iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

For four months, I subletted a place a block and a half from the Page. I should have gone there more often. I think Tufte would approve of this online beer menu.

000

Until we build it, cyclists will keep riding where it’s safest, and that’s often right in front of you. Give us the lane when we need it, and push your town to build roads where we won’t.

Here’s the bigger point: none of this should be necessary. A painted bike lane gets about 1 in 10 people riding. All Ages & Abilities infrastructure gets about 6 in 10. Separated, protected space lets cyclists stay out of your lane.

100

Most of us will move over when the road opens up. We don’t want you stuck behind us any more than you do.

100

The good news is that Mass. law lets drivers cross the double yellow to pass a cyclist, as long as it’s safe and they stay at the speed limit. If you can’t use the entire other lane, it’s not safe. Wait a few seconds.

110

Riding in the middle of the lane sends a message: it’s not safe to pass here. To get by, a driver has to move into the other lane, so they have to check whether they can see what’s coming. On a blind curve or hill, they can’t.

100

When a cyclist rides at the edge, drivers try to squeeze by anyway. Then the cyclist has nowhere to go but the gutter, the glass, the drain grate, or the ditch. That’s how people get run off the road.

100

Start with the math. Most lanes are 10–12 ft wide. A car is about 6 ft, a bike about 2.5 ft, and Mass. law requires 4 ft of space when passing. That doesn’t fit in one lane.

100

Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 09/10/2026

Vehicular cycling sucks. Nobody wants to ride a bike in the middle of a lane with cars behind them. But on most Massachusetts roads, it’s the safest choice we have. Here’s why.

120

Reposted by AB

This @nyc.streetsblog.org story highlights horrifically and graphically many, many of the things wrong with the culture around traffic all over the world: nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/10/09/o... It is utterly disgusting that so many commenters seem to be blaming the child victims.

nyc.streetsblog.org

Cycle Of Rage: One Crash Shows How Reckless Car Drivers Ruin Kids' Childhoods - Streetsblog New York City

We want our kids off their phones and reading books in the library. Too bad drivers don't give a shit. A rant from Streetsblog Editor Gersh Kuntzman.

3415

AB @ab-cabra.bsky.social · 21h

Life goes on and then you die. ~85 rings. Ash. Killed by the emerald ash borer

1151

Mostly its sad that there isn't more of a culture of calling out the jerks. And part of that, it feels, has to do with the lack of enforcement of traffic violations across the board, and the general I-dont-give-a-shit attitude of the people tasked with enforcement.

020

I get that. What helps me is remembering it’s a small number of people (jerks) with outsized influence. Out here in WMass, 19 of 20 drivers are courteous when I’m on my bike. It’s the few selfish pricks who treat slowing down for a cyclist as a personal affront that make it feel worse than it is.

230

It’s bigger than cars. American culture now treats rules as optional. Small rules are guidelines, and asking permission is for suckers. Then we shrug it off: if it only goes wrong 1 time in 100, it’s worth the risk. But on our streets, that 1 in 100 can be a kid.

150

AB @ab-cabra.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My personal WMass bicycling heat map over the last 10 years.

020

One of the things I miss about living in NYC is that I don’t have a local market, I have to go to a supermarket.

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Reposted by AB

It's so funny when drivers view traffic calming measures as a fundamental attack on their right to use a car. You can still drive! You're just being forced to drive more slowly and safely.

225923

This is so true! A few showing up for local stuff:

000

The people who built modern industry lived in the details. The people running it now think it was all luck, which explains a lot about how they run it.

000

The suburban dream was dependent on (impossible) never-ending growth

000

The Democratic Party message should be simple and repeated constantly: this isn't a 4-year problem. It's a 10-year cleanup.

000

It's maddening when people want e-bikes banned from shared trails but accept the dangers of cars as a necessary part of life.

And!!!! "The Council voted 10-1, with Ferreira the lone negative vote, to restrict e-bikes from the paved paths as a safety measure." because "we have gotten complaints from people on rail trails that are paved that were either hit or near hits on those paths"

130

It spawned 39 tornadoes!

000

According to Wikipedia it is the 2nd costliest non-retired name after Sally and ahead of Imelda. Those I-names are tough maybe?

110

kottke.org @kottke.org · 05/10/2026

Isaias was a hurricane with $5B damage in 2020. Why is it getting used again already?

110

Reposted by AB

Stalin Boys is a short documentary about a Joseph Stalin-obsessed middle-schooler from a tiny Texas town who writes a play about the Soviet dictator and enlists his three friends to stage it for the Texas State History Fair. Free to watch online. [nytimes.com]

nytimes.com

Opinion | The ‘Stalin Boys’ Go to the History Fair

Our short documentary, “Stalin Boys,” captures a particular moment in a middle school education, in which boys grapple with a dark history for the first time. This raised many questions, including: What is communism? What went wrong? And, most important — what was Stalin’s favorite color?

051

AB @ab-cabra.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

How did the US not establish a formal drone warfare exchange program with Ukraine? Massive strategic miss of the 2020s.

000

Reposted by AB

Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 21/09/2026

This is why contextual design is critical for bicycling. Facilities only work for all ages and abilitywhen they account for what surrounds them. highways.dot.gov/sites/fhwa.d...

A chart with volume on the vert, speed on the horizontal, showing unprotected bikelanes being appropriate up to about 6-7k cars per day going less than 30mph

3618

AB @ab-cabra.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My early voting location is closer than my normal voting location.

000

Reposted by AB

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There's a reason why Somerville hasn't had a traffic death in 4 years. The city isn't perfect, but they've made a concerted effort to design many streets around people and not cars. You can still drive, but you're going to have to do so slowly and while paying attention.

bostonglobe.com

Somerville is intentionally making roads harder to drive on. It’s getting results. - The Boston Globe

To make roads safer, the city says, sometimes you have to put some obstacles in drivers' way.

138882

AB @ab-cabra.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Starting to see blue pixels on the weather models....

NAM+48h showing snow north of New England.