This will be the kick in the pants for us to switch out our gas water heater, our only remaining gas appliance. It'll be nice to see it go.

Even when it's a manuscript that's been mostly written for a while save for a few last minute odds and ends, hitting the 'submit' button is always both exhilirating and a shocking blow to productivity. I've just climbed a mountain! How can I possibly prep for class this afternoon?

IT'S FINALLY POSTED. If you've ever wondered -what the Ballerina Farm dynasty is up to -if their meat is worth the $11/lb+ pricetag -how the trad hype stacks up against the real live Mormon women of the 1800s I got you covered youtu.be/yLZUWoDq9QA

We have a neighbor who only emerges from his somewhat spooky-looking home twice a year: in late September, to put out his #Halloween decorations, and on Oct 31, to scare the literal poop out of trick-or-treaters. It made me indescribably happy to see him setting up this weekend.

when we continually focus on the person being harmed as the problem we remove agency from the root of the issue - so when there are crashes, generally we look to see what the person did "wrong" first which then leads to the problematic "solutions" to solving the problem - a vicious cycle.

Stop every campaign/effort telling people on bicycles/pedestrians and anyone outside the car how to be safe and divert ALL resources to remove every opportunity for drivers to be dangerous.

@npr.org are you ok? Blink twice if you need help.

We worked late tonight coming up with this handy pocket guide to send to NPR. It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers.

Dear NPR. No. Just no. This is not how you help. One of the several thousand actual road safety experts here. We are easy to find. Maybe give one of us a call next time, ok?

So, this has been bugging me for a while. A "construction" project (in quotes because I've yet to see anyone working on it) has led to the closure of a #sidewalk along an exceptionally high #pedestrian traffic corridor in town. #NCDOT long🧵 maps.app.goo.gl/hJBei6euY1tK...

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

You'd have thought protecting people from avoidable injury and death would be a fairly universal priority.

quick look over my slides for tomorrow, making sure my alt text is correct... and holy sharrow-in-the-gutter

Yes I do obey them both Accidental #TrafficCalming

“Of course, we have to teach our students about AI technologies. Teaching about AI technologies should be just like how we teach ‘no smoking’ or the causal links between lung cancer and smoke; yet, we do not teach students how to roll cigarettes and smoke them.” zenodo.org/records/1706... 20/🧵

🧵 Thread with my favourite quotes from: 📝 Guest, O., Suarez, M., Müller, B., et al. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/🧵

Transportation emissions, costs, and road deaths are sky high. Representative Huffman and I are reintroducing legislation that will deliver a greener, safer, more affordable transportation system by prioritizing transit and walking/biking infrastructure.

Me: Yay, what a glorious Friday. I'm going to get so much writing done today. I might even submit a manuscript. I can't wait to get started! Friday: Hold my keg!!!!!

Being recruited by #AI for an AI job because of my expertise in two fields I have no expertise in is 👩‍🍳💋 #linkedin

This good boy just got his first ever positive report from the groomer. Proud dog parent, I am.

Re-upping for the mid-week crowd -- who out there can help demystify traffic signal plans for budding transportation planners and ped/bike advocrats? #BikeSky #WalkSky #SafeStreets @pkoonce.bsky.social @sofio.bsky.social @schlthss.bsky.social @veronicaodavis.bsky.social penny for your thoughts!

Specifically looking for someone familiar with conventional traffic signal plans in the US context and can help my students understand how to push back against the vocal (and influential) minority of engineers who say no to everything good.

Ask: I'm hoping to find someone to talk to a graduate-level planning class on traffic signal plans, with an emphasis on #pedestrian and #bicycle mobility and #safety* *actual safety, not traffic-flow-but-lets-call-it-safety Grateful for suggestions! @bikesky.social #BikeSky #WalkSky #VisionZero

Request - who would be a good guest speaker for my class who can talk about New York's congestion pricing? Maybe even two different folks if needed, one more on the technical aspects and stats, and one who can speak to the policy and politics side. Please let me know if this is you & please share!

Ask: I'm hoping to find someone to talk to a graduate-level planning class on traffic signal plans, with an emphasis on #pedestrian and #bicycle mobility and #safety* *actual safety, not traffic-flow-but-lets-call-it-safety Grateful for suggestions! @bikesky.social #BikeSky #WalkSky #VisionZero

"In DC a pilot (banning right turn on red) at 74 intersections led to a 92% reduction in failure-to-yield incidents and a 97% drop in vehicle conflicts" Why cities like DC, Raleigh, Ann Arbor, Cambridge & Seattle are rethinking right turn on red @schlthss.bsky.social tooledesign.com/insights/202...

Speed limits should be much, much lower after dark

We are officially averaging 1 stopped school bus blow-by a week. I was sad wouldn't be able to bike to the new school, but felt ok about it knowing that at least my kid would be safe taking the bus. Jokes on me, I guess, because I forgot how many people would try to kill her getting to the bus.

So. It happened again. One week exactly since a driver ignored the school bus stop sign and blasted past my kid, this time as she got off the bus. #SchoolBus #BanSomeDrivers

My 6th grader, on Day 2 of playing the clarinet, and an equally unskilled and unidentified trumpet player somewhere nearby have been entertaining the neighborhood with a long distance duet for the past half hour.

y'all, book @tomflood.bsky.social. It's been 3 and a half years and we're still talking about the workshop he did for us in #ChapelHillNC

My 70+ year old aunt had to drive 5 hours to another state to get a #COVID #vaccine, because they're not available where she lives in central Florida...even for high risk seniors. She shared her story--and her frustration--in the Orlando Sentinel: www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/09/06/h...

Strong argument in favor of school streets! If people can't behave driving in a school zone, don't let them do it.

abundance doesn't do this. it punches left while waving right. it completely ignores a long history of racist land use policies - going as far as lamenting environmental regs ensuring renters who literally live on highways can breathe - instead of, say, eliminating the highway

Thanks Mike for calling out the glaring gap between abundance - the rejection of scarcity politics - and Abundance™ - a book and now a brand pushing center-right prescriptions for getting good things only for the Right People.

a video clip's going viral about a man who failed upward to the top of our healthcare system with no actual healthcare training talking openly about his drug use and y'all this is the real threat of genAI: if you want to believe something badly enough, #AI will invent the evidence to back you up

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

UPDATE! The school district moved our stop!!!! I'm so happy! I wrote the transportation manager and explained what had happened (and how it's a hazardous location in general), the bus driver backed me up, and they changed it!!!

Pritzker: It appears they are amassing ICE officers… It’s been reported that about 300 officers are planning to come in and do what they did in LA — terrorize neighborhoods and cause mayhem. Their plan is to create enough chaos on the ground that troops will have to be called in

In the bicycle and pedestrian planning world, we call this "safety theatre" and it almost always results in makind conditions more hostile for anyone outside a car. In the US, most transportation policy decisions that claim to be in the interest of pedestrian safety are, in fact, safety theatre.

welp. I've discovered what's worse that a driver who doesn't stop for a stopped #SchoolBus. A driver who stops, pauses just long enough for your kid to step into the street, and then hits the gas. Driving is a privilege that needs to be revoked a hell of a lot more often than it is.

Does anyone actually like it when their phone or computer updates? I probably lose a day of productivity whenever this happens just trying to figure out what can be put back and what I'm just gonna have to learn to cope with.

Brilliant demonstration of the 'eye contact as social deference' principle. I'm not saying it's wise to stroll across 6 lanes of moving traffic these days but this guy throws a lot of cold water on the ubiquitious (and stupid) 'make eye contact with drivers' approach to pedestrian safety.

It's that time of year again, welcome back to school kiddos! This week we're going to address Toronto's back to school/micro mobility campaign & ask that they direct all available resources at dangerous drivers who cause hundreds of serious injuries & deaths each year in TO. 📷 @tomflood.bsky.social

Cars are expensive, full stop. But in most US cities, it takes money and privilege to thrive *without* driving. It's not how it should be, but it's how it is. Wanna change it? Fight the system, not those who are trapped in it.

Our neighbor, the lorax, puts giant piles of peanuts out for the squirrels to bury in the fluffy soil of my vegetable #garden. Which I suppose I should be thankful for, because the squirrels' peanut crop is the only thing that survived our summer monsoon. #gardening

DAPA is my new favorite moniker for this emerging source of ick.

This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”

regardless of how you feel about paying influencers to influence people, calling it "dark money" and "shady marketing" is itself an effort to influence people. fwiw.

Abolish the term "content.'