Is anyone else mad at the fact that they have to pay federal taxes for bullshit they don't want? Like new ballrooms, the Gestapo, child torture, and human trafficking. I wanna pay for education, social services, UBI, and universal health care! I'm so gotdamn mad right now, I need to lie down.

New York City: The time has arrived. Finally, a chance to tell the city EXACTLY what your landlord’s been getting away with. NYC’s first Rental Ripoff Hearings are happening in all five boroughs, and we want to hear from you. Real New Yorkers. Real stories. Real policy changes. 

If dishwashers killed 40,000 people a year they would be banned. Why do we let cars get away with such high death rates? Thanks Tim Gill and @penalosag.bsky.social for a great webinar today!

How to knit: video 6. Knitting English or flicking with your right hand

Intarsia Cat is done. Onward with knitting yellow only.

They’re adding another layer of highway on top of I-77 in Charlotte, reinforcing decades of racism. They’re trying to spin it by saying it will be an opportunity to make “community spaces” and other nonsense. Public amenities directly adjacent to highways are a disgusting failure of planning policy.

In 3 hours "I hereby promise you 30 minutes that will transform the way you think about children, cars, streets and neighbourhoods." Tim Gill LAST CHILD IN THE STREET? Webinar today, guest Tim Gill. Invite: Cities for Better Health & 8 80 Cities Tues. Feb. 10 11am EST; 5pm CET FREE: bit.ly/3N6JwY9

“children are not choosing to stay off the streets and parents are not choosing to be helicopters; our streets are choosing to exclude children” From @urbancyclinginstitute.org

Ha ha ha

This is gorgeous work. I can’t even begin to imagine how to do this!!

A pastel showing Little St Mary's Lane in Cambridge. I have painted and drawn this old street several times including the view from the churchyard. This picture along with others was bought by someone who was a good friend and a great supporter of my paintings. #Cambridge #StMaryTheLess #pastel

Hot take but a lot of opposition to “e-bikes” is just opposition to bikes in general. E-bikes are not quieter than acoustic bikes, when any bike is noisy it’s almost always noisy brakes or chain which apply to both types of bikes

There are too many Minions movies

Y’all be sure to stretch your rhomboid muscles. #knitsky #crochetsky

Cities will micromanage an e-bike, but are fine with multi-ton cars being beta tested on our streets by remote workers overseas. Make it make sense.

~270 homes served by 24 elevators here's the 2/3bedroom zweispanner around a stair core. this 1000 sf 3BR lives far better than most US 3BR apartments

Quote this post with a knit that starts with the next letter of the alphabet #ShowMeYourKnits J = Jaunty, by Andrea Mowry

Good way of thinking about stuff 😂

Ride a bike

This Tues. FREE, 600+ registered! LAST CHILD IN THE STREET? Presents superb Tim Gill on 'Building the case for cities that truly put kids before cars' On my bi-weekly webinar #Cities4Everyone Invite: Cities for Better Health & 8 80 Cities Tues. Feb. 10, 11am Register & please share bit.ly/3N6JwY9

Anecdata: Drivers treat me badly on a bike all the time, but it seems even worse when conditions are bad (precip, ice, etc) Theory: Drivers in part dislike people on bikes because we challenge the status quo. When we ride in conditions where they think we extra-shouldn’t, they extra-treat-us-badly

Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

Mamdani is my hero. Including children back into society has solidified this for me.

it's not just that Mamdani is charming af (he is), it's that he is normalizing the idea that children are full members of society that we all share a collective responsibility for

Kids are people too!

Given all the work we do (thru the MUTCD) to ensure that our road signs and markings are safe and uniform nationally, having backup drivers that aren’t licensed for driving in America seems like a less-safe deviation than, say, some pavement art in curb extensions.

Take my money. Spread the word.

While I have a lot of people's attention: As some of y'all know, I volunteer at a women's shelter in Brooklyn. Over the time I've been there, a lot of women have approached me about starting a knitting/crocheting group. The Big Barrier to this is that there is no money for supplies. (cont'd)

He’s so outraged. This makes me cackle.

Lol. Don't drive into snowmen

What people need to understand is that safe bike infrastructure means not only freedom for kids, but *freedom for their parents*. I just met a captain at San Quentin whose kid rides 3.5 miles to middle school every day. A parent doing drop-off and pick-up would spend 60 more minutes in the car.

To suburban drivers used to having 100% of road space in their suburb, having to slow down a bit in the city because a pedestrian is crossing feels like oppression. I believe this helps explain some of the state laws preventing blue cities from doing traffic calming or road diets

Just did a full grocery shopping trip time to treat myself to chipotle for lunch

Ten countries have opened new Epstein investigations. France Turkey United Kingdom Poland Lithuania Norway Latvia Australia North Macedonia Sweden This is no longer isolated. It’s global.

I’d like to recognize that these lands were originally inhabited by people with feet.

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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

We tried to invite Ontario Premier Doug Ford to our live show in Toronto on Thursday, February 5th, hosted by @cycletoronto.bsky.social, so we brought two comically large tickets to Queen's Park. Here's how it went. Get normal sized tickets here: boxoffice.hotdocs.ca/websales/pag...

This is fascinating.

Had a couple of balls of multi coloured wool left over from a project, so using it to create a "fake" fair isle jumper. Quite pleased with the effect. #knitsky #knit

🧶🤣 #knit #knitsky

How pretty 🧶 #knit #knitsky

A full moon is seen shining over NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) and Orion spacecraft, atop the mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in the early hours of February 1, 2026.

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

Why are we designing homes near transit around the needs of the minority who own cars? Parking minimums raise rent and raise emissions.

We should just abolish parking

ambulances are so loud because of cars you can't walk to get a coffee because of cars you have to drive everywhere because everything is built far apart because of cars you have to wear reflective gear to jog in your neighborhood because of cars you fear for your dog's life because of cars