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quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

So much is possible with real, safe infrastructure. And the drivers will still be fine!

Relatedly, can you imagine the fire department asking the community whether they felt like following the fire code? Because this is exactly what we do with road safety.

Stop subtweeting America just state your opinion plainly

As a teen I took the bus from DC to LA. Had several exploratory layovers. Nothing could have prepared me for the Tuesday afternoon desolation of Phoenix

Baseball nerds are the best nerds our society produces

Just a few of the 15 million vacant homes out there.

This is historically relevant journalism. Unprecedented AFAIK. Episode 5 of this podcast exposé of one of the world's richest men.

I had to explain to my kid what this was and why we're doing this and the more questions they asked the angrier I got.

Should we build safe streets? No, but here’s 8 tips on how you can avoid dying in a country that has 6x the rate of road fatalities as Japan

Met a legend today

As a child I sold my soul to a forest spirit in exchange for telling me the future & all they told me was "Jimmy Kimmel" would stand up to Disney against a fascist reality show host who's US president and it involved Hula wanting to aquire Tubo? I may be a little fuzzy on the details. Ripoff!

May you one day know the joy of a cat who's broken into the stash of catnip

But what if I need to haul a sectional couch, or pick up 8 extra large pizzas, or take my kid piñata shopping?!?

I have unlocked an unknown life achievement: brand new book from the library. It smells amazing.

Bonarek household Disney+ crisis averted.

i will concede that if you want to influence other people addicted to X, X is worth using. but if you want to influence the actual public, text-based social media is a fool's errand.

You had to ruin fashion too, eh cars?

People are interpreting this as snark or me calling McConaughey dumb but that was truly not my intention. I think human minds are extraordinary, including his! My dismay is with the way marketing is LLMs is leading people to doubt their own capacities in favor of something technological.

All time great Philly mindfulness attraction

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

I buried the lede! This was my post flu/covid vaccine treat. Get vaccinated folks!

This series is among the best journalism I have ever read, but it's all in podcast form. Welcome to the future.

I like this building a lot. Give me window reveals all day

A little bit of good news for you. And a reminder that we *can* solve big, global problems--when we want to. 🧪 (by @meghanbartels.bsky.social)

On June 24, I began my Election Night speech by quoting Mandela: “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” That's the spirit of this campaign, and our city. This is "Until It’s Done,” a new series about New Yorkers who refused to accept that a worthy goal was impossible.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Can't talk right now babe I'm housing a cream cheese soft serve nestled in a croissant with blueberry crumble topping at Porco's Porchetteria in Philadelphia Pennsylvania

Time looking for parking: 0 Time fielding compliments: ♾️

"Philly’s poverty rate dropped to 19.7% in 2024, the first time it fell below 20% since at least 1979, according to census figures. Roughly 300,000 Philadelphians are currently living in poverty." www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

Shout out to the @septa-social.bsky.social regional rail backup crew on the doylestown/newark line. They're working super hard on a run they're not familiar with. I'm so grateful to not be driving an hour to work today.

Timely words from Elena Ferrante

Echoes of Enrique Peñalosa's “A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation."

Mamdani: We need to make public transportation so good that “no matter how much money is in your pocket, you say: I’m gonna use this.”

Why does it have to be an Asian guy? The menswear guy with a rare case of bad taste

Say hello to Spotty, my child's latest pet

"I don't put chips in my hoagie anymore there's too much hoagie in my hoagie" -my kid, getting the weekend started

The white house version of the "sorry I was late, I didn't want to come" t-shirt. Wow is this petty, wrong and weird. www.atsdr.cdc.gov/place-health...

Shows how a chart can lie. The chart (with the covid jobs apocalypse at left) makes 2025 look like "recovery." But zoomed in we see an unequal society that's getting worse

Will the absence of public transport infrastructure in North America mark the moment its citizens notice how far their continent has fallen behind?

I'm an urbanist *because* I'm lazy

LOL I'm in there. AI, enhanced with BonarekBrain™️

Get cars out of your city and stop seeing the air you breathe

Average home prices in New Zealand have fallen by an average of 13.1% since the government there pulled all the levers to increase the supply of housing... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

I still can't believe this is happening. Watching a major northeast state willingly destroy essential infrastructure to own the libs. The Fall of Philadelphia — Streetsblog USA share.google/JE0pNV4HdjV3...

Can you spot the 5 different methods i used to fake lock my bike?

This is what the bosses were voting for when they voted for Trump, and why they were aggressively putting out stories about how bad the Biden's 3% unemployment economy was. If you're a worker and you helped them push that narrative, congratulations, you are a dupe: