Jay Thatcher
@jthatch.bsky.social
Quaker. Teacher of cycling skills. Sport officiant. On the board with @westernfriend.bsky.social. he, him, our.
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As long as "traffic safety" is owned by enforcement and not linked to engineering, the US is going to struggle to reliably have safe streets
Behavior is important, but the biggest determinant of important safety behaviors like speed is the design of the street
Behavior is important, but the biggest determinant of important safety behaviors like speed is the design of the street
December 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
As long as "traffic safety" is owned by enforcement and not linked to engineering, the US is going to struggle to reliably have safe streets
Behavior is important, but the biggest determinant of important safety behaviors like speed is the design of the street
Behavior is important, but the biggest determinant of important safety behaviors like speed is the design of the street
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There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
December 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
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Just children?
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Social media use damages children’s ability to focus, say researchers
Social media use damages children’s ability to focus, say researchers
Social media use damages children’s ability to focus, say researchers
Study of 8,300 US children suggests social media may be contributing to a rise in ADHD diagnoses
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Just children?
Analysis of corruption in the current Supreme Court.
December 12, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Analysis of corruption in the current Supreme Court.
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I don’t want 2 day shipping. I want a store I can walk or bike to in 15 minutes.
December 11, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I don’t want 2 day shipping. I want a store I can walk or bike to in 15 minutes.
"Health care needs don’t go away if people don’t have insurance coverage — people just come to us for help when they’re sicker. Then, treatment is more intensive, more expensive and too often too late.
"...rural Oregonians will be hit hardest."
-Evan Saulino, MD, PhD
"...rural Oregonians will be hit hardest."
-Evan Saulino, MD, PhD
The decision before Congress is simple, commentator and physician Evan Saulino writes: Protect families and communities by extending the healthcare tax credits that keep millions insured.
ACA tax credits helped more Oregonians find coverage. Will Congress keep them? • Oregon Capital Chronicle
The decision before Congress is simple: protect families and communities by extending the healthcare tax credits that keep millions insured.
buff.ly
December 10, 2025 at 11:05 PM
"Health care needs don’t go away if people don’t have insurance coverage — people just come to us for help when they’re sicker. Then, treatment is more intensive, more expensive and too often too late.
"...rural Oregonians will be hit hardest."
-Evan Saulino, MD, PhD
"...rural Oregonians will be hit hardest."
-Evan Saulino, MD, PhD
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After letting funding lapse for nearly two years, Congress voted to renew crucial federal funding that rural counties and schools have counted on for a quarter century.
After nearly two-year lapse, Congress renews Secure Rural Schools funding • Oregon Capital Chronicle
The Secure Rural Schools act provides tens of millions each year to schools and communities across the West.
buff.ly
December 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
After letting funding lapse for nearly two years, Congress voted to renew crucial federal funding that rural counties and schools have counted on for a quarter century.
This is excellent news for the rural West. So glad @valhoyle.bsky.social and @ronwyden.bsky.social shepherded this through Congress!
It’s official: The Secure Rural Schools Reauthorization Act passed the House. Now, it’s on the way to the President’s desk.
We’re not leaving anyone behind.
We’re not leaving anyone behind.
Today, I urged my colleagues to support the Secure Rural Schools Reauthorization Act, an essential lifeline for rural communities across my district. It's already passed the Senate - stay tuned for an update as it goes through the House tonight.
December 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
This is excellent news for the rural West. So glad @valhoyle.bsky.social and @ronwyden.bsky.social shepherded this through Congress!
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This is the Tufts PhD student who seized by masked agents on the street and jailed for two months because she wrote an op-ed calling for the school to divest from Israel.
December 8, 2025 at 10:52 PM
This is the Tufts PhD student who seized by masked agents on the street and jailed for two months because she wrote an op-ed calling for the school to divest from Israel.
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ME: Shhh, be very quiet, I’m training my horse to think.
THEM: What horse? I don’t see a horse.
ME: He hasn’t learned to think yet, so he doesn’t exist.
THEM: What.
ME: That’s logic: He doesn’t think, therefore, he ain’t.
THEM: Oh no.
ME: What?
THEM: You put Descartes before the horse
THEM: What horse? I don’t see a horse.
ME: He hasn’t learned to think yet, so he doesn’t exist.
THEM: What.
ME: That’s logic: He doesn’t think, therefore, he ain’t.
THEM: Oh no.
ME: What?
THEM: You put Descartes before the horse
December 8, 2025 at 1:24 AM
ME: Shhh, be very quiet, I’m training my horse to think.
THEM: What horse? I don’t see a horse.
ME: He hasn’t learned to think yet, so he doesn’t exist.
THEM: What.
ME: That’s logic: He doesn’t think, therefore, he ain’t.
THEM: Oh no.
ME: What?
THEM: You put Descartes before the horse
THEM: What horse? I don’t see a horse.
ME: He hasn’t learned to think yet, so he doesn’t exist.
THEM: What.
ME: That’s logic: He doesn’t think, therefore, he ain’t.
THEM: Oh no.
ME: What?
THEM: You put Descartes before the horse
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We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools - Nature Communications
The relative importance of close-proximity interactions, shared space and air quality to the transmission of respiratory viruses is not well understood. Here, the authors investigate this question by ...
www.nature.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
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Someone(s) ought to ask teachers.
December 8, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Someone(s) ought to ask teachers.
Smart thread about migration.
You’re right that in the US we’ve never yet got it right. (Also true in the UK. In both places, I think we’ve never been sufficiently open.) But we had some reasonable principles: prioritise family links, refugees, asylum, historical links, access for education, probably also workforce needs. 🧵
December 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Smart thread about migration.
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If we take some space for silence this season, we will hear the Voice that speaks not only in words, but also in gentle tugs on our hearts and in the beauty our eyes behold in the lights, the sights, sounds, and people surrounding us this season.
- Brent Bill
- Brent Bill
December 7, 2025 at 1:41 AM
If we take some space for silence this season, we will hear the Voice that speaks not only in words, but also in gentle tugs on our hearts and in the beauty our eyes behold in the lights, the sights, sounds, and people surrounding us this season.
- Brent Bill
- Brent Bill
SAFE Corvallis considers transportation equity! Plus:
-Happy hour on 12/12
-Parking removal decisions
-The new 99 Vine bus to McMinnville, Adair, Corvallis, Eugene and places between.
mailchi.mp/2140c94a17e1...
-Happy hour on 12/12
-Parking removal decisions
-The new 99 Vine bus to McMinnville, Adair, Corvallis, Eugene and places between.
mailchi.mp/2140c94a17e1...
SAFE Corvallis Community News
mailchi.mp
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 AM
SAFE Corvallis considers transportation equity! Plus:
-Happy hour on 12/12
-Parking removal decisions
-The new 99 Vine bus to McMinnville, Adair, Corvallis, Eugene and places between.
mailchi.mp/2140c94a17e1...
-Happy hour on 12/12
-Parking removal decisions
-The new 99 Vine bus to McMinnville, Adair, Corvallis, Eugene and places between.
mailchi.mp/2140c94a17e1...
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First-world countries are tripping over each other to have the harshest immigration policies when immigration is the only thing that will save them from a pretty harsh demographic reckoning in a few decades. A competition to see who will be the poorest, shittiest nation of angry pensioners
December 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM
First-world countries are tripping over each other to have the harshest immigration policies when immigration is the only thing that will save them from a pretty harsh demographic reckoning in a few decades. A competition to see who will be the poorest, shittiest nation of angry pensioners
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"If you want candidates who come from outside the system and aren’t puppets of big donors and corrupt political machines, then you should get behind the nonpartisan movement to publicly finance the elections in your community, your state, and your country." @davidsirota.com @thenation.com
The Real Lesson From Zohran Mamdani’s Ascent
The decisive factor isn’t his ads or charisma. It is the public financing of election campaigns, and it should be replicated across the United States.
www.thenation.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:06 PM
"If you want candidates who come from outside the system and aren’t puppets of big donors and corrupt political machines, then you should get behind the nonpartisan movement to publicly finance the elections in your community, your state, and your country." @davidsirota.com @thenation.com
Streets Are For Everyone! SAFE Corvallis is gathering for happiness and conversation. 12/12 at 4 pm. Common Fields. See you there!
December 4, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Streets Are For Everyone! SAFE Corvallis is gathering for happiness and conversation. 12/12 at 4 pm. Common Fields. See you there!
'No hurt, no harm will be done on all my holy mountain, for the country will be full of knowledge of Yahweh as the waters cover the sea.'
-Isaiah 11:9
'I saw, also, that there was an ocean of darkness and death; but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over...'
-Fox, Journal, 1647
-Isaiah 11:9
'I saw, also, that there was an ocean of darkness and death; but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over...'
-Fox, Journal, 1647
December 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
'No hurt, no harm will be done on all my holy mountain, for the country will be full of knowledge of Yahweh as the waters cover the sea.'
-Isaiah 11:9
'I saw, also, that there was an ocean of darkness and death; but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over...'
-Fox, Journal, 1647
-Isaiah 11:9
'I saw, also, that there was an ocean of darkness and death; but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over...'
-Fox, Journal, 1647
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h/t @adamwren.bsky.social
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
November 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
h/t @adamwren.bsky.social
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
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best Black Friday deal is good all year long: our shipping & handling fees for your packages are less than 2¢ a gallon.
November 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
best Black Friday deal is good all year long: our shipping & handling fees for your packages are less than 2¢ a gallon.
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I'll give it a look, probably even a follow.
November 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I'll give it a look, probably even a follow.
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#RECALL: Outdoor Master Children’s and Youth Helmets; The helmets can fail to protect the user in the event of a crash, posing a risk of injury or death due to head injury. Get refund. www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2026...
November 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
#RECALL: Outdoor Master Children’s and Youth Helmets; The helmets can fail to protect the user in the event of a crash, posing a risk of injury or death due to head injury. Get refund. www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2026...