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Rudy Faust

@rudyfaust.bsky.social

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Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 6h ago

Dozens of gas-burning power plants are being built across the country, solely to power data centers. These plants could emit as much planet-warming pollution as half of all passenger vehicles in the entire country in a single YEAR. We need a data center moratorium — now.

r o n y t h e b e n c h c z a r@ronythebikeczar.bsky.social · 7h ago

Tell dollop (a Chicago biz) to back off www.dollopcoffee.com/contact/

Contact v2 - ::: Dollop Coffee :::

dollopcoffee.com

Streetsblog Chicago@chi.streetsblog.org · 7h ago

Argh! Why do cool Chicago bike shops die while Hummer dealerships live? Green Machine is a longtime supporter of SBC, so please consider helping them clear out their inventory by picking up something for your ride. www.facebook.com/GreenMachine... @activetransportation.org @chicritmass.bsky.social

Ken McLeod@kenmcld.bsky.social · 11h ago

"as much as possible, I’d like to see the hardware stay clearly within the legal lines. The Olto, by contrast, is designed to push right against them and, whenever the boost button is hit, cross them" The absolute silence from NHTSA on blatantly illegal devices is deafening

Image of app allowing an unspecified unrestricted speed makes operation of the "e-bike" at that speed illegal on public roads
SUGATA AI@sugataai.bsky.social · 14h ago

If your new "bike" requires you to hop and balance like a scooter, you aren't cycling; you're just pushing a motorized footstool. #InfiniteMachine https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/08/pushing-the-limits-infinite-machines-olto-is-barely-a-bicycle/

David Zipper@davidzipper.bsky.social · 2d ago

A story of cause and effect: Last November, Ontario banned cities from using speed safety cameras to issue tickets. Reckless speeding immediately surged in Toronto, Ottawa, Guelph, and cities throughout the province. A 🧵 about my latest in Bloomberg (gift link)

What Happens When Speed Cameras Get Shut Off

In 2025, Ontario banned automated traffic enforcement. Now the number of drivers exceeding the speed limit has surged, according to traffic data.

bloomberg.com

Michael Herzing@mherz67.bsky.social · 2d ago

E-bikes give people affordable, clean transportation. If kids are getting hit by pickup trucks, the answer isn’t to treat e-bikes like the problem; it’s protected bike lanes, safer crossings, lower traffic speeds, and infrastructure that keeps everyone separated from multi-ton vehicles.

alexis simpson@amutepiggy.bsky.social · 2w ago

oh damn, politically homeless? sounds like we should implement good old fashioned centrist homeless policy: bulldoze the places they live and make all their chairs uncomfortable to sit on

Stephen West@stephenwest.bsky.social · last mo.

Abe Lincoln vs. the "heritage American" crowd, 1858: It doesn't matter where your ancestors were in 1776. Americans who read the Declaration and affirm its creed "have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote [it] ...and so they are."

We have besides these men—descended by blood from our ancestors—among us perhaps half our people who are not descendants at all of these men, they are men who have come from Europe—German, Irish, French and Scandinavian—men that have come from Europe themselves, or whose ancestors have come hither and settled here, finding themselves our equals in all things. If they look back through this history to trace their connection with those days by blood, they find they have none, they cannot carry themselves back into that glorious epoch and make themselves feel that they are part of us, but when they look through that old Declaration of Independence they find that those old men say that “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,” and then they feel that that moral sentiment taught in that day evidences their relation to those men, that it is the father of all moral principle in them, and that they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote that Declaration, (loud and long continued applause) and so they are.
Urban Truth Collective@urbantruth.bsky.social · 4mo ago

“We're afraid of walkable distances now?” If you somehow missed the unhinged conspiracy about the common sense notion of 15-Minute Cities, listen to @brenttoderian.bsky.social’s National Australian Radio interview with @greenj.bsky.social. Very early on he called out the lies & tactics. #UrbanTruth

'We're afraid of walkable distances now?' — conspiracies and the '15-minute city' - ABC listen

The polite world of urban planning has become the latest target of conspiracy theorists. In recent weeks, the 15-minute city concept — where neighbourhoods provide life's essentials in 15 minutes by f...

abc.net.au

Greg Vann@gregvann.bsky.social · 5d ago

“Despite the widespread harm caused by cars & automobility, governments, corporations, & individuals continue to facilitate it by expanding roads, manufacturing larger vehicles, & subsidising parking, electric cars, & resource extraction… Currently, 1 in 34 deaths are caused by automobility.

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The War on Cars@thewaroncars.bsky.social · 7d ago

A great example of why the "make eye contact with drivers and wear reflective clothing" advice for pedestrians and cyclists is bad. Nothing short of physically limiting where and how drivers can operate their vehicles will work.

Drivers Have Run Over, Flipped Off And Cursed Out Chicago’s Traffic Aides For Doing Their Jobs

Traffic control aides are needed during big summer events, like Lollapalooza this weekend. But drivers often take out their frustration on them — and two aides were recently hospitalized after being h...

blockclubchicago.org

Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 7d ago

We've had a number of older pedestrians and cyclists killed by drivers recently in Massachusetts, and something I've noticed is how those deaths are treated even more dismissively than usual because of ageism and ableism. People of *all* ages and abilities deserve safe mobility.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · last wk.

Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...

‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)

The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.

nytimes.com