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Rachit

@rachag.bsky.social

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Just moved to DC, would love to connect with new urbanist friends :-) 🚄🚲🚶🏽‍♂️ Loves urbanism, trains, bikes, coffee. 🚫🚗🏡 Hates cars, suburbia, climate change, and bottled water. 📍 DC

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Rachit @rachag.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Anyone have an extra ticket to Ezra & Derek’s book talk in DC tomorrow? Super interested but it’s sold out 😭

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Politics hasn't been this simple in a long time: do you think it's good for one man to exercise unchecked, arbitrary power or not. Those are the two available ideologies right now

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

A square canvas. Only the top corner is filled with Harings distinctive figures, rendered in Lavender, the rest is blank.

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Rachit @rachag.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Just moved to DC and would love to meet urbanist friends into biking, yelling at cars, advocating for safer streets. Anyone down to grab a coffee?

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The Daily Beans Podcast @dailybeanspod.com · 22/01/2025

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde Hero.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

If anyone needs a little hit of TikTok methadone, I am happy to confidently explain something that is obviously untrue

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Peter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

DON'T BUILD BIKE LANES BECAUSE THEY MIGHT OBSTRUCT EMERGENCY VEHICLES

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

gotDAMN

two posts from threads

first is from @camillecardonaa and says: I just found out that only 1.5% of Japan's population is Christian and I'm heartbroken.

second is a reply from @orangedweller and says: Hi. Japan's homicide rate is 07% per 100K. United States homicide rate is 5.7% per 100K.
Japan's unhoused population in 2024: 2,820. United States unhoused: 653,104.
Japan also has one of the highest food security rates in the whole big world. Meanwhile, in the US, 18 million people are food insecure.
Maybe this Sunday you can ask the Christians what their bible says about poor people and murder. Sorry bout your heart.

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Seattle Bike Blog @seattlebikeblog.com · 29/11/2024

The New York Times is giving a murder their “both-sides” treatment. What the hell is the matter with you?!? Someone kills a person with their car, and your reaction is to be like, “Some people think murder is bad, but others don’t like bike lanes, so 🤷‍♂️.”

Death of Cyclist in Paris Lays Bare Divide in Mayor’s War Against Cars
Paul Varry was run over on a city street in what prosecutors suspect was a deliberate act of road rage, as bikers and drivers choose sides.

It sent a shock through Paris, a city striving to transform itself into one of the great cycling metropolises in the world: a bicycle rider, crushed under the wheels of an SUV in a bike lane just a few yards from La Madeleine, the landmark neoclassical church, in what prosecutors suspect was a deliberate act of road rage.

A murder investigation has been opened, and last week, Mayor Anne Hidalgo led the Paris City Council in a minute of silence for the cyclist, Paul Varry, a 27-year-old who was also a cycling advocate. Ms. Hidalgo, a member of the Socialist Party, delivered an emotional speech in which she signaled she would continue to roll out her famously aggressive policies that aim to drastically reduce the role of the automobile in Parisian life.

“I am truly angry,” she said. “The future does not belong to cars.”

An outpouring of emotion over Mr. Varry’s Oct. 15 death has put a spotlight on the dangers facing cyclists in a city that has seen an explosion in bikes and cycling lanes in recent years. But it has also underscored the frustrations that motorists increasingly feel in a place that has chosen to limit the movement, speed and parking options of cars.

In recent weeks, as cycling organizations, spurred by the death of Mr. Varry, have demanded more protections from aggressive drivers, others have complained about Parisian bikers themselves, some of whom have earned a reputation as dangerous risk-takers.

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Rachit @rachag.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

If there’s a “free speech problem” on American campuses, it’s this. Pretty terrifying to see universities that have thrived on student activism to be quelling it with such force.

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How Universities Cracked Down on Pro-Palestinian Activism

Stricter rules and punishments over campus protests seem to be working. Universities have seen just under 950 protest events this semester, compared to 3,000 in the spring.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

NEW: Swiss voters have rejected a $5.6 billion plan to expand highways. The plan's proponents claimed it would relieve congestion, but voters realized that wasn't true. www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-po...

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Reactions to 'no' vote on Swiss motorway expansion project

On Sunday, a majority of Swiss voters (52.7%) rejected a CHF5 billion government plan to extend key stretches of the motorway network.

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

We should redesign cities for autonomous kids, not autonomous cars.

two kids, one pushing a bike, on a woonerf in Haarlem. grown ups sitting at a bar.

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Rachit @rachag.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Some inspiring art at STÖR Seattle today 🇸🇪 storseattle.com/pages/about-...

A runner rug with “STÖR” written on it in the blue and yellow IKEA branding, and a giant version of the IKEA blue tapestry bag.

2 tables, one with a surveyor tripod as legs and a “no left turn” symbol traffic sign as the top, and another with a “no parking south of here” sign as the top.

A lamp that models a cigarette, with glowing red LEDs at the top as the “ashes,” and a bed with several cigarettes composing its headboard.

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