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kjell @leanside.org · 09/10/2026

I also cannot believe for one second it's a coincidence that the only modestly ethical public good (even if still a bit carbrained) gets a rug-pull the same month that robot death taxis move into town

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kjell @leanside.org · 09/10/2026

and I don't want this to sound doomer-y. I'd say @mndot.mn.gov needs to pay up and help operate this type of bedrock transportation service. What the fuck else is the "Minnesota Department of Transportation" for?

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kjell @leanside.org · 08/10/2026

it's like the rich are taking their finance sledgehammers and smashing what tiny glimmers of climate success we've managed

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kjell @leanside.org · 06/10/2026

"pseudo-idyllic america" is going in my notes

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kjell @leanside.org · 20/09/2026

Extends to new buildings too. Just build your buildings between the trees bsky.app/profile/sust...

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kjell @leanside.org · 20/09/2026

I 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.

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kjell @leanside.org · 19/09/2026

love me this series of tourism posters by Ole Kortzau, even better with bikes

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kjell @leanside.org · 08/09/2026

one of us, one of us bsky.app/profile/ianb...

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kjell @leanside.org · 03/09/2026

sustainable agriculture :handshake emoji: sustainable architecture

meme template of two muscular arms clasped in a handshake. One are says "sustainable architecture", the other "sustainable agriculture"

the banner at the top reads: "mitigating and adapting in the face of climate collapse by building comfortable & resilient homes for all"

all text white with a black shadow using the Impact font family.

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kjell @leanside.org · 01/09/2026

Minneapolis pride

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kjell @leanside.org · 28/08/2026

and not just to be a negative nancy. Here's what we can still do to fix a depraved car culture bsky.app/profile/phil...

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kjell @leanside.org · 28/08/2026

bsky.app/profile/jalo... this week blue sky is taking all my deeply held opinions on how driving is abjectly a-moral and making them articles. Put speed governors in cars already

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kjell @leanside.org · 28/08/2026

reprogram 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?

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kjell @leanside.org · 26/08/2026

also wrt using a cell phone while driving, and relatedly the dashboard being translated into a giant TV in new vehicles bsky.app/profile/tech...

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kjell @leanside.org · 26/08/2026

simplified: 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

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kjell @leanside.org · 09/07/2026

It wouldn't be in the Hyundai app, I think Tim is saying it's a setting in the Sigenergy app? I also have an Ioniq 5 ('22 USA) and part of the reason I chose it was the vague prospect of V2H capability. Having an two-way charger available in the US that could do this would be so cool

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kjell @leanside.org · 24/06/2026

This 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

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daviss @daviss.org · 23/06/2026

A 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

bikers rolling down the Midtown Greenway, lined with green trees and apartment buildings

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kjell @leanside.org · 14/06/2026

same. but with sheila or kate in 2021, pre-KAT's betrayal/trade

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kjell @leanside.org · 10/06/2026

Anyone 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...

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friends of coldwater

Coldwater is a 10,000-year-old spring, a sacred site and traditional gathering place for Native American tribes of the upper Mississippi.

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kjell @leanside.org · 09/06/2026

cancel your subscription bsky.app/profile/went...

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kjell @leanside.org · 04/06/2026

Don't worry, Jacbx Frucks is thinking very hard about self-driving cars

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kjell @leanside.org · 03/06/2026

…speaking of… bsky.app/profile/jayb...

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kjell @leanside.org · 01/06/2026

This 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

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kjell @leanside.org · 01/06/2026

they 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)

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kjell @leanside.org · 29/05/2026

Here'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)

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kjell @leanside.org · 28/05/2026

who 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)

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kjell @leanside.org · 05/05/2026

same thing is rubber-stamped by @minneapolismn.gov on Franklin Ave SE between Thornton and I94. Official signage erases the bike lane for two blocks, Saturdays 4-7pm and Sundays 8am-12pm. Because church-goers need parking more than cyclists need safety. On a transit corridor no less

image of a street from the perspective of a road user, facing uphill on Franklin Av SE in Minneapolis just before crossing I-94. The side of the roadway and gutter features a painted bike lane. A pole anchored in the furnishing zone between roadway and sidewalk holds two parking signs.

Top: "Speed Limit 25". The second stipulates "Disabled parking - vehicle ID required. Up to $200 fine for violation" pointing downhill. Third: "No Parking EXCEPT 4-7PM SATURDAY and 8AM-NOON SUNDAY" pointing uphill, indicating parking pre-empts the bike lane during those hours

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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

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kjell @leanside.org · 25/04/2026

I'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

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kjell @leanside.org · 25/04/2026

so I still have to check out the bryant bikeway and re-built hennepin ave. Maybe they fixed all the city's bike lane ills and I can be happy for once.

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kjell @leanside.org · 25/04/2026

to be fair, my familiarity with the bike lanes of minneapolis isn't just from avoiding dangerous situations. It's also rooted in thousands of miles of joyful biking to and fro, etched into my sensory nervous system. I've since moved waaay out into the sticks and haven't biked much other than gravel

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kjell @leanside.org · 25/04/2026

This location is the city's second-best typology – on road but technically separated – to which I noted: "until the city reduces reckless driver behavior even this isn't enough to feel safe outside of a car."

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kjell @leanside.org · 25/04/2026

…it color-codes the various treatments in the mpls bike network, from sharrow to off-road dedicated path. (NB: the data is stale, but this location hasn't changed.) I remember chatting with a UPS driver why he shouldn't use the bike lane to drop a package exactly here, before making the map

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kjell @leanside.org · 25/04/2026

it'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...

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Minneapolis Bikeway Map

Below 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...

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kjell @leanside.org · 24/04/2026

now 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>

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kjell @leanside.org · 24/04/2026

In all honesty I think in the year 2026, whenever a parcel of this significance comes up it should be barred from conventional sale and rematriated to a local indigenous tribe Like this: www.npr.org/2026/03/27/n...

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The skyscrapers that NIMBYs and zoning couldn't stop : Planet Money

LIVE SHOW TOUR INFO HERE. New stories, live tapings, special guests, book signings and more. What would you build on a piece of land when all the normal rules go out the window?On today’s show, how th...

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kjell @leanside.org · 24/04/2026

This 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

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lights out for migrating birds @lightsoutforbirds.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Many birds are migrating now, to help stop bird window strikes keep lights out 11pm to 6am and make windows bird safe flap.org

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Billions of square meters and even more feet to be renovated in the next years vs. 8 participants?

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kjell @leanside.org · 20/04/2026

table stakes (⬅︎ pun) for a livable neighborhood

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kjell @leanside.org · 07/04/2026

bsky.app/profile/mprn...

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kjell @leanside.org · 31/03/2026

I've been waiting for this to come about since I was about Calvin's age reading these gd comics

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kjell @leanside.org · 28/03/2026

this 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

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

This is a legitimately great idea. Turn every ICE concentration camp into a museum of their crimes and the people who fought against them.

In her letter to lawmakers, Thompson asked for help to close the facility and transfer its ownership from the federal government to the village for redevelopment as a museum. The “Broadview Justice Corridor,” as she called the project, would turn the ICE facility into a “national center dedicated to immigration history, civil rights education, civic leadership, and cultural tourism.

“This transformation would convert a site associated with fear, protest, and division into one that promotes education, reconciliation, and national dialogue,” Thompson wrote in the letter, estimating the proposal would draw up to 250,000 visitors annually and generate up to $31 million in economic activity.

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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I’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.

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