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trevin @trevinflickinger.com · 22m

LETS GOOO

Columbus Public Service @columbusdps.bsky.social · 41m

Testing new products to improve bike lane maintenance! Whether it's snow, debris or leaves, we want to ensure our bike lanes are clear and passable. Shout out to our infrastructure maintenance team for exploring innovative ways to better serve our residents!🤩 #teamDPS

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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 1h

That traffic cone looks pretty structural. Without it, the left wall collapses, and then the center, and then the right.

Ben Keith @benlk.com · 2h

Will you audit JobsOhio?

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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 5h

Complicated: it's great that it exists; it could be so much better!

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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 6h

Your feedback is wanted on Columbus' proposed citywide land use plan and growth strategy. It's the next phase of Zone In, but it's not zoning. It's the planning tools which help determine what the zoning recommendations will be in the _next_ phase.

Zone In: Leading with Policy - Public Comment Period

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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 6h

@nonfinality.com Another one for bsky.app/profile/nonf... :
@visionzerocbus.bsky.social

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Katja Kircher @katjakircher.bsky.social · 7h

Conclusions from our recently published paper:

"The take-home lesson is that the problem of drivers failing to check for cyclists in a turn situation is confirmed by several studies with various methods, suggesting it is a global concern given the current design of traffic infrastructure. ...

Redirecting

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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 8h

Put alt text on your images, please.

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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 16h

@ethanmarcotte.com very important bird update: youtube.com/watch?v=aB9D...

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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 22h

How will this work for travelers whose countries which have issued passports with an "X" gender marker?

Ben Keith @benlk.com · 1d

This article could use a footnote that Ohio's @cbuscitycouncil.bsky.social is currently considering YIGBY legislation. Here's the marketing webpage: www.columbusforward.us/initiative-m...
And here's the most-recent hearing: youtube.com/watch?v=N5gY...

Shannon G. Hardin - Yes in God's Backyard | Columbus Forward

Creating partnerships between the City and faith communities, making it easier for churches to turn underused parking lots and vacant land into affordable housing.

www.columbusforward.us

Ben Keith @benlk.com · 1d

Exposed bolts mean anyone with a wrench can detach the rack from the ground and walk away with it and the attached bike.

The "design" limits where locks can be put in, and prevents bike parts (pedals) from going through the U, which makes it harder to lock up.

Ben Keith @benlk.com · 1d

How does the population density compare?

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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 1d

The Ramones' "The KKK Took My Baby Away" being played or covered at a protest would not surprise me. Plenty of opportunity for swapping in other three-letter acronyms. genius.com/Ramones-the-...

Ramones – The KKK Took My Baby Away

In a 2015 interview conducted by Loudwire, Marky Ramone was confronted by the rumors of Joey writing “The KKK Took My Baby Away” after Johnny Ramone stole his girlfriend. In

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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 1d

Here's that RSVP link: www.eventbrite.com/e/public-uti...

Public Utilities and Sustainability Committee Hearing

Join Chair Wyche to hear testimony and presentations on utility reselling and expanded recycling access.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 1d

Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.

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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 1d

Doctor's prognosis: non-displaced radial head fracture, healing nicely. No sling needed, keep flexing, no bike for next 2 weeks or so.

Ben Keith @benlk.com · 12d

Anyways, here's the video of me on a bike, getting hit by a driver who didn't check for cross traffic before pulling out of a driveway.

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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 1d

I have a designbydelta.com/products/ari... and it's quite effective.

Airzound Horn

World's loundest bike horn. Recharges with a standard bike pump. No batteries or cartridges required. Easy install.

designbydelta.com

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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 2d

Yell at 'em anyways. Their staff take notes.
"I'm worried that the President is waging war without Congressional authorization, and wasting government money that could be better spent on interventions that don't violate the law."

Ben Keith @benlk.com · 2d

More software that
- technically isn't FLOSS, due to a freemium license
- is FLOSS but isn't corporate-friendly due to branding (like the Anubis WAF), but which can be white-labeled for a price.

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Michael Morisy @morisy.bsky.social · 2d

Looking for folks who’d be good to have on a panel or discussion around government (local particularly) open meetings — let me know if you know anyone who’d be good to invite, especially if that’s you!

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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 2d

@nonfinality.com possibly in your interests: www.marquette.edu/library/arch...

The J.R.R. Tolkien Fandom Oral History Collection // Archives // Raynor Library // Marquette University

www.marquette.edu

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 3d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 3d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Brent Warren @brentincolumbus.bsky.social · 3d

ICYMI, I talked to a bunch of developers about Trump's latest tariffs (& the ones from earlier this year), and how they are causing projects to stall out at a time when we need to be building housing:

New Trump Tariffs Have Local Housing Developers Concerned - Columbus Underground

The Trump administration announced another round of tariffs last week that could contribute to higher rents and more stalled development projects in Columbus. At a time when they are already dealing w...

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