Tab Combs @DrTCombs@transportation.social

* unless you are my amazing newish neighbor I've seen using your car to block for my kid, expertly creating an impromptu protected intersection so she can safely make an otherwise stressful left turn on her way home. You are awesome and I love you.

So tired of the judgment and resentment from other parents when I ask them to drive less like a$$holes in an actual school zone.

You do not get to feign concern for my child's wellbeing when you are the person endangering them.

When you find yourself fretting over the safety of someone you encounter on a bike, ask yourself, "am I part of what's making them unsafe?"

If you* are behind a steering wheel, the answer is probably yes.

#BikeTooter

TL;DR: a new bicyclist in the hood

Relatively new neighbor, remarkable for her driving habits: careful, slow, lawful. We routinely encounter her on our bike ride home from school; I always appreciate her presence. But when her car didn't pass us along the usual stretch of road today, I started to wonder what happened...until SHE PASSED US ON A BIKE!!!

She'd been noticing us every day, slowly getting up her nerve to start biking, and today she took the plunge!

#BikeTooter #leavethecarathome

That was the most CYA 'safety' training I've ever had to do.
So overtly CYA that it will probably backfire and people will die.

But at least we get to check a box.

I do realize the relevant roads are controlled by the state. I also realize that as long as the town keeps welcoming more and more cars into downtown, the state will continue to add capacity for cars getting into downtown. And they will do so, as they have always done, at the expense of safety and accessibility for all other modes.

I'm just not finding it within myself to get excited about 1000 new car parking spots in a downtown that's still death defying to get to by bike.

Periodic reminder that independent, local shops will often do what big chains can't be bothered with...like schedule #COVID #vaccine appointments for children

#ShopLocal #GetYourShotsLocallyToo

Day 1 of the last year of being able to #BikeToSchool with this amazing human. 🥲

#KidsOnBikes #SafeRoutesToSchool #BikeTooter

#LongCOVID for me is waking up every morning for the past year and a half wondering which joint in my previously healthy body is going to be inflamed and whether it will be debilitatingly so.

New vaccines are coming out soon. Get one, y'all. And #WearAMask. Please.

"Why on earth would we build a protected bike lane when you already have a perfectly good sidewalk?"

The perfectly good sidewalk:

she's 4'8"

this is part of her route home from school

we, as a society, simply do not care about children's lives

My favorite social media mind game is finally deciding to lock down and quiet quit all my other social platforms (except this one, of course) and five minutes later getting some sort of rockstar callout by someone on one of those platforms.

Dopamine's powerful stuff.

the floof helped himself to a cucumber in the #garden this morning

#DogsOfMastodon #Dogs #DogsEatingVeggies

Heyo. I'm in search of a vertical mouse for hands that are small. Not small for a full-grown adult, but for an actual small human. As in tiny. Like you still shop in the kids' department small.

Where are my fellow liliputian desk workers with tennis/golf/flyfishing/nameyourbougiesport elbow (that's not actually from a sport but from mouse-clicking)?

Please and thank you for your product recommendations.

#ergonomics #computers #mice ?

The 'Don't use motion sickness-inducing cinematography in mandatory workplace training videos' challenge, 2024 edition

Or, you know, just put it in a PDF because odds are if we are employed in higher education, we can read.

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You know what to do.