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Jose Andres Martinez
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Sparky 💡 - Alief HTX 🔁 Kenzo Philly - Penn State - Socialist, Urbanist, Naturalist - Multi-modal commuter 🚴‍♀️🚌🚋 - Yallah Hurriya Falastini 🤲🏼 - 🇸🇻🇬🇹🇵🇸
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December 7, 2024 at 3:01 AM
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I am a huge fan of Hawk Tuah but you took my life savings.
December 5, 2024 at 2:07 AM
Khruangbin at the top of my most played artists for wrapped '24. My hometown influence is weighs heavily on me 🤘🏼, but the tracks are too smooth to hit skip. 3/5 top songs are Amapiano, the South African Vibes keep me amped up. ⚡️💪🏼😤🇿🇦
December 4, 2024 at 2:25 PM
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tfw the 95-year-old founder of your planned community says you're doing it wrong and maybe you should leave.
December 2, 2024 at 10:30 PM
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Hunter Biden needs to do time because no one is above the law. Here's why I'm ok with dropping all of Trump's 91 indictments.
December 2, 2024 at 8:49 PM
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Just found the most perfect little ADU in Austin
December 2, 2024 at 11:12 PM
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The North Carolina General Assembly’s GOP supermajority just approved a hugely corrupt power grab, seizing authority from the governor and the courts to prevent any meaningful check on legislative abuses. Authoritarian stuff. A very dark day for democracy in NC. amp.newsobserver.com/news/politic...
December 2, 2024 at 10:41 PM
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When you tear bike lanes out of cities, people don't just decide "well I guess I won't commute to work anymore." It takes people who are not car traffic and makes them car traffic.
December 2, 2024 at 7:49 PM
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Do the folks who want to tear up bike lanes not understand that if the cyclists are not in the bike lanes they are in the lanes with the cars? In most cases in their own cars? Which means they are now (noisy, polluting) traffic? More car lanes just means more cars.
December 2, 2024 at 7:47 PM
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Our comic, "Moving From Cars To People," shows & tells how the built environment in the US came to be designed for cars and what we can do about it.

Illustrated by Joaquin Golez and authored by Kelly Clifton & Kristi Currans, with Susan Kirtley & Ryan Alexander-Tanner: trec.pdx.edu/news/moving-...
December 2, 2024 at 7:11 PM
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As Maggie Jo Buchanan of Demand Justice put it:

“If Democratic Senators are already rolling over this easily while they still have power, we are in for trouble when Trump actually assumes office." www.huffpost.com/entry/chuck-...
Chuck Schumer Cuts Deal With GOP To Confirm Some Of Biden’s Final Judges, Drop Others
Their agreement, which has angered progressive groups, means more of Biden’s district court picks will get votes, but none of his appeals court picks will.
www.huffpost.com
December 2, 2024 at 8:41 PM
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US spending on the construction of new data centers is now about 58% as much as the spending on new offices, up from 11% pre-COVID
December 2, 2024 at 5:40 PM
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This diagram never gets old, unfortunately
December 1, 2024 at 5:01 PM
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December 1, 2024 at 7:21 PM
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Fun Fact: Teslas have killed over twice as many people as the exploding Ford Pinto did at a roughly similar level of sales.

the Pinto sold ~3 million units & killed at least 27 people. Tesla is now creeping up on 5 million total vehicles & 95 deaths from battery fires or autopilot crashes.
95 Tesla deaths have involved fires or Autopilot. How the EV maker fares in fatalities per million miles.
Tesla deaths from fires and Autopilot make up 24% of the fatalities in crashes. Learn about the death rates per million miles and vs other cars.
www.businessinsider.com
April 13, 2024 at 4:24 PM
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shoplifting should take the place fishing used to occupy in our culture. avis of us wearing wraparound oakleys holding up cool stuff we stole, novelty "gone shopliftin'" door signs, that kind of stuff
I get the need to safeguard from shoplifting but this CVS setup is insane.
December 1, 2024 at 6:34 PM
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The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil 4x more than electric cars due to their staggering uptake in China and elsewhere.
The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars
Electric vehicles get all the press – but it’s the smaller unsung two wheelers cutting oil demand the most.
theconversation.com
December 1, 2024 at 6:10 PM
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Texas has installed more solar in the last eight months than 39 states have *ever* installed. Colorado is #12 on the rankings with 4,200 megawatts installed. Texas installed ~20% more than that from March 1 to November 1.... over a gigawatt of solar + storage each *month* this year! #txenergy 🔌🔋💡
December 2, 2024 at 2:37 AM
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Americans killed annually by
All Islamic jihadist terrorists 9
Armed toddlers 21
Lightning 31
Lawnmowers 69
Busses 264
Falling out of bed 737
Being shot by another American 11,737

2017 estimates. The Royal Statistical Society gave this compilation its International Statistic of the Year award.
December 1, 2024 at 9:13 PM