Look, I know there are bigger issues than this., but when did we collectively decide that non-narcotic analgesics were "painkillers"?

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Swalwell: There’s going to be a Democratic majority in just over a year. To the FCC chairperson and anyone in involved in these dirty deals: get a lawyer and save your records because you’re going to be in this room answering questions

Fantastic talk on cutting transit construction costs and getting lots more great transit with @zliscow.bsky.social, @stephanie-pollack.bsky.social and @egoldwyn.bsky.social at @yimbytown.bsky.social.

Also in New Haven...

JFK to Jamaica Station: $8.50 ($2/mi) Jamaica Station to Penn Station: $5 ($0.33/mi) Penn Station to New Haven: $8 ($0.10/mi) Trains are cool.

As it should be.

It’s not simply important to denounce political violence because it looks bad not to. It’s the right thing to do on the merits. Even more specifically to this moment it’s important because the forces of fascism are inherently better at political violence than the forces of civic democracy.

I spoke to both Senator @vandanaslatter.bsky.social and Insurance Commissioner @pattykuderer-waoic.bsky.social about this issue because I was worried about not just the availability but the insurance coverage. I was glad to hear that our state has our back. ❤️WA

This is what happens when you can't let go of the idea of suburbia.

This is actually the second ped project currently delayed due to waiting on the signal equipment.

Tons of cars left at home because people had freedom of choice in how they move due to infrastructure.

Kurt Russell, best known as Jungle Boy from Gilligan's Island.

Adding people does not always mean adding cars. There is a qualitative change that comes with more folks and simply linearly extrapolating leads to harmful overestimates.

People are melting down at a Tribune article about CHSD 230 considering adding Arabic to its language learning electives. I wasted time in the comments, which I normally avoid doing since it's useless and awful, but it led to possibly the funniest thing anybody's ever said to me about France.

We cannot speed up the vehicles carrying 80 people because the vehicles carrying one person might be slowed down. I.e. we care more about moving vehicles than we do about moving people.

Excellent reporting as always by @typewriteralley.bsky.social. I think an important part of this story is how it's hard to keep a city afloat when that city consists almost entirely of single-family homes.

realistic Star Trek

Why is the rent so damn high in LA? Simple economics: the demand for housing is extremely high and our housing supply is extremely low.

My money says only opponents of it will be referred to as "the community", though. Everyone else will be cast as outsiders and "special interests".

Time for a cargo bike trip to IKEA!

Blue states need to build more housing.

Just replaced the front brake pads on my ebike. Glad to be back at 2 functioning brakes 😳

1 of 3 bike parking lots at the MN State Fair this week: Evidence that the Twin Cities’ investment in a network of protected bike infrastructure is paying off. More and more people are using bikes for more and more trips.

ICE took Zahid Chaudhry, a beloved husband, father, and veteran, during his citizenship interview, leaving his family devastated and our community outraged. 📍 Join us TOMORROW at 2PM at NWDC in Tacoma to demand his release. RSVP here: secure.everyaction.com/E603O4tFLUmw...

Holy shit. This legit gave me chills. Texas State Rep. Ann Johnson clapped back at GOP members amid Wednesday's redistricting vote. WHITE WOMEN, this is the model. We have more power than others. We are the last to be silenced. We have a responsibility to SPEAK so others are HEARD.

I wrote an unusually strongly worded thing about the transit crisis in Pennsylvania, which is coming soon to Oregon and Illinois. humantransit.org/2025/08/the-...

When you can't count on big federal dollars for expensive car infrastructure, you have to build something you can afford to construct and maintain. Fortunately, it's also better in almost every other way, too.

& NOT GOING ANYWHERE

Folks are terrified of the NYC subway, think DC is a gang ridden hellscape and have other often irrational fears, but here's the truth, other than disease or an abusive partner with a gun, you're most likely to be killed by a reckless driver, and we barely acknowledge it's a problem.

I just bought an Amtrak ticket. It sucks that our train system is such that the last time I did this was over 7 years ago. I want more trains. On the upside, the ticket was only $8.

In just 10 days, our team delivered 600 yard signs! When I say this campaign is people-powered – I mean it! Laura delivered signs by bike & Noah was in the rain to ensure residents can show their support for an affordable MPLS that’s accountable to us. fatehformayor.com/yardsign

Meanwhile we'd like to have some bike lane barriers at all. 🥲

Frame locks are awesome and I wish more bikes at least had mounts for them.

When will the USDOT be issuing a "safety warning" to the Texas Department of Transportation, which maintains infrastructure in a state where one person was killed in traffic every two hours in 2024, and one person was injured every *two minutes* for the entire year?

Cool, but what if teenagers weren't forced into car dependency just to get to school, eliminating the need to greenwash car parking lots.

Saturday: Join Seattle Bike Blog and friends for a bicycle rally on car-free Lake Washington Blvd to support Katie Wilson for mayor #SEAbikes #Seattle

@liveablekirkland.org is doing another run of the END CAR DEPENDENCY stickers. If you want in on the group buy (like, if you want hundreds of stickers), let me know. We're looking at approx $18/100 stickers. @sngreenways.bsky.social @eastsideurbanism.org @cascade.org @moveredmond.org

Electric buses are cool, but you know what's _really_ cool? Frequency and service hours.

Thank you to everyone who showed up for our Anti-ICE Cream Social yesterday! It was great to see you all! Stay tuned to our newsletter for information about our September meeting!

💯 Read this whole thread. We are so fortunate to have universal mail-in voting in WA.

❌KINGS ❌SLAVES ❌NAZIS ✅COFFEE

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I was just served this advertisement. Apparently to be American means to drive recklessly through city streets putting people's lives at risk? Also, I see something stop RAM all the time: the very traffic congestion this kind of nonsense leads to.

This is actually a reasonable proposition if you have a tool library. @seattlereconomy.bsky.social

Plan for the mobility environment you want, not the one you have... @urbancyclinginstitute.org 👇 open.substack.com/pub/urbancyc...

“If you DON’T change the physical character of your community, you WILL change the demographic and economic character of your community.” - William Fulton at the Casita Coalition’s Build The Middle National Housing Convening

It should not require special knowledge to know how to bike around safely in a city

Build great places and people will find a way to get there. Make it easy and safe to get there with transit (or bikes, or walking, or...) and people will do that.