darren is Not Going Back @bikepedantic@transportation.social
Bikes and stuff. Widow, dad, taking it bird-by-bird.
So many things are improved by 🦪,🚲, & 🪕.
Just me, very much not my employer. Opting in to be searchable via #tootfinder. #fedi22
Joined Feb 2023
Say it with me, friends:
It's not actually the process that you think is wrong, it's the outcome.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/06/09/opinion/bike-bus-lanes-transparency-parking/
S2E5 Roy Kent on Sky News was a sadly brief high point of the series for me. I wish that they had found some reason to have had him on the postgame media dais to deliver lines like this. #TedLassoRewatchParty
I forgot to pay much attention to S2E4, the Christmas one, and it really didn’t advance the storylines, so. But the Higgins’ party was lovely. And all Roy Kent interactions with kids are magic, and the door-knocking in his “stupid posh neighborhood” does not disappoint.
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@bikepedantic @marcgov another thing you can do is contribute to A Better Cambridge! https://secure.actblue.com/donate/abc2023?refcode=dbm
In other #CambMa council news, I made my first local campaign donation here, to @marcgov, because he’s awesome. https://secure.actblue.com/donate/marcmcgovern2023
Probably giving to Burhan Azeem next
Good #CambMa news: Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler declares candidacy for council, plans to “focus on making Cambridge a leader on issues including housing and child care affordability, sustainability, safe streets and transportation.”
Not a lot of team spirit over on blooski, maybe because discovery is easier, it’s far fewer regular people, and there’s just an air of inevitability to the thing.
Just lots and lots of bemused-tone shitskeeting into the void.
scanning nextdoor for the first ‘no more bike lanes because you can’t bike in our raging-wildfire future’ comment
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Just a reminder to everyone tweeting about the Canadian wildfires that 3 years ago, Australia was in the grip of as bad, if not worse bushfires (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019–20_Australian_bushfire_season), and NOTHING has been done in the intervening years to actually reduce GHG emissions.
These aren't the "new normal", or "the first signs of climate change". This is climate change. This is our planet dying. This is 1°C warming.
TFW a 311 request gets quickly and correctly acted upon! Thank you IQHQ developers and City of Cambridge staff!
Just gotta say, announcing 77 service cuts just after Cambridge approves a $50m bond to rebuild a huge stretch to possibly include bus lanes is gonna make it a lot harder to justify bus lanes. https://www.mbta.com/service-changes/summer-2023-service-changes
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The Volvo EX30 debuted today and it's pretty incredible.
I started a thread with all the basic facts on the InsideEVs Forum that you can check out and leave your thoughts. #electricvehicles https://www.insideevsforum.com/community/index.php?threads/volvo-ex30-debuts-with-a-34-950-price-tag.18360/
“It’s been a bit confusing because it’s walkable and bikeable,” said Shahar Bracha, 29. “People have been using it all the time. Every time they close [the fence] people open it again and use it. Why not just open it?”
Oh, a few more:
*It seems very US-centric. Maybe that's just a function of my limited view, but certainly as compared to here, seems mostly US.
*Some of the bluechecks seem to be getting bored
*Of all of the real people i knew on twitter on there, most seemed to have made at least a stopover here. Not seeing very many folks who passed on Mastodon but are trying Bluesky as a twitter alt. Pure anecdata, and early days, though.
Bikes and stuff. Widow, dad, taking it bird-by-bird.
So many things are improved by 🦪,🚲, & 🪕.
Just me, very much not my employer. Opting in to be searchable via #tootfinder. #fedi22
Joined Feb 2023
