@ibikedhere.bsky.social
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"The larger it is, the more it pollutes" - Mayor of Paris
We need more local leaders prepared to speak out and take action on this literal growing threat
www.bbc.com/news/article...
We need more local leaders prepared to speak out and take action on this literal growing threat
www.bbc.com/news/article...
'Carspreading’ is on the rise - not everyone is happy
In the UK and across Europe, cars are becoming longer, wider and heavier.
www.bbc.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:39 PM
"The larger it is, the more it pollutes" - Mayor of Paris
We need more local leaders prepared to speak out and take action on this literal growing threat
www.bbc.com/news/article...
We need more local leaders prepared to speak out and take action on this literal growing threat
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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My oven is a pretty standard thing but it has this feature called "rapid preheat" where it will run both the broil and the bake elements together until it's within 50° of your target.
This feature is approximately 700X more useful and interesting than having it connected to the internet.
This feature is approximately 700X more useful and interesting than having it connected to the internet.
April 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
My oven is a pretty standard thing but it has this feature called "rapid preheat" where it will run both the broil and the bake elements together until it's within 50° of your target.
This feature is approximately 700X more useful and interesting than having it connected to the internet.
This feature is approximately 700X more useful and interesting than having it connected to the internet.
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29 bollards will be installed: 21 of them on the I-205 path and 8 on the I-84 path. The I-205 project boundaries are from SE Holgate to Crystal Springs Boulevard. On I-84 the bollards will go in between NE 122nd and NE 181st (in Gresham).
ODOT will spend $450,000 to keep drivers off paths
The number of people illegally driving cars on the 205 path and other paths in the region has increased in the past decade.
bikeportland.org
March 7, 2025 at 6:58 PM
29 bollards will be installed: 21 of them on the I-205 path and 8 on the I-84 path. The I-205 project boundaries are from SE Holgate to Crystal Springs Boulevard. On I-84 the bollards will go in between NE 122nd and NE 181st (in Gresham).
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I literally do this (transportation safety) for a living, my parents are proud and respect me for that, and yet I'm really really concerned about my ability to get my Dad to stop driving when he should (not that far off). This is going to be a massive challenge and shouldn't fall only to family.
Not just in Berkeley. Baby Boomers - a massive generation aging out of driving - are not going to give up the keys easily.
80+ year old drivers are as dangerous as 16-17 year old ones.
We really need to do something radically different in Berkeley.
We really need to do something radically different in Berkeley.
March 1, 2025 at 4:01 AM
I literally do this (transportation safety) for a living, my parents are proud and respect me for that, and yet I'm really really concerned about my ability to get my Dad to stop driving when he should (not that far off). This is going to be a massive challenge and shouldn't fall only to family.
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Data from 12 cities shows building protected bike lanes improves road safety. Data came from 2000-2012 & included PDX. Sadly, 2012 was also the pinnacle of PDX biking.
In 2015 PDX bike commute rate was 7%. 37 people died from traffic violence.
In 2023 bike commute rate was 1.1% and 74 people died
In 2015 PDX bike commute rate was 7%. 37 people died from traffic violence.
In 2023 bike commute rate was 1.1% and 74 people died
Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA
Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.
usa.streetsblog.org
February 26, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Data from 12 cities shows building protected bike lanes improves road safety. Data came from 2000-2012 & included PDX. Sadly, 2012 was also the pinnacle of PDX biking.
In 2015 PDX bike commute rate was 7%. 37 people died from traffic violence.
In 2023 bike commute rate was 1.1% and 74 people died
In 2015 PDX bike commute rate was 7%. 37 people died from traffic violence.
In 2023 bike commute rate was 1.1% and 74 people died
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Pedro Pascal responding to transphobia on social media: “I can’t think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.” (via @charliejane.bsky.social) [capitalfm.com]
Pedro Pascal calls out “vile and pathetic” transphobic trolls after defending trans rights
Pedro Pascal, whose sister Lux is a trans woman, is a prominent trans ally and he has no time for transphobia.
www.capitalfm.com
February 27, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Pedro Pascal responding to transphobia on social media: “I can’t think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.” (via @charliejane.bsky.social) [capitalfm.com]
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[ceo tossing and turning in bed] the air. the air they breathe should be a subscription service.
January 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
[ceo tossing and turning in bed] the air. the air they breathe should be a subscription service.
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I'm sure very few people know about this. Inmates in 43 states are charged a per diem cost for "room and board" ranging between $40 to hundreds of dollars. In some states you owe for every day of your original sentence EVEN IF YOU GET OUT EARLY.
www.welcometohellworld.com/there-is-no-...
www.welcometohellworld.com/there-is-no-...
February 23, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I'm sure very few people know about this. Inmates in 43 states are charged a per diem cost for "room and board" ranging between $40 to hundreds of dollars. In some states you owe for every day of your original sentence EVEN IF YOU GET OUT EARLY.
www.welcometohellworld.com/there-is-no-...
www.welcometohellworld.com/there-is-no-...
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Random sub-tweet. If your answer to mobility involves keeping poor/rural people dependent on buying cars and putting fuel in them, you're working for global Capital, not poor/rural people
September 6, 2024 at 6:03 PM
Random sub-tweet. If your answer to mobility involves keeping poor/rural people dependent on buying cars and putting fuel in them, you're working for global Capital, not poor/rural people
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this is absolutely right, it's a gleeful dehumanization that is both demonic and strategic
I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths
February 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
this is absolutely right, it's a gleeful dehumanization that is both demonic and strategic
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Trump’s fascists really don’t want you to see or share this video from Rep. @aoc.bsky.social’s Know Your Rights webinar.
February 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Trump’s fascists really don’t want you to see or share this video from Rep. @aoc.bsky.social’s Know Your Rights webinar.
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February 18, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Happy birthday to the most innovative and revolutionary musician of the 20th century. Yoko forever changed how artists perceive their own art and for decades now all art has been influenced by that change. If you've only heard abt her through Beatles "fans" shittalking her, watch this.
February 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Happy birthday to the most innovative and revolutionary musician of the 20th century. Yoko forever changed how artists perceive their own art and for decades now all art has been influenced by that change. If you've only heard abt her through Beatles "fans" shittalking her, watch this.
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I do not believe in any tech product where the devs want us to view it with some form of religious awe, a divine gift redefining human experience and bequeathing knowledge unto us humble land apes. I believe in a tech product where the devs are like “this is handy for planning breakfasts”
February 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I do not believe in any tech product where the devs want us to view it with some form of religious awe, a divine gift redefining human experience and bequeathing knowledge unto us humble land apes. I believe in a tech product where the devs are like “this is handy for planning breakfasts”
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Eric Adams is amazing because when he won every media person was leaping over each to go “this is the normal sane leadership that the political left doesn’t understand normal sane Americans crave” and then every day since that Eric Adams has been like “Leprechauns are real and I’m going to cook one”
August 14, 2023 at 4:43 PM
Eric Adams is amazing because when he won every media person was leaping over each to go “this is the normal sane leadership that the political left doesn’t understand normal sane Americans crave” and then every day since that Eric Adams has been like “Leprechauns are real and I’m going to cook one”
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HOT RESEARCH NEWS!
Motonormativity ("car brain") is a bias that stops people making rational judgements about driving en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motonor...
Our new study shows where this bias comes from AND how it makes people think they're odd for supporting changes to the transport system 🧵
Motonormativity ("car brain") is a bias that stops people making rational judgements about driving en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motonor...
Our new study shows where this bias comes from AND how it makes people think they're odd for supporting changes to the transport system 🧵
February 17, 2025 at 7:45 AM
HOT RESEARCH NEWS!
Motonormativity ("car brain") is a bias that stops people making rational judgements about driving en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motonor...
Our new study shows where this bias comes from AND how it makes people think they're odd for supporting changes to the transport system 🧵
Motonormativity ("car brain") is a bias that stops people making rational judgements about driving en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motonor...
Our new study shows where this bias comes from AND how it makes people think they're odd for supporting changes to the transport system 🧵
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This new Trump Dept of Ed letter is so vaguely and tendentiously written that it can be plausibly interpreted as banning Black Student Unions.
And colleges are supposed to comply with it within fourteen days. Of yesterday.
And colleges are supposed to comply with it within fourteen days. Of yesterday.
soon enough, the mere presence of black and latino students on campus will be illegal racial discrimination against white students www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...
Trump admin threatens to rescind federal funds over DEI
In a sweeping and unprecedented letter issued over the weekend, the Office for Civil Rights declared race-based scholarships, cultural centers and even graduation ceremonies illegal.
www.insidehighered.com
February 16, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This new Trump Dept of Ed letter is so vaguely and tendentiously written that it can be plausibly interpreted as banning Black Student Unions.
And colleges are supposed to comply with it within fourteen days. Of yesterday.
And colleges are supposed to comply with it within fourteen days. Of yesterday.
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This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com
At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...
clarksvillenow.com
February 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
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As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that ***refraining from provoking the authoritarian*** is not how it works.
Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.
Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.
"activist leaders have told him and colleagues that they fear protests against Trump might eventually be used as a predicate for declaring martial law. Other House Democrats echoed this privately"
Something something in advance
www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...
Something something in advance
www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...
Democrats confront their powerlessness as Trump flexes authority | CNN Politics
Amid Democrats’ shock and bickering over how much to respond to President Donald Trump is a deeper question rippling through leaders across the Capitol and across the country: How much should they rel...
www.cnn.com
February 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that ***refraining from provoking the authoritarian*** is not how it works.
Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.
Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.
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"These emissions are largely unregulated by legislation and the study found that these 'non-exhaust' pollution sources are now responsible for the majority of vehicle particulate matter emissions in the UK and parts of Europe, with brake dust the main contributor among them."
Brake pad dust can be more toxic than exhaust emissions, study says
Research shows move to electric vehicles may not be enough to enable pollution from cars to be eradicated
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
"These emissions are largely unregulated by legislation and the study found that these 'non-exhaust' pollution sources are now responsible for the majority of vehicle particulate matter emissions in the UK and parts of Europe, with brake dust the main contributor among them."
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Life hack: Go to your local bike shop and buy a new or used bicycle. Put fenders, rack, and panniers on it. Ride it for every commute under five miles. Groceries, arends, everything. Keep at it.
February 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Life hack: Go to your local bike shop and buy a new or used bicycle. Put fenders, rack, and panniers on it. Ride it for every commute under five miles. Groceries, arends, everything. Keep at it.
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the idea that these tech guys are opposed to "government waste" is so completely fucking ridiculous. they feast on government waste. DOD budgets are a bloated mess. the pentagon has failed 7 straight audits. the big beneficiaries are tech companies providing defense services.
February 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
the idea that these tech guys are opposed to "government waste" is so completely fucking ridiculous. they feast on government waste. DOD budgets are a bloated mess. the pentagon has failed 7 straight audits. the big beneficiaries are tech companies providing defense services.
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He’d be the first bike bus leader elected to office in Portland.
Great to see Rob Galanakis has launched his campaign for a seat on Portland Public School board. I know Rob from local advocacy circles, bike bus stuff, and Bike Happy Hour. He's whip smart & thoughtful & has been a leader in his community for years.
www.robgforpps.com
Also has a rad logo!
www.robgforpps.com
Also has a rad logo!
February 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
He’d be the first bike bus leader elected to office in Portland.
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If you needed something positive today, here it is.
February 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
If you needed something positive today, here it is.