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Just a dad looking to raise my girls, love my wife, and leave the world better than I found it..
Interesting side effect of driverless cars….
December 30, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Interesting side effect of driverless cars….
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"When I first arrived at the top secret Porton Down laboratory, I knew very little about its activities.
I knew it was the UK’s chemical defence research centre and that over the years it had conducted tests with chemical agents on humans."
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I knew it was the UK’s chemical defence research centre and that over the years it had conducted tests with chemical agents on humans."
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Inside Porton Down: what I learned during three years at the UK’s most secretive chemical weapons laboratory
Porton Down’s archive was opened up
for a study into the health of the human volunteers in the nerve agent testing programme.
tcnv.link
December 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM
"When I first arrived at the top secret Porton Down laboratory, I knew very little about its activities.
I knew it was the UK’s chemical defence research centre and that over the years it had conducted tests with chemical agents on humans."
tcnv.link/zBbvEpd
I knew it was the UK’s chemical defence research centre and that over the years it had conducted tests with chemical agents on humans."
tcnv.link/zBbvEpd
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It’s been half a century and it seems like this still isn’t widely understood.
(from Robert Caro, 'The Power Broker', Vintage: 1975, p. 897)
(from Robert Caro, 'The Power Broker', Vintage: 1975, p. 897)
![Even before the war, of course, some urban planners had begun to see largely because of the effects of Moses' creations that building more traffic facilities would not in itself cure traffic congestion. These planners had said the Regional Plan Association had been saying it since 1929 and, after the opening of Moses' creations during the 1930's, w ith increasing urgency that the movement of people and goods In a great metropolitan region required a balanced transportation system, one in which the construction of mass rapid transit facilities kept pace w ith the construction of roads. During the last two or three years before the war, a few planners had even begun to understand that, w ithout a balanced system, roads not only would not alleviate transportation congestion but would aggravate it. Watching Moses open the Triborough Bridge to ease congestion on the Queensborough Bridge, open the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge to ease congestion on the Triborough Bridge and then watching traffic counts on all three bridges mount until all three were as congested as one had been before, planners could hardly avoid the conclusion that "traffic generation" was no longer a theory but a proven fact: the more highways were built to alleviate congestion, the more automobiles would pour onto them and congest them and thus force the building of more highways —which would generate more traffic and become congested in their turn in an inexorably widening spiral that contained the most awesome implications for the future of New York and of all urban areas. The only remedy that could check that vicious spiral was the coordination of new highways with new mass transit facilities– […]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x4d7yazerbjhjwnwfgi4tv7q/bafkreieazhjjvr5ha3rdble7h6dwrgatwvhsd6pbr7frfwcqjawt4ck6eq@jpeg)
December 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
It’s been half a century and it seems like this still isn’t widely understood.
(from Robert Caro, 'The Power Broker', Vintage: 1975, p. 897)
(from Robert Caro, 'The Power Broker', Vintage: 1975, p. 897)
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A lovely way to visualize the news cycle of the year gone by from @axios. Topics (important or unimportant, over and ongoing) enter and leave the news cycle. Source: buff.ly/TcPMSjH
December 30, 2025 at 10:55 AM
A lovely way to visualize the news cycle of the year gone by from @axios. Topics (important or unimportant, over and ongoing) enter and leave the news cycle. Source: buff.ly/TcPMSjH
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15 superb soups and stews worth slurping in the DC area this winter
15 superb soups and stews worth slurping in the DC area this winter
Here are 15 soups and stews from local restaurants in the D.C. area that should appeal to spoon-clutching diners in need of something warm and comforting.
wtop.com
December 30, 2025 at 11:31 AM
15 superb soups and stews worth slurping in the DC area this winter
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🚀 Big news: donations are DOUBLED!
Give today and your gift will go twice as far to repair pavement, remove invasives, and keep the Mount Vernon Trail beautiful for everyone.
Matching funds won’t last long — join in now: buff.ly/CFD3juK
Give today and your gift will go twice as far to repair pavement, remove invasives, and keep the Mount Vernon Trail beautiful for everyone.
Matching funds won’t last long — join in now: buff.ly/CFD3juK
December 30, 2025 at 12:02 PM
🚀 Big news: donations are DOUBLED!
Give today and your gift will go twice as far to repair pavement, remove invasives, and keep the Mount Vernon Trail beautiful for everyone.
Matching funds won’t last long — join in now: buff.ly/CFD3juK
Give today and your gift will go twice as far to repair pavement, remove invasives, and keep the Mount Vernon Trail beautiful for everyone.
Matching funds won’t last long — join in now: buff.ly/CFD3juK
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The analysis is on point 🎯 and the framing is a chef 💋.
"Trump assumed that Canada had no choice but to fold. He believed that trade dependence was a leash he could yank whenever he wanted a concession.
He was wrong." #cdnpoli www.newsletter.samuel-warde.com/p/canada-fli...
"Trump assumed that Canada had no choice but to fold. He believed that trade dependence was a leash he could yank whenever he wanted a concession.
He was wrong." #cdnpoli www.newsletter.samuel-warde.com/p/canada-fli...
Canada Flips the Script, Hits Trump Where It Hurts the Most
The Art of the Self-Own
www.newsletter.samuel-warde.com
December 29, 2025 at 1:08 AM
The analysis is on point 🎯 and the framing is a chef 💋.
"Trump assumed that Canada had no choice but to fold. He believed that trade dependence was a leash he could yank whenever he wanted a concession.
He was wrong." #cdnpoli www.newsletter.samuel-warde.com/p/canada-fli...
"Trump assumed that Canada had no choice but to fold. He believed that trade dependence was a leash he could yank whenever he wanted a concession.
He was wrong." #cdnpoli www.newsletter.samuel-warde.com/p/canada-fli...
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A randomized trial of the Becoming a Man program found nearly a 50% reduction in violent crime arrests by teaching young men to slow down reflexive decisions. Small interventions can save lives at scale.
Deaths of decision-making among young men
Exploring why young men face higher fatality rates—and the proven behavioral strategies that can prevent these deaths.
aibm.org
December 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A randomized trial of the Becoming a Man program found nearly a 50% reduction in violent crime arrests by teaching young men to slow down reflexive decisions. Small interventions can save lives at scale.
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America sent 12 Tomahawks to pound the sands of northwestern Nigeria. So, you should know about their precarious production rates.
www.aei.org/op-eds/why-i...
www.aei.org/op-eds/why-i...
www.aei.org
December 27, 2025 at 1:04 AM
America sent 12 Tomahawks to pound the sands of northwestern Nigeria. So, you should know about their precarious production rates.
www.aei.org/op-eds/why-i...
www.aei.org/op-eds/why-i...
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No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.
December 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.
😂🤔😮💨
by this time next year ai will be capable of opening presents with your family, freeing you up to finish those spreadsheets your boss has been waiting on
December 26, 2025 at 5:19 AM
😂🤔😮💨
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Here's a good Christmas story for you!
While I was in prison, I was the food procurement clerk. It was my job to work with the first cook to design the daily food menu and then make sure the men were fed on a budget of $2.60 per person per day.
How I helped make the best Christmas prison meal, a thread.
How I helped make the best Christmas prison meal, a thread.
December 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Here's a good Christmas story for you!
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this time of year brings a mix of emotions, i know.
i hope this season, whatever you celebrate or may be struggling through, brings you a bit of peace somewhere.
this may be a message for you. maybe just give it a call.
216-361-6772.
i hope this season, whatever you celebrate or may be struggling through, brings you a bit of peace somewhere.
this may be a message for you. maybe just give it a call.
216-361-6772.
December 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
this time of year brings a mix of emotions, i know.
i hope this season, whatever you celebrate or may be struggling through, brings you a bit of peace somewhere.
this may be a message for you. maybe just give it a call.
216-361-6772.
i hope this season, whatever you celebrate or may be struggling through, brings you a bit of peace somewhere.
this may be a message for you. maybe just give it a call.
216-361-6772.
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This is actually so frikken cooool, they've just found the perfect home and learned to live together to enjoy it
Obvious cw for spiders
Obvious cw for spiders
Sulfur cave spiders build an arachnid megacity and possibly the largest-ever spider web
Researchers may have discovered the world's biggest spider web, a massive subterranean structure spanning over 100 square meters in a sulfur cave on the Albania–Greece border. The multilayered web alo...
phys.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
This is actually so frikken cooool, they've just found the perfect home and learned to live together to enjoy it
Obvious cw for spiders
Obvious cw for spiders
The void in someone’s heart it takes to say that statement.
“Like prime, but with human beings”
December 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The void in someone’s heart it takes to say that statement.
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USPS has many remits!
- connecting the nation via the mails
- running a self-sufficient funding model
- paying prevailing wages
- serving as part of a homeland security framework
And there's more! That's what makes me an econ policy reporter -- for that kind of expertise most folks don't track.
- connecting the nation via the mails
- running a self-sufficient funding model
- paying prevailing wages
- serving as part of a homeland security framework
And there's more! That's what makes me an econ policy reporter -- for that kind of expertise most folks don't track.
December 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
USPS has many remits!
- connecting the nation via the mails
- running a self-sufficient funding model
- paying prevailing wages
- serving as part of a homeland security framework
And there's more! That's what makes me an econ policy reporter -- for that kind of expertise most folks don't track.
- connecting the nation via the mails
- running a self-sufficient funding model
- paying prevailing wages
- serving as part of a homeland security framework
And there's more! That's what makes me an econ policy reporter -- for that kind of expertise most folks don't track.
Treachery is defined as “betrayal of trust; deceptive action or nature.” (Oxford). Who did Canada betray? Certainly not anyone who expected trust in supporting anti-human crimes (good guys don’t do that). The Atlantic.com seems a little confused here on laws and rights.
December 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Treachery is defined as “betrayal of trust; deceptive action or nature.” (Oxford). Who did Canada betray? Certainly not anyone who expected trust in supporting anti-human crimes (good guys don’t do that). The Atlantic.com seems a little confused here on laws and rights.
The kind of post we used to reserve for places like DPRK. 🫤
Americans having to bootleg broadcast news about our government’s offshored concentration camp is a level of fascism that immediately precedes democratic societies dropping leaflets on us from weather balloons.
And now someone has uploaded a version that wasn't filmed off a TV.
There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
December 23, 2025 at 2:30 AM
The kind of post we used to reserve for places like DPRK. 🫤
Jim Beam and now Tyson’s? Not great, Bob.
December 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Jim Beam and now Tyson’s? Not great, Bob.
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Captivating photos from the DC area’s top stories of 2025
Captivating photos from the DC area’s top stories of 2025
As 2025 comes to a close, there’s a lot to unpack in the D.C. region. Here are photos from some of the top stories of the year.
wtop.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Captivating photos from the DC area’s top stories of 2025
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Anyone know if we have these specific Condor cameras in Alexandria or Arlington...? www.404media.co/flock-expose...
Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves
Flock left at least 60 of its people-tracking Condor PTZ cameras live streaming and exposed to the open internet.
www.404media.co
December 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Anyone know if we have these specific Condor cameras in Alexandria or Arlington...? www.404media.co/flock-expose...
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last show you watched are trying to rescue you.
Who's coming to save you?
Don’t judge me. Capt. Sandy will get it done. And the ride home will be sweet.
Who's coming to save you?
Don’t judge me. Capt. Sandy will get it done. And the ride home will be sweet.
December 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last show you watched are trying to rescue you.
Who's coming to save you?
Don’t judge me. Capt. Sandy will get it done. And the ride home will be sweet.
Who's coming to save you?
Don’t judge me. Capt. Sandy will get it done. And the ride home will be sweet.
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Today is the Winter Solstice. Happy. Solstice.
December 21, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Today is the Winter Solstice. Happy. Solstice.
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DC residents have been refusing to call that airport anything but National for almost thirty years, we certainly can refuse to call that arts center anything but the Kennedy Center for three
December 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
DC residents have been refusing to call that airport anything but National for almost thirty years, we certainly can refuse to call that arts center anything but the Kennedy Center for three
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How To Be The Manager Everyone Wants To Work For
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December 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
How To Be The Manager Everyone Wants To Work For
www.forbes.com/sites/juliak... (Photo: Getty Images)
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