Biking connects you to your city. You feel the sun, move your body, and actually experience your neighborhood. Cars do the exact opposite. They wall you off from the world, make streets dangerous, and shrink your entire community down to just point A and point B.

people understand that this is intended to target EVs, right? It gets rid of the gas tax, which only affects internal combustion vehicles, and replaces it with one that disproportionately hits EVs, which are much, much heavier for a given body size. That is why GM and Toyota are promoting it.

We could just scrap TSA and go back to having airports & airlines be responsible for their own security. We wouldn’t have this chaos when there’s a government funding gap, and as a nice perk we’d ditch a lot of time-consuming theater that adds little meaningful security benefit.

I get a lot more outta the post office than the defense department

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

Same, tbh. Although full disclosure: I am not a cat.

Consumer Reports is petitioning for stronger state regulating of self-driving car safety consumer.quorum.us/campaign/157...

Some of you like dogs, in which case you may appreciate that guide dogs of Team GB for the Paralympics get official photos

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan. darksky.org/news/two-sat...

*extreme metal voice echoes off the ice* LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOO ROD STEWARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT

Yes please!

I want universal basic income, universal health care, buses and trains and livable wages and affordable rent, and I want my tax dollars to go towards that instead of billionaire-hosted rape festivals. Everyone does. That's not radical. It's survival. Americans want to survive. Fucking help us.

In addition to adding Liquid Glass, which sucks, the MacOS Tahoe update solves that age-old problem of being able to see the volume level in a video project. Thanks, Apple!

David Lynch passed a year ago today. I hope we all can absorb just a little bit of the energy he put out in his lifetime.

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

Here's the adult vaccination recommendations as of Nov 2024. Why did I save these? Because I knew someone was going to try to stomp on this, and not today, Satan. Not today. #CDC #vax #vaccines #getvaxxed

Many soles lost at sea

Not now, haunted Victorian shoes

GenAI allows these guys to do what they do when drunk and ganked up at office Christmas parties, at a mass scale. We're *all* there cringing while they lean in and excitedly slur their messed up shit at us while we're uncomfortably unable to disengage.

GenAI being fundamentally based on a rejection of consent is obvious, but it's not as obvious that it destroys the inhibitions of the people who already reject consent. It makes them act in public the way they used to only act when cornering their employees by the punch bowl or in their office

Zohran Mamdani explains that thousands and thousands of New Yorkers are already eligible for free and reduce public transportation, but because of the bureaucratic hurdles they never get enrolled in the program. That's why he wants to just make the bus free.

People using transit deserve dignity and this isn't it.

John Oliver really was not kidding about the overwhelming rebellious power of just saying “Fuck you, make me.”

lol. Shout-out to all y'all claiming you use this thing as a therapist.

"Only 1.5% of the older people with reduced mobility in our study – just 17 out of 1,110 participants who had an average age of 77 – could cross the road faster than the 1.2 metres per second walking speed that is programmed into many UK pedestrian crossings."

We salute you, Charles Clyde Ebbets

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

Accuracy is a big part of accessibility.

whomst amongst us

It's time once again for my annual #treebybike post. This is the 12/19/42 cover of @newyorker.com, so one full year after the attack on Pearl Harbor. This would be the first real Christmas alone, or without a family member, for millions in the US. Gas and tire rationing had begun earlier that year.🗃️

Will continue to bang this drum: this is the system university admins are cramming into every aspect of education. This is the system we are told “isn’t going anywhere” so we all have to adjust to it.

BTW, what happens when you install a protected bike lane (where no bike facilities existed) between some of your densest residential neighborhoods (Dupont Circle and north) and the bit of downtown that hosts a huge university and an alphabet-soup of international orgs?

This looks like it’s a bikelanesweeper.com

New dream job just dropped

Rush hour traffic in Utrecht. Sound on 🔊 if you want to experience that rush hour IS possible without the constant, deafening noise of cars overpowering people talking.

Mulled cranberry juice, mulled apple cider, a selection of hot teas (hi, it's winter in Vermont).

evergreen

The sound of evening rush hour in Utrecht. A minute of pure relaxation! 👌🏼

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Shouldn't you have this? Shouldn't you have this? Shouldn't you have allll of this and--

cathedrals everywhere,

as someone with two children who are talented at math and need (especially the younger one) a lot of help with social and emotional stuff this makes me want to scream please help your children learn to interact with the world, it will make their lives (and everyone else’s!) so much easier

I heart bike buses

Happy I-Forgot-to-Put-A-Taillight-On-My-Bike-for-the-Newly-Dark-Ride-Home Day to all who celebrate

Every church should be doing this, and if your church isn’t, you’re at the wrong church.

City of Buffalo NY Food Pantries List

Thank you, @missionlocal.org missionlocal.org/2025/10/sf-h...

Several restaurants in Maine have announced that they will offer reduced cost & free meals to members of the community who will be facing hunger due to SNAP benefits not being sent out in November. List of restaurants & what they are offering are in the thread below ⤵️

Alt-text for the chart: "Hoo boy, Americans kill a lot of kids with their cars each month of the year, but they kill roughly three times as many on one single day each year: Halloween."