Trump’s Confederate Army. https://sciences.social/@alfiekohn/114790985069826642

Think of it as a giant jobs program for out-of-work Nazis

If you ever want feel-good tears, go read the reviews of electric tricycles.

There are so many great stories and photos of people regaining mobility, reconnecting with their spouse/friends/family, and just having fun.

#cycling #biking

Working on a lecture on solarpunk / utopian futures and how utopian ideas seem utterly stupid and unachievable. Then after we DO achieve them, we forget they were ever utopian and consider them normal.

Like the concept of a weekend.

Once a preposterous idea and now the cadence by which we live our lives. Weekdays are workdays and weekends are not. As if their sunsets have different colours.

I think it's good to remind ourselves that we have made utopias happen.

#solarpunk

Loud and Lit ride - tonight 8:30 Irving Park!
https://pdx.social/@shift2bikes/114762663094608884

It’s also been huge for Portland, we have a notably more liberal, more competent council now (with 4 DSA members)!
https://infosec.exchange/@tinker/114746292947427234

A key part of the New York City mayoral races was Ranked Choice Voting.

I'm not seeing many news articles mention this yet (correct me if I'm wrong though!).

Ranked choice let's us vote first for who we actually want.... and then put in backup votes for "good enough" candidates and allows us to compromise and find common ground.

It destroys the concepts of "lesser of two evils" and "throwing away your vote".

I hope we see Ranked Choice voting everywhere.

#newYork #NYC #NYCMayor #ZohranMamdani

Recently Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta was building an AI data center so large its size would be equivalent to a significant part of Manhattan. What Zuckerberg did not mention was the constructions of 3 new Meta-subsidized, gas power plants https://www.404media.co/a-black-hole-of-energy-use-metas-massive-ai-data-center-is-stressing-out-a-louisiana-community/

"A cyclist is a disaster for the country's economy: he does not buy cars and does not borrow money to buy. He does not pay for insurance policies. He does not buy fuel, does not pay for the necessary maintenance and repairs. He does not use paid parking. He does not cause serious accidents. He does not require multi-lane highways. He does not get fat.
Healthy people are neither needed nor useful for the economy. They don't buy medicine. They do not go to hospitals or doctors. Nothing is added to the country's GDP (gross domestic product).
On the contrary, every new McDonald's restaurant creates at least 30 jobs: 10 cardiologists, 10 dentists, 10 dietary experts and nutritionists, and obviously, people who work at the restaurant itself."
Choose carefully: cyclist or McDonald's? It is worth considering.
P.S. Walking is even worse. Pedestrians don't even buy bicycles.
P.P.S. If you have read this far and still don't get it, this post is SATIRE. Reread it with this in mind.

Want greener, cooler cities that are a “breath of fresh air?“ In case you thought Paris wasn’t ambitious enough this weekend, on top of our new exhibition, they opened the wonderful new “Urban Forest” in the square in front of City Hall! Part of Mayor Anne Hidalgo and her great team’s brilliant urban greening strategy.

@robotdeathsquad taking solace by bullying Auckland.

The reason Texas is part of the USA is that Mexico made slavery illegal.

Remember the Alamo? A lot of white people don't know is that what the "brave" people in the Alamo were fighting for was slavery.

That's also why it took two years after the civil war ended for enforcement of anti-slavery in Texas. (it wasn't because of slow communication, as is told in revisionist histories, it was because white people willfully defied the law).

Freedom is always worth fighting for.

The Great Raft was an enormous log jam or series of "rafts" that clogged the Red and Atchafalaya rivers in North America from perhaps the 12th century until its removal in the 1830s.
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The Great Raft possibly began forming in the 12th century, or earlier.] It grew from its upper end, while decaying or washing out at the lower end. By the early 1830s, it spanned more than 160 miles (260 km).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Raft

A city passes the Bikedel Test if there are two safe and reliable ways to get where you’re going other than driving a car.

#biking #BikeTooter #cycling

Anybody out there in GIS or urbanism or sustainability or transportation planning or any related field interested in taking over this server? I hate to have move again...but the owner is leaving mastodon.

#fediadmin #fedimods #sustainability #urbanism #bike #GIS #transportation #trains #walkability #Community

Star Trek ride tonight, #portland #bikesummer loving fam. Steam those costumes, attach them ears, and RIDE. https://www.shift2bikes.org/calendar/event-21042

NASA’s iconic Goddard Institute for Space Studies—home to Jim Hansen and hundreds more scientists, creator of the GISS model and keeper of the global temperature record—has been evicted from its longstanding NYC office above the “Seinfeld” restaurant.

Why? The government told them to move out.

Read more here: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasas-goddard-institute-for-space-studies-faces-eviction-under-trump-plan/

Another auto reviewer comes out swinging against the dangerously overpowered electric sedans like the Tesla S Plaid and Xiaomi SU7 Ultra. https://youtu.be/a3e3-osCNjc?si=3Varq3pub7d2-1Hn&t=1000 I’ve driven a Plaid and it’s not safe.

There are two previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the third.
It's not just slashed budgets but destroyed research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

From 31 May through 1 June 1921 the Tulsa Massacre took place. Deputized whites killed more than 300 African Americans. They looted and burned to the ground 40 square blocks of 1,265 African American homes, including hospitals, schools, and churches, and destroyed 150 businesses.

White deputies and members of the National Guard arrested and detained 6,000 Black Tulsans who were released only upon being vouched for by a white employer or other white citizen. 1/2