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Minnesotan in exile - aspiring socialist - suburban flaneur - occasionally tolerant of social media
Nice night for a good old fashioned effigy burning
December 7, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Nice night for a good old fashioned effigy burning
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Walter Van Brunt & Maurice Burkhardt - The Ghost of the Violin [U.S., Rag] (1912) Halloween song from a century ago
https://redd.it/17f2qy2
https://youtu.be/aD1kl-6aTBI
https://redd.it/17f2qy2
https://youtu.be/aD1kl-6aTBI
Walter Van Brunt & Maurice Burkhardt - The Ghost of the Violin [U.S., Rag] (1912) Halloween song from a century ago
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December 3, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Walter Van Brunt & Maurice Burkhardt - The Ghost of the Violin [U.S., Rag] (1912) Halloween song from a century ago
https://redd.it/17f2qy2
https://youtu.be/aD1kl-6aTBI
https://redd.it/17f2qy2
https://youtu.be/aD1kl-6aTBI
Yet in the USA engineers refuse to place them, calling them a “hazard”
Over to Monaco🇲🇨 where we have exclusive footage of bollards saving lives.
#WorldBollardAssociation
#WorldBollardAssociation
December 2, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Yet in the USA engineers refuse to place them, calling them a “hazard”
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Over to Monaco🇲🇨 where we have exclusive footage of bollards saving lives.
#WorldBollardAssociation
#WorldBollardAssociation
December 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Over to Monaco🇲🇨 where we have exclusive footage of bollards saving lives.
#WorldBollardAssociation
#WorldBollardAssociation
Is there any rational explanation for Trump’s pardon of Hernández? Is anyone looking into whether Trump took a bribe for this?l
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Is there any rational explanation for Trump’s pardon of Hernández? Is anyone looking into whether Trump took a bribe for this?l
Agreed, autonomous vehicles should be limited to transit agencies only, which should be allowed to use them for car-hires as a financing tool. Also operators of non-autonomous vehicles should be given 100% liability for all damages to person or property as an incentive to switch to the state service
Ban private ownership of autonomous vehicles.
Just start there.
Just start there.
December 2, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Agreed, autonomous vehicles should be limited to transit agencies only, which should be allowed to use them for car-hires as a financing tool. Also operators of non-autonomous vehicles should be given 100% liability for all damages to person or property as an incentive to switch to the state service
Springfield, Oregon, recently rebuilt .7 miles of Mill St with curb-level, one-way bike lanes. But for some reason, less than half the length of the street has the protected lanes — most of it is just painted lanes. Garbage infra like this won’t convince anyone to bike instead of driving.
November 30, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Springfield, Oregon, recently rebuilt .7 miles of Mill St with curb-level, one-way bike lanes. But for some reason, less than half the length of the street has the protected lanes — most of it is just painted lanes. Garbage infra like this won’t convince anyone to bike instead of driving.
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A difference between robot cars vs. regular cars is that with regular cars, drivers walk to where they park, spreading traffic out.
With robot cars, every event turns city streets into an airport pickup line.
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With robot cars, every event turns city streets into an airport pickup line.
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A reminder that cars aren’t a technology problem. They’re a geometry problem.
Waymo privatized another public street:
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 AM
A difference between robot cars vs. regular cars is that with regular cars, drivers walk to where they park, spreading traffic out.
With robot cars, every event turns city streets into an airport pickup line.
bsky.app/profile/thew...
With robot cars, every event turns city streets into an airport pickup line.
bsky.app/profile/thew...
There’s a new intercity bus service launching in the Willamette Valley that doesn’t require tickets. Has anyone heard of any other fareless intercity bus services? corvallisadvocate.com/new-free-bus...
New Free Bus Service Connects Corvallis, Eugene and McMinnville, Starts Monday - The Corvallis Advocate
A new public transit pilot project offering bus service between McMinnville and Eugene, with two stops in Corvallis, officially launches on Monday, November 24. The pilot project, dubbed 99 Vine, is a...
corvallisadvocate.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
There’s a new intercity bus service launching in the Willamette Valley that doesn’t require tickets. Has anyone heard of any other fareless intercity bus services? corvallisadvocate.com/new-free-bus...
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Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.
November 21, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.
This photo was taken the last time they cleaned the grill
Seward Cafe (1991)
2129 Franklin Ave. E
Source: Hennepin County Library
2129 Franklin Ave. E
Source: Hennepin County Library
November 21, 2025 at 4:12 AM
This photo was taken the last time they cleaned the grill
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Trump admin Is attempting to massive cut federal transit funds, seeking to:
1–Eliminate transit account, which funds billions of $ in capital expenses for transit agencies
2–Prevent state DOTs from “flexing” funds for transit
These changes, if they occurred, would be devastating for US transit.
1–Eliminate transit account, which funds billions of $ in capital expenses for transit agencies
2–Prevent state DOTs from “flexing” funds for transit
These changes, if they occurred, would be devastating for US transit.
POLITICO Pro: Trump administration proposals seek to eliminate transit funding
DOT recently sent two proposals to the White House budget office seeking to pare back transit money.
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November 15, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Trump admin Is attempting to massive cut federal transit funds, seeking to:
1–Eliminate transit account, which funds billions of $ in capital expenses for transit agencies
2–Prevent state DOTs from “flexing” funds for transit
These changes, if they occurred, would be devastating for US transit.
1–Eliminate transit account, which funds billions of $ in capital expenses for transit agencies
2–Prevent state DOTs from “flexing” funds for transit
These changes, if they occurred, would be devastating for US transit.
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November 14, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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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.
New Post: Katie Wilson is Seattle’s Next Mayor seattletransitblog.com/2025/11/13/k...
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.
This too can be yours… all you have to do is FIRE YOUR CITY ENGINEER
If your street is too wide, too fast, lacks trees, and lacks seating then…I have a curb-bulb-speed-bump-tree-pit-park-bench idea for you.
November 3, 2025 at 3:59 AM
This too can be yours… all you have to do is FIRE YOUR CITY ENGINEER
When crosswalks are outlawed, only outlaws will paint crosswalks
For my last story for a week, I spoke with the people painting rainbows all over Houston to protest the rainbow crosswalk removal the other week: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
After Greg Abbott took theirs, Houstonians are painting rainbows everywhere
"The more rainbows I can paint, the better."
www.chron.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
When crosswalks are outlawed, only outlaws will paint crosswalks
Crosswalks are a form of resistance
For my last story for a week, I spoke with the people painting rainbows all over Houston to protest the rainbow crosswalk removal the other week: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
After Greg Abbott took theirs, Houstonians are painting rainbows everywhere
"The more rainbows I can paint, the better."
www.chron.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Crosswalks are a form of resistance
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This graph never fails to be shocking: "The US has experienced the earliest and greatest slowdown in life expectancy improvements among higher-income countries, reported Eileen Crimmins. “We have horrible life expectancy—and it’s getting worse and worse”"
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October 31, 2025 at 7:08 PM
This graph never fails to be shocking: "The US has experienced the earliest and greatest slowdown in life expectancy improvements among higher-income countries, reported Eileen Crimmins. “We have horrible life expectancy—and it’s getting worse and worse”"
www.prb.org/resources/se...
www.prb.org/resources/se...
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This is another excellent piece from @ebwhamilton.bsky.social. I don't think I would've predicted how much we are overbuilding large bedroom housing to smaller housing even as household size shift and everyone complains "we don't need more luxury studios." It does in fact look like we need more.
October 30, 2025 at 11:41 PM
This is another excellent piece from @ebwhamilton.bsky.social. I don't think I would've predicted how much we are overbuilding large bedroom housing to smaller housing even as household size shift and everyone complains "we don't need more luxury studios." It does in fact look like we need more.
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All-in-all, we estimate that the federal government spends ~$400 billion a year on housing-related expenditures, of which only about 1/4 is funded through HUD.
Most housing spending goes through the tax code, and supports benefit homeowners & investors to a greater degree than low-income families.
Most housing spending goes through the tax code, and supports benefit homeowners & investors to a greater degree than low-income families.
October 29, 2025 at 6:03 PM
All-in-all, we estimate that the federal government spends ~$400 billion a year on housing-related expenditures, of which only about 1/4 is funded through HUD.
Most housing spending goes through the tax code, and supports benefit homeowners & investors to a greater degree than low-income families.
Most housing spending goes through the tax code, and supports benefit homeowners & investors to a greater degree than low-income families.
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ICE is tear gassing schools
October 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM
ICE is tear gassing schools
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October 21, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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New AAA study finds that pedestrian detection systems are only 60% effective at night (which is when most pedestrians are struck).
Lesson: Car tech will not "solve" the crisis in US pedestrian safety. Addressing car bloat, deadly street design, etc is also necessary.
Lesson: Car tech will not "solve" the crisis in US pedestrian safety. Addressing car bloat, deadly street design, etc is also necessary.
AAA: Nighttime Safety Improved with Pedestrian Detection Effective Rates Rising from 0% to 60%
Media B-Roll ORLANDO, Fla. (Oct. 15, 2025) – AAA evaluated vehicles equipped with pedestrian automatic emergency braking (PAEB) systems, building on
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October 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
New AAA study finds that pedestrian detection systems are only 60% effective at night (which is when most pedestrians are struck).
Lesson: Car tech will not "solve" the crisis in US pedestrian safety. Addressing car bloat, deadly street design, etc is also necessary.
Lesson: Car tech will not "solve" the crisis in US pedestrian safety. Addressing car bloat, deadly street design, etc is also necessary.
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100 largest US cities, 29 years of data. Driving is the most dangerous thing most parents do with their kids. It's dangerous for other people's kids, too, as the yellow tip shows
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 20, 2025 at 1:27 AM
100 largest US cities, 29 years of data. Driving is the most dangerous thing most parents do with their kids. It's dangerous for other people's kids, too, as the yellow tip shows
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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#NoKings event in Fairhope, Al.
A woman was arrested for "lewd conduct" because she was dressed in penis suit with a sign that said "No dick-tator"
3 cops on a 53 yo woman.
A woman was arrested for "lewd conduct" because she was dressed in penis suit with a sign that said "No dick-tator"
3 cops on a 53 yo woman.
October 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
#NoKings event in Fairhope, Al.
A woman was arrested for "lewd conduct" because she was dressed in penis suit with a sign that said "No dick-tator"
3 cops on a 53 yo woman.
A woman was arrested for "lewd conduct" because she was dressed in penis suit with a sign that said "No dick-tator"
3 cops on a 53 yo woman.