* 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.
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!
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.
Day 1 of the last year of being able to #BikeToSchool with this amazing human. 🥲
New research in JTLU: “The distribution of shared parking use in time and space: A case study in Guangzhou, China” by Juan Wang and Pengyu Zhu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
#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.
It really says something about the USA that a miniature kei car is "too dangerous" for public roads, but a lifted 8,000-lb pickup is just fine.
the floof helped himself to a cucumber in the #garden this morning
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.
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Not anti-car, just anti-carbrain. A person, not a data point.
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