Taking an overnight train means you save money on a hotel room, and your carbon emissions are a fraction of doing the same trip by car or plane. But are sleeper trains practical for a family of 4? We gave the Nightjet to #Berlin a test. The whole story here: www.highspeed.blog/all-aboard-t...

Anyone got a forklift and box truck I can borrow?

Metropolitan Transportation Authority@mta.info · 10h ago

We’re auctioning a limited number of MetroCard Vending Machines and MetroCard Express Machines! The auction is now open and offers must be received by Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 8 pm EST. Learn more and bid on our website: mta.info/auction

Saw some attack ad yesterday accusing some condidate of having big data center money behind them. Notably, I wasn't sure if it was sn attack from the left or from the right. Felt like a cultural tipping point.

molly taft@mollytaft.com · yesterday

for months, ive been trying to map out the ways the right and the left were uniting against data centers and AI both here's my story on my efforts, featuring steve bannon's anti-tech prophet, my girlfriend's high school english class, and the unabomber:

Renters pay higher property taxes in NYC than single-family homeowners

Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · yesterday

Editorial: New York’s democratic socialists put the squeeze on thousands of property owners

Me when a post stays with my normal audience range and all the comments are cool: aww yeah, everyone rules, love this, life is great Me when a post reaches beyond my normal audience: oh god humanity is poison we should all be cleansed

NEW – Factcheck: How nuclear, gas, wind and solar power are affected during heatwaves | @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org w/ comment from @iain-staffell.bsky.social @henrypreston.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/yfvQnUS

DSA-aligned Democrats are now the most pro-free-trade voting bloc in the United States, in an incredible turn of events www.theargumentmag.com/p/who-suppor...

Nope, nice try. Not doing this to myself. You'll have to kill my ass

For All Mankind's glaring failure is that it does not address at all the tax consequences of a multinational corporation having permanent profitable operations on Mars and the moon.

rents are up again, I can't move out of my rent-controlled shithole without spending at least half of my income on a new place. I and thousands of my peers would happily settle for mediocre design. cry about it

David Pollack@davidmpollack.bsky.social · 2d ago

If you reduce the barriers to entry for building, more local, small developers would invest in architecture for personal, subjective reasons and there would be fewer mediocre hot takes on design. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

We can't solve a housing crisis without building more housing. Today we broke ground on the Casanova Residence, which will soon be nearly 100 affordable and supportive homes with on-site services for New Yorkers. Every new home is a step toward a City that everyone can afford.

It’s often safer for cyclists to treat a stop sign as a yield sign and a red light as a stop sign.

This is more Markey performative nonsense. The right answer is to use the money to electrify commuter rail and make it accessible. Way more ROI on that! www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/03/m...

Pointing to Massachusetts’s fare-free experiment, Markey, Pressley press for a $25 billion federal free transit plan - The Boston Globe

The proposed legislation points to the success of free bus pilots that federal lawmakers say made Massachusetts a “national leader in fare-free transit policy."

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The first three towers of the Sen̓áḵw in Vancouver. A major Indigenous-led, multi-tower residential and commercial development project by the Squamish Nation located on ancestral reserve land. Meaning "the place inside the head of False Creek."

"The situation is so absurd that it reads like a satirical thought experiment. Billions of dollars are available for vaporware nobody wants, while funding deficits eat away at a reliable, longstanding utility many of us desperately need."

Reo Eveleth@reveleth.com · 2d ago

Early on @coyotemedia.org made a list of dream bylines we'd LOVE to have on the site and @annaleen.bsky.social was one of the first on it for me. So stoked to see this piece about ~~speculative transit~~ and big dreams for the Bay Area. www.coyotemedia.org/funding-bay-...

Crops grown underneath solar panels produce more, require less water and are more resistant to extreme weather, even during a hot, dry summer. We need agrivoltaics to be rolled out asap, for both the electricity and the better growing conditions. microgridmedia.com/solar-panels...

Solar Panels Are Helping Crops Grow Better, Global Studies Show - Microgrid Media

For farmers worried about losing land to solar energy, new research brings surprising news: many crops actually produce more food when grown beneath solar

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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.

Good thread. I'll add that the Milwaukee sewer socialists and political progressives of the era, most famously FDR, were enthusiastically pro-car.

Jake Berman@lostsubways.com · 3d ago

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/?

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

It still pisses me off that Ladies' Football isn't on GAA+

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 3d ago

Galway’s 22-year wait for senior glory comes to a chaotic end against Kerry

I wish we could shake libs out of the consensus position that the progressiveness of a tax policy can be solely evaluated by looking at one side of the ledger I have had many conversations like this “This tax is regressive” >But the revenue is being spent progressively “Had not considered this”

Broward County couldn't buy the former Spirit Airlines HQ to be its new government centre because changing the zoning was an insurmountable hurdle for, uh, the government.

Broward County drops pursuit of Spirit Airlines Dania Beach HQ

Broward County withdrew plans to bid on Spirit Airlines’ Dania Beach headquarters, which heads to bankruptcy auction next month.

therealdeal.com

CM Punk wearing a Minnesota North Stars jacket is a good reminder of my take that if a city loses a sports team and gets a new one, that new team gets to claim the old team's history if the old team changed names. The Minnesota Wild should get North Stars history now, not the Dallas Stars.

"We can't use cut and cover in historic downtown San Jose." Meanwhile Les Halles, Paris, 1973:

This Kind Of Smart, Walkable, Mixed-use Urbanism Is Illegal To Build In Most American Cities

my friend who is fighting against the container bins in defense of New Yorker rats isn’t going far enough, I am proposing Prop 13 for all rats who call New York City home

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...

We're using City-owned land to build the affordable homes New Yorkers need.

experts weigh in on the dumbest shit you’ve ever heard of

Dungeon Master Tim@tstaub.bsky.social · 4d ago

I see we're going full defund the police and roads by Indiana Republicans. @nickhasthoughts.com @williamhazen.bsky.social dailyjournal.net/2026/07/31/e...

I see we're going full defund the police and roads by Indiana Republicans. @nickhasthoughts.com @williamhazen.bsky.social dailyjournal.net/2026/07/31/e...