@afrieden.bsky.social
Such a candidate will immediately have my vote and a donation!
28.08.2025 22:59 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The US is the example that people will buy them and they will go into cities where they don't fit. I live in Boston and we are perpetually dealing with car bloat in a city that was never meant to accommodate cars.
28.08.2025 17:25 — 👍 26 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0Yeah that's what I came to say: we are already tracked by a lot of private and public companies with minimal to negative benefit.
28.08.2025 14:18 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0A SERIOUS request to @michaelrbloomberg.bsky.social — please create an account for Bloomberg Citylab here on @bsky.app. Citylab has been an excellent platform for articles about cities (I used to write for it, and @langealexandra.bsky.social won a Pulitzer for it!).
REPOST if you support Citylab.
I think its really hard to articulate to others what living next to major construction is like. We lived through the buildings next door (a six story and five story building) get demoed and built and it was a horrible experience at every stage with no way to deal with them violating rules.
27.06.2025 02:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@cityofsomerville.bsky.social any update to when we will get updated parking data? Last data appears to be from 2020: data.somervillema.gov/Transportati...
05.06.2025 14:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Elon Musk admitted to his biographer that the reason the Hyperloop was announced—even though he had no intention of pursuing it—was to try to disrupt the California high-speed rail project to get in the way of that actually succeeding.” — @parismarx.com in @gizmodo.com
He’s always been this way.
The backs of 10 visible bicyclists waiting in a protected bike lane at an intersection
We need to build our way out of all this #CambMa bike traffic congestion
22.04.2025 17:53 — 👍 59 🔁 5 💬 4 📌 1
A screenshot of a Reuters article stating that the US FDA suspended milk quality test workforce cuts.
Previous to the FDA, folks would put chalk and plaster of Paris in milk to make it appear white. They could also add formaldehyde to cover the smell and taste of spoiled milk.
22.04.2025 12:53 — 👍 22240 🔁 9094 💬 1391 📌 871Meanwhile, if we stopped creating life-threatening emergencies for ourselves in the USA, we could start to easily and quickly improve basic living conditions, like the quality of the AIR WE BREATHE for crying out loud
13.04.2025 16:27 — 👍 284 🔁 55 💬 2 📌 1100% this. My goal as a parent is to do everything in my power to try and avoid screen time.
29.03.2025 10:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A separated bike-lane in downtown Vancouver filled with people on bikes
Never forget, when you’re being asked to prove that safe bike-lanes or pedestrian crossings across unsafe conditions are ‘needed,’ it's hard to justify a bridge by the number of people swimming across a raging river.
22.03.2025 00:49 — 👍 468 🔁 98 💬 5 📌 6100% Philly is underrated
22.03.2025 00:42 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Picture is going northbound on Dartmouth street in Back Bay.
20.03.2025 16:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I remember how hellish the commute from the south end to cambrideport was. Amazing to see how fast bike infrastructure improves. Well done @boston.gov
20.03.2025 16:52 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Its very frustrating seeing error after error after error from DOGE who seem to just not understand basic accounting. We all want more efficient government. www.youtube.com/watch?v=71hK...
05.03.2025 18:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Its just weird for me to read that the state is handing out money to incentivize officers to go after...jaywalking?
16.02.2025 02:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Has there been any tickets written for jaywalking? I think there was a story about this a few years ago where reporters were unable to get a ticket.
16.02.2025 01:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It's really hard for me to look at real estate prices in Massachusetts and understand how anyone but the extremely rich can live here anymore.
11.02.2025 02:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A street is orange from flames and you can see the high winds in the palm trees. Sparks fly down the street
A fire truck is engulfed in parks and flames are seen on the hill. The entire photo is red and orange from the fire
A fireman with a hose runs across the front of a house in flames in the background
The inside of a house is a ball of flames. The only visible thing inside is a burning Christmas tree
These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer.
These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP.
You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇
www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...
Quite scary seeing how much people are spending on gas and insurance for cars. Families routinely spend close to $600 to $1000 a month in some areas of the US!
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