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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 11/10/2026

@americanfietser.bsky.social et al, Has anyone ever found a proper replacement for the original PUBLIC "Trieste" coffee cup holder? I had one of these on my old bike that was stolen and when I ordered one for the new bike, it was a totally different (and terrible) design! OG only fit one size bar

A silver, anodized aluminum cup ring with a foam liner bolted to the handlebar of a bicycle. Rather than an adjustable-size clamp it has a one-size-only bracket for standard city bike handlebars, giving it a rock-solid attachment that never moved or wiggled.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 06/10/2026

This framing is so disingenuous, especially considering how many ppl form opinions on articles based on the headline/title alone. Doing "high-speed rail" (which reminder, Brightline FL is NOT) the way it was done in Florida wouldn't work anywhere else either.

A screencap of a CNN article tile on bluesky. The title of the article is "Why doesn't high speed rail work in America?" which, read in a vacuum, imparts upon the reader the idea that there's something about passenger rail which is incompatible with the USA rather than the problem being with the convoluted and backwards way the USA allows its railroads to be run by private, publicly-traded corporations and the way the country's government tries to force passenger rail to operate under a neoliberal-style model of sought-profitability rather than a realistic model of public service.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 06/10/2026

Looking forward to the day that the Starfucks Sacramento location at L & 10th is replaced by one of our regional homegrowns. I hate how much of a car sewer L and 10 are in this area (for now) but the views of the newly-refurbished Unruh Building from that corner are fantastic.

A view of the North (rear) facade of the Unruh Building (formerly known as the California State Treasurer's building until 1987), a Greek-Revival government office building in Sacramento, California built between 1922 and 1928 and located at the southwest corner of L Street and 10th Street.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 06/10/2026

Here's my explanation of how my being a car enthusiast does not clash with but rather compliments my also being a stalwart #urbanist, #transit advocate, and #cycling advocate

A screencap of a block of text. Text reads as follows:

"Short version: i'm a huge car nerd who enjoys cars as a hobby/recreational interest but who hates motornormativity, forced car-dependence, and what the country's auto-dominated transportation policy has done to the American people. I also hate what it's done to the stuff on offer from car companies since anything actually interesting gets shelved in favor of yet another bland, child-mashing crossover or SUV designed to maximize corporate profits and appeal to the lowest common denominator of car buyer while furthering American's obsession with feeling individually wealthy while refusing to acknowledge how socially poor we have become as a society"

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 04/10/2026

And in case anyone needs the reference, you CAN incorporate modern safety features and mandated design changes and keep a car relatively compact. The decision to bloat cars and trucks to ridiculous sizes is WILLFUL and a manifestation of pure greed and excess. (See 1990 Mazda Miata vs 2016 model)

a side by side comparison of the 1990 and 2016 Mazda MX-5 Miatas showing the vehicle size has not changed significantly apart from being slightly wider and carrying a higher beltline

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 03/10/2026

Lighting and shelter were the first thing i ever openly beefed with an agency over. New Orleans RTA installed new (non-BRT) bus shelters in 2017/18 in some places. The shelters were awful though. They had dim, solar LED point lights and PERFORATED WALLS which were useless in heavy rainstorms

A bus shelter featuring perforated steel sides instead of glass or other solid material and solar-powered lighting. The design is notably incapable of providing adequate shelter from the type of rainstorms that are normal in New Orleans (the author of this post can personally confirm, having tried to shelter from such a storm in one while in college)

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 26/09/2026

I think they fixed this fountain in New Orleans shortly before I moved to California and I felt the same way. One day it was just...working again?

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 24/09/2026

I was just talking about the larger station complex with a friend who lives in Calgary but didn't spot the entrance to this train hall until just now, cool!

A semi-hidden entrance to a private train platform in Calgary, Alberta's downtown connected to the Fairmont Palliser Hotel

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 24/09/2026

Enjoy this cute video of a sparrow taking a bath on my terrace

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 27/08/2026

what the hell is going on downtown right now? this police helicopter is circling and blasting noise from a loudspeaker? @sacbee.com @kcranews.bsky.social

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 13/08/2026

I call those things "bicycle chutes" and they actually first make an appearance in the OG 1974 FHWA Bicycle Infra Manual. But they're identified as being primarily a compromise design for contexts where there is insufficient ROW to build what we'd call a Protected Intersection now (also in there)

A page from the 1974 FHWA "Bikeways - State of the Art" guide, showing a protected intersection design that is today the standard for good bicycle infrastructure at major intersections.

The text below the illustration reads: "...which the turning motorist is no longer preoccupied with cross traffic from his left. Bicycle queuing space in the sidewalk area eliminates conflict between queued bicycles and motor vehicles making right-turns on red (in states where this practice is permitted). A modification of the concept conforming to more restricted right-of-way conditions and on-street lane approaches is shown on Figure 28. Deficiencies of the offset design are potential conflicts with pedestrians, the lack of sufficient right-of-way for such facilities in most already developed areas, the inconvenience to left-turning cyclists who would have to wait through an extra signal phase and travel by a circuitous route, and the fact that motorists entering the offset crossing area after passing through the intersection are likely to be accelerating and less alert to crossings under the assumption"

Two pages from the 1974 FHWA "Bikeways - State of the Art" guide, showing text and an illustration of an intersection design for streets with unprotected on-street bike lanes. This design ramps cyclists up onto the sidewalk at intersections to mix with pedestrians before dropping them back into the on-street bike lanes

In the quote below, the sentence "A modification of the concept conforming to more restricted right-of-way conditions and on-street lane approaches is shown on Figure 28" is highlighted as the illustration described above is marked "Figure 28" in the document.

The text below the illustration reads: "...which the turning motorist is no longer preoccupied with cross traffic from his left. Bicycle queuing space in the sidewalk area eliminates conflict between queued bicycles and motor vehicles making right-turns on red (in states where this practice is permitted). A modification of the concept conforming to more restricted right-of-way conditions and on-street lane approaches is shown on Figure 28. Deficiencies of the offset design are potential conflicts with pedestrians, the lack of sufficient right-of-way for such facilities in most already developed areas, the inconvenience to left-turning cyclists who would have to wait through an extra signal phase and travel by a circuitous route, and the fact that motorists entering the offset crossing area after passing through the intersection are likely to be accelerating and less alert to crossings under the assumption

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 29/07/2026

This is a helluva way to telegraph the "value" you're supposed to see in Alto according to whoever wrote this...

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 29/07/2026

If he did the design of the F59PHI i think i have one of his concept sketches for them framed in my cubicle at work. It's WILD, very automotive design of the early 90s vibes. Kinda looks like a Toyota Previa even.

A concept sketch of the EMD F59 PHI locomotive.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 20/07/2026

Folks, you really probably don't need that SUV or pickup "in case you have to move something bulky". For reference see every Miata owner ever and the home delivery services of your local appliance retailer. @americanfietser.bsky.social

A steel blue metallic Mazda MX-5 sports car in the loading zone at an IKEA. The convertible top is folded down and several large furniture boxes have been secured in the open trunk.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 13/07/2026

Not even bothering to change the filename is extra lazy.

A screencap of an AI-generated image posted by Streetsblog California showing that the filename of the image on their website clearly identifies that it was generated by ChatGPT

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 13/07/2026

Upright bicycle (Dutch), linen clothes, and a mid/wide-brimmed straw fedora are my tricks. Bonus is you get to look hella swish

A young man wearing a white linen collared shirt, sunglasses, and a straw fedora with a black grosgrain band. He's also wearing a red lanyard around his neck (under the collar of the shirt) that has pins for a variety of American railroads as well as the flag of Palestine, the Ukrainian Trident, the Progress Pride flag, and Public Rail Now

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 13/07/2026

(1/5) Now that we're back to our regularly scheduled #summer #hotweather here in #California, a quick reminder that if you use #fans to move air around your home or workspace, you should be DISASSEMBLING AND CLEANING them annually.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 08/07/2026

Perfect example. That white car is exiting the Garage and that's the only traffic on this street. Both it and the street in the foreground are one-way and the crosswalk on the left was removed and that barrier/reg sign added so that turning drivers don't have to wait for pedestrians to cross.

The northwest corner of the intersection of 11th and L streets in Sacramento California. The corner on the left is barricaded with a regulatory "no pedestrian crossing" sign bolted to it.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 17/06/2026

With the midterms this fall, I'm reminding everybody that when you see (most) political ads, resist the urge to Skip the ad at least the first time you see it. They're required to have a funding disclosure and you can learn a LOT by viewing the ad's message in the context of who's paying for it.

A screenshot from the end of the of a shady political ad claiming to be protecting California Consumers by "fighting" personal injury lawyer corruption but the ad funding disclosure shows it's paid for by Uber

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 11/06/2026

#Summer fits are finally complete now that I finally have a summer hat to go with my #linen solids and florals (Remember kiddos, linen is made from Flax. Flax can take as little as 1/8 of the water needed to grow the same weight in cotton, uses minimal pesticides, and has low pollution runoff risk)

A man stands outside a building in the shade wearing a white linen button-down shirt with an open collar, a lanyard covered in pins, sunglasses, and an off-white straw fedora with a black fabric band.

The shirt drapes comfortably but the collar and top 10cm of the placket are moderately starched to help them stand up and maintain their shape. The pins on the lanyard are mostly railroad-related but there is also a Ukranian Trident, a Palestinian flag, a Progress Pride pin, and some character pins from the animation project "Lackadaisy"

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 17/04/2026

@americanfietser.bsky.social Did a big grocery run today and remembered to snap pics. approx 25lbs of groceries and another 25lb of pellets for my Traeger

An upright Dutch bicycle parked in an apartment building lobby with original porcelain mosaic floor tiles. The bicycle is matte black and has a pair of silver pannier bags on the rear carrier that are visibly fully-loaded. The front carrier of the bike has a large plastic bag of wood pellets for a smoker-grill bungee-strapped to it

A close-up of the front carrier of an upright dutch bicycle showing the uncurled 24lb sack of Traeger-branded wood pellets that was bungee-strapped to it

A view of the inside of the left side of a pair of bicycle panniers, showing it's filled with an insulated grocery bag

The interior of the right side pannier bag showing it's filled with regular re-usable grocery bags

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 15/04/2026

HCOFP was my first really "heavy" urbanist book that I read in the early days of my journey to radical urbanist. I actually read it over the course of several months while working as a ticket agent for a Hop-On Hop-Off tour bus company in New Orleans and it still has all my little color-coded tabs!

A hardbound copy of Donald Shoup's book "The High Cost of Free Parking". The dust jacket is intact and throughout the fore-edge of the book, dozens of color-coded paper tabs are visible.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 02/04/2026

I once got an ad DM from Jack Welch Mgmt Institute back when they still used his face as their branding and holy fuck I'd never believed you could look into someone's eyes and see the pits of hell and damnation before that day but I sure as f*** did after.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 28/03/2026

A-HEM Time again we revisit this and this time let's GET IT DONE @dorismatsui.bsky.social @adamschiff.com @padilla.senate.gov @aoc.bsky.social @sanders.senate.gov @gavinnewsom.bsky.social Quick-and-Easy Resources youtu.be/Nym3sQhkhww?... youtu.be/XCjDg5qzZTo?... @calelectricrail.org

a historic photograph of a General Motors Electro-Motive Division (EMD) GM10B prototype electric freight locomotive being tested in the 1970s, having been designed in anticipation of a never-realized mass-electrification program of America's railroads in the wake of the 1970s energy crises.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 09/03/2026

Chico, California spent 10+ years and $23m (in 2005 dollars, abt $14m) building this bike-pedestrian overpass of an arterial road. It was opened last year with much fanfare and celebration of its "unique" design, which has RGB lighting at night...

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 09/03/2026

I watched through the whole segment to see what actually killed him. I was expecting some exploding poo bag that caused a gas rupture or something. Not "kids do normal, harmless prank and then hit and kill him with a car while trying to get away"(no link due to FOX affiliate station)

A screen capture of a news item thumbnail from a FOX affiliate station. The header says "DEADLY PRANK" and the title is "Georgia teacher dies during prank"

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 04/03/2026

Fun fact: as much of a train, bicycle, and transit nerd as I am I'm also a massive car nerd with an addiction to small, modestly-powered sports cars and narrow squiggly mountain roads. (I'm parked off the side of the road. My phone stays in my bag at all times when driving unless I'm safely parked)

a selfie of a man behind the wheel of a convertible parked on the side of a rural road. The top/hood is stowed on the car and you can see the road disappearing up an incline in the distance lined by trees

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 24/02/2026

NGL, I was not a HSG (i was a different HS weird, can you guess which?) but yeah...if anything I wear MORE black now than I ever did when I was younger and ESPECIALLY in the colder, darker months

a man wearing a black, graphic tanktop under a black hoodie walks along a pathway in a verdant, green park. He's speaking to the camera and has a lapel mic clipped to the inside of the hoodie, which is not zipped up. A Progress Pride flag pin and a Public Rail Now pin are visible on the front of the hoodie.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 24/02/2026

I live in downtown Sacramento and the suburban failson kids driving their straightpiped mustangs and challengers in on the weekends are my main complaint behind the gas-powered landscape equipment that the building behind mine uses on their courtyard.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 19/02/2026

It's very easy to spot when I'm truly beefing with someone. How? I'm so glad you asked. When I break out the drafting board and parallel bar to do the lettering on the envelope...shit just got real.

A photograph of a compact drafting table set up on the floor. There is a parallel bar attached to it and a drafting square resting atop the drafting bar. Taped down to the table is a single grey envelope

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 13/02/2026

Simple boxes with ornament form the bulk of what we would consider "good" architecture. One of my favorite examples of all time has always been this small apartment building in New Orleans at the corner of St Charles Ave and Washington Ave. It's just.... *chef's kiss*.

The front facade of a 3-story tall prewar apartment building made of painted brick. The building is nicely adorned with architectural detail and ornament and features a set-back, central entrance under a canopy reaching over the sidewalk to the curb. Flanking the central entrance are sunrooms/sleeping porches on the upper floors and gated patios on the ground floor.

An aerial view of the same building in the previous image, showing that the building is essentially a simple box apart from the sunroom/sleeping porch protrusions on the front facade.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 10/02/2026

Chuck Schumer is Kubus Oak #StarTrek (alt text for non-trekkies)

The "They're the same picture" meme, where the top half is someone showing you two images with the caption "Corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture and this picture" and the bottom half is a woman answering "They're the same picture."

The two pictures in this case are, respectively, a photo of Chuck Schumer and a photo of Kubus Oak, a character from Star Trek Deep Space Nine.

The character of Kubus Oak is a former government official from the planet of Bajor who collaborated with a fascist occupying force from another planet who enslaved, tortured, and murdered his people. He justified this by saying the occupation would have been "much worse" without people like him working for the Occupation.

When the Occupation ended, the Provisional Government of Bajor issued the Ilvian proclamation which, among other things, sentenced all Bajoran collaborators to exile. Kubus Oak's name was fourth on the list of those collaborators.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 29/01/2026

If you have the thin case model, you might be able to find the OG leather accessory sleeves too. I found some in backstock somewhere in 2021 (forget where)

A dark grey iPod classic partially removed from an original Apple Accessory leather sleeve case.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 29/01/2026

Stock appearance with flash storage and bigger battery is what I went with too and am very happy with the results. Make sure you get the connections for the clickwheel solid, it's my one complaint about mine in particular that I might try and fix.

A photograph of a dark-grey iPod classic final edition stood in an Apple dock which itself is sitting on top of an A/V receiver. The screen of the iPod is on and shows that a song by Pulsedriver is playing.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 25/01/2026

@seiu.org @seiuca.org Just a reminder: We are the second verse.

a photograph of text mounted to a wall in a museum. The text is an abridged variation on Martin Niemöller's confessional "First they came" which reads:

"First they came for the socialists, and i did not speak out-
because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out-
because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-
because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me-and there was no one left to speak for me."

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 16/01/2026

We have also known for decades, as silly as it may sound, that requiring DRIVERS to wear helmets would dramatically reduce head injuries in vehicle collisions. empire.streetsblog.org/op-ed-yes-go...

A photo of a Davies Craig "Motoring Helmet", a very real and not-a-joke product the Australian manufacturer attempted to introduce and popularize in the late 1980s.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 16/01/2026

No lie, this is an actual question on the #Sacramento #VisionZero survey. This is why we can't fix anything in this country: we have a shopping list of stuff we need to buy but we never come home from the store with more than half of it in our bag.

A survey question asking "Between streets where crashes involved people walking or biking, kids or older adults and streets where crashes happened near schools and in lower-income neighborhoods, what should be given priority?"

There are three options, to give priority to one or say that both should have equal priority

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 09/01/2026

The funny thing is that it really is JUST an aesthetic thing. At some point in the 20th century, gas post lamps in front yards were popular but they often had MANTLE type elements which actually produce a lot of bright, white light unlike naked flames.

A photograph of a function-oriented outdoor gas lamp utilizing mantle elements instead of a simple naked flame.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 07/01/2026

I got this as a response from Senator Alex Padilla (CA) when I emailed him demanding congress #impeachconvictremove Trump. It's like they can't be bothered to stick their necks out unless the stakes are low and the cameras are rolling.

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 25/12/2025

Merry Christmas from whatever this mess is

A PG&E utility outage map from Christmas Day 2025 showing the aftermath of a major atmospheric river.

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