Tara Goddard
@drtaragoddard.com
Transportation engineering professor. Road safety, planning, behavior, & culture; wildfire planning and response; inclusive disaster evacuation; ethics of tech in transportation; planning in the Petropyrocene. SLO and Tahoe. She/her.
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Thanks @nerd4cities.bsky.social for featuring my work in this episode!
I'm happy to talk any time about how car brain plays out when drivers interact with bicyclists (I did my dissertation on it!), and also power, masculinity, status - my favorite topics 😁🤓
I'm happy to talk any time about how car brain plays out when drivers interact with bicyclists (I did my dissertation on it!), and also power, masculinity, status - my favorite topics 😁🤓
How is it only January 11? 2025 was a nightmarish year but somehow 2026 is "hold my beer"ing it into oblivion.
January 12, 2026 at 5:05 AM
How is it only January 11? 2025 was a nightmarish year but somehow 2026 is "hold my beer"ing it into oblivion.
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Opening up the app, saying "wait, wtf now" and then closing it again
January 12, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Opening up the app, saying "wait, wtf now" and then closing it again
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Please hit pause, I need a second
2026’s refresh rate is wild I go do some chores and like 14 major world events have happened
January 12, 2026 at 1:16 AM
Please hit pause, I need a second
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Every major institution has been so useless for the last year that I'm ready to paint my face like william wallace for anybody who just plainly states exactly what we all know to be true
In extraordinary message, Fed chair announces that he’s being extorted/coerced by the US government under color of law.
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
January 12, 2026 at 1:36 AM
Every major institution has been so useless for the last year that I'm ready to paint my face like william wallace for anybody who just plainly states exactly what we all know to be true
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hey, quick question: what’s it gonna take
January 12, 2026 at 1:46 AM
hey, quick question: what’s it gonna take
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As promised, we are back with a second wishlist for our friends in Minneapolis!
This time @naomikritzer.bsky.social is helping out by being our local contact who will receive all the goodies you send!
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
As always, you can avoid the 'zon at our GFM!
This time @naomikritzer.bsky.social is helping out by being our local contact who will receive all the goodies you send!
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
As always, you can avoid the 'zon at our GFM!
Donate to Support Whistle Distribution in Chicago and Beyond!, organized by Emily Hilleren
Since late September, I’ve been organizing whistle kit assembly par… Emily Hilleren needs your support for Support Whistle Distribution in Chicago and Beyond!
www.gofundme.com
January 11, 2026 at 3:30 AM
As promised, we are back with a second wishlist for our friends in Minneapolis!
This time @naomikritzer.bsky.social is helping out by being our local contact who will receive all the goodies you send!
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
As always, you can avoid the 'zon at our GFM!
This time @naomikritzer.bsky.social is helping out by being our local contact who will receive all the goodies you send!
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
As always, you can avoid the 'zon at our GFM!
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In case you too want to help some folks stay warm and fall-free while they shovel sidewalks and fight fascism.
January 10, 2026 at 2:31 AM
In case you too want to help some folks stay warm and fall-free while they shovel sidewalks and fight fascism.
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the one weird trick to counter the massive propaganda apparatus arrayed against Zohran: just keep doing good shit every day
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin on Saturday announced an initiative to install more public bathrooms across the city.
January 11, 2026 at 8:43 PM
the one weird trick to counter the massive propaganda apparatus arrayed against Zohran: just keep doing good shit every day
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YOU HOLD THE LINE BECAUSE YOU EXIST IN THE LINE:
Trans People
Migrants
Muslims
Haitians
Somalis
Liberal White Woman
Better get onboard because you could be next.
Trans People
Migrants
Muslims
Haitians
Somalis
Liberal White Woman
Better get onboard because you could be next.
January 11, 2026 at 9:03 PM
YOU HOLD THE LINE BECAUSE YOU EXIST IN THE LINE:
Trans People
Migrants
Muslims
Haitians
Somalis
Liberal White Woman
Better get onboard because you could be next.
Trans People
Migrants
Muslims
Haitians
Somalis
Liberal White Woman
Better get onboard because you could be next.
The role of cars in our society results in a uniquely American way that state violence is enacted and justified. Renee Good is just the most recent.
If you work in any area of engineering, planning, or public admin, what we do is relevant to our current historical moment, whether we like it or not.
If you work in any area of engineering, planning, or public admin, what we do is relevant to our current historical moment, whether we like it or not.
FYI: Judge Ellis (Chicago ICE case) noted in November that video evidence shows ICE "brake-checked other motorists in an attempt to force accidents that agents could then use as justifications for deploying force."
January 11, 2026 at 8:30 PM
The role of cars in our society results in a uniquely American way that state violence is enacted and justified. Renee Good is just the most recent.
If you work in any area of engineering, planning, or public admin, what we do is relevant to our current historical moment, whether we like it or not.
If you work in any area of engineering, planning, or public admin, what we do is relevant to our current historical moment, whether we like it or not.
Reading quotes and political commentary about the US protests versus commentary on the Iran protests, I keep hearing the last line of the first verse in my head. Of course, the entire song is relevant for the moment we are in now
youtu.be/4lzqUe1Qfec?...
youtu.be/4lzqUe1Qfec?...
Rage Against The Machine - Wake Up (Audio)
YouTube video by RATMVEVO
youtu.be
January 11, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Reading quotes and political commentary about the US protests versus commentary on the Iran protests, I keep hearing the last line of the first verse in my head. Of course, the entire song is relevant for the moment we are in now
youtu.be/4lzqUe1Qfec?...
youtu.be/4lzqUe1Qfec?...
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"It shouldn't feel normal that there's been a death every day on Texas roads since Nov. 7, 2000."
"I think many of the people losing homes and businesses due to the ongoing I-45 expansion through Houston might, understandably, view the project with deep suspicion and outright hostility, too."
"I think many of the people losing homes and businesses due to the ongoing I-45 expansion through Houston might, understandably, view the project with deep suspicion and outright hostility, too."
As a Texan this Boston Globe Column made me so insane I had to write about it www.chron.com/culture/arti...
January 11, 2026 at 5:38 PM
"It shouldn't feel normal that there's been a death every day on Texas roads since Nov. 7, 2000."
"I think many of the people losing homes and businesses due to the ongoing I-45 expansion through Houston might, understandably, view the project with deep suspicion and outright hostility, too."
"I think many of the people losing homes and businesses due to the ongoing I-45 expansion through Houston might, understandably, view the project with deep suspicion and outright hostility, too."
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i don’t think people in tech realize how much “this goes everywhere” rather than “this is a tool that should really just be at tech people’s disposal” has made the general population despise it and them
My anecdotal experience is folks view of AI is “everything is broken now” or “wait this does what to my electricity prices” or “why would I want something that the purveyors of which claim will take away my job and end humanity”.
Which is more or less consistent with these numbers I guess.
Which is more or less consistent with these numbers I guess.
January 11, 2026 at 5:16 PM
i don’t think people in tech realize how much “this goes everywhere” rather than “this is a tool that should really just be at tech people’s disposal” has made the general population despise it and them
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This sums up the “war on young people” pretty well.
Boomers are subsidized to no end, including SS, Medicare, taxes to pay for Pensions, etc.
Young people not only pay for these, they also pay extractive rents to preserve the 60’s era SF neighborhood they can no longer afford to live in.
Boomers are subsidized to no end, including SS, Medicare, taxes to pay for Pensions, etc.
Young people not only pay for these, they also pay extractive rents to preserve the 60’s era SF neighborhood they can no longer afford to live in.
They're right; my daughter and her fella make approximately double what we bring in, and they live in an apartment, no plans to have kids because of their income.
Our mortgage is less than two thirds what they're paying for the apartment, and we have double the space, plus garage, yard, etc.
Our mortgage is less than two thirds what they're paying for the apartment, and we have double the space, plus garage, yard, etc.
January 11, 2026 at 5:46 PM
This sums up the “war on young people” pretty well.
Boomers are subsidized to no end, including SS, Medicare, taxes to pay for Pensions, etc.
Young people not only pay for these, they also pay extractive rents to preserve the 60’s era SF neighborhood they can no longer afford to live in.
Boomers are subsidized to no end, including SS, Medicare, taxes to pay for Pensions, etc.
Young people not only pay for these, they also pay extractive rents to preserve the 60’s era SF neighborhood they can no longer afford to live in.
Thank you for another lovely time discussing neuroscience and brain chemistry and hunting/gathering and art @silverpebble2.bsky.social ! Sorry I had to leave early, but I made this quick sketch of a dried thistle while you were teaching us. Thank you for the needed dopamine hit!
January 11, 2026 at 6:36 AM
Thank you for another lovely time discussing neuroscience and brain chemistry and hunting/gathering and art @silverpebble2.bsky.social ! Sorry I had to leave early, but I made this quick sketch of a dried thistle while you were teaching us. Thank you for the needed dopamine hit!
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I can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.
The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.
January 10, 2026 at 4:29 PM
I can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.
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Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.
January 10, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.
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Would love to see a serious deep dive treatment of the options re: federal taxes.
January 10, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Would love to see a serious deep dive treatment of the options re: federal taxes.
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THE OPEN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF GRIEF IS A POLITICAL ACT.
One of the things that genuinely shocked me as I read through surveillance logs for the police is how much of their energy and attention is dedicated to shutting down vigils and other ceremonies of remembrance.
Anyway ICE was filmed desecrating Renee Nicole Good’s memorial & doing violence to people who found that distasteful. Might be too soon to say if this falls into some kind of pattern of behavior if you’re the stupidest motherfucker on earth.
January 8, 2026 at 10:55 PM
THE OPEN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF GRIEF IS A POLITICAL ACT.
The only "chaos" in this scene is the chaotic good alignment of this young man, who is a delight. We are all better off for having people like him out there fighting for basic human rights.
Hannity has a Fox reporter in Minneapolis talk to a random protester walking through the city who goes on to spit bars for 2 minutes
January 10, 2026 at 3:43 AM
The only "chaos" in this scene is the chaotic good alignment of this young man, who is a delight. We are all better off for having people like him out there fighting for basic human rights.
I have a question, and the answer may be very simple or very complicated. This is about the Fourth Amendment.
There are things it is difficult if not impossible to do for road safety, because the law treats your vehicle as protected private space. Setting aside the pros & cons of that, I wondered
There are things it is difficult if not impossible to do for road safety, because the law treats your vehicle as protected private space. Setting aside the pros & cons of that, I wondered
January 10, 2026 at 2:41 AM
I have a question, and the answer may be very simple or very complicated. This is about the Fourth Amendment.
There are things it is difficult if not impossible to do for road safety, because the law treats your vehicle as protected private space. Setting aside the pros & cons of that, I wondered
There are things it is difficult if not impossible to do for road safety, because the law treats your vehicle as protected private space. Setting aside the pros & cons of that, I wondered
In case you too want to help some folks stay warm and fall-free while they shovel sidewalks and fight fascism.
January 10, 2026 at 2:31 AM
In case you too want to help some folks stay warm and fall-free while they shovel sidewalks and fight fascism.
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When Renee Good said "I'm not mad at you" what the ICE goon heard was "I'm not scared of you."
That's what enraged him. The populace wasn't fully terrorized and cowed into submission yet, so he acted to make that happen.
That's what enraged him. The populace wasn't fully terrorized and cowed into submission yet, so he acted to make that happen.
January 9, 2026 at 9:49 PM
When Renee Good said "I'm not mad at you" what the ICE goon heard was "I'm not scared of you."
That's what enraged him. The populace wasn't fully terrorized and cowed into submission yet, so he acted to make that happen.
That's what enraged him. The populace wasn't fully terrorized and cowed into submission yet, so he acted to make that happen.
Maybe you need some rhino play zoomies in your feed. I know I did.
January 9, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Maybe you need some rhino play zoomies in your feed. I know I did.