Nick Schiwy
@nickschiwy.com
Long-time technology geek. Fervent advocate for all things Baltimore. Frequently babels about bikes and transit.
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Can also be found at https://schiwy.co/@nick
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he/him
Nothing on this account represents the views of my employer.
Can also be found at https://schiwy.co/@nick
Posts are ephemeral
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PSA:
There will likely be thousands of drunk drivers on the roads across the country tonight and for the next few days.
The phrase "I'm fine to drive" is a cultural disease. It isn't limited to bad neighborhoods or bad people, it spans every single tax bracket.
There will likely be thousands of drunk drivers on the roads across the country tonight and for the next few days.
The phrase "I'm fine to drive" is a cultural disease. It isn't limited to bad neighborhoods or bad people, it spans every single tax bracket.
December 24, 2025 at 11:10 PM
PSA:
There will likely be thousands of drunk drivers on the roads across the country tonight and for the next few days.
The phrase "I'm fine to drive" is a cultural disease. It isn't limited to bad neighborhoods or bad people, it spans every single tax bracket.
There will likely be thousands of drunk drivers on the roads across the country tonight and for the next few days.
The phrase "I'm fine to drive" is a cultural disease. It isn't limited to bad neighborhoods or bad people, it spans every single tax bracket.
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As many of us begin Christmas meal prep, allow me to share the advice that my ER nurse sister puts in the chat every year:
A dropped knife has no handle. Jump away. Let it fall. You can pick it up and wash it.
A dropped knife has no handle. Jump away. Let it fall. You can pick it up and wash it.
December 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
As many of us begin Christmas meal prep, allow me to share the advice that my ER nurse sister puts in the chat every year:
A dropped knife has no handle. Jump away. Let it fall. You can pick it up and wash it.
A dropped knife has no handle. Jump away. Let it fall. You can pick it up and wash it.
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A wave of fully abandoned railroads returning to passenger rail service may be dawning:
*@purplelinemd.bsky.social-fmr B&O Georgetown Branch: 2027
*NJ Transit Andover Branch-frmr DL&W Lackawanna Cutoff: 2027
*Amtrak Regional/Silver Star-fmr SCL S Line (?)
*ValleyLink-fmr SP Altamont Pass line (?)
*@purplelinemd.bsky.social-fmr B&O Georgetown Branch: 2027
*NJ Transit Andover Branch-frmr DL&W Lackawanna Cutoff: 2027
*Amtrak Regional/Silver Star-fmr SCL S Line (?)
*ValleyLink-fmr SP Altamont Pass line (?)
December 23, 2025 at 11:26 PM
A wave of fully abandoned railroads returning to passenger rail service may be dawning:
*@purplelinemd.bsky.social-fmr B&O Georgetown Branch: 2027
*NJ Transit Andover Branch-frmr DL&W Lackawanna Cutoff: 2027
*Amtrak Regional/Silver Star-fmr SCL S Line (?)
*ValleyLink-fmr SP Altamont Pass line (?)
*@purplelinemd.bsky.social-fmr B&O Georgetown Branch: 2027
*NJ Transit Andover Branch-frmr DL&W Lackawanna Cutoff: 2027
*Amtrak Regional/Silver Star-fmr SCL S Line (?)
*ValleyLink-fmr SP Altamont Pass line (?)
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Thousands of baristas are still on ULP strike across the country, and we're not going anywhere!
Stand with striking baristas and don't buy Starbucks ANYWHERE. Get that peppermint mocha (and those last minute gift cards) at your local coffee shop instead! #NoContractNoCoffee
Stand with striking baristas and don't buy Starbucks ANYWHERE. Get that peppermint mocha (and those last minute gift cards) at your local coffee shop instead! #NoContractNoCoffee
December 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Thousands of baristas are still on ULP strike across the country, and we're not going anywhere!
Stand with striking baristas and don't buy Starbucks ANYWHERE. Get that peppermint mocha (and those last minute gift cards) at your local coffee shop instead! #NoContractNoCoffee
Stand with striking baristas and don't buy Starbucks ANYWHERE. Get that peppermint mocha (and those last minute gift cards) at your local coffee shop instead! #NoContractNoCoffee
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I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
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Wow. Genuinely shocked, and a hugely consequential decision.
Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![The Government asked this Court to stay the District Court's order. After the response and reply were filed, JUSTICE BARRETT referred the application to the Court. We directed the parties to file supplemental letter briefs on an issue that the District Court had addressed but the parties' initial briefs had not: the meaning of the term "regular forces" in §12406(3). In its supplemental brief, the Government argues that the term refers to civilian law enforcement officers, such as those employed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Federal Protective Service.
Respondents, echoing the District Court, maintain that the term refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary.
We conclude that the term "regular forces" in §12406(3) likely refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary. This interpretation means that to call the Guard into active federal service under §12406(3), the President must be "unable" with the regular military "to execute the laws of the United States." Because the statute requires an assessment of the military's ability to execute the laws, it likely applies only where the military could legally execute the laws. Such circumstances are exceptional: Under the Posse Comitatus Act, the military is prohibited from "execut[ing] the laws" "except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress."
18 U. S. C. §1385. So before the President can federalize the Guard under §12406(3), he likely must have statutory or constitutional authority to execute the laws with the regular military and must be "unable" with those forces to perform that function.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiftbhzwvn3vgwhqsi7k2paizvdw4t26ailljvovso3chqupnmj364@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Wow. Genuinely shocked, and a hugely consequential decision.
Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
Should I wait until after the bubble bursts to buy a new GPU? It can't be that much longer right?
December 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Should I wait until after the bubble bursts to buy a new GPU? It can't be that much longer right?
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I'm not normally one to say nice things about Apple but they recently redid their entire Apple TV intro by just recording a glass cutout of the logo with different light filters www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bJQ...
December 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I'm not normally one to say nice things about Apple but they recently redid their entire Apple TV intro by just recording a glass cutout of the logo with different light filters www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bJQ...
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December 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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The Abundance movement often points to environmental groups as the obstacles to building. But who actually files the lawsuits blocking projects? It’s not environmental groups. It’s been lawyered-up HOAs protecting property values all along. Regulation by litigation is the problem.
December 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
The Abundance movement often points to environmental groups as the obstacles to building. But who actually files the lawsuits blocking projects? It’s not environmental groups. It’s been lawyered-up HOAs protecting property values all along. Regulation by litigation is the problem.
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Any cargo bike people around? Can someone report if this thing is decent?
December 22, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Any cargo bike people around? Can someone report if this thing is decent?
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james… carville… good?
v confused
v confused
Uh here’s chief Clinton strategist James Carville…
…going long on why and how politicians should support trans people.
What is going on lol
…going long on why and how politicians should support trans people.
What is going on lol
Identity Politics with James Carville
open.spotify.com
December 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
james… carville… good?
v confused
v confused
Christmas movies are canonically anti-capitalist
Christmas Vacation - boss kidnapped for mistreating workers
A Christmas Carol - boss visited by three ghosts for mistreating workers
It’s a Wonderful Life - community comes together through mutual aid to prevent predatory capitalist from overtaking town
A Christmas Carol - boss visited by three ghosts for mistreating workers
It’s a Wonderful Life - community comes together through mutual aid to prevent predatory capitalist from overtaking town
December 20, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Christmas movies are canonically anti-capitalist
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I hate defensive walking
December 19, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I hate defensive walking
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PBS will be raising the cost of their passport program from $60.00 per year to $96.00 per year
😢 😢 😢
😢 😢 😢
December 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
PBS will be raising the cost of their passport program from $60.00 per year to $96.00 per year
😢 😢 😢
😢 😢 😢
I only actually played three of these games but whatever; they were the best ones:
Fallout 4, Witcher III, Undertale
Fallout 4, Witcher III, Undertale
Quote this with what you would have said your game of the year was at the end of 2015, if you had one, and what you would say your favourite game of 2015 is now, if it differs
Localisations and early access count, remasters don't. Remakes depend
Refresher here: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
Localisations and early access count, remasters don't. Remakes depend
Refresher here: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
December 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I only actually played three of these games but whatever; they were the best ones:
Fallout 4, Witcher III, Undertale
Fallout 4, Witcher III, Undertale
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I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
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This is obscene. Why can't other politicians say that?
The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a combined fortune totaling $2.9 trillion.
The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a combined fortune totaling $2.9 trillion.
December 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM
This is obscene. Why can't other politicians say that?
The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a combined fortune totaling $2.9 trillion.
The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a combined fortune totaling $2.9 trillion.
Feeling super annoyed and discouraged this afternoon and wanted to just stare into the middle distance for the rest of the day until I had to leave but I just realized I have an hour-long meeting scheduled 15 minutes from now that I'm going to have to act alive for...
December 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Feeling super annoyed and discouraged this afternoon and wanted to just stare into the middle distance for the rest of the day until I had to leave but I just realized I have an hour-long meeting scheduled 15 minutes from now that I'm going to have to act alive for...
Had someone tell me today that I had "nerve" to be still riding my bike to work after the baby was born instead of driving a car.
Why is car brain so happy to tell on itself
Why is car brain so happy to tell on itself
December 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Had someone tell me today that I had "nerve" to be still riding my bike to work after the baby was born instead of driving a car.
Why is car brain so happy to tell on itself
Why is car brain so happy to tell on itself
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Tesla's robotaxis crash at 10x the rate of human drivers.
Last month, Tesla confirmed the fleet had traveled roughly 250K miles. With 7 reported crashes at the time, Tesla’s Robotaxi was crashing roughly once every 40K miles.
The average human driver in the US crashes about once every 500K miles.
Last month, Tesla confirmed the fleet had traveled roughly 250K miles. With 7 reported crashes at the time, Tesla’s Robotaxi was crashing roughly once every 40K miles.
The average human driver in the US crashes about once every 500K miles.
Tesla reports another Robotaxi crash, even with supervisor as it moves to remove them
Tesla has reported yet another crash involving its Robotaxi fleet in Austin to the NHTSA. The new data keeps the...
electrek.co
December 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Tesla's robotaxis crash at 10x the rate of human drivers.
Last month, Tesla confirmed the fleet had traveled roughly 250K miles. With 7 reported crashes at the time, Tesla’s Robotaxi was crashing roughly once every 40K miles.
The average human driver in the US crashes about once every 500K miles.
Last month, Tesla confirmed the fleet had traveled roughly 250K miles. With 7 reported crashes at the time, Tesla’s Robotaxi was crashing roughly once every 40K miles.
The average human driver in the US crashes about once every 500K miles.
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My coworker was in a head-on collision on her lunch break today… which happens to be the one-year anniversary of her fiancé’s death…. in a car crash.
December 18, 2025 at 12:29 AM
My coworker was in a head-on collision on her lunch break today… which happens to be the one-year anniversary of her fiancé’s death…. in a car crash.
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Notably, NOT a recall. The CPSC wanted a recall, but Rad refused and has been telling their customers to keep using the batteries.
December 16, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Notably, NOT a recall. The CPSC wanted a recall, but Rad refused and has been telling their customers to keep using the batteries.