One thing I notice in street design conversations is that everyone agrees that Induced Demand is real and bad when it comes to car traffic. But it’s very hard to get people to admit that the opposite (anything that reduces vehicle throughput) is also true and good.

Continuous sidewalks: a simple change that makes a HUGE difference

@mcdotnow.bsky.social Continuous sidewalks, please!

To understand what was at stake here: in VA, the AG gets to appoint university counsel. From Jim Ryan’s forced resignation to the (mercifully) reject “Compact” to the odious and bizarre “settlement,” UVA has been hamstrung by counsel chosen by the state’s GOP administration. That’s about to change.

Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue.

Is vpap.org broken? Did I hit refresh too many times and break it?

Twin Peaks: A note ‘LOOK INTO THE MEALS ON WHEELS’.

"we never recovered from things Dick Cheney did to United States. and now the precedents he established have empowered a madman" @emptywheel.bsky.social www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/04/d...

Stop the child murder

YES! DICK CHENEY *IS* DEAD!

Democrats can keep hunting for The Blueprint for winning candidates who know what The People want. Or they can adopt election rules that foster competition and let vision and ambition do the rest.

Reluctantly agree

rare L for the big guy

And on the sixth day, the Lord said, "Let there be free parking" and it was (not) good.

"Neighbourhood interiors were never intended for commercial activity", says one letter writer. To be fair, this is true, if you toss the entirety of human history and modern day Earth outside North America in the trash, and think that urban planning less than a century old is ironclad natural law.

Such a silly argument. I mean most spare bedrooms were never intended to be home offices but then Covid happened. Circumstances change, people and communities adapt, life goes on. There’s no reason to not rethink the design of even small neighborhoods to make them more accessible.

I hope people in other countries understand that many of us are trying our best to resist the dictatorship but that the police in one American city will kill almost as many people in a year than all the police departments combined of a typical EU nation.

Hundreds of school crossing guards have suffered injuries on the job after being hit by a vehicle, and dozens of them have died, according to an investigation by AP and Cox Media Group Television Stations.

So, murder then

I’m at the Friends of Downtown Community meeting to skeet about the Flock pilot program results. Follow this thread for the details 👇

Radon Abatement has not played out since June. We should play out more maybe, but in the meantime we have been working on stuff and hope to be able to share some things soon. This show would be great without us, but I am excited to be a part of it. Live music is still the best.

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

part of what gets me is the particular double-think involved in left-nimbyism. left nimbyism has been the dominant mode of thinking in urban governance for like fifty years, they won the war and achieved total control of policy, and they *still* think they're the plucky upstarts fighting The Man

This motherfucker needs to be locked up for murder. That’s not hyperbole.

Fire Marshalls who comment on these plans are just NIMBYs there on their own behalf but launder the complaint as an industry one to get scardy code officials to cut down density with a sledge hammer

"root canals" really need better branding

i guess nazi tattoo education thread with pictures since we've done this discourse a few times most nazi tattoos are gang tattoos, specifically prison gang tattoos. often gang membership is mandatory! the penalty for not joining can be severe. those tattoos look like, roughly, this

Who wants to do some quick and dirty math on Charlottesville?

Bet on Baltimore

Imma be honest with yall. I don’t really care that they’re demolishing the White House. It’s like whatever.

The flows on this album are so smooth.

Sorry but this is the funniest headline I will read all year

Today’s No Kings protest at the lifestyle center on the stroad was great, but maybe next time we can do it downtown and take over the streets.

when i say that i yelped in shock at this kid’s sign

So stoked for this show next month!!! Legendary bill IMO

Class 1 e-bikes (20 mph) are sufficient for urban areas with good bike infrastructure, but for a lot of people in North America, Class 3 (28 mph) can make the difference between bicycle commuting and driving a car. This regulation might make sense for @transalt.org in NYC, but doesn’t help elsewhere

Hell yeah. Suck it, birds

I’ll take the YOU’RE DEAD candy please

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Wet bar! in the family room

Coffee is the ultimate former alcoholic drink. You can pay a guy $18 to make a fancy version of it right in front of your bloodshot eyes, or you can buy one in a gas station for a buck and a half while slowly crying to "Night Moves" because you just need to feel something again

This is not just funny, it's smart. We need more of this mockery that shows these thugs that we see their despicable fascism and give them the respect that they deserve.

good morning to the bike lane big finish designers

It’s pronounced cyclist.

Is this late 2020 facebook? Cause I’m posting bread porn

please do not @ me saying "obviously they won't they control the courts." i am not talking about tomorrow. i am talking about when we retake power.

Bro doesn’t even know how five over ones work

Listening to VU+Nico and reminded that while a thousand bands have imitated these songs, and I’m sure many have mimicked the production style, no one has ever made a record that sounds like this. A transmission from another realm.

Made a chili con carne with the carne being a brisket flat and 10/10 will again. Ridiculous beef energy.