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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 28/09/2026

When it comes to road safety, cities have two choices: Adapt kids to traffic: keep them indoors and drive them everywhere. Or adapt traffic to kids: make streets safe enough to move as autonomous members of society. The choice says a lot about the kind of city we want to build. youtu.be/O_WjWRmQwtg

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Meredith Glaser @cyclingprofessor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

BREAKING 📣 For several days, a peaceful protest took place in the morning, after a young child was killed by a car driver. The child was riding his bike to school, the father with him. The grieving community came together with hundreds of people, cyclist or not, creating a 3km long human bike lane.

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Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Let gravity be our guide. (Still need that beacon hill tunnel east-west connection)

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Obsessed with this woman who came up on my TikTok algorithm, who is trying to sue the city for giving her parking tickets

c.org

Sign the Petition

Stop NYC's Predatory Parking Practices

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ebikes-international @ebikesinternatl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Another Huge Turnout of Cyclists for Critical Mass Ride in Toronto in Support of Bike Lanes #safecycling #saferroads tinyurl.com/4akerdcd

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Caesar Catalina Wine Mixer @petermcunningham.com · 23/09/2026

"we should make transit better so people don't need cars as much" "but transit doesn't go where I need it to" "that's why we need to make it better" "but what if it comes at the expense of cars?" "it will. that's the point" "but people need their cars" "you wouldn't" "but I do"

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Jason @jrock08.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I felt so strongly about this nextdoor comment that I decided to do a dramatic reading of it. I hope you'll listen with the volume on to fully appreciate the quiet reverie.

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Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We gonna drag that ship over the mountain.

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Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Got stuck working from home one day this week (early east coast meetings), but managed 75 miles or so of bike commuting nonetheless. That’s enough to even my disposition. Praise be.

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Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

There are a lot of terrible lieutenants in this administration. A lot of their damage can be undone quickly. But RFK's anti-science bs is gonna leave a mark that is much harder to undo.

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Olraca @olraca.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The irony of people giving public comment against safety in the name of historical preservation at Pike Place Market while a car is currently stuck on the Harbor Steps.

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jane c. hu @janehu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

the triumvirate (2026)

a woman stands with hands on her hips after driving a red SUV up train tracks into Seattle's Mt Baker light rail station

a white sedan drives on Seattle's I-90 pedestrian trail as a woman in a green shirt walks in front of it

a black SUV stopped after driving down a flight of stairs at Seattle's Post Alley

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Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A little salty from observing feral drivers the last couple of days. This morning, modern sedan absolutely floored going down a neighborhood street by Brighton Playfield, terrifyingly doing 50 easy. While enforcement used to be at least a possibility on arterials, I feel like there was never that

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Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I don't think the sharrows worn from 50 mph traffic on 1st Ave through SoDo warrant it being on the map. It is a completely unremarkable stroad treated as a highway with a few stoplights.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

the fact that the NTSB is conducting a federal safety investigation of the helicopter crash, but nobody is going to do anything about the original deadly car crash, really shows just how few fucks our country gives about every day traffic violence that kills 40k people every year

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Olraca @olraca.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Looks like more people use Rainier Ave through Columbia city than they do the greenway to go north and south. Shoutout to Lake Washington Blvd for being essentially a bike highway.

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Elise Gould @elisegould.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Given a rise in wage inequality between 2024 and 2025, particular a drop in low-end wage levels, I expected there might be an an increase in income inequality in the latest Census data. Here we see an increase in the 90th percentile of the income distribution while no improvements at the bottom.

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Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It's just 10 years old, but it's definitely a classic. If you're the kind of sicko who is into rim brakes and bar end shifters, this isn't bad, and in the best color the cross check ever came in.

Craigslist ad for a 2016 surly cross check in tangerine dream for $899.

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Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Waiting for the school bus drop off by a traffic circle on neighborhood streets. 3 cars approach at roughly the same time. Each one proceeds to honk another, lol. Comedy gold out there.

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Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I mean, it’s a start. But it’s also not like we don’t have the data and know where crashes and fatalities happened before. We could be doing that work in at all those sites too.

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Olraca @olraca.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Props to this hero.

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Olraca @olraca.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Ummm... how did this car get onto the I90 multi use path? Video from a user in the Seattle Cyclist Discord.

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Braeden 🎣🦀🌲🦅 @bvd100.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Happy surprise to find new speed cushions on MLK Way S through the Central District this morning. @transportation.seattle.gov moving very quickly to implement @mayor.seattle.gov’s Vision Zero Executive Order.

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Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"With every motorized vehicle churned out, and every square foot of space they stole, a me-first, get-out-of-my-way way of being increasingly took root." You should read both of these pieces.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’ve reached the point - well actually, I reached it a while ago - where I’m militantly anti-AI. Fine - use it in bioscience labs and radiology where it might help analyse data more effectively. Use it sparingly for systems engineering. Everywhere else, it can fuck off.

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Tab C @drtcombs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Before/after. Discuss. for real: Please talk me through your thoughts if you were to navigate this area as a pedestrian. Which routes would you take either before or after reconstruction...and why?

Side-by-side comparisons of an intersection in north Raleigh, NC, at Mitchell Mill Rd and US 401.
The left is a google earth image of the intersection before reconstruction; the right shows a shot from a drone after reconstruction.
The images are not oriented to the north, but I will refer to the intersection legs using cardinal directions as if north were up anyway.
Before: 4-way signalized intersection.
Major road (E-W): 3 through lanes in each direction. Approaching from the west, there is also a left turn lane. Approaching form the east: a left turn lane and a right turn slip lane. On the north side of the east approach there is a sidewalk; this continues on to the north leg of the minor road. Opposite directions separated by a grassy median.
Minor road (N-S), south approach, inbound: 1 left/through lane, 2 sweeping right turn lanes; outbound: 1 very wide lane. Inbound & outbound separated by a concrete island.
Minor road, north approach, inbound: 3 left turn lanes, 1 through lane, 1 sweeping right turn lane, and a painted bike lane sandwiched between the through and right turn lanes. Outbound: 2 lanes, including the outflow of the aforementioned slip lane. Inbound & outbound separated by a narrow concrete median. Sidewalks on both sides of the north approach.
No pedestrian markings in the intersection.
After: 3-way reduced conflict intersection (the south approach is gone).
Major leg: 4 through lanes each way. East approach, inbound: 2 right slip lanes. West approach: 2 contraflow inbound left turn lanes on the far left (north) side of the major road.
Minor leg: same as before, minus the bike lane; the right turn lane is now a slip lane.
Sidewalks remain as before, but now there are marked crosswalks across the slip lanes, across the junction of the north minor approach and the major rod, and across the major road on the west approach.

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Peter Norton @norton.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Walking did not merely decline. It was deterred, devalued, and denormalized.

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Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Anecdata: drivers more likely to yield to you walking and pulling a small sailboat on a hand dolly than when on a bike.

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Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I will test your music chops tonight. Name the album with personnel including Jackson Browne, Glen Frey, Lindsey Buckingham, Waddy Wachtel, Stevie Nicks, Don Henley, and Bonnie Raitt?

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Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It’s hard being an ai trumpet player.

Diagram of instruments, including a trumpet with two bells.

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Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My phone reminded me it was 11 years ago that Tim Johnson bullied his way into my selfie in Vermont.

CX racer Tim Johnson with a thumbs up in my selfie photo.

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is a disaster for Toronto. Getting a bike during COVID and using it as my main getting-around device has been one of the best things that's ever happened to my physical and mental health. They're basically making it impossible for me to bike again without risking my life.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Nonpartisan budget lab at Yale has "calculated that American consumers will have to contend with an average effective tariff rate of 18.3 percent, the highest since 1934. As a result, the center estimates that price increases will cost each household on average $2,400 this year."

The Budget Lab at Yale University, a nonpartisan research center, updated its tariff tracker on Friday. It calculated that American consumers will have to contend with an average effective tariff rate of 18.3 percent, the highest since 1934. As a result, the center estimates that price increases will cost each household on average $2,400 this year. Shoe prices, for example, are expected to rise 40 percent in the short run. America’s total economic output — its gross domestic product — is estimated to shrink by about $120 billion annually in the years to come.

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Peter Norton @norton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Door-to-door school bus routes, two-car families and chauffeured children did not become common because people preferred them. They were the costly consequence of decades of planning that presumed falsely that everyone drives a car.

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Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Like, of course families would like to know what’s happening, but we entrust our children with a huge groups of folks who educate and take care of them, who have lives of their own and deserve good working conditions. Real main character bs.

Want on Nextdoor from a grandparent DEMANDING to know NOW about whether there will be a strike.

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Ari Ofsevit @ofsevit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

In 1957, a T ride cost 20¢. Adjusted for inflation, that's $2.40, exactly what the T costs today (well, $2.41, but close). The Turnpike from 128 to New York cost $2.45. Adjusted for inflation, it would be equivalent to $29.64. Driving the length of the Pike costs $4.25 today.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
13 When ballots are submitted to USPS in large-volume
batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,

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Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Daily classified: Trek heyday 531 lugged 1988 520. Almost 40 years old at this point, and can last another 40 with minimal maintenance. Converted to 700c and 9 speed cluster, velo orange fenders, and paselas.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A whistleblower report alleges that the US Postal Service is implementing a new digital system for mail ballots despite a court order blocking it, and the rushed implementation could lead to a “catastrophic failure” in the mail ballot system, potentially disenfranchising millions of voters.

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Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court Orders on Voting by Mail (Gift Article)

A report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections.

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A. Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Access for #nondrivers is how we push back against arguments that bike infrastructure shouldn't exist. "Advocates had said that 17 percent of the families in the area do not have access to a car."

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Do D.E.I. Bike Paths Exist? The Trump Administration Says Yes.

The administration has revoked funding for bike paths, and encouraged removing some. A cycling advocate said it is playing on the idea of “that dork on a bike.”

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Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Introduce yourself with 10 acts or bands you've seen live Bonus challenge: One of them matches the person you QT. The Blasters Steve Earle Brian Jonestown Massacre Buckwheat zydeco Felice Brothers John Cale Fiery Furnaces NRBQ Dirtbombs Reverend Horton Heat

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 31/08/2026

I can no longer in good faith recommend anyone to study in the US, or stay stateside for work and further education after completing degree programs they had started during the Biden era. US higher ed is unrecognizable even compared to a year ago when ICE was kidnapping students from their homes

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Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Dang. It's a good thing I don't like riding super skinny (25mm) tires anymore.

FB ad for spesh allez epic, shimano 600 tricolor, carbon rims.

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Pride Ott 🦦 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It is funny how Americans have the most libertarian economic beliefs of any developed democracy but also believe you rarely should be allowed to build more than 1 unit of housing on a given plot you own

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