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Having some fun finger painting on my phone, but I have created a high end technical illustration showing why you’re safer in a ditch during a tornado than in your car. It’s not as windy in the ditch.

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"AI" - dashare.zone ADMIN

Finally, some good news +38% network wide vs last year, with some routes seeing over double the ridership. It amuses me that the 80 still moves more people than the BRT. www.cityofmadison.com/news/2025-05...

“I asked ChatGPT,” well I asked your mom and she said you’ve always been a disappointment

On this day May 13th, 1985 the city of Philadelphia dropped a bomb on the Move Home at 6221 Osage Avenue killing 11 people including 5 children. collaborativehistory.gse.upenn.edu/stories/move...

Yes tree stump, I know downtown subsidizes the suburbs.

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

One of these EVs qualifies for a federal tax credit

This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

In honor of May Day/International Workers Day yesterday here’s “UNION SONG” from the steps of the Madison, Wisconsin capitol building during the massive union uprising of 2011. 100,000 people turned out in the streets in 10 degree weather in solidarity (Of course Brother Wayne Kramer was there too)!

Yesterday, a top Trump Administration official made an apparent threat to arrest me. Here’s my message to Wisconsinites. I encourage you to take a few minutes to watch. ⬇️

I am amused by the framing of this article because you may as well accuse me of refusing to use a flame thrower in my work. I'm not refusing, it is of no use to me because I am a non-fictition writer. That's all.

I’m GEN Z. I vape WEED. I hate OLD FUCKS. I have NO FUTURE. I commit PETTY THEFT. I drank WATER from a HOSE in the YARD, because that’s not a RARE EXPERIENCE and every generation HAD HOSES. I love DRAG

🧵 History lesson: 55 years ago today, a pivotal moment for anti-war demonstrators came to a head. After days of student protests of the U.S. involvement in Cambodia and the ongoing war in Vietnam at Kent State, 2,000 students had gathered on campus in Kent, Ohio. As tensions between (1/3)

The administration's social media surveillance is fostering a climate of fear. International students now worry a single post or "like" could cost them their U.S. visa—chilling political debate and silencing dissent for non-citizens and citizens alike.

The press has been all over this shit but not a single fucking one has broken what a placebo trip would look like so, lets. 🧵🧵 www.reuters.com/business/hea...

These two vehicles each have three rows of seats and the same amount of cargo space.

Today was the last day at NOAA for hundreds of employees who took an early retirement offer. Collectively, an estimated 27,000 years of experience left the agency. It goes without saying they will be missed. Their decades of service is commendable & appreciated. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Si-R...

Trigger Warning: Person on an E-Bike Assaulted yesterday morning on the Danforth near Monarch. We are asking the community to help identify this individual & report to TPS. Please be vigilant out there, stay safe & look out for each other. 1/3

Newsletter: I am sick and god damn tired of everybody pretending that generative AI is the next big thing. The media is complicit in accepting fantastical nonsense - both in the numbers put out by OpenAI and the silly jobs created by Anthropic - and it has to stop. www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/

Cartoon with caption by my buddy @jackhauen.bsky.social

That tall three wheeled cargo bike is a work of art! I have a feeling this is in my future… #Bespoked Bike Show apocalypse, bike, build off contestants

Finally some good news apnews.com/article/cana...

High-res models are picking up on the potential of thunderstorms developing this afternoon. If they develop, they will have the potential for very large hail and strong tornadoes. Keep an eye on temp/dew point maps to see how quickly we destabilize. wisconet.wisc.edu/data/maps

Points hack: if you earn 20 million Amtrak Guest Rewards™️ Points they let you drive this guy around for a bit

trying to switch off the AI bloatware that has been pinned to the top of every single menu in every single app

Time for a dry subject: dehumidifiers youtu.be/j_QfX0SYCE8

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

🩷new sticker🩷

Brain worm boy needs the worms to finish the job

Today marks the beginning of Yom HaShoah (Days of Remembrance of the Holocaust Victims), an 8-day period to honor the more than 6 million who perished at the hands of fascist Nazis. It also commemorates the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. We cannot let this happen again. (1/2)

RFK: make America dead again