Roby Greenwald

This mural seems like a massive downgrade from what was there before.

Who won this year’s FIFA Peace Prize?

I wrote about the manipulative wording of amendment 1. andisheh.com/2026/09/23/s...

In the 80's, there was a conspiracy theory widely believed to be true. It goes like this: a new carburetor had been invented that got 100 mpg, but oil companies bought the patent and squashed it. The thing they were describing was a fuel injector. When those became common, they did not get 100 mpg.

It’s a bad idea to change the names of geographical features in a petty hissy fit, and legislation to prevent that would be hugely popular.

​New research shows that the US has been a global laggard curbing crash deaths. If the US had merely matched improvements in 14 peer nations, 500,000+ lives would have been saved from 2000-24. doi.org/10.1080/1538...

White oak in the Kirkwood Urban Forest had to come down today. The stump diameter is over 48”. By my ring count, it would have been a sapling during the Battle of Atlanta, which started just a 100 yards or so away from here.

Anecdotally, MARTA’s trains seem to have a lot more people on them since they started the no-fare “experiment.”

I love paying TurboTax a few hundred bucks every year to figure out how much money I owe the government, which the government already knows, but won't tell me because TurboTax pays legislators to keep the government from telling me. 😍

Just remembering this cringe moment in history. I still don’t know what Obama supposedly did to make Lincoln cry, but I wonder how strong the cognitive dissonance is in everyone who made this go viral.

Not the best time to book a trip, but this peninsula on the Oman side of the Straight of Hormuz looks pretty wild.

If you’re on a budget and looking to rent an older apartment, would you rather: A. Compete against high-earners who also want that apartment B. Not compete against high-earners because they’re moving into a shiny new apartment that just got built somewhere else

Your daily reminder that the fastest Dallas-to-Houston trains did the whole 280-mile run in 4 hours flat, often going faster than 100 mph. They managed to do this in the 1930s, with trainsets powered by V8s only capable of 600 horsepower but that still weighed 12,000 pounds.

China's Xinhua news agency has just published this editorial cartoon in response to Trump's rejection of climate policies. It is pretty clear that China views this as a HUGE geopolitical fumble by the US leaving the field clear for China's to win the global race to clean-tech hegemony

Tickets are also on sale now for our live show in Atlanta on Friday, March 13th at the historic Plaza Theatre, presented by @letspropelatl.bsky.social. See you there! givebutter.com/lifeaftercars

I’m afraid we’re still a long ways from the bottom.

Posting this for no other reason than to get some Looney Tunes media floating around Bluesky.

Kiwi harvest is in! It’s the perfect vine for south facing walls: provides shade all summer and tons of fruit in fall.

How would @roby.bsky.social fix Atlanta? ATL is a growing city. Unfortunately, our outdated patterns of growth are leading us to disaster. If we don’t reform our transportation and housing practices quickly, life will get worse for everyone. how-id-fix-atlanta.ghost.io/how-roby-gre...

Somewhere in LA, there’s a guy who’s gonna tell his grandkids he saw 36 innings of WS ball, and they’ll be like, you went to FOUR games? and he’ll be like, No, but Dodgers won both times.

These kind of Catch-22’s are an impediment to wider adoption of efficient travel modes. Cars and pedestrians are allowed to go, but bikes are told to stop. The bike path turns into a narrow sidewalk with no plan for to get off. If you want more people to do this, you have to make it easy!

Don’t be fooled by “If it bleeds, it leads” sensationalism. Any trip that you can take by transit will reduce your risk of injury or death by 2-10x compared to taking that same trip by car.

So many culture war issues comes down to should we let people be who they are or should we force them to hide it.

Biking to work really paid off this morning.

I wonder if historical examples of civilizational collapse had a counter-culture of people warning that maybe this wasn’t such a great idea. I want to hear those stories.

Cicada season in WNC. Volume up.

“You should die for my convenience” is the attitude of a surprising number of people driving cars out there.

Urban highways are associated with reduced social connections in U.S. cities. The top 50 cities all show reductions in social connections with Cleveland and Orlando being the worst and NYC and Portland being the least bad. Atlanta ranks 17th (better than I expected). Source: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

This letter is making the rounds, and it is spot on. The city cannot grow by expecting all future residents to drive everywhere (I mean, it can, but it would suck for everybody), and people can’t choose to do anything else if you don’t give them an option.

Buying chocolate like there’s no tomorrow.

Has anyone said what the final plan for the El Salvador deportees is? Are they just in prison indefinitely?

Have we memory-holed this already? Seems relevant. apnews.com/article/unit... A 9th telecoms firm has been hit by a massive Chinese espionage campaign, the White House says