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litmuszest.bsky.social
I like bikes, trains, and hydrofoils, and have become a bit obsessed with climate, air quality, and urbanism.
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What if instead of spending billions to replace old natgas pipes (that we need to start shutting down), we just gave the affected customers heat pumps? Our latest @switch.box report got an excellent write-up by @colinreports.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

submitted 8 days ago • 180 comments

They are just disappearing people off the street. Having a hard time thinking about literally anything else.

submitted 10 days ago • 1943 comments

None of this shit even has the pretense of “homeland security” or whatever other lies they would typically tell. It is specifically for protesting another country’s genocide. Not violently. Not even all that aggressively. Just saying please stop killing.

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again. This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.

submitted 10 days ago • 515 comments

I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.

submitted 13 days ago • 1673 comments

at least he just came out and said "we are not going to do anything and are waiting for our constituents to fix our mess by taking to the streets to get killed by police"

submitted 13 days ago • 27 comments

we're not throwing trans people under the bus for any fucking reason. None. There are two sides: the one that throws people under buses and the side that does not. Choose which one you are on.

submitted 18 days ago • 83 comments

NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!” @USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?” NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY* (not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)

submitted 18 days ago • 2605 comments

Been feeling a bit too much like spring lately, so Utah had to dump some snow and remind me where i live. #bikesky

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Some messages just really resonate.

submitted 30 days ago • 4 comments

i hope more than anything what people learn from this 2nd trump term is that the capitalist class are aligned and they want you to have less rights and only want you to exist to generate profit for them

submitted 36 days ago • 109 comments

we’re watching elon musk trying to run the government like a business by being that shitty boss everyones had at one point in their life and i hope this is an evergreen example of why “running the government like a business” might be the dumbest ideological statement out there

submitted 39 days ago • 64 comments

every single transportation conversation ever

submitted 43 days ago • 69 comments

Bit of an icy commute this morning on my bike, especially on the bridges, but still very nice. Beats driving in traffic! #bikesky

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Since this only applies to SLC but starts on May 7, 2025, SLC should implement dozens of tactical urbanism lane reductions before that date. Add planters, paint, big tires, whatever it takes. They want to play hardball, we play harder.

submitted 44 days ago • 6 comments

My lab group is doing a research study on cargo bike users in North America. If you are a cargo bike user and have a minute to take the survey we'd love to hear from you. Or please feel free to share or repost for other cargo bike users. Many thanks! pennstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

submitted 46 days ago • 18 comments

Cargo bike people: assemble‼️

submitted 44 days ago • 3 comments

i can understand being a median voter in 2016 and not regretting your vote for trump but i’m baffled how this happened again. he was literally president recently. we know he believes the insane shit he and the people he surrounds himself with say. how could you possibly be fooled a second time

submitted 44 days ago • 152 comments

My heart ached when I was reminded that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for trying to make academic knowledge more accessible to the public. Meta, meanwhile, is doing it for their own bottom line. I'm going to guess that no one at Meta will be looking at spending 35 years in jail for this.

submitted 53 days ago • 22 comments

👇🏽🤷🏻

submitted 58 days ago • 127 comments

i mean this so seriously. if you are transgender. please be safe. do not get caught commiting crimes. do not get caught by the state. do not sacrifice yourself, we will survive

submitted 59 days ago • 102 comments

The constitutional crisis/Elon Musk coup is the main issue, but I just remain so mad that these assholes are shutting down services and agencies that my tax dollars paid for. We pay for USAID and NOAA and DOE they're wasting our money by targeting these agencies. It's theft.

submitted 59 days ago • 6 comments

It’s so embarrassing that Elon actually has influence

submitted 62 days ago • 8 comments

There are a million things to be outraged about right now (this is by design). My number one is, trans people don’t have the numbers to defend themselves from all the ways these people are trying to strip them of their humanity. Feels like a “first they came for (x) and I did not speak out” moment

submitted 62 days ago • 17 comments

Lovely ride to work this morning on the Jordan River Trail. #slc #bikesky

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

Learning to ride a bicycle is a keystone in a child’s development as well as being a popular form of recreation and physical activity for children. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Wow. it must feel terrible when someone takes something you made and uses it without permission or payment

submitted 67 days ago • 190 comments

It’s really fucking gross to see so many people tying themselves in knots trying to absolve Elon. He’s a Nazi, always has been. Sorry to all the Tesla fans but it’s a shitty car made by people who are exploited and not allowed to unionize. That’s always been true, folks just chose to ignore it.

submitted 74 days ago • 4 comments

Look, maaaybe it resembled a Nazi salute. I'll give you that. But how can you be sure a trickster God hasn't seized control of your faculties and forced you to hallucinate your entire existence?

submitted 74 days ago • 9 comments

More imperative than ever: don’t cross picket lines

submitted 75 days ago • 86 comments

Wow, over a year riding #UTA Trax regularly and I finally got fare checked for the first time. A bit suspect that it happens to be during the time of year Trax is used as a respite from the cold by the unhoused (give them permanent housing and they won't need to do that) #utpol

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

The way America treats its homeless tells you everything you need to know about society.

submitted 78 days ago • 2 comments

I think we can change the world by having protected bike lanes and secure bike parking everywhere.

submitted 80 days ago • 231 comments

This is brought to you by the party that supposedly cares about women’s sports.

submitted 83 days ago • 2 comments

Cargo bikes are a really useful tool for inserting a little joy, exercise, and fresh air into something mundane like grabbing groceries.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

The biggest barrier between cargo bikes and mass adaptation is the gap between seeing and experiencing. They are the epitome of IYKYK.

submitted 84 days ago • 3 comments