If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.

consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.

Safe bike-lanes mean business.

The first two episodes of the revival of Reading Rainbow have nearly 500,000 views each 🤯

Do you know how cool that is for literacy, for book joy?! We are all worthy of reading, we are all readers 💚

And NOW episode three is out! Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋

youtu.be/e4VIV48ZB0M?feature=shared

Yamaha self-balancing bike technology.

Renewables Are Like a Good Neighbor

Wind Power to Community: You're in Good Hands

Solar Panels: 15 minutes of our output can save you 15% or more on your billz

“But we’ve missed an opportunity to do so much more by focusing on the other half of the problem — all this spending on upgrading poles and wires that can be avoided if we take better advantage of distributed energy resources.”

“The reality is that every person who has an e-bike becomes an e-bike evangelist because you can’t ride an e-bike around and not realize this is the best way to get around Boston.” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/13/m...

“When mayors in other cities ask me how #Copenhagen afforded to invest in its cycling networks, I ask them how on earth they have been able to afford highway projects. We invested in bike lanes because that was the cheapest option.”
theprogressplaybook.com/2024/01/31/w...

Sesame Street has done more than almost any other pop-culture source for good urbanism, urban design, mixed-use blocks, people-centred street design, place-making, “eyes on the street,” neighbourhood diversity, third places, and more. Every urbanist should support and say #ThankYouSesameStreet.

Global emissions from heating are about 4x those from cooling.

Air conditioning is an important and lifesaving adaptation to climate change.

Decarbonize the grid.

I'm excited to support Habitat 2, an optimistic SFF short story collection with *gorgeous* art, on Kickstarter!

I see more people looking for(& creating)these stories every day and it gives me hope.

#climatesky #booksky #greensky #solarpunk @habitatspress.com

www.kickstarter.com/projects/sam...

"Yesterday's tools cannot mend tomorrow's needs". The Fed, Treasury, Executive Branch and Congress 7-24-2025

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The Git project announced 7 new security vulnerabilities that affect all prior versions of Git. Learn more about each one and upgrade to the latest version. ⬇️

FDA inspectors have uncovered new and dangerous breakdowns in drugmaking at an Indian factory owned by Sun Pharma that produces generic medications for American consumers.

🔗 Read more: propub.li/4lyXX3t

We are hiring for two high-level positions: Director of Navigation and Director of Operations.

Both positions will be members of the ESA Executive Board and, in that role, will be responsible for contributing to ESA-wide management.

Apply by 5 September⬇️ www.esa.int/About_Us/Car...

I made a book, a very tiny book.
On vintage paper with watercolour illustrations and a nonsense verse.
If anyone wants to publish it for me I would be overjoyed. This is just a rough to see how it works out

yes, and while I love the 🖕and the pettiness, folks really need leave billionaire-owned social media and discover the Fediverse. They have options that aren't the CCP
Loops = Tiktok
Friendica = Facebook
PixelFed = Instagram
Bsky, Masto = Twitter