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fema 🚲

@fema.monster

i read books, play games, and ride bikes projects: @atls.city fema.monster 🏙️Urbanism+ Feed: tinyurl.com/bdzdhc3f 👮Abolition Feed: tinyurl.com/mrn64usc ☕Urbanism+ Donation: tinyurl.com/m5jrmc25 Discord .fema

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cycling can be like the wild west too it's not even always clear how to obey some rules when the infrastructure is piecemeal and unstandardized, not to mention the rules that need to be broken to be safe.

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social

“Cyclists are often perceived as recklessly flaunting road laws. A new study challenges this perception. The study found only 5% of cyclists broke road rules while riding on bike infrastructure versus 66% of motorists who broke rules while driving.” Safe bike infrastructure fuels rule-following.

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Don’t forget that spooky season is right around the corner! Which means you should pin and like the Halloween feed! It ranks posts based on who your social circle, thanks to a new feature from @graze.social! Check it out & see what your friends are posting for the best holiday of the year 🐈‍⬛ 🎃 👻

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D4 Candidates Bike Social Hour Please come even you don't vote in D4 to show City Council candidates bikers care Migration Pacwest Patio 3rd floor 1211 SW 5th, across from City Hall Wed 4-7 Q&A w candidates 5:30 Park bikes @ City Hall + Portland Building. Snacks available or bring your own dinner.

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it was @graze.social and i come bearing proof for all to witness

attie.aiFull Report: The Week Before Graze, and Your ATProto JourneyThe week before Graze, and your path into ATProto A clean, verified account of how you went from a quiet lurker in mid-January 2025 to proposing protocol lexicons and co-founding Aster ID by 2026 — ev...
Brittany Ellich@brittanyellich.com

What's the app or experience that you had that made the Atmosphere click for you? Was there something in particular that helped you realize what an opportunity it is?

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$3.89/gal for gas in Indiana?! That's too cheap! Why? Because the Republican governor Indiana suspended the gas tax again, meaning car culture is not paying it's fair share and the tax payers at large are subsidizing their driving habits. Sounds like socialism to me. 😂

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Our school doesn't just have a #bikebus, there's also a run club that meets, trains and runs to school together (another weekday). The parent organizer asked for a volunteer to drive all the kids backpacks to school. My husband said why drive when you could cargo bike?! 25 bags delivered this week.

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Ban Right Turn on Red. Tesla driver stops on railroad tracks making an extremely dangerous right on red with no line of sight to traffic or pedestrians coming from his left.

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Find out which of your local businesses are working with ICE. (New database from @theappeal.org) The Appeal’s investigation reveals a widespread web of public and private entities enabling Trump’s deportation machine. theappeal.org/ice-local-bu...

theappeal.orgDeportation Dollars: ICE Contracts With More Than 1,000 Businesses Across the U.S.The Appeal’s investigation found contracts in nearly every state. Find out if your local businesses are working with ICE.

I know many of you are using U+ and U+ Trending but I highly suggest anyone who isn't aware of U+ FYP to check it out. This is a personalized version of the feed and it's *really* good I think!

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"before you jump into my inbox in all caps, please ask yourself this: If I were to step into a crosswalk and be struck by a vehicle, would I prefer that vehicle to be an e-scooter, or an F-450? Answer that question honestly, and adjust your outrage accordingly" 🎤🫳 www.nsnews.com/opinion/opin...

nsnews.comOpinion: Cars are the biggest threat on the road, not kids on e-scootersAll the outrage we feel about teens weaving on e-bikes and scooters would be better spent figuring out how to keep massive motorized vehicles away from all other road users

I dream of the day that sidewalks stop being used as the dumping ground for city infrastructure. PUT THEM IN THE FUCKING STREET AND CALL THEM TRAFFIC CALMING or something damn

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Shoutout to @fema.monster for the incredible work that has shaped our UI and algorithm for ATlas’s Near You feed! This is also something that anyone on the atmosphere can use to build better algorithms for the Atmosphere.

highly recommend checking out the near you feed, very cool and fairly accurate to people in your area you can also tag yourself on atls.city to improve its confidence!

Yeah and this is why we need to be careful when advocating for the car-free life because for many what we're asking them to do is decrease their quality of life. Car-free in many ways their lives can improve but that's harder to understand. I aim for just convincing folks to not drive when possible

The War on Cars@thewaroncars.bsky.social

Nobody disputes that having access to a car in a car-dominated society is good. It gives one access to jobs, healthcare, food, education, social opportunities and more. All we're asking is for people to go one step deeper and ask why access to such basic rights requires buying and operating a car.

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But far more realistic is getting people to stop using their damn cars for EVERYTHING. It's OK to walk or bike too. If we want allies in the war on cars I think we just get people on board with the mission. We don't tell them to ditch their cars.

Yeah and this is why we need to be careful when advocating for the car-free life because for many what we're asking them to do is decrease their quality of life. Car-free in many ways their lives can improve but that's harder to understand. I aim for just convincing folks to not drive when possible

The War on Cars@thewaroncars.bsky.social

Nobody disputes that having access to a car in a car-dominated society is good. It gives one access to jobs, healthcare, food, education, social opportunities and more. All we're asking is for people to go one step deeper and ask why access to such basic rights requires buying and operating a car.

This is a structural problem more than it is a personal problem and asking folks to reduce access to food, healthcare, jobs, etc. is just not realistic. We need alternatives in place before we can make a serious effort to get everyone car-free.

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Thanks so much @milesklee.bsky.social for including me in this wonderful piece. "His character taught me at an early age that intelligence and wonder can and should coexist.” Ferro says he wouldn’t be where he is today without Neill’s “monumental performance.”

wired.comSam Neill Inspired a Generation of ScientistsThe actor, who died at age 78 on Monday, embodied a passionate approach to research and positive masculinity in his role as paleontologist Alan Grant in the 1993 blockbuster Jurassic Park.

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ecargo bikes are great for enabling more trips, unmentioned in this article is political will to use concrete and enforcement (license suspension, car seizure) to stop drivers killing cyclists. Car dependence is policy, car dominance is the option for drivers to use violence instead of slowing down

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Accounts (particularly huge ones like media orgs) should be able to set a "default feed" where, when you visit their profile, instead of seeing the reverse chron, gives you a feed they've created for their audience. This is a killer differentiator and @bsky.app needs to have built it a year ago.

Andrew Lisowski 💻@hipstersmoothie.com

1. Make Discover like For You 2. Improve feed UX (Both using and sharing) 3. Add more opportunities to discover feeds (anywhere from the new Discover feed showing you where it got a post or actual new items in feed generators that allow for cross promotion)

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Porn, artistic nudity, adult themed art... all going to become only accessible on the dark web if we don't interrupt the current direction of the global censorship and age verification legislation movement

do you know how fuckin' cool things would be if the streets were full of toys like what are we talking about 🔥🔥🔥

Rusty@rusty-baxter.bsky.social

Get the toys OFF the roads

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This is wildly convenient - I clicked only a few buttons and did no fancy behind-the-scenes stuff and now I have a different handle. Ridiculously convenient. Props to @fema.monster and the @urbanism.plus team for doing this! idk if you all were the ones to make it so easy, but thanks regardless!

FREE URBANISM HANDLES! @yourname.bancars.city @yourname.on.bike @yourname.carfree.life Want to see more? Consider donating :) We'd love to expand and continue offering these for years to come!

Urbanism+ folks and urbanism community in general, get ready. I am going to cook so hard on this one. This will easily be the premier platform for urbanism content.

alex benzer@alexbenzer.com

communities are coming to Bluesky this year. today, Bluesky is one big space. communities will be smaller spaces inside that where you can go deeper and hang out with people who care about the same stuff.