Adam Deutsch
@adamdeutsch.com
Poet/parent/prof/pedaling around. My book is EVERY TRANSMISSION from @PressFernwood. 📸 by Alanna Airitam. (He/him). A bunch of biking & urbanism here, too. AdamDeutsch.com. Bike videos at https://www.youtube.com/@RidingBikesinSanDiego
If you feel like you need parking for your business, don’t open up in the urban core then complain about bike lanes. Just open in the suburbs or pay more for a dedicated lot.
December 13, 2025 at 11:35 PM
If you feel like you need parking for your business, don’t open up in the urban core then complain about bike lanes. Just open in the suburbs or pay more for a dedicated lot.
Gonna try watching Planes Trains and Automobiles like a proto-Fight Club, where John Candy is Steve Martin’s Tyler Durden…
December 10, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Gonna try watching Planes Trains and Automobiles like a proto-Fight Club, where John Candy is Steve Martin’s Tyler Durden…
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This news story needs to be in the toolkit for all #bikenyc and national #bicycling advocates and organizations.
WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Annex businesses tell Ford to back off Bloor bike lanes
Stores in the Annex say the Bloor bike lanes have been a big boost to business. As Michelle Mackey reports, the neighborhood's BIA wants the province to back off its new bill that could see the lanes ...
toronto.citynews.ca
November 9, 2025 at 6:04 AM
This news story needs to be in the toolkit for all #bikenyc and national #bicycling advocates and organizations.
I want to go back to living in a country where I can go see a movie in a theater at 10am.
December 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I want to go back to living in a country where I can go see a movie in a theater at 10am.
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“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.”
“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath
Some costs aren’t costs.
“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath
Some costs aren’t costs.
One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss
Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.
grist.org
November 21, 2025 at 12:40 AM
“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.”
“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath
Some costs aren’t costs.
“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath
Some costs aren’t costs.
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Every year this city does the dumbest thing possible
November 29, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Every year this city does the dumbest thing possible
As the fall semester's end rapidly approaches, if you're planning Spring 2026 poetry classes, let me know if you'd like me to visit in person or via Zoom to read poems, talk about poetics, small press publishing, or bikes. I'll be free all spring!
December 3, 2025 at 2:15 PM
As the fall semester's end rapidly approaches, if you're planning Spring 2026 poetry classes, let me know if you'd like me to visit in person or via Zoom to read poems, talk about poetics, small press publishing, or bikes. I'll be free all spring!
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- Rider was an adult
- Truck driver turned across his path, which is a classic collision called a right/left hook, is the drivers fault and can happen to any bike at any speed.
So let's complain about children on ebikes and reduce ebike speeds
This is what is called in the business a moral panic.
- Truck driver turned across his path, which is a classic collision called a right/left hook, is the drivers fault and can happen to any bike at any speed.
So let's complain about children on ebikes and reduce ebike speeds
This is what is called in the business a moral panic.
Most e-bikes are just that- bikes…
But the fat-boys are designed to look like 50cc scrambler bikes - (and perform like them once modified) and a ridden by children / teens as if they are scramblers on a track- oblivious to other road users…
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
But the fat-boys are designed to look like 50cc scrambler bikes - (and perform like them once modified) and a ridden by children / teens as if they are scramblers on a track- oblivious to other road users…
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
NSW considering plan to halve power and top speed of ebikes as rider dies in collision with garbage truck
Police plead with parents to buy only safe, unmodified ebikes as Christmas presents
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:19 AM
- Rider was an adult
- Truck driver turned across his path, which is a classic collision called a right/left hook, is the drivers fault and can happen to any bike at any speed.
So let's complain about children on ebikes and reduce ebike speeds
This is what is called in the business a moral panic.
- Truck driver turned across his path, which is a classic collision called a right/left hook, is the drivers fault and can happen to any bike at any speed.
So let's complain about children on ebikes and reduce ebike speeds
This is what is called in the business a moral panic.
Poetry always wins
"You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. "
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
www.wired.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Poetry always wins
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Literally buying one copy of a book at your local indie bookstore can mean the difference in whether they buy future books from that author.
November 26, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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A lesser-discussed reason for urbanism: the city is more interesting to photograph than the suburbs
November 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM
A lesser-discussed reason for urbanism: the city is more interesting to photograph than the suburbs
Rode a fixie for the very first time tonight. Didn’t break myself doing it. Also didn’t quite know how to stop…
November 12, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Rode a fixie for the very first time tonight. Didn’t break myself doing it. Also didn’t quite know how to stop…
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this is literally never not accurate
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this is literally never not accurate
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Simple rule: Stop setting carbon on fire to make energy. It ain't sustainable.
Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say
Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Simple rule: Stop setting carbon on fire to make energy. It ain't sustainable.
If you're the kind of person who orders books from the company that's usually blocking my bike lane, it looks like they have my book, Every Transmission, for just $11 www.amazon.com/Every-Transm...
Every Transmission
Every Transmission [Deutsch, Adam] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Every Transmission
www.amazon.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:11 AM
If you're the kind of person who orders books from the company that's usually blocking my bike lane, it looks like they have my book, Every Transmission, for just $11 www.amazon.com/Every-Transm...
It feels like bad taste to honor a police officer who died by traffic violence to have a 700-vehicle funeral processes clog up the freeways a week later, but this is how we do in San Diego, I guess.
October 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
It feels like bad taste to honor a police officer who died by traffic violence to have a 700-vehicle funeral processes clog up the freeways a week later, but this is how we do in San Diego, I guess.
Daily To-Do:
* Work on a poem (reading or writing)
* Take a photograph
* Ride a bike or walk
* Work on a poem (reading or writing)
* Take a photograph
* Ride a bike or walk
October 25, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Daily To-Do:
* Work on a poem (reading or writing)
* Take a photograph
* Ride a bike or walk
* Work on a poem (reading or writing)
* Take a photograph
* Ride a bike or walk
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Cars. Ruin. Cities.
Seven cars currently blocking the “bus only” lane on Dearborn, even if a camera-equipped bus comes along, it’ll never capture the license plate numbers
October 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Cars. Ruin. Cities.
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Ireland is adopting a default 30 kmh (19 mph) speed limit in urban areas.
Local authorities to implement 30km/h speed limits in urban areas ‘where appropriate’ from 2027
Speed limits on roads in built-up and urban areas can only be changed where a majority of the elected members in a local authority vote to do so.
www.thejournal.ie
October 20, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Ireland is adopting a default 30 kmh (19 mph) speed limit in urban areas.
Thought I'd taken some really dope photos today (& the last couple of weeks), then realized the camera was on 25, then 26, 27 of a 24 exp roll. Opened it up to find that I hadn't loaded it properly. Now I just have to write poems about all the images I thought I had that now only exist in my head.
October 20, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Thought I'd taken some really dope photos today (& the last couple of weeks), then realized the camera was on 25, then 26, 27 of a 24 exp roll. Opened it up to find that I hadn't loaded it properly. Now I just have to write poems about all the images I thought I had that now only exist in my head.
Enough already. Make the calendar 13 months of 28 days, move Oct back to the 8th month, etc, and back off Thanksgiving to a few days after Halloween to make a fall break that splits a semester like Spring Break.
October 17, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Enough already. Make the calendar 13 months of 28 days, move Oct back to the 8th month, etc, and back off Thanksgiving to a few days after Halloween to make a fall break that splits a semester like Spring Break.
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Remember this one? “Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom.” Via Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social #CityMakingMath
The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike
A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom
www.scientificamerican.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Remember this one? “Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom.” Via Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social #CityMakingMath
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Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA
Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.
usa.streetsblog.org
October 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
Just send the manuscript of what I hope will be my second book to a press I really hope can love it.
October 14, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Just send the manuscript of what I hope will be my second book to a press I really hope can love it.
If any of my friends have already done AWP planning, could you send me a screen shot for hotel rates? Thanks! Hugs!!
October 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
If any of my friends have already done AWP planning, could you send me a screen shot for hotel rates? Thanks! Hugs!!