Mark Hrywna 🇺🇦
@mhrywna.bsky.social
Longtime writer covering charities, now writing about transportation 🚴♀️🚶♂️🚇 🚍 🚗 🚛 🚲 🛵 🛴
Last night was baseball's "field of dreams" game, an homage to a movie revolving around men banned for life from baseball for match-fixing on behalf of gambling syndicates, brought to you by *checks notes* the gambling company Fanduel. Why DO people think Americans don't understand irony? :)
Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio. Magic! Goodnight.
Hogwash. ~10k of the 13k families in Peachtree City, GA own a golf cart that maxes out at ~15 mph. (New ones cost $10k+.) And Peachtree City is a suburb, not a retirement community or college town. Americans will absolutely buy small, fun vehicles if they have safe places to use them.
The Electric Vehicle That Suburbia Needs Could Be a Golf Cart
In the Atlanta suburb of Peachtree City, teens and older people alike rely on little electric vehicles to get around. Is this a potential model for a more sustainable suburbia?
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e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online · 3mo agoI'm not going to say the new Mexican government-backed EV isn't cool, it definitely is, but none of you people actually want to spend $8,600 on a vehicle that can't go faster than 30 miles per hour. Come on now.
Most folks don't realize how central events like J6 were to the Jim Crow state. Dozens of unprosecuted coups & massacres—actively encouraged by those in power—revived the fundamental logic of the pre-emancipation state: that Black Americans had "no rights which the white man was bound to respect."
Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray”@ryanjreilly.com · 4mo ago“We will do everything in our power to make whole those who were persecuted for political purposes. This includes stripping DOJ’s website of partisan propaganda.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
The New York Times editorial board: “Americans should be cleareyed about what the president is doing. He is taking their money and showering it on criminals.”
Opinion | There Has Never Been an Example of Presidential Corruption Like This
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The facts: -Bezos paid $0 fed'l income tax in 2007 -He paid $0 in '11 -Btn '14-19, his wealth grew by $99 BILLION and he paid $973 million in taxes. Sounds like a lot but it's 0.98% of his wealth growth (which is his true income). www.propublica.org/article/the-...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo agoBezos on CNBC: "You could double the taxes I pay, and it's not gonna help that teacher in Queens. I promise you."
"The moment you begin to censor the writer- and history bears this out in the ugliest of fashions -so begins a process of decay in the body politic that ultimately leads to disaster." ~Rod Serling Speech, Library of Congress (1968)
What an absolutely terrific read! So much nostalgia for my pre-teen self, then all the crazy #USFL stories that I was way too young for at the time. Find myself bookmarking a lot of USFL games on YouTube now.
Mark Hrywna 🇺🇦@mhrywna.bsky.social · 4mo agoI was excited to finally get to a lighter book that's been on my list for a *long* time. Then I read the Prologue - I am even more pumped! Almost like reading my elementary school biography🏈 #books #football #USFL @jeffpearlman.bsky.social
Well. you can't say FIFA doesn't know how to Dallas properly. They came to town and immediately destroyed a beloved downtown mural painted in 1999 by a revered artist. www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...
Wilonsky: FIFA drowns Dallas’ giant, beloved whale mural beneath blue paint
The artist Wyland gifted his giant mural of six lifesized humpback whales to Dallas in 1999, but this week it was drowned beneath blue paint by FIFA.
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Wilford Brimley if he stayed in the Cocoon pool too long
I was excited to finally get to a lighter book that's been on my list for a *long* time. Then I read the Prologue - I am even more pumped! Almost like reading my elementary school biography🏈 #books #football #USFL @jeffpearlman.bsky.social
"E-cargo tricycles park closer to delivery destinations than trucks, reducing pedestrian travel effort." Makes sense—and encouraging! doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
"Why are all the journalists laid off now" this is why. Pretty simple.
Found in a shoebox of baseball/football cards. Great #BetterThanEzra show, great venue. Biggest takeaway for me was walking into Pete's Tavern for an after-show beer to see the news that U.S. had invaded #Iraq and thinking, Ugh, we're committed to being there 20 years 🤦♂️
Last ride coincidentally on #PublicTransportDay, time to move on to the new TAPP card. Not quite as cool as an old subway token but still love the commemorative cards; will file this one away with my Centennial Grand Central MetroCard. #PATH #SuperBowlXLVIII #SuperBowl48
Dan Rather represents an era when journalism wasn't as polarized into political groups. I miss those days. 😭
When did they throw a halftime show in between #FinalFour games? Dreadful. @ncaa.bsky.social Gonna go yell at some kids to get off my lawn now.
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Transit agencies across the county are hustling to complete projects and expand service before the World Cup begins in June.
World Cup host cities push to complete public transit upgrades
As the World Cup gets closer, transit agencies in cities including Seattle, Boston, and Kansas City are pushing to complete some long-awaited projects and planning to temporarily expand service on the...
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Remember this when certain state funerals are planned in the future and people get their knickers tied in a bunch because people aren’t sufficiently grieving, and call for them to lose jobs and such.
The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.
First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says
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Can't recommend this book enough. Informative , fast-paced read about the Second Avenue subway and why it's taken generations. Just a terrific read. share.google/jmS4Yk4pBlhP... #books #NYC #secondavenuesubway #transportation
