Garrett Pennell

Bicycle loaded up with compost in saddle bags

Rough pedestrian infrastructure along Maple Avenue

Sign showing community drop off hours on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday

Unloading compost from my bike into the bin

Today's #WeekWithoutDriving adventure: Biking like 40 pounds of compost 11 miles across Dallas only to find that I came on the wrong day. Luckily they let me drop it off anyway.

My ride was mostly pleasant and I'd do it again, but planning is key!

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Dallas City Council is voting on an amendment tomorrow to cut bike lane funding.

Bike lanes improve street safety and provide a desperately needed alternative to driving, and make transit accessible to more people.

Email your councilmember!

dallasbicyclecoalition.org/blog/post/20...

My acceptance of on-street vehicle size is on a U-shaped curve.

Bicycles are perfect, compact cars are marginally acceptable, SUVs and emotional support trucks should be phased out, but buses, streetcars, and trams are wonderful.

I honestly don’t think there’s a better selling point for taking the bus than this.

Photos from this evening, one in Downtown Dallas, two in Deep Ellum

Sidewalk at the Walnut Hill Station park and ride.

Power lines are usually invisible to me, but they made themselves pretty obvious last night for some reason.

Bishop Arts this evening

DART Noir

... OR ...

POV: You're a suburbanite having a nightmare.

More pics from my walk around Downtown Dallas this afternoon/evening

Here are a couple of photos from Critical Mass this evening. Couldn't be bothered to edit them.

Rainy day downtown Dallas vibes

Seed Oils: Are They Truly Toxic? Have you heard the claim that seed oils are “toxic”? A registered dietitian explains what they are, what they can do to your body, and whether you need to cut them out forever or just focus on a healt...

Seed oils really aren't all that bad compared to other oils. Eating the ultra-processed and fried foods that are fried in seed (and other) oils is the much more significant concern.

health.clevelandclinic.org/seed-oils-ar...

This is the first thing I saw when I logged in to Bluesky to change the email address in bsky from an iCloud Hide My Email address to the Proton-owned SimpleLogin service. Wish you a smooth data migration!

Mary set an exceptionally powerful example of leadership in advocacy. I've been an advocate in various causes for years, and I can count on one hand the number of times I've met someone as capable, passionate, and committed as Mary. The transit advocacy community has lost one of its best this week.

Great DBC Board meeting to kick off the year. Amazing things are coming for biking in Dallas!

I've been enjoying these. Maybe I missed it, but are there any medium to large cities where housing attainability is high? I'd love to see those compared.

If this level of destruction happened to our land any other way, we'd call it an environmental disaster. Since it's car infrastructure, we call it "development."

I didn’t count, but someone else counted 18! I consider that fairly overwhelming for a meeting like this.

I don’t know that they didn’t know it per se. I think maybe they just hadn’t made that connection yet. It didn’t require explaining, just pointing out. There’s a few steps between parking minimums and this new financial disaster the city has to deal with.

#parkingreform underway in Dallas! So many advocates showed up. I tried to use the "costly parking mandate" language that @parkingreform.org shared earlier today and missed, but made the point that the city's finances were dire and we needed the density to bring in revenue. That got their attention!

Timely advice for today’s Dallas City Plan Commission meeting!

Took the train downtown Dallas, walked into a local microbrewery, got a free barbecue sandwich, ran into someone I know, and played BINGO.

I love living in a city. Not a perfect city, but a decent one where cool and quirky things happen and where I don’t have to drive to participate.

FBI Warns iPhone And Android Users—Stop Sending Texts US officials urge citizens to use encrypted messaging and calls wherever they can—here’s what you need to know.

I’ve been trying to tell y’all.

Signal is a great, easy way to upgrade your security with minimal hassle: signal.org

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Inside an unusual Plano MASH unit: bobcat babies, a concussed owl and mended turtle shells The Plano-based North Texas Wildlife Center, which treats 2,500 critters annually, needs help to find a bigger home. This year more than 140 species took...

A report out of the North Texas animal welfare front — this wildlife center could really use some help.

I plan to be there! Let’s go!

This is amazing, thank you.

Dallas Bicycle Coalition volunteers check in bicycles at their pop-up bike valet at the Deep Ellum Block Party

On Saturday, the Dallas Bicycle Coalition hosted a bike valet at the Deep Ellum Block Party. It was a ton of fun providing this service to our community alongside other volunteers!

We’re always looking to get more people involved with local bike advocacy: dallasbicyclecoalition.org/signup/

100%. I’m more focused on urbanism these days, but I’ll do the odd ad-hoc CryptoParty if I run across a group who could use it.

Love seeing Tor and Signal in my feeds, though!