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Why the Raiders don’t need a veteran QB bridge for Fernando Mendoza https://raiderramble.com/2026/02/27/why-the-raiders-dont-need-a-veteran-qb-bridge-for-fernando-mendoza/

From Translink
Westham Island Bridge Repair Update
🧵1/9
TransLink is moving urgently to restore the Westham Island Bridge following a marine vessel strike on January 20. Engineering inspections have confirmed significant structural damage and, while repairs are complex, work is starting to minimize disruptions and safely reopen the bridge to vehicles as soon as possible.
Detailed inspections show that Pier 5, one of the bridge’s primary support structures, was severely…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Aretha Franklin:
🎵 Bridge Over Troubled Water
#ArethaFranklin
https://roomautobahn.bandcamp.com/track/sampled-bridge-over-troubled-water
https://open.spotify.com/track/5YD86vWLu1YqR818b1GADO

America is numb to this infrastructure problem
Maryland needs to replace the Chesapeake Bay Bridge,
as everyone who has driven on it knows.
Yet construction to replace the structure is only scheduled to begin in 💥2032.
The most shocking aspect of this story is that locals aren't more shocked.

Tens of thousands of drivers cross the Bay Bridge every day. -- It’s a vital link to the Eastern Shore.
The bridge has no shoulders.
No new lanes have b…

Ferry boat. Furry boat.
Know the difference!

If you have not been the the #newjersey falls they are worth the trip. Wild this is in nj.
https://www.nj.com/passaic-county/2026/02/

sorry for the rampant redrafting, the bluesky bridge is being annoying today

Series D, Episode 03 - Traitor
AVON: So Tarrant, this is your big moment.
TARRANT: If the teleport works.
VILA: It's working perfectly now, I checked it myself.
DAYNA: [Laughs] Yes, but would you use it yourself Vila? That's the real test.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/403/176…

Stripe's stablecoin firm Bridge wins conditional approval from the US OCC to form a national trust bank, which would allow it to issue and manage stablecoins (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/02/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Boogie Down Productions:
🎵 The Bridge Is Over
#BoogieDownProductions
https://vinylrichy.bandcamp.com/album/the-bridge-is-over-vinyl-richy-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/5jkjpSsMOfsxgdGScPZVq2

Hi, @… . Could you take a look at this conversation, please? It's me trying to troubleshoot a bridge of a friend of mine.
Is the problem something you can help with or is it a bluesky thing?

We see how El Cheato has blocked the opening of the new bridge between Canada and the US in Detroit - apparently in an effort to maintain a flow of bridge toll revenue from a competing bridge owned by a Cheato-buddy.
If I were Canada I might consider retaliation by shutting down the older Cheato-buddy bridge.

From Translink
Westham Island Bridge Repair Update
January 22, 2026

Delta, BC – Earlier this week, a marine vessel hit the Westham Island Bridge, causing damage that required the bridge to be closed to vehicle traffic. TransLink owns and maintains the bridge, and crews moved quickly to assess the damage and pursue the fastest possible repair.

TransLink has now received an updated assessment from our structural engineer following today’s inspection work.

Bridge Owner Donated $1 Million to MAGA Inc. PAC Before Trump Blasted New Span (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/us/politics/trump-canada-bridge-maga-inc-donation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.N1A.4KG5.HBGmw-AuX3-V&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260220/p140#a260220p140

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#BetweenTheEars
- On Rama's Bridge
Nandini Das reflects upon memory, displacement and myth at the extreme points of India and Sri Lanka, where the two nations nearly touch.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002q3zw

Urban Spots ✴️
城市噪点 ✴️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

U.S. lawmakers move to block interference in Gordie Howe bridge
https://www.ctvnews.ca/windsor/article/us-lawmakers-move-to-block-interference-in-gordie-howe-bridge-as-scrutiny-grows-over-ambassador-bridge-meeting/

Follow the money. Could it be that the pre existing bridge, the Ambassador Bridge, is wholly owned and operated by a Trump donor…? 🤔
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/09/trump-gordie-howe-bridge-canada?CMP=Share_iOS…

Hue-Lampen mit Matter direkt in Apple Home einbindbar – aber nicht alle
Die beliebten smarten Lampen von Philips sind bekannt dafür, für HomeKit die Hue-Bridge zu benötigen. Das gilt aber nicht mehr für neuere Modelle.

LoD-Structured 3D Gaussian Splatting for Streaming Video Reconstruction
Xinhui Liu, Can Wang, Lei Liu, Zhenghao Chen, Wei Jiang, Wei Wang, Dong Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18475 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.18475 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.18475
arXiv:2601.18475v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Free-Viewpoint Video (FVV) reconstruction enables photorealistic and interactive 3D scene visualization; however, real-time streaming is often bottlenecked by sparse-view inputs, prohibitive training costs, and bandwidth constraints. While recent 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has advanced FVV due to its superior rendering speed, Streaming Free-Viewpoint Video (SFVV) introduces additional demands for rapid optimization, high-fidelity reconstruction under sparse constraints, and minimal storage footprints. To bridge this gap, we propose StreamLoD-GS, an LoD-based Gaussian Splatting framework designed specifically for SFVV. Our approach integrates three core innovations: 1) an Anchor- and Octree-based LoD-structured 3DGS with a hierarchical Gaussian dropout technique to ensure efficient and stable optimization while maintaining high-quality rendering; 2) a GMM-based motion partitioning mechanism that separates dynamic and static content, refining dynamic regions while preserving background stability; and 3) a quantized residual refinement framework that significantly reduces storage requirements without compromising visual fidelity. Extensive experiments demonstrate that StreamLoD-GS achieves competitive or state-of-the-art performance in terms of quality, efficiency, and storage.
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San Francisco, Christmas Eve.

The Public Media Bridge Fund awards $26M across 74 organizations that operate more than 180 public radio and TV stations (Tyler Falk/Current)
https://current.org/2025/12/public-media-bridge-fund-announces-initial-round-of-grants/

found this growing out of some old concrete steps from a towpath up side of a road bridge 🍄‍🟫
#mushrooms

Chonhar bridge damaged after alleged downing of Ukrainian drone, Russian-installed official says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/08/chonhar-bridge-damaged-after-alleged.html

from my link log —
Using the new bridges of FreeBSD 15.
https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/02/using-new-bridges-freebsd-15/
saved 2026-02-23

I didn't know, but assumed, that the London stadium has no connection with the victory ofHarold Godwinson's English over Harald Hardrada's Vikings.
La batalla vikinga de Stamford Bridge que cambió el rumbo de Inglaterra en 1066 y acabó, sin querer, dando nombre al estadio del Chelsea y

#Graz 🤩

Two battery-electric street sweepers equipped with bidirectional charging technology could help to power operations on the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge in the event of a power outage.
https://www.microgridkn…

Alter Bridge, la banda que se formó a partir de los ex miembros de Creed junto al extraordinario vocalista Miles Kennedy, lanza un disco homónimo. La 8va producción en la carrera del grupo.
«Alter Bridge»
https://album.link/s/1E2G7Qn23QEHJfO0Uh0A9J

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
ORAC: Orac is my bridge. You stand before it, puny telepath.
CALLY: Yes, I know you now. My powers are in your dimension, and Orac's carrier waves are your bridge.
https://blake.torpidi…

Willkommen im Fediverse, @… !
Bock auf Shitposting?
Viel läuft hier unter dem Hastag "Netzfund" oder "Netzfundstück". (Bei "Caturday" platzt aber vermutlich dein Feed... 😬)
Wenn du magst, kannst du die Bluesky-Brücke an machen - das Zentrum für politische Schönheit ist leider nur da aktiv.

Oh good, I was wondering what racists might be thinking about the situation in #Minnesota and those #racist pieces of shit at The Babylon Bee were happy to blow their dog whistle for me.
If you do stumble upon it, I’d encourage you to click thumbs down, then report it for encouraging violence throu…

Here are some more photos from our wander in Queanbeyan. The suspension bridge is quite old and rather wobbly. I loved it. We met an old man who told us about platypus sightings around the river.
#Queanbeyan #Australia

I'm kicking off reading week with some actual reading: Wickwire's highly regarded At the Bridge (2019). I'm looking forward to discussing it with the brilliant group of grad students I have in this year's seminar towards the end of the month.
#histodons #anthropology

A very frozen and snow covered Red River of the North, from January; looking south-ish from Grand Forks, #NorthDakota. Rail bridge in the distance. The plume in the far distance is from the Crystal Sugar beet processing plant on the #Minnesota side.

*UPDATE* From Translink
TRAFFIC ALERT: Westham Island Bridge Closed
The Westham Island Bridge is currently closed to vehicles while crews continue damage assessment after a marine vessel hit the span on Tuesday. Pedestrian access is being maintained.

The bridge will remain closed on Thursday and Friday for further assessments. Updates on repair timelines and continued closures will be shared as soon as more information is available.
TransLink is providing free a…

Disabling One Bridge Could Shatter Russia’s War Machine (and It’s Not the Kerch) | Hudson Institute
https://www.hudson.org/disabling-one-bridge-could-shatter-russias-war-machine-its-not-kerch-luke-coffey-can-kasapoglu

Construction on the Vincent Thomas Bridge near the Port of Los Angeles is slated to begin next month,
but the project will not include a 26-foot bridge hoist that port officials were hoping for.
Port Executive Director Gene Seroka proposed raising the bridge earlier this year amid existing plans from the California Department of Transportation to re-deck the emerald green overpass connecting San Pedro to Terminal Island and Long Beach.
Raising the bridge would allow larger,…

i just finished a rather dull book that santa left under the tree
i am now able to name from memory the six lake superior iron ranges
here's a harsh review from the journal of economic history

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
DAYNA: Do you want us to wait?
TARRANT: No. I'll find you. [exits]
VILA: Don't forget Orac. [Avon exits]
CALLY: No need. I'll operate the teleport.
DAYNA: Aren't you coming with us?

I have to say, the Bluesky bridge is confusing for me(!)

I don't use it myself but sometimes I respond to posts and only realise much later it was from a bridge account, in which case the user may or my not see my reply. I certainly don't see my reply on Bluesky. Same thing can happen vice versa.

I don't want a compulsory opt-in to another service, I want the AT and ActivityPub protocols to be compatible. In lieu of that the bridge accounts need to be a lot more ob…

Pittsburgh at the NFL combine: QB reset in store for Steelers? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47981589/pittsburgh-steelers-nfl-combine-quarterback-reset-store-aaron-rodgers-2026-draft

The Public Media Bridge Fund, formed due to CPB cuts, raises $66.5M of its $110M goal and launches disaster recovery and restructuring programs for stations (Austin Fuller/Current)
https://current.org/2026/01/public-media-bridge-fund-announ…

UrbanFM: Scaling Urban Spatio-Temporal Foundation Models
Wei Chen, Yuqian Wu, Junle Chen, Xiaofang Zhou, Yuxuan Liang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20677 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20677 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.20677
arXiv:2602.20677v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Urban systems, as dynamic complex systems, continuously generate spatio-temporal data streams that encode the fundamental laws of human mobility and city evolution. While AI for Science has witnessed the transformative power of foundation models in disciplines like genomics and meteorology, urban computing remains fragmented due to "scenario-specific" models, which are overfitted to specific regions or tasks, hindering their generalizability. To bridge this gap and advance spatio-temporal foundation models for urban systems, we adopt scaling as the central perspective and systematically investigate two key questions: what to scale and how to scale. Grounded in first-principles analysis, we identify three critical dimensions: heterogeneity, correlation, and dynamics, aligning these principles with the fundamental scientific properties of urban spatio-temporal data. Specifically, to address heterogeneity through data scaling, we construct WorldST. This billion-scale corpus standardizes diverse physical signals, such as traffic flow and speed, from over 100 global cities into a unified data format. To enable computation scaling for modeling correlations, we introduce the MiniST unit, a novel split mechanism that discretizes continuous spatio-temporal fields into learnable computational units to unify representations of grid-based and sensor-based observations. Finally, addressing dynamics via architecture scaling, we propose UrbanFM, a minimalist self-attention architecture designed with limited inductive biases to autonomously learn dynamic spatio-temporal dependencies from massive data. Furthermore, we establish EvalST, the largest-scale urban spatio-temporal benchmark to date. Extensive experiments demonstrate that UrbanFM achieves remarkable zero-shot generalization across unseen cities and tasks, marking a pivotal first step toward large-scale urban spatio-temporal foundation models.
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Museums don't build job skills. That's what many people think. But our newest experiential learning program is not only preparing these #UniversityOfGeorgia students for their next step, it's also building bridges between campus and community.

The middle segment of this elevator bridge between Portsmouth, NY and Kittery, ME goes up and down to let ships through, something I saw many times when I was growing up in the region but didn't get to see on my latest trip
#photo #photography

With news that another railway bridge in Scotland has fallen into the river below, I feel compelled to share @…'s # CautionaryTales episode on that famous Dundonian poet McGonagall..
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford: "Genius Still Unrecognised" - The Worst Poet in the World
Episode webpage: https://omny.fm/shows/cautionary-tales-with-tim-harford/genius-still-unrecognised-the-worst-poet-in-the-world
Media file: https://podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdrl.fm/18db03/tracking.swap.fm/track/SxlTEPDY7xDg35RXkASs/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/c0ae8c6e-22f0-4e9b-ac1c-ae390037ac53/fd2acf28-383a-4874-b266-b33900f48f7c/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=7f5a4714-6b10-4ccf-a424-ae390037ac70

From Translink
The Westham Island Bridge remains closed to vehicles, as crews continue damage assessment and repairs.

The City of Delta will be providing shuttle service between the bridge, Wellington Point Park, Ladner Centre, and the Ladner Bus Loop. This will allow people travelling to or from Westham Island to take the shuttle to the bridge and walk across, or make the return trip the same way.

More information will be provided when available.

Bay Light are back!
#SanFrancisco

Follow the money. Could it be that the pre existing bridge, the Ambassador Bridge, is wholly owned and operated by a Trump donor…? 🤔
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/09/trump-gordie-howe-bridge-canada?CMP=Share_iOS…

Today’s run is dedicated to my friend @… with my best wishes for a successful surgery and a speedy recovery. ✊
Ventured further down the greenway into Salem. This segment is pretty industrial, but I sometimes see a heron which, together with several bridge crossings over the Roanoke River, makes it interesting. The heron was not out, but this massive train running p…

I went to the Australian Open tennis today to see Coco Gauff and Alex De Minaur ease their way into round 2. Gauff had problems with her serve and faced some spirited opposition from the unseeded Rakhimova.
Only blemish on the day was that I decided to remove my bicycle repair kit from the bike (bike parking was fairly crappy, stuck under a bridge) and that proved too much for the Security Theatre at bag check. I’m now down one very blunt multitool, which I asked the security people to…

Welcome to San Francisco, where Oceanview has no ocean view, Golden Gate Avenue doesn't go to Golden Gate Bridge or Park, Front Street doesn't front anything, Main Street isn't a main street, and the Sunset is too foggy to see the sunset.
https://mastodon.social/@jef/116078846

[holds bridge of nose] "Again, you don't want to speed up atomic clocks."
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/trial-speeds-up-next-generation-of-atomic-clocks

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Mazzy Star:
🎵 Look on Down From the Bridge
#MazzyStar
https://foxandcostello.bandcamp.com/track/look-on-down-from-the-bridge-mazzy-star-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/010ALbbh5KlQ4fKWgSdhRd

Ich folge im Fediverse momentan mehr Accounts als ich lesen kann. Und ich könnte noch weit mehr folgen.
Damit ist das Fediverse groß genug um für mich zu funktionieren. Natürlich ist schön, wenn mehr Freunde und Bekannte hier sind, damit ich mitbekomme, was sie so schreiben.¹
Und ich freu mich auch, wenn ich bestimmten Organisationen oder Instoitutionen hier folgen kann – aber nur, wenn sie auch interagieren, andernfalls bevorzuge ich RSS.²
Da ich kontrolliere, was in meine…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Frank Bridge & Kathryn Stott:
🎵 The Hour Glass: The Dew Fairy
#FrankBridge #KathrynStott
https://open.spotify.com/track/5TmDz2zXRYriuFLhAPukx0

Trump Threatens to Block Opening of New Bridge to Canada (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/us/politics/trump-gordie-howe-bridge-canada.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260209/p112#a260209p112

🤔

Cue the “a bridge too far” jokes.
#theAmericanFascist #subtoot

Until Sen. Bernie Sanders began holding rallies in Republican-held districts to address DOGE’s destructive impact on federal workers and programs,
most progressives had not dared to dream of rural America as fertile ground for a backlash.
But it’s central to the concept of the "Rural Urban Bridge Initiative" ( #RUBI ),
a group determined to breathe new life into rural organizing st…

Maybe i should post smth.
#footpathfriday or #towpath ish

In a proposed settlement, the US FTC says crypto bridge Nomad must repay victims of a 2022 cyberattack that led to $186M worth of funds being stolen (Connor Jones/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/17/nomad_ftc_settlement/

Just flew to to the UK, will be here for a while spending time in Weymouth Dorset with my (ancient, in-care) parents, and fixing up an old house we’re buying. Keeping the US house, and supporting friends and family, but sad that we don’t feel safe there nowadays…

A cool #bridge in the Ravine of #Mórkowo, near the village of Mórkowo, Greater Poland.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=51.914473&mlon=16.508610#map=18/51.914473/16.508610

'Herbst (Typisch)' #FotoVorschlag ' Autumn (typical)
Well okay, I was struggling to decide between a couple of my #autumn #hiking photos but well, this is and stays my all-time-bes…

Docker Kanvas Challenges Helm and Kustomize for Kubernetes Dominance
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/01/docker-kanvas-cloud-deployment/

Watching It's a Wonderful Life for the millionth time. This part always gets me.

Gloom & Bloom IV ☁️🌺
黑暗绽放 IV ☁️ 🌺
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

We had to drive over to Queanbeyan to pick up an order at the farm shop there.
We don't get there very often so we took the opportunity to go for a bit of a wander by the river afterwards. I forgot how pretty it is.
#Queanbeyan #Australia

From Translink
The Pattullo Bridge will be closed northbound one night and fully closed the next night this week, due to ongoing construction work on the new stalΕəwΓasəm Bridge.

To ensure public safety, the bridge will be closed northbound into New Westminster on Thursday, December 18 from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. This will be followed by a full closure in both directions on Friday, December 19 from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m.

HELLO BLUESKY USERS!
You can follow me over here on Mastodon **but** I won't see your replies and won't be able to follow you back unless you give permission for that…
…which is easy. Just follow this special BlueSky user:
https://bsky.app/profile/ap.brid.gy
(1) click on th…

Dyke Bridge, Newark-on-Trent (Nottinghamshire), July 2025
#photography #railwayphotography #documentingplace #documentingspace

from my link log —
Container networking is simple.
https://iximiuz.com/en/posts/container-networking-is-simple/
saved 2021-01-21 https://…

Sparse Bayesian Deep Functional Learning with Structured Region Selection
Xiaoxian Zhu, Yingmeng Li, Shuangge Ma, Mengyun Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20651 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20651 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.20651
arXiv:2602.20651v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In modern applications such as ECG monitoring, neuroimaging, wearable sensing, and industrial equipment diagnostics, complex and continuously structured data are ubiquitous, presenting both challenges and opportunities for functional data analysis. However, existing methods face a critical trade-off: conventional functional models are limited by linearity, whereas deep learning approaches lack interpretable region selection for sparse effects. To bridge these gaps, we propose a sparse Bayesian functional deep neural network (sBayFDNN). It learns adaptive functional embeddings through a deep Bayesian architecture to capture complex nonlinear relationships, while a structured prior enables interpretable, region-wise selection of influential domains with quantified uncertainty. Theoretically, we establish rigorous approximation error bounds, posterior consistency, and region selection consistency. These results provide the first theoretical guarantees for a Bayesian deep functional model, ensuring its reliability and statistical rigor. Empirically, comprehensive simulations and real-world studies confirm the effectiveness and superiority of sBayFDNN. Crucially, sBayFDNN excels in recognizing intricate dependencies for accurate predictions and more precisely identifies functionally meaningful regions, capabilities fundamentally beyond existing approaches.
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Multiple explosions reported across Russian-occupied Crimea, Crimean Bridge closed: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/17/041753.html

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #InTune
Trad., Le Vent du Nord & Le Vent du Nord:
🎵 Par-dessus le pont ('Above the Bridge')
#Trad #LeVentduNord

*UPDATE*
The Pattullo Bridge is permanently closed to vehicles; the sidewalk will remain open for cyclists and pedestrians until the morning of Feb. 17.
At 7 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 14, all four lanes will open on the stalΕəwΓasəm (Riverview) Bridge.
Visit:

looking good tonight, #SanFrancisco

Several crew members of a ship that collided with a bridge in Baltimore
almost two years ago
are still being held in the US
by federal authorities
despite the fact that
no criminal charges have been brought against them.
In the early hours of 26 March 2024,
the MV Dali departed the port of Baltimore bound for Sri Lanka.
While navigating the Fort McHenry channel,
the 1,000ft-long Singapore-flagged cargo vessel
lost power before strik…

Netflix has lined up a $59B unsecured bridge loan from Wells Fargo, HSBC, and BNP Paribas for its WBD deal, one of the largest ever unsecured bridge loans (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-05/netflix-lines-…

Jemand machte ein #KI-manipuliertes #Bild einer defekten #Brücke und sorgte damit für Zugausfälle:

Sometimes I forget how old Xilinx 7 series is.
Like, they're 28 nm. Intel never had a 28 nm node but Sandy Bridge is 32 and Ivy Bridge is 22.

Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
AVON: Say goodbye to one bolt hole.
BLAKE: That's not funny, Avon.
AVON: It wasn't meant to be.
ZEN: Pursuit ships are turning.
BLAKE: You know what to do.
AVON: Zen, increase speed to Standard by Eight.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/110/581

The Seahawks’ last bridge to the Legion of Boom, Jarran Reed remains the defense’s lead voice https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7022923/2026/02/05/seahawks-super-bowl-60-jarran-reed/

stolen for alt text

Today's example of media and analysts actively disbelieving what's plain:
Why is the Trump regime so interested in Greenland? It doesn't make sense! There's no economic, military, or geopolitical explanation!
But what if there were? And what if it was territorial expansion for its own sake? What if it was, in a word, imperialism? Those on the radio this morning entertained all sorts of increasingly odd theories but, somehow, empire-building was a bridge too far.

From Translink
*UPDATE*
Due to weather conditions, and to ensure public safety, the Pattullo Bridge is now closed to pedestrians and cyclists.
Visit https://pattullobridgereplacement.ca for more information about the replacement project.

#snow #bridge

We might think of the 1963 March on Washington when we talk about organizing and civic change
-- but smaller networks are equally important.
Find many small groups of people you trust,
as small as 2-5 other people.
Use encrypted communications,
like Signal.
Meet in person and break bread,
if you can, building trust slowly.
Be a bridge-builder between trusted colleagues, where appropriate.
Appreciate the beauty of all that can be achie…

From Translink
Pattullo Bridge closed in both directions for one week
Full closure needed to finish road connections on replacement bridge
Starting at 8pm on Friday February 6 there will be no vehicle access to the Pattullo Bridge for approximately one week because of ongoing construction and transition work on the new stalΕəwΓasəm (Riverview) Bridge. During the closure, the stalΕəwΓasəm Bridge will also be fully closed.

The Pattullo Bridge’s sidewalk will remai…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Tacocat:
🎵 Bridge to Hawaii
#Tacocat
https://tacocat.bandcamp.com/track/bridge-to-hawaii
https://open.spotify.com/track/3RgUzbBzDYimNWvEbkQPIQ

The AI boom is delaying US municipal projects, as ~$4T in AI infra spending through 2030 shifts skilled construction workers to AI data centers (Brooke Sutherland/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/202…

Wanting ICE to follow the Constitution is a bridge too far,
I guess...
Sen. Johnson hardens opposition to Dem DHS demands as shutdown looms
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/10/congress-ice-dhs-johnson-government-shutdown.html

Moody Urbanity - Old & New III 🔆
情绪化城市 - 新与旧 III 🔆
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

The Fascinating History Ignored by Critics of a Bridge's New Name via @… https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2025/12/12/…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThisClassicalLife
- Jess Gillam with... Mark Wigglesworth
Jess Gillam swaps favourite music with the conductor Mark Wigglesworth, including tracks by Frank Bridge, Laura Marling, Shostakovich and Wagner.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002c1vd

From Translink
Pattullo Bridge closed southbound for one night
Closure needed for sign installation work on King George Boulevard
The Pattullo Bridge will be closed southbound into Surrey for one night, because of ongoing construction work for the stalΕəwΓasəm Bridge. The directional closure will take place overnight from 9 p.m. on Thursday, January 8 until 5 a.m. on Friday, January 9.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
The Royal Academy Soloists, Benjamin Britten & Clio Gould:
🎵 Variations on a theme by Frank Bridge, Op 10
#TheRoyalAcademySoloists #BenjaminBritten #ClioGould
https://open.spotify.com/track/5mCXK1vWBcEWe78eAzWaHo

From Translink
Westham Island Bridge closing to pedestrians for critical repair work
Bridge fully closed starting tomorrow morning, water taxi services available
To read the full release go to
https://link.etranslink.ca/v/443/61496