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Wesley Cook ⚡🚲 @wesley.theatl.social · 2h

There are definitely times I question if I'm doing this adult thing right. Like when the dryer vent cleaning guy is visibly disappointed and shaking his head at the state of our dryer

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Wesley Cook ⚡🚲 @wesley.theatl.social · 25/09/2026

In a job interview: "sorry, excuse me just a moment" Pull out a gooseneck kettle from my backpack, plug it in, get out my scale and start weighing beans. "Oh how rude of me, would you like some too? No?" Start cranking my hand grinder *krshhkrshkrsh* Begin pour over "So anyway where were we?"

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Wesley Cook ⚡🚲 @wesley.theatl.social · 22/09/2026

So we actually have this, and it's called MARTA Reach. I ride MARTA Reach semi-often and it's a good service, but I've also used it enough to know it doesn't scale well. With regular fixed route service if 25 people all decide to ride at the same time that's fine. With shuttle service it buckles

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OB Cycler @obcycler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Just days after a Tesla drove down the Pacific Beach boardwalk, on the other side of PB a woman drives at me on the Rose Creek Bikeway. @joelacavad1.bsky.social our bike and walking trails need to be protected by steel bollards.

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Wesley Cook ⚡🚲 @wesley.theatl.social · 19/09/2026

Bro have you checked on Man Utd lately? Speaking of on the slide... 😞

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Anand @calmerfuture.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The global cost of automobility Automobility is one of the most powerful forces shaping modern societies, economies, and environments While motorists often underestimate the true private costs of car ownership, the social costs are diffuse and largely hidden, distributed across entire populations.

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Olraca @olraca.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Props to this hero.

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austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

🚨 SAVE THE DATE: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21ST 🚨

y'all ready to do some good in a few weeks?

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Wesley Cook ⚡🚲 @wesley.theatl.social · 08/09/2026

But we NEED to protect the GREENSPACE on the beltline and that's WHY we need autonomous pods running on asphalt

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Melissa Bowman @dtkmelissa.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Further to this: "Should we focus at all on e-bikes? Sure. On the topic of traffic safety, I propose 0.2% of our attention focus on e-bikes and 99.8% of our attention focus on cars. That aligns nicely with the real world situation we’re currently faced with" www.urbanismspeakeasy.com/p/i-care-abo...

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I care about e-bike safety 0.2% of the time

Click-bait media outlets would have you think we should drop everything and do something about the scary threat of battery-powered bicycles (and yes, battery-powered motorcycles).

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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 07/09/2026

Puppies + cargo bikes = ❤️

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

There's also lots of evidence that people wouldn't switch to this public transport - even if the billions were magically produced to build it - unless we *first* make driving less convenient. Why would someone who knows how to drive to the shops suddenly stop doing this in the absence of disruption?

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Darin Givens @atlurbanist.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Thinking about the Beltline Transit Study meeting tonight... Powerful voices want the green-gentrification effects of the Beltline to remain untouched by transit, so that the property-value boost they’ve benefitted from isn't disturbed. I want rail. atlurbanist.substack.com/p/protectors...

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Protectors of the Beltline’s green gentrification are winning & the cause of equity is losing

The wealth divide of the City of Atlanta has long seen the whiter and wealthier residents occupy the north and northeast, with the majority Black and lower income populations in the south and southwes...

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Wesley Cook ⚡🚲 @wesley.theatl.social · 31/08/2026

I've been begging for better crosswalks on Memorial for years and they're finally happening

Concrete islands in the center of the road with a gap in the middle for a pedestrian crosswalks to be added

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Wesley Cook ⚡🚲 @wesley.theatl.social · 25/08/2026

Just this morning I was on my bike waiting at a red light and just as it changed to green and I was about to go a car came zooming through at what had to be at least twice the 35MPH speed limit and ran the red light

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Wesley Cook ⚡🚲 @wesley.theatl.social · 24/08/2026

As I understand it, Atlanta United have now won 3 games in a row. I only have one question: Who are these people and what have they done with my team?

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Wesley Cook ⚡🚲 @wesley.theatl.social · 23/08/2026

I had a manager who had a habit of sending me a message saying "Quick call?" and then—before I've had a chance to respond, sometimes before I'd even seen the message—would call me immediately to talk to me about something that was not urgent in any way whatsoever

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Darin Givens @atlurbanist.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The bus stop we had to use tonight to catch a 15 after dinner on Clifton Road. Working my way through the landscaping and trees to flag the bus down and board it was quite a task, especially with my mobility issues. I feel like I've been through a test. 1/

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Wesley Cook ⚡🚲 @wesley.theatl.social · 22/08/2026

That feeling when someone shows up to put a stop to some kid shenanigans and they ask "where are this kid's parents?" and it's you, you are the parent And you were there the whole time...

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Griffin Wasdin @heflinhollis.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A lot of Dickens’s communications lately seem like this is the circle he’s drawing from:

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Variant Breton @leijona.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A bit late for #WorldPhotographyDay but here's some of mine :)

Photographie de rue, à l'intérieur d'un batiment de la Défense à Paris. Deux personnes se font face, vers le bas de la photographie, l'homme tendant le bras et semblant désigner un endroit où la femme, en talon haut et tenue décontractée doit aller. Derrière eux, une large baie vitrée sur toute la hauteur de la photographie, laisse apercevoir d'autres bâtiments tout aussi hauts.

Photographie en noir et blanc d'un pont couvert à la Défense. Devant, au centre, un photographe est visible, en train de prendre en photo des personnes en train de traverser à l'intérieur du pont-tunnel.

Macro photographie de fleurs de cerisier blanches. Les fleurs se trouvent dans le tiers droit de la photographie. Sont visibles également les tiges et la branche de l'arbre. Le reste de la photo est un bokeh blanc et orangé.

Photographie en noir et blanc du métro parisien, montrant avec un point de fuite vers le centre, plusieurs personnes prenant des tapis roulants. Sur le haut de la photographie plusieurs lampadaires modernes ronds sont visibles.

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Mark Huising @huisinglab.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I have had my SUV (sustainable urban vehicle) for two full years! 🎉🚲🍾I biked 5400 miles across 2700 trips. This works out to just over 2 miles per trip. These things are so much FUN to ride, plus they are tremendously efficient compared to cars and saved us thousands of 💵Here's what I learned: 1/15

A blond male with a goatee, black t-shirt, jeans and orange sneakers riding an urban arrow cargo bike with two young passengers. One wears a blue helmet, the other a red helmet. One of the passengers is reading a comic book.

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Wesley Cook ⚡🚲 @wesley.theatl.social · 14/08/2026

Getting caught up on @thewaroncars.bsky.social and I gotta say I think @humantransit.bsky.social take on beltline rail was...well, not very good. thewaroncars.org/2026/08/04/e...

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EPISODE 178: Human Transit with Jarrett Walker – The War on Cars

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Wesley Cook ⚡🚲 @wesley.theatl.social · 09/08/2026

I'm proud to be the person at my work who my coworkers talk to if they're thinking of getting an ebike and send me pics if they end up actually getting one

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tschuy 🏳️‍🌈 @tsch.uy · 04/08/2026

I've built a map displaying where on the Amtrak network you can take your bike, line-by-line and station-by-station. This data isn't available anywhere else, check out where you can go! amtrak-bike-map.transittools.dev

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Amtrak Bicycle Access

Explore carry-on, checked, and station-level bicycle access across the Amtrak rail network.

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Wesley Cook ⚡🚲 @wesley.theatl.social · 21/07/2026

Monroe Drive "Safe streets" project that doesn't include bike lanes 🤦‍♂️ www.11alive.com/article/news...

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Wesley Cook ⚡🚲 @wesley.theatl.social · 15/07/2026

I'm still reeling from that game. It was too easy for Spain. I knew they were good but I vastly underrated them. They haven't been the flashiest team to watch but they play so cohesively.

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Wesley Cook ⚡🚲 @wesley.theatl.social · 14/07/2026

I thought that game was going to be close but Spain were dominant. They've still only conceded a single goal this tournament. I feel bad for whichever team has to play them next!

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Wesley Cook ⚡🚲 @wesley.theatl.social · 14/07/2026

Video uploads not working for me but I walked out of the Sandy springs MARTA this morning and the new faregates weren't looking too good. They were all open and the little green lights were flashing like there was an electrical issue (no idea what the actual issue is)

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Wesley Cook ⚡🚲 @wesley.theatl.social · 14/07/2026

A lot of the bandwagon people are going to have a hard time accepting that England is now the underdog in this tournament. Lowest ranked out of the 4 remaining teams. Least number of world cup trophies and trophies overall (only 1) In the 20th century they only reached the semi-finals twice

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

McConnell staff releases new proof of life photo of the Senator.

Black and white photo of a young Mitch McConnell

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Christopher Schmidt @crschmidt.net · 13/07/2026

And not just saxophones: there is a cargo bike for carrying the every type of musical instrument!

A person carrying a trombone rides the front of a multi-seat tandem bike; a person holding a clarinet sits in an Urban Arrow.

A person playing a sousaphone sits in the front of a cargo trike, next to a person on a cargo trailer playing a bass drum.

A person playing a saxophone sits in an Urban Arrow.

A person playing a trombone sits in a Baskfiets.nl cargo bike, while another person with a trombone rides the back of a GSD.

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Phil Rocco @philiprocco.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Reporting on OMB's sweeping politicization of federal grants tends to focus on science / health research. But as I note in this piece for @crisesnotes.bsky.social, the rule is a huge threat to *intergovernmental* grants and state/local fiscal stability. www.crisesnotes.com/russell-voug...

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Russell Vought is Using the Plumbing of Fiscal Federalism to Create a New Patronage System

EDITORS NOTE: I (Nathan) have struggled whether to rush to comment on this proposed OMB rule. Being a recent Fiscal Year 2026 OMB memo, and knowing that the OMB will continue to create new forms of bu...

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Wesley Cook ⚡🚲 @wesley.theatl.social · 11/07/2026

Wait so are you telling me you can expand service to make the streetcar more useful, and then more people will ride it??? But that couldn't possibly work in Atlanta, famously the only city where people drive cars

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Wesley Cook ⚡🚲 @wesley.theatl.social · 10/07/2026

Spain making Belgium look like Belgium made USA look 🙈

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Wesley Cook ⚡🚲 @wesley.theatl.social · 10/07/2026

I have days where I pick up 2 kids from different schools and then pickup groceries for a family of five on the way home all on my cargo bike All sorts of trips for parents are possible with a cargo bike

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Wesley Cook ⚡🚲 @wesley.theatl.social · 07/07/2026

Wow, what an end to that game I don't understand people who say this sport is boring

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Jason O. Gilbert @gilbertjasono.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

After a phone call from Donald Trump FIFA has ruled that the American team gets to use guns

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 02/07/2026

My friend just texted me "no goal is offsides on stolen land" 😭😭😭

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Wesley Cook ⚡🚲 @wesley.theatl.social · 30/06/2026

Why should we build light rail on the beltline? Because a single light rail line can carry more people than 12 lanes of interstate

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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

One calculation that blew my mind: When I push a pedestrian beg button to cross an arterial road w/ 40 mph spd limit. Wait of 90 sec means a car 1 mile away gets to priority to clear the intersection before I am allowed to cross the road. I am standing roadside breathing particulates

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Wesley Cook ⚡🚲 @wesley.theatl.social · 27/06/2026

Can we stop calling these people moderates? This is like the definition of conservatism. If we were a sane country these people would form the conservative party and progressives would have their own party. Or better yet, we wouldn't have a two party system at all

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:

Jill Tucker
@jilltucker
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If you ever doubt how magical this world is, one day you will decide to go to a World Cup watch party in Oakland that you found online to root for a country where you spent two years trying to coax English out of the mouths of Cape Verdean teenagers. 1/7
11:42 AM • 6/25/26 • 670K Views

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And at the watch party you will ask the organizer if he's from Cape Verde. He will say yes, from Praia. And you'll say oh! I lived there for two years. I was a teacher. And he will ask, "What's your name?" You will tell him and he will say,
"You were my teacher."
CABO VERDE
11:43 AM • 6/25/26 • 92K Views

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And across 30+ years and 6,000 miles you will hug a now man who tried to find you and remembered the songs you taught him and his classmates and he will apologize for how badly behaved they all were. And you will laugh and try not to cry and gape in wonder at at this crazy world.

Jill Tucker
@jilltucker
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You will remember how much you love the World Cup. And what the Peace Corps meant to you. What those students, 40 to a class with no glass on the windows, meant to you.
11:43 AM • 6/25/26 • 62K Views

Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h
Ivan, the grown man with a touch of grey in his beard, will tell you later he has struggled to describe what it meant to him to meet again - that he shared our photo with classmates.
And when he returns from watching the Cabo Verde game, we will try to find the words together.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h And then you read that the US
House of Representatives will vote a day before that game on an amendment to eliminate the Peace Corps, which costs 1/6 the price of the Tomahawk missiles the US used in the war on Iran.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker •20h And you wonder: How much is a magical world worth?

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Wesley Cook ⚡🚲 @wesley.theatl.social · 26/06/2026

At this point LLMs are unquestionably useful for programming tasks What is questionable is if they will actually produce better *software* in the long term, both in the sense of reliability and usefulness A bigger question is will they produce better engineers

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Wesley Cook ⚡🚲 @wesley.theatl.social · 24/06/2026

Just boarded a southbound train at Sandy Springs and it's already pretty full of fans traveling to the world cup match. This train is gonna be PACKED by the time we hit five points

Train car with nearly all available seats taken. People are wearing colorful soccer jerseys for various teams

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