At this cost we could have made Metrolink free for three years instead, like KC's streetcar. Imagine the economic boon that we could have had, had our transportation funding system not been authored by people who mostly dislike affordability.

Great moments in U.S. History.

Supreme Court Upholds Temporal Gerrymander That Would Cost Democrats 1932 Election https://theonion.com/supreme-court-upholds-temporal-gerrymander-that-would-cost-democrats-1932-election/

The e-bikelash viewed through the lens of equity: When cars make streets unsafe, poorer e-bicyclists get squeezed to trails. And right on queue, recreational travelers want to regulate them off the trails too. Meanwhile motorists keep killing at rates that dwarf all other transportation...

Amtrak conductors seem like the happiest public-facing transportation workers in the Midwest.

When in doubt: make something.

Bike planner struck and killed. Is the culprit the driver who opened the door? NO! It's the engineer who approved a substandard bike lane. 7' parking, 5' bike lane, 10' travel lane = dead bicyclists. Kill Door Zone Bike Lanes, not bicyclists!

I live by the park. I see people finding a lot of "creative" parking spaces. But this is the cheekiest, by-far. Thanks, Police.

You want to see Norway men’s national football team’s official photo for World Cup 2026 www.nytimes.com/athletic/733...

This is such a phenomenal piece in Liberal Currents today. When we treat states as exceptional (and my first concern is always American Exceptionalism) our critiques of what’s dysfunctional in them suffers. When we treat them as ordinary and banal, we can speak freely.

Somebody 3 houses away is blasting R.E.M.'s Losing my Religion, and it's like a loudspeaker blaring "I am in my 50s" on loop.

I had so much fun playing Oath this weekend. I hosted 3 games over 10 hours at Geekway to the West. It's so cool seeing the Oath world come alive! But even more fun are the group dynamics. I like seeing how other players play! And I like teaching something that's hard - teaching it fast.

Where do you buy a cheap bicycle u-lock? Wal*marts politics are bad Amazon's politics are bad Target's being boycotted It's actually ebay. www.opensecrets.org/orgs/ebay-in...

Holy shite! The #stl city tornado victims living in tents in north city are being harassed and tents bulldozed by City Refuse dept today! (This might be the area that was just cleaned up by a volunteer group this past weekend) Mayor Spencer is going full-MAGA. #unhoused #nstl Video via Derk Brown

I think we've 'solved' Cross Bronx Expressway. Three way tie therefore we all won. 1970s and 1980s, by the end the South Bronx was nearly a utopia. CC: @nbsp1618.bsky.social

"They Live" glasses, but evil and in-reverse: they allow ICE to ID people with facial recognition and gait analysis. Ooof. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

"Wombat Poo is the thinking man’s poop-stacking game." 💩🧐

A state that redraws its legislative maps before every election to maximize advantage for the incumbent party is not a democracy or a republic and in any case obviously violates the guarantee clause, among many others. No country does this. No country ever thought of doing this. It is a total farce.

Deep Thought: it's a shame there isn't a unicode character of a stegosaurus.

My main takeaway from the South St Louis Democratic Forum was: @gcmitts.bsky.social should absolutely get everyone's vote for MO's 4th Senate district. This race is critical, and here's two examples why:

Hasn’t whined about needing a ballroom to feel safe

@nbsp1618.bsky.social We played our third game of Cross Bronx Expressway. This time we tried to have all three players win through tying for VP. However, there wasn't enough slack in the system and we had drop VP balancing schemes to avoid disenfranchisement in the 80s and 90s.

here come old laptop he come bootin up slowly he got broken touchpad he need one more update he got no space on this pc one thing i can tell you its got no warranty

@aclu.org is sending me spam donation requests "in solidarity with" SPLC. All the money appears to go to ACLU. Really?

Hey, maybe you haven't been keeping up with current events, but we just got our asses kicked! Our bases in the ME are "uninhabitable" per the NY Times. That's because of Iranian drones.

If you do nothing more than observe the size of the average American commuter vehicle, it becomes really hard to feel sorry for anyone complaining about the price of gas. You don't get to choose to drive oversized, overpowered geometry and have all of society subsidize the fuel it requires to move.

I'll see your "are we the baddies?" and raise you "are we the Decepticons?" - Fly around in F-15s: check - Always raiding to steal energy: check

The Trump administration profoundly misunderstands power as being synonymous with violence, writes @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. But we can learn a lesson about real power from a humble source — flowers.

When I see people ask what more STL can do, I go back to the 1927 tornado. In 4 weeks after the tornado, the reconstruction and demolition had progressed so far that engineers had to rely on photos to study the tornado's effects. In under 4 months, more than 5500 families had direct cash aid.

Went to the supermarket. Their supposed "fire" lane was boring, actually.

Little koan to my quisling Senators this morning 🧵...

We can build concrete curbs either curved or with sharp angles. The brand new Tower Grove Connector features a mix of smooth and sharp. Which type would you rather hit with your head?

People fall and crack their heads on pavement about once per seven thousand urban miles walked.

"At some point if the ship doesn’t turn around, maybe it will start taking on water or listing badly or hit an iceberg, or perhaps the iceberg has been there all along and is named Donald Trump."

gift link

You can't win the next war if you're not honest about losing the last one. It didn't work out so great for the Qing. It won't work out for the US either.

Protesting my president for threatening genocide. Protesting my mayor for removing bump outs without public process. Citizenship is weird these days.

Groomsmen play hakeysack with gumball pinecones in Tower Grove Park

Makes sense to me.

Good Morning. This is your Tower Grove Traffic Report. Construction fencing on the trail on the south side of Main Drive has been cleared at both Humbolt and Cypress South shelters. Happy trails!

A soldier in Reims with his bicycle April 1, 1917 Photo made using Autochrome, an early form of color photography using plates coated with dyed starch grains, patented by the Lumière brothers in 1904. 📷Paul Castelnau

Life is too short. Just type in [markdown](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown) even if it's not going to be rendered by bluesky or whatever.

Next: a shot across the bow of the Trump Regime. We build capacity now, so that they can't f with the midterms in November.

I can’t stop thinking about this framing when it comes to climate. And I don’t mean “doom” as in “I feel badly about this situation,” but as in “it’s too late.” Someone responded to my post about the impact of climate activism yesterday calling it hopium. Two people who follow me liked it.