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Aaron Greiner @aarongreiner.bsky.social · 3d

All the transit I took while traveling for 2.5 weeks in Europe by the numbers.

🚌 Busses: 11
🚋 Trams: 8
🚈 Light metros: 4
🚇 Metros: 15
🚄 Trains: 14
⛴️ Ferries: 4
🚡 Aerial ropeways: 1

Photo collage of trains, buses, ferries, and metros.

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Aaron Greiner @aarongreiner.bsky.social · 13d

Dream collab!!!

StreetsblogMASS @mass.streetsblog.org · 13d

@ridecargob.bsky.social to Bring Cargo Bike Rentals to @mbta.com Transit Stations - mass.streetsblog.org/2025/09/25/c...

CargoB to Rent Cargo Bikes From Transit Stations In Partnership With MBTA - Streetsblog Massachusetts

The following is an edited version of a press release from CargoB. CargoB, a privately-owned rental service for electric pedal-assist cargo bikes, today announced a new partnership with the MBTA to ma...

mass.streetsblog.org

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14d

Honestly, a really good article.

It's not just Fox News and MAGA that have made it hell for trans people in recent years.

It's some of the "liberal" news outlets and centrist publications that made this possible too.

Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 14d

Wrote for @thenation.com about the complicity of some liberal politicians and pundits in the conservative campaign to exterminate trans people www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The Right Wants to Exterminate Trans People. Liberals Are Helping.

After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the conservative movement has accelerated its war against trans people. And too many centrist Democrats have kept up their trans bashing.

www.thenation.com

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13d

In the wake of Charlie Kirk's death, the far-right, led by the Trump administration, has doubled its efforts to crackdown on transgender people.

My latest article in The Guardian.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Transgender Americans are seeing a wave of hate unleashed by Charlie Kirk’s killing | Erin Reed

In the aftermath of Kirk’s death, the far-right and Trump administration have turned up attacks on transgender people

www.theguardian.com

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Aaron Greiner @aarongreiner.bsky.social · 27d

If you city hall parking lot looks like this, you’re doing something right.

Paul @pawlbologna.bsky.social · 27d

Lotta bikes here

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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · Sep 3

Is there anything better than a project that improves transit and cycling?

Montreal’s sustainable mobility corridors (“corridors de mobilité durable”), like here on Henri-Bourassa, are transforming arterial roads with bus lanes *and* protected bike lanes at the same time.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · Aug 30

I’m just saying that when it happens I’m jumping out of bed, running to my window, and tossing a coin to a boy to buy the biggest goose in town

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · Aug 30

Old Soviet joke for today:

A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.

After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”

“I’m looking for the obituaries.”

“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”

“Not the one I’m looking for.”

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Brooke Moss @brookem.dev · Aug 28

RAHHHHHH what the hell is this train of logic

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🎃 Pumpkin Spice Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · Aug 28

I am going to become the joker

Screenshot of a tweet from Elon musk reading:

Lidar and radar reduce safety due to sensor contention. If lidars/radars disagree with cameras, which one wins This sensor ambiguity causes increased, not decreased, risk. That's why Waymos can't drive on highways.

We turned off the radars in Teslas to increase safety. Cameras ftw.

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Aaron Greiner @aarongreiner.bsky.social · Aug 12

A big day Boston and also a big day for my chances of going out in Dorchester.

Jonathan Berk 🏠 @berkie1.bsky.social · Aug 12

🚨 MBTA to extend evening service by 1-hour on Friday & Saturday nights

“We know that there are so many people that rely on mass transportation beyond our normal service hours that we felt like this was a good opportunity to offer that to our riders.” - GM Phil Eng

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · Aug 16

They say this like it's a bad thing:

"Peter Cheung isn’t just a cyclist. He’s the city’s most notorious bike crusader, the Lycra-clad zealot who cheered Wu into a full-blown war on cars."

Meet the Man Driving Boston’s War on Cars

Boston’s most notorious cyclist in uniform — while drivers fight traffic, he pedals his way to influence at City Hall.

www.massdailynews.com

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Peter Cheung @bostonaruban.bsky.social · Aug 16

Looks Like I'm Boston Drivers Most Hated Bicyclist.
www.massdailynews.com/2025/08/16/m...

Meet the Man Driving Boston’s War on Cars

Boston’s most notorious cyclist in uniform — while drivers fight traffic, he pedals his way to influence at City Hall.

www.massdailynews.com

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Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️ @shoshana.bsky.social · Aug 3

People will be like "I would do anything for my kids!" right up until you suggest creating a walkable, bike-able community where kids can safely get around on their own

Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · Aug 3

People will be like "I would do anything for my kids!!!" right up until you suggest dropping the speed limit to 20mph.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jul 30

goddamn this guy is good

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Jul 30

Mamdani: I would say that for the former governor to have spent an entire day speaking almost exclusively about me and barely about the New Yorkers who have been killed is indicative of the very politics New Yorkers want to leave in the past.

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Brooke Moss @brookem.dev · Jul 26

Yeah I just figured they've been doing the rotating host thing long enough I swear I'd seen him host, it was so natural!

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Brooke Moss @brookem.dev · Jul 26

Wait a second.... Has he not hosted yet??

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Brooke Moss @brookem.dev · Jul 23

Hell yes, thank you 🫶

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Brooke Moss @brookem.dev · Jul 23

So sad I couldn't make it, but it wasn't really prudent of me to attend when I had a rowing race the next morning....

Any chance it'll happen again one day? 🥺

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Brooke Moss @brookem.dev · Jul 18

Ooh I like!!

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · Jul 18

CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery.

America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.

Watch and share his message.

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Brooke Moss @brookem.dev · Jul 5

I saw another one either on 495 North or 95 North on my way to Maine (can't remember exactly where)

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Brooke Moss @brookem.dev · Jul 5

Yesssss

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Aaron Greiner @aarongreiner.bsky.social · Jun 26

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🎃 Pumpkin Spice Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · Jun 17

I do not want it, Sam-alt-man!

Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · Jun 17

I do not want AI in Slack. I do not want AI in Google. I do not want AI on Facebook. I do not want AI in documents or spreadsheets. I do not want AI in Adobe Acrobat. I do not want AI in Zoom. I do not want AI on news sites. I do not want AI in the patient portal for my doctor's office. I do not wan

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