Kevin
@zerocarbonkev.bsky.social
Urbanism, E-bikes, EV Charging
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🇺🇸: “We no longer have the ability to install a bus stop”
🇺🇦: “Gotta raise our anti-drone nets above our trolleybus wires”
🇺🇦: “Gotta raise our anti-drone nets above our trolleybus wires”
Streets of Kherson covered with anti-drone nets.
November 16, 2025 at 2:57 PM
🇺🇸: “We no longer have the ability to install a bus stop”
🇺🇦: “Gotta raise our anti-drone nets above our trolleybus wires”
🇺🇦: “Gotta raise our anti-drone nets above our trolleybus wires”
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Here’s a story for every national news outlet:
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
November 16, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Here’s a story for every national news outlet:
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
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The most insanely frustrating thing about the #ClimateCrisis is how the breakthrough we so clearly need isn’t technological. It’s just a collective willingness, a determination even, to change in ways that would clearly be SO MUCH BETTER than the clear and obvious consequences of NOT changing.
October 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The most insanely frustrating thing about the #ClimateCrisis is how the breakthrough we so clearly need isn’t technological. It’s just a collective willingness, a determination even, to change in ways that would clearly be SO MUCH BETTER than the clear and obvious consequences of NOT changing.
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Every car in your city represents $8-12K/year being sucked out of your local economy instead of being spent on housing, goods & services.
I wish more parking-obsessed retailers & elected officials understood this.
#WindshieldBias
I wish more parking-obsessed retailers & elected officials understood this.
#WindshieldBias
Transportation costs are the second largest burden on American family budgets (17%), after housing (33%)!
To address the affordability crisis, we must create cities with abundant housing of all types (subsidized, social, coop, market rate) and make walking, biking, and taking transit convenient.
To address the affordability crisis, we must create cities with abundant housing of all types (subsidized, social, coop, market rate) and make walking, biking, and taking transit convenient.
November 16, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Every car in your city represents $8-12K/year being sucked out of your local economy instead of being spent on housing, goods & services.
I wish more parking-obsessed retailers & elected officials understood this.
#WindshieldBias
I wish more parking-obsessed retailers & elected officials understood this.
#WindshieldBias
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Literally exactly what the Founders worried about. Exactly.
A foreign country bribed the president with a bar of gold.
Where are my Originalists at?
Where are my Originalists at?
"It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it." said one administration official.
How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar.
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar.
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
November 15, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Literally exactly what the Founders worried about. Exactly.
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I'm beginning to suspect that the Trump administration wants a major increase in homelessness because they believe the resulting horrors will all be blamed on big city mayors.
So many of their recent actions on food support, housing support, and healthcare all point this way.
So many of their recent actions on food support, housing support, and healthcare all point this way.
Some news: tomorrow at 9am, Ted Koppel + CBS Sunday Morning will air a two-part story on the devastating surge of full-time workers being pushed into homelessness.
I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.
I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.
November 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I'm beginning to suspect that the Trump administration wants a major increase in homelessness because they believe the resulting horrors will all be blamed on big city mayors.
So many of their recent actions on food support, housing support, and healthcare all point this way.
So many of their recent actions on food support, housing support, and healthcare all point this way.
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They’re all just looting the treasury now
November 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
They’re all just looting the treasury now
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you: it probably is not actually true that donald trump blew bill clinton
me: it depends on what your definition of is is
me: it depends on what your definition of is is
November 15, 2025 at 5:03 AM
you: it probably is not actually true that donald trump blew bill clinton
me: it depends on what your definition of is is
me: it depends on what your definition of is is
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Ronald Reagan, Jerry Brown, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, all former governors, with shirts that all have the Priority Parking logo, a parking lot owner in Sacramento.
Why does Brown have "moonbeam" knuckle tats? Why does Reagan have "trust but verify?". Art makes you think. You thought. Art.
Why does Brown have "moonbeam" knuckle tats? Why does Reagan have "trust but verify?". Art makes you think. You thought. Art.
Seen at a parking lot in Sacramento. Don’t think it’s a commentary on car culture, but you never know…
cc @brooklynspoke.bsky.social @thewaroncars.bsky.social
cc @brooklynspoke.bsky.social @thewaroncars.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Ronald Reagan, Jerry Brown, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, all former governors, with shirts that all have the Priority Parking logo, a parking lot owner in Sacramento.
Why does Brown have "moonbeam" knuckle tats? Why does Reagan have "trust but verify?". Art makes you think. You thought. Art.
Why does Brown have "moonbeam" knuckle tats? Why does Reagan have "trust but verify?". Art makes you think. You thought. Art.
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My eternal pet peeve with the world right now: Front end height is the largest determinant of pedestrian death by a significant factor. These things kill people for no reason.
There is no magic thing you can do with modern vehicles, that we weren't doing in smaller vehicles in the 90s. Nothing.
There is no magic thing you can do with modern vehicles, that we weren't doing in smaller vehicles in the 90s. Nothing.
November 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
My eternal pet peeve with the world right now: Front end height is the largest determinant of pedestrian death by a significant factor. These things kill people for no reason.
There is no magic thing you can do with modern vehicles, that we weren't doing in smaller vehicles in the 90s. Nothing.
There is no magic thing you can do with modern vehicles, that we weren't doing in smaller vehicles in the 90s. Nothing.
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San Diego! We’re headed to you next for a LIFE AFTER CARS live event this Sunday at the Adams Avenue Theater. Tickets are still available. See you there!
Life After Cars - Presented by BikeSD and San Diego County Bike Coalition
Sarah Goodyear & Doug Gordon, hosts of The War on Cars, are visiting San Diego! Join to learn more about their new book, Life After Cars.
www.eventbrite.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
San Diego! We’re headed to you next for a LIFE AFTER CARS live event this Sunday at the Adams Avenue Theater. Tickets are still available. See you there!
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I hope if nothing else it opens people's eyes to what's going on. I used to consistently hear "the media just wants clicks/ratings." If they wanted that they would be doggedly pursuing the Epstein story. But what they actually want is to help Trump rule us and ultimately enslave us
Any other time, any other President, and "the dude was in a global conspiracy to fuck them kids" would have been 24/7 coverage. Even Dubya.
I remember the fucking Lewinsky coverage. Our media have become craven hacks carrying water for rich pedophiles and I feel insane typing that but there it is.
I remember the fucking Lewinsky coverage. Our media have become craven hacks carrying water for rich pedophiles and I feel insane typing that but there it is.
“a nothing burger” lol
November 14, 2025 at 5:24 AM
I hope if nothing else it opens people's eyes to what's going on. I used to consistently hear "the media just wants clicks/ratings." If they wanted that they would be doggedly pursuing the Epstein story. But what they actually want is to help Trump rule us and ultimately enslave us
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Remembering how Biden revived the practice of releasing visitors logs and was rewarded by the press for his transparency with a front page story at his weakest possible moment about how he had Parkinson's based on a Parkinson's expert visiting the WH.
(Turns out, Biden did not have Parkinson's)
(Turns out, Biden did not have Parkinson's)
Would we? www.courthousenews.com/white-house-...
White House, Mar-a-Lago Visitor Logs Off-Limits for Public
The Second Circuit upheld a ruling Monday that records of who has visited President Donald Trump’s White House and private Florida resort are exempt from government watchdog groups’ Freedom of Informa...
www.courthousenews.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Remembering how Biden revived the practice of releasing visitors logs and was rewarded by the press for his transparency with a front page story at his weakest possible moment about how he had Parkinson's based on a Parkinson's expert visiting the WH.
(Turns out, Biden did not have Parkinson's)
(Turns out, Biden did not have Parkinson's)
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My bus operator, ending an emphatic explanation to a bus full of UC Berkeley students about moving to the back to make room: "I tell you what - the Stanford kids? They would have figured this out already."
November 14, 2025 at 4:23 AM
My bus operator, ending an emphatic explanation to a bus full of UC Berkeley students about moving to the back to make room: "I tell you what - the Stanford kids? They would have figured this out already."
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November 14, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Deporting millions of undocumented immigrants who have built lives in America (a) is morally indefensible, and (b) will probably make the housing shortage *worse* because so much of the construction workforce is undocumented.
everyone keeps dancing around it but JD Vance keeps trotting out the “immigrants are taking our housing“ because it’s a nativist blood libel he’s engineering alongside eg “they eat our pets” but, more specifically, it is to legitimize the dispossession, en masse, of an entire sub-population.
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Deporting millions of undocumented immigrants who have built lives in America (a) is morally indefensible, and (b) will probably make the housing shortage *worse* because so much of the construction workforce is undocumented.
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The canaries want out of the coal mine.
November 13, 2025 at 11:05 PM
The canaries want out of the coal mine.
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It's astounding how much CO₂ we put into the atmosphere each year by burning fossil fuels.
For comparison, we all agree that plastic pollution is bad, but the mass of ALL THE PLASTIC humanity has ever produced is only 25% of the CO₂ we emitted into the atmosphere in 2025.
For comparison, we all agree that plastic pollution is bad, but the mass of ALL THE PLASTIC humanity has ever produced is only 25% of the CO₂ we emitted into the atmosphere in 2025.
1) Fossil fuel
Still no peak. Emissions are projected to increase by 1.1% in 2025, reaching 38.1 GtCO2. An all time high.
Still no peak. Emissions are projected to increase by 1.1% in 2025, reaching 38.1 GtCO2. An all time high.
November 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
It's astounding how much CO₂ we put into the atmosphere each year by burning fossil fuels.
For comparison, we all agree that plastic pollution is bad, but the mass of ALL THE PLASTIC humanity has ever produced is only 25% of the CO₂ we emitted into the atmosphere in 2025.
For comparison, we all agree that plastic pollution is bad, but the mass of ALL THE PLASTIC humanity has ever produced is only 25% of the CO₂ we emitted into the atmosphere in 2025.
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One of these vehicles was given a large tax break for being green
The "California Air Resources Board" also just canceled the ebike rebate program in order to give more money to buyers of Teslas and monstrosities like these which burn so much energy, they are almost as polluting as combustion cars
The "California Air Resources Board" also just canceled the ebike rebate program in order to give more money to buyers of Teslas and monstrosities like these which burn so much energy, they are almost as polluting as combustion cars
November 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
One of these vehicles was given a large tax break for being green
The "California Air Resources Board" also just canceled the ebike rebate program in order to give more money to buyers of Teslas and monstrosities like these which burn so much energy, they are almost as polluting as combustion cars
The "California Air Resources Board" also just canceled the ebike rebate program in order to give more money to buyers of Teslas and monstrosities like these which burn so much energy, they are almost as polluting as combustion cars
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National media: “YES, give us every detail from DNC/Hillary emails hacked by opponents trying to destroy her—we will file daily stories!”
Also: “Hacked emails about Trump and little girls? Nah…he’s too good for business, let’s move along, shall we?”
Conservatives: “The media is biased against us.”
Also: “Hacked emails about Trump and little girls? Nah…he’s too good for business, let’s move along, shall we?”
Conservatives: “The media is biased against us.”
November 13, 2025 at 7:46 PM
National media: “YES, give us every detail from DNC/Hillary emails hacked by opponents trying to destroy her—we will file daily stories!”
Also: “Hacked emails about Trump and little girls? Nah…he’s too good for business, let’s move along, shall we?”
Conservatives: “The media is biased against us.”
Also: “Hacked emails about Trump and little girls? Nah…he’s too good for business, let’s move along, shall we?”
Conservatives: “The media is biased against us.”
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Why do cyclists get so triggered by the word smug?
Because of 50 years of being told we don't need bike lanes but should instead just ride defensively in the road as if we were a car only to have it constantly turned around on us that riding defensively makes us "smug" "entitled" or "aggressive"
Because of 50 years of being told we don't need bike lanes but should instead just ride defensively in the road as if we were a car only to have it constantly turned around on us that riding defensively makes us "smug" "entitled" or "aggressive"
This week I wrote about the rise of the e-bike dad - this piece was originally going to run alongside the story I did in September about the bike boom in general, and we didn't have space in print, but here it is:
www.economist.com/united-state...
www.economist.com/united-state...
Parents on e-bikes are transforming the school run
They’re smug, snug and often faster than drivers
www.economist.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Why do cyclists get so triggered by the word smug?
Because of 50 years of being told we don't need bike lanes but should instead just ride defensively in the road as if we were a car only to have it constantly turned around on us that riding defensively makes us "smug" "entitled" or "aggressive"
Because of 50 years of being told we don't need bike lanes but should instead just ride defensively in the road as if we were a car only to have it constantly turned around on us that riding defensively makes us "smug" "entitled" or "aggressive"
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There's just a giant intellectual, political, & institutional infrastructure built up around the Democratic Party, devoted to convincing it not to fight. The whole f'ing apparatus needs to be nuked from space.
November 13, 2025 at 7:40 PM
There's just a giant intellectual, political, & institutional infrastructure built up around the Democratic Party, devoted to convincing it not to fight. The whole f'ing apparatus needs to be nuked from space.
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amusing chart. it turns out New York City built more housing units in the 1920s than in the 1970s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, and 2010s put together www.nyc.gov/content/plan...
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
amusing chart. it turns out New York City built more housing units in the 1920s than in the 1970s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, and 2010s put together www.nyc.gov/content/plan...
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A single person making $82,000 a year should not need a subsidized apartment. A family making $117,000 should be able to buy a home.
We need to build more homes until median rent is less than 30% of median monthly income and median home prices are less than 4x median annual income.
We need to build more homes until median rent is less than 30% of median monthly income and median home prices are less than 4x median annual income.
November 11, 2025 at 7:12 PM
A single person making $82,000 a year should not need a subsidized apartment. A family making $117,000 should be able to buy a home.
We need to build more homes until median rent is less than 30% of median monthly income and median home prices are less than 4x median annual income.
We need to build more homes until median rent is less than 30% of median monthly income and median home prices are less than 4x median annual income.
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This is really something. Trump/GOP efforts to rig midterms running into serious trouble
November 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This is really something. Trump/GOP efforts to rig midterms running into serious trouble