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THREAD. Did you know that at about 1/3 of all stranger homicides in the U.S. are perpetrated by police? But there's something hidden here that is important to understand in this authoritarian moment.

Someone please do this for bikes

Stick some cards into the spokes and attach floats to the chain stays to make it an amphibious vehicle 🙌

Half of an aluminum canoe on the cargo bed of an urban arrow

Spotted at the start of the HONK parade: SCUL put half an aluminum canoe on an old Urban Arrow!

I love my gravel homies. They get it, you just don't want to bike with cars behind you all the time. And it isn't necessary. Way more people will bike, way more of the time, if they feel safe - *from cars*.

Resilient people *would* be harder to dominate

Trent Reznor's Rolling Stone cover called and it wants its haircut back 😆

2.5 BILLION DOLLARS for a bridge for some people to reach their vacation homes

$2.5bn for a bridge for rich vacationers to use six months out of the year... But we can't afford NSRL that would give thousands of daily transit riders a one-seat ride through Boston.

Why do we hate us?

The U.S. Commerce Department published 95 new requests for inclusion of derivative products in the Section 232 aluminum and steel tariffs. Two requests were made to add bicycles, frames and e-bikes to those tariffs. If these two inclusion requests are granted, all bicycles and frames imported into the US from any country would be subject to a 50% tariff on both their steel and aluminum content.

There are TWO requests for inclusion of bicycles, frames and electric bicycles, one from Guardian Bikes and the other from the Aluminum Extruders Council.

Guardian Bikes has requested additional tariffs on all imported bikes and ebikes. Slimy simping MAGA shitheads and makers of garbage bikes

www.peopleforbikes.org/news/bike-in...

All my homeys got short arms and long torsos

Buried all the way down in the last sentence is the admission that the chat bot was pretty useless, and the time would be better spent talking to other humans

Boston officer holds 5 youths at gunpoint during arrest in downtown parking garage, video shows - The Boston Globe The tense encounter was presumably recorded by one of the youths.

Cop threatens to execute kids for petty theft

Our oligarch media will never call this what it really is, but we need to

My main big takeaways were that I didn't have to do things that felt dangerous just because I saw other people on bikes doing those things, and that there's no harm in waiting, in fact talking your time solves a lot of problems

I read that basic advise off of a business card at a local bike shop, some fifteen years ago, it gave me my license to bike safe. All these things that were counter intuitive but worked.

I am kidding and not when I say everyone with a new ebike should read it. There's a harder way to learn.

I know this might be cringe but if you know any cops in your life, (family, friends, neighbors, or acquaintances) you should be talking to them about what’s going on now.

as we skirt ever closer to the precipice, ensuring domestic law enforcement sides with us over the fascists will be important

Basically everyone needs to read my favorite website after they buy their ebike, before their first ride: bicyclesafe.com

An article about how surface trolley cars would be put in a subway under downtown Providence with the plan, including detailed routing under downtown.

Nine years after it was first proposed, Providence was still trying to work out building a 4 line subway. Would have gone to the Red Bridge, North Burial Ground, Olneyville, and Trinity Square.

Imagine the city we would have now if there'd been a will to get it done 103 years ago.

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In exchange, when we sell the company to a drone and cobalt magnate so I can dive in a pool of gold coins Scrooge McDuck-style, you will be spared my wrath and retribution.

I'm a Bosch loyalist for a reason. The iPhone of ebike systems.

E-moto is booming and the world isn't ready. Half the calls to the bike shop are people who need service on these beasts. There's money to be made but it's totally unregulated and no one wants the lability. Meanwhile parents buy them as toys for their 13 year old kids.

E-bikes are an absolute game-changer in terms of giving more people the option of going car-light or car-free, but adoption is threatened by the ongoing moral panic. As the article notes, the solution is not restrictions on e-bikes, but creating more infrastructure to support e-bike riders. 1/2

Here's the elevated parkway on an old viaduct that spans over a mile of the city.

Starting from so far behind, I think it's my place as an interested outsider to say they need to try and do all these things as fast as they can. Even out of order, as long as there's a vision for completing the project.

Listen I want a transit system with ALL the bells and whistles. Level boarding and fare gates should be child's play. It's criminal we didn't electrify fifty years ago. I think train stations should all have CLEAN RESTROOMS. Very little is excessive

High platforms are definitely the more impactful out of the two. They would save conductors and passengers so much time and confusion. But fare gates are really a glaring omission. Currently, the conductors are unable to collect or check all the fares on their sets. It's a time suck.

This is a long overdue step towards an actual regional rail system. Trains will board faster. The MBTA needs fare gates and high platforms at every station.

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Yeah the Ogilvie connection!! There's an interview with him about tracking and mixing Call Me Maybe, I was surprised to learn the story but it makes sense why it was such a banger! www.soundonsound.com/techniques/d...

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You must know of the best Head Like A Hole remix in existence, right? youtu.be/1lkuDm_g2ig?...

They made a literal fake news clip machine and they're loading it up with hate bait 😐