insincerity > vice signaling

Hit and run this afternoon. Pedestrian at fault, however the N-bound signal turns red 15 seconds before the S-bound to accommodate left turns. Even I sometimes start to cross prematurely. @nycdot.bsky.social defends timing as federally compliant. Washington Ave at Eastern Parkway

Hi @homedepotofficial.bsky.social - how do I report one of your rentals repeatedly being used in an unsafe and illegal manner (reversing aggressively down a busy sidewalk) as well as having a defaced license plate?

“I will never visit the United States again,” Mr. Jeong said. @nytimes.com #Hyundai www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/w...

Cats Effect style resource?

Outcome of the IAB complaint about this: unfounded, vehicle not in confines of assigned precinct (admits they should have transferred). Unsurprising, but it does make reporting at precinct boundaries nearly impossible since this will always be available as an excuse. cc @cmcrystalhudson.bsky.social

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These are people who literally think Obama was an illegal immigrant DEI hire.

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There was a bill introduced at the state level to allow the city to put cameras on street sweepers to fine drivers who don’t move their cars, but it doesn’t look like it went anywhere www.brooklynpaper.com/street-sweep...

this is a flippant analogy but an idealized state for public services is when people see them as akin to apple products. not “run like a business” but glossy and respectable to feel like using them makes you feel cool

and yet somehow noone seems to care about concatenation, the one operation that is used *everywhere*, to the point that all the Monoid functions in haskell have to be right-biased because the default use case for them is with list concatenation

Two steps forward, one step back. These are on different days but for same vehicle at same location. 77 and 78 precincts each say the other has jurisdiction, close as unfounded. State the same in follow up calls.

we have a new time for my talk in Crown Heights: September 17th, 7pm. this is a non-ticketed event - come as you are.

When it rains it pours

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NYPD was busy trying to save cyclists and bust illegal parkers on the newly unprotected stretch of Bedford Ave., but had to stop issuing summonses because they ran out. “It's a problem because a lot of bicyclists are going into the street and getting hit by cars,” a Sgt. said.

In addition to the usual @fdny.bsky.social placard abuse at the fire station, got treated to this Pods truck blocking the sidewalk on the way to drop off this morning. cc @cmcrystalhudson.bsky.social

Sure this *looks* good but by not narrowing the roadway, DOT allows drivers to continue reckless speeding. AND taking space from pedestrians is egregious, especially as the population of the area grows. Build for the great city you want, not for the failed city you have, @chrislhayes.bsky.social.

hot take: effect handlers are going to win over monads/purity, not because they're better in any way, but just because they don't have the historical connotations that make 80% of programmers shut their brain off when talking about them

I know a lot of people who love Austin and prefer it to LA but, uh, it's very different from LA! if you like it in LA you're probably not going to move there and go "wow what a paradise"

Once again sent a desperate plea to @cmcrystalhudson.bsky.social and others to do something about the pedestrian safety situation at @brooklynmuseum.org and the Washington intersection. Absolute bare minimum would be @nycdot.bsky.social putting up signage for vehicles to keep off.

Aside from how dangerous this is, the idea of your car being a *third* workplace is incredibly depressing.

This Toyota belongs to cadet of the Court Officers Academy on St John’s and keeps parking in the no standing. Forcing a school bus which waits an hour in the morning (a shorter time in evening) to stand in the crosswalk. Reported to 311/71pct without resolution. cc @cmcrystalhudson.bsky.social

At Brad Lander's election night party in Brooklyn, the energy is that of a victory, not at all a defeat. "We are on a path to win a city that all New Yorkers can afford and where everyone belongs," Lander says.

Think about it, Adrienne Adams barely cleared 39k votes in a citywide race for Mayor, but some Council Candidates like @cmcrystalhudson.bsky.social and @shahanafrombk.bsky.social landed 32k and 29k votes in just a single council district. Lets re-ask who should be our council speaker.

Hi @cmcrystalhudson.bsky.social here is a still from this surveillance camera showing two food cart rigs traversing the sidewalk at @brooklynmuseum.org , forcing peds onto EP. I was subject to harassing phone calls reporting this to 78pct on a previous occasion. Happy to share the footage.

I was meant to just do project management 🤷

Working on a guerrilla traffic safety camera (still owe @jehiah.cz some footage)

I’m legit impressed by this. Pittsburgh has lowered traffic deaths for four years straight www.unionprogress.com/2025/06/15/p...

I’ve been pretty grumpy about free bus discourse over on the bad site. To summarize my thoughts: I think the elephant in the room is the US views public transport as welfare extravagance not basic public good, contra roads.

At the beginning of the pandemic, before GF, police almost entirely disappeared, at least where I live. In spite of priority access to PPE.

Someone inform the popularists that driving opinion actually works!

Great post here on a Brooklyn neighborhood wanting a Paris-style school street! @kevinduggan.bsky.social nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/06/11/b...

Isn’t Mamdani basically a win-win for centrists? Either he governs well (which the center ostensibly wants) or he makes a hash of it and becomes a cautionary tale about electing a socialist.

Pass legislation requiring all bike lanes be spacious enough to accommodate a tiller rig.

Gotta grade on a curve

TfL to increase central London Congestion Charge by 20% insidecroydon.com/2025/05/27/t... #London @christianwolmar.bsky.social @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social

Everything is the culture war now.

My contrarian take is that COVID actually briefly interrupted a trajectory we were already clearly on. People forget by 2019 militias performatively storming state capitols was a thing. PR had seen massive protests, Trump was in office, QAnon increasingly normalized

Given a possible migration over here, let me set expectations re possibly the most controversial topic: housing. Even with zoning ref etc (which are good) IMO we aren’t going to solve the supply problem due to other barriers like finance. That (unbounded) rationing via pricing power is foolish

That’s usually when the “concentration camp” becomes a “death camp,” historically.

RIP, Tesla.

The city has authorized just 600 restaurants or bars to set up curbside when roadway outdoor dining resumes April 1 — a nearly 90 percent drop from the height of the pandemic-era program, thanks to new rules pushed by Council Speaker (and mayoral candidate) Adrienne Adams.

Meanwhile at the Game Developers Conference... many Canadian video game developers are opting not to join amid deteriorating relations between the US and Canada.

Vibe shift?

Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.

tbh I think by now we should be able to answer the "how we got Trump" question by strongly weighting that Trump is how we got Trump. he is a generational political talent