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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Exactly. Remember "the vast right wing conspiracy" Hillary Clinton was derided for identifying? Think tanks, board positions, university posts, "consulting": elected office is just one facet of a ticket to ride the gravy train. Like all the GOP snotnoses, he doesn't want to get shut out of the $$$

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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Trump is a politician the same way your cat is a typist when it sits on your computer keyboard. Attributing *political* reasoning to his actions normalizes him and them, making them more available to future elected officials.

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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Apparently it didn't make it into the mainstream that he promised voters $500 in the 2024 election, but I know of some people who voted for him for that reason. $500 > $,5000 in 2 years. Noted.

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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I think "artist" is giving him too much credit. He's just a con, in both senses of the word.

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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

That's quite a hike from the $500 he promised in 2024.

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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

*Add to that Trump's plummeting popularity even while his rhetoric and government action (ICE) gets more violent by the day, but prices continue to rise, there are no coal mining jobs coming, and then there's the Iran war.

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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Wanting that to be true in spite of all the evidence--multiple, multiple polls over the last 10 years and interviews ad infinitum-- to the contrary says more about you than it does about them.

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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Average distance ppl are willing to walk to shop: 1/2 mile Average distance ppl bike: 3 miles More is more. Biking extends the radius of potential shoppers. And there's the parking the car thing, which eats up potential shopping time.

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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Agreed, the nastiness is his "appeal," but not *why* most people voted for him. The majority of people who voted for Trump voted for lower taxes, lower prices, coal mining jobs, deregulation, deporting immigrant criminals, etc, some or all of the above. Are they racist fools? Absolutely.

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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"How anyone could vote for this is beyond me." No one voted *for* this. What's reprehensible is he promised everything to everyone, and people who voted for him heard only what benefited them and didn't hear, ignored or rationalized the rest, no matter how outrageous. Just let that sink in.

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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

They're 100% focused on staying on the gravy train that runs the RW eco-system of elected-lobbyist-think tank-university and board appointments, with or without him. Trump's smoke-and-noise machine is useful, but something of an afterthought for these grifters.

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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Someone should inform this idiot that white men are 8% of the world population.

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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

How long, dear Lord, how long must we be subjected to this daily outrage and humiliation. Remember when the Secret Service took Obama's Blackberry away because it was a security risk? How does this ludicrous, demented asshole even have this kind of access?

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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Oh, he's moved on from "I saw it happen from my office in Midtown?" Noted.

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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

100% No more #abracadabrapolitics It's time for voters to stop searching for the magician who will wave a wand and make their lives perfect, and commit to doing the work that validates their principles, of which pressuring elected is only one component.

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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Makes perfect sense if you keep in mind that NYT's mission is not to inform the general public but rather to make money for its shareholders. #shareholderjournalism

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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"OpenAI’s top scientist" Bomb maker's *top scientist* says nuclear weapons are evolving so rapidly we don't know when they'll detonate or how to stop them. That "top scientist" should get a job they're more suited for.

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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

What Grace said. I understand the principle as: If you don't speak up for truth, public space fills with lies. Everyone who speaks up occupies a bit of public space with truth. In a community, a critical mass of truth creates a status quo that keeps lies *in check* because they become unpopular.

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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It's important not because it will change the *other* person, but how you stand up for who *you* are in public space. I'm amazed that every comment in this thread--about having the integrity to refuse to condone what you know to be a lie--is about changing *someone else.* #radicalcourtesy

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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

In general, yes, and with that guy, always.

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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Why would you be quite sure about that? The qualifications for everyone currently working for the federal government, with the exception of Stephen Miller, is having previously been successful on TV in some capacity. TV is the only thing they recognize as real.

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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

More likely he's remembering this Nissan TV commercial from 2010 as something real. The man is completely gaga. youtu.be/Y70eWqM4GrY?...

youtu.be

Nissan Qashqai Urban Proof - Bowling

YouTube video by adverdrip

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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Just think how much worse it would be if these were "well informed" folks voting the same way. When you say "low information" voters, you're naming the solution, right? Your despair is useless. #dothework

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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Because that perspective makes $$$$. When it stops making $$$$, they'll stop pushing it. #shareholderjournalism

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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Not voting is giving an extra vote to fanatics and assholes. I'm a pollworker. In the 2024 election an elderly Black woman said to me, as she cast her ballot: "This won't do any good, but my ancestors died for this. I know what I have to do." I don't know how to explain it any better.

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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It makes more sense to integrate the fact that NYT's audience is not the general public but its shareholders--the 1% and above who Trump's policies are designed for and who are doing better than well as a result-- rather than continuing to pretend NYT is failing at something. #shareholderjournalism

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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My one precious life is too short to read this, but it sounds like this headline should have been "Mamdani Administration Benefits From 69% Approval Rating With Positive Independent Media Attention" Or are you saying the mayor should ignore or try to manage this? ABC would like a word.

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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"Nicer" 18th and 19th c architects and thinkers associating democracy and its civic architecture with ancient Greece associated the Doric style with civic virtue and restraint, the Corinthian with lavish, decorative display fit for an imperial or aristocratic mode. So there's that.

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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Not just democracy, the market economy we call capitalism. That's it, that's the whole game. If you (NYT) don't understand that, what are you doing in the news business?

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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It's just so amazing that for all these revolting abuses he uses his mugshot when he was indicted for racketeering in Georgia. No one ever seems to mention that.

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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Bike lanes are now really cool so everyone wants to be in one--they just forget to bring a bike.

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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

There's a weird thing happening in bike lanes. *Everyone* wants to walk in the bike lane, prance in the bike lane and especially bike the wrong way in the bike lane. BTW, Tillary is the Bicyclist Bermuda Triangle (along with 1st and 2nd Aves in the East Village). So nothing weird there.

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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Well, that gave me a good laugh. The education system really failed this man. You really have to wonder how Yale could possibly think it was ok to give this poisonous gas bag a law degree.

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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

That's frightening — if you care so little for accuracy, and can't acknowledge your mistakes. Cite your job as backup when it's relevant expertise, not even then when you made a booboo. BTW I'm a cartographer. Let this go.

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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Well, that's frightening — if you care so little about accuracy. Cite your job as backup when it's relevant, and not even then when you made a booboo. "I'm a brain surgeon so when I rear-ended you I wasn't out of line and anyway how dare you mention it." BTW I'm a cartographer. Let this go.

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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

You're programmer at a municipality? Does that make you also expert in cemetery board oversight? Stormwater utility billing? If only you had taken the time to look this up *before* you posted what you "suspect" we would both be doing something more useful and pleasant with our time.

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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I suspect Greenland is a territory of the United States. Here's why... I suspect windmills cause cancer. Here's why... I suspect the moon landing was faked. Here's why... I suspect tariffs are actually paid by China. Here's why... I suspect the 2020 election was rigged. Here's why...

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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

They didn't write 'I'm guessing, correct me' — it was stated as how Google works. I corrected it. If the takeaway you want is that I was too harsh rather than posting bs is harmful, we're not going to agree, and that's fine.

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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Google : quand les noms officiels varient selon les pays, les utilisateurs de Maps voient le nom officiel local ; tout le monde ailleurs voit les deux noms. Celles-ci sont des décisions politiques faites par les humains — peut-être verrez-vous "lac Ontario (lac d'Amérique)" dans quelques jours.

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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

C'est possible, cela peut changer. Mais, rappelez-moi : est-ce que le Québec est au Mexique ? Je ne me souviens pas... 🙂

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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

His vindictiveness, pain and outrage embodies what has to have been sheer agony for all the groups and voters aligned with his worldview, watching the effects of the 1964 Civil Rights Act snowball over the last decades.

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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Only Americans will see this. GoogleMaps geo-fences lots of things--there is no one standard for every geographic label everywhere in the world. But this is something different, obviously.

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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Agreed. This was so fast, it feels really sweaty and thirsty. Like Google has something Really Big in front of the gov right now.

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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

And if that doesn't hold, OSMAnd TomTom AmiGO Both based in the Netherlands, use open source Open Street Maps, no ads, don't sell your data.

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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Nope. . At Google, downstream of a corporate decision, your manual intervention was made, geo-fenced for Americans. Why would you post on social made-up stuff on something about which you are so ignorant? Absolutely no one needs that. Please have a think on it.

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Bicycle Utopia @bicycleutopia.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Alternatives to GoogleMaps: OSMAnd TomTom AmiGO Open Street Maps is open source, based in the Netherlands, built and maintained by an international community of volunteers. No ads, doesn't sell your data.

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