TireDustBreather
@tiredustbreather.bsky.social
🚲 Hates cars
📍 Richmond, VA
📍 Richmond, VA
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Feeling sick? You may be suffering from CLIMATE CRISIS!
November 16, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Feeling sick? You may be suffering from CLIMATE CRISIS!
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For taxpayers, every piece of cycling infrastructure is a gift that keeps on giving.
An asset that returns annual savings in congestion, pollution, maintenance, safety and healthcare over its lifetime.
Stop asking whether your city can afford to invest in cycling. Ask whether it can afford not to.
An asset that returns annual savings in congestion, pollution, maintenance, safety and healthcare over its lifetime.
Stop asking whether your city can afford to invest in cycling. Ask whether it can afford not to.
November 12, 2025 at 6:52 AM
For taxpayers, every piece of cycling infrastructure is a gift that keeps on giving.
An asset that returns annual savings in congestion, pollution, maintenance, safety and healthcare over its lifetime.
Stop asking whether your city can afford to invest in cycling. Ask whether it can afford not to.
An asset that returns annual savings in congestion, pollution, maintenance, safety and healthcare over its lifetime.
Stop asking whether your city can afford to invest in cycling. Ask whether it can afford not to.
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Someone was just doored and killed in NYC again. It's time to fix these lanes for good
November 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Someone was just doored and killed in NYC again. It's time to fix these lanes for good
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I park my cargo bike in street parking spaces and parking lots all the time. No shame, no regret. Honestly just do it unapologetically.
November 6, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I park my cargo bike in street parking spaces and parking lots all the time. No shame, no regret. Honestly just do it unapologetically.
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NEW: 73 Minneapolis Police videos from the arrest of over 646 people the night after the 2020 elections illustrate MPD’s antagonistic relationship with the community. Strikingly, more than 24% of the 45 officers have killed community members while on duty.
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Body Cameras Show How Police Acted During Minneapolis’ Largest Mass Arrest - UNICORN RIOT
UR is exclusively releasing 73 Minneapolis Police videos from the largest mass arrest in MN history of at least 646 people in Nov. 2020.
unicornriot.ninja
November 6, 2025 at 8:27 PM
NEW: 73 Minneapolis Police videos from the arrest of over 646 people the night after the 2020 elections illustrate MPD’s antagonistic relationship with the community. Strikingly, more than 24% of the 45 officers have killed community members while on duty.
unicornriot.ninja/2025/body-ca...
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Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc
November 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc
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IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility.
Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it.
#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com
Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it.
#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:51 AM
IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility.
Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it.
#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com
Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it.
#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com
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The stuff of nightmares: "Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said" apnews.com/article/ai-a...
October 28, 2024 at 10:07 AM
The stuff of nightmares: "Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said" apnews.com/article/ai-a...
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"The reality is that, increasingly, Americans cannot afford their cars anymore."
Americans can’t afford their cars any more and Wall Street is worried
In a country where public transport is scant outside major cities, car loans are one of the last things that Americans will let themselves default on.
finance.yahoo.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
"The reality is that, increasingly, Americans cannot afford their cars anymore."
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Curb-backed sidewalks are hostile infrastructure and we really need to stop allowing them as acceptable design code.
October 14, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Curb-backed sidewalks are hostile infrastructure and we really need to stop allowing them as acceptable design code.
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Over 60 cyclists pass on this side of the street in under 30 seconds. And their flow only stops because the traffic light turned red.
An efficiency impossible to match if these people were driving.
An efficiency impossible to match if these people were driving.
October 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Over 60 cyclists pass on this side of the street in under 30 seconds. And their flow only stops because the traffic light turned red.
An efficiency impossible to match if these people were driving.
An efficiency impossible to match if these people were driving.
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Kloveniersburgwal, Amsterdam in 1980 and today. Canal side car parking replaced by canal side dining
October 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Kloveniersburgwal, Amsterdam in 1980 and today. Canal side car parking replaced by canal side dining
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@triofrancos.bsky.social on the astonishing biodiversity in the Atacama Salt Flat and the environmental cost of green capitalism.
What Mining for Water in the Andean Desert Reveals About “Green” Capitalism
A high-altitude desert plateau traverses Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile. I am on the Chilean side, in the passenger seat of a Jeep, along with two other researchers. The afternoon air is thin and b…
buff.ly
October 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
@triofrancos.bsky.social on the astonishing biodiversity in the Atacama Salt Flat and the environmental cost of green capitalism.
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Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Finds Bank Analysis
City of Madrid significantly boosted the takings of its shops and restaurants last Christmas by banning cars from the CBD, finds an analysis by Spain's second largest bank.
www.forbes.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
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"Motor vehicles are also one of the leading causes of death in the United States, with more than 40,000 deaths annually due to crashes—roughly the same as 109 Boeing 747s crashing annually."
October 2, 2025 at 11:31 AM
"Motor vehicles are also one of the leading causes of death in the United States, with more than 40,000 deaths annually due to crashes—roughly the same as 109 Boeing 747s crashing annually."
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JD Vance is doing the Reichstag Fire the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
September 15, 2025 at 10:59 PM
JD Vance is doing the Reichstag Fire the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
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The Court Street bike lane (being implemented now) plus the greenway over the Gowanus Canal/under the expressway adds a nice protected corridor to Brooklyn's #bikenyc network
September 15, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The Court Street bike lane (being implemented now) plus the greenway over the Gowanus Canal/under the expressway adds a nice protected corridor to Brooklyn's #bikenyc network
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The 4 stages of #bicycle consciousness:
1. Bikes are obstacles (outright bans)
2. Bikes are toys (OK, your kids can ride around their subdivision)
3. Bikes are exercise (paths in parks that you drive to)
4. Bikes are transportation (you can mostly get from A to B without risking death)
1. Bikes are obstacles (outright bans)
2. Bikes are toys (OK, your kids can ride around their subdivision)
3. Bikes are exercise (paths in parks that you drive to)
4. Bikes are transportation (you can mostly get from A to B without risking death)
Inadequate bike infrastructure is a major contributor to cyclist casualties in the US, but the attitudes of US drivers are also a huge factor. They view cyclists not as fellow commuters but as obstacles that don’t belong there, and they assume anyone biking instead of driving is being a contrarian.
September 15, 2025 at 2:03 AM
The 4 stages of #bicycle consciousness:
1. Bikes are obstacles (outright bans)
2. Bikes are toys (OK, your kids can ride around their subdivision)
3. Bikes are exercise (paths in parks that you drive to)
4. Bikes are transportation (you can mostly get from A to B without risking death)
1. Bikes are obstacles (outright bans)
2. Bikes are toys (OK, your kids can ride around their subdivision)
3. Bikes are exercise (paths in parks that you drive to)
4. Bikes are transportation (you can mostly get from A to B without risking death)
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Richmond's bike lanes are sparse and poorly protected, cyclists say.
Richmond cyclists say city's bike lanes sparse, disjointed, unsafe
Richmond's bike lanes are sparse and poorly protected, cyclists say.
richmond.com
September 13, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Richmond's bike lanes are sparse and poorly protected, cyclists say.
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“particles spewed by Canadian wildfires killed 82,000 people in 2023, according to a study published in Nature on Wednesday. The long tendrils of smoke choked towns not just in Canada and the US, but also across the Atlantic. The pollution was responsible for 22,000 early deaths in Europe alone.”
Every avoidable death is a tragedy. Smoke from Canada’s wildfires killed nine-year-old Carter Vigh – and 82,000 others around the world. #EndFossilFuels.
@gchalliance.bsky.social
@docsforclimate.bsky.social
@fossilfueltreaty.bsky.social
@gchalliance.bsky.social
@docsforclimate.bsky.social
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Smoke from Canada’s wildfires killed nine-year-old Carter Vigh – and 82,000 others around the world
Toxic particles spewed by 2023’s wildfires were even responsible for 22,000 early deaths in Europe, researchers say
www.theguardian.com
September 11, 2025 at 3:10 AM
“particles spewed by Canadian wildfires killed 82,000 people in 2023, according to a study published in Nature on Wednesday. The long tendrils of smoke choked towns not just in Canada and the US, but also across the Atlantic. The pollution was responsible for 22,000 early deaths in Europe alone.”
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If your downtown still has many wide and fast one-way streets, then your priority is to move cars as fast as possible thru a weak downtown. It’s NOT to create a vibrant downtown, help downtown retailers, keep people safe, support walkability and accessibility, reduce pollution, etc. #TrafficSewers
September 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
If your downtown still has many wide and fast one-way streets, then your priority is to move cars as fast as possible thru a weak downtown. It’s NOT to create a vibrant downtown, help downtown retailers, keep people safe, support walkability and accessibility, reduce pollution, etc. #TrafficSewers
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IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do the math on investing in better mobility.
Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it.
#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.bsky.social
Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it.
#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 6:53 AM
IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do the math on investing in better mobility.
Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it.
#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.bsky.social
Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it.
#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.bsky.social
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This part of the video summarizes how cars ruin cities and suburbs, and in one sentence, proposes a solution to that problem.
July 1, 2025 at 8:50 AM
This part of the video summarizes how cars ruin cities and suburbs, and in one sentence, proposes a solution to that problem.
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Trigger warning.
“In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.”
Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.
“In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.”
Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.
September 3, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Trigger warning.
“In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.”
Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.
“In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.”
Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.
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Pedestrian walking in road because cyclist riding on sidewalk because car parked in bike lane
Pedestrian walking in road because cyclist riding on sidewalk because car parked in bike lane
TORONTO - Eyewitnesses today confirmed reports that a pedestrian was walking in the road because a cyclist was riding on the sidewalk because a car was parked in the bike lane.
www.thebeaverton.com
September 3, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Pedestrian walking in road because cyclist riding on sidewalk because car parked in bike lane