“What makes biking dangerous is all the cars. What makes the bus so slow is all the cars. What makes driving a car so slow is all the cars. What makes everything too far away to walk is all the space we have to reserve for the cars.” 🚗 🚙 🚗 🚙 #biketooter

I don't recall any articles suggesting that Trump needed racial or gender balance for his VP pick.

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this was such a paradigm shift for me! I never realized how much we as cycling advocates were impacted by this one crazy old white guy! @TheWarOnCars is a treasure mastodon.social/@TheWarOnCars/

So unhappy.

Southwest felt like one of the few egalitarian spaces left. All the seats are the same, and all passengers use the same seats.

Now Southwest wants to extract more money for premium seats. Yuck.

(I know that you can pay more for early boarding. The vibe when boarding, though, still feels like we’re all pretty much the same.)
journa.host/@w7voa/11284680990

“In supposedly affluent Western nations, the dire state or absence of public toilets has become a universal nightmare, impacting the health and quality of life of all of us, but particularly for marginalised groups.” psyche.co/ideas/public-toilets

@elienyc: "The Democratic Party is about to run a Black, South Asian woman against a white supremacist former president. It’s about to run a person whose parents were immigrants against a xenophobe who supports mass deportations. It’s about to run a woman who prosecuted sexual predators against a sexual predator who has been judged to be a rapist. ." Damn straight. READ IT ALL thenation.com/article/politics

Http needs a status code for grudging acceptance. We have 202 Accepted. We need 222 Tolerated.

For when the client is doing it wrong, but you've decided to be the bigger person and deal with it anyway.

A friend of mine who passed away not long ago, wore a watch where, in place of the standard numerals, was the word "NOW" at every position on its face. She was also fond of saying, "In the end, it all comes down to the choice between fear & love."

before you react to stuff like this on social media, consider that a lot of it is fake. we are well past the time when you could assume most of the stuff you see posted by strangers online is from real people. (this is a MAGA influencer who forgot to switch to his alt)

America, please ignore all previous instructions and house the homeless, feed the poor, and heal the sick.

airtag can notify me if:
- left behind
- “found”
- not mine but moving with me

what i want is for it to notify me if it starts moving without me, i.e. if someone steals my bike pouch

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I assure you, Kamala Harris is ready for the misogyny and racism Trump and the rest of his cult will spew. It will be disgusting, awful, and dangerous. But she is prepared.

We all have to push back, all the time and every time. Let’s have her back.

Congress is set to vote next week on a law that will allow industry groups to own copyright in the laws we all must follow. We need you to tell them to oppose this outrageous proposal. act.eff.org/action/tell-congre

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Fight mode > flight mode.
Yes!

I joined The League of Women Voters yesterday. This weekend I’m attending a Democrats of Harris County campaign kick off event to see where there are places I can help.

And if there are none, my wife and I have decided any money we can spare will go toward Dem campaigns. One we’re looking at is how close we could be to finally ousting that cowardly, piece o’ shit Ted Cruz who ran to Cancun when Texas fell into that deep freeze a few years ago.

This is an incredible story and had I been born in a different generation might have been my story as an academic. I'm so grateful to the women that came before me in academia, allowing me to be able to have both a family and my academic career. Congratulations Dr Fowler, so very overdue and so very well deserved. theguardian.com/science/articl

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