Paul "Melting City” Fisher

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Urbanist and Economist who likes Cats and Beta hats. Also writes mysteries for tabletop games.

Site: pauljfisher.com

Hot takes are my own and not employers.

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Lets start a eye-bleach thread. Meet my new cat:

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Dears stats people, please choose 1 parametrization for the Gamma distribution. It just a pain when working with software and papers that each use different versions.

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I'm such a sucker, but this is pretty cute onlyny.com/blogs/news/m...

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New: crime is down a lot in a sample of 190 cities with data through at least May. My assessment of national crime trends at midyear: jasher.substack.com/p/crime-at-m...

Crime At Midyear: Sizable Declines in Violent and Property Crime Across a Large Sample So Far in 2024jasher.substack.com Estimating crime trends as we turn to the second half of 2024.

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It’s always tough going back to work after a holiday…

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I mean look at this beauty

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I am currently the envy of transit nerds around the world Riding the monorail of Wuppertal

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Heads up DC friends

Boil water advisory for DC & Arlington! www.dcwater.com/about-dc-wat...

DRINKING WATER ADVISORY: DC Water Issues Boil Water Advisory for All Customers in the District of Columbia, the Pentagon, Arlington National Cemetery and Reagan National Airport | DC Waterwww.dcwater.com

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2nd July 1863. Battle of Gettysburg. For perhaps the only time in the entire war the Confederates seem to be winning. Dan Sickles, commander III Corps, is ordered hold on Cemetery Ridge. For reasons unknown he advances. Broken, his men begin to flee. This is the moment on which the war depends /1

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Can't believe Little Bobby Tables is all grown up and has had their first kid, Ignore All Previous Instructions

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Red line light rail confirmed (!) Mashallah

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"We don't need bike lanes 'for cyclists'!" say the antis. No, we need them for the ⅔ of other people who would cycle, but don't feel safe doing so without adequate #ActiveTravel infrastructure. @walkridegm.bsky.social

Today someone asked me if a new bike lane was being built "just for me" because nobody else cycles. While we were having this conversation, there were at least 5 cyclists on the cycle lane immediately in front of us.

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Hot damn, this is some promising news. dailyhive.com/vancouver/va...

Vancouver to allow more density at all SkyTrain stations beyond legislation | Urbanizeddailyhive.com These are the City of Vancouver's policies for the designated Transit-Oriented Areas (TOAs) of SkyTrain stations and bus exchanges.

Roughly, East: Canterbury, UK West: Mt Surprise, Queensland North: Edinburgh, UK South: Queenstown, NZ

Using longitude from Greenwich: N: Oslo E: Rotoura NZ S: South shore of Lake Pukaki NZ W: Ka'ena Pt., Oahu

@funranium.bsky.social Hey, quick question, do you have any recommendations for books about the clean up and rebuilding of Hiroshima and Nagasaki after nuclear weapons?

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I felt this in my fucking soul

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Also a good illustration of how many people can fit in the space of not much more than 25 cars.

This evening’s protest by the governor’s office in support of congestion pricing. Almost as many people at the back of the march too. Photo via Open NY.

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Have you seen him? now you have

The Silver Spring metro has some rad art of commuting penguins:

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Please enjoy the Great Plains Skink, a reptile that evolves from a baby goth scene kid into an adult who works in finance and wears designer shoes

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Holy fucking shit. The US Cricket team just beat Pakistan. To put that in perspective, it would be like the Pakistan National Cricket team beating the Lakers. In basketball.

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There's nothing that makes me more proud to be an American than learning we are kicking ass in a sport that basically no one here cares about.

Holy fucking shit. The US Cricket team just beat Pakistan. To put that in perspective, it would be like the Pakistan National Cricket team beating the Lakers. In basketball.

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Anyway, I'm pretty excited for jury duty tomorrow

Juror in Feeding Our Future case excused after being offered bags of cash to acquit • Minnesota Reformerminnesotareformer.com A juror in the Feeding Our Future case was excused Monday morning after prosecutors said an unidentified individual went to the juror’s house on Sunday night and offered a bag containing $120,000 in c...

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My dad put up a nice message for my Opa, who fled the Nazis and returned in a big ass tank

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This is a thing that happened recently www.nytimes.com/2024/05/26/n...

How a Profane Joke on Twitter Spawned a Legal Armywww.nytimes.com A litigation team built from the sharpest, funniest tweeters is suing Elon Musk.

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Since we're talking about outdoor cats again, here's a story from the old country: the time this (very cute) cat incited a series of wild events, culminating in one of our roommates being kicked out Strap in. It's a thread.

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America may be bad but New York? New York is good. www.timeout.com/newyork/news...

Check out the new pizza recycling boxes now in Central Parkwww.timeout.com They hold 50 pie boxes at once and will be emptied two to three times a day.