Daniel Weir
@danielweir.bsky.social
One time a Nobel laureate agreed with me on a Zoom call. Thoughts and tweets my own. Arlington ride or die.
Pinned
Reposted by Daniel Weir
The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
December 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
Reposted by Daniel Weir
Woo is a reactionary force. Its association with hippies concealed this for a long time, but it has always been true.
This is strictly a personal observation from living in LA, but RFK scares me so much because otherwise orthodox liberals with a woo food and chemicals streak are being converted into lunatic conservatives.
SCOOP: Academy Award-nominee Liam Neeson narrated a recent anti-vaccine documentary that glorifies RFK Jr.’s rise to power.
In the film, Neeson—a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador—calls the COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous experiments.”
www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...
In the film, Neeson—a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador—calls the COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous experiments.”
www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...
December 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Woo is a reactionary force. Its association with hippies concealed this for a long time, but it has always been true.
Virtue is good and it should be signaled.
we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
December 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Virtue is good and it should be signaled.
Reposted by Daniel Weir
we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
December 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
Reposted by Daniel Weir
I don’t want to overreact, but I’m *pretty sure* this woman can be the frontrunner for the Democratic Party Presidential nomination starting tomorrow if she wants.
December 5, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I don’t want to overreact, but I’m *pretty sure* this woman can be the frontrunner for the Democratic Party Presidential nomination starting tomorrow if she wants.
Reposted by Daniel Weir
I hoped to get this out earlier but btwn the death in my family+thanksgiving, here we are
I think its important to be transparent on my concerns about the “form of government” process being proposed for Arlington County w/vote this month
3 categories:
- timing/priorities
- approach
- substance
I think its important to be transparent on my concerns about the “form of government” process being proposed for Arlington County w/vote this month
3 categories:
- timing/priorities
- approach
- substance
December 1, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I hoped to get this out earlier but btwn the death in my family+thanksgiving, here we are
I think its important to be transparent on my concerns about the “form of government” process being proposed for Arlington County w/vote this month
3 categories:
- timing/priorities
- approach
- substance
I think its important to be transparent on my concerns about the “form of government” process being proposed for Arlington County w/vote this month
3 categories:
- timing/priorities
- approach
- substance
Reposted by Daniel Weir
When you see the set of footprints in concrete on #columbiapike … just think … that’s Jesus walking next to you wishing he could hop on the streetcar 🤣
November 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
When you see the set of footprints in concrete on #columbiapike … just think … that’s Jesus walking next to you wishing he could hop on the streetcar 🤣
Reposted by Daniel Weir
Now *that* is how you name a beer 🤣
November 21, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Now *that* is how you name a beer 🤣
Vernon I love you man but we got pinball at acme pie on the pike
Arlington has an arcade and it’s a national chain restaurant/bar.
Alexandria has a new arcade and it’s a couple guys fixing up an obscure rare X-Men game and basically building a restaurant around it behind a car shop
Alexandria has a new arcade and it’s a couple guys fixing up an obscure rare X-Men game and basically building a restaurant around it behind a car shop
November 22, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Vernon I love you man but we got pinball at acme pie on the pike
Reposted by Daniel Weir
It’s so funny how Arlington is so culturally and geographically close to Alexandria but the vibe is just tangibly different and delightfully weird.
I know I go back to this well a lot, but you have to dig to find out about ‘The Beast of Barcroft’ whereas Alexandria has ‘Goosepigs’ on a city plaque
I know I go back to this well a lot, but you have to dig to find out about ‘The Beast of Barcroft’ whereas Alexandria has ‘Goosepigs’ on a city plaque
November 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
It’s so funny how Arlington is so culturally and geographically close to Alexandria but the vibe is just tangibly different and delightfully weird.
I know I go back to this well a lot, but you have to dig to find out about ‘The Beast of Barcroft’ whereas Alexandria has ‘Goosepigs’ on a city plaque
I know I go back to this well a lot, but you have to dig to find out about ‘The Beast of Barcroft’ whereas Alexandria has ‘Goosepigs’ on a city plaque
Reposted by Daniel Weir
i think if you want to have those disgusting LED headlights on your car, you should have to do a test where they blast you point blank with your own headlights and then you have 15 seconds to successfully complete some sort of vision-based task, and if you can't do it they push your car off a cliff
November 20, 2025 at 2:25 AM
i think if you want to have those disgusting LED headlights on your car, you should have to do a test where they blast you point blank with your own headlights and then you have 15 seconds to successfully complete some sort of vision-based task, and if you can't do it they push your car off a cliff
I happen to believe that the best place for trash is the dump. Not, you know, given historic preservation or something.
November 16, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I happen to believe that the best place for trash is the dump. Not, you know, given historic preservation or something.
Reposted by Daniel Weir
I can’t even
November 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I can’t even
Reposted by Daniel Weir
I feel like parents teaching their sons "You don't actually need to learn be decent to other people, just make sure you can get a job that makes a lot of money" is exactly why we're having this male loneliness epidemic.
November 12, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I feel like parents teaching their sons "You don't actually need to learn be decent to other people, just make sure you can get a job that makes a lot of money" is exactly why we're having this male loneliness epidemic.
Reposted by Daniel Weir
Nothing like a proposal for a modest amount of lower-income housing nearby to find out who your neighbors are.
November 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Nothing like a proposal for a modest amount of lower-income housing nearby to find out who your neighbors are.
Reposted by Daniel Weir
As an Arlington resident I rate this as accurate
WaPo rating every county for raising a family and HATS OFF to the NIMBYS for working overtime to get us this ZERO in affordability #arlingtonVA
November 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
As an Arlington resident I rate this as accurate
Reposted by Daniel Weir
WaPo rating every county for raising a family and HATS OFF to the NIMBYS for working overtime to get us this ZERO in affordability #arlingtonVA
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
WaPo rating every county for raising a family and HATS OFF to the NIMBYS for working overtime to get us this ZERO in affordability #arlingtonVA
Reposted by Daniel Weir
While we're at it, why do we pay for a fire department when most houses don't even burn down.
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
While we're at it, why do we pay for a fire department when most houses don't even burn down.
Reposted by Daniel Weir
Couldn't help myself.
November 9, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Couldn't help myself.
Reposted by Daniel Weir
bezos somehow made an editorial page worse than the one at the wall street journal
November 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM
bezos somehow made an editorial page worse than the one at the wall street journal
Reposted by Daniel Weir
this is the most informative label on Bluesky, mufo-gossipy division
November 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
this is the most informative label on Bluesky, mufo-gossipy division
Reposted by Daniel Weir
Reposted by Daniel Weir
It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life
November 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life
Reposted by Daniel Weir
So glad I searched up Edmund Fitzgerald Tok again
November 3, 2025 at 1:07 PM
So glad I searched up Edmund Fitzgerald Tok again
Reposted by Daniel Weir
Mamdani is not a radical. He has run a tight, smart, fairly standard local campaign. He'll probably get 20 or 30 percent of his platform if he's lucky. The one radical thing he's done is told the Times to go to hell. He has campaigned every step of the way like he doesn't need them, and he's right.
November 2, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Mamdani is not a radical. He has run a tight, smart, fairly standard local campaign. He'll probably get 20 or 30 percent of his platform if he's lucky. The one radical thing he's done is told the Times to go to hell. He has campaigned every step of the way like he doesn't need them, and he's right.