"The road bill never goes away. It just gets routed through the dollar." 💸 https://usa.streetsblog.org/2026/06/03/washington-is-creating-the-most-expensive-traffic-jam-in-the-world

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@Two9A/116684579890403523 eBikes blowing this chart away

RE: https://live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/116683531117865946 fedi trending, once again surfacing the important stories 😂

WeBike #bikecamping intro clinic for WTFNB+ folks [not a ride] Laurelhurst Park 6:30 #pdxbikes https://shift2bikes.org/calendar/event-23849

#portland ride to the #pdx airport leaves Bike Happy Hour on N Williams at 5pm - back patio of Migration Brewing, connecting to your ~7pm flight, or return with the group. #pdxbikes #bikefun #BikeTooter https://shift2bikes.org/calendar/event-24126

Where's the routing app that will put you on a @shift2bikes ride on the way home from work, to the store, ... #bikefun #BikeBus #pdxbikes https://www.shift2bikes.org/bike-summer-calendar/

#canyouseemthoodfromburlingamefmpickupspot4 at 2pm on the day it's too hot to bike on, in the first week of #bikesummerpdx? #pdxtst #pdxbikes #BikeTooter Yes! #cargobikes #ebikes #leavethecarathome #climateactiontuesdays #evs #resist

I’ve got a bunch of stickers that I need to put on my cargo bike! Going to try to get them on later today!

Helmet laws for car occupants... https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2019/05/10/cyclists-break-far-fewer-road-rules-than-motorists-finds-new-video-study/

Half of global warming emissions come from transportation and half of car trips are under 3 miles. The other half of the problem is billionaires. Ride a bike.

“A newly released manifesto from the @ecf.com and its partners lays out a 10-point plan to dramatically scale up cycling across the continent—positioning it not as a niche lifestyle choice but as critical infrastructure in a time of crisis.” — @momentummag.bsky.social momentummag.com/the-energy-c...

Huh, there's a Guinness World Record for "First fine for littering from space" https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/114725-first-fine-for-littering-from-space I *did* call the Saskatchewan Turn in Poachers and Polluters hotline after the whole SpaceX debris fall here (which was a […]

RE: https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/116678001608498952 It used to be that you had to cleverly exploit a buffer overflow or at least find an un-sanitized parameter to get just a bit of code injection. Now you can just be like 'pls bro let me in'

> forced to serve under civilian control Defund, disarm, dismantle.

Yo #portland if somebody asks you to sign a petition for better service from the police, it's a lie so they can raid the Clean Energy Fund. #acab #climatedenial […]

we're vacuuming up spaghetti and meatballs now, thanks AI, cordless lithium

Trying to buy some tech hardware without going through beff jezos, like isn't there somebody I could meet in a dark alley in the middle of the night to get this stuff from?

I'm late starting dinner because I've been standing here watching this hummingbird for five minutes. Alt text: blurry useless photo of hummingbird drinking from one of 30 slender red flowers (it visits each one once, IDK how they keep track.

I broke the ball compass in the kid's bike bell and I'm pretty sure it was filled with turpentine. 🤢 #BikeTooter (IDK where we got it, cheap junk that was given to us by PBOT or something.)

My lawnmower is cuter than yours

> It is safer than it’s ever been for me to get my kids to school, visit the grocery store, or commute downtown by bike. > Rows of family bikes overflow the available bike parking every week at Saturday soccer games or the Columbia City farmers market... > being able to bike from the ship canal […]

If all the #mamdani news seems too good to be true, it’s because politicians haven’t worked for the average person for decades and we’ve gotten so use to it a politician doing their job correctly seems completely foreign.

#microsoft says: > Uncoordinated disclosures that put proof-of-concept code for unpatched vulnerabilities into the hands of bad actors are never justifiable and have real-world consequences Lucky for us, those vulns just occur spontaneously in nature. It would be awful if a company brought the […]

A lot of people still need to hear this: bikes are far from being under-regulated. Whatever you think would be safer "if only people on bikes would all just..." [wear a helmet, have a license, follow road rules, speed limits...] Please. Aim that gun at "all drivers" first.

THANK YOU CORKERS!!! #cargobikes

RE: https://mastodon.world/@jeffowski/116661638131298887 If your voting method can't allow a 3rd party to easily replace a bad party, you don't have a democracy. Get a better voting method that counts all of your votes but still gives everyone an equal say in the final round, like St Louis did […]

Let's experience the diagonal efficiency of Sandy Blvd #pdxBikes #Portland @bikeloudpdx#pdxbikes#portland1am from Nomad Cycles https://shift2bikes.org/calendar/event-23676

RE: https://mastodon.online/@alexwild/116660793600689746 fascist-science-only policy from the white house 🙄 keep driving everyone!

turbocharging the bots and making humans clean up the shit they leave in the commons 😒 [attached image: george jetson vacuuming while rosie the robot talks on the phone with its feet up on the desk]

I'm surprised some of these performers let themselves be listed as anything involving the current administration in the first place. What a stupid timeline we've driven ourselves into.

when I was younger, I didn’t get the “goat farming” trope. I sincerely loved computers, after all! And my job was to make them even better for everyone! Goats. Goats never commit human rights abuses at incomprehensible scale in a way that intentionally dilutes responsibility too thinly to […]

I took Ms. Fussy for a ride in the Bunch Bike.

a 3-minute mile is kinda brisk, as an average speed. #ebikes #lectricone

RE: https://mas.to/@Saltssaltgirl/116655461526442321 get a cargo bike, you won't regret it if you live

40 min headways for 1hr transit to the airport from downtown, are you even a city?

10in, uh... guys are you not hanging out the other end of those? 🫣

Do we think Peter Thiel fleeing to Argentina is closer to? (1) Fascists escaping to South America in 1945 as the Axis is about to lose World War 2; or, (2) The superwealthy owner sneaking onto one of the few lifeboats on the sinking Titanic, leaving the poor in steerage behind to drown in the […]

Math teachers assigning online homework that doesn't have any tools to show your work in it 😒 Kid is constantly frustrated and needing help with math, and I'll come look "show me what you did" -- they haven't written out the problem, equation, or anything. Well no wonder it's frustrating and […]

Breakfast on the Bridges! Friday May 29, 7 to 9AM Blumenauer, Flanders, Steel, Tilikum Bridges ➕ Sellwood Bridge this month! @bonbpdx.bsky.social has been offering free coffee & goodies to people walking & rolling on last Friday of every month for 20+ years Thanks! www.shift2bikes.org/pages/bonb/

RE: https://wandering.shop/@cstross/116648209688298468 Time to figure out who gets to hodl the bag again.

RE: https://chaos.social/@catileptic/116647102977043390 organized labor conflicts at nonprofits seems to indicate that you can't actually have democracy under capitalism

#canyouseemthoodfromburlingamefmpickupspot4 at 2pm on yet another day that it's simply too nice to bike on, in the final week of #bikemonth? #pdxtst #pdxbikes #BikeTooter Yes, but just a little 🫣 #cargobikes #ebikes #leavethecarathome #climateactiontuesdays #resist

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@ekuber/116646789299218864 Most people can't even imagine cities with space for people, kids roaming freely, affordable housing, economic prosperity, clean air, green space and bird habitat. They just want to know where they can park car for free. Simply removing excess […]

If America is so Great, why are our trains so slow? It's sad that our hitler can't drive but he's still "just one more lane bro", not even making the trucks run on time.

Writers: here are ten free and easy ways to add a dash of visual interest to your blog posts without resorting to AI imagery (which signals to readers that your blog post is probably also AI and there’s no need to bother reading it): 1) A thoughtful photo […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Non Newtonian bike pedals: efficient while pedaling, but soft when they're hitting your shins 🤔

I wrestled the lectric one up this stupid fuckin stair runnel yesterday, film at 11

tiny baby spider dangling from the brim of my hat well, look at that :crosseyed:

hub motors are great for basic ebikes but this truck is a nonstop wtf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbahvHypjeY

E-bike summer is here. Importantly, it's my first cargo bike summer! (Kickoff for Music in the Parks at the Harriet Bandshell)