LoriHC @lorihc@social.cleverlibre.org

Cyclists are now the single largest mode of travel during peak times in London, according to a new report.

They represent 40% of traffic during peak hours and 27% of traffic throughout the day.

Since 1999, the number of motorists has dropped 64% and the number of cyclists has increased 386%.

#Urbanism #UrbanDesign #ClimateChange #Cycling #BikeTooter #UK #London #Mobility #Transportation

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2023/03/01/cyclists-now-outnumber-motorists-in-city-of-london/

🌟 Near my house, there's an apartment building with a courtyard. Big deal, right? But if you walk up the steps a little bit, there's something about this courtyard that you might find really truly wonderful… https://cabel.com/2023/02/25/the-courtyard/

“All the bicyclists are booing [Brown] and he is really pissed. You could tell he's really pissed. And he walks off the little stage they have and apparently he tells the cops, ‘Shut it down.’ And so they tried and they couldn't because there was just too many cyclists and everybody just went in every direction” https://www.kqed.org/news/11941576/the-night-that-changed-san-francisco-cycling-forever

My almost 13 year old daughter had a good idea. We’ve been talking about doing a podcast together - mostly for us to have.

Her idea was reviewing books that are being taken out of school libraries - discussing the content, reviewing the actual literature but also the reasons it was banned and our thoughts there as well.

This is something I think that we will do, soon.

#BookBanning #Books #Podcasts

The Mormon Church is being fined 5 million because it hid a 32 billion dollar investment fund. This was not accidental. The SEC proved that both the investment firm and church went to great lengths to knowingly hide these assets. For the folks playing along at home, that’s a fine of 0.016% on the investment. Imagine lying on your taxes and you hid an extra $100K offshore and the IRS said “No sweat, pay us $15.63.” If there are no other repercussions, that’s not a fine, that’s encouragement.

This will upset some, but it needs to be said.

People keep asking when the right will wake up and denounce their worst reactionaries.

It’s not same scale, but progressives have a similar challenge. When will we stop letting our most reactive, anonymous people define us?

I’m a progressive. So much so, I ran for congress on universal health care, working class economics, addressing structural racism, and legalized marijuana and sex work.

The difference isn’t in our ideals, it’s in our behavior

This is HUGE.

"The National Labor Relations Board ruled Tuesday that employers can no longer demand laid-off employees avoid publicly disparaging the company as part of their severance agreements, nor can they stop affected employees from disclosing the terms of their exit packages. Doing so, the federal agency determined, would be a violation of the laid-off employees’ rights under the National Labor Relations Act."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7a7x/companies-cant-ask-you-to-shut-up-to-receive-severance-nlrb-rules

Public transport isn't supposed to make money. It's not even supposed to break even. It's supposed to lose money and to be financed and extended from general taxes because it gives back way more than mere money.

And all the politicians know this because they keep building and maintaining streets for free

Malcolm X was assassinated 58 years ago today. This remains as one of my favorite pieces of wisdom he shared. And now, they're making it illegal to even claim the knife is there.

"If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven't even pulled the knife out much less heal the wound. They won't even admit the knife is there." — Malcolm X

Swift 5.8 has a new implementation of result builder type checking that greatly improves compile-time performance, code completion results, and diagnostics by using the extended multi-statement closure inference infrastructure introduced in Swift 5.7.

More about the improvements and the impact of this change on the Swift Forums: https://forums.swift.org/t/improved-result-builder-implementation-in-swift-5-8/63192

#SwiftLang

"For many people cars are the essence of liberty; for others, they’re an imposition that takes the form of a slow bus, dirty air, dangerous streets, a diminished public sphere, a honking traffic jam, and a melting planet."

https://slate.com/business/2023/02/15-minute-city-oxford-conspiracy-theory-cars-lockdown-explained.html

#15minutecities

Spanish lawmakers on Thursday gave final approval to a law granting paid medical leave to women suffering severe period pain, becoming the first European country to advance such legislation.

Lawmakers also approved a law letting anyone 16 and over change the gender on their ID card. The law makes Spain one of the few nations to allow people to change their gender on their national identity card with a simple declaration.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2023/02/16/spain-mps-pass-a-law-permitting-gender-self-determination-from-16_6016069_4.html

#Spain #PeriodPain #Gender #Trans

I’ve really been enjoying my time on Mastodon. Most folks are super kind, and the conversations have been fun.

That said, one thing that would make Mastodon even better for me would be supporting passkeys as a password replacement. :)

@coachtony sir please. https://anildash.com/2021/02/05/how-prince-won-the-super-bowl/