John Miklos
Community Planner - I seek to understand everything.
- It's where I belong
- We need lower commercial rent, more walkable business streets, more neighborhood cafés
- We need to bring back 1st wave coffee shops. Draw the menu on a blackboard, fill the place with mismatched thrift store furniture and fill a cup with the most burned-ass drip french roast for $2. Have a high school kid out front playing chess with a homeless guy. Bonus if a stray cat wanders around.
- Reposted by John MiklosRead the whole thing. You won’t be surprised, but you should be outraged.
- "For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...
- Reposted by John MiklosThere was a line from like a fired water quality or some other prosocial fed worker after she moved to dc for the job that'll stick with me forever because it captures america so well. "I would be in a better position if I was a worse person."
- Reposted by John MiklosNYC’s congestion pricing is a policy miracle: Less traffic, less noise, faster transit, more business sales, more transit revenue. And it hasn’t produced the negative effects outside the cordon zone we were afraid of. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- Reposted by John MiklosI’m just laughing my head off at all the MAGA folks who attacked me for doing a show for Al Jazeera. And yet here’s their Dear Leader:
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- Reposted by John MiklosWe've become completely desensitized to it but it's genuinely unreal how corrupt this admin is. Tinpot dictatorship stuff. Yes, that is the US Attorney General getting paid $1.38M to lobby on behalf of Qatar, and yes she did approve a $400M private jet as a gift.
- Reposted by John MiklosTHE PRESIDENT, WHO HAS NUCLEAR CODES AND TALKS TO HEADS OF STATE CONSTANTLY, CAN'T FLY AROUND ON A JET GIVEN TO HIM BY THE MOST CORRUPT OIL WIERDOS ON EARTH THERE IS NO OTHER "ANGLE" TO THIS STORY
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- Uh
- D'oh!
- Reposted by John MiklosNEW — I’ve obtained audio of new acting FEMA head David Richardson threatening staff in an all hands meeting this morning. As first reported by Reuters, he told those who resisted change in the agency, “Don’t get in my way…I will run right over you.” Listen to the clip here:
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- It's really funny how SEPTA, PATH, and BART are together at the same ridership level. It's hard to imagine a trio of more dissimilar systems
- Reposted by John Miklosseems like the administration is objectively pro plane crash www.washingtonpost.com/transportati...
- Reposted by John MiklosI love seeing these posts of "here's this random city in China you've never heard of" and it's the most beautiful metro system you've ever seen
- Reposted by John Miklosthis post is now unlocked and can be read for free! www.patreon.com/posts/mcmans...
- IT'S HERE: The McMansionization of the White House, or: Regional Car Dealership Rococo, a Treatise www.patreon.com/posts/mcmans...
- Cognitive abilities rivaling a potted plant on a less-than-sunny window sill
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- Reposted by John MiklosThis story explains a LOT of things: ChatGPT appears to be rooting on sociopathic mental illness by validating every delusion of grandeur. It also explains, in part, the hype cycle around AI: rich people, addicted to praise, invented a Compliment Machine. www.garbageday.email/p/this-is-wh...
- Leia:😏 Han: ♥️🤔💙
- Look at that alula! This this such a good view of wing structure
- Reposted by John MiklosRaymond Chandler, letter to a friend, January 1948. Seems relevant beyond the specific Hollywood context.
- Reposted by John MiklosScorching hot Australian election take, especially in context of UK local elections: compulsory voting, as enforced in Australia, is good because it makes it tough (by and large) to get elected pandering to a base of yahoos and headbangers. At some point, you need to win over the relatively normal.
- Reposted by John MiklosBecause no one spends as much on science as the US does, destroying NIH, NSF, NOAA, NASA, EPA, USDA, USGS, etc. is leading to a brain drain, but it's not to other countries but rather from science. This senseless destruction of US science will hurt the US and the world for a very long time.
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- Watchin Conclave
- Huge life upgrade. I recommend moving to some place where you can Walk to the Grocery Store
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- Reposted by John MiklosThis isn't hypothetical. The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.
- Reposted by John MiklosI like telling authoritarians where to shove it in multiple languages
- The fact that there's an ASL interpreter there.... Thank you @aoc.bsky.social 🥹😍🤟🏼
- Reposted by John MiklosAOC: Tom Homan said he was going to refer me to DOJ because I’m using my free speech rights in order to advise people of their constitutional protections… to that I say: Come for me… Do I look like I care? There’s nothing illegal about it and if they want to make it illegal, they can come take me.
- It fills me with Pennsylvania Pride to see us coming in dead last among the surveyed states
- Seems bad
- the fraction of parents reading to their 0-4 year old kids frequently has apparently fallen by 23 POINTS since 2012 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
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- Heck yeah
- Reposted by John MiklosThis simply does not have to happen. That is keeps happening is a choice made by lots of powerful actors, all with the ability to do something different.
- Fire RFK Jr.
- RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM. They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone. www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
- Fire RFK Jr.
- Reposted by John MiklosMore evidence that car bloat is killing people: New metaanalysis examined 600k+ crashes over 35 years. Conclusion: Cyclists/pedestrians were 44% more likely to be killed if struck by an SUV/pickup than by a smaller car, and children were 82% more likely. injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/earl...
- Reposted by John MiklosHow Far do your tax dollars for Transit go? After people complaining over and over that SEPTA was inefficient, I had to run the numbers of Ridership to Operating budgets and would you look at that. Not only is SEPTA good with money, but they are literally the best in the US
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- Reposted by John Miklosit really is astounding that a presidential administration crashed the growth trajectory of the wealthiest country on the planet in basically two months
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- The Tarifffffs at work
- (in a flawless PhiladelphYinz accent) "Dahn the shore"
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- Reposted by John MiklosRochester’s expressways were sold on the promise that they would relieve traffic congestion. But to make room for the roads, expressway proponents wanted to shut down Rochester’s subway – a vastly more efficient means of moving people.
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- Reposted by John MiklosHuge red flag here. Personally-owned self-driving cars would be a societal disaster. 🔹 More miles driven (and more emissions, even if AVs are EVs) 🔹 More sprawl 🔹 Worse congestion 🔹 Wider transportation inequality (think of buses stuck on AV-induced gridlock)
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- Reposted by John MiklosBy contrast, "deep state" was a term people used all the time in casual conversation before 2017 bsky.app/profile/noma...
- Reposted by John MiklosBeyond this being a bad argument (Dems shouldn't support massive sprawl and congestion, which is what ubiquitous robotaxis would produce), I find it annoying that so many center-left pundits seem to believe they must give their mushy concepts a catchy name, lest no one take them seriously.
- YIMBY bird
- Again, birds have a lot to teach us. #birds
- Reposted by John MiklosKinda insane and shows how afraid the networks are of upsetting this administration that a guy who killed 7 people and wounded 48 with “47” literally tattooed on his face has all but been forgotten like there’s still not a very serious threat emanating from every pore of this pathetic cult
- It's so ✨fun✨ driving a route in continuous traffic. There's so many of us going the same way, at the same time. Wouldn't it be nicer if a few of us could share or take turns driving. Imagine.
- Reposted by John MiklosOH MY FUCKING GOD WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU. TRAINS! WE NEED TRAINS NOT JETSONS-ASS ROBOT-CAR DEATH MACHINES
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