paddy frank
@pat-lafleur.bsky.social
propagandist 📍 OH-KY-IN
transportation/environment writer
former corporate media cog
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transportation/environment writer
former corporate media cog
🦽🚶♂️🚲 🚌 📰 🌎 🏳️🌈 🛠️
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paddy frank
@pat-lafleur.bsky.social
· Nov 23
👋 Hi, @bsky.app folks, I’m Pat, a writer, editor & media pro based in OH-KY-IN, finally jumping from that other site.
If you’re into journalism, digital media, equity, social justice, accessibility, fighting capitalimperialism, and/or finding alternatives to cars, let’s be Bluesky buds.
If you’re into journalism, digital media, equity, social justice, accessibility, fighting capitalimperialism, and/or finding alternatives to cars, let’s be Bluesky buds.
American traffic engineers really will try anything to slow down traffic except anything that’s known to actually slow down traffic
New squiggly lines painted on Pennsylvania road to deter drivers from speeding
Drivers are going to be doing a double take when they cruise down one road in Montgomery Township, Pennsylvania.
www.nbcphiladelphia.com
March 30, 2025 at 10:40 PM
American traffic engineers really will try anything to slow down traffic except anything that’s known to actually slow down traffic
Well this is despicable. And I’m sure DHS made sure to get everyone’s consent to have their likenesses featured in a (probably illegally politicized) state-sponsored video.
Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem making content in front of the imprisoned men of El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center mega-prison www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
March 27, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Well this is despicable. And I’m sure DHS made sure to get everyone’s consent to have their likenesses featured in a (probably illegally politicized) state-sponsored video.
🪡 Meant to post about this last week but life got in the way... TANK bus 🚌 service in Northern Kentucky and downtown Cincinnati implemented route changes AND a planned fare increase over the weekend. Here are details:
March 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
🪡 Meant to post about this last week but life got in the way... TANK bus 🚌 service in Northern Kentucky and downtown Cincinnati implemented route changes AND a planned fare increase over the weekend. Here are details:
for a nation so obsessed with guns, you’d think the idea of a bullet train would be more popular
March 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
for a nation so obsessed with guns, you’d think the idea of a bullet train would be more popular
waiting for Meta — in a zucked attempt to out-Musk Musk — to announce their line of electric, socially interfaced "self-driving" cars
spongebob is sitting at a table in a diner with a cup of coffee
ALT: spongebob is sitting at a table in a diner with a cup of coffee
media.tenor.com
March 23, 2025 at 10:56 AM
waiting for Meta — in a zucked attempt to out-Musk Musk — to announce their line of electric, socially interfaced "self-driving" cars
This is the perfect time to have a deranged, ketamine-fueled automaker gutting federal regulatory agencies…
March 23, 2025 at 10:48 AM
This is the perfect time to have a deranged, ketamine-fueled automaker gutting federal regulatory agencies…
The only real solution to increasingly violent crashes, traffic congestion and expensive parking... is fewer drivers. The only way to have fewer drivers is to have more alternatives. It's not complicated.
March 21, 2025 at 1:55 PM
The only real solution to increasingly violent crashes, traffic congestion and expensive parking... is fewer drivers. The only way to have fewer drivers is to have more alternatives. It's not complicated.
setting all the wrong records
US drivers log 3.28 trillion miles in 2024, setting new record
Travel on U.S. roads in 2024 rose 1% to 3.28 trillion miles setting a new yearly record and topping pre-COVID 19 levels for the first time, the Transportation Department said Wednesday.
www.reuters.com
March 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
setting all the wrong records
interesting thread on “cars and trains #urbanism” and how it perpetuates autonormativity
From the left_urbanism community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the left_urbanism community
www.reddit.com
March 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
interesting thread on “cars and trains #urbanism” and how it perpetuates autonormativity
spotted a fresh canvas at the Fifth and Scott parking garage in Covington
March 4, 2025 at 12:34 PM
spotted a fresh canvas at the Fifth and Scott parking garage in Covington
Billionaires make up approximately 0.00023% of the U.S. population.
February 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Billionaires make up approximately 0.00023% of the U.S. population.
I meant to post a follow-up to this the other day. Judge wanted more time to consider after grilling both White House and AP representatives on Monday: www.axios.com/2025/02/24/t...
Judge upholds Trump's right to block AP for now
It's a win for the White House — at least for now — as they seek to restrict the AP's access.
www.axios.com
February 27, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I meant to post a follow-up to this the other day. Judge wanted more time to consider after grilling both White House and AP representatives on Monday: www.axios.com/2025/02/24/t...
Keeping 👀 on this today:
US judge to hear AP challenge to Trump's ban over use of Gulf of Mexico name
A federal judge on Monday is set to consider a request by the Associated Press to restore full access for the news agency's journalists after President Donald Trump's administration barred them for continuing to refer to the Gulf of Mexico in coverage.
www.reuters.com
February 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Keeping 👀 on this today:
👎👎👎BOO👎👎👎
(ask me how I feel about this)
(ask me how I feel about this)
February 24, 2025 at 12:32 PM
👎👎👎BOO👎👎👎
(ask me how I feel about this)
(ask me how I feel about this)
When the question is, “What city/project is this that car-dominance ruined?” I feel that at least 7 times out of 10, the answer is (in) #Cincinnati.
Going through old photos. Can anyone tell me what city the DOT destroyed here?
February 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
When the question is, “What city/project is this that car-dominance ruined?” I feel that at least 7 times out of 10, the answer is (in) #Cincinnati.
future iconic-historical photo of early 21st-century American governance
February 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
future iconic-historical photo of early 21st-century American governance
I'm simply overwhelmed by the volume of things to unpack in this photo...
(📸 Eric Lee/NYT)
(📸 Eric Lee/NYT)
February 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I'm simply overwhelmed by the volume of things to unpack in this photo...
(📸 Eric Lee/NYT)
(📸 Eric Lee/NYT)
leeching public water, bottling it in cheap, toxic plastic and selling it back at a profit amidst a devastating water crisis right in your backyard is peak #capitalism
A Bottled Water Company in Michigan Is Still Extracting Millions of Gallons of Water for Free
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer had pledged to crack down on bottled water companies taking water at the same time Flint, Michigan, faced a water crisis. Six years later and in her second term, little has chang...
www.propublica.org
February 1, 2025 at 2:59 AM
leeching public water, bottling it in cheap, toxic plastic and selling it back at a profit amidst a devastating water crisis right in your backyard is peak #capitalism
It’s easier to hide behind 40 atrocities than a single incident.
January 30, 2025 at 10:17 PM
It’s easier to hide behind 40 atrocities than a single incident.
It took nearly half a century, but the feds are finally considering pedestrians part of a motor vehicle’s safety equation, starting in 2026.
January 28, 2025 at 10:33 PM
It took nearly half a century, but the feds are finally considering pedestrians part of a motor vehicle’s safety equation, starting in 2026.
Mainstrasse — specifically its eponymous corridor, home to 1000s of people and dozens of small businesses — endure a particular kind of hell any time the Brent Spence Bridge lower (northbound into Cincinnati) deck closes.
Moments like these aren’t inevitabilities of life. They are policy choices.
Moments like these aren’t inevitabilities of life. They are policy choices.
January 27, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Mainstrasse — specifically its eponymous corridor, home to 1000s of people and dozens of small businesses — endure a particular kind of hell any time the Brent Spence Bridge lower (northbound into Cincinnati) deck closes.
Moments like these aren’t inevitabilities of life. They are policy choices.
Moments like these aren’t inevitabilities of life. They are policy choices.
I joined that other site 15 years ago this year. Used it professionally, had a blue check before those could just be bought. Etc.
I know I’ve got data in there.
This is the report I get as a non-premium member. Did I do something wrong, or is this just musk residue? #twitter
I know I’ve got data in there.
This is the report I get as a non-premium member. Did I do something wrong, or is this just musk residue? #twitter
January 27, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I joined that other site 15 years ago this year. Used it professionally, had a blue check before those could just be bought. Etc.
I know I’ve got data in there.
This is the report I get as a non-premium member. Did I do something wrong, or is this just musk residue? #twitter
I know I’ve got data in there.
This is the report I get as a non-premium member. Did I do something wrong, or is this just musk residue? #twitter
Remember, friends: When presented the choice, a capitalist will pick profit over people. Any other choice the system will reject.
January 25, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Remember, friends: When presented the choice, a capitalist will pick profit over people. Any other choice the system will reject.