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michaelcem.bsky.social
Out there: Geospatial. Dad life. On here: Mainly for jokes and the sportsball
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Some stats from 100 days in on congestion pricing: - Complaints about car-honking are down 70% - The Holland Tunnel has 65% fewer delays at rush hour; time to get thru it is down 48% - 6 million fewer cars - Half as many traffic-related injuries - 1.5 million more visitors to BIDs year over year

submitted 35 days ago • 67 comments

55% CANADA 55% FRANCE 55% MEXICO 55% PERU 55% GERMANY 55% SPAIN

submitted 48 days ago • 62 comments

Government efficiency is when every federal agency has to send a daily emergency email to its workers telling them to ignore another daily email from a different department trying to fire them without knowing what their jobs are.

submitted 85 days ago • 133 comments

“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house." Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded. www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...

submitted 110 days ago • 286 comments

This is as good a time as any to revisit the history of the creation of the NSF. It was inspired by a request from FDR after World War II to Vannevar Bush (Matthew Modine in "Oppenheimer"), who responded in a classic letter now known as "Science: The Endless Frontier". It is very inspiring.

submitted 113 days ago • 4 comments

@matsheltoneide.bsky.social VCU -10?!?! What did Vegas know and when did they know it?

submitted 126 days ago • 1 comment

Read this prescient feature from @pollymosendz.bsky.social and @eroston.bsky.social on the pressure climate change puts on insurance and mortgages in turn, published a few weeks ago. www.bloomberg.com/features/202... 🎁

submitted 131 days ago • 14 comments

Not the biggest news today, but still worth noting: in the 119th Congress, Alabama will have two Black U.S. representatives serving together for the first time in history. This didn't happen during Reconstruction. It took nearly 60 years after the Voting Rights Act, and lengthy litigation.

submitted 137 days ago • 11 comments

tell drake. i want him to know it was me. i played that shit 837283 times

submitted 176 days ago • 225 comments

When the one volunteer shift at the youth concession stand emails to say your shift got cancelled.

submitted 185 days ago • 0 comments