Dan Miller
@meelar.bsky.social
Queens volunteer chapter leader for @opennewyork.org. YIMBY, pro-transit, pro-biking, anti-borders-and-cars. He/him
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Something I've been thinking about a lot lately is how when a driver does something wrong, the public and media don't smear all drivers as reckless assholes. But when a cyclist — and especially an e-biker — does something wrong, all bicyclists get attacked and blamed.
November 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Something I've been thinking about a lot lately is how when a driver does something wrong, the public and media don't smear all drivers as reckless assholes. But when a cyclist — and especially an e-biker — does something wrong, all bicyclists get attacked and blamed.
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The MTA is negligent in making no effort to install these, but massive jury verdicts are the worst way to do cost-benefit analyses. Platform screen doors are complex to retrofit, and the lack of them is tied to political pressure to never cut crew staffing (which are a major benefit of screen doors)
MTA has started to pay the price for procrastinating on the three-station pilot for platform screen doors, first announced in 2022. ny1.com/nyc/brooklyn...
MTA ordered to pay $81.7 million to woman struck by subway in Brooklyn
The jury determined that the MTA had failed to install safety barriers or other protective devices.
ny1.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The MTA is negligent in making no effort to install these, but massive jury verdicts are the worst way to do cost-benefit analyses. Platform screen doors are complex to retrofit, and the lack of them is tied to political pressure to never cut crew staffing (which are a major benefit of screen doors)
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Yes, HID headlights are very bright but the bigger problem is the proliferation of gargantuan vehicles with 5’+ hood heights so that if you’re driving a normal sized car their headlights are at your eye level rather than seat level like they’re supposed to be.
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Yes, HID headlights are very bright but the bigger problem is the proliferation of gargantuan vehicles with 5’+ hood heights so that if you’re driving a normal sized car their headlights are at your eye level rather than seat level like they’re supposed to be.
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In a span of barely five years, @opennewyork.org went from a band of ragtag volunteers to a professional organization driving a strong pro-housing agenda in Albany and New York City. If you aren't already involved, get involved!
www.onyeducation.org/membership/
www.onyeducation.org/membership/
Become a Member — Open New York Education Fund
www.onyeducation.org
November 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
In a span of barely five years, @opennewyork.org went from a band of ragtag volunteers to a professional organization driving a strong pro-housing agenda in Albany and New York City. If you aren't already involved, get involved!
www.onyeducation.org/membership/
www.onyeducation.org/membership/
I personally would love to eat chicken from a 3-D printer and frankly I wish the Democrats were as much in favor as the Republicans are opposed
Campbell's soup VP caught on tape trashing his own brand. Oof. www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2...
November 25, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I personally would love to eat chicken from a 3-D printer and frankly I wish the Democrats were as much in favor as the Republicans are opposed
This cover is making me happy
November 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
This cover is making me happy
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Great piece on how density restrictions in zoning are essentially BS.
November 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Great piece on how density restrictions in zoning are essentially BS.
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they literally hung obama in effigy and stormed the capitol when biden got elected
November 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
they literally hung obama in effigy and stormed the capitol when biden got elected
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Go to Denver and see all the new apartment construction downtown and on the airport line. Another clear yimby win!
Home prices are now falling in Denver on a YoY basis according to Case-Shiller:
November 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Go to Denver and see all the new apartment construction downtown and on the airport line. Another clear yimby win!
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To fight fascism we need opposition media with a backbone. 𝘓𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 is that. Help us grow our voice. www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
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November 24, 2025 at 11:10 AM
To fight fascism we need opposition media with a backbone. 𝘓𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 is that. Help us grow our voice. www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
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You know, now that I think about it most home cooks learn how to cook more like machine learning / LLM training than like uhhh the way we associate with human intelligence. You try thing and then it is either good or not and then you adjust behavior.
November 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
You know, now that I think about it most home cooks learn how to cook more like machine learning / LLM training than like uhhh the way we associate with human intelligence. You try thing and then it is either good or not and then you adjust behavior.
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the list of people who can be trusted with regime change is zero, because it's not something we should be doing at all, but somehow the current batch of idiots is at the bottom of that list anyway
I presume Foreign Affairs is not yet running my one-word rebuttal "don't"
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
How to Topple Maduro
And why regime change is the only way forward in Venezuela.
www.foreignaffairs.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:56 PM
the list of people who can be trusted with regime change is zero, because it's not something we should be doing at all, but somehow the current batch of idiots is at the bottom of that list anyway
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The idea that we get *less* migration from a destabilized Venezuela is madness.
Cracks me up how you could just replace Venezuela and Venezuelans with Iraq and Iraqis and it’d be indistinguishable from something written in 2002
November 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
The idea that we get *less* migration from a destabilized Venezuela is madness.
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I think entirely too much about how California’s climate plan explicitly says that converting to EVs is not nearly enough to meet our greenhouse gas reduction targets so we need to reduce VMT 25% by 2030, and then we do basically nothing to try to achieve that goal
November 22, 2025 at 2:48 AM
I think entirely too much about how California’s climate plan explicitly says that converting to EVs is not nearly enough to meet our greenhouse gas reduction targets so we need to reduce VMT 25% by 2030, and then we do basically nothing to try to achieve that goal
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I feel like evacuating a city of 14 million because they are going to run out of water should be a bigger story regardless of where it is.
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I feel like evacuating a city of 14 million because they are going to run out of water should be a bigger story regardless of where it is.
Market Street in Philadelphia has some gorgeous new raised bike lanes. Love it!
November 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Market Street in Philadelphia has some gorgeous new raised bike lanes. Love it!
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Cars are bad for cities, they're bad in lots of ways that widespread AV adoption won't help and could actually make worse.
You can make that argument without insisting on things that really aren't true!
You can make that argument without insisting on things that really aren't true!
November 20, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Cars are bad for cities, they're bad in lots of ways that widespread AV adoption won't help and could actually make worse.
You can make that argument without insisting on things that really aren't true!
You can make that argument without insisting on things that really aren't true!
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There are many good reasons to be wary of both this tech and this business model.
But almost all replies and QTs on this are focused on the risk of it hitting people, and I actually think the evidence is pretty clear at this point that Waymo's safety record is better than that of human drivers.
But almost all replies and QTs on this are focused on the risk of it hitting people, and I actually think the evidence is pretty clear at this point that Waymo's safety record is better than that of human drivers.
Waymo, the driverless ride-hailing company, is bringing its fleet of autonomous electric vehicles to Minneapolis.
Ridesharing without a driver? It's coming to Minneapolis
Testing will begin Thursday morning. No date has been set to start offering rides to passengers.
bit.ly
November 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
There are many good reasons to be wary of both this tech and this business model.
But almost all replies and QTs on this are focused on the risk of it hitting people, and I actually think the evidence is pretty clear at this point that Waymo's safety record is better than that of human drivers.
But almost all replies and QTs on this are focused on the risk of it hitting people, and I actually think the evidence is pretty clear at this point that Waymo's safety record is better than that of human drivers.
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Does this answer a few of those niggling questions that have been cropping up in your head too …?
@wanderinggaia.bsky.social
theconversation.com/how-the-rich...
@wanderinggaia.bsky.social
theconversation.com/how-the-rich...
How the rich world is fortifying itself against climate migration
Climate change is already linked to mass deportation – and the worst is still to come.
theconversation.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Does this answer a few of those niggling questions that have been cropping up in your head too …?
@wanderinggaia.bsky.social
theconversation.com/how-the-rich...
@wanderinggaia.bsky.social
theconversation.com/how-the-rich...
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Important comment from JAUNT CEO Mike Murphy during his informative presentation to council on Monday: transit works well when higher density housing exists. Transit policy is directly tied to housing policy.
Presentation here: meetings.cvilledata.org/meetings/cha...
Presentation here: meetings.cvilledata.org/meetings/cha...
November 20, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Important comment from JAUNT CEO Mike Murphy during his informative presentation to council on Monday: transit works well when higher density housing exists. Transit policy is directly tied to housing policy.
Presentation here: meetings.cvilledata.org/meetings/cha...
Presentation here: meetings.cvilledata.org/meetings/cha...
Truly, we live in the future
November 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Truly, we live in the future
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Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made.
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
November 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made.
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
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November 19, 2025 at 6:20 PM
"Investors"
The root of a lot of bad discourse is people conflating "this is good policy" and "this will help us win elections". They're separate questions! And frankly everyone should have a lower degree of certainty about the second one than they do.
November 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The root of a lot of bad discourse is people conflating "this is good policy" and "this will help us win elections". They're separate questions! And frankly everyone should have a lower degree of certainty about the second one than they do.
This is a very interesting thread
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
This is a very interesting thread