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Mike Elg@mikeelg.bsky.social |
149 followers 318 following 76 posts
Father, husband, musician, geek, all year transport cyclist. He/him
#CovidIsAirborne Filter the air. Wear a respirator mask.
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Neon Chinchilla
@neonchinchilla.bsky.social
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"Bet wish you lived somewhere else since the liquor store employees are on strike!" No. I support striking workers. "You can't take a joke and need to get laid." Weird response to supporting others. My faith in humanity dwindles.
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Andrew Blum
@ablum.bsky.social
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The Venn diagram of posters who complain about cyclists breaking the law and posters who complain about cameras giving them a ticket when they break the law is a circle.
3 replies 8 reposts 62 likes
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Mike Elg
@mikeelg.bsky.social
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It's warm *and* it makes noise. Win win
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Men's rea activist
@internethippo.bsky.social
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Don't ever tell me that being goofy is something I'm supposed to grow out of. Goofy is for life. I'll go to my grave goofy
35 replies 159 reposts 891 likes
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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/5 So, in terrible circumstances, think what people before you have endured. Think about how you can support and defend folks less able than you to endure. And fight the bastards.
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Joe Katz
@joekatz45.bsky.social
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"They're just fearmongering about Project 2025," brought to you by the people behind "They're just fearmongering about a coup" and "they're just fearmongering about abortion bans"
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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Honestly still in shock that the most crooked American President in history said "I need immunity" and the GOP Supreme Court said "well, it's nowhere in the constitution, but sure, why not? Whats the worst that could happen?"
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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com
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I kinda feel like now that the Supreme Court has declared it legal for a president to straight-up murder people they don't like, it's probably even more important to not elect people who seem extremely inclined to murder people they don't like
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L O L G O P
@lolgop.bsky.social
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One big sign that Trump will behave like a mad king if he ever gets into the White House is he keeps saying and acting like he will, and the Republicans on the Supreme Court are like, "Do it!" Could be nothing.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
@wolvendamien.bsky.social
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Genuinely hilarious that they threw down the "Presidents Are Kings" ruling 3 days before Independence Day.
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Iron Spike
@ironspike.bsky.social
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You're entitled to your despair. But understand that when you catastrophize on social media, you risk spreading learned helplessness. Which is exactly what fascists want, for people to lie down and cry.
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Shiv Ramdas
@nameshiv.bsky.social
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every time I see someone complain about unions I think about how unions were the consensus alternative to the previous system of burning the factory owner alive inside his house
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Ian Boudreau
@iboudreau.bsky.social
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Could we please start funding the humanities again? It's not just that we're losing the ability to read, we're losing the understanding of what reading even is
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Micah
@rincewind.run
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I feel like the main political divide on this website is between “Joe Biden is terrible and old and I hate him” and “Joe Biden is terrible and old and I will crawl over broken glass to vote for a rancid ham sandwich against Donald Trump” very few people are actually huge fans of the guy
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Daniel Malmer
@malmer.com
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And they want them to die where they won't have to see it. It's sad to see what's happened in San Francisco, a supposedly progressive city. It's tragic how many people there don't see unhoused people as human. They resent them for making them feel bad.
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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.bsky.social
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I feel like this should go without saying but the only sane & responsible vote is November is the one that prevents Trump from taking office & finishing off American democracy. Unless something extremely surprising happens, that choice will be Joe Biden. And in any event it will be the D nominee.
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Mike Elg
@mikeelg.bsky.social
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When you hope it's just a batch close to expiry, and not that it's all going to disappear. I relate to this dilemma
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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There's nothing particularly savvy and wise and profound in the observation that Trump is a monster, and his election would have republic-endingly bad consequences to everyone living in the US, but it is still true, and it is still the most useful thing newspapers could write about the race
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Mike Elg
@mikeelg.bsky.social
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But I got less than a dozen pages of a notebook for a project that went nowhere*. I can't use it for anything else. I need a new notebook. *project may have ended because I saw something else shiny, a squirrel went by, the gaming group drifted apart...
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Mike Elg
@mikeelg.bsky.social
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To many, the end of this message is a backwards smile. My brain saw it as a return to the command prompt.
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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir)
@nora.zone
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i love that we went from telling my generation not to use wikipedia because it wasn't reliable to telling people to use chatgpt
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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com
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We got tricked by science fiction into thinking a futuristic city is all about flying cars and crystal towers and hologram billboards but what it really looks like is nice apartment blocks, good mass transit, pedestrian zones with shade trees and safe bike lanes.
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Oregon the DM🕎
@oregonthedm.bsky.social
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Omg my heart ❤️
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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com
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This is why mask bans are suddenly being proposed. If you’re in a place where that’s happening and you think we should prioritize public and personal health and freedom over expanding the powers of the police state then please do let your representatives know why the freedom to mask matters to you
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The Volatile Mermaid
@ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social
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Nobody is trying to turn your kids gay, but people are trying to turn your kids Nazi.
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Will Burrows 🖖🍞🥀
@dwighttokem.bsky.social
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Just learned the Spanish version of "righty tighty, lefty loosey" translates as "the right oppresses, the left liberates" and holy shit that goes hard.
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Mike Elg
@mikeelg.bsky.social
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I want a list of "vehicles a >6' person can in the back seat comfortably," sorted by size of car.
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ariel gordon
@arielgordon.bsky.social
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And for the people who don't complain, but simply park on the sidewalk because their truck is too big to fit in a normal parking spot. If your vehicle is too big fit in a parking spot, don't make that everyone else's problem by forcing pedestrians onto the road.
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s. e. smith
@sesmith.bsky.social
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There’s a special place for people who drive grotesquely oversized pavement princesses and then complain that parking spots are too small. This is very much a you issue babe.
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Dawn Xiana Moon
@dawnxianamoon.bsky.social
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Artists: Never let them tell you that what you do isn't important. We're so important that we're always one of the first things authoritarians go after. "Change the stories, you change the power structures."
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Jen
@envirojen.bsky.social
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There’s a group of kids on the corner selling lemonade. They yell “LEMONADE” at every passing vehicle, but the only people I have seen stop for a drink so far are on foot or bike. There is no shortage of free parking on the street. Maybe this is analogous to local business districts. 😉
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Dr. Lucky Tran
@luckytran.bsky.social
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Politicians say mask bans should come back as pre-COVID, they were law since 1845. But scientists discovered viruses in the 1890s, discovered how they worked in the mid-1900s, and discovered SARS in the 2000s. Mask bans are outdated, anti-science laws that belong in the past.
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parker higgins
@xor.blue
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when more people use the subway, it gets better and more efficient. when more people drive, it gets worse and more gridlocked. we want more people to come to manhattan. you do the math!!!!
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David J Bradley
@davidjbradley1.bsky.social
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I kinda feel for Star Wars writers. On the one hand you have bigots mad at you for any diversity and on the other you have Star Wars nerds mad at you because including a pre-existing character contradicts lore from a trading card that hasn't been sold for 20 years
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Charlene Boyce
@cr8tivecandy.bsky.social
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Halifax needs a new bridge. Hear me out: a bridge exclusively devoted to public and active transit (with easier entry than the bike lane on the MacDonald). It could be opened to other traffic if one of the others suffered sustained or serious damage.
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Mike Elg
@mikeelg.bsky.social
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Tiny strawberry plant growing amid gravel, beside our old shed
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Iron Spike
@ironspike.bsky.social
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"U.S. police departments have gotten smaller—and the violent crime rate is still plummeting. So what is going on?" What's ALWAYS gone on. Cops do not stop crime. They never have. Real "tough on crime" measures are well-funded schools, free daycare, and mental health services. Always have been.
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Dianna Gunn
@diannalgunn.bsky.social
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Things to do before we even *talk* about AC: Ban private jets Invest in public transit everywhere & reduce reliance on cars & therefore on gas Improve recycling infrastructure & force companies to use glass bottles for soft drinks Mind your own fucking business when folks are trying to survive
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babski
@babski.bsky.social
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we should make drivers do whacky out of the way shit to get to their destination instead of cyclists and pedestrians. they're literally in a rolling living room and we're giving them all the ways to go wherever they want. fuck that shit.
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José
@acabybara.bsky.social
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Posting this randomly and not for any recent headlines or whatever
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Lisa Song
@lisalsong.bsky.social
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8/ Scientists say the key to solving the plastics crisis is to make less plastic. 100+ nations are working on a UN treaty to tackle the crisis. The plastics industry wants to keep the focus on waste management, including chemical recycling.
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Mike Elg
@mikeelg.bsky.social
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But it's got to be a Blizzard without all the fun crunchy bits in it. So, a boring one
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Spencer Ackerman
@attackerman.bsky.social
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A US soldier quoted in this story, not the headliner airman, says they're "experiencing tangible mental health consequences as a result of watching a genocide in real time while simultaneously wearing a uniform that represents it." That's extremely real.
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SimzArt
@simzart.bsky.social
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Jessica Kant
@jessdkant.bsky.social
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We don't have an appropriate word for this sort of targeted, relentless harassment by the state that isn't from the darkest chapters of our history books. The people responsible for this investigation should never be allowed near children again.
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Bo Thompson
@gaudipern.bsky.social
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Today, on Juneteenth, if you are a descendant of a formerly enslaved person I invite you to take a moment to acknowledge, mourn, and cherish all it means. If you are a descendant of a people who benefited from slavery I invite you to explore what steps remain to address the legacy of that injustice.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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Shitty drivers think speed and red light cameras are revenue generation schemes because they think all other drivers are as shitty as they are. Most drivers do not speed down 10+ over the limit on residential streets or run red lights. It's very easy to just not do that, in fact.
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Miles Grant
@milesgrant.bsky.social
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Many (most?) powerful Dems identify more with wealthy suburban anti-tax center/right drivers than with their own base (city dwellers, transit riders, etc.) They see transit, bike lanes, etc. as for Others - give them lip service & will try for progress, but will dump them at the slightest pressure
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Mike Elg
@mikeelg.bsky.social
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I've bike in both mid 30 degree Celsius, negative and positive. Dress appropriately and go slowly applies to both conditions.
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Jillian
@bikehfxlobby.bsky.social
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Why am I reading another staff report that assumes cars first? How do they not hear themselves when they argue that “constraints” prevent them from providing transit priority lanes and active transportation infrastructure but never when it comes to providing lanes for personal vehicles?
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