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Esthi Zipori

@esthizipori.bsky.social
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Lover of streets, cats, and pasta. Postdoc researcher at UBC SCARP. Opinions are my own. Post automobility, futures & systems

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 10/10/2026
Humanitarian and human rights groups call out Israel's continued killings and restrictions across the enclave.
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Gaza ceasefire ‘exists in name only', more than 100 NGOs say
Humanitarian and human rights groups call out Israel's continued killings and restrictions across the enclave.
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Mark Blinder @blindershvili.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
החודש יש בחירות די חשובות לראשות עיריית ונקובר, ראש העיר הנוכחי לא יעיל וגם די מושחת, עושה בעיקר בשביל מקורביו ועשירי העיר. במה מתעסקים רוב הישראלים, והיהודים השמרנים בעיר? בלדרג את כל המועמדים על פי יחסיהם לישראל, ואיך אפשר בלי - מה ממדאני אומר ועושה בניו יורק
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Jensen Ackles: This Is Why We Don't Have Nice Things
ALT: Jensen Ackles: This Is Why We Don't Have Nice Things
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 09/10/2026
"Are my migraines hormonal, or am I thinking too hard about how Peter Thiel has more money than all nurses on Earth combined?" buff.ly/oLdL54C
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Is It Perimenopause or the Fascist Death Knell of Late-Stage Capitalism?
“Is my hair thinning, or am I ripping it out because a thirty-four-time convicted, sexually abusive steak salesman with a Hannibal Lecter fetish is five poin...
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Bill Lindeke @blindeke.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"Four women, ranging in age from 50 to 60, were walking through a crosswalk when the Mercedes struck them." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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One person killed and nine injured in chain-reaction crash in New York City
Motorist, reportedly trying to beat a traffic light, barrels through busy intersection and slams into pedestrians
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 03/10/2026
NYC is opening 160 car-free (but treat-filled) streets and plazas to enjoy fun and safe fall festivities this spooky season. Find one near you at nyc.gov/trickorstreets.
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Elections have a way of clarifying who matters to political parties (car owners) and whose priorities can wait for another day (transit advocates). My dispatch from Day 1 on David Eby’s four day mid-election road trip. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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ANALYSIS | Eby puts needs of car owners ahead of transit advocates in ruling out Metro Vancouver vehicle levy | CBC News
For the last 18 months, a vehicle levy has been talked about by TransLink as a potential way to create a more sustainable funding model, as revenue from fuel taxes continues to decline. But all that w...
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Erik Noonan @eriknoonan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
NACTO does not exist to demonstrate the maximum of what is possible. The design guides should be the *minimum* acceptable standard.
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 01/09/2026
New York’s congestion pricing program has resulted in a statistically significant reduction in travel times for EMS vehicles
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Urban Congestion Pricing and the Response Times of Emergency Medical Services
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 18/07/2025
Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies. For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
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Getting off US tech: a guide
I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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Open New York @opennewyork.org · 31/03/2026
The current 12-game Jeopardy champion works at an affordable housing finance agency in NJ, and shamed New York for not building more housing: "NJ's doing really well, we're ahead of NY, CT, PA. If you're from one of those states, shame on you, build more housing."
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Esthi Zipori @esthizipori.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Brilliant
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Mark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.
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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 05/12/2025
I'm so fucking tired of so many people being killed in traffic crashes. I'm so fucking tired but I'm also so, so fucking angry. I use obscene language because what is obscene is over 40,000 people/year dying in preventable crashes in the US, 7,000 or so who are merely walking, and society just 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Robert Zaichkowski @rzaichkowski.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
A sad day for cyclists. Bill 60 - which prohibits the conversion of motor vehicle lanes to bike lanes (or any other prescribed purpose) - has passed Third Reading this morning which will kill various cycling projects in Toronto & across Ontario. #shame #BikeTO #BikeSky #TOpoli #ONpoli #VisionZero
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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 07/11/2025
💫 New panelist alert! We're thrilled to have @tomflood.bsky.social joining @lucymaloney.bsky.social & @thewaroncars.bsky.social THIS SATURDAY for Life After Cars in downtown Vancouver, hosted by the incredible @uytaelee.bsky.social. A few tix still available! visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/08/01/l...
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Politico @politico.com · 14/10/2025
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat. Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
politico.com
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 06/10/2025
1. 4 months ago, The Supreme Court gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education in schools. Now, in Montgomery County, Maryland, where the case originated, the results are in. Only 43 families out of 160,000 students have exercised that new right. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To
After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.
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Boba Cyclist 정 @bobacyclist.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
I promise you, you’re not enraged enough about this horrific killing and maiming. The killer has no driver’s license, no insurance, and his vehicle was registered in Mississippi, but he managed to drive it through Manhattan during UN week with a novelty souvenir back plate.
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German tourist killed in grisly hit-and-run was in NYC celebrating wedding anniversary with husband
Alexandra Sabine Lewalter Maric, 50, took a luxury cruise to New York with her husband, 55-year-old Udo Lewalter, for their 23rd anniversary – only to meet with tragedy, friend Udo Meixer said.
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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 19/09/2025
Dutch late night TV has its take
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 03/09/2025
A 1937 photography project that aimed to illuminate the impacts of the Great Depression instead whitewashed the experience of rural America. Now, the once-excluded photos of Black Southerners will finally be displayed.
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Reclaiming a Whitewashed History of the Great Depression
A new exhibition focuses on Black Southerners documented by photographers like Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Ben Shahn.
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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 21/08/2025
We're so excited to be hosting @thewaroncars.bsky.social podcast hosts Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear for a conversation about their new book, Life After Cars! 6:30pm, Sat Nov 8th, Downtown Vancouver visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/08/01/life-after-cars/
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Life After Cars
Vision Zero Vancouver proudly presents Life After Cars live in Vancouver with The War on Cars hosts Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear, and Vancouver City Councilor Lucy Maloney. Date: Saturday, Novemb…
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Gazans are starving anntelnaes.substack.com/p/gazans-are... (And a reminder since there will be people who try to change the narrative of this cartoon: Criticizing the Israeli government and its policies is not antisemitic)
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K. thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...
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ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds
A new study has found that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men.
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Electrek @electrek.co · 16/07/2025
Tesla engineer admits Tesla didn’t maintain Autopilot crash records amid trial over fatal crash
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Tesla engineer admits Tesla didn’t maintain Autopilot crash records amid trial over fatal crash
A Tesla engineer admitted in court that Tesla didn’t maintain Autopilot crash records before 2018, 3 years after launching the ADAS system, in a trial over the death of a bystander in a crash involving Autopilot. more…
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/07/2025
"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it" @hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000 www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food
Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
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Celeste Trianon @celeste.lgbt · 05/07/2025
This political cartoon by Aislin was censored by the (Postmedia/U.S. hedge fund-owned) Montréal Gazette.
New American Brownshirt armbands

(Picture of a red armband with a white circle, designed to appear like a Nazi armband. Instead of a swastika, the words “ICE” appear. At the bottom right corner is Aislin’s word mark.)
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
"The Nazis... imagined their targets would self-deport. Once the myth of self-deportation collapsed, they turned to more punitive measures. On Tuesday, Noem similarly noted the Everglades camp was meant to frighten immigrants into self-deporting. 'If you don’t,' she said, 'you may end up here.'"
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Opinion | Don’t call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Call it a concentration camp.
This facility’s purpose fits the classic model, and its existence points to serious dangers ahead for the country.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 30/06/2025
Mark Carney’s decision to rescind Canada’s digital services tax is a cowardly move that shows Trump he can be pressured into making trade concessions. It also shows how much Carney is willing to give into corporate demands, and particular those of the tech industry.
disconnect.blog
Mark Carney caves to Trump and the tech industry
Canada’s decision to rescind its digital services tax shows it’s “elbows down” in US trade talks
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Brianinja @brianinja.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Sound of Music is Critical Mass
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The Onion @theonion.com · 14/05/2025
“Starting today, adults are no longer permitted to be unique or to deviate from a narrow set of cultural norms while in the presence of a minor,” Gov. Greg Abbott said theonion.com/texas-b...
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Texas Bans Being Different Around Children
AUSTIN, TX—In a landmark piece of legislation designed to stifle individuality across the state, the Texas Legislature passed a bill Friday that legally banned being different around children. “Starting today, adults are no longer permitted to be unique or to deviate from a narrow set of cultural norms while in the presence of a minor,” Gov. […]
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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I don't get how anyone can possibly be okay with ending the WHI. This study has accrued decades of data from 42000 women and it is still going. It helps to address critical research gaps that have been allowed to go unfilled because of durable misogyny and provides invaluable insight into aging.
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NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 17/04/2025
📢 The Internet Archive needs your help. At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine. Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit. 👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the... 🧵⬇️
Defend the Internet Archive.
Protect the Wayback Machine.
Tell the music labels: Drop the 78s lawsuit.
Sign our open letter on change.org
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TREC at PSU @trecpdx.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
"This can help planners focus dollars on filling in the gaps...to better serve everyone in the community." See APA's review of "When Driving is Not an Option", published in 2024: www.planning.org/planning/202... Hear from the author, Anna Zivarts, at PSU on April 30: trec.pdx.edu/events/ann-n...
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When Driving is Not an Option
It’s time to recognize and listen to the 25 percent of the U.S. population that doesn’t drive, says author Anna Letitia Zivarts.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
My ballot: Lander, Mamdani, Myrie, Ramos, Blake. YMMV, but don't rank Eric Adams or Andrew Cuomo. One of the best things you can do right now is to tell everyone you know how ranked-choice voting works, why they need to fill in all five spots, and why it's important to leave Adams and Cuomo out.
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NYC progressives want to beat Adams and Cuomo. Can they set aside their differences?
The path to victory means that left-leaning voters — and mayoral candidates — must coalesce around a slate of five choices.
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Families for Safe Streets @fam4safestreets.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
We are beyond excited to announce that Virginia has just made history by passing HB2096, the #StopSuperSpeeders bill—the first of its kind in the nation at the state level! 🎉
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Extraordinary moment — Nancy Pelosi issues a statement calling on Democratic senators to reject the House funding bill, i.e. to defy Chuck Schumer. "Democratic senators should listen to the women," she says, referring to Murray/DeLauro who want a 1-month stopgap bill instead.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 13/03/2025
Tesla vehicles are no longer eligible for provincial EV rebates in British Columbia.
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B.C. ends subsidies for Tesla products amid trade war
Tesla products are no longer eligible for rebates through B.C.’s provincial programs, officials confirmed Thursday.
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 10/03/2025
the feminine urge to
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Bluesky CEO: imagine a 'world without Caesars'
Jay Graber dunks on Mark Zuckerberg without mentioning his name.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 04/03/2025
“That suit makes you look strong and legitimate.” = "Etot kostyum zastavlyaet vas viglyadit silnim i zakonnym." Ideal for greeting strange men with little to no expertise and a mind-boggling amount of power.
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Russian Phrases for Americans: A Practical Guide for Our New Reality
Learn to Speak Russian (Like Your Life Depends on It) “Where is the bathroom?” Gde tualet? A good phrase to know in any language. “Hello, nice to ...
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Esthi Zipori @esthizipori.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Art imitating life. Life imitating art. Never ending cycle of repetition.
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dyke siegmund @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 01/03/2025
I hate Elon Musk so fucking much man
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Esthi Zipori @esthizipori.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Before zoom, before WhatsApp, I had Skype to *see* my family during the first few years in NJ/NY. What a gift it was. Farewell to you my not so great video calling tool. You gave me much and for that I did (do?) love you.
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Department of Transportation orders all personnel to "identify and eliminate" every order, directive, rule, regulation, policy, notice, guidance document, funding arrangement, or program that even mentions climate change, diversity, or environmental justice www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.go...
Dept of Transportation memo ordering all personnel to "identify and eliminate" every order, policy, funding arrangement, or program that even mentions climate change, diversity, or environmental justice
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Esthi Zipori @esthizipori.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
A wonderful list of so much goodness 🚲🚶‍♀️👩‍🦽🛴
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Esthi Zipori @esthizipori.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
love to see change coming 😍
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
"A city's priorities become as clear as the spaces they choose to maintain in the winter." Content done with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social
a sidewalk and bike lane covered in snow and the road perfectly cleared.
One of these
is not like the others.
A city's priorities become as clear as the spaces they choose to maintain in the winter.
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Esthi Zipori @esthizipori.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Hello blue sky 👋
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