Scott Hand

24 social housing apartments in Paris, with a mass timber structure and concrete cladding Love the large, openable timber windows! By Atelier de Chézy Architecture

This is how you do it. Frame automatic traffic cameras as a safety solution (which they are), and ignore drivers who get mad that they can no longer break the law with impunity.

It’s pretty simple. Want more people biking? Build a network. Protected paths are good, but connected, safe, low-stress routes are what actually make cycling a way to get around. Stop building isolated lanes! www.cyclingwest.com/advocacy/stu...

As gas gets more expensive, people living in places with abundant transit and safe bike lanes can save money by driving less. In much of the US, that's not an option. From the new @lookbothwayspod.bsky.social, which is all about gas prices.

Oops it's 11am and I already ate my lunch.

How do you enforce excessive vehicle noise when the source is constantly moving? 🚗🔊 West Haven, Connecticut is preparing to use automated technology to detect excessive vehicle noise. 🔗 https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/ct-noise-cameras-west-haven-22438410.php

Sen. Jon Husted: “The war needs to come to an end as quickly as possible so that we can lower gas prices” Sen. Jon Husted when he could've voted to do just that:

Should the Kennedy Center be torn down? Obviously not. But you know what should?

I always appreciate it when people express an interest in my safety. I encourage people to expand that concern beyond plastic hats. I've needed helmets: they can help! But please also ask drivers to slow down, judge people with dangerous trucks or habits, and ask leaders to build separated lanes.

This is a real document.

Astounding that somebody could write "Are We Engineering Physical Activity Out Of Daily Life?" and not be talking about decades of making cars the easiest way to get around cities

Dear registered voters, When was the last time you checked your registration status and verified your current name and address? You can find the links you need to do that at npr.org/vote

An all-time great.

Cincinnati, PLEASE

Worth the read. Politics and international trade, but with sentences like, "The politest shiv in the Commonwealth, slid between the third and fourth rib without a single raised syllable, and the recipient won’t even feel it until he reads about himself in the papers."

“We can’t build them like that anymore.” Or can we? The 3–5 story building is an urbanism building block for corridors & main streets. Fix parking minimums and density math, and #citybuilding opens to smaller developers & nonprofits. #MediumScaleMediumDensity Field Study: Springdale, Arkansas

Jesus fucking Christ covid vax REDUCED miscarriages and stillbirths. Also I'm one of the people who studied menstrual side fx of the covid vax to make sure we didn't invalidate peoples' real experiences, and to better set expectations for side fx. Ultimately the project made me even MORE provax!

I think this graph is perhaps the most important to consider when trying to understand the failures of our energy policies.

Bicycles deliver the freedom that cars advertise.

Just a random reminder that immigrants are good for society and good for the economy.

I'd love to see a similar map of Cincinnati. Streetcar vs highways probably overlap more than this, but might look pretty similar.

New on Ratio: record labels! A label gets a public page for its roster, and an importer that reads a dragged folder of albums, sorts the tracks, and refuses to upload anything twice. If you run one, let's chat about how to support your artists: ratio.fm/for-labels?utm_source=bluesky

Lots of updates in the last couple of weeks at Ratio.fm I've been dreaming about this artist-centric music streaming app for years, and now that it's up and functioning, help me share it with all of your musicians and music-loving friends.

Pedestrianization is often framed as transforming streets. In many cases, we're actually restoring them. We're reclaiming what's been lost: social connection, local commerce, civic life, and human-scale movement. Perhaps it's time to shift from street transformation to street restoration.

Paris Grew Cycling by 240% in Just Five Years: North American Cities Should Pay Attention. momentummag.com/paris-cyclin...

100% Let's build some more housing.

Been trying to find fresh numbers, but Qobuz pays out about 5-6x Spotify (great!). Ratio.fm is even higher (double that!). It's streaming built for artists.

I don’t understand all the FIFA rules, but I believe our loss to Belgium today means we are required to adopt their street design standards

Also new on Ratio: Artists get a Fans tab that shows who follows them, since when, and how many minutes each fan has actually spent with their music, which is a number no other platform will show them (that I know of). Data is exportable, and it's theirs to keep. Power to the artists!

There's a Support button on Ratio artist pages now. A fan sends a tip with a note, and everything after the card fee lands in the artist's wallet. We take nothing on direct support, and that zero is published on the transparency page with the rest of the math. ratio.fm/artist/barnw...

And just updated a rather important little bit. Now the social media preview links will actually pull the album or artist info when shared. Check this out! ratio.fm/artist/ten-g...

Project 2029 1. National Health Service, single payer, nationalized pharma, medical debt jubilee 2. Best Schools in the world, tuition free education, equitable funding 3. UBI, Housing guarantee, abolish ICE and survelience state. 4. Green transportation network, high speed rail, fare free transit

Transit Riders Union's survey of nearly 500 people showed the importance of investing in transit and can help guide investments to maximize benefits from the expanded Seattle Transit Measure going to voters in the fall. Op-ed by Andrew Lindstrom and Tim Marshall: www.theurbanist.org/op-ed-how-th...

"Specifically, the water is more or less the color of a sour apple Jolly Rancher now. It looks like they're brewing Yodas in there. It is so uncannily green and visibly slimy that it feels inevitable that video will soon surface of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. splashing around in it with jeans on."

“We found there’s this perfect one-to-one relationship. If a city increased its road capacity by 10% then driving in that city went up by 10%.” Still one of the best articles on why building wider roads leads to more cars stuck in the same congestion. Understanding #InducedDemand Via @wired.com

So shitty companies are spending billions to make shitty AI products that only shitty CEOs want to force on others so they can justify their shitty layoffs so they can have higher shareholder returns, and the byproduct is everything else gets more expensive even for those who don't use LLMs. Great!