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Charles Taggart @sikolnam.bsky.social · 8h

Yes, I had missed the once-per-day thing, but I feel like it will be such a win that we’ll see more trains. Legalize TOD statewide and we can really cook with some gas. The Hudson Valley could be what the Bay Area might have been. (I’m way out over my skis, I know, but it’s fun to imagine.)

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Charles Taggart @sikolnam.bsky.social · 8h

This is not to be read as a defense, because these guys suck, but: do they even believe it themselves? The line between edgelording an earnest belief just seems so blurry.

Charles Taggart @sikolnam.bsky.social · 8h

The headlines are all about Albany but I’m more interested in the impact on Hudson. The low cost and flexibility of the fixed walk-up fare make it a lot more viable as a day trip or a 1-2x/week hybrid in-office requirement. Also makes Hudson *much* more interesting as an Albany bedroom community.

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Charles Taggart @sikolnam.bsky.social · 8h

This is worth watching if for no other reason than to explore who Andrew Cuomo is gaslighting more, himself or his audience.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Anand Giridharadas to Andrew Cuomo: "First of all, governor, it's 'Mamdani.' This is a very big, diverse city you want to lead. We should get the names right."

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Charles Taggart @sikolnam.bsky.social · 9h

There’s also a flattening effect of phone cameras versus actual cameras that means not only will you remember things worse, your attempt to remember with phone pics will be a colorful but boring rendition. When I look at my DSLR photos post-travel I’m in awe, when I look at my phone pics I’m meh.

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Charles Taggart @sikolnam.bsky.social · 9h

Black people and trans people but also workers. So much of this is tied up in 2022 labor market reaction. But to your point, they’re risking a massive backlash that may make them long for a hot labor market where workers had too much power for their liking but we were all making money.

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Charles Taggart @sikolnam.bsky.social · 9h

Gotta spend money to make money.

Charles Taggart @sikolnam.bsky.social · 10h

They don’t even have to do “it was all a dream” though. It’s space fantasy and he has magic in his blood. Nobody was like “wtf is Gandalf doing here, how cheesy!” Episode 1 consists of a space ghost as a major character.

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Charles Taggart @sikolnam.bsky.social · 10h

I admire the commitment to the bit but am I being overconfident in my certainty that Stefanik’s candidacy is going to go kind of like this? www.tiktok.com/@solowolf619...

FAFO kings protest downtown Denver 16th st mall October 18th 2026! Looks like a New York giants fan visiting for the game Sunday! Come on New York get your people! #nokings #protest #ice #fyp #viralvi...

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Charles Taggart @sikolnam.bsky.social · 10h

Also: as if this would matter for commercial viability.

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Charles Taggart @sikolnam.bsky.social · 13h

Were you alive / politically conscio at the time of passage? Because I was and I don’t recall Obama abandoning the bully pulpit, but I do remember Lieberman being a huge asshole.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 16h

"liberals lack a theory of change" is one of the things that gets me every time. like what's the leftist theory of change. how is its track record. what number general strike, seizure of the means of production, workers' revolution are we on.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 22h

One of the chief problems of inherited monarchy is that there are either not enough sons or there are too many.

The Ottomans came up with a robust solution, albeit one impractical in today’s hellscape of wokeness.

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Charles Taggart @sikolnam.bsky.social · 17h

::: taps sign :::

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Charles Taggart @sikolnam.bsky.social · 17h

Right, in the US the most viable large-scale storage involves V2G with a ton of EVs.

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Charles Taggart @sikolnam.bsky.social · 17h

I think you’re a lot more likely to stop that at the ballot box than at some secret third thing.

Charles Taggart @sikolnam.bsky.social · 19h

China performed miracles because it’s way easier to build infrastructure when you’re starting from scratch and have free rein to demolish whatever you feel like. Robert Moses performed miracles too.

Charles Taggart @sikolnam.bsky.social · 19h

In the US we’ve given up on it because we’re busy with things like fighting to maintain vaccine access.

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Charles Taggart @sikolnam.bsky.social · 20h

When you have no idea how the world works, anything is possible.

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Charles Taggart @sikolnam.bsky.social · 20h

Okay, but even if that’s true, it feels odd to focus on the thermal storage bit rather than the reorganizing society bit.

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Charles Taggart @sikolnam.bsky.social · 22h

Little do they know that we’re actually here to argue with each other.

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Charles Taggart @sikolnam.bsky.social · 23h

I think you would just overbuild generation versus trying to reorganize society.

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Charles Taggart @sikolnam.bsky.social · 1d

It’s particularly funny if you read Homage to Catalonia where it’s very clear that the leftist revolutionaries, while including a small number of black bloc types, were mostly real big earnest nerds who hate fascism.

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Charles Taggart @sikolnam.bsky.social · 1d

Isn‘t this basically how the winter league playoffs work?

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Charles Taggart @sikolnam.bsky.social · 1d

And the internet makes this *way* easier, as does being an established professional with disposable income versus a broke college student.

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