Going to start reporting fatal pedestrian crashes as "deaths tied to shoes."

Streetsblog Chicago@chi.streetsblog.org · 1h ago

@blockclubchi.bsky.social: "Boy, 16, Killed In North Center Is 3rd Teen Death Tied To E-Scooters This Year."

a visa overstayer from Chad who wants to be an American is more American than anyone who puts on the ICE mask

Semafor@semafor.com · 4h ago

“Based on its extraordinary success in slashing overstays from bonded countries to near zero, the State Department has made the Visa Bond Program permanent,” a State Department spokesperson told Semafor.

wHy'S eVeRyThInG sO eXpEnSiVe? Come on cities, you know we love you, but you gotta get your shit together on stuff like this.

Travis R. Eby@travis-robert.bsky.social · 4h ago

I kid you not this corner was torn up for a week to install this beg button, they “finished” it two days ago, then yesterday a different crew came and did this 🤣 this city is BEYOND PARODY man

Time Traveler Causes of Death xkcd.com/2976/

Can't wait to listen to this one. I will share a point of shame around it. For reasons lost to time, during my sophomore year I was on the committee to select the book given to all incoming freshmen. I suggested Three Cups of Tea, and it was eventually selected by the committee. 🙃

If Books Could Kill@ifbookspod.bsky.social · 8h ago

Episode 54: Three Cups of Tea One man's mission to build schools, fight terrorism and promote peace, one private jet reimbursement at a time.

it's heeeeeere, you may now read my essay about how i achieved the millennial dream of home ownership and immediately lost my mind on nextdoor. thanks to the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org crew for their ongoing support of me being Like This

How I became the villain of El Cerrito’s Nextdoor

“I had a panic attack. Then I wrote an apology letter.”

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Part of the reason this would be a challenge in most US cities (i.e. the non-colonial ones) is that our street are too flipping wide.

Alessandro Rigolon@alerigolon.bsky.social · 24h ago

I was recently in a few Spanish cities, including Malaga, and it was great to see shade structures all around. The critical thing is that European cities care about people outside of cars. North American cities mostly don't. Shade matters for people walking, biking, rolling, and waiting for buses

I've built a map displaying where on the Amtrak network you can take your bike, line-by-line and station-by-station. This data isn't available anywhere else, check out where you can go! amtrak-bike-map.transittools.dev

Amtrak Bicycle Access

Explore carry-on, checked, and station-level bicycle access across the Amtrak rail network.

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Seamus P. Oramus is still posting into the void over there on X. Come on dude, your stuff is still hilarious and the good people of Bluesky will actually appreciate it!

It's crazy how just scrolling IG or FB you're presented with auto-play snuff videos of kids being killed. It's like, jfc, I do not need to see this stuff.

What's crazy is just how little extra work and land this would actually take when doing greenfield development. The marginal cost of building a bike friendly community from scratch is basically zero! Literally 8' of asphalt added to the concrete sidewalks!

Mark (he/him)@markedwardson.com · 2d ago

Royal Bay in Colwood, BC comes to mind as an example of a developer that tried to do bike-friendly (and generally much nicer) sprawl and (imo) mostly succeeded

"Safety is our highest priority...except for this other priority, which happens to come at the expense of safety."

Don Elkay@theteflondon.bsky.social · 2d ago

Traffic engineers (who deny it when you suggest their value motorist convenience over safety): The increase in crashes in an acceptable tradeoff for improved efficiencies for our motorist constituents. www.westernite.org/annualmeetin...

This is actually how I both drive a car and ride a bike. On a bike, making a left turn is often impossible (so I don't do it) and in a car it's often unsafe (so I don't do it).

august 🍂@auguststreet.ca · 2d ago

hotter urbanist take: we should ban left turns *completely* in many places. of all traffic signal phases, left turns are the least productive and serve the least amount of people. they dont work well with median BRT/LRT & transit signal priority, and it limits crossing times for all pedestrians.

Bracing myself for Aaron Rogers eventual senate run.

Denny Carter@dennycarter.bsky.social · 2d ago

It’s August 2026 and Aaron Rodgers is having a full blown meltdown about Anthony Fauci.

this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d ago

Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

‘I bought this before he went crazy’ sticker on a 1938 VW Beetle

Police in many parts of Europe are very aggressive about enforcement and seeking out distracted drivers, while also having better designed streets. I don’t think we need to pit these things against each other.

The War on Cars@thewaroncars.bsky.social · 5d ago

Catching 74 distracted drivers in six hours is good, but what would be better is redesigning the street so drivers are forced to pay attention.

Your periodic reminder that my 1991 SF Mission apt was $980/mo in today's dollars - an unaffordable sum for me then. This is what decades of NIMBY SF politics stole from you and our beloved city's creative spark

This is 100% someone who parks their car on the street.

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️@jgbollard.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is it boys, the platonic "New York can never get better" piece www.archpaper.com/2026/07/litt...

OK people what are you doing this Saturday night? Because YOURS TRULY will be singing the Star Spangled Banner at the Oakland Ballers game! 🎶🎤🥎

Echoes of Adrian Schoolcraft, who police abducted and unlawfully institutionalized after he recorded NYPD corruption. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_...

Los Angeles Times@latimes.com · 5d ago

LAPD officer who recorded colleagues' racist comments to be charged with felony eavesdropping

Tell me you're banning RVs without telling me you're banning RVs.

Me: "We should make it safer to bicycle for the people who want to but don't feel safe." Them: "Why do you think that everyone can ride a bike? What about a construction worker carrying their tools or a yard worker towing a mower?" Me: 🤦🏻‍♂️

Ronald McDonald is a clown but he doesn’t really do clown shit he’s more a guy who likes that look

Update: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose...

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

When you read this article it really sounds like Texas is a lawless hellhole and maybe their politicians should stop commenting on NYC which is an incredibly safe place to live. www.espn.com/boxing/story...

Squealing car tires, an abrupt reverse, and Hannah Rapp's life ends in a flash

A bright boxing future is wiped out in an encounter with Texas man with a long record of police arrests

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having a hard time disagreeing with any of this. It’s all truly lining up to be her moment, and America should be so lucky to have her decide she’s willing to sacrifice everything to answer the call in service of salvaging this mess.

Hamilton Nolan@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 6d ago

The left needs a candidate it can unite around in the 2028 primaries and AOC is the only real choice. Nobody else checks all of the boxes. Every other option is worse. If she doesn't run, it's a missed opportunity of historic proportions. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/aoc-must-r...

If there's *one thing* you should know about "how to use AI in 2026," it's: don't even try to make a fucking map

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 6d ago

The U.S. State department has taken "full responsibility" for presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. Every single one. The map had a watermark indicating it was made using AI from OpenAI.

AQI absolutely brutal in western Sonoma County (Sebastopol, Occidental) from the Woodside Fire, near Salt Point State Park.