Text: “It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” ― Ernest Hemingway

👎 bad take by the journo lib.

The driver was committed negligent homicide, RI state gov committed murder.

That driver should have been jailed and license suspended years ago but government refused to apply consequences to reckless driving.

Car culture is psychotic.

I don’t speed, I stay to the right and toss on adaptive cruise control for the limit and only go around if someone is going way under or traffic needs to merge.

And yes, I am better than you for doing so.

Speeding is a social scourge and we should use cruel and unusual punishment against those who partake, because they currently think the speed limit is cruel and unusual. Finland is a good model, but I say we also give them 1pt on the license per 10mph over.

also reaffirmed after thanksgiving day traffic when the worst speeders and aggressive drivers were the pickups and suburbans.

Tell me why the fuck you gotta weave your 3 ton shit box at 90mph on the way to grandmas.

It must be a disease, like dementia but the moment you step into an XL vehicle.

Grandpa got hit by a pickup truck.

he’s fairly lucky tbh just a couple broken bones and didn’t hit his head.

but this just reaffirms my stance that all XL pickup truck drivers are reckless uncivilized cvnts who should be required to have a CDL.

All of them, contractors too.

Fuck Walmart. Pay your people a living wage and maybe your opinion will mean something

Fuck Maura Healey - she might as well be a republican just like Cuomo.

Massachusetts deserves better than these bought and paid corpocrats

Honestly their Exec director should resign for putting forth such a backwards shameless proposal.

Gfys trash propaganda

AWS and now Azure? Money printer go kaput

Local chipotle really saying fuck ICE tonight. Room temp soda

What about those Epstein files tho

Another day, another dead canary

Exactly. if I want to go 25mph, I’ll ride fast in the road. But if I’m just going home from work or errands, I’ll take a nice slow and safe bike lane

I fucking hate drivers.

I was running and got hit TWICE this afternoon. First, doored in the bike lane. Then, tapped in the crosswalk by an inattentive (smoking and texting) late braking driver. I’m fine but I got a foot and a half long bruise on my quad.

Not Wu related lol, more about that Wisconsin republican was getting booed for defending ice wearing masks. He deserved a tomato.

I’m not impressed. And her voters get butthurt that you wouldn’t dare vote in the mayor at all. Candyland schmucks and sycos. Honestly.

One less vote is a reflection on enthusiasm and distills the voter pool. a vote in the other direction is an endorsement of the opponent and changes the balance.

And literally housing is worse than ever. Look at the numbers, the rate is so low compared to previous years.

But her BPDA reforms have not pushed the needle. At all.

Mayor Wu was so promising and when it came time to stand on business, she started rolling back.

Her lack of courage to project and sustain a vision and inability to coalesce the support is not encouraging for an incumbent.

I love the open streets events, but maybe stick up for safe streets.

If it comes to vibes? solid B+

Brass tacks of governance? D (D+ at best)

I’m sorry but making Boston the target of federal ire may be cathartic for us on the left, but it is not what makes a good mayor.

Delivery scooters are worse then ever; mass and cass has no improvements; the common and DTC has the same crime; she wasted more money on events; housing hasnt improved; bps students are getting arrested by ICE… I can keep going

She ain’t it.

She’s about as progressive Walsh and competent as Janey

I’ll up the ante. Anyone who votes for Michelle Wu is either a sycophant or a fool. I’ll be a hater from left.

She’s closed schools; city hall had a corruption, sex, and race scandal; she failed her corporate tax/budget push; cops don’t listen; BPDA is still bad; she rolled back safe streets

Your approach gives a free pass to do-nothings as long as they say the right buzzwords

Shaming me for not voting for your fav is so unserious. You think I should vote for someone that’s made my daily commute much riskier? Tell me, has she improved housing? mass and cass? How about downtown crossing or the common? Delivery scooters? No silver platter, a politicians gotta earn a vote.

Did I say I support or was voting for Josh Kraft? I said I wasn’t voting for mayor because she’s been backtracking in general.

Mayor Wu has been rolling back safe streets this whole election cycle. She might have had some bona fides last time around, but she lost my trust there.

Since she’s going to handily win and there’s no real risk, I’m not donating, volunteering, or even voting for the mayoral ballot.

One thing that’s missing from modern American public discourse is a well ripened tomato to the face.

When we stopped throwing rotting produce, we stopped being heard.

Broke a 7min mile for the first time since the pre-beer days (early college)

It can be hard to compare yourself to the PRs from youth.

I doubt I’ll get back down to 5:20 but I bet I can get near 6:20 this year