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sustainability / experience design / mass transit / cycling / video editing / Texan // opinions mine // I'm active on Mastodon: mastodon.social/@rcbo

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CapMetro @capmetroatx.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
SXSW is only here for one week—make every moment count! 🎶🚌 Skip the traffic and ride #CapMetro to your favorite events. Tap to Pay makes it easy for everyone, even if you’re visiting! 😎 📲 Plan your trip on Transit 🚌 Enjoy the ride! 🔗 Learn more: capmetro.org/sxsw #SXSW
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robo @rcbo.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Game nerds! 🃏🎲 I need your help to save a local business: Vigilante Gastropub & Games in Austin, Texas has been hit with an expensive repair cost and may close soon if they don’t raise needed funds by SATURDAY, Nov 22. ko-fi.com/vigilantegas... 1/
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Support Vigilante Gastropub & Games
Support Us!
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AURA: An Austin for Everyone @aura-atx.org · 27/10/2025
Our membership has voted to endorse Prop Q! Vote early Monday through Friday this week from 7 AM to 7 PM. Find your nearest polling location here: votetravis.gov/current-elec... Prop Q protects our City's essential services, including supportive housing, safe sidewalks, & our EMS first responders
Vote YES on Prop Q!
Early Voting Oct. 20 - 31
Election Day Tues. Nov 4

Image of the newly completed Cady Lofts, a project funded by the City containing 100 permanent supportive housing units in Central Austin. At bottom left, AURA's logo with tag line "An Austin For Everyone"
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
New rule, like the old rule: Heat pumps are called icy hot fan blasters; air conditioners are called icy fan blasters. @shannonosaka.bsky.social @costasamaras.com @jtemple.bsky.social @jaimepalter.bsky.social
washingtonpost.com
Heat pumps are having a breakthrough. They have one issue: The wrong name.
The newly popular technology faces an issue: No one understands its name.
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
NEW: Big study of low-traffic neighbourhoods in London suggest they cut road injuries and deaths by more than a third within their boundaries with no apparent negative safety effect on nearby roads. This feels a *major* boost for proponents of such schemes. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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London’s low-traffic zones ‘cut deaths and injuries by more than a third’
Exclusive: Study also finds no change in number of casualties on roads just outside low-traffic neighbourhoods
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Safe Streets Austin @safestreetsaustin.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
TxDOT is working on its *first ever* statewide walk/bike plan. This is huge. Support the Statewide Active Transportation Plan now: 🚶🏼‍♀️Take the short survey (deadline: 7/13) 🚲 Attend the in-person meeting @ Fiesta Gardens (7/8, 4:30pm) Survey/event info: burnsmcd.mysocialpinpoint.com/txdot-statew...
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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Better things ARE possible but you have to fight for them which honestly sucks but fine OK
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robo @rcbo.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
My co-working space peers are smart folks
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Adam Greenfield @adamgreenfield.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Submit your comment NOW about the Austin Core Transportation Plan! Your voice is CRUCIAL. The ACT Plan would be a big improvement but it needs to go much further. Help push for a calmer, safer downtown. See possible feedback below. 🗣️ Speak up here: publicinput.com/actplan#tab-...
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Austin Core Transportation Plan - PublicInput
The Austin Core Transportation Plan (ACT Plan) is the long-term vision for improving transportation and mobility options in and around downtown Austin. The ACT Plan is a Small Area Mobility Plan of th...
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AURA: An Austin for Everyone @aura-atx.org · 10/04/2025
Austin City Council votes 10-1 to legalize 5-story single-stair apartments, making Austin the largest US city outside of NYC to legalize single-stair! 🎉🎉🎉 Many thanks to all the supporters and to CM Chito Vela for leading this exciting reform! We did it y'all! 🙌
A 5-story single-stair apartment building tucked nicely into a residential neighborhood with greenery, trees, and sidewalks
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Rethink35 @rethink35.org · 04/04/2025
⚠️CAMPO released its 25 year plan for transportation for our region, and we need YOUR help to get CAMPO to invest in transit, walking, cycling and safety. ⚠️ It will just take a minute or two! actionnetwork.org/letters/tell... actionnetwork.org/events/testi...
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Rethink35 @rethink35.org · 14/03/2025
Heartbreaking news: five people, including two children were killed on I-35 in Austin in a 17 vehicle crash. We must continue to work towards safer transportation infrastructure in our cities. 💔 www.kut.org/austin/2025-...
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Five people killed in 17-vehicle crash on I-35; suspect charged with intoxication manslaughter
Five people, including a child and an infant, were killed in the crash on southbound Interstate 35 near Parmer Lane late Thursday night. Eleven people were taken to local hospitals after the crash, wh...
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Here is a list of town halls taking place next week that you should show up at. I am sorry, I mean Chuck Schumer’s book parties. If there are any missing, please add in the replies. The only thing he should be doing today is cleaning out his office.
Here is a list of town halls taking place next week that you should show up at. I am sorry, I mean Chuck Schumer’s book parties. If there are any missing, please add in the responses. 

Schumer begins a book tour this week.

Mon 3/17 7pm Central Library, Baltimore 

Wed 3/19 Politics & Prose, DC 7pm  

Thursday 3/20 at the Weizman, DC 12:30PM

Sunday 3/23 · 3pm  Moss Theatre Santa Monica, CA

Mon 4/21 MJCCA Atlanta 7:30PM

Line the sidewalks. (List may not be complete)
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Rethink35 @rethink35.org · 13/03/2025
How do you feel about the fact that 96% of TX transportation funds are required, according to the TX constitution, to go to highways? 😡 Join advocates from around the state to talk to legislators at the capitol about these issues! Zoom prep session: 3/23 Advocacy day: 4/3
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robo @rcbo.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Some kudos to @capmetroatx.bsky.social: The new #BusRapidTransit took me from downtown to 51st St in FIFTEEN MINUTES. Literally as fast as driving. Holy hell. It was absolutely the right move to open these lines ASAP, even with long headways + diesel buses. “Done is better than perfect.” 🙌
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Miriam Schoenfield @miriamschoenfield.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Austin's I-35 expansion is in Scientific American: "Widening projects are sold to the public by touting benefits that won’t last, but their unadvertised costs will remain for decades." www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...
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Widening Highways Doesn’t Fix Traffic. Here’s What Can
Highway widening projects usually don’t solve congestion, but less expensive toll programs known as congestion pricing can. Here’s why
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robo @rcbo.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Welcome to #Austin, #SXSW folks! Some tips on #bicycling, by far the best way to get around SX: Rent: - CapMetro Bikeshare bikes rock. These must be returned to stations. - Lime Bikes rock. They can be parked most places. - Adjust your seat - Be chill. If you already own a bike…
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robo @rcbo.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
I know inflation & other things have made new @capmetroatx.bsky.social / ATP projects tough to deliver, but two huge things to celebrate this month: 🤳 Support for tap-to-pay & retiring the old, unintuitive app 🚌 Two new Rapid lines And all JUST IN TIME for #SXSW!
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Paul @fucktheracists.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
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robo @rcbo.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Hey #theatre fans in #Austin: If you like #immersivetheatre like #SleepNoMore, #CheerfulSecrets, #SpeakMoMore, or that #Westworld #SXSW thing, join this happy hour! SNM just closed its doors, so let’s toast and share tales of awesome interactive theatre. 🥂 RSVP: partiful.com/e/5NKJIpZ0ET...
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RSVP to Sleep No More, Y’all | Partiful
~ Sleep No More, Y’all ~ A farewell happy hour for fans in Austin The McKittrick Hotel closes its NYC doors on January 5th. This happy hour is an informal & unofficial fare-thee-well for any Austini...
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Safe Streets Austin @safestreetsaustin.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
The opening night for the 37th Street Lights starts today at 6pm. Come enjoy one of the season's premier car-free street events! 🎄🥳 More info: www.kxan.com/things-to-do...
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Austin’s 37th Street Lights return Dec. 13 through New Year’s
An Austin holiday tradition spanning four decades has returned once again.
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robo @rcbo.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Yes! For so long Austin’s new housing options have been “moderately-nice house or Soviet-era apartment building”. I know it costs money, but people would support dense housing if it weren’t ugly af.
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mid-apocalyptic c (support🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇳🇴🇫🇷🇬🇱) @preclude.swifties.social · 06/12/2024
Tesla Gigafactory reportedly dumped pollutants into #Austin water "It was allegedly filled with toxins, smelled of rotten eggs and at one point, employees found a dead deer in the water." #atx #wildlife #tx #texas www.mysanantonio.com/news/austin/...
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Elon Musk's Tesla dumps pollutants into Texas water, report says
Tesla's Gigafactory near Austin has been dumping toxic pollutants into the environment for months, The Wall Street Journal reports.
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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
This is how to do it, kids: Home insurance is now a climate story. Put it on the front, and put "climate change" at the top. Especially now that deniers will control the federal and state government. www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/hom...
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robo @rcbo.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
It’s official: #Rethink35 has hired an expert for the I-35 lawsuit against the harmful & ineffective #highwayexpansion in #Austin! We’re only $580 away from a generous matching goal to pay the expert. #Texas #ATX #urbanism www.zeffy.com/en-US/fundra...
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Help us Hire Experts for the Lawsuit - First $5,000 will be Matched!
Our lawsuit to stop the harmful I-35 expansion is in full swing, and we are hiring world-class experts to fight our case in court!We just received a $25,000 grant from Impact Fund to fuel our legal fi...
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
“We don't right now have any information about who put them up. We do know that they're very professionally designed signs. They're very large. They're very well done. So someone went to a lot of trouble to put these large signs up.”
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Boulder’s explicit traffic safety signs are the latest real-looking fakes on Colorado roads
Several of the signs were concentrated along 28th Street, a busy north-south thoroughfare that the city has identified as being particularly dangerous.
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Adam Greenfield @adamgreenfield.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
What an amazing #Rethink35 & community protest yesterday outside TxDOT's I-35 Central groundbreaking ceremony! Thank you to everyone who made it. The message was again clear: I-35 expansion is unpopular. People want a better way. Check out more protest photos: www.flickr.com/photos/19948...
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