RE: https://federate.social/@mattblaze/116933370027570579 Simple voting methods are summable per-precinct, like STAR and Approval voting. This makes it easy to gut-check reported data and verify totals or runoff results. Centralizing and making it more opaque opens the door to corruption.

Keisha and my cargo bike created an opportunity for a sweet human connection the other day. https://sarahfrumento.ca/posts/the-kindness-of-strangers #dogsofmastodon #cargobikelife

Congratulations on not disrupting any car traffic while wasting thousands of people-hours and their bikeshare [not free if you sat through this fiasco] dollars on a two-mile loop of narrow sidewalk bikeways. The car-free streets by providence park were nice though.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@cremevax/116949827781287262 If everybody is always speeding, so cops can stop anyone they want. The purpose of a system is what it does.

Contrary to Trump's bloviating gasbaggery, one of the strongest security features of U.S. elections is precisely the fact that they aren't conducted at the federal level. ✅ Here's what makes American elections so complicated and secure | PBS News […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@luckytran/116950306136025871 wild ride here, weekend at bernie's is riding on a golf cart through the white house scene of idiocracy, pursued by 12 monkeys

RE: https://mastodon.me.uk/@ChrisMayLA6/116950700584498591 all cops are basically going to do that sort of thing with those kind of laws

If you're in #Sheffield and want to be one of the first to try our new #coffee coming this week, delivered by #cycle couriers Feral Express, then this week is the perfect opportunity. We will be sending this Nicaraguan grown by Katherin and her family in […] [Original post on mastodonapp.uk]

> bicycles deliver the freedom that auto ads promise <

shouted "hey" at a driver who was still rolling toward running over me and my kid on SW 4th while we had the right of way and a flashing yellow light pointed at her (added to the design after it was built, because f'n drivers), and she's like "I'm stopping, you don't have to be an asshole" 🙄 🖕 […]

Very important we do not impact car traffic while moving basically a freeway volume of riders.

Companies that are using LLMs to generate code are creating bugs at an astonishing rate. Now, when will the market stop throwing money at whichever software companies create the most bugs?

#thankyoucorkers! 😂 #dogsofmastodon #FuckCars

RE: https://urbanists.social/@enobacon/116945190721107475 refining my calculation, there was at least a couple hours of standing around at the start of rides / fixing the flat tire somebody had at the beginning of the 2nd ride. That brings it to about 11.5mph average.

RE: https://mastodon.world/@Oxymetheus/116944206513552370 Rent is often paying the actual cost of free car parking, which is largely unused most of the time. If you can't take your pants by bike or bus to get fixed, it's probably not going to happen.

8:30 am PBOT attempt at "breaking the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title for the largest electric bicycle party and ride." #portland #ebikes #BikeTooter #fedibikes 2-mile mostly flat loop leaves at 9:30 (do they get counted first, at the end, or both? #pdxbikes) "start at Naito Parkway and SW Salmon […]

TRAAAAAAIN RIIIIIDE, 1pm at Mocks Crest leaves before 2 #pdxbikes #bikesummer #bikefun #portland #trains > venture from NE to downtown and beyond as we hop the yards and hopefully getting some horn honks along the way. Costumes encouraged, but not required! […]

Zoning as a force for good. > That decision accused building owner Stuart Lindquist of violating a rule prohibiting ICE from holding detainees in its South Portland building overnight or for more than 12 hours. > The city pointed to federal records appearing to show that ICE broke this rule at […]

RE: https://sfba.social/@ascentale/116937956433509450 #bikenite A6 I have ridden with a respirator during bad AQI days. An N95 mask can help, but without the exhaust flap, it is much hotter and more difficult to exert much effort. More filtration surface area from the dual cartridges also helps […]

dance a jig before Aug 3rd or GTFO "The logistics and timing of calling a special election in Kentucky, given McConnell's ongoing absence and the upcoming midterm elections, have become a matter of particular importance." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_McConnell#June_2026_hospitalization

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mistersql/116938435867685294 invisible hand of the market, winding up a mitt of toilet paper...

You are not allowed to quote this post. Lemmy learn to fedi challenge 🙄 (fedi learn to quote a public post challenge) I appreciate the sentiments of the anti car posts, but wonder if I should block instances to not let it pollute my hashtag subscriptions […] [Original post on urbanists.social]

"DUI – You can't afford it!" Car supremacy kills people, so let's make the victims afraid of driving drunk instead of having the option to drink without driving 🙄 Much affordable, so affordancy.

Do you enjoy trueing bicycle wheels? Replacing spokes? Rebuilding wheels with new rims? Good news! Soon you'll be able to attach an old fashioned wheel bender rack to the back of your car so your bicycle wheels will constantly be in need of repair! […]

Don't let the pigeon drive the bus.

Where am I now? #BikeTooter

Are flags at half-mast for the death of democracy, or did they finally admit that the turtle died?

Environmental Review should mean something other than NIMBY obstructionism.

RE: https://fediscience.org/@tksst/116913380261479735 Way easier to clean and maintain solar panels shading the adjacent bikeway (probably worth building the bikeway if it doesn't exist yet.)

RE: https://mstdn.social/@MaryAustinBooks/116913323912478183 Fascism retreats when the resistance is too big to bully.

RE: https://climatejustice.social/@GeofCox/116911156904351198 🤔 what if we put a big fusion reactor in outer space and had some way to receive energy from it, arrays of some kind of collectors...

One of the things @modacitylife.com talks about in this pod is the benefits *for children* of being able to build a spatial map in their heads by moving through space on a bike, rather than than just: get in a car, see a blur in the windshield, get out in different place.

losing is the preferred strategy for most dems, it saves them the trouble of finding creative ways to fail to enact the policy voters want

How many Garcia-1st voters had Wiley ranked 2nd and those votes never counted? How about Adams-1st voters? Should a voting method prioritize 1st choices while ignoring everything else, or do we want to move past choose-only-one problems at some point?

Downtube shifters is nowhere near the frictionmaxxing of downtube brake levers. Just get all of those pesky cables off your handlebars so you can freely spin them around. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7Ury6metAE

RE: https://mastodon.social/@vicfroh/116902850571233997 it's a dry heat 😎 💦

I am reposting this August 28, 2025 article which explains why there is this cyclosporiasis outbreak. CDC cuts back foodborne illness surveillance program. www.cidrap.umn.edu/foodborne-di...

RE: https://sfba.social/@drahardja/116904109475947492 stop driving, defund police, close freeways, ban cars. #freedom

It's one thing if you smoked in mcdonalds, and quite another if you were old enough to smoke in a mcdonalds

RE: https://werd.social/@ben/116903887061061727 Long fucking weekend at Bernie's to get to Aug 3rd with this 'it's turtles all the way down" bullshit.

RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@dpiponi/116902486803089155 How many people even know that the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices starts with a bit about the manual not being a substitute for an Engineer's professional judgement? #mutcdwtfs

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/116901884087017344 NYT now "finding out" about the fascism they've been fucking around with, both-sidesing for a few decades

#criticalmass auch ne schöne Variante von #carryshitolympics

good reasons to like your own post: check if the preview card is loading a picture of trump and you want to delete and redraft [end of list]

Bad infrastructure design that fails to make efficient travel options safe and attractive makes driving inconvenient. Traffic Engineers in the US are optimizing for the convenience of car and oil dealers only. Fake-ass technical profession, no integrity, meaningless stamp.

We managed to reduce urbanists.social DB size in Jan, which cut $60/mo off of the burn rate, but that has crept back up by $10/mo despite `tootctl statuses remove`, and now we're back at that $50 jump in masto.host pricing plans while still not quite hitting […] [Original post on urbanists.social]

‘tailwinds on cycleways’ ☑️ 🌬️ mastodon.green/@CiaraNi/116894143798481015

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116893080474074869 #nottheonion / "idiocracy was a documentary" dept

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/116890719090826544 Maybe it's time to build society in a way that doesn't require you use giant, people crushing, mobile surveillance units that require legal documentation to operate, every time you want to go get milk.

Orwell's dystopia was walkable. He could not have imagined anything as bad as a society built for cars instead of people. And, FFS, oil literally funds global fascism. It is the lifeblood of the movement. Hitler's obsession with making every German a driver and getting rid of bikes was not a […]