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Søren Have @sorenhave.dk · 18d

Much recommended ‘lecture’ on urban mobility and its companion, land use planning.

Love how Brent several times stress the need to call out status quo bias, eg by highlighting that people calling for ‘balance’ in really just want status quo. Which is not fair, but just what we have gotten used to.

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Aug 22

WATCH THIS: This is quite possibly still the most comprehensive interview I’ve ever done on smart urban transportation for better cities. Filmed in Vienna for a planned Paris-based documentary. Watch it, quote it, and please help spread it around. Thanks!

Brent Toderian on sustainable mobility

YouTube video by opascaud

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 11h

Marjorie Taylor Greene : "Prices have not come down at all. The job market is extremely difficult. Wages have not gone up. Health insurance premiums are going to go up. Homeowner's insurance goes up every year. Rent is going up. Young people have no hope of buying a home."

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 9h

If cars are so bad for our health, our cities and the planet, why can’t we quit them? Three new books argue it’s time to really try.

‘Car Brain’ Is Making the US Unhealthy and Dangerous. EVs Won’t Fix It.

A trio of new books argue that we need to confront the full range of costs that car-based living has imposed on our cities, our health and our society.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9h

Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th”

👉👉 nokings.org

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 11h

ONE WEEK FROM TODAY: Make your voices heard. Join us in a peaceful protest across our country against the most corrupt, deceitful & criminal Administration in U.S. History. We say NO KINGS, NO CROOKS, NO SPRAY-TAN CONMAN! 👎

Check for a location near you at: www.nokings.org

#BeThere 👍

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 20h

It may be the last legal protest you attend.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22h

Georgia O'Keeffe, Lake George Reflection, 1921 #WomensArt

Painting of a hilly landscape reflected in still water in colours of purple green and blue

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 22h

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 22h

For my mind, anyone saying that a new road or adding capacity to a junction will "unlock thousands of new homes" needs to be very stringently asked "how".

Linking a road scheme as necessary to unlocking land for housebuilding should be a huge red flag for the media to probe.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library’s children and young adult sections was awarded $700,000 in a settlement on Wednesday.

Librarian Fired in Books Dispute to Receive $700,000 Settlement

County officials in Wyoming fired Terri Lesley, a library director, after she refused to purge children and young adult books that contained sexual content and L.G.B.T.Q. themes.

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SFU Urban Studies @sfuurb.bsky.social · 4d

Join the Bruntletts for their book launch, "Women Changing Cities", an inspiring evening exploring how women are reshaping cities into more inclusive, sustainable & people-focused places.
Thursday (7-9 PM)
Challenge Theatre, SFU Harbour Centre
RSVP: tinyurl.com/7cspv5aa
#sfuurb @sfufass.bsky.social

Book Launch - Women Changing Cities: Global Stories of Urban Transformation

A Week of Learning with the Bruntletts: Dutch Practices of Active Transportation Planning

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 3d

Saw an ancient woodland up for sale with someone saying it should be bought and restored. Somebody else was offering to pay for it.

Three years in and the restoration is coming along nicely, with an army of local regular volunteers all also mostly found through social media. 🫡

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 4d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Scott Urban @urbanturbo.bsky.social · 3d

The opposite of FMS is “Email the transport portfolio holder in your local authority” (and CC your councillors)! 🖐🏼

When I cycled past the flower lane, there were 3 cyclists, and a cargo bike very smoothly turning in both directions from and onto Howard street new layout
works! Is there a platform that is the opposite of "fix my street" ??
One where we can send appreciation for what does work!!

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Scott Urban @urbanturbo.bsky.social · 3d

And today. 2/

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Scott Urban @urbanturbo.bsky.social · 3d

Celebrate your wins! Here’s “Flower Lane”, a popular bit of permeability in OX4. The photo is 2024, showing how unfriendly the approach is for anyone using it. 1/

Cars block access to a pedestrian and cycling cut-through.

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚 @emilykerr36.bsky.social · 4d

Excited that the Oxford Congestion Charge means that the 3/3A will now run to the station!! Amongst a whole host of other bus improvements.

Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 4d

Oxford Bus Co has announced more frequent bus services from November to coincide with the congestion charge coming into effect. The improvements mean Blackbird Leys and Cowley will have services to the city centre every 10 minutes, while Iffley Road gets a new night bus.

Oxford Bus Company 300 stops off for a quick half at the Wetherspoons

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Nathan Ley @nathanley.com · 4d

Amazing what you can do when you show some bottle and introduce a tough policy which reaps a dividend later (rather than folding under the slightest pressure, like Oxford East's MP)

Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 4d

Park & Ride bus journeys will be free when Oxford’s congestion charge comes into effect on 29 October. Holders of P&R parking tickets will be entitled to catch any Stagecoach or Oxford Bus Co service from the sites, not just the P&R-branded ones. news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/free-park-an...

Free park and ride bus travel with temporary congestion charge

Oxfordshire County Council is providing free park and ride bus journeys in Oxford for an initial period of three months from 29 October, when the city’s temporary congestion charge scheme starts. The ...

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 6d

No indication yet from major media that the FBI has any interest whatsoever in investigating this apparent attempted assassination of a well-known judge openly targeted on social media by the far-right activist—Harmeet Dhillon—currently calling herself Assistant Attorney General of the United States

Beachfront home of South Carolina judge, ex-senator burned to ground, injuring 3

Ex-senator Arnold Goodstein, along with two additional people, were rescued by several neighbors and paramedics from a marshy, remote area behind the home after jumping from the fist floor.

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Will Norman @willnorman.co.uk · 5d

Good News: we've started construction work on the permanent Cycleway 4 extension from Charlton to Woolwich🚲🚲🚲

Cycleway 4 will run from Plumstead right into London Bridge enabling 1000s of people to safely cycle through Greenwich, Lewisham & Southwark in South East London.

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚 @emilykerr36.bsky.social · 6d

Delighted to be back on BBC Politics South this morning talking Digital ID, Green Party Conference, and pharmacies.

Just watched it with the kids: the “which animal is your party” was definitely their favourite feature.

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Me in the BBC studio with 3 others guests and presenter Peter Henley, who is soon retiring! Job applications still open. :)

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Scott Urban @urbanturbo.bsky.social · 6d

Been listening to audiobook of The Big Short. It’s been a while hasn’t it?

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 6d

The AI doomsayers are warning of a bubble, but—at least for now—that doesn't seem to matter to AI’s biggest investors, Will Gottsegen writes in The Atlantic Daily.

The AI Money Vortex

OpenAI is worth $500 billion now. What are its investors getting back?

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 8d

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

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Meghan Humphreys @ormeghan.bsky.social · 10d

I preordered mine a while back on Bookshop.org! Cars cost an average of $12,000 a year to operate and I want a better life for us all than being dependent on a car for daily transportation!

The cover of Life After Cars, which looks like a yellow street sign with vines growing around a traffic signal

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 9d

When it comes to better leadership for better city-building, here’s a simple piece of advice that sounds obvious, but still needs to be said as often as possible.

Make the good things that you say you want easy, and the bad things that you say you don’t want hard, instead of the other way around.

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