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all I really want is to love my people intensely and create beauty in the world that will outlast us
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The 40,000 people a year killed in car collisions in the US should be enough for urgent drastic change but it doesn’t even capture the vast amount of suffering and life-ruining brought on by car dependency.
THREE MILLION people are non-fatally injured every year.
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Should I go to law school so I can eventually start suing cities when people get killed on their streets
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In San Mateo, a survey of 700 people, 77% support street closures in downtown year round.
Pedestrian promenades are popular to the general public. Do not let anyone tell you otherwise.
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The whole family was together for a couple days and look how happy Malchus was about it
@darth
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Friend of mine was hit by an SUV driver while finishing up a bike ride in alameda yesterday. Broken femur.
Ban cars and fuck all the do-nothing politicians.
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A drunk driver who killed my friend riding his bike in the presidio this year was finally indicted by the federal government.
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There is new restaurant in Burlingame and it’s open till 11pm so it is now the best restaurant in the peninsula Lmao
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Ended up pulling a public records requests to try to learn more context on
@BurlingameCity
PDs crackdown on children riding bikes that ended up with a disproportionate number of citations against black and brown people and low and behold:
@bikesv
this is why we should be up in arms about
@BurlingameCity
citing minors for not wearing helmets. These stops are pretextual. Let’s not pretend this can’t happen in our back yard, or that it’s not already.
@EmilyBeach650
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I would like folks complaining about the Ezra op Ed who live in mega cities to plz come spend time in the suburb cities and tell me to my face we shouldn’t be talking about land use more
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Yeah housing Twitter has this same discourse every few months but really I mean if you’re still out here in the year of our lord 2021 pushing a solution that does not include pulling on every existing string possible today to increase housing stock ur a giant idiot turd
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We can have nuanced conversations about car dependency and why cars = power and cars are inherently a tool of survival in our current world but if we do that without so much as acknowledging that cars also = vast amount of suffering and death then we’ve completely lost the plot.
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Love how taking the bus means I’m either 30 minutes early for something or else risk being late
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If you’re part of a California bike coalition and haven’t raised an alarm about policing minors on bikes and particularly the policing of the bike life movement it’s time to start.
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Yeah so I pulled the data on all the bike traffic stops from the past month in Burlingame near downtown and out of 35 citations, two are for riding on sidewalks. And 33 are from no helmet.
Race breakdown not looking great either.
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Oh you’re a fan of cars? Name five dead children.
I started this thread because I posted this quote and got some snarky replies that were unfair to cars.
So, to come back to the beginning, I repeat: cars are one of the greatest inventions ever. 🚗
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Designers in AI, after Config day 1.
@henrymodis
and I are hosting!
next wednesday (26th), join chroma’s
@MadelineNotes
and perplexity’s
@henrymodis
for an evening of demos and drinks centering on designing for ai. luma link below.
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@IDoTheThinking
This has been and still is imo the greatest moral argument for street design improvements and transit first policies.
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How you do anything is how you do everything.
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Exciting guide for millennials living in CA today wondering where we might inevitably relocate
Not one single California city makes this list. Not. Even. One.
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Suburbanites driving themselves alone to work and back every day for a century, polluting neighborhoods destroyed by highways n speeding through residential streets, not giving a shit about kids dying in car collisions until...
some affordable housing is going up nearby.
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When I first visited sf and went to GGP I was like “this is the most beautiful city” followed by “why are all the building so short”
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Can’t wait to be cancelled bc I have a $1600 road bike I’ve put 15k miles on and also use for commuting but not an f150 I trade in every two years for the newer bigger f150
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It’s amazing how many people I know who move to peninsula cities from anywhere else in the Bay Area and are ***dumbfounded*** at his hostile it is for walking and biking
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This beautiful multi use path of my dreams is making me angry tho why don’t we have this anywhere in the Bay Area
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My partner in his sleep just mumbled “yeah I don’t see any improvements coming to California......” and I would really like to know what local politics sage is living rent free in his brain rn
Also we should probably take a vacation soon 🥴🙂
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@JohnBauters
We often think pretextual stops for benign things like helmets or bike light don’t happen in our back yard but they do
Yeah so I pulled the data on all the bike traffic stops from the past month in Burlingame near downtown and out of 35 citations, two are for riding on sidewalks. And 33 are from no helmet.
Race breakdown not looking great either.
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Had fun making generative art for this post using Claude/chatgpt and processing! Even fired up the plotter. Excited to expand on this theme.
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My mom texting me excitedly about a 34 mile multi use path she and my dad did on their ebikes really making me feel the good feelings. They’re in their mid 60s y’all. They would never do that in separated unprotected bike lanes. Infrastructure is >>>>>>
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@Shoedude
How would you like your character to be written in this history book? USAC needs to use its influence to divest from events in Arkansas and show the world this legislation DOES NOT FLY. You understand the gravity of this type of legal precedence. We’re watching, and taking notes.
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Getting buzzed within inches on crystal springs by a driver with with an expensive car that has a “baby on board” bumper sticker is really the perfect analogy for the brain worms of car culture
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Mike is Michael Matteucci Burlingame’s chief of police. Also featured in the PR request was Emily beach forwarding concerns she received over text to Matteucci.
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I got chased my a wild turkey tonight on my bike and this is the shit I need to keep going tbh
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Any time someone honks at me while I’m riding my bike for literally any reason, I just grow more and more powerful 🤷🏻♀️
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If one of my electeds so much as made a peep about *one* aspect of SHF only zoning that’s harmful their email inbox would be flooded with hate mail and their base would never let them live it down
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Okay “careful planning” is a dog whistle change my mind
Called into the Berkeley meeting and the nimbly comments are top tier so far
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I don’t say “go fuck yourself” too often on my bike anymore except when drivers decide to make a u-turn 20 feet in front of me which happened three times in downtown Burlingame today within a 5 minute span
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Bike advocacy is fun bc you’re constantly talking to folks who full on accept traffic deaths and injuries as a totally fine and normal part of life we can do nothing about
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@BensalemPolice
Provide data showing the harm bike riders have caused. I want cold hard facts on who they’ve hurt. Do your homework.
I’ll wait.
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@printtemps
Plattsburgh
Peru
Au Sable
Chazy
Malone
Altona
Saranac Lake
Dannemora
Morrisonville
Beekmantown
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Keene
Lake Placid
Wilmington
Tupper Lake
Lake George
Queensbury
Glensfalls
Saratoga
Potsdam
Massena
New Paltz
Poughkeepsie
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Neighbor asked why I’m moving and “I feel like I’m dying here” just poured out of my face so quickly unfiltered Lmaooooo oh god
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Friend was hit and run in sf yesterday. Broken wrist and concussion.
This happens like every other month at this point.
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Someone may have just asked if a pancake house on ECR is historic……?
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Waiting all evening to make a public comment, finally it’s my turn, then the timer doesn’t start and I get 20 seconds of what should be two minutes before being muted. Democracyyyyyy
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@MattHaneySF
I really appreciate all your signals boosts for everything vaccine related. My partner who works in the trades is immunocompromised and has to come into contact with a lot of people at the job site— but he was able to get an appt at moscone bc of your timely tweets! Thank you.
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@mateosfo
@BurlingameCity
started cracking down on minors not wearing helmets. Nextdoor has been losing their shit about kids on bikes.
Yeah so I pulled the data on all the bike traffic stops from the past month in Burlingame near downtown and out of 35 citations, two are for riding on sidewalks. And 33 are from no helmet.
Race breakdown not looking great either.
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Calling a moratorium on NIMBYs pearl clutching over traffic until they all stop driving their dumbass SUVs down my fucking street
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Gas relief program is so galaxy brain I’m embarrassed to be a Californian
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Oh my god I thought this was gonna be ban cars content from sf dsa so I dove in Lmaooooo
Still solid thread tho.
When was the last time you thought about the fuel that powered your car? Not just how much gas there was left in the tank, but about the work your fuel was doing to get you where you needed to go? 🧵
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A cop just made a public comment at Burlingame tspc referring to advocates as “bike nazis”
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@cafedujord
Adults can’t, but under 18 it’s illegal to ride without a helmet. Sidewalks are left up to cities.
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Ah yes. Just went through San Mateo county’s largest checkpoint. The Millbrae station after hours.
Where even though passengers are unloading from the last train of the night, every exit to the station is locked shut.
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Getting all your friends to cyberbully politicians is infrastructure
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"im sorry if pedestrians can't walk without looking at their phones"
lmaoooo this caller rn for jfk my god
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I’m not sure even a gpt-3 Lydia Kou could have come up with that one
Lydia Kou is concerned about "genuine affordable housing"
Says it's "not useful" to talk about racism. Says upzoning is "systemic economic suppression."
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Burlingame’s sustainability manager can relay in detail the minutiae of friction involved in charging an ev in public but literally no one wants to talk about how hard it is to get to one of three of our Caltrain stations without a car
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Today I am enjoying having zero time bound obligations for the first time in months and it feels so good to be a waste of space
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@Jay_Pitter
On Instagram: The Black Foxes, Cyclista Zine, wtfbikesplorers, Black Girls Do Bike, Black Cycling Mag, Black Cyclist Network, Grow Cycling Foundation, machines for freedom, Melanin Basecamp, Decolonize Bikes
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💕💕💕
“why does a database company care about design?” because chroma’s users are human and we’re building tools for them. chroma is for the builders. design at chroma is a first-class citizen.
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best applications of ai are not going to start as attractive businesses. the de sassification of technology is underway. tinkering on weird shit with your friends is cooler than attracting venture dollars. this is the only way forward. homebrew intelligence club.
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How do you look around outside and conclude cars are unfairly maligned lmfao. I can’t go two blocks on bike or foot without the possibility of getting mowed down by a 5 ton piece of metal on wheels with unfettered access to speed and it takes like 45 minutes on a bus to go 5miles
I'm just pushing back against the deep, virulent anti-car sentiment I hear so often. People love to hate cars. They are unfairly maligned.
I repeat, cars are fantastic and one of the greatest inventions ever.
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For street closures to pass permanently, business and landlords need 51% approval.
If street closures die, it will be bc of businesses and landlords.
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To my knowledge this area is known to be dangerous for pedestrians.
How is this a failure of the criminal justice system and not a failure of the street design and governed system that leaves the opportunity to be killed by a driver out on the table?
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@jwalshie
Yeah this is the kind of take that will get like 30 likes on nextdoor and the person responding to it with “actually anyone who wants to bike should be able to without getting hurt or killed” will get ratio’d.
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The letter passes 5-0 but I am OVER the MOON about the turn out tonight supporting sb9 and opposing the nimby letter.
Maybe historic turn out from young people. And council just waved in their face.
Now we've got
@MadelineNotes
! She tells us that she lives in "a very charming fourplex" in Burlingame, and wouldn't be able to live in the city if multifamily housing was illegal, like it is in most Bgame neighborhoods.
She urges the council not to oppose SB9.
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Fairly certain two people were just killed at Broadway and California drive in Burlingame.
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Whoever invented the door zone bike lane and made it appropriate for cities to point to and say “this design best serves the balance of all road user needs” should be held responsible for everyone who gets killed or hurt in them
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Every time I leave sf I miss it. Every time I fly back, I get butterflies. Still feels like magic 10 years later. Never taking it for granted.
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A driver 2night cut me off right before an intersection where I was making a left hand turn 🚲and at speed bc they were in the wrong lane and wanted to go left not straight. As soon as they cut me off they hit the brakes. I nearly went into the back of their car.
Fun evening!
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@about_dave
Sorry I have never heard of those things and refuse to learn. Hope that clears that up.
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@cafedujord
This flavor too
Suburbanites driving themselves alone to work and back every day for a century, polluting neighborhoods destroyed by highways n speeding through residential streets, not giving a shit about kids dying in car collisions until...
some affordable housing is going up nearby.
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