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"Elon Musk and Pete Hegseth think that diversity will doom us. In reality, though, their racist paranoia and white nationalist conspiracy theories are the real threat."

not me running around the living room screaming 'it's here! it's here!' can't wait to dive into my buddy @ecominimalnick.bsky.social's book congrats, nick!

Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

Renewable energy is public health. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🛟 | #energysky

Here’s that article online: www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2... A model for journalists everywhere.

Let’s be clear: when the Trump administration kills or stalls energy generation projects, that’s the White House choosing to make your electricity more expensive. Americans deserve better.

Speed cameras and protected infrastructure, please.

What's actually unfair: 🔹 Drivers gambling with other people's lives when they floor it and hope they don't get caught 🔹 Police deciding whether to issue a ticket to speeders they pull over Speed cameras are a solution — not a problem.

Protected bike lanes = One Weird Trick to Massively Increase Cycling

we live in a 900 square foot ADU that suffices for a family of four. quality matters. could we use more space? sure. but we'd just fill it with more stuff. being able to walk, bike or bus to schools, work, groceries, restaurants is invaluable. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

This is why we can start building “car light” homes and n’hoods.

Fuck yeah.

One of my favorite days of the year is HCD and reading the hourly comics from cool artists online. Lucy has been drawing awesome stories and funny cats for as long as I can remember.

Priorities.

Really worth the 10 minutes to watch this to learn about how car-centric suburbs are financially subsidized by the more sustainable city, and some hints about how cities can improve their own metrics (hint: it's density).

Washington, DC's City Council is hearing its single-stair building now. You can find written testimony and a link to the Zoom feed here. The Department of Buildings' testimony is *very* positive. I'll be testifying at some point as well lims.dccouncil.gov/Hearings/hea...

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

I was chasing sadness yesterday. Now I’m chasing rage. I am watching an opera singer react to and explain how awesome this song is. I recommend: youtu.be/LWUEL6ecqlM?...

“When mayors in other cities ask me how #Copenhagen afforded to invest in its cycling networks, I ask them how on earth they have been able to afford highway projects. We invested in bike lanes because that was the cheapest option.” What the world can learn from Copenhagen’s cycling revolution.

Gonna start talking about speeding that came way internet commenters talk about any possible immigration infraction. Go one mph over??? Get ready for life in prison, you should’ve followed the law :/

Your regular reminder that Republicans in Congress approve of what the President is doing.

Struggling to recall a time when public life wasn’t dominated by belligerent gobshites

"The old order is not coming back. We should not mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy. But from the fracture, we can build something better, stronger, and more just."

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

This year I have come to appreciate that this is a tool for childhood independence and parental freedom

Biodegradability is not a bug, it's a feature. The trick is to make it possible only when you want it to happen. #strawhouse #strawbuilding #earthbuilding #timber #hemp #biobased #architecture

This is so good.

“If Americans increased their protein intake by just 25%…it would require about 100 million acres of additional ag land each year — an area larger than Michigan, Ohio & Pennsylvania combined — & increase annual emissions by 100s of millions of tons of CO2e, according to @worldresources.bsky.social.”

Watched the newest Superman and loved catching all the Cincinnati scenery in Metropolis.

The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred. It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become

I scan this every morning. Great local reporting and statewide news. Thank you to David and the OCJ team for their journalism.

It's a good day to bike to the office. Passed a lot of cars backed up down the hill, and was even faster than my fav #19 bus.

A multi-tribal Indigenous group -- Karuk, Yurok, Modoc, Klamath, etc -- has purchased 10,000 acres of land along the Klamath River that they have done so much to restore. Private donations funded the purchase. www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

I bet that if Beethoven or Saint Saens knew about modern recording techniques when they were composing, I wouldn't need to turn the volume up on my equipment every time I listen to different genres.

Just finished Life After Cars. I’ve long been a card-carrying soldier in the war on cars, so I didn’t need to be sold. But it’s a great cogent read of how we got here and what we can do to get our streets back Great work @brooklynspoke.bsky.social and @sgoodyear.bsky.social !

Oh, so, suddenly it's a CRIME to fly on a PRIVATE JET with the world's most famous PEDOPHILE and a bunch of UNDERAGE GIRLS who were SEX TRAFFICKED and then FIRE everyone at the FBI who INVESTIGATED YOU and replace them with LACKEYS whose only job is to COVER FOR YOU while you STEAL MONEY from TAX PA

Hadn’t seen this one before. The good news is that we have many smart solutions to address the surrendering of cities to cars that don’t involve tire spikes. But they DO involve actual political will, strengthened by public understanding of the serious need to act. Via @xkcd.com

This is an appropriate time to post my fun art piece, recreating Lincoln's portrait from tarnished pennies.

pls read my ecomodernist manifesto—we could make a massive dent in our planetary crises by reducing our dependence on the two great efficiency sinks in American life: meat and cars. And we can do so in a way that's consistent with growth and democratic principles www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Observed this recently: refreshed, clearly marked bike lanes are progress, and an important baseline. But paint isn’t safety; it’s a placeholder. If the goal is more riders and fewer injuries, protected lanes are the baseline. Cities don’t fail by moving too fast. They fail by stopping halfway.

You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.

New study: Global analysis of 11,587 cities across 121 countries shows a clear pattern: a small group consistently leads on walking + cycling. The edge isn’t culture or climate, it’s aligned policy, continuous networks, and long-term investment. Worth reading. luskin.ucla.edu/global-study...

NEW/LISTEN! Been REALLY looking forward to this one — my interview with Jason from #NotJustBikes IS LIVE on many podcast platforms plus YouTube! We cover a LOT of really important ground on how to ACTUALLY ACHIEVE BETTER CITIES IN REAL PRACTICE! I’m looking forward to your thoughts and comments!

Read this as an American woman and then go break something.

"We have built a transportation system where the geometry, the lane widths, the sight distances, the turning radii, the signal timing, everything defaults to moving vehicles quickly, not keeping people safe." -Charles Marohn

the abricoop is a multigenerational collaborative housing cooperative in an ecodistrict in toulouse. 17 homes. nearly a third of residents are children. 45% of project is common space. total dev costs were ~$180k per home. www.seuil-architecture.com/2020/06/13/h...

Sloppers fuck off. If you can’t do it yourself maybe learn to be happy as the audience www.sonnyross.com/shop/aisucks