This whole thing has always fallen apart at this hurdle. Either a trans woman being in a women's bathroom is INHERENTLY unsafe, which fuck off no it's not but also how would you screen for that? OR Unsafe behaviour in a women's bathroom is unsafe, which is true but not trans specific.

A street grid is resilience. Building neighborhoods full of cul de sacs creates unavoidable choke points. If an exit is blocked by fire or cars that crashed due to low visibility, people can die. If your terrain is not steep, build a street grid. If not, build foot/cycle path escape routes

Cyrus Hall@cyrushall.bsky.social · 4d ago

The updates on Watch Duty are very disheartening. The fire is right up against dense residential and pushing in hard. Sounds like evacuation traffic may not be flowing ("use side streets"). There was very little time from the start of the fire until now: just four hours.

Today's environmental politics is tomorrow's cost of living. Why is this so hard? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘It’s too fast, too big’: speed of climate crisis is devastating crops, say farmers

Drought and extreme heat are killing plants, driving up prices while also making some farms economically unviable

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this owl has just about had it with the bullshit and me too

Aside from its many other problems, the idea Fauci was America's power-abusing covid dictator is somewhat complicated by the fact that he never had the power to do the things they're mad about. His recommendations bound nobody and were not particularly rigorously followed by the actual policymakers.

Propounding a cause isn’t about winning an election. It’s about expanding the scope of social imagination, which expands the scope of practical possibilities, which changes many other things, including but not limited to what positions and candidates (and even slogans!) can and cannot win elections.

To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars. Even if those cars are electric. And then there’s all the parking. OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money, emissions, pollution, noise etc. Choices. Simple.

Quite a lot of people lost someone, maybe an elderly relative, during the heatwave. My Aunt Barbara, very ill with advanced dementia, died yesterday aged 91. She was unmarried, no kids and I had been taking care of her affairs for the past few years. That’s the least interesting thing about her. 1

BTW, an early children’s book about mitigation was “The Lorax” (1971) (Shown next to pictures from the US in the 1970s)

Richard Waite@waiterich.bsky.social · 2y ago

For at least a decade now I've paid for a subscription to The Noun Project, which pays illustrators and photographers to create images thenounproject.com - is great, you can search for icons and download in your preferred colours and formats

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me

In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

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Do people read it? I thought they just summarised it using an LLM to gain a version doubly regressed to the mean of the actual writing it was trained on. In the end there is just one word and it's probably "utilise" or "agile".

IT'S UP! An article about the rain-soaked disaster that was July 4th in Washington DC this year, including all the videos I couldn't upload of the sad and angry crowds, plus details that didn['t make the thread. Please check it out if you would like to!

The Wet And Wild Freedom Day Catastrophe

There Is No Joy In Mudville, Not Even For The Right

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Laura Jedeed@laurajedeed.bsky.social · last mo.

Hi hello I was going to do a full thread on the Great American State Fair later but it seems I'm starting early: why in the fuck are PragerU, Patriot Academy, and other far right groups the ENTIRETY of the Department of Education booth

I remember one argument in high school so clearly--having the distinct thought that "don't kill people if you don't have to" is so basic, so foundational, that I barely know how to argue for it. It's like an atomic unit of morality, it can't be divided into parts. I found myself stunned to silence.

With trans rights under attack as never before, we need to show our support for the trans community. Will you join us? goodlawproject.org/s/d23a8a Both trans and allies can sign.

I stand with trans people | Good Law Project

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🚨 WE NEED YOU 🚨 As a new Prime Minister comes into power, we want to show that an overwhelming number of people support trans people, and want the government to take serious action to protect their rights. Will you say you stand with trans people? And share with everyone you know?

I stand with trans people | Good Law Project

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"Trans Healthcare saves lives" Seen at the Makers' market at one of the last few stalls here

Back at the stall with @alicemydaughter.bsky.social's book, they have hardback and paperback copies out for display at present, should anyone want to read it through.

roads don’t build themselves

I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Transparent Action . Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/tr...

Transparent Action

Transparent Action are parents of trans, non-binary and gender-diverse children and adults of all ages. They have come together to form a collective voice to take action in support of their children ...

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Agreed, but I do wonder if we shouldn't be trying to take a more dispersed view of power generation? Car Park solar seems an interesting case. EVs want power. Car Park solar would have power. I'm not saying they could stand alone, but with storage & an indirect grid coupling, is there a solution?

“In 2025 — yes, after the games — Parisians approved another referendum to pedestrianize and plant 500 additional streets, removing another 10% of Paris's on-street parking; about more 10K spots…no one calls these car-free streets, rather, they're rues-jardin— literally, garden streets.” #UrbanTruth

Cool streets

Paris's school streets are effectively sculpting out instant parks in the locations where they'll provide immense public health benefits to the city's most vulnerable populations

torched.la

I'll be live skeeting the Netanyahu post-Iran-MoU presser here. This is the link for the live feed. A word on the significance: The deal is seen as a huge Netanyahu failure since he owns the Iran issue and relationship with Trump. He rarely does pressers in Hebrew where he takes Q's. 1/

ראש הממשלה נתניהו מקיים מסיבת עיתונאים

YouTube video by IsraeliPM

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A new study of 445 adolescents treated at pediatric gender clinics in Canada found that after a mean 2.4 years, 94.6% still identified as trns. Of the 353 who started hormonal treatments, 1.1% discontinued them. www.jahonline.org/article/S105...

Stability of Transgender Identity in Adolescents Seen in Multidisciplinary Specialized Gender Centers: A Multicenter Study in Canada

To determine the proportions of adolescents continuing with their gender identity after referral to specialized gender clinics, the proportion continuing with gender-affirming hormones, and the propor...

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13/ The EHRC wants the low-conflict benefits of self-policing… while imposing the consequences of religious sex classification. You cannot get both by chanting “common sense” like mumsnet Beetlejuice.

This. We need to do the opposite of what we are doing. Widen universities’ reach into local further education and skills training, not chop off limbs in order to protect the fancy parts that need those very limbs. Bring back polys and CNAA.

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What's it actually feel like to live through the decline and fall of mass Higher Education in Britain? Today I've written about this from the inside here... Hope you like it, and hope you find it useful. isrf.org/blog/what-do...

This is such an important point: we rightly bemoan the ‘corporatization’ of higher ed but the irony is that many of the corporate managerial practices being imposed on us were discredited and abandoned by for-profit corporations long ago.

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What's it actually feel like to live through the decline and fall of mass Higher Education in Britain? Today I've written about this from the inside here... Hope you like it, and hope you find it useful. isrf.org/blog/what-do...

Here’s a SERIOUS question. What if our property tax system was actually fair, and was based on public costs actually incurred to support housing? What if low density housing had to pay its way, rather than being subsidized by responsible infill housing? What if we stopped incentivizing sprawl?

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It costs the City of Ottawa $465/person each year to serve new low-density homes, over & above what it receives from property taxes/fees. On the other hand, high-density infill such as apartment buildings pays for itself plus an extra $606/person each year. Sprawl costs, infill saves. #UrbanTruth

It wasn’t on my way home but I thought you bike infrastructure nerds would like to see this. The Eindhoven Hovenring at 12:30pm on a cool early June night.