Took my first scooter ride in a while today (been doing Metro bike) and it’s so depressing what a missed opportunity that was for cities. We did to scooters everything we should have done to cars: - capped speeds with governors - refused to give curb space - made heavy pedestrian areas no go zones

We make scooter riders take a picture of the scooter to prove it’s parked legally. Can you imagine if we did that to cars?

Now this is how you detect whether an election was stolen. Humans choose rounder numbers. by @TheEconomist

"Comments by New KMT Chair Justify Russia's Invasion of Ukraine as Defensive in Nature" by @brianhioe.bsky.social

When I was an exchange student in Bavaria in the 1980s, my teachers still remember how the American GIs fed them when they were hungry

Once upon a time, American soldiers handed out food to Germans because *they* had followed a fascist madman into national ruin. How times change.

RT @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social : “Please, please, please take 20 minute to watch this incredibly powerful film about the fatal recklessness of Elon Musk and Marco Rubio’s aid cuts. Children are dying from these cuts. This is one of the many, many stories - a South Sudanese refugee child in Uganda.”

Every single woman you know has had this happen to her. Even the goddamn president of Mexico.

Some doctors say the chemicals all around us—from golf courses to dry cleaners—may be increasing our risk of Parkinson’s disease, the fastest-growing neurodegenerative disease in the world. 🔗 Read more: on.wsj.com/4omgMZ0

Watching one of 22 optical scanners read ballots. A few minutes later, the ballot count update added another 120,000. Now over 2M ballots have been processed+counted in LA County (5.8 M registered voters). On the processing floor, only green pens and gold pencils are allowed (invisible to scanner)

Delighted to have contributed to this article. 👇 COVID19 hasn’t gone away, and continued SARSCoV2 surveillance is critical.

After #GarWeek comes the 50th commemoration of the Wreck of the Edmund FitzGARald.

Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal - The Guardian www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Trump just continually shooting our country in the face. This unwarranted (and likely illegal) destruction of Goddard is madness. It jeopardizes the next several decades of space exploration.

‼️ "Roughly one in four @transit.app users has some form of accessibility need, spanning from low vision to mobility limitations."

I just learned that Polynesian reggae is a whole ass thing, and there is a big festival taking over the Tacoma Dome all weekend!!! www.holoholofestival.com/tacoma/

Still thinking about Zohran’s full-throated defense of immigration and how long i’ve waited for it. No bullshit about border security or “legal” immigrants but just unabashed support for immigrants. How many people feel so much more seen today? I know I do. 1/

Definitely a full-on NIMBY backlash in Bainbridge Island and Sammamish tonight. Sammamish mayor Karen Howe is on the ropes, along with CM Sid Gupta. In Bainbridge, CM Joe Deets is also behind and anti growth candidate Mike Nelson is ahead.

I cannot stress that the work that people have been doing for years in the southeast is paying off and needs to be celebrated.

And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.

Had to drive my 18 year old to the polls last minute tonight because he walked by the polling station earlier this afternoon, and he realized he didn’t have his ID so he didn’t go in. There is no ID requirement in Massachusetts. Example 3,487 of how voter ID laws suppress voting everywhere

*taps sign*

tired: leaders throw folks under the bus wired: leaders invite folks on the bus in a dedicated lane

The country has spoken. Get ready to drink some soy milk and hire minorities.

I feel like this is an important aspect to emphasize, loudly, to everyone who endorsed Cuomo. they chose to side with a known sexual predator for personal gain and frankly that should be disqualifying for public office. you knew who he was and decided the women he hurt were acceptable losses

Boston, come to MIT tomorrow to hear @jtemple.bsky.social and I talk about electricity, hot pockets event.technologyreview.com/emtech-mit-2...

Politicians should probably get on Bluesky to get better in touch with the American electorate.

Bicycling with a super moon was magical tonight

Public Utilities Commissioners are climate policymakers and we finally started acting like it

I am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-) he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit

Gift 🎁 link: How LA County counts our ballots. You can watch a livestream or watch in person. League of Women Voters planned a watch and facility tour trip tomorrow at 2pm. See you there! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...

Free Symposium! The Science Behind the 2025 Nobel Prizes Join three researchers from Victoria University of Wellington - Te Herenga Waka at an event to event celebrate (and explain) the science behind this year's Nobel Prizes in Medicine, Physics and Chemistry,

Yeah, it's the bike lane that takes up too much space 🤦‍♂️

Listening to @kristinalerman.bsky.social talk about how algorithms shape everything in our lives, including people entrusting their feelings to AI Chatbots. Dynamical systems and feedback loops, big sigh

Shoulda worked harder to not send our electoral votes to Texas in search of housing

I just want to point out that the asshole and his minions have normalized: 1) taking bribes and gifts from foreign countries 2) pump and dump stock and crypto schemes and massive insider trading 3) killing fishermen in international waters with no proof or basis to do so 4) threatening to annex

meanwhile the words: "Every time one of these murderers dies w/o having faced consequences for the massacres they ordered, the lives they destroyed, the societies they razed to the ground I realize how far we are from a world with justice. Rest in hell Dick Cheney. Your legacy is death." 🔥🔥🔥

Reminder that LA Metro and Metro Bike and DASH and Commuter Express are all free today!

I asked the receptionist at my new ryokan if I could show him my travel sketchbook because I love unsolicited bragging and then to my surprise, he showed me his travel sketchbook!! Anyway, now we are instagram friends.

Not quoting the skeet for a non sequitur. How many people real NWSL as National Weather Service Severe Storms Laboratory? Just me?

Paper or plastic? Trees or petroleum. Doesn't matter if there is meat in your bag. @waiterich.bsky.social (Your own reusable bags are better.)

Agencies are sending messages indicating that workers who are on the job will be paid when the government reopens — with no mention of those on furlough, despite a 2019 law protecting their wages. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

NEW: Even the FBI thinks unidentified masked ICE agents is a bad idea. @dell.bsky.social and @carolinehaskins.bsky.social with the scoop. No paywall bc FOIA: www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

I hate gerrymandering but I voted for Prop 50. Democracy is on the line. Unilateral gerrymandering disarmament failed. We have to wrest control of congress away from anti-democracy authoritarians in order to ban gerrymandering nationwide

Molybdenite wins physics vote (source of Re for geochronology, Mo used as a catalyst, battery electrodes, alloys of iron & semiconductors), But Tetrahedrite gets physics points for being thermoelectric (turn heat into electricity) & some arts points as a historically important ore of copper #OreCup

This.

on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people

RE Mamdani's platform of free buses. Los Angeles Metro piloted & then made permanent free transit passes for K-14 (participating school districts). The families of "heavy utilizers" of free transit reported using the $ saved to buy more food & take more trips. www.metro.net/riding/fares...

The shutdown has left NOAA's network of cooperative research institutes locked out of federal labs and cut off from federal collaborators. In some cases, it's affecting research aimed at public safety—like toxic algae monitoring in the Great Lakes. My story 🔏 & quick 🧵 www.eenews.net/articles/shu...