Happy Chocolate Bunny Day to all who celebrate!

Does everyone who puts No DMs in their profile know that you can simply block DMs in your settings?

The reason your In box is unmanageable and you have a thousand unread messages is because making email free effectively eliminated postage stamps. Postage, as we are gradually figuring out, was congestion pricing for communication.

Here's the ultimate solution to this—and all future—oil price shocks: The Non-Polluting, Autonomy-Building, Fitness-Enhancing, Non-Middle-East-Oil-Burning, Happiness-Producing, Self-Driven Vehicle.

April 4 - A Day of Mourning On this day in Labor History the year was 1968. That was the day that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered by an assassin’s bullet in Memphis, Tennessee. He was in Memphis to support AFSCME sanitation workers, who were out on strike fighting for better wages and wo

Just got blocked by a search engine account. #LifesLittleMysteries

Add food to a movie title: Alice in Wonder Bread

'An MIT Media Lab study titled “Your Brain on ChatGPT” found that LLM users “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.” The tech oligarchs have somehow managed to enshittify thinking.'

“Compared with non-active travelers, the cyclists had a 19% lower risk of all-cause dementia, a 22% lower risk of Alzheimer's, a 40% lower risk of young-onset dementia (before the age of 65), and a 17% lower risk of late-onset dementia.” Getting around a bike more often could reduce dementia risk.

Pair this with congestion pricing & protected bike lanes, please!

"Dangerous" is superior to "unsafe" in road safety & urbanist discourse.

One of the happiest sights in any city is a pub with jam-packed bike racks.

Has anyone here lived next to or within 300 meters of a highway? What were your experiences? I'm doing a video on the topic and wanted some anecdotal evidence!

Old joke from "Another roadside attraction," by Tom Robbins: Did you hear Easter's been canceled? They found the body.

Journalists love to drop 'chaos' any time a system malfunctions. Was there chaos in airports due to TSA slowdowns? No, frustrated passengers waited in line. Chaos would have been people acting on impulse: vandalizing the airport, assaulting employees & each other, stealing from vendors, etc.

The government said corporations keep charging drivers too much for gas so I asked how many people drive and the government said they force everyone to drive so I said it sounds like the government is forcing people to buy overpriced gas and then the carbrains cheering for lower gas taxes cried.

Please use the cycle path: a wry cartoon by @davewalker.bsky.social

The thing about the Bondi & Noem firings is that Hegseth still has a job after compromising national security on Signal.

it's never "meet the liberals pushing for nuremberg 2.0" is it?

How did bogs become the standard?

Prediction: the accusations of interpersonal inauthenticity ("performative," "virtue signaling") will rise, the more we're exposed to AI slop.

This is insane: TeleGuard, a 'secure' chat app downloaded more than a million times, uploads users' private keys, meaning the company can decrypt messages. And anyone can get anyone else's private key by just sending the user ID to the API. Possibly worst ever www.404media.co/a-secure-cha...

We encourage you to write an email to your local councillor and let them know your interest in seeing more driving routes.

I’m doing research for a video project on confronting traffic offenders. I want to hear your stories on situations where you gave feedback to someone doing something wrong on road/sidewalk/trail. Please use this link or message me your answers. I will keep them anonymous. forms.gle/aHXxjWGHiRwe...

Gee, during Career Week in junior high, no one told me I could be a...

One could pair this study with @moiradonegan.bsky.social's insight about the #tradwife. Men who prefer tradwives view their wives with open contempt. The women who opt to be tradwives really want to be children again. www.bookforum.com/print/3004/l...

Chag Sameach to all those observing Passover. Wishing joy and community to everyone celebrating the holiday and gathering over tonight's seder.

"criticizing AI use in journalism or other creative industries is classist" NO IT IS NOT there is a class that benefits enormously from cognitive surrender, epistemic warfare, and the enclosure of all hitherto produced culture and it is NOT THE WORKING CLASS

Results of the autopsy on Nurul Sham Amin Alam are in, who was found dead on the streets of Buffalo.

As a longtime Artemisia Gentileschi fan, I approve this humor.

Those with way more followers than I have, if you think this is a good idea, please consider sharing, so if one exists, we will know about it, and if one does not exist, maybe someone out there will be inspired to start it. @kevinmkruse.bsky.social @lollardfish.bsky.social @bencollins.bsky.social

✨ introducing… ✨ 🌇 Transportation for the Abundant Society 🚅 "Abundance" says our problem is artificial scarcity—especially housing. But you can’t build your way out if transportation policy still treats traffic flow as sacred. Transportation is the binding constraint. ssrn.com/abstract=538...

Imagine a city where pedestrians and cyclists getting injured and killed by car drivers all the time was an issue in an upcoming election.

One of the weirdest car-brained things I see: people posting videos complaining about a new protected bike lane being built -- and the videos were made with their phones while driving, which is illegal and unsafe. You're just proving the point that cyclists need protection from unsafe drivers.

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You don’t make cyclists mix with motor traffic at roundabouts and rely on driver behaviour. You design them so they don’t have to, removing the risk altogether. 📍 ’s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands

I’m no lawyer but I find it interesting that Christian conversion therapy practitioners have the right to tell kids they aren’t trans but those kids’ teachers apparently don’t have the right to say they are trans and people on the internet may not have the right to affirm them being trans either

objectively the funniest critique an american could level at another country

"Somebody who may have overtaken me on my bike appears to think that the death of somebody isn’t deserving of a show of sadness. Instead, because they were on a bike when they were killed, the most important point is to tell the world they saw a different person on a bike cycle through a red light."

Yep.

similarly, @gowder.io, this is clearing my skin: "Forgive me for thinking that part of the point of the Fourteenth Amendment and our generally positive attitude toward it is to not give the Confederates a do-over."

This is largely by design. If we stop thinking about AI as simply technology and instead as part of a political and economic program, its chief function become easier to see: namely to erode interpersonal trust so that ultimately we give up on forms of agreement & negotiation arbitrated by people.

These machines fight traffic. Our @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social billboard is live.

TIL that the founder of Ikea liked Nazis. Do we all boycott Ikea now? Interested in your reasoning for thinking yes or no.

“…disabled people are actually less likely to drive than nondisabled people and more likely to get around by walking and rolling and taking transit. Car-heavy cities are also disproportionately dangerous for disabled folks…”— @nondriver.bsky.social Don’t use accessibility “as a political football.”

Paging @surj.org

Vocabulary reminder: If it is designed to withstand impact, it is a bollard. If it is designed to give way under impact, it is a flexpost. Not a bollard.