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👨‍💻🚴🚆☕🌮🏳️‍🌈 Lifelong Michigander ✋. He/Him. Previously, co-founder + lead architect at https://duo.com/. Opinions are my own.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4d

Choose your fighter:

WaPo: Why America should legalize horse slaughter

The Onion: I Have a Dream: To Eat a Kentucky Derby-Winning Horse

Adam Goodman @akgood.bsky.social · 6d

Serious (and at least in my circles, quite unexpected!) win here. Kudos to Jason and many others for getting this done! 🎉🙌

Jason Morgan @jasonmorganmi.bsky.social · 6d

🚨HUGE WIN for Michigan transit! 🚍

We just secured a record $160 MILLION increase — the largest in state history 🙌

Thanks to relentless transit advocates, pro-transit legislators, and @gretchenwhitmer.bsky.social!

More buses 🚌 Future trains 🚆 More service ✅ More communities connected!

Adam Goodman @akgood.bsky.social · 6d

Weird. I've got a different (not e-) bike with an 8-speed Shimano hub and it's been solid for 12+ years. They're usually pretty reliable!

Adam Goodman @akgood.bsky.social · 6d

It's great! Sometimes I wish I had gotten a class 3 but that more of a me problem

Adam Goodman @akgood.bsky.social · 6d

Well, it would seem my #WeekWithoutDriving has escalated from errands around town to a long distance multimodal adventure. LFG!

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Adam Goodman @akgood.bsky.social · 9d

Love it.

Adam Goodman @akgood.bsky.social · 9d

Oh and yesterday I biked to Trader Joe's, but I didn't take pictures. It's the best cheat code for not having to deal with the characteristically-chaotic parking lot...

(But also the parking lot is totally fine if you can just be patient for 2 minutes! www.strongtowns.org/journal/2016...)

Why I Love Trader Joe's Parking Lots | Strong Towns

Notoriously bemoaned, Trader Joe's parking lots are known for their small size, tight spots & limited maneuvering areas. But that's actually a much better model than the wasted space that most grocery...

www.strongtowns.org

Adam Goodman @akgood.bsky.social · 9d

Happy #weekwithoutdriving! To be honest I was probably not gonna drive this week anyway but hey let's make it official.

I'm going bikepacking soon so today I took the touring bike out for a test/shakedown ride, then (cuz I was tired from the first ride) e-biked over to REI for some supplies...

A Kona Sutra touring bike leaning against a bench next to a multi use path

A Cero One e-cargo-bike parked at the bike rack in front of an REI in a strip mall.

The bike rack is that crappy "wave rack" design, alas. Better than nothing I guess. But cities should outlaw these and demand staple/inverted-u or post-and-ring designs.

Adam Goodman @akgood.bsky.social · 9d

Whoa, you're right. I missed that because there were definitely people fretting about trees in the original post's article about Montgomery County

Adam Goodman @akgood.bsky.social · 9d

I dare y'all to print out a stack of these bingo cards and bring them to the next sidewalk meeting

Adam Goodman @akgood.bsky.social · 9d

I would quip that there's not enough *bike* parking, but your picture would belie that claim as well 😅

Adam Goodman @akgood.bsky.social · 9d

#a2council

Action Committee for Transit @actfortransit.bsky.social · 9d

"The quality of life on this street is perfect as it is [with no sidewalk for kids to walk to school]."

"[A sidewalk for kids to walk to school] just seems like a needless conversation."

"You want young children to be safe, but [I oppose a sidewalk for kids to walk to school]."

Parents drive their kids to school. I don’t want to shovel snow. There is already a sidewalk on the other side of the street. Hardly anybody walks. You can walk in the grass or the road and it’s fine.
People will walk in front of people’s homes and driveways. I don’t want a sidewalk on my property. Nobody told me about this hearing. Crosswalk signs are ugly. Parents will park in the crosswalk.
Sidewalks are ugly. There are very few children living on my street. Nobody has been killed. We already pay the HOA for walking paths. My property value will go down.
I have lived here for 35 years without a sidewalk. The community does not want this. Don’t take our front yard. It’s already hard to park on the street. Sidewalks are bad for curb appeal.
I used to walk my kids to school without sidewalks. Kids can use the paths to walk to school. My taxes will go up. I moved here because there weren’t sidewalks. A sidewalk will ruin the ambience of my neighborhood.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10d

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 10d

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 10d

every once in a while I open up Nextdoor and it sends me into an existential crisis. the dumbest people you can possibly imagine. worse than X worse than Facebook worse than anywhere else. and seemingly more politically engaged. just zero brain cells. a nightmare

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Molly Kleinman @mollyak.bsky.social · 12d

This is what privacy advocates have been warning about for a long time. Locally, despite attempts at a ban Ann Arbor has a facial recognition policy that’s basically “yup, we use facial recognition.” Ditto drones. Countywide, there has been public pushback against ALPRs it’s not settled. #a2council

Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 13d

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

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ace @aceanbender.com · 10d

god dammit lmao

Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 10d

[white [student athlete] jerseys] not [[white student athlete] jerseys]

But picking a jersey from a Black player would’ve helped here, M Den!!

An advertisement for “white student athlete jerseys” which shows three white colored University of Michigan football jerseys: one with the number 19, one with the number 96 and the name Zvada, and one with the number 44 and the name Bredeson

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 10d

ICE Confirms Agents Do Not Have Faces Beneath Masks

WASHINGTON—In response to legislation that would ban officers from obscuring their identities during arrests and raids, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed Thursday that beneath their m...

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Jalopnik @jalopnik.bsky.social · 11d

No, Defensive Walking Isn't The Solution For Road Deaths

No, Defensive Walking Isn't The Solution For Road Deaths

It's victim-blaming, it's bull, and it's not the solution we need.

www.jalopnik.com

Adam Goodman @akgood.bsky.social · 11d

What I like about drive-thru ATMs is they don't refuse you service when you roll up on a bike. Unlike (most) drive-thrus staffed by humans.

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Molly Kleinman @mollyak.bsky.social · 12d

The DSCC’s pick for MI senate is Haley “Endorsed non-Democrat Michael Bloomberg for President” Stevens. Vote McMorrow!

David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 12d

Politico reports that Senate Democrats are planning to spend the government shutdown holding a fundraiser at a Napa Valley luxury resort/spa and wine cave, where they will be bankrolling the conservative candidate that they are trying to buy Michigan's Democratic primary for.

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Shaqsquatch @shaqsquatch.bsky.social · 12d

disastrous optics I have not met a single Stevens supporter in Michigan! the party throwing their weight behind her actually kinda makes sense with that context

David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 12d

Politico reports that Senate Democrats are planning to spend the government shutdown holding a fundraiser at a Napa Valley luxury resort/spa and wine cave, where they will be bankrolling the conservative candidate that they are trying to buy Michigan's Democratic primary for.

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damnarbor.bsky.social @damnarbor.bsky.social · 15d

Three years and no response from the city for this report on a dangerous intersection. I bike this way regularly and cars never yield to pedestrians even when the walk signal is activated. This area has very high pedestrian traffic.

#a2Council

seeclickfix.com/issues/13483...

Please remove need for beg button to cross medical center dr There are always numerous people waiting to cross here in the mornings and evenings No need to require a button push, which is impossible...

seeclickfix.com

Adam Goodman @akgood.bsky.social · 14d

Honestly why haven't we done this already

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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 16d

That outfit is actually what you hide the afikomen in during Passover.

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 16d

You guys do yourself a favor and look at what Eric Adams wore to Rosh Hashanah services at the Sephardic Lebanese Congregation

Eric Adams surrounded by members of the Sephardic Lebanese Congregation. He is wearing a blue velvet jacket that is embroidered with gold Magen David’s and other Jewish seeming patterns, including multiple menorahs. Everyone else is just in button down shirts or normal suits. He is not blending in.