#99pi — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #99pi, aggregated by home.social.
-
Feels these days like about 20% of the 99% Invisible episodes are promos for other SiriusXM shows. So...it's really more like 79.2% invisible. #99pi
-
Feels these days like about 20% of the 99% Invisible episodes are promos for other SiriusXM shows. So...it's really more like 79.2% invisible. #99pi
-
Glad to see a Canadian specific episode on 99% invisible podcast
But not a single word about Quebec or French language when you speak of CanCon and CRTC.
Spotify playlist for the episode.. 126 songs.. 2 in French.
Nothing more Canadian than seeing Francophone culture ignored I guess. Which is insane considering what Quebec brought on the musical front.
-
Glad to see a Canadian specific episode on 99% invisible podcast
But not a single word about Quebec or French language when you speak of CanCon and CRTC.
Spotify playlist for the episode.. 126 songs.. 2 in French.
Nothing more Canadian than seeing Francophone culture ignored I guess. Which is insane considering what Quebec brought on the musical front.
-
Amazing podcast via #99pi re: Ivermectin.
⚠️ A lot of talk about human parasites (both kinds).
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/668-drug-story-ivermectin/
-
Amazing podcast via #99pi re: Ivermectin.
⚠️ A lot of talk about human parasites (both kinds).
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/668-drug-story-ivermectin/
-
@richardaudette Thank you!
That's the thing, I feel like I don't have enough podcasts, got tired of a few over the years and never replaced them.
Right now i'm a regular with #99Pi and a F1 The Race podcast.
Radio Ambulante / El Hilo to practice my Spanish skills
Guilty pleasure: Money for Couples with Ramit Sethi
Once in a while: The Indicator & Planet Money, but it's so US centric that i go to it less and less. Same for American Life.
Will check a few of your suggestions.
-
@richardaudette Thank you!
That's the thing, I feel like I don't have enough podcasts, got tired of a few over the years and never replaced them.
Right now i'm a regular with #99Pi and a F1 The Race podcast.
Radio Ambulante / El Hilo to practice my Spanish skills
Guilty pleasure: Money for Couples with Ramit Sethi
Once in a while: The Indicator & Planet Money, but it's so US centric that i go to it less and less. Same for American Life.
Will check a few of your suggestions.
-
Schön, das es auch mal positive Beispiele bei #NotBuiltForThis gibt, aber Heiliger Bimbam.
Das Nest musste __27__ Jahre für einen Damm kämpfen.
#Podcast #99PercentInvisible #99PI #HamiltonCity #California #Levee #Hochwasser
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/nbft-05-the-little-levee-that-could/
-
CW: US Politics
Looking for an explainer about the morass Trump waddled into on the US-Canada bridge issue? Enjoy the #99pi podcast about the Ambassador Bridge, which someone in the White House should have listened to. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/640-ambassador-bridge/
-
All you have to know about the "mark of the beast": 😉
-
Heard about the am-dash (https://www.theamdash.com/) on the latest episode of 99 Percent Invisible.
As I understand it, there's no unicode for the am-dash yet. While I have downloaded Times New Human and Areal, I wouldn't now how to actually get the am-dash in a LaTeX-generated document, since the command to get it is more than a single character.
I hacked something together, but obviously that's not the same.
Does anybody know how to do it properly? Or maybe someone has already contacted Cocogun to ask if they'd be willing to collaborate on a project to make a tiny LaTeX package or something, just so we can use the am-dash in our LaTeX-typeset documents?
#TexLaTeX #Typography #Typesetting #Fonts #AmDash #99pi #Podcast
-
TIL about Violet Jessup who survived 3 White Star Line ship disasters. The Olympic, Titanic, and Britannic. Is she the luckiest or unluckiest person? #history #weirdbuttrue Thanks #99PI podcast!
-
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: A tale of three customer service chatbots (12 Nov 2025)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/11/sorry-to-bother-you/
-
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: A tale of three customer service chatbots (12 Nov 2025)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/11/sorry-to-bother-you/
-
@johnefrancis @mayintoronto i had my history wrong, i remembered they were introducing squirrels intentionally in north american cities but turns out it was intentionally bringing them from the country side to the cities. And then they started bringing them to Europe!
Great article:
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/uptown-squirrel/ -
The first episode of the new 99% Invisible Breakdown of the Constitution with Nikole Hannah-Jones caught me by surprise. From framing current "events" in the historical and legal context to side discussions on patriotism and flying the flag, the bit that resonated most was when NHJ said (more or less) 'we shouldn't have been surprised' knowing what we do about America. Worth a listen: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/constitution-breakdown-01-nikole-hannah-jones/ #99pi
-
During the US-Iraq war in 2005, a US entomologist named three newly discovered species of slime-mould beetle ’George Bush’, ’Dick Cheney’ and ’Donald Rumsfeld’.
”People thought: "They’re slime-mould beetles. He must be making a joke about how awful these people are.”
But it turned out the scientist was a Republican fan of the trio and had named the beetles to honour them.
That was an unexpected thing to learn. And that was another interesting episode of 99% Invisible.
-
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/631-return-of-con-law/ For those like me who are concerned about the status of #ConLaw and what #USPolitics is doing in this troubling new authoritarian era, this is wonderful news. Though ironically I found a lot of this more disturbing than I expected. #podcast #WhatTrumpCanTeachUsAboutConLaw #99pi #RomanMars
-
This is awesome!
Can an emoji sign a contract? -
Awesome episode by 99percentinvisible once again.
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/623-everything-is-tuberculosis-john-green/
-
Morning listenings, on the way to the office:
The developers wanted to tear down nearly all of the old mill buildings and replace them with more retail. Townsend would end up spending the next two years fighting alongside other residents to save the mill district, but unfortunately, the building was replaced by a parking lot for a supermarket. Townsend and the other artists saw it as another sign over excess new development in Providence, but they weren’t done with the developers (or with the mall). They decided the best way to understand what they were up against was to live in the mall for one week without leaving.
Heard this story on that podcast before, ages ago, but somehow this idea of a secret appartment hidden inside the guts of a shopping mall doesn't cease to amaze, same as the general idea of looking for unused accidential space in this kind of semi-public buildings. There's a lot of interesting aspects to this one for sure. -
In case folks are not subscribed to #99PercentInvisible for some reason, there is a great new episode about the history of #WestOakland and @alexismadrigal's new book on the subject!
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/620-beautiful-west-oakland-california/
-
In case folks are not subscribed to #99PercentInvisible for some reason, there is a great new episode about the history of #WestOakland and @alexismadrigal's new book on the subject!
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/620-beautiful-west-oakland-california/
-
In case folks are not subscribed to #99PercentInvisible for some reason, there is a great new episode about the history of #WestOakland and @alexismadrigal's new book on the subject!
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/620-beautiful-west-oakland-california/
-
99pi's own @KurtKohlstedt braves the cold to share how this Minneapolis transit signage remains clearly visible despite the snow. #99pi #Minneapolis
-
I finally finished listing to the #99pi book club podcasts for The Power Broker, and I can’t help but see how much of the invisible machine of self-perpetuating unelected power is the same today. I wish I had a Robert Caro book on Elon Musk so I could understand how we ended up here again.
-
Just came across an octothorpe in the wild.
https://www.tapr.org/pdf/DCC1995-Recommendation4HAP-WO5H-WD5IVDAA4RE-W0RLI.pdf
-
A little surprised if not mad how blandly #99pi roots for nuclear power as a reasonable clean energy source… 😳
-
I finally finished reading The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro and while the book is extremely long, it paints an extremely detailed picture of Robert Moses' work in the City of New York. I read this as a part of the podcast 99% Invisible's book club, which went through all of 2024.
There are some chapters that feel like: 'here's a bunch of data'. There are other chapters that demonstrate how Moses would not help public transit, not on his watch, cars come first! One such example of that would be to run both sides of a highway far enough apart that you could run trains down the middle. Moses just wasn't interested.
And of course, there are examples of Moses pushing people out of their homes to make room for infrastructure. There are other examples where Moses is going to run a highway through some people's homes, even though there was a park one block south of there that would still work. Moses was having none of that. After all, he had the power – built up over decades.
And now that I'm done with The Power Broker, I need to read some more of the books on my shelf. I have such a backlog.
#thepowerbroker #99pi #Caro #reading #biographies #publicservice #RobertMoses
-
Ok, but seriously, if his name is "Roman Mars" then basically we should be able to call him "Ares," right?
-
I remember this recent episode from one of my favorite podcast #99pi
There was some debate whether we should add a Category 6 for hurricanes.
But another interesting part is how the issue with those categories is that they mostly focus on wind speed (which our buildings are getting better at resisting) when often what is super dangerous is the water surge. And people think of wind and neglect the flood aspect, which is the big killer.
-
"Meine Heimatstadt in Vermont ist vor dem Klimawandel sicher."
Zwei Hochwasser in einem Jahr später:
-
In 1948, beavers were successfully parachuted into remote parts of Idaho in beaver boxes attached to surplus World War II parachutes.
The test paratrooper was a beaver named Geronimo who got so used to the flights that he waited for the crew to come and fetch him after each landing.
That was a pleasing thing to learn.
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/mini-stories-volume-15/4/
-
In 1948, beavers were successfully parachuted into remote parts of Idaho in beaver boxes attached to surplus World War II parachutes.
The test paratrooper was a beaver named Geronimo who got so used to the flights that he waited for the crew to come and fetch him after each landing.
That was a pleasing thing to learn.
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/mini-stories-volume-15/4/
-
CW: podcast about death and burial, animals eating human corpses
Listened to a somewhat gruesome, but also respectful & incredibly fascinating episode of #99PercentInvisible yesterday.
The #Parsi community in India traditionally practices sky burial: The bodies of the deceased are placed on top of a stone structure, where they would be eaten by vultures, often in less than an hour.
But what happens when humans accidentally kill basically all of the vultures?
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/towers-of-silence/ (72 min)
-
CW: podcast about death and burial, animals eating human corpses
Listened to a somewhat gruesome, but also respectful & incredibly fascinating episode of #99PercentInvisible yesterday.
The #Parsi community in India traditionally practices sky burial: The bodies of the deceased are placed on top of a stone structure, where they would be eaten by vultures, often in less than an hour.
But what happens when humans accidentally kill basically all of the vultures?
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/towers-of-silence/ (72 min)
-
CW: podcast about death and burial, animals eating human corpses
Listened to a somewhat gruesome, but also respectful & incredibly fascinating episode of #99PercentInvisible yesterday.
The #Parsi community in India traditionally practices sky burial: The bodies of the deceased are placed on top of a stone structure, where they would be eaten by vultures, often in less than an hour.
But what happens when humans accidentally kill basically all of the vultures?
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/towers-of-silence/ (72 min)
-
I've been seeing so many different cats, that I keep getting the "10,000-Year Earworm to Discourage Settlement Near Nuclear Waste Repositories" song by Emperor X stuck in my head:
In case you don't know the story: this song was commissioned by the 99 Percent Invisible podcast for their episode on how to warn people in the far future to stay away from nuclear waste deposits.
The idea is that no civilisation existed for as long as the time that radioactive waste remains dangerous. Hence, we need ways to warn people that are robust for lost of language, symbols, etc.
One idea was to breed cats that light up in the presence of radiation, and to then create a folk song about the importance of keeping cats, and the importance of leaving (with the cat) when the cat changes colour.
Hence "don't change colour, kitty".
#CatsOfMastodon #99pi #99PercentInvisible #design #music #cats #DontChangeColourKitty #Nuclear #NuclearWaste #future
-
I've been seeing so many different cats, that I keep getting the "10,000-Year Earworm to Discourage Settlement Near Nuclear Waste Repositories" song by Emperor X stuck in my head:
In case you don't know the story: this song was commissioned by the 99 Percent Invisible podcast for their episode on how to warn people in the far future to stay away from nuclear waste deposits.
The idea is that no civilisation existed for as long as the time that radioactive waste remains dangerous. Hence, we need ways to warn people that are robust for lost of language, symbols, etc.
One idea was to breed cats that light up in the presence of radiation, and to then create a folk song about the importance of keeping cats, and the importance of leaving (with the cat) when the cat changes colour.
Hence "don't change colour, kitty".
#CatsOfMastodon #99pi #99PercentInvisible #design #music #cats #DontChangeColourKitty #Nuclear #NuclearWaste #future
-
What's the deal with natural gas stoves?
99% Invisible has a new episode with @RebLeber that explains the movement to phase them out and the emotional attachment many have.
I was surprised to learn that gas stoves are more popular in blue states than red:
California 70% of households
New Jersey 69%
Illinois 67%
New York 62%vs
Texas 37%
Florida 8%Action at the state level will be key.
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/cooking-with-gas/
#99pi #podcast #naturalgas #gasstove #electrifyeverything #decarbonization
-
What's the deal with natural gas stoves?
99% Invisible has a new episode with @RebLeber that explains the movement to phase them out and the emotional attachment many have.
I was surprised to learn that gas stoves are more popular in blue states than red:
California 70% of households
New Jersey 69%
Illinois 67%
New York 62%vs
Texas 37%
Florida 8%Action at the state level will be key.
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/cooking-with-gas/
#99pi #podcast #naturalgas #gasstove #electrifyeverything #decarbonization
