think it looks ugly and want to prevent that, even in other neighborhoods.
Some of what we think is NIMBYism might not be!
An under-appreciated reason why voters oppose dense new housing, especially in less-dense neighborhoods: they think it looks ugly and want to prevent that, even in other neighborhoods.
Some of what we think is NIMBYism might not be!
November 25, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Another cool paper from Broockman et al. showing people oppose new housing not just because of NIMBY, but because they genuinely don't want others to live near ugly buildings.
I wonder how much of the so-called "cultural" concerns about migration are similarly about aesthetics.
I wonder how much of the so-called "cultural" concerns about migration are similarly about aesthetics.
"Stand in the seat" great metaphor, great visual.
Zack Polanski tells the BBC it would be "very tempting" for him to stand in Keir Starmer's seat at the next general election
November 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
"Stand in the seat" great metaphor, great visual.
The middle east used to be full of white people, then Arabs lost their white status, one of few groups to do so.
November 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The middle east used to be full of white people, then Arabs lost their white status, one of few groups to do so.
Much better than the Cheetah Cum Cab
I just bookmarked the Cheetah Cub Cam, this is the fucking cutest
Cheetah Cub Cam
The Cheetah Cub Cam streams live from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia.
nationalzoo.si.edu
November 24, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Much better than the Cheetah Cum Cab
Everyone knows Midwest nice, but there is also Midwest snippy.
Male circumcision is most common in Africa, the Middle East, and for some reason in the Midwest of the US? Source: buff.ly/vpchRZk
November 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Everyone knows Midwest nice, but there is also Midwest snippy.
The Italian "OHHHHhhh!" was made for moments like these.
Like this isn't even close. Someone treats another human like this right next to you, you say something. No job is worth the indignity of having to say you were there and did nothing.
November 18, 2025 at 7:30 AM
The Italian "OHHHHhhh!" was made for moments like these.
The left self-radicalizing beyond all sense on criminal justice is a legendary gift to the right. And there's absolutely no way to talk them down. All criticism is immediately dismissed on "we'll be attacked no matter what" grounds. That's not a reason be extremely attackable.
During the Obama administration's second term, reduction of federal prison population became a priority and US attorneys began refusing most drug prosections. That was real. It happened. Police reform became a third-rail issue because GOP could tar it with defund. That was real too.
November 17, 2025 at 8:26 PM
The left self-radicalizing beyond all sense on criminal justice is a legendary gift to the right. And there's absolutely no way to talk them down. All criticism is immediately dismissed on "we'll be attacked no matter what" grounds. That's not a reason be extremely attackable.
And so it will be for the next five months.
November 9, 2025 at 12:37 PM
And so it will be for the next five months.
Imagine living in Japan, maker of the Toyota Land Cruiser, which outlasts mountains.
"No! Give me something way shittier! Ship those electrical gremlins across oceans. I won't be happy unless I've paid an outrageous sum and even more to mechanics. I'll have the only one on my block."
Veblen good.
"No! Give me something way shittier! Ship those electrical gremlins across oceans. I won't be happy unless I've paid an outrageous sum and even more to mechanics. I'll have the only one on my block."
Veblen good.
Japanese-Market 1998 Land Rover Discovery at No Reserve
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October 30, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Imagine living in Japan, maker of the Toyota Land Cruiser, which outlasts mountains.
"No! Give me something way shittier! Ship those electrical gremlins across oceans. I won't be happy unless I've paid an outrageous sum and even more to mechanics. I'll have the only one on my block."
Veblen good.
"No! Give me something way shittier! Ship those electrical gremlins across oceans. I won't be happy unless I've paid an outrageous sum and even more to mechanics. I'll have the only one on my block."
Veblen good.
At some point, Trump will be replaced by an AI. He will appear only on video. AI Trump will explain that Soros and Obama hired a bunch of new antifa supersoldiers from Muslim insane asylums, and they're hopped up on super strength Venezuelan fentanyl. As the AI improves, Trump will become more
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everyone who keeps freaking out about him running for a third term has not actually watched him on video less than one year into this one
President Trump said it was “too bad” that he couldn’t seek a third presidential term after some allies promoted the idea of him running again in 2028.
Read more: 🔗 on.wsj.com/4qyZGJ4
Read more: 🔗 on.wsj.com/4qyZGJ4
October 29, 2025 at 11:36 PM
At some point, Trump will be replaced by an AI. He will appear only on video. AI Trump will explain that Soros and Obama hired a bunch of new antifa supersoldiers from Muslim insane asylums, and they're hopped up on super strength Venezuelan fentanyl. As the AI improves, Trump will become more
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This ceasefire is like children playing the "who can be quiet" game.
"Starts now. No, time-out. ... Now."
"Starts now. No, time-out. ... Now."
After a wave of Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip overnight and this morning, the ceasefire will resume at 10 a.m., military sources say.
@manniefabian.bsky.social reports
@manniefabian.bsky.social reports
October 29, 2025 at 8:47 AM
This ceasefire is like children playing the "who can be quiet" game.
"Starts now. No, time-out. ... Now."
"Starts now. No, time-out. ... Now."
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I'll never cease to be childishly amused by the fact that this is a state repression force of a deeply anti-LGBT state.
October 29, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I'll never cease to be childishly amused by the fact that this is a state repression force of a deeply anti-LGBT state.
A balloon is the most sensible way to smuggle helium.
Europe stands in full solidarity with Lithuania in the face of the persistent and incursions of helium smuggling balloons into its airspace.
This is destabilisation.
This is provocation.
We call it by its name: a hybrid threat.
We will not tolerate it.
This is destabilisation.
This is provocation.
We call it by its name: a hybrid threat.
We will not tolerate it.
October 28, 2025 at 12:20 AM
A balloon is the most sensible way to smuggle helium.
He even has the undercut, the most Nazi haircut.
It seemed to come back into style a couple years ago. Maybe I should have read more into that.
It seemed to come back into style a couple years ago. Maybe I should have read more into that.
There are photos on Reddit of him getting arrested, presumably for hitting that person at the end of the video: www.reddit.com/r/Athens/com...
October 25, 2025 at 12:08 AM
He even has the undercut, the most Nazi haircut.
It seemed to come back into style a couple years ago. Maybe I should have read more into that.
It seemed to come back into style a couple years ago. Maybe I should have read more into that.
Make believe is how conservatives solve cognitive dissonance.
I read the transcript. The ad doesn’t misrepresent what he was saying. It’s bizarre for the foundation to claim it did. We can easily see that that’s not true. What is the Reagan Foundation doing here? Showing fealty to Trump for some reason?
October 24, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Make believe is how conservatives solve cognitive dissonance.
Cayenne pepper? That's gotta be the shit!
The food in Turkey is amazing. Translated menus amazing in a different way.
October 23, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Cayenne pepper? That's gotta be the shit!
I didn't think he'd ever actually do it.
⚠️ “Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is imposing further sanctions as a result of Russia’s lack of serious commitment to a peace process to end the war in Ukraine.“
home.treasury.gov/news/press-r...
home.treasury.gov/news/press-r...
Treasury Sanctions Major Russian Oil Companies, Calls on Moscow to Immediately Agree to Ceasefire
WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is imposing further sanctions as a result of Russia’s lack of serious commitment to a peace process to...
home.treasury.gov
October 23, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I didn't think he'd ever actually do it.
Millei looks like a rogue Vorta.
Listen, we can’t send this guy enough of our money. Most trustworthy investment ever.
October 22, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Millei looks like a rogue Vorta.
If the new Republican Medicaid work requirement applied to congress, they'd lose their health coverage.
This is insane. Republicans aren’t allowing Adelita Grijalva to be sworn in because she will provide the final signature necessary on a discharge petition that would force the House to take a public vote on releasing the Epstein files. Speaker Johnson has shut down the House to protect pedophiles.
October 22, 2025 at 12:02 AM
If the new Republican Medicaid work requirement applied to congress, they'd lose their health coverage.
Way to spoil the surprise, Sikorski!
"Putin’s plane could be forced to land for arrest if it flies over Poland on its way to Hungary." - said the country’s Foreign Minister, Radosław Sikorski.
www.reuters.com/world/poland...
www.reuters.com/world/poland...
October 21, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Way to spoil the surprise, Sikorski!
One last time then:
The grand old Duke of York,
he had twelve million quid.
He gave it to someone he never met for something he never did.
The grand old Duke of York,
he had twelve million quid.
He gave it to someone he never met for something he never did.
Prince Andrew Surrenders Duke of York Title www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/w...
Prince Andrew Surrenders Duke of York Title
www.nytimes.com
October 18, 2025 at 12:20 AM
One last time then:
The grand old Duke of York,
he had twelve million quid.
He gave it to someone he never met for something he never did.
The grand old Duke of York,
he had twelve million quid.
He gave it to someone he never met for something he never did.
It's got what industrial processes crave.
Rondo Energy begins commercial operations of the world's largest industrial heat battery — 100 MWh — capable of converting low-cost electricity from wind & solar into heat at >1000°C and supply constant heating needs for industrial processes. 🔌💡
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'World’s largest' industrial heat battery is online and solar-powered
Rondo Energy launches the world's largest industrial heat battery in California, delivering 24/7 steam and heat powered by renewables.
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October 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
It's got what industrial processes crave.
It's wild that a candidate for Mayor of NYC, which does not have a foreign policy, must convincingly swear belief in the "two-state solution."
The transition to vapid civic piety is complete. It now functionally means "world peace"
The transition to vapid civic piety is complete. It now functionally means "world peace"
Even Mamdani is smart enough not to run on that.
And because of it and his support of a two state solution, he might just win.
And because of it and his support of a two state solution, he might just win.
October 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
It's wild that a candidate for Mayor of NYC, which does not have a foreign policy, must convincingly swear belief in the "two-state solution."
The transition to vapid civic piety is complete. It now functionally means "world peace"
The transition to vapid civic piety is complete. It now functionally means "world peace"
The sari state of US shipping.
US shipping chaos: I fear my wedding sari is destroyed
US shipping chaos: I fear my wedding sari is destroyed
Customers worry about missing parcels as shipping companies struggle to handle a flood of packages facing new customs and tariff rules.
www.bbc.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:57 AM
The sari state of US shipping.