The June 1st Cleveland City Council meeting is off to a great start! 40 minutes late so far and still no sign of starting. 🧵

"How I used AI so I didn't have to think" is a weird flex. www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...

Hey, how's everyone doing? 👋🏽 Make sure to check in on each other every once in a while.

Adulthood is just cycling between "If I don't say yes to every opportunity, no new opportunities will ever be offered to me" and "Oh no, I have said yes to too many things" over and over until you die.

Thanks @bikenewyork.bsky.social for a great Five Boro Bike Tour. It's another way to help people imagine Life After Cars.

People often cross where it makes sense, not just at intersections. A new Milwaukee study shows why better midblock data could help agencies design safer streets. ssti.us/2026/04/27/p...

I asked someone if they have time later this week, thinking it was Tuesday. What are we doing, chat

I voted for Harris, and I get scolded because I have sympathy for people who have given up on the current process.

Big "oil" could have stayed in the energy business forever by using their scandalous profits to lavishly fund the kind of renewable energy research the Chinese politburo invested in. They could have sold essential technology all over the world. Instead, they bought bigger boats. Idiots.

I love scraping the ice off my windshield on (checks notes) April 20th.

Science literacy rates are at an all time low

This is why the term “cognitive surrender” needs to start being used QUICKLY. It actually clearly defines what these fools want.

Sick and tired of grift posters who point out government happenings and tell us "this should terrify us all". No, fuck you, it should piss us off. Being scared of these electeds shouldn't be the default reaction. In a proper democracy, they should be terrified of going against the people.

same Overton Window-shattering tactic he’s always used: Even if worst doesn’t happen tonight - rhetorically he’s opened up possibility of the unimaginable, making lesser (but still horrible) actions seem moderate by comparison… all increasing likelihood that one day the worst really will happen

I don’t think it’s possible to be a human with empathy and actually process the words “a whole civilization will die tonight” coming from someone with so much power.

35%. He's threatening to perform a massive war crime, quite possibly even pressing the big red button. And his approval rating is still at thirty-five motherfucking percent. Reconstruction 2.0 can't ever possibly go far enough but we sure should try.

Transportation politics is about dragging people kicking and screaming into change that results fairly quickly in a widespread consensus that we can't imagine going back to the way it was before.

And most of it starts in America for the North never holding the South responsible from the Civil war

The most impressive part is that absolutely nothing will shake off the absurdly high 30% approval rating baseline. Not even this.

If you're concerned about Bluesky being better, then I'd encourage you to Repost things you like and want others to see. Hitting Like doesn't do much here. Low effort PSA.

This one still fuckin kills me

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probably completely obvious but the reason Project Hail Mary is doing so well (apart from being very well made) is that it is all about problem-solving, cooperation, self-sacrifice, and forming deep relationships with those from far away. All values that people feel a desperate need for right now.

We need to develop and build affordable housing in our city, just not… in anyone’s backyard, laneway, front yard, along a corridor, never on an avenue, heritage supersede housing and we all understand that under utilized parking lots are the heart of the neighbourhood.

we’re not going to get anywhere until we stop letting companies pay millions in settlements instead of putting their leadership in fucking jail

yeah im bummed about sora. bummed i sora bunch of stupid fake videos

The leading cities in Europe for alternative transportation still has cars yah dummies, lmao. I safely rode bikes in Paris and Amsterdam and still saw plenty of cars. Yet Paris has seen a huge decrease in air pollution and much less traffic. I'm so tired of this talking point, no one is banning.

No big conspiracy.

oh ok

This regime is visibilizing its own crisis here!!! What an opportunity!!! Democratic politicians should be going to airports and explaining how everyone has to wait in long lines & everyone is less safe only because the president wants to kidnap more people!!!

If you think about it, why WOULD it be the responsibility of cities to provide free parking for everyone’s cars? #UrbanTruth

Meanwhile bike fuel prices have not changed at Costco.

The villain

This story is infuriating. The piece goes to great lengths to establish empathy for the women who negligently killed an entire family. The idea that it's unreasonable to permanently revoke her driving privileges and make her plead guilty to a crime is fucking outrageous.

Something I really encourage people to do is conduct a walk audit in their community and really look at infrastructure through the lens of someone disabled, especially if they're using a wheelchair or other mobility aid. Things are often far less accessible than nondisabled people think.

I think I was pretty visible today when a woman pulled out of a driveway without looking and nearly hit me. I had a blinking front light too. High-viz will never be a solution for poor infrastructure and dangerous drivers.

Defending street parking for commerce ignores that a 2-meter tall SUV completely hides the business behind it. Car bloat creates physical barriers. Human-scale transit keeps sightlines clear and storefronts inviting.

Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.

Aight, it's time to plan out my 2026 road bike season events! This year I want to do at least 1 multiday and 3 out-of-state events (already have one booked). I'm open to suggestions within a day's drive of Cleveland. Prefer 60-100 mile options for single-day.

if the tech bros were a little less delusional, they would be making so much money right now by offering to let us pay for the AI-free version of their programs

“wELL AI iS iNeViTablE noW. So We hAVe tO fIGurE oUT hoW tO mAkE iT sAfEr” That’s a garbage take. This shit is not inevitable. Nothing is. Don’t use it. Turn it off. Say no. Sabotage shit. Be the voice of dissent in every room pitching AI “solutions”. Even the humans behind it know it’s trash.

Aight, it's time to plan out my 2026 road bike season events! This year I want to do at least 1 multiday and 3 out-of-state events (already have one booked). I'm open to suggestions within a day's drive of Cleveland. Prefer 60-100 mile options for single-day.

I love the idea that *this* US government, which has been nabbing landscapers and five year olds knows where Iranian sleeper cells are but just hasn’t gotten around to doing anything about it yet.

I think most people are pretty okay if you own a house. maybe it's when you own all the houses that we start to raise some mild objections

I've noted something during my walk around my city today. I normally ride my bicycle but seldom drive. I noticed way more stuff whilst moving at human speed. We miss so much when we drive!

@sorenwithward8.bsky.social this is another Ward 8 family.

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

Zohran also has been outspoken supporter of single stair reform (and utility relocation streamlining for transit projects). Voters seem to like people who want to solve cost/delivery issues for housing and infrastructure.

This is what everyone should be worrying about. Not Trump canceling elections, but Republicans taking the trips they've been playing on everyone else and doing them to white voter precincts. This thread is a painfully perfect description of how it will go down.