Scott Hand
@artifactscott.bsky.social
Cincinnati<Ohio<Midwest
Branding @ artifactbeer.com
Station Manager @ radioartifact.com
Arts and sustainability Architect http://trilobitedesign.com
Painting/design/construction/acoustics/bicycles/urbanism
(he/him)
Branding @ artifactbeer.com
Station Manager @ radioartifact.com
Arts and sustainability Architect http://trilobitedesign.com
Painting/design/construction/acoustics/bicycles/urbanism
(he/him)
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YIMBY-haters (myself included sometimes) in shambles over this chart, it’s like a 1:1 relationship between building housing and cost of housing. also fuck, Indy is in a league of its own here (derogatory)
Kinda feels like the big issue here is the Will lives on one of the only metros in the country that addressed its impending housing crisis last decade
November 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
YIMBY-haters (myself included sometimes) in shambles over this chart, it’s like a 1:1 relationship between building housing and cost of housing. also fuck, Indy is in a league of its own here (derogatory)
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READ: If you care about how we’ve been “planning” our cities and suburbs, this is REALLY important.
I’ve been saying this in ways for years now, but I haven’t put it in writing very much. I don’t use these kinds of words lightly or often. But too much patience is part of the problem.
Please share.
I’ve been saying this in ways for years now, but I haven’t put it in writing very much. I don’t use these kinds of words lightly or often. But too much patience is part of the problem.
Please share.
November 6, 2023 at 12:44 AM
READ: If you care about how we’ve been “planning” our cities and suburbs, this is REALLY important.
I’ve been saying this in ways for years now, but I haven’t put it in writing very much. I don’t use these kinds of words lightly or often. But too much patience is part of the problem.
Please share.
I’ve been saying this in ways for years now, but I haven’t put it in writing very much. I don’t use these kinds of words lightly or often. But too much patience is part of the problem.
Please share.
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I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.
November 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.
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Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
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
November 17, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
The Urban Artifact 'Oliday Market is THIS SATURDAY (Nov 22).
November 17, 2025 at 3:12 AM
The Urban Artifact 'Oliday Market is THIS SATURDAY (Nov 22).
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When you hear someone say we can’t do active or public transportation in the US, just know we are the global outlier - an aberrant society missing something that the rest of the world has already discovered or never forgot
This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
When you hear someone say we can’t do active or public transportation in the US, just know we are the global outlier - an aberrant society missing something that the rest of the world has already discovered or never forgot
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“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath
50 reasons to want more walkable cities.
50 reasons to want more walkable cities.
50 Reasons Why Everyone Should Want More Walkable Streets
From making you live longer to making cities more resilient: If you want a reason to make your city more walkable, it's in here.
www.fastcompany.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:40 AM
“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath
50 reasons to want more walkable cities.
50 reasons to want more walkable cities.
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I can say with 100% certainty that the legalization of thc beverages in minnesota allowed me to stop drinking booze and saved me from continuing a cycle of substance abuse trauma. please don’t let the puritans take that away.
health-wise, the emergence of the canna-beverage industries have been a great addition to the N/A beverages market for those who have cut alcohol out of their lives or cut back on drinking, but still want some level of "normalized" experience when going to a bar or music venue or whatever.
November 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I can say with 100% certainty that the legalization of thc beverages in minnesota allowed me to stop drinking booze and saved me from continuing a cycle of substance abuse trauma. please don’t let the puritans take that away.
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Many city halls are deep in budget-time. Some are pushing austerity ideologies, and are ignoring the difference between costs and cost-savers/value creators. Citizens, PAY ATTENTION, and never forget that the TRUTH about a city’s REAL aspirations isn’t found in its visions. It’s found in its budget.
November 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Many city halls are deep in budget-time. Some are pushing austerity ideologies, and are ignoring the difference between costs and cost-savers/value creators. Citizens, PAY ATTENTION, and never forget that the TRUTH about a city’s REAL aspirations isn’t found in its visions. It’s found in its budget.
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here's the cover of the report
October 29, 2025 at 9:56 PM
here's the cover of the report
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No women, no safety
Women on bikes are the indicator species of a city’s cycling health.
If you don’t see many of us, it’s not about lack of interest — it’s about safety.
Day 13 of the #carfreechallenge2025
#yegbike
@bikeology.bsky.social
Women on bikes are the indicator species of a city’s cycling health.
If you don’t see many of us, it’s not about lack of interest — it’s about safety.
Day 13 of the #carfreechallenge2025
#yegbike
@bikeology.bsky.social
October 5, 2025 at 5:02 AM
No women, no safety
Women on bikes are the indicator species of a city’s cycling health.
If you don’t see many of us, it’s not about lack of interest — it’s about safety.
Day 13 of the #carfreechallenge2025
#yegbike
@bikeology.bsky.social
Women on bikes are the indicator species of a city’s cycling health.
If you don’t see many of us, it’s not about lack of interest — it’s about safety.
Day 13 of the #carfreechallenge2025
#yegbike
@bikeology.bsky.social
Just visited NYC earlier this month and the public transit is clean, reliable, and fast. I rode trains, buses, a boat, and a tram. I wish we had this level of transit service in more cities. (tap to ride OMNY is amazing, too)
October 28, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Just visited NYC earlier this month and the public transit is clean, reliable, and fast. I rode trains, buses, a boat, and a tram. I wish we had this level of transit service in more cities. (tap to ride OMNY is amazing, too)
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I’m at the launch of Oregon’s design competition for sunlight suite buildings - neighborhood-scale mulifamily buildings designed around one central staircase.
“This is one of those innovations whose time has come,” says Gil Kelley of @1000oregon.bsky.social.
“This is one of those innovations whose time has come,” says Gil Kelley of @1000oregon.bsky.social.
October 21, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I’m at the launch of Oregon’s design competition for sunlight suite buildings - neighborhood-scale mulifamily buildings designed around one central staircase.
“This is one of those innovations whose time has come,” says Gil Kelley of @1000oregon.bsky.social.
“This is one of those innovations whose time has come,” says Gil Kelley of @1000oregon.bsky.social.
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By popular demand: I've opened a Kickstarter for a HOP T-shirt!
If I get 50 preorders I'll do a print run!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/201...
If I get 50 preorders I'll do a print run!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/201...
HOP Shirt
A T-shirt with the legendary Portland frog rendered in the style of Shepard Fairey's iconic Obama HOPE image
www.kickstarter.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM
By popular demand: I've opened a Kickstarter for a HOP T-shirt!
If I get 50 preorders I'll do a print run!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/201...
If I get 50 preorders I'll do a print run!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/201...
I love a progressively more accurate y-axis.
October 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I love a progressively more accurate y-axis.
Lyon, France has a similar metro population to Cincinnati (~2.2mm). So here's a scale overlay of their fixed transit system over the Cincinnati region. (Subway + Tram + Funicular + connection to regional rail).
October 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Lyon, France has a similar metro population to Cincinnati (~2.2mm). So here's a scale overlay of their fixed transit system over the Cincinnati region. (Subway + Tram + Funicular + connection to regional rail).
Can someone please make a horse-bike and see how that tests out?
"Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom."
www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...
The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike
A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom
www.scientificamerican.com
October 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Can someone please make a horse-bike and see how that tests out?
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A final week's worth of diary comics are up on my patreon! patreon.com/mgillman
And for anybody with a trifoliate orange growing in their hedge: 1:4 ratio of juice to water (this'll use up a lot of fruit), sweetened with honey to taste, and optionally with a small pinch of salt if you're into that
And for anybody with a trifoliate orange growing in their hedge: 1:4 ratio of juice to water (this'll use up a lot of fruit), sweetened with honey to taste, and optionally with a small pinch of salt if you're into that
October 15, 2025 at 3:31 AM
A final week's worth of diary comics are up on my patreon! patreon.com/mgillman
And for anybody with a trifoliate orange growing in their hedge: 1:4 ratio of juice to water (this'll use up a lot of fruit), sweetened with honey to taste, and optionally with a small pinch of salt if you're into that
And for anybody with a trifoliate orange growing in their hedge: 1:4 ratio of juice to water (this'll use up a lot of fruit), sweetened with honey to taste, and optionally with a small pinch of salt if you're into that
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As someone who has to be creative and make stuff all of the time, I find that I'm WAY BETTER at it when I'm in the midst of a few good books.
If I skip reading for a while (too busy!) my work actually suffers. Brains are weird.
If I skip reading for a while (too busy!) my work actually suffers. Brains are weird.
Reading for pleasure has fallen by 40 percent since 2000. This is not progress. You should read because it's good for your brain, your soul. You should read because our freedoms will not long endure in a post-literate world. Most of all, you should read because it's fun.
October 12, 2025 at 11:56 PM
As someone who has to be creative and make stuff all of the time, I find that I'm WAY BETTER at it when I'm in the midst of a few good books.
If I skip reading for a while (too busy!) my work actually suffers. Brains are weird.
If I skip reading for a while (too busy!) my work actually suffers. Brains are weird.
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We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.
When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.
When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.
October 12, 2025 at 4:44 PM
We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.
When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.
When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.
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PLEASE SHARE WIDELY!! Parents and communities are starting to organize to protect speed safety cameras.
Interested in getting involved and organizing with your community? Sign up at this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/1t0p...
Interested in getting involved and organizing with your community? Sign up at this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/1t0p...
October 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM
PLEASE SHARE WIDELY!! Parents and communities are starting to organize to protect speed safety cameras.
Interested in getting involved and organizing with your community? Sign up at this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/1t0p...
Interested in getting involved and organizing with your community? Sign up at this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/1t0p...
Had a incredible conversation with two folks yesterday: one from Australia, and one from UK.
We Americans already know our healthcare system is 'not good' and that it obviously can be better. But it was wild to be reminded about how truly awful our current setup is, and how much better others are.
We Americans already know our healthcare system is 'not good' and that it obviously can be better. But it was wild to be reminded about how truly awful our current setup is, and how much better others are.
October 1, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Had a incredible conversation with two folks yesterday: one from Australia, and one from UK.
We Americans already know our healthcare system is 'not good' and that it obviously can be better. But it was wild to be reminded about how truly awful our current setup is, and how much better others are.
We Americans already know our healthcare system is 'not good' and that it obviously can be better. But it was wild to be reminded about how truly awful our current setup is, and how much better others are.
Speed limit means the maximum.
Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide!
It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers.
It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!
It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers.
It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!
September 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Speed limit means the maximum.
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Editor Commentary: The Great Ohio Gerrymandering Farce has lifted its curtain once again at the Ohio Statehouse odditorium of human wonders in scenic downtown Columbus.Will Ohio voters get a fair, competitive map? No chance. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/09/24/t...
The Ohio gerrymandering farce has begun again and it's another run-out-the-clock charade • Ohio Capital Journal
This fall, will Ohio politicians keep our state's U.S. House districts gerrymandered 10-5? Will they gerrymander more, to 11-4, or to 12-3, or to 13-2? Who knows? The only thing I can guarantee you…
ohiocapitaljournal.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Editor Commentary: The Great Ohio Gerrymandering Farce has lifted its curtain once again at the Ohio Statehouse odditorium of human wonders in scenic downtown Columbus.Will Ohio voters get a fair, competitive map? No chance. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/09/24/t...