Oil crisis? There's a lot of room for US politicians to reduce demand for oil. Increase fuel-efficiency standards, subsidize electric vehicles, fund public transit, dedicate bus lanes and bike lanes, reduce speed limits, .... www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXNL...

What do you wish "social media"/the social parts of the internet could be, in your life? Like, what is the *good* thing you wish we had?

Overheard: "Can the baseball pope steal a base?"

It's been almost three years since columbus.gov was relaunched on Granicus Opencities, which changed the site's entire content hierarchy. They didn't set up redirects.

Screw the Popemobile, we need to see a Popevelo.

Great to talk to @thetransitguy.com about the 3C+D line, escaping the anti-transit vicious cycle, and the upcoming Ohio Rail Summit, where he'll be a speaker.

Happy Yuri's Night!

I just think that if sharrows are gonna look like that, they should give you a speed boost when you ride your bike over them.

Meanwhile, the City of Columbus requires a variance if you plan to use anything other than deciduous trees.

Imagine the train network we could have if we merge back into Pangea.

Those astronauts chose the longest possible route from Florida to California ever. They could’ve just taken the 10!

Science is good. We should fund it.

The #Artemis II livestream continues to be the best thing on the internet. 😍 The return-to-Earth live coverage begins at 6:30pm Eastern (in about 90 minutes) with splashdown in the Pacific scheduled for 8:07pm Eastern. www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK...

Driver rolls through a stop sign, then notices oncoming bike traffic and backs up. Kudos to them for backing up!

Last night, my zoning committee heard a variance application from an apartment developer who said they were including real exhaust fans in their kitchens, and offset studs with double-thickness sheetrock on shared walls. Those are the sorts of QoL improvements that make apartment living better.

One thing I love about having a laser printer is that pigment is cheap. I don't have to worry about breaking the bank if I choose to print off 100 copies of the trash calendar: one for every house on my street.

Thinking about traffic calming: Has anyone studied the effects of on-street trash collection? I'm curious if vehicle traffic is slower on days when trashcans are at the curb vs days when trashcans are removed.

We need to become a hemisphere of ekiben (high quality meals you buy at the station and take with you on the train to eat later) because obviously railroads are turning away from reasonable on board hot meal service.

This is a cool effort by a school system to leverage publicly owned land to create thousands of housing units, affordable to teachers. School districts own huge amounts of well-located, underutilized land that they could use for such housing projects. But few districts are actually doing so.

“You’re not supposed to use your phone while driving.” “Got it. Let’s install large tablet touchscreens in almost every single new car.”

There are lots of zoning restrictions on signage, but not on generic objects. A bike rack with a bike, or an oversized duck decoy. But if you're a bike shop, or a hunting store, at what point does an object become a sign? 🤔

He hasn't posted about it yet, but Rep. John Larson (D-CT-1) introduced an impeachment motion yesterday: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Just in case you need a reference version of the Moon: www.google.com/maps/space/m...

Who's republishing their evergreen "how to secure your house in the immediate aftermath of a nuclear detonation" articles today?

Here goes nothing. Tbh can’t think of anything else to actually DO to try and stop this. Cc @ivey.house.gov

Happy 17776 day, lovelies www.sbnation.com/a/17776-foot...

A poignant moment #Artemis 🔭🧪

Realizing that some of my inexplicable sadness about the Artemis II stuff is that it feels like a trans-dimensional communication from an America that took a different path and chose joy instead of fear and hate.

This flyer seen in the TSA checkpoint in Dulles: your ID isn't Real ID compliant, so pay us $45.

[ a Honda Accord drives past, mechanically screaming ]

Is there a playlist file format which allows you to specify stuff like "start with file #1, randomly shuffle set #1 and play each, then play a random file from set #2, then finish with file #45" ?

This is a pretty cool-sounding public data initiative. I wonder how long before they make this data available to the public, to help people plan around closures. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_ug...

Undergrad: "We're going to build a subway network!" Grad student: "We can build light rail!" Early career planner: "BRT is a cost saving service as good as rail!" Grizzled planner: "What if we somewhat improved the existing bus service"

The cost of remote observation satellites is getting low enough that I wonder how long it'll be before some enterprising big-pockets news agency starts launching their own Earth-observation sats.

Has anyone here lived next to or within 300 meters of a highway? What were your experiences? I'm doing a video on the topic and wanted some anecdotal evidence!

Opinion: Ohioans are watching to see if Sen. Jon Husted appeases President Trump on the SAVE America Act or protects their most basic right to vote.

@senatormeow.bsky.social in case you ever want to branch out into other seasonal films: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...

On this, World Autism Awareness Day, I am here with my late friend Arthur’s words. 🩷

The advantage of having COVID tests is that you can take one, see that you're still contagious despite feeling more-or-less OK, and rearrange your schedule.

"We've got a beautiful moonrise and we're headed right at it." -Wiseman

Hill I will die on today, Artemis II day, but on all days too: The Moon is a place, a world, a sacred relative in some cosmogonies, and a fundamental part of Earth. So it’s a PROPER NOUN and you should give it a capital M! I will make this case in as many words as somebody wants me to write!

Be careful folks, today is April Fool's Day, which means that the internet will be rife with misinformation and posts designed to deceive. Don't worry though, tomorrow we will be back to normal, and the internet will be rife with misinformation and posts designed to deceive.

Has anyone made a chart of outages (by Atlassian Statuspage metrics, say) over the last ~5 years, and mapped that to the deployment of common AI coding assistants?

That's right

Our City Council President is taking a firm stand on—making it harder to enforce speed limits in school zones. Really. He’s angry about this. (Dude got caught.) We don’t need to stop tiny Brice from enforcing school zone speed limits. We need these cameras at EVERY school zone in Columbus.

🏆 We have a winner!🏆 Columbus has spoken — say hello to your 2026 Best Worst Bus Stop champion: The Ditch of Despair (Stop 7802).

If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right

Happy birthday to the Washington Metro, which opened 50 years ago today with service on 4.6 mi of Red Line between Rhode Is. Ave & Farragut N. System now serves 130 mi. The DC Metro shows that, with good planning & enough investment, the public sector can succeed & build something extraordinary.

That's $10.25/gallon for all the Americans crying about the price of gas. But you know what freedom the Dutch have that you don't? The freedom of choice in high quality transportation options that don't require owning cars.