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  @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org this sounds like a funny movie, maybe it's like one I can't place: competing photographers trying different ploys to get inside and take pictures. The one who ships themselves in a crate, the one dressed as an electrician...

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  just one more lane bro #InducedDemand #FuckCars #geometryHatesCars #CarsRuinCities https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yldwVg7D1Uw

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/117304193008686352 Hosting our small-time instance with 4yrs of cruft in the DB is costing $200/mo on masto.host, despite monthly pruning. I'm grateful for the recurring donations / subscribers, but that's only $90/mo. We either need more donors, cheaper hosting, or some better maintenance tools. https://hcb.hackclub.com/urbanists-social/

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  RE: https://mstdn.social/@stux/117062590472282156 if you redistribute stolen money in the direction of the original owners, was that theft?

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@JulianOliver/117017586999838411 "we can only prevent it from getting much worse." has always been true, and we can actually make it better, but only after we stop making it worse. Pull the brake lever though, now! #climateAction

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@greenpeace/116975035116997992 Half of all car trips are shorter than 3 miles. Staying home is a good way to avoid giving more of your money to the worst people in the world, but riding a bike is more fun.

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  RE: https://climatejustice.social/@GeofCox/116911156904351198 🤔 what if we put a big fusion reactor in outer space and had some way to receive energy from it, arrays of some kind of collectors...

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  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/116901884087017344 NYT now "finding out" about the fascism they've been fucking around with, both-sidesing for a few decades

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  We managed to reduce urbanists.social DB size in Jan, which cut $60/mo off of the burn rate, but that has crept back up by $10/mo despite `tootctl statuses remove`, and now we're back at that $50 jump in masto.host pricing plans while still not quite hitting $150/mo in donations. Anybody got a solution for the 12GB preview_cards table? #mastodonAdmin (graph from https://hcb.hackclub.com/urbanists-social )

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  "rubber tires ... brain-altering chemicals." -- the brain-damaged rut we're stuck in, brought to you by #carSupremacy futurism.com/health-medicine/chemical-causing-alzheimers-disease-brain-damage-tires

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  pay to get locked inside a car by a computer, wonder why it happened https://bsky.app/profile/bennjordan.bsky.social/post/3mq5azebpbs2j

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  #BikeNite A8 I've made a few crossings of the river near sunset this week, returning from #BikeSummerPDX group rides, and passed 600 miles on the #lectricOne, after about six months. I'm still not happy with their programming choices / inflexibility relative to the throttle and assist levels (🙄 "annoying if you ever pedal" ™️.) Still far less happy with #OregonDOT, owner of the ugly Marquam bridge (is falling down) and all of the worst #stroads in #Portland. #ODOTGTFOpdx #eBi...

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  #BikeNite A5 my #eBikes / #cargoBikes are all quite different and 3 are "projects" in various states of motor/battery completion/capability. I lean toward the #umbrellaBike (yuba #superCargo) if it's wet/cold & transporting the sub-100lb child or wanting to keep cargo dry, the bakfiets format is also good for some load shapes, but underpowered front hub only as-is now. My xtracycle #edgeRunner has a bbs02 crank & good gear range, does steep climbs, wife's favorite dat...

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  #BikeNite A8 milepost 7 on SE Stark, #Portland #ProtectedBikeLane #TriMet needs a floating stop or a couple ramps to/from the sidewalk. #pdxBikes #fediBikes 30mph says the sign, 90mph lane design 🤦 guess which one drivers are closest to.

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  RE: https://mastodonczech.cz/@howking/116843049765801658 use a car if you need to go over mountains, not for silly everyday trips like the commute to work and errands carrying a few dozen pounds of stuff or kids with their own legs, what a waste of time and energy

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  electric open source mini truck, let's go! The first model would be a kit, self-registered Neighborhood Electric Vehicle (25-35mph low speed, less crash testing required.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJJa9zBDa6A

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  12:30 Rivendell Bicycle Works Appreciation Ride leaving Piccolo Park at 1pm, 4.5 miles slow roll to Golden Pliers #BikeFun #pdxBikes https://shift2bikes.org/calendar/event-23910

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  This is confusing for me, when she talks about the government building highways as a public good and for the survival of democracy. Car-brain I guess. I'm sure it confuses her to explain why the democrats are protecting a two-party system when fascism has a grip on one party entirely and most of the other... Fascism as an economic system is a weird way to put it, but I guess that's the autocracy the billionaires wanted to buy themselves. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEEj1glovvM

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  Paying for somebody to drive around and lock the doors to all of the parks dept restrooms before dark every day has got to be in the top-ten of cities' stupid responses to self-imposed homelessness problems.

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  The sad irony of the blame-drivers culture, absolving traffic Engineers using that magical American scepter of Personal Responsibility, when we all know drivers aren't going to be held accountable anyway (because that would be cruel, to withhold transportation from someone, like all of those kids that aren't allowed to go even 1/2 mile from their homes without a chauffeur.)

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  Almost @bonbpdx time again, seems like just last week I missed the latest last Friday of the month. 7am - 9ish, Blumenauer: North side, Flanders: East side, Steel: East side of the lower deck; Tilikum: West side under the 99 red balloons statue #pdxBikes #BikeFun https://shift2bikes.org/calendar/event-20696

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  not only did they steal your forum posts from the past, they also stole all of the forum posts from the future from all of us

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/116479670054669479 Delivery robots may use full lane. Why are they on the sidewalk? Afraid to ride in traffic?

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/116400199742221741 use the tool for how it works, not how you wish it worked. If the only voting method you have is a hammer, fucking hit the nail.

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  RE: https://zpravobot.news/@Rainmaker1973/116497213117339114 be the problem-solving llama you wish to see in the world

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  Imagine if Earth got a day off from people fucking it up.

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  #eBike to #BanCars Urbanism is the biggest #ClimateAction lever, and your mayor could pull on it tomorrow without asking anybody's permission. #LegalizeBikes by scrapping together a complete low-stress network and providing parking, support, service citywide, like you do cars. QT Which climate tribe are you? [chart that doesn't mention eBikes] https://mastodon.energy/@andrew/109573040722427844

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  I just got so mad about the state of things that I blacked out for a second and wondered what if we'd all decided to be done with oil wars like 30 or 40 years ago or now.

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  Oh look, my favorite type of sign. #BikeTooter #ModalFilters #BanCars

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  #30daysOfBiking I took the #umbrellaBike from Hillsdale to Beaverton and the passenger from Beaverton to the craft store to Hillsdale. It was misty, but not really raining until the return trip and then it finished before we got home. #cargoBikes #eBikes #pdxBikes #pdxTST