Should have been wearing high-vis.

Someone needs to build a custom “backwards-fiets” for filming/photography purposes.

Science good.

France has a long tradition of building their own technology to reduce dependence on other countries. Minitel, sure, but also they built their own nuclear weapons and delivery (unlike the UK who depend on the US). Not a big shock tbh.

SCREAMING THIS FROM THE FUCKING ROOFTOPS

Ridiculing the outwardly-facile practices of international diplomacy is exactly what got us into this mess.

portland commute

"Light Fossils" dinosaur light painting by artist Darren Pearson, known as Darius Twin, using a unique photography technique. The artwork is created using long-exposure photography, where the camera shutter remains open while the artist moves handheld lights to "draw" the figures in real-time.

Lots of people going with “this is a way to bring back the draft” (would require an act of congress) instead of the actual thing which is “this keeps a lot of young people from accidentally disqualifying themselves from federal jobs.”

hell yeah this place rules

The existence of public sector unions puts pro-union politicians in the uncomfortable position of acting as management in a labor negotiation. That's fine. The expectation there should be that the pro-labor position is "negotiate in good faith" not "they have to give the union everything they want"

Hello I am a car enthusiast, cyclist, pedestrian, and city dweller who keeps the fun cars out in a shed in the suburbs and uses a bike and transit to get around the city.

People need to realize that Unions are not "good" in the sense that they always say things that are correct and beneficial for the city/state/country as a whole, they are political entities that are primarily intended to benefit their constituency. That's not bad! They just have specific goals.

Ok but the CEO of Toyota *is* a brilliant engineer and the former CEO and current chairman is both an engineer and a race car driver.

I recently said in an interview that Siri was good, actually, because for voice assistants that are ambient/always on a restricted domain means they’re more likely to actually act in a way you wanted. The Siri architecture of “limited domain with the ability to escalate to an LLM” is better.

What’s wild is that the FDNY knows this. They have tiny, golf-cart-based fire trucks and ambulances for Times Square. They’ve already started to downsize their ambulances — some of the 2026 procurement is van-based ambulances (rather than box-truck style ones). But big diesel go vroom.

In depth interview with Mahmoud Khalil forward.com/news/817276/...

Y'know, I wonder if there's another city where transit/bike/ped infrastructure frequently goes diagonally through an otherwise-rectangular street grid.

I know it's not in vogue but I still believe that making moral arguments is good.

Huh, that sounded like thunder but wasn't.

really leaning into that 'Great Satan' thing i guess....

This guy has literally threatened to run me over with his car because I dared ride in the car lane when the bike lane was blocked. Also the street sweeper came by at least twice *today*.

"I'm just going to let people be wrong on the internet" remains the single most difficult New Year's Resolution I have ever made, hands down. Nothing else comes close.

Focusing on "number go up" is fine, but why do we only measure success in real GDP terms? What about things like life expectancy or infant mortality? What about qualitative measures of quantitative things like happiness? Seems like the US generates more profit but Europeans are on average happier.

Another example of "mistaking access for accuracy." It doesn't matter if the President lets you interview him if he only lies to your face! Stop pretending it's 2004 and Bush is honest about how badly Iraq is going!

The Joralemon Street tunnel has end-to-end 5G coverage? When did that happen?

He is risen.

In the saga of “car parked across from my apartment without moving for six months” there’s progress! The most recent 311 ticket resulted in cops showing up and ticketing the cars which hadn’t moved. Of course, they still haven’t moved.

The amount of positive impressions he’s making by simply doing things like “being in the city” is a lesson in politics.

This is excellent

Very, very City of Tomorrow/Rocketeer

How did you get radicalized? ¾ of these Oceans are illegally parked/stopped.

NASA, to everyone in Artemis: “Ok, so you know ‘Earthrise?’ Yeah, just take another photo like that. Actually 1000 photos like that. Just get another Earthrise.”

Mayor’s Municipal Madness Championship voting is open. Vote to pick which repair I’ll handle myself. nyc.gov/madness

One of the core things that cities should solve during construction is prioritizing the least-complete networks for continuity. Cars can detour onto other roads, there’s frequently not a feasible bike detour (at least in American cities).

I got lots of problems with these people but one of the biggest complaints I have is none of them know any of the pop culture references they keep using in memes. This guy literally threw the detonator out the window so no one would die

In this house we back the blue

Not enough people know about the unbelievably delightful @transit.app. It’s perfect for city dwellers, much more intuitive than Apple Maps, and worth a try with news that Apple will soon start serving ads in Maps.

what the heck

Ultimately the question here is “if you publish something to the world, in public, do you have a right to control how others process and view it?” And I think the answer is pretty obviously “no.”

I actually think that the goal of some “solidarity” movements is exactly the same thing they criticize pro-Israel groups for — uncritical, thoughtless, constant support for “their side” regardless of the actual merits.

IMO, saying “If Judaism has to die for Palestine to live, so be it” is the same, morally, as saying “If Palestine has to die so Jews can live, so be it.” To be clear, both are morally abhorrent statements of intent to conduct ethnic cleansing.

No but my gigantic underground diesel tank is immune to that. PREPPERS UNITE! If we can.

Repost to scare your fire department

Literally last month in Miami I was out at dinner and used the restroom. As I walked in, a woman came out of a stall, saw me, then looked over at the urinal and said "oh my god, this is the men's room!" We survived.

Yesterday I rode the length of the 3rd Avenue bike lane. At the north end, FDNY Engine 35/Ladder 14 had not only parked a personal truck in the bike lane, they'd blocked it with barricades — and commandeered another lane of the street with barricades. What gives @fdny.bsky.social?

Time is a cost that people can now replace with money.

See also: 311 tickets being closed 15 minutes after opening.

The only evidence you need to know that this is 100% true is to look for ‘thin blue line’ (black-blue-black stripe) stickers on cars. You see them everywhere — because people think it gets them out of tickets!

AAAAAAAAA YAY I was just showing off my bike handling skills here yesterday. Good riddance to that.