kjell @leanside.org · 08/10/2026it's like the rich are taking their finance sledgehammers and smashing what tiny glimmers of climate success we've managed 1134
kjell @leanside.org · 20/09/2026I actually think we should prioritize trees at basically any cost. To get the bike lane build, just close the street to cars and put the bike+walk lane in the existing car ROW. My modal hierarchy is Trees > bikes + peds > cars. 121
kjell @leanside.org · 19/09/2026love me this series of tourism posters by Ole Kortzau, even better with bikescdn.bsky.app 001
kjell @leanside.org · 03/09/2026sustainable agriculture :handshake emoji: sustainable architecture 000
kjell @leanside.org · 28/08/2026reprogram all the gas pumps with video screens to play these climate crisis videos nonstop. How can we make it explicit that everyone who pumps a single gallon is guilty? 000
kjell @leanside.org · 26/08/2026simplified: driving […] destroys morality "The automobile has dissolved the living tissue of the city. Its appetite for space is insatiable; moving & parked, it devours urban land, leaving buildings as mere islands of habitable space in a sea of dangerous & ugly traffic." —James Marston Fitch, 1960 100
kjell @leanside.org · 24/06/2026This weekend I heard about a Spring '25 college grad with an undergrad degree in Electrical Engineering who couldn't find a job for a year, and when they finally did this month… It was managing construction of a data center to further destroy the employment prospects of newly-graduated EEs 000
Reposted by kjelldaviss @daviss.org · 23/06/2026A group of bikers rolling down the Midtown Greenway in the early days of summer. IMO it’s impossible to overstate how important the greenway is to Minneapolis, we’re so lucky to have it. June 2026 18720
kjell @leanside.org · 10/06/2026Anyone interested in the (laudable!) work MPRB is doing to begin this reconciliation process may also want to read up on MBRP & MnDOT plowing a highway through the same, well-known sacred site in the 1990s www.friendsofcoldwater.org/hwy55/hwy55.... web.archive.org/web/20080707...friendsofcoldwater.orgfriends of coldwaterColdwater is a 10,000-year-old spring, a sacred site and traditional gathering place for Native American tribes of the upper Mississippi. 010
kjell @leanside.org · 04/06/2026Don't worry, Jacbx Frucks is thinking very hard about self-driving cars 010
kjell @leanside.org · 01/06/2026This illustrates why I'll never respect my state's hegemonic newspaper. Let's all keep yelling at jacub fray and amy K… But don't forget that they're just clowns and it's our media running the circus. One of the ringleaders is this paper's owner, an oligarch and former republican state senator 110
kjell @leanside.org · 01/06/2026they do this in europe and it's called an "optoppen" (dutch, meaning just what it sounds like) www.optoppen.org builtbn.org/solutions/op... (And sorry, but no way am I giving bsky my HTML5 canvas image data for fingerprinting purposes. Maybe someday they'll a real website with an actual backend) 010
kjell @leanside.org · 29/05/2026Here's why we all learn to use uBlock Origin* in a non-Chrome browser with javascript denylist-ed by default for ALL SITES *a browser plugin with powerful + configurable browsing safety and content filtering rules (aka an adblocker, but also way more capable) 010
kjell @leanside.org · 28/05/2026who wants their wife and young children around when he's busy committing "sexual misconduct" with at least "three female subordinates" (quotes from Liz Sawyer & Deena Winter's "Investigations and new evidence…" 2026-05-27 article, intentionally not linked) 030
kjell @leanside.org · 27/04/2026"The Dinosaurs" was one of my favorite show as a toddler. I remember my parents clicking it on for me before I could work the remote. I loved the dinosaur family and their antics. As an adult when I re-watched it I had the same "wow" reaction 020
kjell @leanside.org · 25/04/2026I'm on this train. Park your vehicle in the bike lane? You're taking the bus for 6 months, bozo. The problem is the US doesn't have a workable society without car addiction. If Jane Shmane from Godfuck Virginia loses the ability to drive it leads to lost work/income and the poor kids have to starve 010
kjell @leanside.org · 25/04/2026it's worth noting how instantly and viscerally I clock which bike lanes feature in this series of photos. Shows how each micro-stress from dodging parked cars/trucks in a "protected" lane compounds over time. Here's a bike infra safety map I made forever ago: observablehq.com/@kjell/rende...observablehq.comMinneapolis Bikeway MapBelow is a map of the bike infrastructure in the City of Minneapolis, graded by how "protected" each instance is. The color code is spelled out below. TODO / Ideas ☐ improve first load experience - ~1... 100
kjell @leanside.org · 24/04/2026now if we can just make these baseline human values instead of enmeshing them in thousands of years of internecine religious conflict… <slips on banana peel> 021
kjell @leanside.org · 24/04/2026This definitely shouldn't be a golf course, but it is a generational opportunity to make "golf course to public sex forest" happen. We all know the U's gonna hand it over to Ryan & Co for chump change and rehash the ford plant debacle 100
Reposted by kjelllights out for migrating birds @lightsoutforbirds.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Many birds are migrating now, to help stop bird window strikes keep lights out 11pm to 6am and make windows bird safe flap.org 2119
Reposted by kjellMichael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Billions of square meters and even more feet to be renovated in the next years vs. 8 participants? 043
kjell @leanside.org · 31/03/2026I've been waiting for this to come about since I was about Calvin's age reading these gd comics 010
kjell @leanside.org · 28/03/2026this is what I daydream about. Plus bike/walking paths. State and county highways also trade existing unsafe ROW for modes higher up the mobility pyramid, separated pedestrian paths, renewable energy, and green/blue infrastructure. De-congestion fees on remaining vehicle miles pay for infra upgrades 020
Reposted by kjellBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/03/2026This is a legitimately great idea. Turn every ICE concentration camp into a museum of their crimes and the people who fought against them. 764374968
Reposted by kjellSara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 21/02/2026I’m still an optimist about the future and possibilities for humanity but if anything was going to turn me into a complete nihilist, it would be America’s COVID response. 1941226
kjell @leanside.org · 17/02/2026Get in, we're killing the fossil fuel industry and de-funding fascism 020
kjell @leanside.org · 03/02/2026I nominate @climatetown.bsky.social to collaborate on the video w/ @techconnectify.bsky.social and @michaelburchert.bsky.social 120
kjell @leanside.org · 28/01/2026I was gonna make this. But tr**p as Lucy and hooman is the football 000
kjell @leanside.org · 19/01/2026I've been doing this since 2015. But this idea of a feed that does it for you isn't so bad… leanside.com/2015/08/twit...leanside.comTwitter Favorites 120
kjell @leanside.org · 07/12/2025starhawk.org/writing/book...starhawk.orgThe Fifth Sacred ThingThe Fifth Sacred Thing. (New York, Bantam, 1993) Starhawk's epic tale, set in 2048, California. In a time of ecological collapse, when the hideously authoritarian and corporate-driven Stewards have taken control of most of the land and set up an apartheid state, one region has declared itself indepe 120