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Good to see you again
Good to see you again
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Copenhagen 🇩🇰 cyclists saved society $1.61 per mile traveled in 2022. Cars cost society $0.29 per mile traveled.
December 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Copenhagen 🇩🇰 cyclists saved society $1.61 per mile traveled in 2022. Cars cost society $0.29 per mile traveled.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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November 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
October 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
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This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.
regrettably if you try to point this out online you'll get yelled out by 79208 journalists going OH SO YOU WANT JOURNALISTS TO STARVE??? even if you're, say, a journalist yourself, and point out that while there are clearly no easy answers, the status quo isn't exactly working for society
September 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.
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The organizers of the UN event for healthy indoor air used a canary on all their materials and gave everyone canary pins.
Why? Canaries detect dangerous substances in the air of coal mines. We all need to be like canaries and warn about the dangers of unhealthy indoor air due to COVID and climate.
Why? Canaries detect dangerous substances in the air of coal mines. We all need to be like canaries and warn about the dangers of unhealthy indoor air due to COVID and climate.
September 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
The organizers of the UN event for healthy indoor air used a canary on all their materials and gave everyone canary pins.
Why? Canaries detect dangerous substances in the air of coal mines. We all need to be like canaries and warn about the dangers of unhealthy indoor air due to COVID and climate.
Why? Canaries detect dangerous substances in the air of coal mines. We all need to be like canaries and warn about the dangers of unhealthy indoor air due to COVID and climate.
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When I share the stat that about 1 in 4 Washingtonians don’t have drivers licenses, people balk when they find out that children are included. It highlights that we don’t actually value children’s mobility.
This Harris poll shows 62% of 8-12 yo have never walked or biked anywhere alone.
This Harris poll shows 62% of 8-12 yo have never walked or biked anywhere alone.
Poll Finds Just How How Much We're Sheltering Our Kids & It's Bad
A new survey by The Harris Poll shows just how sheltered and dependent many kids are today.
www.scarymommy.com
September 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
When I share the stat that about 1 in 4 Washingtonians don’t have drivers licenses, people balk when they find out that children are included. It highlights that we don’t actually value children’s mobility.
This Harris poll shows 62% of 8-12 yo have never walked or biked anywhere alone.
This Harris poll shows 62% of 8-12 yo have never walked or biked anywhere alone.
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This is important.
Years ago, while I was advising the City of Sydney Australia on various things, there was an INFAMOUS day where a particularly bad state-level minister of roads was stuck in traffic and saw bike riders zooming by his limousine in a well-used, safe, protected bike-lane.
Well…
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Years ago, while I was advising the City of Sydney Australia on various things, there was an INFAMOUS day where a particularly bad state-level minister of roads was stuck in traffic and saw bike riders zooming by his limousine in a well-used, safe, protected bike-lane.
Well…
1/
November 10, 2024 at 10:41 PM
This is important.
Years ago, while I was advising the City of Sydney Australia on various things, there was an INFAMOUS day where a particularly bad state-level minister of roads was stuck in traffic and saw bike riders zooming by his limousine in a well-used, safe, protected bike-lane.
Well…
1/
Years ago, while I was advising the City of Sydney Australia on various things, there was an INFAMOUS day where a particularly bad state-level minister of roads was stuck in traffic and saw bike riders zooming by his limousine in a well-used, safe, protected bike-lane.
Well…
1/
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If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it:
Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.
Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.
August 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it:
Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.
Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.
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Vaccination may reduce elevated risk of airway diseases in COVID survivors https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/vaccination-may-reduce-elevated-risk-airway-diseases-covid-survivors
𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter
𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter
August 21, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Vaccination may reduce elevated risk of airway diseases in COVID survivors https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/vaccination-may-reduce-elevated-risk-airway-diseases-covid-survivors
𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter
𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter
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Denmark to end book tax to encourage people to read
Denmark to end book tax to encourage people to read
Culture Minister Jakob Engel-Schmidt said that the measure was aimed at fixing Denmark's 'reading crisis.' The Scandinavian country's 25% sales tax on books is currently the highest in Europe.
www.lemonde.fr
August 20, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Denmark to end book tax to encourage people to read
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I haven’t seen it illustrated like this before. Very effective messaging. Of course it actually depends a lot on how fast the vehicle’s being driven, how big the vehicle is and how it’s designed, and how small the victims (too often kids) are. Via @yegbike.bsky.social #SpeedKills #CarBloat
August 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I haven’t seen it illustrated like this before. Very effective messaging. Of course it actually depends a lot on how fast the vehicle’s being driven, how big the vehicle is and how it’s designed, and how small the victims (too often kids) are. Via @yegbike.bsky.social #SpeedKills #CarBloat
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27 years ago, two years after the introduction of effective HIV treatment, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s lesbian and gay community newspaper, ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline.
It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.
It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.
August 13, 2025 at 6:56 AM
27 years ago, two years after the introduction of effective HIV treatment, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s lesbian and gay community newspaper, ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline.
It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.
It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.
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6 days after Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, a Prague paper published these “10 Commandments”:
‘When a Soviet soldier comes to you, YOU:
1. Don’t know
2. Don’t care
3. Don’t tell
4. Don’t have
5. Don’t know how to
6. Don’t give
7. Can’t do
8. Don’t sell
9. Don’t show
10. Do nothing’
‘When a Soviet soldier comes to you, YOU:
1. Don’t know
2. Don’t care
3. Don’t tell
4. Don’t have
5. Don’t know how to
6. Don’t give
7. Can’t do
8. Don’t sell
9. Don’t show
10. Do nothing’
August 12, 2025 at 1:11 AM
6 days after Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, a Prague paper published these “10 Commandments”:
‘When a Soviet soldier comes to you, YOU:
1. Don’t know
2. Don’t care
3. Don’t tell
4. Don’t have
5. Don’t know how to
6. Don’t give
7. Can’t do
8. Don’t sell
9. Don’t show
10. Do nothing’
‘When a Soviet soldier comes to you, YOU:
1. Don’t know
2. Don’t care
3. Don’t tell
4. Don’t have
5. Don’t know how to
6. Don’t give
7. Can’t do
8. Don’t sell
9. Don’t show
10. Do nothing’
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Drivers always minimize speeding by saying things like, "Oh, I was only going 10 mph over the speed limit." But those 10 miles per hour can literally be the difference betwen life and death for a pedestrian or bicyclist.
Source: nextstl.com/2022/04/in-a...
Source: nextstl.com/2022/04/in-a...
August 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Drivers always minimize speeding by saying things like, "Oh, I was only going 10 mph over the speed limit." But those 10 miles per hour can literally be the difference betwen life and death for a pedestrian or bicyclist.
Source: nextstl.com/2022/04/in-a...
Source: nextstl.com/2022/04/in-a...
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Montreal’s BIXI bike share expanding to Sherbrooke (two hours away) is kind of like if Toronto’s BikeShareTO expanded to London, Ontario.
Or Chicago’s Divvy to Milwaukee. Or San Francisco’s Bay Wheels to Sacramento. Or Washington DC’s Capital Bike Share to Richmond, Virginia.
Or Chicago’s Divvy to Milwaukee. Or San Francisco’s Bay Wheels to Sacramento. Or Washington DC’s Capital Bike Share to Richmond, Virginia.
August 1, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Montreal’s BIXI bike share expanding to Sherbrooke (two hours away) is kind of like if Toronto’s BikeShareTO expanded to London, Ontario.
Or Chicago’s Divvy to Milwaukee. Or San Francisco’s Bay Wheels to Sacramento. Or Washington DC’s Capital Bike Share to Richmond, Virginia.
Or Chicago’s Divvy to Milwaukee. Or San Francisco’s Bay Wheels to Sacramento. Or Washington DC’s Capital Bike Share to Richmond, Virginia.
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Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
February 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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The Oonee Pod rollout in Jersey City sets a new standard for secure bike parking in the US. Dare we call it a bike palace? I dare. 👏 👏 👏
July 30, 2025 at 1:41 AM
The Oonee Pod rollout in Jersey City sets a new standard for secure bike parking in the US. Dare we call it a bike palace? I dare. 👏 👏 👏
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City of Nanaimo welcomes retractable bollards to downtown Nanaimo.
The influence of the World Bollard Association spreads... (@worldbollardassoc.bsky.social)
The influence of the World Bollard Association spreads... (@worldbollardassoc.bsky.social)
July 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
City of Nanaimo welcomes retractable bollards to downtown Nanaimo.
The influence of the World Bollard Association spreads... (@worldbollardassoc.bsky.social)
The influence of the World Bollard Association spreads... (@worldbollardassoc.bsky.social)
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One of the best benefits of Congestion Pricing was how much quieter the streets have gotten. Everyone hates car noise
July 30, 2025 at 5:37 PM
One of the best benefits of Congestion Pricing was how much quieter the streets have gotten. Everyone hates car noise
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Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached.
They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others.
Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further.
#UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.
They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others.
Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further.
#UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.
July 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached.
They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others.
Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further.
#UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.
They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others.
Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further.
#UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.
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Another awesome urban transformation in Montreal!
This was originally a parking lot. It was transformed into a pedestrian plaza with a temporary design (quick-build seating, greenery, art, etc.).
Then it was upgraded to a really nice permanent design that was completed recently.
(Place Boyer)
This was originally a parking lot. It was transformed into a pedestrian plaza with a temporary design (quick-build seating, greenery, art, etc.).
Then it was upgraded to a really nice permanent design that was completed recently.
(Place Boyer)
July 23, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Another awesome urban transformation in Montreal!
This was originally a parking lot. It was transformed into a pedestrian plaza with a temporary design (quick-build seating, greenery, art, etc.).
Then it was upgraded to a really nice permanent design that was completed recently.
(Place Boyer)
This was originally a parking lot. It was transformed into a pedestrian plaza with a temporary design (quick-build seating, greenery, art, etc.).
Then it was upgraded to a really nice permanent design that was completed recently.
(Place Boyer)