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@indotav.bsky.social
Hi, I'm Thomas! Transportation planner. Wine snob. Travel enthusiast. UH Cougar fan and alum. Houston, Texas
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It's really amazing how a vehicle that a person can propel using nothing other than the power of their own muscles has been deemed by the right as weak, effete or "un-masculine." It's also amazing how much people who don't use bicycles obsess about other people using them.
Joe Mitchell: "Thank God you're building the ballroom. Thank God you're getting rid of those awful bike lanes. We don't ride bicycles in Iowa."
From the blog: building a gas station/convenience store a block away from a light rail station is an incredibly lazy and stupid development decision.
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the fact that the NTSB is conducting a federal safety investigation of the helicopter crash, but nobody is going to do anything about the original deadly car crash, really shows just how few fucks our country gives about every day traffic violence that kills 40k people every year
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Ten years ago today… Probably one of the single greatest plays in UH football history. It was so magnificent it drove my son to tears! (Literally… He was too busy playing with his phone and not watching the game so he became startled when everyone around him started screaming!)
Houston kicks off against Oregon State at 11 am this Saturday; it’s going to be in the 90s with high humidity and a lot of people won’t be there. The takeaway from the usual suspects will be “NoBoDy WaTcHEs CoUgAr HiGh” with no acknowledgement that football shouldn’t be played in such conditions.
The USC empty seats thing is a reminder that moving the entire season further into August next year is going to create even more heat advisory situations. I also don't think most people are mentally ready for widespread football before Labor Day. www.nytimes.com/athletic/755...
The main reason I unfollow people on this site is not because they post things I disagree with but because they post (and re-post) too goddamn much.
About 7 or 8 years ago I saw a good Hasan post and I followed him for about a week. Then I decided he posted too often and was taking over my feed so i unfollowed. I don’t see why this needs to be more complicated than that? He’s a fucking twitch streamer. He is not important!
Oh, fuck The Woodlands. If they want to keep form being annexed, they should incorporate and become a real municipality, rather than a bullshit “Township” that depends on obscure special taxing districts and Montgomery County for most of its services.
The city of Houston would agree to not absorb the sprawling Woodlands Township as part of a $50 million agreement considered by the city council on Wednesday.
When I was in DC last month I saw a bunch of National Guard doing little more than standing around looking bored. A few of them along the Mall took on the role of unofficial tourguides directing sightseers where to do, but overall this deployment seems like a waste of their time and our money.
Trump's deployment of National Guardsmen to DC to fight crime was in fact a big and expensive political show—a review found the soldiers rarely play a meaningful role of any sort in battling crime, which in any event, had witnessed record lows before the Guardsmen were deployed.