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👨‍💻🚴🚆☕🌮🏳️‍🌈 Lifelong Michigander ✋. He/Him. Previously, co-founder + lead architect at https://duo.com/. Opinions are my own.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 1d

A message from the frog resistance
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A Message From The Frog Resistance

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

a real water is wet scenario here

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 21h

I'm hiring for a dentistry commercial. requires tooth actor authentication.

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 22h

Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this

Adam Goodman @akgood.bsky.social · 4d

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 5d

since denver launched its e-bike rebate program - the have sold 10,000 e-bikes and reduced an estimated 1,000,000 car trips - replacing millions of VMTs and reducing air pollution

there are no climate silver bullets... but damn - e-bikes and e-cargo bikes are close

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Denver Celebrates 10,000 E-Bike Rebates

Since its inception in April 2022, Denver has distributed over 10,000 electric bikes (e-bikes) to community members through its pioneering e-bike rebate program. As the first U.S. city to implement su...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 9d

Choose your fighter:

WaPo: Why America should legalize horse slaughter

The Onion: I Have a Dream: To Eat a Kentucky Derby-Winning Horse

Adam Goodman @akgood.bsky.social · 11d

Serious (and at least in my circles, quite unexpected!) win here. Kudos to Jason and many others for getting this done! 🎉🙌

Jason Morgan @jasonmorganmi.bsky.social · 11d

🚨HUGE WIN for Michigan transit! 🚍

We just secured a record $160 MILLION increase — the largest in state history 🙌

Thanks to relentless transit advocates, pro-transit legislators, and @gretchenwhitmer.bsky.social!

More buses 🚌 Future trains 🚆 More service ✅ More communities connected!

Adam Goodman @akgood.bsky.social · 11d

Weird. I've got a different (not e-) bike with an 8-speed Shimano hub and it's been solid for 12+ years. They're usually pretty reliable!

Adam Goodman @akgood.bsky.social · 11d

It's great! Sometimes I wish I had gotten a class 3 but that more of a me problem

Adam Goodman @akgood.bsky.social · 11d

Well, it would seem my #WeekWithoutDriving has escalated from errands around town to a long distance multimodal adventure. LFG!

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Adam Goodman @akgood.bsky.social · 14d

Love it.

Adam Goodman @akgood.bsky.social · 14d

Oh and yesterday I biked to Trader Joe's, but I didn't take pictures. It's the best cheat code for not having to deal with the characteristically-chaotic parking lot...

(But also the parking lot is totally fine if you can just be patient for 2 minutes! www.strongtowns.org/journal/2016...)

Why I Love Trader Joe's Parking Lots | Strong Towns

Notoriously bemoaned, Trader Joe's parking lots are known for their small size, tight spots & limited maneuvering areas. But that's actually a much better model than the wasted space that most grocery...

www.strongtowns.org

Adam Goodman @akgood.bsky.social · 14d

Happy #weekwithoutdriving! To be honest I was probably not gonna drive this week anyway but hey let's make it official.

I'm going bikepacking soon so today I took the touring bike out for a test/shakedown ride, then (cuz I was tired from the first ride) e-biked over to REI for some supplies...

A Kona Sutra touring bike leaning against a bench next to a multi use path

A Cero One e-cargo-bike parked at the bike rack in front of an REI in a strip mall.

The bike rack is that crappy "wave rack" design, alas. Better than nothing I guess. But cities should outlaw these and demand staple/inverted-u or post-and-ring designs.

Adam Goodman @akgood.bsky.social · 14d

Whoa, you're right. I missed that because there were definitely people fretting about trees in the original post's article about Montgomery County

Adam Goodman @akgood.bsky.social · 14d

I dare y'all to print out a stack of these bingo cards and bring them to the next sidewalk meeting

Adam Goodman @akgood.bsky.social · 14d

I would quip that there's not enough *bike* parking, but your picture would belie that claim as well 😅

Adam Goodman @akgood.bsky.social · 14d

#a2council

Action Committee for Transit @actfortransit.bsky.social · 15d

"The quality of life on this street is perfect as it is [with no sidewalk for kids to walk to school]."

"[A sidewalk for kids to walk to school] just seems like a needless conversation."

"You want young children to be safe, but [I oppose a sidewalk for kids to walk to school]."

Parents drive their kids to school. I don’t want to shovel snow. There is already a sidewalk on the other side of the street. Hardly anybody walks. You can walk in the grass or the road and it’s fine.
People will walk in front of people’s homes and driveways. I don’t want a sidewalk on my property. Nobody told me about this hearing. Crosswalk signs are ugly. Parents will park in the crosswalk.
Sidewalks are ugly. There are very few children living on my street. Nobody has been killed. We already pay the HOA for walking paths. My property value will go down.
I have lived here for 35 years without a sidewalk. The community does not want this. Don’t take our front yard. It’s already hard to park on the street. Sidewalks are bad for curb appeal.
I used to walk my kids to school without sidewalks. Kids can use the paths to walk to school. My taxes will go up. I moved here because there weren’t sidewalks. A sidewalk will ruin the ambience of my neighborhood.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15d

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 15d

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 15d

every once in a while I open up Nextdoor and it sends me into an existential crisis. the dumbest people you can possibly imagine. worse than X worse than Facebook worse than anywhere else. and seemingly more politically engaged. just zero brain cells. a nightmare

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Molly Kleinman @mollyak.bsky.social · 17d

This is what privacy advocates have been warning about for a long time. Locally, despite attempts at a ban Ann Arbor has a facial recognition policy that’s basically “yup, we use facial recognition.” Ditto drones. Countywide, there has been public pushback against ALPRs it’s not settled. #a2council

Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 18d

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

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ace @aceanbender.com · 15d

god dammit lmao

Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 15d

[white [student athlete] jerseys] not [[white student athlete] jerseys]

But picking a jersey from a Black player would’ve helped here, M Den!!

An advertisement for “white student athlete jerseys” which shows three white colored University of Michigan football jerseys: one with the number 19, one with the number 96 and the name Zvada, and one with the number 44 and the name Bredeson

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 15d

ICE Confirms Agents Do Not Have Faces Beneath Masks

WASHINGTON—In response to legislation that would ban officers from obscuring their identities during arrests and raids, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed Thursday that beneath their m...

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Jalopnik @jalopnik.bsky.social · 16d

No, Defensive Walking Isn't The Solution For Road Deaths

No, Defensive Walking Isn't The Solution For Road Deaths

It's victim-blaming, it's bull, and it's not the solution we need.

www.jalopnik.com