A Pile Of Vegetables
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Dreaming of a more human world. Daydreaming about dragons and spaceships.
@sarahmackattack.bsky.social Just wanted to say thank you—my family has the frog fact calendar hanging in our living room. The adults and our one year old all love it!
December 8, 2024 at 11:17 PM
@sarahmackattack.bsky.social Just wanted to say thank you—my family has the frog fact calendar hanging in our living room. The adults and our one year old all love it!
@indiegameclinic.bsky.social Hey, just wanted to say how much I loved Strange Voyage. I left Twitter a while ago and it’s been one of the things I miss the most. Would make me stop and reflect multiple times per week. Thanks for putting it out there, it was so beautiful.
November 19, 2024 at 7:57 PM
@indiegameclinic.bsky.social Hey, just wanted to say how much I loved Strange Voyage. I left Twitter a while ago and it’s been one of the things I miss the most. Would make me stop and reflect multiple times per week. Thanks for putting it out there, it was so beautiful.
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February 18, 2024 at 6:42 PM
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New study: Cities that encourage cycling are safer for everyone -- including those who don’t bike:
"Higher-bicycling cities are significantly associated with better overall road safety outcomes."
doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...
"Higher-bicycling cities are significantly associated with better overall road safety outcomes."
doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...
February 13, 2024 at 2:51 PM
New study: Cities that encourage cycling are safer for everyone -- including those who don’t bike:
"Higher-bicycling cities are significantly associated with better overall road safety outcomes."
doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...
"Higher-bicycling cities are significantly associated with better overall road safety outcomes."
doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...
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We know how to stop Covid (and it would probably do for a lot of other diseases too).
We lack the will.
We lack the will.
December 27, 2023 at 6:47 PM
We know how to stop Covid (and it would probably do for a lot of other diseases too).
We lack the will.
We lack the will.
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The deal seems to be that people can largely live like in pre-pandemic times as long as we accept getting miserably ill maybe twice a year (especially during family holidays), accept heightened risks of long-term health problems, and let old/vulnerable folks die. Doesn’t seem like a good deal to me.
December 27, 2023 at 2:08 PM
The deal seems to be that people can largely live like in pre-pandemic times as long as we accept getting miserably ill maybe twice a year (especially during family holidays), accept heightened risks of long-term health problems, and let old/vulnerable folks die. Doesn’t seem like a good deal to me.
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Anyway take this with you into the holiday season
December 23, 2023 at 3:30 AM
Anyway take this with you into the holiday season
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“‘Road injury’” also remains the leading cause of death for people under 30. The economic toll is just as staggering.”
Traffic Deaths And Injuries Cost $1.8 Trillion To The Global Economy: Report
The United States follows none of the WHO's best-practice laws for road safety, but it isn't the worst offender
jalopnik.com
December 18, 2023 at 1:59 PM
“‘Road injury’” also remains the leading cause of death for people under 30. The economic toll is just as staggering.”
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Reclaiming our communities from the car is about more than saving the planet. It’s about saving ourselves from the inequitable, unliveable, financially-ruinous places we’ve built.
Ten books we read this year that changed how we think about mobility.
An #urbanismbookclub thread.
Ten books we read this year that changed how we think about mobility.
An #urbanismbookclub thread.
December 18, 2023 at 5:17 PM
Reclaiming our communities from the car is about more than saving the planet. It’s about saving ourselves from the inequitable, unliveable, financially-ruinous places we’ve built.
Ten books we read this year that changed how we think about mobility.
An #urbanismbookclub thread.
Ten books we read this year that changed how we think about mobility.
An #urbanismbookclub thread.
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Narrow the streets!
"If cities embrace narrower lanes, there are a range of possibilities for re-designing city streets to make them safer and more accommodating for pedestrians and cyclists."
www.wri.org/insights/big...
"If cities embrace narrower lanes, there are a range of possibilities for re-designing city streets to make them safer and more accommodating for pedestrians and cyclists."
www.wri.org/insights/big...
December 16, 2023 at 9:59 AM
Narrow the streets!
"If cities embrace narrower lanes, there are a range of possibilities for re-designing city streets to make them safer and more accommodating for pedestrians and cyclists."
www.wri.org/insights/big...
"If cities embrace narrower lanes, there are a range of possibilities for re-designing city streets to make them safer and more accommodating for pedestrians and cyclists."
www.wri.org/insights/big...
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oh yeah, ugh, sounds terrible
December 15, 2023 at 7:08 AM
oh yeah, ugh, sounds terrible
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Modest proposal that the starting point for everything be the acknowledgement that humans are a dependent part of a finite and indivisible larger living system.
December 13, 2023 at 10:50 PM
Modest proposal that the starting point for everything be the acknowledgement that humans are a dependent part of a finite and indivisible larger living system.
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Because it's seasonally relevant (again), just a reminder that we small Indie manufacturers don't have shareholders to satisfy, just bills to pay. And that while there's no algorithm here, Reposting stuff is the best way to help with visibility for us.
December 13, 2023 at 6:33 AM
Because it's seasonally relevant (again), just a reminder that we small Indie manufacturers don't have shareholders to satisfy, just bills to pay. And that while there's no algorithm here, Reposting stuff is the best way to help with visibility for us.
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No, The Atlantic, I don’t want a weird car, electric or not. I want viable public transit and a secure place to lock my cargo trike, fewer trucks & smaller cars so 3rd graders can safely cross streets, more rental availability for the 1 time a year someone needs a big vehicle & an end to stroads.
December 12, 2023 at 10:36 PM
No, The Atlantic, I don’t want a weird car, electric or not. I want viable public transit and a secure place to lock my cargo trike, fewer trucks & smaller cars so 3rd graders can safely cross streets, more rental availability for the 1 time a year someone needs a big vehicle & an end to stroads.
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You may not know this but I am in fact a climate modeller.
Here is my climate model
Here is my climate model
!["We can't act on climate change now, it'll be too disruptive"
linked in a self-reinforcing feedback loop to:
[Time passes with no action, meaning more disruptive changes are required than if action had begun earlier]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:66lbtw2porscqpmair6mir37/bafkreifpinvqf6fbstecfcdy35z7gfamwfn7jv4edo47sagw5hnolzty7u@jpeg)
August 6, 2023 at 7:07 PM
You may not know this but I am in fact a climate modeller.
Here is my climate model
Here is my climate model
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Even if the centers of power don't acknowledge it, even if the flashy events don't acknowledge it, the world has always been and always will be an indivisible whole. No one wins if other peoples or other species sink into climate devastation.
December 10, 2023 at 3:07 PM
Even if the centers of power don't acknowledge it, even if the flashy events don't acknowledge it, the world has always been and always will be an indivisible whole. No one wins if other peoples or other species sink into climate devastation.
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"About 57,000 students attend Harvard, Penn and MIT. Florida’s state university system, by contrast, educates more than seven times as many students."
The testimony of Ivy League presidents received far more attention than new assessments of how universities in Florida have been hobbled under DeSantis.
Analysis | Furor over the Ivies — and crickets about Florida
The week’s conversation about higher education both reflects the salience of the war in Israel — and the right’s success in how it frames higher education.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 10, 2023 at 1:44 PM
"About 57,000 students attend Harvard, Penn and MIT. Florida’s state university system, by contrast, educates more than seven times as many students."
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No. But unions could.
December 9, 2023 at 9:54 AM
No. But unions could.
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