Bianca Walser
@biancawalser.bsky.social
I like safe streets, infill housing and trees. Find more ways to say yes. YIMBY, MeFite, Smithie.
(ambrosiamonkey over on the old place)
(ambrosiamonkey over on the old place)
Pinned
People who think that advocates for safe mobility infrastructure are politically powerful need to understand our streets would look very very different if that were in fact true.
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Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.
November 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.
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Voorstraat in Utrecht: a true fietsstraat where bikes come first and cars are guests. It’s not just safer and more relaxed to cycle - the whole street benefits. Outdoor cafés, quieter homes, and a vibrant public space. When you design for people, cities flourish.
November 15, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Voorstraat in Utrecht: a true fietsstraat where bikes come first and cars are guests. It’s not just safer and more relaxed to cycle - the whole street benefits. Outdoor cafés, quieter homes, and a vibrant public space. When you design for people, cities flourish.
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And how much Transportation is hidden in the other categories? What portion of Housing costs is the garage under your apartment building? What portion of Food is the sea of parking surrounding the supermarket? What portion of Healthcare is car-related injury and respiratory disease?
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 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
And how much Transportation is hidden in the other categories? What portion of Housing costs is the garage under your apartment building? What portion of Food is the sea of parking surrounding the supermarket? What portion of Healthcare is car-related injury and respiratory disease?
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We have such a stupid transportation system in this goofy country that affects every corner of our life.
Higher costs, worse air, more deaths and injuries, no places you can go and let your kid run around.
These are all things we've given up so people can drive a car at 40 mph in a city.
Higher costs, worse air, more deaths and injuries, no places you can go and let your kid run around.
These are all things we've given up so people can drive a car at 40 mph in a city.
November 15, 2025 at 10:11 AM
We have such a stupid transportation system in this goofy country that affects every corner of our life.
Higher costs, worse air, more deaths and injuries, no places you can go and let your kid run around.
These are all things we've given up so people can drive a car at 40 mph in a city.
Higher costs, worse air, more deaths and injuries, no places you can go and let your kid run around.
These are all things we've given up so people can drive a car at 40 mph in a city.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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All epidemiologists are uneasy about climate change because more mosquitoes everywhere plus whatever their weird pet specific concern is (mine is half “changed bird migration leads to superflu” and half “anthrax-laden tundra thaw” with a little “multi-drug-resistant gonorrhea” for luck)
between this and the FSO Safer (another ship at serious risk of exploding) I’m convinced every field has its “yeah, this is the problem that keeps me up at night” and I’m on a quest to learn about all of them
yes yes we all know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, rest her soul, but did you know about the ship laden with explosives that sank in the mouth of the Thames in 1944 and could explode at any minute and which attempts to disarm keep failing
November 15, 2025 at 6:25 AM
All epidemiologists are uneasy about climate change because more mosquitoes everywhere plus whatever their weird pet specific concern is (mine is half “changed bird migration leads to superflu” and half “anthrax-laden tundra thaw” with a little “multi-drug-resistant gonorrhea” for luck)
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I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
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Well that sure is a thing that hadn't crossed my mind yet and now it will never leave my mind.
The same people who claim we don’t know what a “woman” is are having a real tough time defining a “child”.
November 14, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Well that sure is a thing that hadn't crossed my mind yet and now it will never leave my mind.
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Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
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one of the underlying factors in all the Epstein stuff is that his correspondents - even the ones who likely did not participate in abuse themselves - are completely incapable of imagining his victims as people. he is real to them, the girls aren't.
I sometimes feel like they don’t want to end poverty or reduce inequality because they believe they’re entitled to a class of people they can prey upon
November 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
one of the underlying factors in all the Epstein stuff is that his correspondents - even the ones who likely did not participate in abuse themselves - are completely incapable of imagining his victims as people. he is real to them, the girls aren't.
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for example: we just watched Joyce Carol Oates break Elon Musk’s psyche into 20,000 wriggling maggot-like pieces, and she said nothing anyone could ever construe as a bannable threat in the process
also the self-censorship people on here just sound Iike naive children to me
you can in fact viciously and highly effective criticize evil people without giving them needless points of vulnerability to get you back with
you can in fact viciously and highly effective criticize evil people without giving them needless points of vulnerability to get you back with
November 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
for example: we just watched Joyce Carol Oates break Elon Musk’s psyche into 20,000 wriggling maggot-like pieces, and she said nothing anyone could ever construe as a bannable threat in the process
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We should be designing for the most vulnerable user instead of the largest vehicle. ~Bill Nesper @bikeleague.org h/t @nacto.bsky.social #FloridaBikeSummit
November 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
We should be designing for the most vulnerable user instead of the largest vehicle. ~Bill Nesper @bikeleague.org h/t @nacto.bsky.social #FloridaBikeSummit
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Almost like economists have been saying that you need a functional state with limited number of chaotic events to have a functioning business economy, and that the tumult doesn't make the tax breaks worth it.
Fun thing: if you hate the Trump tariffs, you're going to hate climate change even more.
Fun thing: if you hate the Trump tariffs, you're going to hate climate change even more.
YELLEN: “.. businesses feel paralyzed by the uncertainty about policies that represent the strong but really personal whims of a single individual.”
@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Almost like economists have been saying that you need a functional state with limited number of chaotic events to have a functioning business economy, and that the tumult doesn't make the tax breaks worth it.
Fun thing: if you hate the Trump tariffs, you're going to hate climate change even more.
Fun thing: if you hate the Trump tariffs, you're going to hate climate change even more.
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what we should do now is of course close the intersection until it is redesigned. but we won't we will do nothing and wait for the next tragedy.
November 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
what we should do now is of course close the intersection until it is redesigned. but we won't we will do nothing and wait for the next tragedy.
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A crossing guard was killed by the driver of a dump truck yesterday. absolutely heartbreaking.
Look at our intersections, look how hostile these are for people/children - this is what we continue to build and defend at all costs. These aren't accidents, these are results. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Look at our intersections, look how hostile these are for people/children - this is what we continue to build and defend at all costs. These aren't accidents, these are results. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
November 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
A crossing guard was killed by the driver of a dump truck yesterday. absolutely heartbreaking.
Look at our intersections, look how hostile these are for people/children - this is what we continue to build and defend at all costs. These aren't accidents, these are results. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Look at our intersections, look how hostile these are for people/children - this is what we continue to build and defend at all costs. These aren't accidents, these are results. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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What if national journalists had the courage to say this plainly.
"It is not law enforcement; it is terror."
November 13, 2025 at 10:55 PM
What if national journalists had the courage to say this plainly.
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I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
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the thing that strikes me about this — again, besides it being false — is the venom and disrespect for the people who come here to work and build better lives. they aren’t “servants.”
JD Vance: "Democrats' idea was the way you get more prosperity is that you import more and more low wage servants."
November 14, 2025 at 2:32 AM
the thing that strikes me about this — again, besides it being false — is the venom and disrespect for the people who come here to work and build better lives. they aren’t “servants.”
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If you are arguing that teenagers raped by 50-year olds aren't children you should delete your account and ask if walking right into the ocean is right for you.
Also Jesus Christ look at you, you responded to this post:
“Moreover you need to stop centering the perpetrator. The point is that all the victims are children”
with
“No they were teenagers.”
You expect polite society to tolerate that? It shouldn’t.
“Moreover you need to stop centering the perpetrator. The point is that all the victims are children”
with
“No they were teenagers.”
You expect polite society to tolerate that? It shouldn’t.
November 14, 2025 at 12:16 AM
If you are arguing that teenagers raped by 50-year olds aren't children you should delete your account and ask if walking right into the ocean is right for you.
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imagine how much better our city would be if more mayors and councilmembers and department heads actually rode transit and bikes.
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November 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM
imagine how much better our city would be if more mayors and councilmembers and department heads actually rode transit and bikes.
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You could literally write 4000 of these pieces every year just in California, and the stories would be largely the same.
Every person killed in traffic was part of a community, and their loss persists with wounds that never heal.
Every person killed in traffic was part of a community, and their loss persists with wounds that never heal.
November 14, 2025 at 12:05 AM
You could literally write 4000 of these pieces every year just in California, and the stories would be largely the same.
Every person killed in traffic was part of a community, and their loss persists with wounds that never heal.
Every person killed in traffic was part of a community, and their loss persists with wounds that never heal.
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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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Who knew the Berkeley Fire Department would start eliminating festivals, limiting farmers market sizes, and block safer streets—becoming the single entity in the city working to make everyone in the city unhappy.
We can have nice things without needing to pave the entire city for fire truck access.
We can have nice things without needing to pave the entire city for fire truck access.
November 13, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Who knew the Berkeley Fire Department would start eliminating festivals, limiting farmers market sizes, and block safer streets—becoming the single entity in the city working to make everyone in the city unhappy.
We can have nice things without needing to pave the entire city for fire truck access.
We can have nice things without needing to pave the entire city for fire truck access.
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So when the aurora borealis is faint enough, you can capture its glow with the Milky Way 😍
Berthoud Pass, CO last night
Berthoud Pass, CO last night
November 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
So when the aurora borealis is faint enough, you can capture its glow with the Milky Way 😍
Berthoud Pass, CO last night
Berthoud Pass, CO last night