@veloben.bsky.social
Librarian, partner, dog person, touring/utility/road cyclist (in that order), maker of useful things like bicycle trailers, organizer, CERT member, hiker, generally helpful.
Build useful things.
Is he dead yet?
Build useful things.
Is he dead yet?
“It’s tempting to roll one’s eyes at women who are shocked, shocked to discover sexism in a political party led by Donald Trump. But it’s a sign of progress that these women are not responding as Schlafly did…”
This may be GOP progress, but woefully behind the Left.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...
This may be GOP progress, but woefully behind the Left.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...
Opinion | Republican Women Suddenly Realize They’re Surrounded by Misogynists
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
“It’s tempting to roll one’s eyes at women who are shocked, shocked to discover sexism in a political party led by Donald Trump. But it’s a sign of progress that these women are not responding as Schlafly did…”
This may be GOP progress, but woefully behind the Left.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...
This may be GOP progress, but woefully behind the Left.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...
Walk. Bike.
Actual footage of the air quality due to idling vehicles in the school drop-off line.
December 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Walk. Bike.
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Look how many people biked to the OHSU tram in the rain! It's not a big deal. Just add a layer! 🧥🧤🥾 This is the largest bike valet in the North America! And it is FREE! www.gobybikepdx.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Look how many people biked to the OHSU tram in the rain! It's not a big deal. Just add a layer! 🧥🧤🥾 This is the largest bike valet in the North America! And it is FREE! www.gobybikepdx.com
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Walkable/bikeable communities support health & movement.
I’ve been active at least 316 days so far this year and have a 181 week streak. 🤯
I don’t have a work commute (bc I work remote).
I just walk and bike for transportation (& mental health).
I’ve been active at least 316 days so far this year and have a 181 week streak. 🤯
I don’t have a work commute (bc I work remote).
I just walk and bike for transportation (& mental health).
December 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Walkable/bikeable communities support health & movement.
I’ve been active at least 316 days so far this year and have a 181 week streak. 🤯
I don’t have a work commute (bc I work remote).
I just walk and bike for transportation (& mental health).
I’ve been active at least 316 days so far this year and have a 181 week streak. 🤯
I don’t have a work commute (bc I work remote).
I just walk and bike for transportation (& mental health).
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🏠Hempstead Animal Shelter
☎️(516) 785-5220
📍3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
💻[email protected]
Will MELIA get her happily ever after? She doesn't want to spend another Christmas in the shelter. 😢 Santa claus must have a special someone for her.
24petconnect.com/DetailsMain/...
☎️(516) 785-5220
📍3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
💻[email protected]
Will MELIA get her happily ever after? She doesn't want to spend another Christmas in the shelter. 😢 Santa claus must have a special someone for her.
24petconnect.com/DetailsMain/...
December 9, 2025 at 6:26 PM
🏠Hempstead Animal Shelter
☎️(516) 785-5220
📍3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
💻[email protected]
Will MELIA get her happily ever after? She doesn't want to spend another Christmas in the shelter. 😢 Santa claus must have a special someone for her.
24petconnect.com/DetailsMain/...
☎️(516) 785-5220
📍3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
💻[email protected]
Will MELIA get her happily ever after? She doesn't want to spend another Christmas in the shelter. 😢 Santa claus must have a special someone for her.
24petconnect.com/DetailsMain/...
Republicans want you dead. That’s their policy. Everything else is icing.
Ossoff: "This is so much deeper than the politics. What does it say about the moral condition of this Congress that the thing that has them all tied up in knots is a very simple question: Should people's health insurance premiums go up double or triple? This is a policy choice."
December 9, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Republicans want you dead. That’s their policy. Everything else is icing.
Has Trump changed his bronzer shade to industrial grade because his natural skin color has gotten more cadaverous?
December 9, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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“Our overall conclusion is that congestion pricing in New York City, like many other cities in the world that have implemented it, helped not only improve traffic, but also helped reduce air pollutant concentration, improve air quality and should be good for public health.”
In the first six months of congestion pricing, air pollution within Manhattan's toll zone dropped 25%.
Pollution fell across the five boroughs and in the suburbs, too. A clean air win all around.
Pollution fell across the five boroughs and in the suburbs, too. A clean air win all around.
Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs | Cornell Chronicle
Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s fiv...
news.cornell.edu
December 9, 2025 at 12:35 PM
“Our overall conclusion is that congestion pricing in New York City, like many other cities in the world that have implemented it, helped not only improve traffic, but also helped reduce air pollutant concentration, improve air quality and should be good for public health.”
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The magenta indicates where this 500mb Arctic block reaches record heights this weekend.
Graphic via @burgwx.bsky.social
Graphic via @burgwx.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The magenta indicates where this 500mb Arctic block reaches record heights this weekend.
Graphic via @burgwx.bsky.social
Graphic via @burgwx.bsky.social
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An ICE agent has been arrested for putting a woman in a chokehold and causing “serious physical harm”
Police said they had been called to the residence 22 times
It’s time we talk about what kind of men are attracted to being ICE agents
Hint: It’s men who would strangle a woman
Police said they had been called to the residence 22 times
It’s time we talk about what kind of men are attracted to being ICE agents
Hint: It’s men who would strangle a woman
ICE agent arrested, held on ‘no bond’ order at prosecutor’s request
Samuel Saxon is charged with felonious assault, strangulation and domestic violence.He pleaded not guilty to all counts.
www.cincinnati.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:25 AM
An ICE agent has been arrested for putting a woman in a chokehold and causing “serious physical harm”
Police said they had been called to the residence 22 times
It’s time we talk about what kind of men are attracted to being ICE agents
Hint: It’s men who would strangle a woman
Police said they had been called to the residence 22 times
It’s time we talk about what kind of men are attracted to being ICE agents
Hint: It’s men who would strangle a woman
December 9, 2025 at 4:19 AM
So will P Bondi actually pay attention to this fake or is this just another grift? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/n...
Alina Habba, a Trump Loyalist, Resigns as New Jersey’s Top Prosecutor
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:09 AM
So will P Bondi actually pay attention to this fake or is this just another grift? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/n...
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This.
I’m so grateful to be in community with so many neighbors & caregivers at my kids’ public school to help organize around keeping families safe as they get to/from school, but so upset that this is the reality we live in.
We keep us safe.
I’m so grateful to be in community with so many neighbors & caregivers at my kids’ public school to help organize around keeping families safe as they get to/from school, but so upset that this is the reality we live in.
We keep us safe.
In a functioning society parents wouldn’t need to organize volunteer guard shifts at their kids’ immigrant-run daycare to prevent the federal government from abducting teachers and staff because they’re brown but that’s where we are now.
My first shift starts Wednesday afternoon.
Fuck ICE.
My first shift starts Wednesday afternoon.
Fuck ICE.
December 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
This.
I’m so grateful to be in community with so many neighbors & caregivers at my kids’ public school to help organize around keeping families safe as they get to/from school, but so upset that this is the reality we live in.
We keep us safe.
I’m so grateful to be in community with so many neighbors & caregivers at my kids’ public school to help organize around keeping families safe as they get to/from school, but so upset that this is the reality we live in.
We keep us safe.
Well of course. The plan was we’d be on Mars by now or dead. Mostly dead.
Consumer Reports ranks Teslas as the least reliable used cars. "The best of the worst [ten] was Chevrolet at a score of 40. But Tesla makes that failing grade seem respectable with its absolute rock bottom rating of 31, trailing Jeep by just one point.” futurism.com/advanced-tra...
Old Teslas Are Falling Apart
On Consumer Reports' latest ranking of used car reliability, Tesla came in dead last with a rating not even half of the top placed brand.
futurism.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Well of course. The plan was we’d be on Mars by now or dead. Mostly dead.
E assist bikes do even better.
EVs beat petrol cars on lifetime emissions — even on “dirty” grids.
Battery production is carbon-intensive, but EVs quickly repay that debt and end up 21–71% cleaner over 250,000 km.
We can’t wait for perfect grids: electrify transport and clean the grid now.
Battery production is carbon-intensive, but EVs quickly repay that debt and end up 21–71% cleaner over 250,000 km.
We can’t wait for perfect grids: electrify transport and clean the grid now.
December 9, 2025 at 3:31 AM
E assist bikes do even better.
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9 December 1885 | Jewish man, Tanchum Arsch, was born in the Russian Empire (today Jēkabpils in Latvia). In 1914 he emigrated to Norway. A watchmaker.
He arrived at on 1 December 1942 and was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
He arrived at on 1 December 1942 and was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
December 9, 2025 at 3:00 AM
9 December 1885 | Jewish man, Tanchum Arsch, was born in the Russian Empire (today Jēkabpils in Latvia). In 1914 he emigrated to Norway. A watchmaker.
He arrived at on 1 December 1942 and was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
He arrived at on 1 December 1942 and was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
Be a true patriot and consume a billionaire.
December 7, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Be a true patriot and consume a billionaire.
What a wonder of bigly sadness is trump. So easily played. So easy to distract.
#republicanswantyoudead trump is just a means to that end.
#republicanswantyoudead trump is just a means to that end.
This will be remembered as the most pathetic moment in American history. What a needy fool.
December 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
What a wonder of bigly sadness is trump. So easily played. So easy to distract.
#republicanswantyoudead trump is just a means to that end.
#republicanswantyoudead trump is just a means to that end.
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I AM VERY PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THAT I HAVE BEEN AWARDED THE WORLD HOPSCOTCH LEAGUE PEACE PRICE
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THE MATTER
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THE MATTER
December 5, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I AM VERY PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THAT I HAVE BEEN AWARDED THE WORLD HOPSCOTCH LEAGUE PEACE PRICE
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THE MATTER
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THE MATTER
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How does global warming cause colder winter storms? whowhatwhy.org/2019/11/23/t...
The Paradox of Global Warming and Colder Winters - WhoWhatWhy
If the cold weather makes it harder for you to argue with climate change deniers about the existence of global warming, this story is for you.
whowhatwhy.org
December 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
How does global warming cause colder winter storms? whowhatwhy.org/2019/11/23/t...
December 6, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Happy second day of Zappadan!
December 6, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Happy second day of Zappadan!
Over the last decade, batteries have helped Chile use less coal. Last December, the country got more than 40 percent of its electricity from solar panels and wind turbines, up from 19 percent five years earlier...
You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/b...
You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/b...
Once a Gamble in the Desert, Electric Grid Batteries Are Everywhere
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Over the last decade, batteries have helped Chile use less coal. Last December, the country got more than 40 percent of its electricity from solar panels and wind turbines, up from 19 percent five years earlier...
You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/b...
You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/b...