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Serious things: #law, #technology, #bikes, #transit, #sustainability, #CityPlanning, #FOSS. Silly things: #humor, #movies, #books, #music, #scifi, #running […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.xyz/@forpeterssake, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 3h
Why has this woman not yet been charged? This is bullshit. Kansas driver who allegedly killed two and hurt 10 at soccer game is released from custody | Kansas | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oc…
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Kansas driver who allegedly killed two and hurt 10 at soccer game is released from custody
Wichita police awaiting toxicology results and mechanical exam of pickup truck driven by the 34-year-old woman
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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 3h
Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First - The Onion theonion.com/protestors-criticized-…
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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 6h
Maybe a sporting event isn't a appropriate setting for military exercises? Airman dies in rappelling accident at Alamodome before UTSA-Navy game | TPR www.tpr.org/news/2026-10-17/service…
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Airman dies in rappelling accident at Alamodome before UTSA-Navy game
An Air Force service member died after falling while rappelling from the Alamodome rafters during a pregame ceremony ahead of Saturday's UTSA-Navy football game.
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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
I just found out that @straphanger 's excellent book Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile is available as an eBook from Kobo. This was one of the best books I read this year, my copy is loaned to a friend, so I snapped up the eBook […]
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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
Corporations are more important than people now? Retired Penn professor arrested for blocking Uber Eats robot | PhillyVoice www.phillyvoice.com/philly-woman-ar…
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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
Fedi friends, I am shopping for a cloud storage providers for a team of 5 that is leaving #M365. We don't actually need the apps much, LibreOffice and Thunderbird work well and we have a separate email provider lined up, but we do use the #OneDrive cloud storage and photo back-up on multiple […]
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Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO @jmaris.me · 08/01/2026
I often hear Americans & rich brits justify buying oversized, polluting vehicles by claiming they need them because they live in the "countryside". I call bullshit, Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15⬇
A Citroen C15 van
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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
I really enjoyed the most recent issue of Clarkesworld, especially the two stories linked below. One short, one longer. I love that there is still a home for vibrant and interesting speculative fiction, and it's fun to get something in my inbox each month that I actually want to read! Thanks […]
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 12/10/2026
Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day! "Be humble and keep learning—especially when it’s hard." www.greenpeace.org/usa/10-ways-to-b… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Pe… ✊ #solidarity […] [Original post on stefanbohacek.online]
A scene from the TV show The Good Place where one character explains:

"Fun fact, Columbus is in The Bad Place because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide."
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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
Beta-testing notoriously buggy software on public roads is unconscionable. "Elon Musk’s EV company is running a social-media campaign blaming European traffic deaths on red tape. Its safety claims don’t hold up, experts say, but regulators are starting to buckle." Tesla is browbeating the EU […]
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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
I think we'll look back on the so-called AI boom in 10 years with disgust. It's remarkable to me how many markets and industries it has poisoned. How AI data centers are killing off the $100 smartphone - Rest of World […]
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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
Actual headline: bad dog owner kills man Cyclist, 71, Dies After Colliding with Off-Leash Dog in Central Park people.com/71-year-old-cyclist-dies…
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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
Margaret Hamilton, trailblazer whose software powered Apollo 11 moon landing, dies at 90 www.theguardian.com/science/2026/oc…
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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
A short but nifty video on why sodas in the U.S. say they contain phenylalanine, but they don't m.youtube.com/shorts/Fob38Jo9F_k
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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
9/21/20 - YouTube m.youtube.com/watch?v=_zzEDrYTkkg
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Paul Förster :verified_blue: @paulfoerster.swiss.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
No more words necessary. Thanks, Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social. #BlueSky #Corporations #Greed #Environment #Pollution #ClimateChange #CleanWater
“Why does wanting clean drinking water make you an activist, while poisoning it doesn’t make a corporation a terrorist?”
– Wionna Laduke
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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
"Working Americans are taking home the smallest percentage of economic output, 52.8%, since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking the metric in 1947. But as the share of wealth workers take home through wages—called labor share—is shrinking, corporate profits have exploded, with the S&P […]
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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
The wealthy parents behind the curtain
A four-panel comic:

Panel 1: A magician on stage dressed in a tuxedo, flourising a top hat, tells the audience "And for my next trick ..."

Panel 2: The magician pulls a document titled "DEED" from his hat, and a woman with two children appears next to him, as he tells the audieince "I'll purchase a home on a single income while my partner stays at home to raise our kids!"

Panel 3: The audience applauses enthusiastically.

Panel 4: One audience member stands and points backstage, where an older man and woman are partiallyl seen holding a sack of money marked "$." The audience member shouts "I can see his parents financially assisting him behind the curtain!" The magician on stage has a guilty look on his face and drops his top hat.
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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
I somehow had never seen the music video for Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun" until today. I love that album, I think Superunknown was the third CD I ever bought, but I somehow made it 30+ years without seeing the music video. I think it's pretty awesome, actually. Yes, it's dated, a part of its […]
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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
We really are just a corrupt petro-state at this point, aren't we? The lower-cost renewable revolution that electrified states are riding into the future is leaving the U.S. behind. US to announce sharply lower vehicle fuel economy requirements | Reuters […]
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Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A friend refers to the "a pedestrian was struck by a car" construction as the "exonerative" tense, and that shall be its name henceforth and hereafter.
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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026
Here, on the first rest day of the #Vuelta, I have to say that I hate the risks in pro cycling. I feel so awful for Tadej Pogacar and his teammates. I always love an unpredictable Vuelta, but not like this. I also have to say that yesterday's mountaintop finish Stage 9 was absolutely riveting […]
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Does replacing parking with bike-lanes hurt restaurant business? Of course not, as this new peer-reviewed STUDY of 15 years of Montreal data showed. ACTUALLY, downtown experienced significant restaurant growth after bike lanes were installed. @momentummag.bsky.social momentummag.com/do-bike-lane...
Separated bike-lane with people riding in Montreal.
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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026
Popular pixel-art sandbox game Luanti was removed from the Google Play store for a second time based on a false DMCA take-down request by an outfit called "Tracer.AI" on behalf of Microsoft. The DMCA request falsely asserted that Luanti used copyrighted Minecraft assets, which it does not. This […]
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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
TIL: Québec has a strategy called Stratégie nationale d'achat d'aliments québécois (provincial strategy for the purchase of Québec foods). Abbreviation: SNAAQ. I can't tell if this is the funniest random coincidence ever, or the work of a bilingual public servant with an excellent sense of humour.
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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026
I haven't felt this much FOMO in years. What a killer line-up, I can't believe this is real.
Poster for Olivia Rodrigo's music festival Daisy Chain Fields.
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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026
Man, the wrong 80-year-olds keep dying. Tim Curry Dead: 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' Star Was 80 variety.com/2026/film/news/tim-curr…
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Tim Curry, ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ Star, Dies at 80
Tim Curry, who soared to fame in the ‘70s as the flamboyant star of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” died on Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 80.
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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026
It's 2026 and the U.S. still doesn't have a data privacy law. AliExpress was silently running audio in your browser to fingerprint and track your device | TechSpot www.techspot.com/news/113581-aliexp…
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AliExpress was silently running audio in your browser to fingerprint and track your device
The issue only surfaced after a developer had trouble using multipoint Bluetooth headphones while an AliExpress tab was open: the headphones wouldn't switch properly from the computer to a phone. Once the tab was closed, the problem disappeared. Read Entire Article
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The New Oil @thenewoil.org · 23/08/2026
American Who Wiped His Phone With 'Duress' Password During Border Search Gets Felony Charges yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/21/202… #privacy #politics #GrapheneOS #DHS #CBP
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American Who Wiped His Phone With 'Duress' Password During Border Search Gets Felony Charges - Slashdot
Federal prosecutors have charged activist Samuel Tunick with obstruction after he gave Customs and Border Protection officers a duress passcode that wiped his GrapheneOS-powered Pixel during a border search. "His prosecution is one of the earliest known instances of the federal authorities charging ...
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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026
London’s low emission zone is working – so why are cities around the world so cautious about clean air? | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/environment/202…
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London’s low emission zone is working – so why are cities around the world so cautious about clean air?
Similar initiatives have been launched from Barcelona to Bogotá, but they have misinformation, political pressure and vested interests stacked against them
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️ @zhizhu.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026
"Trump is trying to take away the American Bar Association’s ability to accredit #law schools due to its being too woke... The right has railed against both the #ABA and higher #education in general for some time now... Accreditation is just another tool in […] [Original post on newsie.social]
Headline:
Trump Moves to Strip American Bar Association of Its Power

Donald Trump is opening a new front in his war on higher education.

by Malcolm Ferguson
August 21, 2026 / 12:09 p.m. ET
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Joshua Barretto @jsbarretto.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026
I want to remind you: these bastards have spent $1.5 trillion of society's money on this technology. That it's produced *something* should not be surprising. That's 'solve aging', 'cure cancer', 'eliminate all poverty', 'shift climate change into reverse', or 'send a probe to another solar […]
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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026
Tour de France Homes was pretty uncompetitive and boring, I checked out after a week. Tour de France Femmes, by contrast, has been non-stop action with every stage bringing surprises and twist, and the yellow jersey changing hands and mere seconds between the […] [Original post on mastodon.xyz]
Demi Vollering launches the winning move on stage 8 of the Tour de France Femmes (Photo: Gruber Images)
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
“3/4ths of disabled people don’t drive. Stop using us as an excuse for car dependency.” — @nondriver.bsky.social in collaboration with @urbantruth.bsky.social. #UrbanTruth Worth repeating. #UrbanTruth
Same quote as in post. Tagline is “Mobility freedom comes from mobility choices.”
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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026
I heard some good things about the Obi-Wan Kenobi series, so I belatedly started watching it, 4 years late. I really wanted to like it, but I just can't, the dialogue is dreadful, and not even in the dorky Lucas sort of way.
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Adam @adampdotcom.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Motorists act like people who hate cars never drove or used them. Often the opposite. We hate car dominance because we lost a lot of time in cars and we've realized there was never any freedom behind the windshield and that true freedom is outside. We seem crazy because we escaped the matrix.
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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026
So SpaceX stock is down to $115/share, which is still massively over-valued. Xitter is losing money, Grok/xAI is losing money, and they dwarf what modest earnings the rocket company and Starlnk portions of the company can earn. And yet, if you have a retirement fund, you were essentially forced […]
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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026
"About a week after its allies won a Supreme Court ruling allowing states to ban transgender girls from girls’ school athletics, a leading conservative group that has campaigned for seven years to “protect women’s sports” is singing a very different tune. On July 8, the Heritage Foundation […]
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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026
Really weird that this article doesn't mention NWSL, Liga MX Feminil, La Liga F, Première Ligue, or any of the pro leagues playing reallly good football RIGHT NOW. There is a toss-off mention of the Women's World Cup in Braziil next year, but otherwise, it's like women don't exist. And that's […]
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 17/07/2026
A glass door with a hand-lettered sign reading:

NO!!!
SOLICTATION!!!
except Tamale lady
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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026
"In other words: many American leaders are so old that it is plausible that they could drop dead at any moment, and so unaccountable that it’s not clear anyone would bother to tell us if they did." The Mitch McConnell mystery is solved. But it doesn’t look good for America | Moira Donegan | The […]
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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026
I've seen a lot of flak about #Flock lately, but trust me, this one is worth the read! How Flock Cameras Wrongly Tracked Me for Days Over ‘Stolen’ Plates and Sent Police After Me www.thedrive.com/news/how-flock-cam…
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How Flock Cameras Wrongly Tracked Me for Days Over ‘Stolen’ Plates and Sent Police After Me
A simple error got magnified by Flock's nationwide surveillance camera network and ended with four cop cars boxing me in. The post How Flock Cameras Wrongly Tracked Me for Days Over ‘Stolen’ Plates and Sent Police After Me appeared first on The Drive.
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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026
I am cracking up about this, possibly my favorite meme from this World Cup (seen on bsky but since deleted)
A series of three photos from the 2026 FIFA world cup match between Mexico and England. All three show still images from a zoomed-in camera shot of the stands, where two Mexico supporters stand next to an England supporter. The England supporter is a  shirtless blond man with chiseled abs and the English cross painted on his cheek, who appears to have been greased down or slick with sweat. The Mexico supporter next to him is an attractive young woman shown in the first two images to be biting her lip and surreptitiously admiring the physique of her seat neighbor. In the second image her male companion, dressed as she is in a Mexico jersey, appears to notice her ogling of the England supporter, and in the third image she and he are exchanging unhappy looks, while the England supporter appears to have noticed something going on next to him for the first time.
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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026
“Good union jobs – we shouldn’t be trying to take those off the table. That just doesn’t make any kind of sense. Families obviously need good jobs … why take those jobs away?” ‘Why take those jobs away?’: the unionized workers decrying Trump’s war on wind | Wind power | The Guardian […]
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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026
"The last time this many people cheered on a Belgian resistance, it was 1914 and the Germans had just crossed the Meuse." ⚽🏆🇧🇪🇺🇲 So it’s Trump 1, Belgium 4 – and the world rejoices. Nothing like failed chicanery to bring us together, is there? | Marina Hyde […]
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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026
How a son rescued his father from the rubble of Venezuela’s earthquakes www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/202…
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How a son rescued his father from the rubble of Venezuela’s earthquakes
After the June 24 earthquakes, ex-firefighter Jesus Garcia found himself working to save his dad and younger brothers.
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Indio Gringo ® @paninid.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026
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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026
How Environmentalists Became America's First Modern "Domestic Terrorists" www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-lon…
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How Environmentalists Became America's First Modern "Domestic Terrorists"
The Green Scare created precedents that today reach far beyond radical environmentalism, and threaten anyone willing to engage in direct action.
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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026
This is America How hard is it to cycle to New Jersey's MetLife stadium? – video www.theguardian.com/football/video/…
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How hard is it to cycle to New Jersey's MetLife stadium? – video
Our senior soccer editor biked from his home in Brooklyn all the way to MetLife Stadium, renamed the New York New Jersey Stadium for the World Cup, and documented every mile of his journey.
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