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myrddrin.bsky.social
Left-wing nerd. Born at 336ppm. Interested in bikes, good stories (print, film, or game form), human rights. She/her.
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“Removing the bike lanes that make streets safer and make it easier for people to get around without a car will only lead to even worse traffic for everyone else, more traffic crashes, dirtier air ,and noisier neighborhoods." momentummag.com/cities-start...

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Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

submitted 9 hours ago • 107 comments

Official Petition to the House of Commons Petition to the Government of Canada "We, ... call upon the Government of Canada to transition official government communications away from Twitter/X" MP Charlie Angus is the sponsor www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

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It's Nice To Be Disliked (By One Of Those)

submitted 2 days ago • 36 comments

Elon’s busy schedule today is claiming astronauts were left in the ISS for political reasons, getting corrected by an ISS astronaut, throwing a fit where he calls the astronaut a slur, then complaining that we should deorbit the ISS

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The lab group of Prof. Melissa Bop, Penn State University, 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 they’d love to hear from you: pennstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... @cathytuttle.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place): 1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."

submitted 3 days ago • 114 comments

This is why the Tesla boycott/divestment strategy can work where others have failed. If we can move Tesla stock, we can wipe out a huge amount (if not all) of Elon Musk's wealth. This opportunity is too important not to pursue all-out. #TeslaTakedown

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“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

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Storm chips obtained. Actual Storm Chips were sold out so I had to compromise.

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📌I was gobsmacked Monday when one of my white “friends” on Facebook started an openly racist thread complaining about the Super Bowl’s halftime show. 📌At one point she raged, “THERE WERE NO WHITE PEOPLE IN THE SHOW!” 📌To which I responded: “So inclusion really does matter to you.” -My latest ...

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In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Granville Woods invented numerous railroad systems that are still in use today, including an electrical system trains use to communicate their location and avoid collisions. #BlackHistoryMonth

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HOUSING HOMELESS FOLKS SAVES MONEY IN FINLAND: “a recent study showed the savings in emergency healthcare, social services & the justice system totalled as much as €15,000 a year for every homeless person in properly supported housing.” It works AND it saves money. Doing nothing is expensive.

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

Doug Ford wants you to believe he's not a politician. Voters should grant him that wish and send him back to making stickers. youtube.com/shorts/4nzD_...

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Now they want to rename Greenland to be “Red, White and Blue Land” and yes this is the dumbest timeline.

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"A city's priorities become as clear as the spaces they choose to maintain in the winter." Content done with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

submitted 12 days ago • 13 comments

Them: Go woke go broke Nike: HOLD MY BEER.

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I prefer muscle memory controls over touch screens that distract and cause crashes, destruction, and death.

submitted 14 days ago • 13 comments

The always amazing Judith Butler www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 15 days ago • 104 comments

Every city needs these!

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Government spending is the reason you know who Elon Musk is. #WelfareQueen

submitted 16 days ago • 104 comments

If low density areas of the city resist upzones, I think it’s time we stop distributing city resources based on geography instead do it per capita so that areas that are denser get more resources: more local schools, more library hours, lifeguards & parks staff, sidewalks, nicer street lighting…

submitted 16 days ago • 10 comments

Really good post from @michaelwaters.bsky.social . defector.com/the-trans-sp...

submitted 17 days ago • 11 comments

What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.

submitted 20 days ago • 306 comments

$48 million to have little to no positive effect on traffic speed while increasing the risk to cyclists. What a great plan *sarcasm font*

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The text on the front banners say 'We are the Firewall'. Massive demo in Berlin today against right-wing extremism.

submitted 20 days ago • 27 comments

“While Mayor, I was often asked ‘how have you been able to afford bike-lanes in #Copenhagen?’ I’d reply, ‘how have you been able to NOT afford it? 25 years ago we were a few days away from going bankrupt. So the city invested in the cheapest infrastructure… bicycling.’” — @mortenkabell.bsky.social

submitted 23 days ago • 10 comments

It cost taxpayers an additional $612 million so Premier Doug Ford could expand booze sales in time for his early Feb. 27 election, a fiscal watchdog has found.

submitted 27 days ago • 18 comments

Every safety regulation was written in blood, frequently with a body count higher than one, and it’s not political to put the blame on people who want to “move fast and break things” when they start breaking human lives.

submitted 24 days ago • 46 comments

#BikeTO As I ride home along the protected cycling infrastructure on Bloor St; I’m behind a parent with two kids in the front of their e-cargo bike; I ask myself, what elected rep says a drivers ability to have more street space supersedes prioritizing the safety of three vulnerable road user?

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

It's been 3 weeks since Congestion Relief Zone tolling went into effect, and the program is working! We're seeing traffic move quicker into and within Manhattan, which benefits all New Yorkers—drivers, bus riders, emergency vehicle operators, pedestrians, and more.

submitted 23 days ago • 25 comments