No one makes me want to go completely car-free than sean fucking duffy

London is proud to host Japan's Grand Sumo Tournament this week - it's fantastic to see the the teams using our cycling infrastructure to get around.

I want to show you a few Ukrainian village houses from different regions. Seen at the exhibition Ukraine WOW.

Meanwhile in #Portland

"Though robotaxis have notched up impressive growth, they look ploddingly pedestrian compared with far zippier pedal-powered rivals. [Waymo] proudly proclaims that its cars do around 250k trips a week. Yet in NYC alone that number of trips is made every three days using the city’s bikeshare scheme."

All I want in life is to persuade everyone, when encountering politics & culture, to ask, "why are we talking about this?" I mean that very literally: anything you encounter on your screens reflects a choice. Someone covered that, talked about that, rather than the many other things out there. Why?

🌁 San Francisco! Tomorrow morning we'll be joined by the one and only @brokeassstuart.bsky.social! ☕ We're excited to chat about... 📙 His new book 📅 Broke-Ass Stuart Day on Oct 17 🍻 His favorite bars 🎉 20+ years of living in San Francisco! 🎧 Join us, always and forever on BFF.fm 📻

Wow, look at all these avid motorists. It’s amazing they use their cars for everything. "You really take that just to go to the grocery store? What do you do when the weather is nice?" Such a cool hobby!

1. Fuck these nazi goons. 2. The urban war will be won by bike.

They justifiably got ratioed yesterday and then doubled down by freshly reposting this tone deaf journalism again today. Shame on you @npr.org.

Imagine if NPR had actually talked to safe streets advocates for this story and learned how the solutions to drivers killing people is not, in fact, victim blaming

San Francisco! We’re so excited to be back with you tomorrow. We’ll be chatting with Julia Gitis about Good Neighbor Week! Grab a cup of coffee and start the day with us, now and forever on BFF.fm 📡

Mandate car helmets now. 🙃

share your favorite cover, cleanse that timeline

Share your favorite covers as a timeline cleanse? youtu.be/JAAbuGX-qEY?...

Don't market recreation, market a lifestyle.

Excellent piece on the consequences of restricting COVID19 access by the amazing @juliametraux.bsky.social, featuring Defend Public Health member @jimalwine.bsky.social.

2010: I'm going to a foreign country. What vaccines do I need to get beforehand? 2025: I'm going to a foreign country. What vaccines should I get while I'm there?

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

The biggest scandal in US public life *ought* to be that we are the richest country in history & yet our infrastructure sucks, our transportation choices suck, our cities suck, our healthcare sucks, our public administration sucks, & in dozens of little ways, our daily lives suck.

So he can only be in blurry photos. No video. No blathering lies and invective. The monster that never gets off TV and never shuts up no matter how awful he looks and makes us feel. Got it. L-"Today" ☠️ R- Songfest 2024 that won him the hearts of white supremacists everywhere.🦋

Just let me enjoy the idea.

Is vaccine tourism a thing? I can’t wrap my mind around how to expatriate, but I can plan a vacation. Which countries give vaccines to visitors?

It's really hard to ignore that America has twice shown that it prefers a rapist to a woman.

I've about had it with throttle bikes that get lumped under the basic label of "ebike". Throttles that propel people into double digit speeds, without pedaling requirements are causing issues on our active infrastructure, largely fueled by thrill seeking males.

We are a car-lite household. We've now lived this way for around 4 years. E-cargo bikes made all the difference and without them, we'd drive a car for everything. Infrastructure plays a huge role in enabling this type of living, but where it falls short, ebikes make up for it.

We’ll nitpick the motor assist classification on a 35 kg e-bike like it’s a moral crisis, yet 4-ton trucks roam our cities without anyone batting an eye.

So this phrase “able-bodied” has clearly been on the most recent list of R talking points. It comes from the first round of English labor laws, which were instituted after the Black Death. A mini medieval story time!

Bicycling supports children’s independence and overall health in a way that many activities cannot—yet fewer kids than ever are out riding on their own, Erin Sagen reports:

Conscientious SUV Shopper Just Wants Something That Will Kill Family In Other Car In Case Of Accident theonion.com/conscie...

This part of the video summarizes how cars ruin cities and suburbs, and in one sentence, proposes a solution to that problem.

UNACCEPTABLE! #AdventureTime

still not the end times. help someone in front of you. you’re doing great. make sure you do something for yourself and those you love around you - ie have a FUN THING. Laugh in spite of these hard times. The bad guys hate that.

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

The Alameda Library, which has a robust and growing graphic novels section, has a giant bookmobile tricycle with @goraina.bsky.social on the back. 📚💯

In honour of Joy Division's iconic album Unknown Pleasures being released on this day in 1979, I'm again sharing one of my favourite ever video clips (Peanuts vs Joy Division dance party)...

In its defense this tank was built 80 years ago to eradicate fascism and is cranky as fuck to wake up after all this time and find that it’s next job is to help Donald Trump feel like a big boy dictator on his birthday.

If you think climate change has gotten worse during your lifetime, you're right and there's a good reason. If you're Gen X like me, more than 3/4 of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime. Even if you're a Millennial, it's at least half. 📊: @neilrkaye.bsky.social

So when Republicans can't start a war abroad, they'll just start one at home. Got it.

Cargo bike people after hauling something someone swore couldn’t be hauled:

One of my favorite scenes featuring Loretta Swit… youtu.be/BJJ818SHcw4?...

My favorite scene 🥹

9/ There is a new wave barreling right now in the US. We just aren’t tracking it. 📉 No data. 😷 No masks. 📚 Taiwan just went remote after more than doubling Emergency Department cases last week from ~20K to >40K. The virus hasn’t disappeared. Only the infrastructure to warn us has.

I have been sick for a week and I just read about "something going around" in a subreddit, which I guess is how I get my information now that the CDC is officially spending the next four years determining when and how microscopes became gay.

Just did an informal interview with a Northwestern college student in journalism curious to interview cyclists in Chicago about safe bike infrastructure for a project she’s working on. I told her about my first @atalliance.bsky.social Bike To Work Challenge & how it changed my life forever.

Because 70+ years ago we allowed an industry to dismantle a highly robust passenger rail network that spanned the nation, all to restrict people's freedom of mobility and tie them to perpetual debt found in car dependant culture.

What short car trips can you replace a few times a week?! My 2 mile bubble includes kids’ schools, grocery, library, coffee, dentist, pediatrician, and more.

Tomorrow is Bike to Wherever Day! And you where we’re biking? Wherever @peterhartlaub.bsky.social is taking us! Grab a cup of coffee or a Baywheels and join us. Forever spinning on @bffdotfm.