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BOLLARDS! Y'all, I am unreasonably excited about this!!!!! engage.a2gov.org/retractable-... #a2council #WorldBollardAssociation

It’s funny when they accidentally tell the truth.

Just putting this here in case anybody needs it #a2council www.michigan.gov/-/media/Proj...

A brief history of Ann Arbor Has Changed #a2council #AnnArbor

For the second day in a row, the entire Amtrak Wolverine schedule is fucked because some jagoff decided to race the train at a grade crossing. Yesterday: thesuntimesnews.com/train-hits-a... Today: www.audacy.com/wwjnewsradio...

As one of the candidates featured in these polls - the infamous one in late June that showed me plummeting into single digits (which was at odds with our internals) - here's the impact of this "experiment"

truly a wild time to be alive when the cryptography world is split between those worried about quantum computers and those whose private key is “4”

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Stay Trashy Pin. The possum isn't trashy because he's in a trashcan, he's trashy because he lied about it being his birthday to get a free dessert at Applebee's. collabs.shop/glmrmi

Sharing this new Hollow Hype podcast with friends. I'm sure if I look into the host's closet I won't find any skeletons or anything #longcon #a2council

Hollow Hype Episode 7436 | Elizabeth Nelson says that 180 days equals 3 months. A stupid mistake made by a known pathological liar? Or did the criminal developer Heidi Poscher meddle with space-time and steal our months as part of an evil scheme to build co-working spaces? #a2council

I was at a meeting today where this topic came up. The combo of Michigan’s Headlee amendment and Prop A passed in ‘94 create structural deficits for municipalities and now I’m paying special millages to fund trade training in high schools bc the funding structure is so bad.

This is an object lesson is why slopulism is so attractive: people love the idea of a quasi-socialism that asks nothing of you personally.

Bluesky today reminding me that there are a lot of homeowners out there who consider themselves diehard progressives but will turn into Grover Norquist the second you suggest that taxing the wealth held in their homes is fine and good.

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

But will drivers have to drive a long time to get around Carey St closing? Believe it or not, the answer is no

#A2council is crossing Carey St as a pedestrian a good experience? No. But is it a good experience as a cyclist? Also no. With that out of the way, is it a good experience turning right off Carey as a driver? Also no.

The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119. #A2Council

An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.

“transplant” discourse is great because you get to see how easily people can swaddle their insular, reactionary beliefs with left-coded language

Ann Arbor needs safe transportation infrastructure. Rally for roadway safety this Tuesday at City Hall before the #A2Council meeting. Or email with your support for safe transportation systems. While you're writing, support the Tenants Right to Organize ordinance. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

It was wonderful to spend Rosh Hashanah last week with Missy and Elaine, two lifelong Michiganders who welcomed me into their home and taught me about the sweet and joyous meaning of Rosh Hashanah.

Yet again, traffic engineers are gobsmacked that a road closure didn't create crippling gridlock: "You’d never know that a massive highway project, ominously dubbed 'carmageddon,' was underway seven miles away...cars [were] speeding across the Interstate Bridge at their usual clip."

Look, as much as I appreciate the pun (and believe me I DO APPRECIATE THE PUN), if you need a sign to explain your bike rack is a bike rack, it's not a good bike rack. #bikesky

What do you want Michigan to look like in 2050: A state still full of highways and dependent on cars, or one where you can get around with dignity if you don't have a car? Tell MDOT: We need to fund transit, biking, and walking, not more highways. https://www.detroittransit.org/mm2050-action/

Can the media please stop platforming these losers?

Guys, this is Bernie Sanders' guy for all things AI. Max Tegmark of the Future of Life Institute, funded to the tune of $665m by crypto billionaires, that's of course, after all the Muskrat + friends' money. Their "seed funding" was from Musk. 🧵 www.politico.com/news/2024/03...

NO DON'T RUSH THE FIELD WHAT THE FUCK HAVE SOME SHAME

Me sitting here with no trains and no pie.

The eagle is also smoking a cigarette.

centrist dems be like “we have bold, serious, inspiring policy proposals” and it’s literally fucking taxpayer subsidized car loans

The view of a parking garage from the parking lot on the UC Irvine campus where obviously a dean of public health would ask themselves "What's up with all these e-bikes?!"

This is about Surface Transportation reauthorization in Congress. All I can do is shake my head. Heaven forbid that Democrats retake the House and write a bill they actually want. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Assigning and display-copy editors: You don't have to do this!

It’s not conspiratorial or anti-Semitic for Al Sayed to point out that AIPAC spent $30 million to oppose his candidacy. It’s true. And it’s an extraordinary outlier in a primary campaign.

ACTION ALERT 🚨 Right now, the Senate is considering adding language to the transportation reauthorization bill to restrict bike lanes. Tell Congress: funding for bike safety projects MUST continue! Take action: action.bikeleague.org/page/101946/...

A reporter should hold up a map of the Great Lakes with numbers on them and ask Trump which one he's just purported to rename.