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Edgardo Block

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Transport infrastructure professional with this personal account for personal interests. keeper of #charcuterie feed.

In Connecticut, US.

May spontaneously evaluate pavement in photos that appear on the timeline.

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FrontRangeWildflowers's avatar FrontRangeWildflowers @frwildflowers.bsky.social
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Two years ago today šŸŒæ Aconitum columbianum, our native Columbian Monkshood, blooming on Angler Mountain Trail. šŸ˜Ž

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šŸšØBREAKING: Wisconsin Supreme Court OVERTURNS ban on ballot drop boxes. Congratulations to our client Priorities USA and the voters of Wisconsin.

We are not done fighting for free and fair elections and we are not done winning! www.democracydocket.com/cases/wiscon...

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Protesters disrupting the Reform press conference with Farage. Heā€™s going to have five years of this - I donā€™t think he realises what heā€™s up against.

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Edgardo Block's avatar Edgardo Block @edgardoblock.bsky.social
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Yeomanā€™s work, highly appreciated from this corner. Thank you!

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The neighborhood parade, led by Rob the Drummer and the myriad of kids going around celebrating Independence Day, and a fire truck from town, made me smile a lot. (And we thought we were part of a wave of parentsā€¦ ong!)

I love this country JUST AS IT IS NOW, and itā€™s worth keeping
#tinyjoys

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This is how Bangladesh got to be Argentina national football team fans (1986 Hand of God)

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Hey, a bridge named for Argentina in Hamburg - ganz toll!

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Alex de Campi's avatar Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social
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PSA: donā€™t get a shingles shot and a covid booster at the same time signed, someone who just arose from a 36-hour vaccine coma

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Louis Armstrong famously claimed to have been born on July 4th, 1900

šŸŽ†šŸŽ‚šŸŽ‡

Turns out this was a branding gimmick; his real DOB was a year and a month later.

But #Jazz is the only aspect of the American experiment that still feels like an unalloyed good this week, so I'll give Pops a pass!

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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just watched 74 people speaking at least a dozen different languages become american citizens in a ceremony at monticello, where the speakers were themselves children of immigrants. inspiring stuff and a vivid illustration of what reactionaries want to snuff out

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*yes ONE continent, for the exact same reasons Europe and Asia are 2.

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Happy Independence Day to the United States of America!

Please read, fellow US citizen, these words that have inspired an entire continent from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego. And treasure what our people have won - and kept and fought for in civil and foreign wars

www.archives.gov/founding-doc...

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One of them should be diced coarsely imo to have a proper range

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(back to relegation: the cartel league only benefits the franchise holders. In a multiple-division setup there are >2 teams hoping for every spot and any city could hope to make it to big leagues. OVERALL Market would be bigger and sport more exciting.

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10 Conmebol, US, Mexico, Canada, West Indies, PLay-in for Cuba, Haiti, DR, PR, the Cantral Am. nations (6) thatā€™s 24. Nice number. (Belize goes with W Indies).

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Adam Serwer's avatar Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social
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Soccer interval: USMNT needs to face higher level competition more frequently, replace behalter if you want but the team will remain a potted plant in concacaf without more regular matches against better teams, mexicoā€™s decline is actually bad for them in this respect

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Hard agree here. I would go further - This lack of competition extends down into MLS where there is no relegation: You get 3 do-or-die ā€œtournamentsā€ with relegation (2 in top div (top/bottom) and one in 2nd div). And somehow it would be better for West Indies to field a single team and merge w/SA

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ā€œaccessible red wineā€ eg working-class-conscious. They do see RW elsewhere (Ukr, clearly) but the RW wave IS everywhere so no big contribution there either.

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Indeed. Dugin with the ā€œphilosophicalā€ underpinnings and it doesnā€™t take a scholar to figure it out. Conservative thinking in leftism is a thing (that is, understanding paradigm changes come hard to this bunch and they seem more comforable regurgitating things that go well with red wine)

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Theo in Arlington's avatar Theo in Arlington @adamtheo.com
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Not to be outdone I propose we attach whoppie cushions to every Arlington bus seat for "ART Farts"

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Edgardo Block's avatar Edgardo Block @edgardoblock.bsky.social
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not kidding around! I had a glass of 1986 Petrus once so can endorse another year of Petrus

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With many caveats (further down the thread, but use them as explainers, just reply to the head skeet or the end of the poll a), what size city (pop) is your cup of tea for living in (pop in 1000s)
(a) <10
(b) 10-99
(c) 100-499
(d) 500-1M
(e) 1-5M
(f) >5M

ā€¦ caveats follow 1/x
#geography #geosky

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āš½ļø That first half of Colombia-Brazil has been the best and most exciting and intense football of the Copa AmĆ©rica so farā€¦ too bad about the foul epidemic. The reffing has been, letā€™s say, counterproductive for the entire tournament. James Rodriguez can ball, too

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A person for whom human activity at its best is the most exciting thing! bravo

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I was a baby in Angol (donā€™t remember)

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Assume if pop > 5M you have SOBs (symphony, opera, ballet) for culture; 1-5M one of the three; Also assume there is no other city you can visit in a day (eg Providence without Boston, New Haven without New York, Oxford without London, Toledo without Madrid.) ā€¦ +

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With many caveats (further down the thread, but use them as explainers, just reply to the head skeet or the end of the poll a), what size city (pop) is your cup of tea for living in (pop in 1000s)
(a) <10
(b) 10-99
(c) 100-499
(d) 500-1M
(e) 1-5M
(f) >5M

ā€¦ caveats follow 1/x
#geography #geosky

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Mark Chadbourn's avatar Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social
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Some final polls coming in. Ashcroft in the Mail: Lab 38% Con 19% Reform 18%

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Edgardo Block's avatar Edgardo Block @edgardoblock.bsky.social
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It all seems inevitable in the macro scheme, but we do have agency. We are just atrophied into gluing ourselves alone to little devices where itā€™s me and some likes and mutuals vs these world trends. Doesnā€™t have to be like that, in fact in the real world oneā€™s actions are much more consequential.

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Heading into high Middle Ages/Renaissance, with a friendly proxy reminder in an Austria-TĆ¼rkiye soccer football match in a few minutes.

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I do think many US citizens overestimate their own ability to be an immigrant and adapt to a different culture and language. US population is not really attuned to those difficulties. I knew a person who wanted to retire in Ecuador even though he had trouble with the culture across the CT River šŸ˜‚

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It may be true that a majority of nations arenā€™t as welcoming of immigrants or refugees. But there are many exceptions. Prominent examples include Canada and Australia - both have a foreign-born population much higher than ours (immigration documentstion status included in this estimation.)

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This idea of going anywhere is built on (generally) places where we havenā€™t done that much damage and who were for instance fighting communism during the Cold War. And we havenā€™t endeared ourselves much since at least the turn of the century. ā€¦ +

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Two points on this: There are many places where Americans are welcome. They include (in my experience, though some time ago) Germany, Portugal, and Spain, and Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay. At least these Latin American countries are generally welcoming of refugees, too. Point 2:ā€¦+

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David Zipper's avatar David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social
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E-bikes are now the majority of all adult bike sales in countries like Germany, Belgium, & Holland.

In CityLab, I spoke w/Philippe Crist, the OECD's micromobility guru, about the lessons (and warnings) the US should draw from Europe's e-bike boom.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Rebecca Spang's avatar Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social
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People keep telling me "history is written by the winners" (šŸ˜’). So, let's clarify:

bad, triumphalist, narrow histories are written by "winners." They are often easily researched--or not researched at all.

But many great histories have been written by, for, about "losers."

#condensationposterity

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