darren buck @bikepedantic@transportation.social
one of Secretary Pete's ped/bike chair-moisteners in Sector 7G. 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
Just had one of those rare 15-minute bursts where I took care of a bunch of little but anxiety producing things that were weighing on me, and I feel better
Lookit, The Wharf is nice, it has good bones. Anyone building more city should copy lots of what they've done. The newest stuff is always gonna be the fanciest stuff. And if DC built many more Wharves, market rate affordability would probably filter down.
But damn, y'all just had to crow about the President not living on the most expensive street anymore.
i know that supporting development means supporting developers, but god that is really really hard sometimes https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hoffmandev_maine-avenue-at-the-wharf-has-supplanted-activity-7186049946570096644-kNgt?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
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Honestly I owe Defector a subscription for this headline alone
Got a spare kid and rode an Onderwater tandem, it was FUN
FYI, Americans: There is a new 30 minute Bluey episode, it is good, amd you need to watch it so I can discuss it with someone.
Bluey: Why do stories always have happy endings?
Calypso: Well, I guess because life will give us enough sad ones
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New Day One Law: Everyone appearing on Shark Tank is asked their health insurance situation.
Still, though: For a country that seemingly idolizes entrepreneurship, why we don’t provide people who want to strike out and try something new and daring with an easy public option for insuring their own health is fucking beyond me.
Am I perpetually one health insurance snafu away from moving back to Canada? Of course. But it’s nice that our system is like 2% less inhumane now
As incredibly shitty and watered-down as the ACA was, it’s still nicely bizarre to this Gen-Xer to no longer think have to think about pre-existing conditions, or to have to 100% dismiss career moves because health insurance
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YAY! IT'S PREMIERE DAY Pls tune in today at 2pm EST for my conversation with North America's transportation prodigy Petru Sofio about his journey to Dutch-inspired safer street advocacy work and specifically a passion for safer, more effective intersections and signalization.
Petru provides a blueprint for how anyone in the community, including a teenager, can get involved, get educated, and help create a safer, more inviting environment for all ages and abilities.
https://youtu.be/v-7Q-ity1Dk
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Today, my Administration is canceling student debt for 277,000 more people – bringing the total number of Americans who have been approved for debt relief so far under my Administration to 4.3 million through various actions.
I will never stop working to cancel student debt.
“We ran the test four times using Full Self Driving version 12.3.3, and the Full Self Driving Tesla hit the child-sized mannequin on all four tests.” https://vimeo.com/932562717/5fb3189771
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DuckDuckGo launches $9.99 per month privacy bundle with VPN https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/11/24126801/duckduckgo-launches-privacy-bundle-with-vpn-identity-theft-personal-data-removal-iris
i desperately wish non-academia sabbaticals were a thing
The bike-exclusive signal phase might make this safe, but it sure doesn’t make it comfortable
one of Secretary Pete's ped/bike chair-moisteners in Sector 7G. 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
