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A (she/her) @mostlyaditz.bsky.social · 17h

Look at the next bullet point. They're being hit by cars. I don't want to get too pedantic but the concern trolling is about e bikes being a danger, not e bikes being *in* danger.

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A (she/her) @mostlyaditz.bsky.social · 17h

And ebike has a close call with a pedestrian and a person thinke that could happen to anyone! And they mean the pedestrian. A car fails to see a cyclist at a four-way and kills them and they say that could happen to anyone! And they mean the driver.

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A (she/her) @mostlyaditz.bsky.social · 17h

It's because it's not about data. It's about who you identify with in an incident. I saw a KATU video come across my Tiktok feed about a hit and run driver who killed a 13-year-old on an e-bike and one of the commenters described this child dying as having ruined the driver's life.

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A (she/her) @mostlyaditz.bsky.social · 17h

Check those numbers. That's inconsistent with everything we know about unsafe behavior and whatever you're referencing might be erroneously including *mobility* scooters

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A (she/her) @mostlyaditz.bsky.social · 17h

I don't think e bikes that can accelerate to 20 mph within a couple seconds are safer than my mixtie loaded down with fenders, racks, and my fat butt, but that's not the comparison. I, as a very conscientious driver, experienced and trained, am a greater threat than a 10 year old on a scooter.

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A (she/her) @mostlyaditz.bsky.social · 17h

And before you say "but cars are metal boxes so they're safer" -- they're safer for their occupants. They're deadly to everyone else.

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A (she/her) @mostlyaditz.bsky.social · 17h

Force is mass * velocity squared. Going from ~15 mph to the 20 mph that people freak out about is a tiny fraction of the force of the 5 mph increase between 35 and 40 mph that people don't even consider speeding in a car. And that's *holding the mass constant*

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A (she/her) @mostlyaditz.bsky.social · 17h

That's not to say that ebike riders have never died in Portland. They're just the victims of car drivers.

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A (she/her) @mostlyaditz.bsky.social · 17h

You're not winning on the math. In Portland Oregon, there are 3000 ride-sharing e bikes alone with 600k cars, so roughly 200x not even counting privately held e bikes. There were 40 pedestrian deaths in Portland in 2025. 0 recorded deaths caused by e bike riders. 40/0 is infinity.

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A (she/her) @mostlyaditz.bsky.social · 18h

What do you bet that if I look up news reports for your neighborhood, I'll find multiple pedestrian deaths over that same 7 year period?

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A (she/her) @mostlyaditz.bsky.social · 18h

E bikes are only dangerous (as far as they are dangerous) because everyone who is not piloting a 4 ton killing machine is squeezed into the last 3 feet of a 40 ft wide road. Y'all are calling 20 mph fast like that's not what the "burdensome" speed limit in school zones.

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A (she/her) @mostlyaditz.bsky.social · 18h

The false equivalency is so infuriating. 36k people die in car crashes every year in the US. 310 deaths caused by e bikes/e scooters between 2017 and 2024 (per the consumer product safety commission), only 19 of them were not the rider themselves. "Almost been in several accidents" give me a break.

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A (she/her) @mostlyaditz.bsky.social · 18h

You don't think it's weird to *reply* to a post by addressing other people? A quote post feature exists.

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A (she/her) @mostlyaditz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm not sure if I hope it was or was not the invisible (to them) service staff doing the recording.

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A (she/her) @mostlyaditz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The people who like to point out that men are something like 25% of victims who reach out to rape crisis centers don't seem to know that their perpetrators are also nearly always men.

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A (she/her) @mostlyaditz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is an annoyingly good point.

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A (she/her) @mostlyaditz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Well, I'm talking out of my rear end here but I think the 50/50 is because the judge will catch on if you object to all female jurors but in any event, it's the fact that older women are not reliably anti-rape culture I was pointing out and I think we agree.

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A (she/her) @mostlyaditz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That requires empathetic juries. Cornell's lawyer is not going to allow any woman under 50 to make it through voir dire. They'd have an all male jury if the judge would let them.

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A (she/her) @mostlyaditz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ironically, it seems like the actual job of an AI tech CEO is to go on podcasts and talk shows and hold press conferences to say insane things and get earned media. That's something that requires a human speaking to another human.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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A (she/her) @mostlyaditz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they're carrying high like that, it means they're going to have a boy.

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A (she/her) @mostlyaditz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Are AI agents just husbands who definitely want to do more around the house, you just need to make them a list?

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

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A (she/her) @mostlyaditz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I (and hundreds of thousands of others) played Oregon Trail on the Apple II in elementary school and I turn 43 tomorrow.

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A (she/her) @mostlyaditz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I would be fascinated to hear interviews from the MAGA husbands going to wife school.

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A (she/her) @mostlyaditz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I want to admit this because it shows how important government regulation is: I would never drink raw milk, but I assumed the cheese making process would remove the danger.

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A (she/her) @mostlyaditz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And the women are caring for small children.

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A (she/her) @mostlyaditz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Who gave Thanos a YouTube channel?

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A (she/her) @mostlyaditz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And they wonder why sales are down.

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A (she/her) @mostlyaditz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My hypothesis is that this is a realtor or has a realtor connection and they just make videos in vacant houses between showings.

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A (she/her) @mostlyaditz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If it's cheap, it's only cheap because the water isn't priced correctly.

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A (she/her) @mostlyaditz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My familiarity with agricultural economics is beyond naive, but is there any reason not to grow alfalfa in a wetter biome and then ship it to feed cattle in the Western states?

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A (she/her) @mostlyaditz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And then she calls the song "Ironic" so when the song is about a series of unfortunate coincidences, it's unexpected.

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A (she/her) @mostlyaditz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I run data scientist meetups and we usually get at least 5%.

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Kung Hei FYat Choy!-Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

*nods* Pinterest and its consequences

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A (she/her) @mostlyaditz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My 13 yo has a literal TBR pile in her room that's currently about 18 inches high. We like to sit on either end of the couch with our backs to the armrests and share a blanket while we read. She likes to make oat milk tea lattes for herself and her sister and they drink while they read.

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A (she/her) @mostlyaditz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It started on Tiktok. And the poor lady was a recruiter making a recommendation to her clients on how to make a good impression and the full of gambit of defense to outrage to defense of the outrage to calls for reminders that it was *advice* has already happened there.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.

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A (she/her) @mostlyaditz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is so offensive. You just took the bit too far. I can't. This ruined my day.

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A (she/her) @mostlyaditz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Is he an out of touch billionaire or does he have early onset Alzheimer's and he's not going to get treated because people chalk his symptoms up to billionairism?

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A (she/her) @mostlyaditz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am envious of your certainty that it's a bit.

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A (she/her) @mostlyaditz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You can't mean this literally. Do you mean "Needs help grasping the shape of the critique that is subtext in Fahrenheit 451" or "can't finish The Lightning Thief"?

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A (she/her) @mostlyaditz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Was I scratching my head at news that wasn't true? Yes. I was.

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A (she/her) @mostlyaditz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

What is he claiming Trump might have been doing to reduce diesel prices?

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

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A (she/her) @mostlyaditz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You know what burns me up? The way Seattle has fully passed us by in the last 15 years. The friend I stay with lives in Northgate. I got from there to Elliott Bay Books in like 15 minutes. It was humiliating.

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A (she/her) @mostlyaditz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In Portland, I see more and more parents piloting e powered bakfiets with full on surreys over their kids. I personally think that's a way to raise some fragile kids and Portland babies need to be tough [facetious] but you can see they're snug as bugs.

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A (she/her) @mostlyaditz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

They didn't look in a box and see that there are gaps in the corners for the circle that are filled with the square pizza? No math needed.

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A (she/her) @mostlyaditz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

No, they're acting like that doesn't make them feel any better. When you get a raise or a better job, you want *increased* purchasing power, not stagnant. And energy inflation is at 16% right now.

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