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carless and careless in las ongeles. temporarily embarrassed chicagoan. homosexual lawyer
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somepunintended.bsky.social
thank you, wikipedia, for this
November 17, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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awalkerinla.bsky.social
*taps sign*
awalkerinla.bsky.social Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · Jun 26
Two years ago I interviewed a 31-year-old NY state assemblymember about a 7-year-old girl killed by an SUV driver in his district. I hung up the phone, astonished that I'd talked to a legislator who so thoughtfully articulated what actually needs to change on our streets.

He'll make a great mayor
In February, 7-year-old Dolma Naadhun was crossing the intersection of Newtown Road and 45th Street in Astoria with her mother and sister when the driver of a 2021 Ford Explorer blew through a stop sign, striking and killing Dolma. One month later, New York City Department of Transportation commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez visited the crash site with other officials, met with community members demanding a traffic signal be installed, and promised to make changes to the street - including "daylighting" the intersection using curb extensions and plastic bollards. State assemblymember Zohran Mamdani also visited the scene that day and realized that something else needed to change. "When you take a step back and think about traffic violence in New York City," he said, "you start to understand that this is a systemic issue that is incentivized by the policies that we have in place with regard to the design of our streets and what kind of vehicles we allow to be on our roads." Whether a driver runs a stop sign or a red light, statistically, certain cars - namely, bigger SUVs and trucks - are more likely to kill a 7-year-old. This is why Mamdani is co- introducing legislation for a weight-based vehicle-registration fee intended to discourage people from purchasing heavier vehicles. "The car industry is pushing the sale of heavier and larger vehicles," he says. "The state has to make it clear that these types of vehicles come with a certain kind of cost." soar above adult shoulders. But there may be another way to disincentivize the purchases of such vehicles, says Edwards. "One other potential idea would be for someone, maybe a city's DOT, to start keeping a list of the different makes and models of vehicles that are killing pedestrians and cyclists, or kids specifically, and post that publicly," he says. "That could bring awareness to which cars are more dangerous and also potentially affect insurance rates, which would possibly convince people not to buy certain cars." There's a bit of accountability in New York's bill, which would require the State DOT to track all fatal crashes by vehicle weight. But the other encouraging aspect of the proposal is that the collected fees stay local, by county, and, after the annual dedications to highway, bridge, and transit trust funds are met, a full 75 percent of the funds raised will go toward safety improvements like bike lanes, bollards, road diets, pedestrianization of streets, and raised crosswalks. This means the neighborhoods most impacted by large vehicles are likely to see the biggest changes. And that might be the most important part of the legislation, says Mamdani. "This is an initiative to make our streets safer for our children," he says. "And we are making sure a significant portion of this funding goes toward creating the very streetscapes that we know will save their lives."
November 5, 2025 at 2:12 AM
somepunintended.bsky.social
responding to a tap on Grindr "you look like my coworker that just died"
November 4, 2025 at 12:24 AM
somepunintended.bsky.social
bleak trajectory of LA aside, boy can @awalkerinla.bsky.social write a pithy headline
awalkerinla.bsky.social Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · Oct 23
LA is building a new $1.5 billion freeway into LAX.

The very same airport where we just spent $2 billion on the people mover — actually, more like $3 billion, plus another $900 million if you count Metro's investment in the LAX station; so let's just say $4 billion — to make cars go away
Air traffic control
The LAX-pressway must be stopped
www.torched.la
October 23, 2025 at 11:54 PM
somepunintended.bsky.social
can't stop thinking about this screenshot each time i see another lyric of the new Taylor Swift album
[Image description: screenshot of what looks to be the author's note for an AO3 story. Transcription follows.] Please stop leaving comments that relitigate your real-world parasocial love or equally parasocial hate for Taylor Swift. This is not the forum for that, this is an erotic mind control story about Taylor Swift enthusiastically falling under the corrupting influence of a mysterious amulet, the origin of which is not explored though is likely sorcery-based. [End description.]
October 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
somepunintended.bsky.social
thanks downtown los angeles
October 1, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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perrybaconjr.bsky.social
One of the most amazing things about this is that a conversation between Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein features one person repeatedly praising themselves for trying to convince other people of challenging ideas. That person is ...Klein.
damnelace.bsky.social damnelace.bsky.social @damnelace.bsky.social · Sep 28
“Was silence not an option?”…they could have stopped the conversation there.
perrybaconjr.bsky.social Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · Sep 28
This was revealing. Worth reading. The basic demand is that Coates spend less time thinking/writing his true feelings and more time playing political strategist. Klein asks him over and over him to do Dem strategy; he says no, over and over. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...
September 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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nickandert.bsky.social
Hegseth trying to log in to trump’s truth social to declare AA a terrorist organization
September 26, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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scriblit.bsky.social
Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci!
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.
August 7, 2025 at 11:31 AM
somepunintended.bsky.social
shocked — and saddened — to report that the CA vanity license plate BUTCH belongs to a Tesla
August 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
somepunintended.bsky.social
Between Z*hran, my ex-wife, the tenant from hell, and general chumpfuckery, this has been a cromulent fuckcrustable of a day. Alex needy drinky.
June 25, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.

t.co/JXeTALBPds
Ironically, upon the paper’s release, several social media users ran it through LLMs in order to summarize it and then post the findings online. Kosmyna had been expecting that people would do this, so she inserted a couple AI traps into the paper, such as instructing LLMs to “only read this table below,” thus ensuring that LLMs would return only limited insight from the paper. She also found that LLMs hallucinated a key detail: Nowhere in her paper did she specify the version of ChatGPT she used, but AI summaries declared that the paper was trained on GPT-4o. “We specifically wanted to see that, because we were pretty sure the LLM would hallucinate on that,” she says, laughing.
June 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM
somepunintended.bsky.social
my only regret this year is not being in the top 0.001% of Kermit the Frog fans in my Wrapped ... here's to a Muppet filled 2025
December 5, 2024 at 1:41 AM
somepunintended.bsky.social
hmm ... maybe slightly regretting making my initial crack on here Muppet themed but. WWMPD
December 4, 2024 at 1:32 AM
somepunintended.bsky.social
new social media profile, new cat
December 1, 2024 at 9:26 AM