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Rob Bellinger @rbellinger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Cracked the code for how to acquire regionally popular gas station iced coffee without adding motor vehicle miles traveled #BikeTooter

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Rob Bellinger @rbellinger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

Unfortunately, Zuck's strategy to replace Craigslist seems to be working. Posted a furniture item to Craigslist and FBM. So far, 14 inquiries from Facebook and zero from CL.

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Rob Bellinger @rbellinger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

I'm not going to make eye contact with you to beg your permission to cross the street in a crosswalk. I'm just going to cross and you can deal with it. I'm not going to thank you after, either, or even look back at you.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

Having an in person international or national event in America? Are you weighing factors like lodging and transport? Cool stuff to do? Here’s a map to consider if any of your attendees may possibly, even remotely be LGBTQIA. And you care about them.

Source: Movement Advancement Project (MAP) LGBTQ Equality Maps

See original source of US LGBTQIA safety study for tabular data by state.

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Rob Bellinger @rbellinger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026

A #Vinfast #EV with #Quebec plates in NYC. These are made it #vietnam and are currently sold in three Canadian provinces.

A black SUV parked at a busy city curb with many pedestrians passing by. The car displays the letter V on its front.

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CelloMom On Cars @cellomomoncars.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

@rbellinger They flaunt their disdain for ordinary people "We're going to make your job irrelevant. We're taking your land. Not going to tell you how much of your community's water we're taking, you don't deserve to know. Your city bans data centers? We're suing it." and so on.

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Cr Meek @crmeek.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Maximum wage for anyone who thinks AI can replace huge numbers of workers should be $15 an hour. You aren't doing real work if you think it's possible.

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Rob Bellinger @rbellinger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

I'm sitting in LGA and all of the ads are about using AI to replace workers. I've seen them from at least three different companies so far. They're definitely not trying to hide it.

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Rob Bellinger @rbellinger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

I'm heading to meetings in a city that offers Lime #dockless #bikeshare. According to the system map, there is rarely a bike within 6 blocks of my downtown hotel. That's more than half the distance I need to travel to my meetings. So I guess I'll just walk.

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Rob Bellinger @rbellinger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

Peak American masculinity is defined by leasing a giant truck you can't afford and taking it to Costco to buy discount testosterone

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Rob Bellinger @rbellinger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

Looks like the NYPD is functioning as designed today, as a private police force for celebrities, brands, and landowners

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

"People sometimes end up on obscure sites run by just... anyone. A page made by a local club is as easy to find as a corporate site." I didn't realize that the guy I was talking with about the internet in 1999 thought of this as a *problem* to be solved... not what made the internet awesome […]

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CelloMom On Cars @cellomomoncars.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

@rbellinger And everywhere, cars are what largely defines the death toll. That is a clear pattern. transport.ec.europa.eu/system/files…

Matrix of which road users cause fatal crashes on European roads. Car drivers cause the majority: 13,925 of 22,800 fatalities.

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Rob Bellinger @rbellinger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

Car drivers in the city think that cars are what define urban life. Car drivers in the suburbs think that cars are what define suburban life. Car drivers in rural areas think that cars are what define rural life. I am starting to see a pattern.

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Rob Bellinger @rbellinger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

Someone just asked me to explain how taxpayers pay for parking, if parking is free

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Rob Bellinger @rbellinger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2026

If you assumed that the Spurs play in a giant blacktop surface parking lot in the desert, you'd be correct

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Rob Bellinger @rbellinger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2026

Chipotle has the ability to make me more ill than any NYC halal cart

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Rob Bellinger @rbellinger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2026

GOP worship of fraudsters and adulterers continues……...

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Rob Bellinger @rbellinger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2026

So far, the worst drivers in #Toronto also have NJ plates

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Rob Bellinger @rbellinger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2026

We did something unusual: drove to a restaurant we like in rural #UlsterCountyNY, 10mi each way. It was raining and there were barely any other cars on the road. On the way there, we were almost rear ended by a driver who couldn't wait for us to turn left into the restaurant. They went flying […]

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Rob Bellinger @rbellinger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026

Took a #citibike to a Dr's appt and pulled over for a police siren behind me. It turned out to be a luxury Mercedes sedan with a civilian number plate -- and lights and sirens. I looked up the plate on #HowsMyDrivingNY and found that it has **118 camera and […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot of howsmydrivingny.nyc showing extensive history of 118 violations for license plate NY 113APB. At one point the driver owed $6,185.18 for 118 violations which was reduced to $4,672.08 for some reason. They currently owe $115.

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Rob Bellinger @rbellinger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026

Going to #toronto for the first time in many years and I'm in search of recommendations for interesting food and places to bike!

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Rob Bellinger @rbellinger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026

A curious phenomenon occurs every time I take the bus from Kingston to NYC mid-day. There's always a somewhat orderly line to board the bus, yet a (different) middle aged white woman always appears out of nowhere and makes herself the first to board the bus.

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Rob Bellinger @rbellinger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026

Today I walked to CVS to get something for my partner, who's unfortunately ill. As I crossed the street, a man enraged by a no-turn-on-red sign rage sped through two parking lots and raced to the next red light, a block away. I caught up to him on foot, then entered the store on the next corner […]

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Rob Bellinger @rbellinger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/05/2026

"ebikes are cheating" is the eugenics of bicycling

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Rob Bellinger @rbellinger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

I am convinced that the #CDMX subreddit now gives spoof recommendations to anyone who asks for dining advice in English.

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Rob Bellinger @rbellinger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2026

Looks like I just got banned from the #UlsterCountyNY fire/rescue incidents FB group for making the *same type of comment* about a car crash that they routinely allow by the dozen for bike crashes. Drivers are not thick-skinned. Now I have virtually no reason to use FB 😂 -- except for my […]

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Bill Braine @billbraine.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2026

Hey #hudsonvalley and especially #kingstonny and the #catskills — Steve Earle is playing an intimate benefit show for the Clearwater next Wednesday! Come check it out! #SteveEarle www.viewcy.com/event/an_evening_wit…

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Rob Bellinger @rbellinger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2026

The best camera is the one you have on you. The best bike is the one you are on.

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Børge @forteller.tutoteket.no.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2026

I'm a bit worried about its structural integrity, but finding this children's book with a witch biking on a cargo bike with sail at the flea market, I had to have it! #bicycle #BikeTooter #CargoBike #witch #witches

The witch has a typical witch's hat and a dark blue cape, and is peddling energetically. In the front loaded cargo box a child is jumping from how fast they're moving.

It's a Norwegian book by the name "The witch hunt" (Heksejakten) by Bodil El Jørgensen.

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Rob Bellinger @rbellinger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2026

Did a 30-mi roundtrip on the #WalkillValleyRailTrail and saw every conceivable type of bike and biker out today. Gravel bikes, mountain bikes, cruisers, fancy midmount ebikes, mail order hub motor ebikes, bikes from at least 3 different rental fleets. Everyone seemed so happy, even two kids […]

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Rob Bellinger @rbellinger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2026

I am routinely called a "transplant gentrifier" in comments sections re: building safer streets in #nyc, particularly in Queens. I am from Queens.

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Rob Bellinger @rbellinger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/04/2026

Just watched a school bus stop at a corner to let students out. Not one but two turning drivers aimed directly at the children crossing the street, despite the red lights being activated on the bus. The bus driver had to honk and gesture at the drivers to stop them from running over the kids […]

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Rob Bellinger @rbellinger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/04/2026

“Our network benefits from every incremental unit of supply added in a city.” —Uber on Waymo "In other words, Waymo means way mo’ cars.” —Streetsblog on Uber on Waymo nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/17/waym…

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Rob Bellinger @rbellinger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2026

In 1980s Queens, my grandfather got tired of drivers driving and parking on the sidewalk in front of his house. He took an old tin trash can, filled it with concrete, and painted it bright white and blue. But drivers just drove into it, expecting it to be pushed out of the way. The paint has […]

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Rob Bellinger @rbellinger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2026

If there’s one thing Spotify excels at, it’s creating #blues playlists composed entirely of white artists

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Rob Bellinger @rbellinger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/04/2026

Just got an update to a #NYCTLC ticket that I filed in August. A bunch of complaints seemed to disappear at the end of the corrupt Adams administration.

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Rob Bellinger @rbellinger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2026

Trying this old "wheel bender" bike rack at the gym, and it actually seems to work quite well! #BikeTooter

Two e-bikes stationed at opposite ends of a poured concrete bike rack with slots for bike wheels. The rack is on a sidewalk outside a business. The bike in the foreground displays a sticker that reads "cars are death machines"

Close up of u-lock securing bike frame to metal grommet anchored in poured concrete bike rack

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Rob Bellinger @rbellinger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2026

After a multi-year period of deliberation, copious publicity, and installation of very clear signage, the City of #KingstonNY has turned on school zone #speedcameras for a thirty-day warning period. Across four school zones, they are averaging FIVE HUNDRED FIFTY WARNINGS (550) PER DAY […]

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Rob Bellinger @rbellinger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/03/2026

For future reference, I’m starting a thread of all the times #KingstonNY drivers try to kill me. #safestreets #trafficviolence 🧵

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Rob Bellinger @rbellinger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/03/2026

I ordered a gallon of liquid tree fertilizer from Idaho to NY, and it was shipped #usps Ground Select. But it was obviously flown, because there is no other way to get from Boise to the Hudson Valley in less than 24 hours. This is fast, but is it efficient?

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Rob Bellinger @rbellinger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/03/2026

Flew through #ATL yesterday. Pre-check line took 70 minutes. There were 4 ICE agents standing next to the line doing nothing. Meanwhile airport operations personnel carefully managed the line and sent line cutters to the back.

A line of travelers with luggage snakes around a corner while four people with bulletproof vests labeled "POLICE ICE" stand in the background talking to each other

Hundreds of travelers moving through a maze-like queue at an airport

An employee in a vest labeled AIRPORT OPERATIONS directs a queue of travelers in an airport terminal

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