Pedro @PedroMiguel@qoto.org

Bike lanes are DRIVER infrastructure. Without cars there's no need for bike lanes - the whole reason for bike lanes is to protect people from drivers. The cost of bike lanes is part of the cost of driving.

@BrentToderian I always find it odd when I talk to people who complain about traffic and their brain somehow takes them to “if that guy on his bike was also in a car in this traffic jam things would be a bit better for me”.

Underappreciated oceanographic tool of the day: the humble parsnip. Back in 1948, Lewis Richardson and Henry Stommel dropped pairs of parsnips into a Scottish loch and watched how each pair floated apart, to study how energy moves through the ocean. It turns out that the parsnip is the perfect ocean surface drifter. #ocean #oceanography #parsnip

@tomflood in Colorado we have the new "safety stop" which was passed last spring. Cyclists can treat stop signs as yield signs and stoplights as stop signs.

“Green Wave” on Valencia Street in #SanFrancisco, with traffic signals timed for #cycling speeds.
#BikeTooter #sfbayarea #cities

Good night, #HephalumpWorld. I wish you interesting dreams.

New Year’s resolution: We stop saying history will judge them. We judge them now. With judges.

Just dropping in to casually mention that Trump paid $750 in taxes, total, a couple years ago. Zero another. $5.5 million returned to him another. And his effective tax rate is 4%. This is how the rich get and stay rich: by stealing from everyone else.

You don't have to look for a good Walk Score...just check out a place's Excess Parking Space Score.

Ratio of parking spots to homes in:

New York City: 0.6 : 1
Seattle: 5.2 : 1
Jackson, Wyoming: 27.1 : 1

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/26/us-cities-parking-lots-climate-walkability

@rbreich I actually know this one. Because corporate media is in on it too!

I DON'T WANT SELF DRIVING CARS!!!!

✔️ I want boring things like public transit that comes so regularly I don't need to check a schedule.

✔️ I want fast passenger rail so accessible and easy it's preferable to suffering airports.

✔️ I want cities that aren't built around cars-as-default

✔️ I want the country to own it.

Lovely news about young Sudanese archaeologists taking up the trowel. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/27/young-sudanese-archaeologists-dig-up-history-as-west-knows-best-era-ends #archaeology #reclaiming #sudan

"It's pointless you know Covid is in deer right?" Yep lots of deer spreading Covid around schools and shopping malls all saying stuff like "I'll never get the jab."

“There’s been this decades-long process of hollowing out cities essentially to favor the rich and those in the suburbs who drive everywhere,” said Wagner."
“Why should people pay high prices for housing but cars pay nothing for some of the most valuable land on Earth?"
#MoreHousing #LessParking
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/26/us-cities-parking-lots-climate-walkability

This will never not be relevant.

Alan Turing was a mathematician & cryptographer who was a leading code-breaker in the team that decrypted Nazi Germany’s Enigma machine during WWII. He inspired modern computing & what became artificial intelligence.

Instead of being hailed as a genius & hero, Turing was convicted as a homosexual & forced to endure chemical castration. He died by suicide at 41 in 1954.

The British government didn’t apologize until 2009 & Queen Elizabeth II finally pardoned him in 2013. #history #science