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Dustin Michels

@dustinmichels.bsky.social
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MA of Urban Planning student at Tufts // Programmer interested in cities, sustainability, mapping // Happiest when traveling by bike. 📍 Somerville, MA 🌎 Play GeoHearo! geohearo.com

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Dustin Michels @dustinmichels.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Happy #BikeToWorkDay Boston!
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Dustin Michels @dustinmichels.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Make cars small again
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Dustin Michels @dustinmichels.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Added a new feature to GeoHearo, my radio-based geo-guessing game. Now, after you complete the daily challenge, you see how you stack up against other players on a lil bar chart. 🌍 geohearo.com
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Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Note how there's no violence or chaos when the cops aren't rioting.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Seeing a bunch of normal ass midwestern moms and dads marching in -20 degrees knowing they might be tear gassed or worse really drives home what a cowardly lot of people the pundit class is
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Roxanne Shirazi @roxanneshirazi.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
It really is the best election map. Thank you, Center for Urban Research @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social! www.urbanresearchmaps.org/electioncomp...
CUNY Graduate Center's election map of NYC displaying the five boroughs with broad swaths of blue (majority Mamdani) and green (majority Cuomo). Info box on the side shows vote counts for 2025 and 2021, with optional filters to toggle by various measures like "registered voters with Irish or Italian surnames"
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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.
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Dustin Michels @dustinmichels.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Spent the day at NE Transportation Camp! @transpocampne.bsky.social
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
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Dustin Michels @dustinmichels.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Two weeks after Grok declared its admiration for Hitler, Trump is cracking down on *checks notes* ... woke AI apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com
Trump's order to block 'woke' AI in government encourages tech giants to censor their chatbots
Tech companies selling AI to the federal government now face a new challenge: proving their chatbots aren't "woke."
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Wyatt Gordon @yitgordon.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
“The effects of congestion pricing have been near-miraculous. Traffic is down by 10%, and some months maybe 12% or 13%, which leads to much faster journeys. The number of cars entering Manhattan has gone down considerably. And that also has meant that car noise complaints are down by 70%.”
economist.com
Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success
So why on earth did it take so long to start?
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Dustin Michels @dustinmichels.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
June #CriticalMass ride in Boston 🚴🚴‍♀️
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Dustin Michels @dustinmichels.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Exuberant optimism! Unapologetically progressive platform! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/n...
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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 24/06/2025
Minneapolis, we need these. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (Spotted in D.C. today.)
Two way flexpost and parking protected bikeway with the buffer area painted in pride flag colors.
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Dustin Michels @dustinmichels.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
So delighted I got to pilot a musician this morning 🎷🚲
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Bicicleteiros @bicicleteiros.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Los Angeles, 2025 📸 afpphoto
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Dustin Michels @dustinmichels.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Obama when he’s auditioning to be the new guitarist for the Grateful Dead: “Uhh, let me be Weir”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/04/2025
i’m getting van hollen pilled
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Dustin Michels @dustinmichels.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
From my friend’s refrigerator:
Sticker that says “do not panic, organize.” The accompanying image is a bunch of small fish fleeing from a larger one, then the same fishing organizing into a unified form that is larger than their attacker.
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Dustin Michels @dustinmichels.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Cancel Amazon Prime, get off X, breakup with Meta, ditch your Tesla... we must stop funding our homegrown plutocrats 💰
Tech billionaires at Trump's inauguration
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 15/03/2025
An Idaho teacher is in a standoff with her own school district after officials ordered her to remove classroom signs, including one that reads, “Everyone is welcome here.”
nbcnews.to
Teacher ordered to remove signs from classroom, including one saying ‘Everyone is welcome here’
“There are only two opinions on this sign: Everyone is welcome here, or not everyone is welcome here,” argues Sarah Inama, a sixth-grade history teacher.
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Dustin Michels @dustinmichels.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Here is some real sensible stuff you’ll find in the northern German city of Kiel, where I’m currently staying. 1) Bike priority streets
A street where a large painted icon clearly indicates that bikes have priority
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Dustin Michels @dustinmichels.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Yeah! Why would I possibly want the gov researching diseases and inspecting food?
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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
HANG IT IN THE LOUVRE. (President of Mexico on International Women’s Day)
Claudia Scheinbaum, President of Mexico, in the centre of the image in a purple dress on International Women’s Day, 2025. A search around on google fails to turn up an image credit unfortunately, I found it on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AccidentalRenaissance/s/MGhF9O80FL
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Dustin Michels @dustinmichels.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Elon Musk is a Nazi
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Dustin Michels @dustinmichels.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Facebook sucks 👎
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Dustin Michels @dustinmichels.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
“$43 million for the McGrath Boulevard Project in Somerville, which will reconnect neighborhoods bifurcated by McGrath Highway by replacing the viaduct with new street-level bike and pedestrian infrastructure, providing safe access to schools, jobs, parks…” 🎉🎉
wcvb.com
Massachusetts receives more than $102 million for infrastructure projects
The grants include funding for McGrath Highway in Somerville, station improvements at JFK/UMass in Boston and electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
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Dustin Michels @dustinmichels.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Bike exploration animations I made: dustinthe.city/posts/2024/1...
dustinthe.city
Project: Bike exploration animations
Back in 2020, when I was living in Sweden and (as usual) commuting everywhere by bike I came across a wonderful animation on reddit, depicting the poster’s five years of biking data in London. Bike ro...
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Dustin Michels @dustinmichels.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
They want Musk to do America what he already did to Twitter. Gut it, brazenly take away guard rails that were (turns out) carefully erected over time for specific reasons… turn it into an infinity more sleazy and stupid place… all while insisting it’s better than ever.
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Dustin Michels @dustinmichels.bsky.social · 09/06/2024
This ep of War on Cars does a great job of communicating why transit advocates feel so betrayed by Gov. Kathy Hochul abruptly abandoning congestion pricing in NYC: spotify.link/HAoLHHjbiKb
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Kathy Hochul's Congestion Pricing Flip-Flop Fiasco
Listen to this episode from The War on Cars on Spotify. In this emergency episode, we discuss New York State Governor Kathy Hochul's 11th-hour decision to "indefinitely suspend" congestion pricing, th...
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Dustin Michels @dustinmichels.bsky.social · 22/02/2024
The end of winter. It was fun while it lasted.
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Dustin Michels @dustinmichels.bsky.social · 13/02/2024
Downpour >>>>> Audible
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