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Tom Albright

@talbright.bsky.social

geography, remote sensing, climate, sustainability, environmental justice, bikes, languages 🇺🇸🇫🇷🇳🇮🇮🇹🇹🇼🇯🇴🇵🇹, #TeamOM ⚽, #Brewers ⚾️

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Tom Albright@talbright.bsky.social · last wk.

Post trip report: - Milwaukee rocks and the Brewers won - the Hank Aaron trail is functional and postindustrial urban corridor feel - Bublr was great! tho, the station is farther from stadium than it should be and our group snagged the last bikes, so they could use more!

Tom Albright@talbright.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Visiting Milwaukee later this summer and staying downtown w/o car. Is Bublr #BikeShare a viable way to get to a daytime #Brewers game? via Hank Aaron Trail presumably? Any tips?

a docking station for bublr bike share system, with several bikes visible and a person checking out a bike on a sunny day.
Tom Albright@talbright.bsky.social · last mo.

A driver wanted to be sketchy last night but I diffused the danger with good riding technique & made a video about to help teach others. Drivers 🚗: don't make stupid passes! Bikers 🚲 🏍️: be visible, position yourself correctly in the lane, signal, and check your shoulder. #BikeSky

Ross Macfarlane@rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · last mo.

Elon Musk has bought a gas turbine company to bring even more pollution to a poor Memphis neighborhood, all so Grok can churn out porn, CSAM, and Nazi propaganda.

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · last mo.

The combination of Trump’s second presidency and AI has been a mask off moment for billionaires. Elon Musk who once proposed a master plan to eliminate fossil fuels is now a massive polluter given his usage of gas turbines to power SpaceXAI’s data centers.

Phil Plait@philplait.bsky.social · last mo.

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elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · last mo.

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Tom Albright@talbright.bsky.social · last mo.

Shade is nice, but too often in our area, trees in close proximity to bike paths quickly result in massive damage to pavement rendering them uncomfortable and potentially dangerous/unridable above ~5 mph. Perhaps better engineering and silvicultural knowledge could avoid?

Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · last mo.

It sounds silly and obvious, but I'm always struck by how much shade makes a difference when biking on a hot day. It's so much cooler and I'll actively seek out more shaded routes. It's a good reminder that infrastructure planning should take shade into account as it's a huge motivator for riders.

Tom Albright@talbright.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I started working in extreme heat impacts looking at bird populations in the late 2000s. Did a ton of lit searches and results mostly about poultry death and how to avoid it.

Michael Grunwald@mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Heat kills chickens. So you need more farmland to grow more feed for more chickens. So you cut down more trees and make more heat. Which makes it harder to grow feed so you need more farmland. So you cut down more trees which makes more heat and kills more chickens… www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/c...