The remains of a residential alley, now consumed by soybeans, in the abandoned town of Valmeyer IL. Once an important quarry and railroad town, today it's nearly completely deserted. A🧵 about this town's history, and what we can learn about our future with climate change.

. but who's theories, principles, and formulas have since been renamed for European dudes who didn't actually discover any of them, only worked with them.

When reading about the innumerable subfields of mathematics and physics, what you'll find often is that field was first discovered in the 10 or 11th century by an Islamic scholar who's work was frequently cited by Newton, Kepler, and Galileo. .

Islamic scholars working during what we know as the dark ages laid the foundation for modernity and our contemporary cultural appreciation for them is near zero.

RT @AidantheBoJoDem:

You know what I do hear people complain about? . The inefficient crowd management, uncomfortable overcrowding in waiting areas, and borderline dangerous overcrowding on tiny escalators leading to and from the train platforms.

This is a distraction from real issues and a performative waste of taxpayer dollars that no actual Amtrak or Greyhound riders were asking for.

"St Louis is scary" shut the hell up. this is a distraction to placate whiny suburbanites without actually addressing any of the underlying issues and inequalities that plague our city.

And this new security screening will almost certainly staffed by hired private security guards with less training and more opaque structures of accountability than the TSA.

Unless I missed train 9/11, this feels performative and unnecessary, and is just another chapter in the city continuing to harden public transportation spaces, posturing to people who will never use them at the expense of actual riders.

Amtrak and Greyhound travelers beware, starting August 1st, the @STLCityGov will require ALL passengers to pass through airport style security before accessing trains or buses. That means metal detector for you and an x-ray for your bags before you can board your train/bus.

(playing cities skylines) I have poured my emotions and very being into an incomprehensiblly complex highway interchange, this eldritch horror which now lives in the steam cloud is the purest manifestation of me.

RT @AlderSheenBean: If you can make it to volunteer tomorrow. Date: Saturday, May 17th .Location: O’fallon Park YMCA - 4343 W Florissant A….

RT @wtyppod: vaccines don't cause autism. WE cause autism.

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If you’re still posting here, stop.

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also twitter is part of the federal government now, follow me elsewhere.

Americans care about convenience above everything else. as long as fascism doesn't interfere with their treats they don't care.

Hey! If you've missed me, it's because I've been over there. come hang out with me 😉