Adam Deutsch
@adamdeutsch.com
Poet/parent/prof/pedaling around. My book is EVERY TRANSMISSION from @PressFernwood. 📸 by Alanna Airitam. (He/him). A bunch of biking & urbanism here, too. AdamDeutsch.com. Bike videos at https://www.youtube.com/@RidingBikesinSanDiego
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- Rider was an adult
- Truck driver turned across his path, which is a classic collision called a right/left hook, is the drivers fault and can happen to any bike at any speed.
So let's complain about children on ebikes and reduce ebike speeds
This is what is called in the business a moral panic.
- Truck driver turned across his path, which is a classic collision called a right/left hook, is the drivers fault and can happen to any bike at any speed.
So let's complain about children on ebikes and reduce ebike speeds
This is what is called in the business a moral panic.
Most e-bikes are just that- bikes…
But the fat-boys are designed to look like 50cc scrambler bikes - (and perform like them once modified) and a ridden by children / teens as if they are scramblers on a track- oblivious to other road users…
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
But the fat-boys are designed to look like 50cc scrambler bikes - (and perform like them once modified) and a ridden by children / teens as if they are scramblers on a track- oblivious to other road users…
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
NSW considering plan to halve power and top speed of ebikes as rider dies in collision with garbage truck
Police plead with parents to buy only safe, unmodified ebikes as Christmas presents
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:19 AM
- Rider was an adult
- Truck driver turned across his path, which is a classic collision called a right/left hook, is the drivers fault and can happen to any bike at any speed.
So let's complain about children on ebikes and reduce ebike speeds
This is what is called in the business a moral panic.
- Truck driver turned across his path, which is a classic collision called a right/left hook, is the drivers fault and can happen to any bike at any speed.
So let's complain about children on ebikes and reduce ebike speeds
This is what is called in the business a moral panic.
Poetry always wins
"You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. "
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
www.wired.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Poetry always wins
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Literally buying one copy of a book at your local indie bookstore can mean the difference in whether they buy future books from that author.
November 26, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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A lesser-discussed reason for urbanism: the city is more interesting to photograph than the suburbs
November 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM
A lesser-discussed reason for urbanism: the city is more interesting to photograph than the suburbs
Rode a fixie for the very first time tonight. Didn’t break myself doing it. Also didn’t quite know how to stop…
November 12, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Rode a fixie for the very first time tonight. Didn’t break myself doing it. Also didn’t quite know how to stop…
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this is literally never not accurate
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this is literally never not accurate
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Simple rule: Stop setting carbon on fire to make energy. It ain't sustainable.
Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say
Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Simple rule: Stop setting carbon on fire to make energy. It ain't sustainable.
If you're the kind of person who orders books from the company that's usually blocking my bike lane, it looks like they have my book, Every Transmission, for just $11 www.amazon.com/Every-Transm...
Every Transmission
Every Transmission [Deutsch, Adam] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Every Transmission
www.amazon.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:11 AM
If you're the kind of person who orders books from the company that's usually blocking my bike lane, it looks like they have my book, Every Transmission, for just $11 www.amazon.com/Every-Transm...
It feels like bad taste to honor a police officer who died by traffic violence to have a 700-vehicle funeral processes clog up the freeways a week later, but this is how we do in San Diego, I guess.
October 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
It feels like bad taste to honor a police officer who died by traffic violence to have a 700-vehicle funeral processes clog up the freeways a week later, but this is how we do in San Diego, I guess.
Daily To-Do:
* Work on a poem (reading or writing)
* Take a photograph
* Ride a bike or walk
* Work on a poem (reading or writing)
* Take a photograph
* Ride a bike or walk
October 25, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Daily To-Do:
* Work on a poem (reading or writing)
* Take a photograph
* Ride a bike or walk
* Work on a poem (reading or writing)
* Take a photograph
* Ride a bike or walk
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Cars. Ruin. Cities.
Seven cars currently blocking the “bus only” lane on Dearborn, even if a camera-equipped bus comes along, it’ll never capture the license plate numbers
October 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Cars. Ruin. Cities.
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Ireland is adopting a default 30 kmh (19 mph) speed limit in urban areas.
Local authorities to implement 30km/h speed limits in urban areas ‘where appropriate’ from 2027
Speed limits on roads in built-up and urban areas can only be changed where a majority of the elected members in a local authority vote to do so.
www.thejournal.ie
October 20, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Ireland is adopting a default 30 kmh (19 mph) speed limit in urban areas.
Thought I'd taken some really dope photos today (& the last couple of weeks), then realized the camera was on 25, then 26, 27 of a 24 exp roll. Opened it up to find that I hadn't loaded it properly. Now I just have to write poems about all the images I thought I had that now only exist in my head.
October 20, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Thought I'd taken some really dope photos today (& the last couple of weeks), then realized the camera was on 25, then 26, 27 of a 24 exp roll. Opened it up to find that I hadn't loaded it properly. Now I just have to write poems about all the images I thought I had that now only exist in my head.
Enough already. Make the calendar 13 months of 28 days, move Oct back to the 8th month, etc, and back off Thanksgiving to a few days after Halloween to make a fall break that splits a semester like Spring Break.
October 17, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Enough already. Make the calendar 13 months of 28 days, move Oct back to the 8th month, etc, and back off Thanksgiving to a few days after Halloween to make a fall break that splits a semester like Spring Break.
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Remember this one? “Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom.” Via Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social #CityMakingMath
The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike
A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom
www.scientificamerican.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Remember this one? “Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom.” Via Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social #CityMakingMath
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Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA
Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.
usa.streetsblog.org
October 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
Just send the manuscript of what I hope will be my second book to a press I really hope can love it.
October 14, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Just send the manuscript of what I hope will be my second book to a press I really hope can love it.
If any of my friends have already done AWP planning, could you send me a screen shot for hotel rates? Thanks! Hugs!!
October 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
If any of my friends have already done AWP planning, could you send me a screen shot for hotel rates? Thanks! Hugs!!
Was reminded of this gem poem by Jennifer L. Knox, which you might need to spend some time with. While you're at it, raise a glass to the magic that was No Tell Motel!
www.notellmotel.org/poem_single....
www.notellmotel.org/poem_single....
No Tell Motel
www.notellmotel.org
October 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Was reminded of this gem poem by Jennifer L. Knox, which you might need to spend some time with. While you're at it, raise a glass to the magic that was No Tell Motel!
www.notellmotel.org/poem_single....
www.notellmotel.org/poem_single....
Do you teach in a Creative Writing Program? Are you looking for a poet to visit your campus in person or via zoom, or want a guest in your poetry or literary publishing class in Spring 2026? If so, get in touch! www.adamdeutsch.com/bio
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Adam Deutsch is the author of a full-length collection, Every Transmission (Fernwood Press 2023). He has work recently in Poetry International,...
www.adamdeutsch.com
September 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Do you teach in a Creative Writing Program? Are you looking for a poet to visit your campus in person or via zoom, or want a guest in your poetry or literary publishing class in Spring 2026? If so, get in touch! www.adamdeutsch.com/bio
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THIS STORY IS BULLSHIT—LIKE COVERING AN EPIDEMIC OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE BY OFFERING TIPS ON HOW YOUNG WOMEN CAN DRESS AND GO OUT ON THE TOWN MORE CAREFULLY. STOP BLAMING VICTIMS AND ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT THE PEOPLE, TECH AND LEGAL APATHY THAT IS KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE.
September 25, 2025 at 5:18 PM
THIS STORY IS BULLSHIT—LIKE COVERING AN EPIDEMIC OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE BY OFFERING TIPS ON HOW YOUNG WOMEN CAN DRESS AND GO OUT ON THE TOWN MORE CAREFULLY. STOP BLAMING VICTIMS AND ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT THE PEOPLE, TECH AND LEGAL APATHY THAT IS KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE.
If you have a Master’s in counseling, rehabilitation counseling, clinical psychology, counseling psychology, guidance counseling, educational counseling, social work, career development, marriage & family therapy or marriage, family and child counseling, & are looking for work, come be my colleague!
September 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
If you have a Master’s in counseling, rehabilitation counseling, clinical psychology, counseling psychology, guidance counseling, educational counseling, social work, career development, marriage & family therapy or marriage, family and child counseling, & are looking for work, come be my colleague!
Happy 5786! We're gonna party like it's 5799!!
September 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Happy 5786! We're gonna party like it's 5799!!
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The weather apps being mostly wrong lately, I got soaked through in the rain on the bike today. Luckily, I’m not made of sugar.
September 18, 2025 at 2:17 AM
The weather apps being mostly wrong lately, I got soaked through in the rain on the bike today. Luckily, I’m not made of sugar.