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Ben Keith

@benlk.com
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Bike advocate and urbanist, North Linden Area Commissioner + Zoning Cmte Chair. He. Trains pls. Senior Web Engineer at Fueled. DMs checked intermittently.

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Martin Shelton @mshelton.bsky.social · 3h
This is why we can't have nice things. techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/r...
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Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots | TechCrunch
Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content.
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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 6h
We're on Bluesky, put the link in your post. Put the link in your post. Put. The. Link. In. Your. Post. Links in posts aren't buried or de-prioritized here. This is one of the last platforms you don't have to make interested users do detective work to find the link. Just put it in the post.
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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 29/09/2026
Has anyone seen a version of these pedestrian crash fatality statistics that uses 25/35/45 mph buckets?
Photo of a flyer which uses 20, 30, and 40 mph as reference points for what fraction of pedestrians survive when hit: 9/10 at 20, 5/10 at 30, 1/10 at 40.
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Brent Warren @brentincolumbus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Until the recent gas tax conversation, transportation issues have not been at the forefront of the race for governor – we wanted to know about trains, so we asked.
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Election 2026: Acton Supports Amtrak Expansion, Ramaswamy Won't Say - Columbus Underground
In Columbus, where we haven’t had passenger rail service of any kind since the late 1970s, there’s been a big appetite in recent years for any news about Amtrak potentially expanding service to includ...
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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 29/09/2026
Waiting for more people to realize the sudden increase in this is because of AI crawlers constantly taking sites down, and that the longer the AI push continues to harder it is to actually do anything online
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 28/09/2026
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is pumping the brakes on the current proposal to suspend the state gas tax, warning that taking money away from the Department of Transportation could be devastating. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/09/28/v...
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'Very bad idea.’ Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine pumps brakes on proposal to suspend gas tax • Ohio Capital Journal
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is pumping the brakes on the current proposal to suspend the state gas tax, warning that taking money away from the Department of Transportation could be devastating.
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Ohio Todd @lettucewrangler.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Sometimes i think about how, in the late 90s, USPS was moving to set up a secure email address for every US resident and how congress prevented it.
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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 28/09/2026
It's wilder than just emails: USPS wanted to administer the entire `.us` ccTLD. reason.com/1999/12/01/o... www.wired.com/1999/08/goin...
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Out of Its Domain
While most Americans would be content with the U.S. Postal Service if it simply delivered "snail mail" reliably, the agency…
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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 28/09/2026
Is it normal for congress.gov searches to time out?
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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 28/09/2026
Minor plumbing success: I have increased my shower's maximum hot temperature with just an Allen wrench!
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social
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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day
Take five minutes to not destroy civilization
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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Cyclists vs REM
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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 26/09/2026
"You there, boy! What day is it?" "Why, it's OSU vs Illinois!" "What's the score?" "14-7 OSU with 12 minutes left in the second quarter!" "Delightful boy. Perfect time for a grocery run. Tell me, have they sold the prize turkey at the poulterer's, on the next street but one?"
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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 26/09/2026
Does anyone know why COTA is celebrating Bastille Day, a French holiday on July 14, in September?
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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 25/09/2026
Today seems to be a chainsaw-y day.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Once again worried that the backlash being specifically against Flock cameras will just lead to cops getting functionally identical Axon (or whatever) cameras that have an easier paper trail to rig.
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New cure for male loneliness just dropped.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 24/09/2026
i love that the prevalence of slop is making some people actually be creative and be like…idk man i can’t afford a designer and i won’t use AI so i wrote this flyer on notebook paper with a sharpie. i printed out a google doc and placed it on my cat
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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 24/09/2026
Irritation upon everyone who uses Squarespace for a site with blog posts or news articles, when most Squarespace sites aren't built in a way to make Squarespace RSS possible. support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/art...
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Using RSS feeds
Create email subscriptions, podcast lists, and integrations with news aggregators with your RSS feed URL.An RSS feed is a tool for helping people access content from your site. News aggregators and...
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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 24/09/2026
[checks emails] I forget where I saw it, but someone suggested having a .gov clearinghouse for all class-action settlement webpages and emails, to improve trust. I endorse this idea.
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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 23/09/2026
In honor of Bi Visibility Day, I'm deprecating biweekly and replacing it with fortnightly and twice-weekly. Same syllable count, but less confusion.
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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 23/09/2026
I remember the days of the Pym.js workaround. If this ever makes it out of Chrome, this will be a massive change for social-media embedding. developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...
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<meta name="responsive-embedded-sizing"> - HTML | MDN
The responsive-embedded-sizing value for the name attribute of a <meta> element opts in a document embedded in an <iframe> to sharing its size information with the parent document. The frame can then ...
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Dave Ryan @daves.social · 23/09/2026
If you have ever worked in content publishing, you know how huge this is, even if early 🤯 www.bram.us/2026/09/23/r...
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New in Chrome 154: iframes that automatically resize themselves to their content
Chrome 154 adds support for responsively-sized iframes, letting an <iframe> size itself based on the intrinsic size of its embedded document. This is perfect for seamlessly embedding third-party comme...
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Brutus Wants To Go Awoo @noon-awoo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Awoo! Awoo!
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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 23/09/2026
So about this induced demand the traffic engineers have been talking about. How quickly does it show up?
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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 22/09/2026
V-Pac's sending out flyers saying that @amyactonoh.bsky.social endorses the @mayor.nyc.gov agenda. Mamdani polls well across the board. They're really scraping the bottom of the barrel, huh?
Cropped photo of a campaign mailer from "V-PAC: Victors, Not Victims", reading in part: "Amy Acton is a proud supporter of socialist Zohran Mamdani and backs his agenda. Acton even said that illegals who took jobs from American workers have a RIGHT TO BE HERE."
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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 22/09/2026
The first real bite of fall air is delicious. Time to haul out the fall wardrobe.
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Columbus City Council @cbuscitycouncil.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Join Councilmember Melissa Green at the Zone In Gallery to learn more about the newly proposed Phase II zoning districts. Stop by and explore the proposal, connect with the Zone In team and city planners and share your questions and feedback on the proposed changes to Columbus’ zoning code.
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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 21/09/2026
a wonderful use of @muckrock.com
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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 21/09/2026
I have completed my first-pass side-by-side comparison of the current Title 34 and the proposed Phase 2 version of Title 34. Before I publish the blog post, what questions do you have?
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Pulsar @pulsarbird.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Every Millennial was given one of these
Sketch of a hand holding a business card. It has 10 slots labeled "once in a lifetime event". Seven of them are punched out. The center of the card reads: one free Armageddon with completed card
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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 20/09/2026
Mark your calendars for Tuesday, September 29, when @cbusneighbor.bsky.social and @columbusdps.bsky.social will host a Big Table talk about reducing crashes on Cleveland Avenue! RSVP required: content.govdelivery.com/accounts/OHC...
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RISE UP, LINDEN! RSVP now to join in the The Big Table talk, Taco Tuesday edition, about reducing fatal car crashes on Cleveland Avenue
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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 20/09/2026
Garmin fitness recovery time: 69h

Your high recovery needs have decreased your training readiness. You may need more time to recover.
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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 19/09/2026
Got back from a grocery run just before the rains started ✅
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punished brian @brilandia.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
there's something so pleasant about biking for a few fresh ingredients where driving for those same groceries would feel like a huge chore.
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Devindra Hardawar @devindra.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
There should be one night a week where we can stay up all night with no repercussions. If the world is shit, at least let me have time for projects and reading
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Michael Wiebe @michaelwiebe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New literature review on housing ladder spillovers: When rich tech workers move in, low-end rents go up. So does it follow that adding high-end homes would reduce them? Yes. Changes at the top of the ladder can propagate down and affect prices at the bottom. 1/
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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 18/09/2026
COTA reroute PDFs now include maps of where the rerouted bus will run, and where you can catch the bus!
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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 17/09/2026
🤦‍♂️ we have a term for "effective altruist who spends more time thinking about Matryoshka brains than human brains" and "longtermist" is that term. C'mon, folks. Leave the Givewell crowd out of your AI discourse.
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Brutus Wants To Go Awoo @noon-awoo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Awoo!
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bsquiklehausen @bsquiklehausen.com · 16/09/2026
Damn it's crazy there's no other way to power trains.
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Sarah @bikelanecorvid.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Squidward Meme: Missing Out While Looking Out Window
ALT: Squidward Meme: Missing Out While Looking Out Window
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Aryeh Alex @iaryeh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Our @cbusmetroparks.bsky.social staff have been working tirelessly to expand our parks, protect natural resources, and create spaces open to everyone. I'm incredibly proud of this collaboration with Hilliard that will grow our park district in the Darby Watershed. hilliardohio.gov/hilliard-tra...
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Hilliard to transfer 333 acres to Metro Parks, expanding Homestead Metro Park - City of Hilliard
The City of Hilliard is set to authorize the transfer of 333 acres of land to Columbus & Franklin County Metro Parks, expanding Homestead Metro Park
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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 15/09/2026
TIL cota.com was formerly hosted on-premises by COTA. Their chosen contractor to migrate it to AWS was Deloitte: procurement.opengov.com/portal/cota/...
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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 13/09/2026
"Your mayor's name's middle bit is 'J'? Cringe. Get a mayor with a better middle name, like Bullfinch or Heron, or even within Corvidae there's Treepie and Nutcracker and —"
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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"Slowing down," then, doesn't necessarily mean literally slowing down AI production. It means making sure your testing environments are actually secure, that your agents have fail safes built in, and that admin access to critical systems isn't guarded by a plain text 4 letter password.
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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 12/09/2026
... someone is driving a four-wheeled boat on North High Street.
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Arlo @arlostrains.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
almost like there's something we could have done to a large portion of our transportation infrastructure years ago that would have lessened the effects of this alas, can't think of what it is
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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 11/09/2026
The proposed rezoning would allow a building 3 stories tall, whereas the current zoning limits development to a building three stories tall. The Dispatch does no one any service by skipping over what the proposed rezoning changes.
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