Sepulveda modified alt 5 approved. THE MONORAIL IS DEAD.

Car culture takes another victim: the movies.

Friday last four for #filmsky Le Harve is such little gem of a film.

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Love seeing dogs on the bus!

In Europe and Asia, where rail networks are strong and cities have one or multiple strong urban centers, railway stations and city center squares are the "naturally occurring" transit hubs. North America tries to cope for the lack of "natural" centralities by creating ones for transit artificially.

Intersections with the red light cameras have reduced T-bone crashes by 65% and rear-end collisions by 49%.

Quality bike racks. No notes.

AOC: What we saw today was a criminal murder a woman while she was trying to flee for her life. What we saw today was a manifestation of every American’s worst nightmare: their government turning into a tyranny.

"The Secret Agent" is great, and I really want every shirt worn by Wagner Moura in this film.

A phenomenal, kind of messy and expansive piece of cinematic art. It really captures the human spirit that is the root of community and society even in the face of repression.

I had surgery recently and the hospital gown had a built in heating pad. That type of innovation is totally better than socialized medicine

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

All time fuck up for the Nobel peace prize to go to her.

We are a rogue state.

Smart proposal here from Charles Komanoff, one of the architects of Manhattan congestion pricing. Policies like this can prevent AVs from causing crushing gridlock if/when they scale. The best time to implement them is now, before they're widespread. www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/one...

My 2025 final thought: I’m very happy that Wolf Parade now part of the queer music canon.

My five star list on Letterboxd for the year. My only rule is no half stars.

PBS, are you OK?

LA architecture is something else. People can live in their own theme park.

California's fundamental flaw is that Proposition 13 hands the wealthiest people in the state a massive tax break while also cutting off a stable revenue source. Instead, we raise money from progressive income taxes which raise lots when the economy is good and little when it's bad.

The dirty little secret know one wants to talk about is that we need to raise everyone’s taxes (except the absolute poorest) to afford the society we need.

My humble holiday plate.

Who needs a village when you can have parking lots?

Merry Christmas Eve! Unwrapped my gift tonight (a pizza steel) and made one of my best pies ever. The hype for these things may be real.

Prepped for tomorrow!

Xmas Eve is homemade pizza night. For Xmas night, we choose a different country each year and build the menu around that theme. This year we're going to Iran with Ghormeh Sabzi (fried herb stew with beans), Pomegranate Soup with herbed meatballs, Tahdig and rice pudding for dessert.

Anyone have any non-Christmas "Christmas albums"? Mine is Joanna Newson's Divers. The instrumentation/arrangements have a vague holiday vibe, and I really got into it around the holidays the year it came out, and now I reach for it every winter.

This is so cool.

This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

This is a really good one, tune in!

Important news for the Bluesky userbase (37-year-olds who went to the free Prospect Park shows every summer): Wolf Parade has the No. 1 song on Spotify right now because it's in the gay hockey movie.

Merry Christmas

My Christmas wish is that one day our sidewalks will be as wide as our trucks.🎄🎅

My pedantic brain can’t get over these badly done AI images used by a major progressive non-profit in LA. It’s annoying because it’s all supporting a good call to action, but like, if your post about LA can’t even use a correct image of DTLA, what are we doing? Like who approved this flawed post?

Recovering from hernia surgery and yet Tottenham still more painful to endure.

Encouraging results from San Francisco's speed camera pilot. Speeding reduced 72% at the 15 camera locations. Tickets issued dropping week over week (tldr enforcement works) www.sfmta.com/blog/our-spe...

Fascinating work.

The hardest part about recovery from hernia surgery is keeping the pets off my lap. They are obsessed with getting up here. Constant vigilance required.

Checking in for surgery this morning at a large hospital and struck by the check-in kiosks…having to prepay from a card reader like I buy surgery from a vending machine.

Horrible news about Rob and Michele Reiner. What a giant, in Hollywood and American life.

This is like when you propose a bike lane and people say it’s impossible because their 85 y/o grandmother might need her piano moved.

Ignition interlockers, speed governors and speed camera will save lives. Most reasonable and good faith objections can be (and have been) addressed by thoughtful policy that can be replicated en masse in cities across the country. Would be a major public health victory.

Glad I didn’t get hit. Dying over getting a bar of Pound Plus would be lame.

I win(?) at Bluesky today: I was nearly hit by a speeding Tesla while biking to my local Trader Joe’s and its tiny parking lot.

The DMV has wide latitude to take dangerous drivers off the road. But it routinely allows drivers with extreme histories of dangerous driving to continue to operate on our roadways, where many go on to kill. calmatters.org/investigatio... 6/9

In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)" news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

Imagine if cops arrested drivers running stop signs at this intersection instead…