Brianinja

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He/him. I like buses, trains, bikes, and making more places where I can do the above. Plus nature stuff.
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A new study is 1st effort to quantify different types of residential zoning across a representative set of US cities. In small cities, ~70% of land is zoned single-family; it's ~45% in large cities. Allowances for multi-family building are minimal. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This is one of my favorite new manga finds. Very excited to watch this come to life!

Witch Hat Atelier’s first anime trailer is an absolute dream

Witch Hat Atelier’s first anime trailer is an absolute dreamwww.polygon.com The upcoming anime based on Kamome Shirahama’s fantasy manga looks spectacular

If you see this, post a bird

If you see this - post a bird

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#Metoo ruined lives: the women’s. For the summer issue of Bookforum, I wrote about Christine Blasey Ford’s memoir “One Way Back,” the aftermath of disclosure, and what it means to be a public survivor when storytelling has proven futile. www.bookforum.com/culture/disp...

Disposable Heroeswww.bookforum.com Christine Blasey Ford’s memoir captures the hazards of “coming forward” – Moira Donegan

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All of Lower Decks season one is up for free on the P+ YouTube for a limited time (USA). A great way to intro a friend to the Cerritos! youtu.be/jTQnkijDtRQ?...

Star Trek: Lower Decks | Season 1, Episode 1 | Full Episode | Paramount+youtu.be Second Contact - Ensign Tendi has her first day of work on Starfleet's U.S.S. Cerritos, where she meets fellow support crew members, Ensigns Mariner, Boimler...

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This is my political ideology:

Transit funding = antifascist praxis

The anti-free speech nature of the UK is fucking wild as an American. We were walking past an Extinction Rebellion rally in London, were handed a flyer, and a block away a Met officer threatened to arrest us if we continued to hold the flyer.

UK police arrested five protesters and seized coconuts they held outside a courthouse where Marieha Hussain was appearing. Hussain was charged with "a racially aggravated public order offence" for holding a placard depicting Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman as coconuts at a protest in November.

Police seize coconuts and arrest protesters outside courtwww.standard.co.uk Marieha Hussain, of High Wycombe, is accused of a racially aggravated public order offence

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i was just going to make a post about this. if trump decides you are an enemy of the state or a “threat to national security” and has you deported, citizenship or not, there’s nothing you can do to get home. he has full legal power to render you stateless.

Related, if trump is summarily deporting citizens under his new mass deportation regime, citizenship and an ability to appeal to the law isn’t going to get people back in the country. The executive runs border security

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61,500+ applicants for ebike rebates in under 18 mins at 11 am on a Tuesday. Only 1,300 rebates. We desperately need to fund e-bikes until everyone who wants one can afford it. www.revenue.state.mn.us/press-releas...

Minnesota Department of Revenue and Minnesota IT Services Announce more than 14,000 e-Bike Rebate Applications | Minnesota Department of Revenuewww.revenue.state.mn.us ST. PAUL, Minn. - The Minnesota Department of Revenue and Minnesota IT Services announced today that the Minnesota e-Bike Rebate application process successfully reopened and more than 14,000 applicat...

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Anyway. Collective liberation or bust. 💥 And how we get there is by living that world as much as we can now, today, here. With each other. And also: by mobilizing our tuchuses off. Both.

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Romance writers are once again running Romancing the Vote, to support voter advocacy groups! I've got an auction item up here, too, so check it out!

Mwahahaha We have 17 Buy it Nows available at launch! You can view them here: www.32auctions.com/organization...

Romancing the Vote 2024www.32auctions.com Silent auction 'Romancing the Vote 2024' hosted online at 32auctions.

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it’s been a few days now and that “black jobs” thing is still all over my tiktok

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That's right bsky.app/profile/rick...

“new york times columnists say biden should step down, but at this charlotte korean-mexican fusion restaurant, they still love ‘diamond joe’”

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Met a guy with #Parkinsons disease yesterday riding one of these trikes. Had a nice chat about bikes, blocked some traffic, and learned more about how to ride/handle a trike. Cool people out on bikes this week.

CITYTRI E-310www.addmotor.com The HIGHEST Spec'd, Most Powerful Electric Trike Under $2000 in the World!

If there's one thing I'd love to do if I came into tons of money, it would be massive housing projects, at cost, in all the by-right places I could. No bank or local NIMBY to hold up the construction, get to provide tons of affordable housing, and just screwing over the real estate investor class.

Watching various California Dems celebrating a conservative Supreme Court decision rolling back the 8th amendment rights of homeless people like:

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Your reminder that by 2017—7 years ago—Google had invested $1.1 billion ($1.42b in 2024 dollars) in what became Waymo. Since then, $5.5b has been raised. The chief argument is safety. Hoboken achieved 0 traffic deaths for 4 years running with a fraction of that money. www.npr.org/2022/08/25/1...

A New Jersey city achieved 0 traffic deaths in 4 years with quick, high impact ideaswww.npr.org Traffic fatalities are on the rise across the United States. Yet in some parts of the country, efforts born from both tragedy and political will have seen the numbers move in a different direction.

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Giving you a hand (I mean paw) to help you get to the end of the week. Remember, it’s okay to ask for help sometimes. We all need support! Have a wonderful day ❤️ #corgi #corgicrew #corgisky

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The Supreme Court, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.

The Grants Pass case, SCOTUS' first big homelessness case in a while, dropped. 6-3 conservative majority. "Held: The enforcement of generally applicable laws regulating camping on public property does not constitute “cruel and unusual punishment” prohibited by the Eighth Amendment."

www.supremecourt.gov

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This is no joke. I’m terrified of being hit by a vehicle. It happens to wheelchair users too often. We should be able to cross a road, especially a bloody pedestrian crossing, without fear of being hit.

PSA to everyone that drives: please bloody slow down and look for pedestrians at crossings! I got hit crossing one yesterday, and knocked out of my chair onto the road. Very luckily I am uninjured and her car suffered more damage than my chair. Very thankful for its protection on impact.

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It's insane that the maximum speed most ebikes are legally allowed to go is also the minimum speed 2 tons of steel operated by idiots are expected to move through residential neighborhoods

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NEW EPISODE: "Killed by a Traffic Engineer" In his new book, Wes Marshall argues that his fellow traffic engineers need to do some deep soul searching so that they no longer design a system that kills tens of thousands of people per year. Available now! thewaroncars.org/2024/06/25/1...

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it is just in that price range where i might buy one just out of curiosity

The Boox Palma is an amazing gadget I didn’t even know I wanted - https://www.theverge.com/24184777/boox-palma-e-ink-smartphone-reader

The Boox Palma is an amazing gadget I didn’t even know I wantedwww.theverge.com It’s a better Kindle and a better iPod, all in one gadget.

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kepler.gl/demo/map?map... Interactive May 2024 Divvy ride starting points map! To me this really highlights the need for better bike infrastructure in West Loop and River North.

Divvy rides visualized- May 2024

I got our ecargo for about USD$1500. A pricey sum for my family, and my spouse would occasionally comment about it. Then we got the USD$3000 AC repair bill for the car and it's been surprisingly quiet about the ecargo.

Cargo Bike Life in Galway: Doing the sums on owning a second car, a €6,000 electric cargo bike suddenly didn’t seem completely outrageous irishcycle.com/2024/06/23/c...

Cargo Bike Life in Galway: Doing the sums on owning a second car, a €6,000 electric cargo bike suddenly didn’t seem completely outrageous -- IrishCycle.comirishcycle.com Comment & Analysis: We bought our longtail cargo bike last June. It’s a Trek Fetch 2 model, costing with accessories nearly €6,000. We didn’t think one of our big outlays in life would be…

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Free CTA for Chicago Public School students=win for equity & Chicago. My @suntimes.bsky.social op-ed w Rep. Evans supporting Chicago Teacher's Union call for free public transit for students (of course needs to be quality transit). chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/...

Let Chicago Public Schools students ride CTA trains, buses for freechicago.suntimes.com Currently, students ride for 75 cents, and during the school year. Unrestricted free passes would help kids and CPS families, 70% of whom have very low incomes.

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Thought of this quote from Steven Hahn's A Nation Under Our Feet, of Prince Lambkin, a freed corporal in the First South Carolina Volunteers

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The perfect way to prepare for Juneteenth is reading accounts of enslaved people freeing themselves after the Emancipation Proclamation once Union lines were established nearby.

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i really think that people should see coates as one of the innovators of a now-common style of argumentative opinion journalism, one which leverages deep reporting as well as serious research in academic history and social science.