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OB Cycler @obcycler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Why we ride on the left edge of bike lanes. begging traffic engineers to get tape measures

truck door inches from my handlebars while im in bike lane

Joan Liu @joanliu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Last bike/Ped count for the season. This time last year, the bike lanes were on the outside of parking and were highly faded. The Dunkin wasn't open yet, and there was still fencing around the park.

Clear white lines of a wide crosswalk and bike and parking lanes. A bridge and glass building rises between a park and the highway overpass.

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Joan Liu @joanliu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Last couple of days before this race on Saturday! Please consider donating to the Somerville Homeless Coalition!

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Joan Liu @joanliu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thanks everyone for their 🚲 advice for my friend! ♥️

Blue texter: let me know where you are moving and I'll put out a call on your (anonymous) behalf
Grey texter: haha I imagine this like the bat signal but for bicyclists

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Laurie! Live! @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

man this is another one where I have a blog post bubbling but haven't actually written it. will post a couple things in thread here

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Joan Liu @joanliu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hey chicago bicyclists! I have a friend who is moving to albany park neighborhood of chicago, near the end of the brown line and wants to start biking for daily errands, haven't biked in a while. What advice would you give? They want to stay anonymous at this time.

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Adam @adamshap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NYC’s congestion pricing program cut ambulance travel times by over a minute

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Joan Liu @joanliu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I've already seen people sitting at these new benches 🥰

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Joan Liu @joanliu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My husband is tired of being read into the discourse of the day. Me, I like Choosin' Texas, and it makes me want to go two-stepping. I don't think I've heard it end to end before, but definitely heard bits in public spaces.

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Joan Liu @joanliu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Speaking of reading my husband in, "Free 99" was so commonly said when I was a kid. Regional? Generational? I said that to my husband about something and he thought it was hilarious and used it with his childhood friend, who also had never heard it.

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Joan Liu @joanliu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Decided to read my Gen-x, admirably non-ambitious, not chronically online, husband into the discourse du jour and he thinks the iced coffee at the interview is a bad look but not a deal-breaker. He did lol though. "I'd smack [disposable water bottle crinkler] out of the interview" though.

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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 25/09/2026

Cycling is a climate, transit, and public safety issue. I convened a roundtable with advocates to discuss how we can make our communities safer and more accessible for pedestrians, cyclist, & commuters across the #MA7.

Rep. Ayanna Pressley provides remarks at a roundtable discussion at Bikes Not Bombs.

Rep. Ayanna Pressley hugs and greets a constituent.

A photo of Rep. Ayanna Pressley taking notes.

Advocates provide remarks during a roundtable discussion.

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Joan Liu @joanliu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm feeling so disappointed about something, but know it's ultimately better for me. ☹️

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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 24/09/2026

Shopping for perennials in Union Square

A bunch of plants on a cargobike, a bunch of plants separate the bike lane from the road

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Joan Liu @joanliu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Really excited to do today's count and see how it compares to past years. New bike, bus, and pedestrian infrastructure!

An intersection with fresh paint and curbs. A bus waits in it's new dedicated lane

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

[telling people what I work on] Wow that’s so interesting Not if I keep talking about it it’s not

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Joan Liu @joanliu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Bike/ped counting is interfering with my 5k training. Please donate so that if I don't hit my goal of 25 minutes, I at least hit my goal of $1000 raised ($500 from you lovely people and $500 from my match) 🤪

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Joan Liu @joanliu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

👋 The latest thing I've been working on www.mass.gov/news/governo...

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Joan Liu @joanliu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Morning count at the Holiday inn. It's a beautiful day to be biking and walking!

Wide intersection catty corner from a holiday inn

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Joan Liu @joanliu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

These yearly counts populate this dashboard: public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

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Joan Liu @joanliu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's a beautiful day to be counting people outside of cars!

A cloudy sky with sun peeking through over a road with a bus lane

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John Timmer @jtimmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ok, this "there are two separate brains" thing appears to be making the rounds, and I want to be absolutely clear: this is a press office overhyping some perfectly reasonable science that won't come as a surprise to most developmental biologists.

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Nikole Hannah-Jones w/ a sobering follow-up on her decision yrs ago to enroll her daughter in a poor, majority-Black public school rather than a wealthier, whiter private school. You leave heartbroken for the kids being failed by this grossly unequal system. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...

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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)

A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“When it comes to the choices my husband and I have made about public education, these days I feel that I failed both my values and my child.” A deeply personal piece from Nikole Hannah-Jones, 10 years after her landmark story about choosing her child’s elementary school, is your Sunday must-read

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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)

A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.

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Joan Liu @joanliu.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I wonder if social media would be a happier or less on-edge place if it required dialup.

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Absolutely horrific: Thanks to a false intelligence "generated with the help of artificial intelligence," the US military nearly carried out an operation aboard a Chinese ship because the incorrect intelligence said it was carrying nukes, according to @cnn.com. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

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Joan Liu @joanliu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Outdoor 5k in 29 minutes, but included three red lights. But maybe the short breaks at the red lights allowed me to push harder? 🤷‍♀️

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's this @tomflood.bsky.social joint come to life, but with a school board instead of a cop.

police officer pointing at kids with hi viz vests on

Police Excited To Transfer The Responsibility Of Road Safety From Themselves Directly To School Children.

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Joan Liu @joanliu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My college always wants me to do something on campus and I finally agreed. Trying to figure out how to get there without driving is a PITA. My husband: just take the car!... What day of the week? Me: Wednesday Him: what time do you have to be there Me: 5:30pm Him: don't do it!!

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Joan Liu @joanliu.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Outdoor 5k in 30 minutes. Gotta pick up the pace if I want to be at 25 minutes by the SHC 5k October 3rd. Consider donating; I'm matching donations raised by race day!

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David Weiskopf believes in you @dave.bzky.team · 14/09/2026

A statistic that haunts me because it is 100% true and shocking and useless in advocacy precisely because it is true and shocking: Policy that enables a 1-car lifestyle rather than 2 is equivalent to giving a family a $25,000 annual pay raise.

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Joan Liu @joanliu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Had to replace a deadbolt and it was annoying how the pieces between the new and old one appeared to be compatible but were not. (The one I put on is actually an older one and so I was trying to keep newer pieces where I could)

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I need younger generations to understand how weird it is that trump is such a unique terrible fuck up that it’s actually correct to blame the president for a demonstrably shittier economy and costs

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Laurie! Live! @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

MobilityData is hiring a software developer! "Public transit data quality" focus area, Montreal-based preferred. Salary and other details at link. the-international-data-organization-for-transport.breezy.hr/p/5f2dab092a...

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Software Developer at MobilityData

About the position Full time, 40h/weekPermanentStarting annual salary range: 105 000 CAD - 160 000 CADLocation: we’re primarily recruiting a Montreal-based person Type: 95% Remote/Working from home a...

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Joan Liu @joanliu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I don't think we should ban AI super-intelligence; if we're banning anything in AI, it should be banning un-awareness/under-awareness in empthy and ethics, and banning DEI bans.

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Joan Liu @joanliu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I recently was on the receiving end of interacting with a gen-z stereotype and 🥴 I can't stop thinking about it

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'd be mad too. Stroopwafels are delicious.

To the guy on the bike on the Esplanade

I wasn't throwing my arms up at you! I dropped the last bite of my stroopwafel while running and failed at catching it so I threw my arms up in frustration. Sorry if it looked like I was mad at you for something!! (he looked really offended and i felt bad lol)

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Joan Liu @joanliu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Bike and pedestrian counting season in Somerville is just around the corner. Signup's in your inbox!!!

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Joan Liu @joanliu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I saw someone I knew bike past me at a previous intersection while I waited for the green and caught up to them still waiting at the light at the longest intersection named in this article csindie.com/these-are-th... Had a bit of a chat while we waited for the light 😂

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These are the longest red and green lights in Cambridge and Somerville. Guess which square has it worst. - Cambridge | Somerville Independent

The longest red light on Cambridge and Somerville streets will keep drivers and riders waiting a full 2 minutes, 30 seconds.

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Joan Liu @joanliu.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

They've expanded the age range, which is useful for those of us who missed it because they grew up in Texas, fyi!

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Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Here's my comment from this evening's public hearing on body worn cameras: Honorable councilors Welcome back! I hope that you had a restful summer recess. 1/?

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Mikell Taylor @mikell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Okay I’m going to do a thread on “trust the science” and MAHA, from the perspective of a woman with a uterus who is also the parent of a child with a rare genetic disorder. 🧵

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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 03/09/2026

@massdcr.bsky.social has neither the resources nor the expertise nor the mission alignment to make the improvements that Memorial Drive demands. MassDOT does. Urban parkways should be signed over to MassDOT. What do you think, @electerika.bsky.social?

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JT Scott @jtforward2.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It has truly been an honor to serve you, and I look forward to continuing our work together. Thank you for your support, your neighborliness, and your trust. I’m so proud to be here in community with you, and I’m excited for what’s ahead – for all of us.

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Announcing my Resignation as Ward 2 Councilor

Hello neighbors, I was recruited to run for office in 2017 by tenant rights advocates as a first-time candidate for office and long-time business owner in Union Square. I was a true political outsi…

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Ben Ewen-Campen @benforward3.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This will trigger a special election early next year to fill the seat until the 2027 municipal election. We need great candidates to run! If you are thinking about stepping up to run for office, please feel free to reach out, I’m happy to talk.

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