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@brianvan.bsky.social
this social media feed doesn't make any sense, either // digital refugee, extremely busy person, ask me about my long bike rides
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This is why I simply CANNOT with all the people who log into social media just to post “we gotta do something about the bikes, they’re running every red light, I nearly got hit.” Man, you nearly got hit and that’s a far better day than like 100 people each day who gets mauled by a car
So, this is still going on. If you can evade being caught on-the-scene, it is perfectly legal in New York City to ram someone with a car. The police will treat you, the victim, like you're a pain in the ass.
The Chris Brown timeline is how I know you are not convincing the general public to rally behind justice and fairness. There are people still rooting for this guy. He literally assaults people with weapons, including his romantic partners. His music is fuckin' boring but that's beside the point.
Chris Brown left court cheered on by fans as he avoided prison time for beating a music producer with a tequila bottle at a London nightclub three years ago. Brown was given an eight-month sentence, suspended for a year. #ChrisBrown
This is good messaging, pleading the new-ish mayor to pick up something the city’s engineers developed for safety purposes that the city’s prior executives buried for petty reasons.
We know @mayor.nyc.gov wasn't in office when this bike lane was designed, but he's in charge now. The @nycdot.bsky.social has stalled for years without putting it in, even though the Community Board asked for it. Do you think the City will finally act after these kids got hurt?
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Village Preservation - a real collection of Manhattan's pettiest bad-guys-against-all-change - has come out staunchly against Proposal 3 & pretend there's nothing in it except a massive leak of air rights next to landmarks. I know I'm not doing much but I called them liars in their FB comments
I see some people voting in NYC No on ballot proposal #3. Misguidedly Just reminding everyone it includes several good proposals. They are unrelated and that’s bad, but that’s a process issue and not a policy issue. The only substantive opponents on any of these points are career NIMBYs
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This is a column I filed to the NYT but the discourse moved on past it before it could see daylight. The topic won't get stale anytime soon though, so here it is: The Art of Punching Up: espiers.medium.com/the-troublem...
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Sure, but then who are the developers negotiating with and who can see what's actually going on there? Are they negotiating with stooge-like district reps who have zero expertise and potentially power-broker ambitions? In order to get any new units, what kind of hidden horse trades can you stomach?
Boston’s chief planner is a true believer in the San Francisco model, in which you make it impossible to profitably build apartments by-right so developers are forced into a politicized discretionary negotiation with the city, which relaxes the rules in exchange for below-market units.
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a really big deal regarding online safety
PHP Attacks Update: As others, we have been observing a lot of AI slop PHP attempts against our honeypot sensors the last week, but so far no confirmed exploitation. We have also refrained from CVE-2026-109618/619 tagging in scans, due to lack of reliable, safe large scale methods.
So, this is still going on. If you can evade being caught on-the-scene, it is perfectly legal in New York City to ram someone with a car. The police will treat you, the victim, like you're a pain in the ass.
A pedestrian who was nearly killed by a hit-and-run driver in Midtown this summer only learned later — after weeks of silence — that the NYPD had closed the 'open-and-shut case' without finding the perpetrator. buff.ly/Otq7uXf
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Hell Gate wrote this up really well: hellgatenyc.com/crash-course... Prop 3 would "speed up safety improvements by 33 percent" (an estimate, to be honest) and I think you need a really strong justification to say that the thing about taking tiny city lots out of ULURP matters more
I see some people voting in NYC No on ballot proposal #3. Misguidedly Just reminding everyone it includes several good proposals. They are unrelated and that’s bad, but that’s a process issue and not a policy issue. The only substantive opponents on any of these points are career NIMBYs
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Check out how easy this is.
Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”
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