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Rob Toftness

@nosquish.bsky.social

Co-Founding member of the Denver Bicycle Lobby. I ride around Denver a lot. Just trying not to get squished 🚫🚴‍♂️💥🚙 (he/him)

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jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 16h ago

i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?

A. Zivarts@nondriver.bsky.social · 2d ago

The explosion of e-bikes, e-trikes and e-scooters is truly revolutionary...The joy and freedom of biking is intoxicating for everyone who has had the opportunity to try out life on two or three wheels with a little e-boost.

Op-Ed | E-bikes mean freedom for low-vision cyclists like me: don’t take that away | amNewYork

So did a lot of other people who, like me, don’t have valid driver’s licenses. In July, the state’s new e-bike law went into effect. Among other regulations

amny.com

Rob Toftness@nosquish.bsky.social · 2d ago

3 miles is a really doable bike ride. May not be every time but it sure is many times. www.energy.gov/eere/vehicle...

energy.gov

Peter Flax@pflax1.bsky.social · 3d ago

I feel no joy in the pain that high gas prices cause people. I also understand that some folks feel they have no alternative but to drive. But there are millions of people who can replace certain trips with a bike/e-bike and many people who make that leap discover it makes life better in many ways.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2d ago

A macho culture of performative selfishness might start on the roads, through racing, rolling coal, ever bigger SUVs ... But it doesn't end there. If we want to live in a decent country which values human life, we need to change this culture. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Driving that’s too fast, too dangerous and utterly lawless: why do we tolerate this petro-masculinity? | George Monbiot

In towns and in the countryside, I see 4x4s and pick up trucks driven without care or consicence. It’s a Magafication of transport, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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David Zipper@davidzipper.bsky.social · 4d ago

Yet again, traffic engineers are gobsmacked that a road closure didn't create crippling gridlock: "You’d never know that a massive highway project, ominously dubbed 'carmageddon,' was underway seven miles away...cars [were] speeding across the Interstate Bridge at their usual clip."

Vancouver traffic largely unaffected by start of I-5 Rose Quarter project

Washington transportation officials warn commute time could increase in the coming days.

opb.org

Chase Woodruff@chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 4d ago

The social and intraprofessional consequences of saying this in the year 2026 — in Colorado of all places — should be akin to claiming you've met Satan or have visited the Hollow Earth. But no one has a more secure assigned seat in the discourse than the conservative Trump critic.

Ross Kaminsky @Rossputin So glad to see @EPA undoing the ridiculous and expensive CO2 limits on power plants. Frustrating to see @nytimes and @apnews talk about "climate pollution" as if that's a real thing. NOBODY should believe the fiction around the "studies" that claim that some particular limit on CO2, also known as plant foot, will save some number of lives. I've been very negative about Trump lately but he's right to reiterate that "climate change" is basically a hoax. I don't mean the climate doesn't change; of course it does. I mean that 1) we shouldn't assume climate change must be harmful, and 2) we shouldn't assume that the costs of "doing something" now are less, or even only slightly more, than the costs of adapting later should it be necessary. The latter is MUCH smarter policy.
Cathy Tuttle@cathytuttle.bsky.social · last wk.

Paris is a city that's been WINNING the WAR ON WALKING. In the past decade city leaders built 300+ School Streets, launched a 15-minute city and reclaimed their downtown waterfront. It's a place people can enjoy an evening outside on what used to be a car freeway. This is what every city deserves.

Urban Truth Collective@urbantruth.bsky.social · last wk.

Don’t buy the lie about a war on cars. They’ve been waging a WAR ON WALKING for a century. #UrbanTruth #WarOnWalking

Same text message as in the post, on a new poster from the Urban Truth Collective. Background image is a massive wide freeway, splitting neighbourhoods and filled with cars. #CarDependency #Traffic #Congestion
Rob Toftness@nosquish.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Mind ya bidness" is my take on helmets Wear them or don't it's no one's business but your own Also get wise on what mandatory helmet laws actually accomplish before posting anything. Have a lovely day and this will no doubt be perfectly normal

The War on Cars@thewaroncars.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW! "Fine, We're Doing a Helmet Episode." After Mayor Mamdani posted a video showing him wearing a bike helmet, social media exploded. But what are helmets designed to do? Who sets the standards? And what is it about the mere mention of them that causes people to lose their minds? bit.ly/4gFMJub

Ken McLeod@kenmcld.bsky.social · 2w ago

TBH I'm not familiar with this source, but saw this in a newsletter and this doesn't seem too surprising "Our findings show that both LLMs and VLMs make yielding decisions which are influenced by pedestrian gender, ethnicity, religion, disability, age, skin tone and socio-economic status"

Unofficial Arxiv daily bot@arxiv-daily-bot.bsky.social · 2w ago

LLM-Driven Autonomous Vehicles Inherit Human Driver Biases in Pedestrian Yielding: Results and Implications From A New Benchmark Irem Yoldas et al. #arXiv #cs.AI #cs.CL #cs.CV #cs.CY