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@barneyretina.bsky.social

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Chief dimwit at reddit.com/r/fuckyourheadlights Blindingly bright headlights are causing incalculable numbers of accidents and deaths every night. We need safe limits on brightness/intensity. linktr.ee/barneyretina

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anti-blinding-headlight advocate @barneyretina.bsky.social · Jan 23

A user of the anti-blinding-headlight advocacy group at reddit.com/r/fuckyourheadlights tested headlight brightness on multiple vehicles in order to figure out what's going on with regulations and adherence to them.

Here's a 4-part infographic with key findings:

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anti-blinding-headlight advocate @barneyretina.bsky.social · 17h

I'm in the market for this

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 10d

is there any nation or jurisdiction in which vehicle headlight brightness is regulated?

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John Fralloween @johndavidfraley.bsky.social · 1d

Here's how we avert civil war:

• blue states secede
• blue states immediately ban LED headlights
• everyone moves to blue states
• red states empty
• no war

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anti-blinding-headlight advocate @barneyretina.bsky.social · 16d

this fucking guy

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Fell Hound @fellhound.bsky.social · 19d

It is time we reunited humanity over a common enemy and I think that enemy should be people who use blinding LED headlights when night driving.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 17d

@clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social is a dear friend of mine and a civil litigator who has dedicated her life to doing good for the world.

She is being sued by a hateful troll for a thread she wrote on Twitter, which she had every legal right to post.

PLEASE if you can spare it help her out.

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 19d

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Donate to GoFundMe If You Like Me: I Got Sued for Tweeting, organized by Detective Pikajew

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Cindie Pal Boo 👻 @cindiepalcru.bsky.social · Aug 9

If you are a podcast person you might like this ep about headlights, it was enlightening (!). And because this is bsky, if you don’t like podcasts or someone already suggested it, please accept my sincerest apologies. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

The Glaring Problem with Headlights

Podcast Episode · Decoder Ring · 05/21/2025 · 46m

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · Aug 28

Frankly, I don't see how FSD is legal in the first place. It's not certified or approved by anyone. It's no different than if I was selling people a fake autonomous driving upgrade that I falsely described as "full self-driving" and which was programmed to manipulate/destroy data in crashes.

Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · Aug 28

Tesla FSD turns off more US consumers than it attracts according to an August survey of 8,000 respondents by Slingshot. And about half of those surveyed think FSD should *be illegal* the way its advertised and works now.... www.cnbc.com/2025/08/28/t...

Tesla FSD turns off more U.S. consumers than its attracts, survey finds

Despite Elon Musk's exhaustive promotion of Tesla's FSD technology, U.S. consumers don't seem to want it.

www.cnbc.com

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🎃 Robyn 🎃 @ramblyngrobyn.bsky.social · Aug 25

Here's my pet issues I wanna see a politician run on:
- banning LED headlights
- getting stores to stop locking up shit like shampoo
- throwing up on Jesse Watters
- socializing Google

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anti-blinding-headlight advocate @barneyretina.bsky.social · Aug 23

Side point: adaptive headlight technology. Would save lives if engineered to only be active when the high beams are manually triggered, thus mitigating misuse of high beams. Instead, it's being pushed as a panacea for all headlight related issues

☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · Aug 23

appreciating the miracles of modern technology while still understanding its limitations is one of the most important modern skills one can cultivate

the "that's cool" to "that can do anything" pipeline has been weaponized, but it's not enough to just retreat to the safety of "actually, it sucks"

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Aug 18

Referring to crashes as “accidents” or claiming that “speed wasn’t a factor” in a crash, are not random language choices. They’re the result of PR campaigns. Listen to this really important interview with @grantennis.bsky.social by @brooklynspoke.bsky.social @thewaroncars.bsky.social on “Dark PR.”

Dark PR with Grant Ennis

YouTube video by The War on Cars

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anti-blinding-headlight advocate @barneyretina.bsky.social · Aug 7

Wouldn't regulations on intensity be more sensible than mandating multi-thousand-dollar proprietary systems with equally expensive maintenance requirements?

anti-blinding-headlight advocate @barneyretina.bsky.social · Aug 7

Oh this is *interesting*

anti-blinding-headlight advocate @barneyretina.bsky.social · Aug 7

TBF they don't even work on time, it's not a panacea

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snowbringer.bsky.social @snowbringer.bsky.social · Aug 2

LED headlights that blind oncoming pedestrians should be illegal.

Usually I'm complaining about them on trucks, but I still have a blind spot an hour later from the damn e-bike with the offending blinding light this time.

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anti-blinding-headlight advocate @barneyretina.bsky.social · Aug 7

Join us
reddit.com/r/fuckyourheadlights

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Soft Lights Foundation @softlights-org.bsky.social · Aug 7

Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez's efforts on blinding LED headlights was covered in Time.

time.com/7305954/brig...

Lights Are Brighter Than Ever. Is That Bad for Your Eyes?

If you're sensitive to bright artificial lights, take these precautions to protect your vision.

time.com

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Fourth Crown War FPV Drone Operator 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · Aug 7

specialised experts in specific fields love technocracy as an idea for obvious reasons but one thing they miss is that quite frankly they are not infallible and they huff the fumes of their echo chambers and the public asking them "but are you sure it works like this" is actually normal

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baa @baa.bsky.social · Aug 6

your brain is a muscle and if you offload the stuff your meat computer is supposed to do to a sand computer it’s gonna make you extra dumb and not in a sexy way

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Rebecca @rebeccawrites.bsky.social · Aug 5

Not me deliberately driving slow so the jerk behind me who’s blinding my rear view mirror with their LED headlights will get annoyed and pull out to pass me.

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J Leep @jleep86.blacksky.app · Jul 19

1,200 lumens increasing to 12,000 lumens is CRAZY.

LED headlights are out of control.

And yes I know about lighting.

I've been in the lighting industry since 2004. I've been designing LED fixtures since 2008.

Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez @gluesenkampperez.house.gov · Jul 18

If there's one thing Democrats & Republicans agree on, it's that headlights are too damn bright.

Brightness doubled in the last decade, yet standards are from before I was born.

My amendment passed to find solutions bc it's not a binary choice between the light of 1,000 suns & driving in the dark.

If there's anything Democrats and Republicans can agree on, it's that headlights are too damn bright

YouTube video by Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez

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anti-blinding-headlight advocate @barneyretina.bsky.social · Aug 2

As for 2, you're not alone in thinking that.
reddit.com/r/fuckyourhe...

Unreasonably bright headlights are a scourge

Blinded by those ultra-bright low beams? Join the club. It's not just aftermarket bulbs and misalignment: most new OEM lights pose a threat. Excessively bright headlights impair the vision and visib...

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The Only Roo @freeroo.blacksky.app · Jul 24

LED lighting is great in the home and terrible in headlights. At night it obscures the vision of other drivers. I want headlights to be less bright.

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Kay And Skittles @kayandskittles.bsky.social · Jul 26

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

Tu Thanh Ha @tuthanhha.bsky.social · Jul 26

“Wikipedia is this economic anomaly. In many ways, it’s sort of magical that people will just volunteer without explicit economic incentives to create artifacts that are meant to share knowledge with everyone in the world”

The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · Jul 26

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Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez @gluesenkampperez.house.gov · Jul 26

MGP’s amendment to investigate overly bright headlights passes House Appropriations Committee - The Daily Chronicle

An amendment to the 2026 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill by U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Skamania, recently passed the House …

www.chronline.com

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