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Ben Keith

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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 · 7h
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 · 10h
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 · 11h
"Those travel times, according to a press release, are based on existing conditions on US-23 and an additional lane being added to each direction on I-71." But didn't ODOT cancel the I-71 SmartLane project?
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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 12h
Does anyone rank bicycles by the ease of removing the battery without unlocking it?
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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 13h
Is this viewpoint-based discrimination against you?
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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 13h
Is anyone else allowed to film the informal Finance Committee meeting, or other informal meetings?
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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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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 28/09/2026
Have you seen this thread? bsky.app/profile/kvet...
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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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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 28/09/2026
That final video is postage-stamp-sized on my 22" monitor. We have achieved levels of letterboxing heretofore-unseen.
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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
As of 2025, NTIA still hadn't been reauthorized, according to this press release on the first NTIA reauthorization to pass the House in 30y: latta.house.gov/news/documen... Latta's bill never made it through the Senate: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c... But NTIA still exists, somehow.
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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 28/09/2026
It looks like Cox' amendment did *not* make it into law, though: www.cnet.com/tech/service... The NTIA Reauthorization Act of 1999 never passed the House: www.congress.gov/bill/106th-c...
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Postal Service gets reprieve over ".us" - CNET
Legislation that would prevent the U.S. Postal Service from taking over administration of the ".us" domain is postponed for a month, according to congressional staffers.
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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...
reason.com
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 · 27/09/2026
"Oh, but I'm just turning right, surely it's fine"
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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 27/09/2026
I hope they've fixed the geometry issues that led drivers to think that exiting onto High Street was legal, safe, and possible.
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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
Thank you for posting the maps to social media!
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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
a soup strainer for soup season
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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 25/09/2026
The new paint and flex-posts are installed. Here's a quick review of how I saw drivers behaving last week at Tompkins. Note that most steer around the flex-posts to go straight despite signs and paint saying to go left:
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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 25/09/2026
"Should you bring a keg to an interview?"
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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 25/09/2026
There's a certain class of Android app which goes for visual uniformity across iPhone and Android, by which I mean that the CVS app has Liquid Glass on Android.
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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 25/09/2026
Today seems to be a chainsaw-y day.
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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 25/09/2026
For the curious: This is a Leyland Steam Lawnmower. merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/onli...
Screenshot of portion of linked page, titled "Steam Lawnmower", with a photograph of the contraption and the following text:

This is a Leyland Steam Lawnmower which was designed by James Sumner (1860-1924) from Leyland Lancashire in 1893. It was manufactured by the Lancashire Steam Motor Company in offically formed in 1896. James Sumner also developed various other vehicles, including two steam wagons (1886 & 1894) and tricycle with an oil-fired boiler (1891). James was fined in 1891 for speeding in his tricycle.

This lawnmower appears to be the earliest of its kind; another similar device was produced from 1901, the ‘Coldwell Steam Lawnmower’. The Coldwells were built in Newburgh, New York.
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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 25/09/2026
Similar things in my mind: Apple's Liquid Glass, Windows Metro, Bootstrap 2.x., the Chrome version that started hiding the window titlebar to draw tabs at the top of the window.
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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 · 24/09/2026
Direct link to the Litter Index: columbus.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappv...
columbus.maps.arcgis.com
ArcGIS Web Application
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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 23/09/2026
The biggest indoor fireworks display ever!
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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...
bram.us
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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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 23/09/2026
Is Bi Tasteability Day a subset of Bi Tangibility Day, or does it come after Bi Smellability Bay? How long until Bi Horriplilatability Day?
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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 23/09/2026
I think I'm confused by how you're using "democratic" in this article. Is this passage merely supposed to mean government ownership of the employment contracts of the subject-matter experts who run the grid, or is it meant that every voter will have a vote on the operation of each power plant?
Screenshotted quote: "This is not a metaphor: to remain operative, electricity must cycle through the system at a frequency of exactly 60 Hz; if generation and use diverge, this frequency falls, and without intervention, the whole system collapses. The need for democratic governance of the grid arises not just from free-standing political principles, but from the physical nature of the thing itself." 

Highlighted: "democratic governance of the grid"
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Ben Keith @benlk.com · 23/09/2026
Time to set up a Fat Rat camera, give them names, and then do a weigh-in at the end of the season.
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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 · 23/09/2026
What's needed is for sites to stop 403ing RSS feed readers that aren't on a residential IP address and aren't on an allowlist of known third-party feedreaders.
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