Colby Brown @colby@transportation.social

Being truly comfortable in your own masculinity looks like this 👇

IMPORTANT: This kind of small-scale retail, cafe/restaurant or service should be legal on every corner in cities/suburbs. A basic part of walkable communities. They aren’t easy financially, but at least they should be legal in policy and zoning. In plans I’m working on, I’m calling them “corner convenience.”

@TheWarOnCars As a kid (I am 16), getting around my own can be really hard with all the car-centric infrastructure. Having to bike along highways and stroads is a terrible experience with all the polluted air and constant noise. I mostly rely on trails through the woods to get around my city and often have to go the long way to avoid cars.

🚨 European countries will end up with the political regimes their digital spaces deserve.

In the first image below, on top, the social structure of climate change debates on Mastodon: a cohesive community that concentrates on climate science, the issues of governance and climate justice and energy. On the same image, bottom, the polarized social structure on X, with its bunch of deniers (see our study on http://climatoscope.org ).

Second image, the climate change topics on Mastodon. A healty landscape without toxic content from skeptics. Congrat Masto !

It’s not doomscrolling anymore, it’s hopescrolling.

#StarTrek

Remember: There is another candidate who is also too old to be President and mentally not there, and now everyone should say so and hound him out of the race too.

The rebranding of linear algebra and statistics as machine learning never fails to annoy me. 😩

Brilliant, simple, true.

"The single biggest thing a city can do to reduce traffic congestion is to decrease the distance between where people live and the places they need to go on a daily basis."

This might be the best #NotJustBikes urban design video I've seen.

#Japan #urbanism #Cars
@notjustbikes

https://youtu.be/jlwQ2Y4By0U?si=wmUnkZMB6ZHcS7Ou

Don’t spread misinformation

TIL about a new @qgis plugin dealing with #GTFS thanks to the #openaccess proceedings of the academic track at @foss4geurope

City Transport Analyzer: A Powerful #QGIS Plugin For #PublicTransport Accessibility And Intermodality Analysis

Paper:
https://isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/XLVIII-4-W12-2024/113/2024/

Plugin:
https://github.com/gianmarconaro/city-transport-analyzer

#foss4g #foss4ge2024

In order to understand how compromised the American media is, all you need to do is look at what is MISSING. MISSING is any commentary about a convicted felon who is the same age (for all intents and purposes) as the other guy and who says INSANE, DEMENTED, DANGEROUS AND DICTATOR LIKE THINGS ON THE DAILY.

@virtualinanity

Kamala has the best chance to win. She had a primary in 2016, and beat all the dudes who people are proposing to replace her. The only person more popular, is Biden.

Even today, when polled head to head v Trump, she beats all other Dem hopefuls, except Biden.

She runs circles around either Biden or Trump on a debate stage.

Y'all are pretending like a prosecutor, AG, Senator, VP, is somehow being handed something because she "kinda deserves it, but isn't the best option."

Yes, you should be a little freaked out about Hurricane Beryl

"It's hard to communicate how unbelievable this is."

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/07/yes-you-should-be-a-little-freaked-out-about-hurricane-beryl/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Still true: Biden's age, isn't about Biden's age. Biden's age, is about Kamala's skin.

There are millions of Americans that unironically think that stopping Trump is the most important thing in the world... but also think, "Wait a minute! If Biden can't finish his term, that Black woman gets to be president!"

🤔So I guess stopping Trump is only the second most important thing in the world.