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This song slaps!
The California High Speed Rail Song
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April 13, 2025 at 3:23 AM
baizhijie.bsky.social
In this moment where Trump’s actions and the medias morbid fixation on him now has half the country “doomscrolling”- I think it is time to think about “Critical Ignoring” as a new skill.

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Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens,...
Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens, i.e. “choosing what to ignore, learning how to resist low-quali
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February 6, 2025 at 11:44 PM
baizhijie.bsky.social
Good news! Congestion pricing has done no harm to Broadway shows and may even be slightly positive:
@nyc.streetsblog.org

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Wind in their Sales: Congestion Pricing is No 'Toll' on the Broadway Box Office - Streetsblog New York City
Despite doom prognostications, congestion pricing has not hurt Broadway's bottom line a bit — and, in fact, may be boasting it.
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February 5, 2025 at 5:19 AM
baizhijie.bsky.social
This is really cool data
transalt.org Transportation Alternatives @transalt.org · Jan 31
Did you know? 🚲 In NYC, every extra mile of protected bike lanes leads to 1,100 more daily bike trips.

Proof that when we build safe streets, more people ride!
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February 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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misernyc.bsky.social
We are so close to making Universal Daylighting a Reality in this city. Bronx targets have been added. You know what to do:

daylighting.carrd.co
Universal Daylighting
Bringing universal daylighting to NYC
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January 16, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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misernyc.bsky.social
The next big fight: UNIVERSAL DAYLIGHTING -- and we can win it now. A Universal Daylighting bill is gathering support as we speak
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Universal Daylighting can be won RIGHT NOW in NYC
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January 7, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Amazing chart from this Scientific American article as well.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/jimm...
Chart showing massive decline in guinea worm cases, from around a million annual cases in the late 1980s to just 7 in 2024, along with relevant efforts by the Carter Center.
December 30, 2024 at 12:48 AM
baizhijie.bsky.social
Reposting this for myself!
December 11, 2024 at 2:45 PM
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This is kind of cool. If you have a long thread, you type everything into one box and it divides it up into individual posts and posts it for you. bluesky-thread-composer.pages.dev
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December 10, 2024 at 6:27 PM
baizhijie.bsky.social
I really want to make a master list of all these projects because fear of losing business seems like the most common objection to new bike lanes- but it’s usually a false fear.
naubinhorth.bsky.social Nadia Aubin-Horth @naubinhorth.bsky.social · Dec 11
They built a bike lane on a commercial street in Québec city and guess what happened to sales? Yes, like everywhere else, revenues went UP (by 10%). Car trafic is down by 35% and evaporated (not diverted to side streets). More pedestrians and more bikes. www.journaldequebec.com/2024/12/10/p...
A screenshot of a newspaper with the title "bike lane on chemin ste-foy: sales go up in businesses" with a photo of the commercial street in the background
December 11, 2024 at 2:42 PM
baizhijie.bsky.social
This is a great summary graphic.
drshepherd2013.bsky.social Marshall Shepherd @drshepherd2013.bsky.social · Dec 10
This is so spot on. As a climate scientist and public intellectual, I see or experience these often
December 10, 2024 at 10:18 PM
baizhijie.bsky.social
This is news to me and really great news! It looks like 1990 was an inflection point. Just goes to show, you often don’t see the good changes at first when they start happening.
scientificdiscovery.dev Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · Dec 9
Americans are now one-third less likely to die from cancer at the same ages as Americans in 1990
How has the risk of dying from cancer changed in the United States? To understand this, we can look at national cancer death rates in the United States. The gray line shows the crude rate, which is the rate of deaths from cancer per 100,000 people. It has risen between 1950 and 1990 and has fallen slightly since then. However, cancer death rates rise sharply with age, and the age of the US population has increased since 1950, so we would expect cancer death rates to rise for that reason alone. What if we adjust for the increased age of the US population? The red line, the age-standardized rate, shows this. It shows the cancer death rate if the age structure of the US population was held constant throughout. This shows a slight rise until 1990 and then a significant decline; rates have fallen by one-third. This means Americans are now one-third less likely to die from cancer at the same ages as Americans in 1990. This comes from several factors: better screening and earlier diagnosis, medical advances in cancer treatments, and public health efforts to reduce risk factors like smoking and exposure to carcinogens.
December 9, 2024 at 11:52 AM
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thebikinglawyer.bsky.social
Take our lanes, we'll take yours!
Critical Mass is being organized for this Friday. Plan is to leave High Park at 6:30. Join us and put rubber to road in opposition to Bill 212 and efforts to take out our bike lanes. The fight starts now.
November 26, 2024 at 4:41 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
A person on a bicycle is by far the most energy-efficient among animals and machines per distance traveled relative to body weight. The bicycle is magic.

www.jstor.org/stable/24923...
A graph titled "Cost of Transport" showing the relationship between body weight (in kilograms) and energy consumption for distance traveled (calories per gram per kilometer) for various animals and machines. It highlights that a person on a bicycle ranks first in efficiency.
November 24, 2024 at 11:12 PM