This is a model for what actual masculinity should be. Men don’t need to spend more time in caves beating their chests with other men; they need to take their daughters to a meaningful thing and talk to them about it. Relatedly I think the biggest cure for toxic masculinity is platonic women friends

Trump: If we build more housing, the price of homes will go down, and homeowners will lose their wealth.

One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide. When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble. Happening under a Labour Government.

I love how even on a separated bike path, I'm still blinded by motorist's headlights and can't see a thing in front of me. Cars ruin cities.

Btw this is one of the biggest reasons why it’s not as easy as people think to start up independent newsrooms or just be an indie journalist on substack. If you are actually holding powerful and rich people to account, you WILL need legal representation. Not a matter of whether but when

Woman who starts riding a bike not sure if she should be a poor unemployed loser who can't afford a car or an elite smug entitled asshole with a toy, asks neighbourhood Facebook group to help out.

Across the entire nation travellers in both the Millennial and Gen Z cohorts are preparing for annual holiday visits with a level of affluence, purchasing power, and overall comfort that they will never know in their adult lifetimes. thebeaverton.com/2023/12/thou...

'Russet haired, grey-eyed' Caroline Chisholm: left, 1852 portrait in the Mitchell Library; on a stamp 100 years later; illustration in a $50 digital book by Kilbaha Education company which seems to own the website url naplan.com.au (the official site is nap.edu.com, which is legally interesting).

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

We need fewer vehicles in cities, not new technological gadgets that privatise public spaces and optimise them for profit rather than for people. medium.com/@backoffice_...

WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data. Safe bike-lanes mean business.

[approaching Americans in a dark alley wearing a trench coat] you kids want to try some, uh… political documentary footage?

A thought-provoking statistic out of the Toronto media today is that "collision-related fatalities" exceed homicides so far in 2025 (41 vs 38)

SERIOUSLY, WATCH THIS: If you really want to understand how huge SUVs and pick-up trucks have ended up being MOST of the vehicles out there in our cities, and the absolutely INSANE consequences of that, watch this easy-to-watch video by #NotJustBikes. Then please share it as much as you can.

Neighbourhood child who drew this, welcome to @thewaroncars.bsky.social

How The Car Industry Stole America's Streets www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrfs...

Cars Ruin Society is quite the Chapter asserting that 🚗🚙 have isolated us from each other by making streets inhospitable #LifeAfterCars

IT'S CARS THE ANSWER IS, CARS

It boggles my mind how 🇦🇺🇨🇦🇺🇸 ppl can go to Europe, experience the built environment of walkable cities, functional public transport, and plentiful 3rd spaces and then come back to car dependency nightmare, look around and think “This is fine.”

Every homeowner should be barred from future votes on housing since the potential for gain is far higher than Jesse Zwick's piddly ass nonprofit salary.

California taxpayers gave $750 million to Caltrans to build a carpool lane on 101 to "alleviate traffic." But drivers screamed and cried because they want the lane for single-occupancy vehicles. So, Caltrans is giving it to them. Caltrans is trash. www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

This is a stunning piece of work by Global Witness laying out how Musk's chatbot software actively helps spread climate denial and disinformation. globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...

“What radicalized you?” Being alive in the world with eyes?

These are so dumb. Especially in a city with good mass transit.

Loved watching this show. The depth of talent in portrait artists in Australia is amazing!

So as everyone kind of knew, when Chris Minns talked about cracking down on protests and gatherings, he really meant specifically pro-Palestine and anti-mass-murder protests: racist, white nationalist protests (probably attended by neo-nazi anti-semites) are completely fucking fine

Opinion | "John Howard’s legacy on gun reform is real. But it cannot be separated from the broader arc of his political life, where he consistently undermined multiculturalism as a civic ideal," @mrdtjames.bsky.social writes.

This is a good reminder that hardened opposition to good ideas can dissipate like … smoke

So we found out today in San Francisco that autonomous cars don't work in a blackout (Waymos shut down, wherever they were, all over city) Participating in live experiments is fun! I still wish I'd been asked beforehand. But it is pretty wild and kind of cool to see them discover their edge cases.

‘This is preventative medicine.’ Toronto hospital starts $1-million fund to help patients with rent

So, ignore the terrorist group that is very evidently responsible for the attack and go after peaceful protesters who object to genocide? Sounds legit.

#IdeasAtWork Which elected municipal rep is going to flex their political will and match the work being done by @uhn.ca via @manuelavega.bsky.social www.thestar.com/news/gta/thi...

An American beast. Tamed. #WorldBollardAssociation

You put the top on and your life is sucked out of you’: The fight to change women’s sports uniforms www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/ar...

Without going into the exotic perfection of the Nordics, that's exactly what Italy does, too. AFAICT, pre-filled tax declarations for people on a payroll are the norm in most of Europe nowadays.

Gutted to hear that Pablo Cheese Tart is closing permanently. nomsmagazine.com/ar-accident-...

Cars ruin more than cities, they ruin people and businesses too #CarsRuinCities #CarBrain #SafeStreets

We can change our world if we want to. It’s a question of whether or not we have the will, and usually that’s political. Well, to make effective change. To lead. To create a better world for our children and grandchildren. Whether it’s climate change driving laws Housing or otherwise, we can change.

The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee makes the point that the dismantling of affordable college education directly coincides with greater numbers of people who were not white men accessing those resources.

And no warning labels for the toxic emissions, unhealthy noise level and poisonous tire particles.

www.airteam.com.au/research/why.... A great summary of where we are at in NSW- rising injuries and deaths of vulnerable road users- through government inaction.

Since this op-ed specifically cites the example of other countries let me remind you that Canadian liberals' decades-long attempt to reconcile with the oil and gas industry and the province of Alberta have yielded no benefits for climate whatsoever and I'm not aware of any economic benefits either.

I’ve done the Bridge with one of my kids. It was lovely. Best way to see it - despite riding next to a car sewer on the bridge. And, yeah - of course kids will ride to school. Especially when they realise it frees them from their parents schedule.

The first time I did it, I could believe it. There are a brunch of families who never ride with little kids, riding 2+ miles from the wharf up a steep hill to the bridge. And they're loving it! Don't tell me kids wouldn't ride a flat 2 mi to school back home if they were safe from cars.

If drivers aren't given not just access, but redundant and convenient access to every sq inch of the country they flip out Meanwhile for pedestrians and cyclists it's like "do they really need to cross this body of water? do they really need the freedom to go there? they might do it for recreation!

Look at this beautiful picture I took yesterday afternoon while forcing my husband to accompany me to retrace my steps on the morning’s dog walk looking for the lost keys that were in my bag all along.

Banded stilts are beautiful birds - with their pointy bills and feather patterns that make them look like they are wearing old timey swimsuits 😄 Pic taken a couple of years ago at St Kilda, South Australia.