Steven Mandrapa

photo of a white man with white hair, wearing casual dress and sunglasses, riding a red bike on a sunny day

RIP Jimmy Carter - he looked amazing on a bike

This would be the ultimate soft power flex

Regular, moderate exercise like walking and biking are the closest thing we have to a health panacea. US city and road design has made walking and biking impractical, unpleasant and dangerous in much of the country. Changing this would save *$billions* in healthcare *and transportation* costs.

I feel like I never really understood what gaslighting or moving the Overton window meant until this election. Stuff that used to be outrageous is just being considered normal now and discussed rationally.

Buttigieg is right, but what has USDOT accomplished re: road safety under his watch?

🔹 State DOTs still choose speed > safety
🔹 NHTSA still wasting $ on useless road safety PSAs
🔹 No major steps on car bloat
🔹 Tesla still misleading ppl on “Full-Self Driving”

A sharp drop in low cloud cover boosted global warming last year.
Three possible explanations:
1. a global reduction in aerosol pollution, which helps clouds form and persist.
2. global warming changing how clouds behave (climate feedback)
3. natural variability in the climate.

The first morning of a new era in Damascus.

Celebrating 🥳 YA HALA

In California, maintaining public access to the coast is a priority. Unfortunately, they define "access" as cars, not people.

I'm trying out my own starter pack, and naturally, it's an ode to #energytwitter expats. Bluesky limits additions to 150, so my apologies for missing like 10x of our friends. go.bsky.app/P6pgVxa

“I’ll stop drinking if you let me run the Pentagon” is maybe the most alcoholic thing anyone has ever said

Graph showing daily, weekly, and monthly averages since October 2023. Seasonal swing peaking at 427 ppm in May-June, then a low in September at 422 ppm, now rapidly rising.

Another big year-on-year jump in atmospheric CO₂! Based on daily values, the November average at Mauna Loa was ~423.9 ppm, that's around 3.4 ppm higher than one year ago.
We're on our way to the first 430 ppm in at least 15 million years.
#ClimateSky

Propaganda of the deed

Median age yikes

COMPREHENSIVE SLAM: The Queen Anne Community Council Upzone Meeting.

Got my son a pretty nice e-bike for his 16th bday from a local shop here and every time I take it for a ride I cannot believe how fun it is

shout out to kendrick lamar for making this the Worst Week Alive for every single hot dog stand employee

sunset shining through clouds, calm ocean with green eel grass draping a rock in the foreground

mind if i post a photo i just took

Buy em and burn em is what I say

This Yacht Rock Doc is so good!

Yeah always charming when I arrive hammered lmao

The solution is to build more homes.

Meh doesn’t work for me.

If your state’s price to income ratio is over 4.5, your state has a housing shortage and you need to dramatically reform zoning to legalize more homes.

Seriously I had no idea it was even a thing until like 5 years ago when people started freaking out about it on Twitter. Ironically I barely ever recline cause I’m usually white knuckling it.

Fwiw: CFPB is also involved in rulemaking that’s currently underway and aimed at reining in companies that track and sell people’s personal information.

It’s really frustrating how many left folks just deny or completely lack any understanding of how markets work.

it’s fascinating that left-NIMBYs will just nonchalantly say “the private sector will never release enough homes to allow prices to fall” as if it’s some universally known truth…

when in reality, that’s exactly what happened in Austin and Minneapolis

So a reminder:

It’s not ‘liberals’ saying Hegseth abuses women. It’s his mom.

It’s not ‘liberals’ comparing Trump to Hitler. It’s his vice-president.

It’s not ‘liberals’ calling Musk a liar and a racist. It’s his own child.

For the record.

What’s that you say? The world’s richest man bought the most influential social network in order to spread radical right wing ideology, joined a fascist administration to fire 75% of government employees and is building humanoid robots in an automated factory??

Pssshtt I’m sure it will be fine!