siiiigh

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anyway imagine if our politicians were innovative and laser focused on this

heck the could even read my book, Building For People

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Transforming a Stockholm shopping centre into a vibrant center Solna Centrum continues to function as an active civic hub centred around its shopping centre, attracting many people throughout the day. However, its inward-facing structure, together with surroundin...

not me staring at gehl's proposal to transform a shopping center into a mixed use and highly livable District with abundant open space and high-quality public realm

and wondering why we won't ever see anything like this (siiiiigh)

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BREAKING: Federal Bill Would Put Big Oil Above the Law | Center for Climate Integrity Republicans Introduce Legislation to Give Fossil Fuel Companies Immunity from Any Laws or Lawsuits Seeking to Hold them Accountable for their Role in the Climate Crisis

Ted Cruz sure knows how to celebrate Earth Day

A useful graphic of what definitely not to do with said armband www.reddit.com/r/meirl/s/O7...

“Out of town teenagers…”
Who have no courts themselves, and can’t wait to travel to random neighbourhoods where this guy is waiting to grumble about on court chatter.
Uhuh.

Mill Valley homeowner opposes a new basketball court in a way that make it very clear who he pictures using it.

This evening was the second to last round of voting at the ICC on E24-24, the four-story single-stair IBC proposal. It survived an attempt to require corridor separation between the stairway and the units, and then it survived a general challenge. This was a vote of building officials who traveled…

“A small number of extreme users constantly post fringe opinions, which creates the illusion that these views are far more widely held than they really are.”

This is a critical concept.
The most powerful tool for deception today is “selected speech” — billionaires boosting ideas they like…

BREAKING: Federal Bill Would Put Big Oil Above the Law | Center for Climate Integrity Republicans Introduce Legislation to Give Fossil Fuel Companies Immunity from Any Laws or Lawsuits Seeking to Hold them Accountable for their Role in the Climate Crisis

Republicans know they are about to lose the House and are trying to give Big Oil its holy grail: legal immunity from any futures actions that would hold the industry responsible for the climate crisis it knowingly caused and is making worse every day.

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Infowars/Onion combo logo in rainbow saying “I support the onion’s hostile media takeover.”

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

A Bosch e-bike display screen: 0 km/hr, 14000km, two bars of battery, and a headlamp icon.

I hit 14000 kilometres tonight, riding around the vast and empty parking lots of my local community college.

🧵I'm at the Vancouver School Board special Board meeting discussed the 2026-2027 VSB Financial Plan.

A bunch of motions coming up from Trustees Mah and Reddy to improve the Draft Budget for next year.

First up, a motion from Trustee Reddy to look at expanding Out of School Care in VSB.

When No One Was Looking, Ohio Became a Swing State Again Ohio's Senate race may be the closest of the 2026 midterms, as Republicans fear Ohio's red state status of the last decade is slipping away.

New: When No One Was Looking, Ohio Became a Swing State Again

A year ago, the widespread assumption was the Ohio Senate seat held until last year by JD Vance would stay red. Now Republicans are openly panicking about Ohio.
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Carney must make cuts, not only invest more: former Bank of Canada governor | Power & Politics YouTube video by CBC News

Another former head of the Bank of Canada says Carney is not going far enough on austerity.

I dunno. Maybe it's the capitalists who are the problem.

We are more than 2 hrs into this hearing and Burgum has only been asked 1 question about the $1B Total offshore deal that was not really framed as a question and did not ask anything specific.

Right now Virginia’s congressional map is a 6-5 Dem/Rep split. If we do nothing while other states gerrymander, we lose ground in 2026, 2028, AND 2030.

Voting YES tomorrow, April 21st, levels the playing field and allows the voters to fight back. It’s really that simple.

#VoteYesVirginia

Massive Attack / Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground YouTube video by Massive Attack

sit up...
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Things Bend has done/is doing I think every city should do, urbanist edition:

Upzone to quadplexes (at least) everywhere
Plan key biking and walking routes and build them out
Get rid of parking mandates
Price the curb wherever data says it makes sense
Work harder on transit (we're gonna!)

Screenshot of a Mirror news article titled “Urgent warning of long Covid symptoms as number of cases rise in UK.” Subheading explains long COVID occurs when symptoms last more than 12 weeks and can be debilitating. Article by Bradley Jolly, dated 21 April 2026. Main image shows a middle-aged woman outdoors holding her chest, appearing short of breath. Caption notes it is a file image representing breathlessness.

UK: Urgent warning of long Covid symptoms as number of cases rise in UK.

Over 2 million people in the UK are living with long COVID, the “forgotten epidemic,” with symptoms lasting over 12 weeks.

"Long Covid is not a problem that has gone away, as some people like to think."

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The Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy has said the federal government shouldn’t be funding bike lanes.

The top member of Congress writing the next transportation reauthorization bill has said that the next five years of federal funding won’t include bicycling and walking projects.

Don't let Trump drown our future He’s trying to force governments to reject a key climate proposal. Speak up now!

The tiny island nation Vanuatu brought a case before the world's highest court, which ruled governments have a legal responsibility to act against climate change. Now the UN could pass a resolution to turn the ruling into real global action.
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“Upload…???”
What a word washing.
Take over.
Let’s be plain.
Uploading sounds modern, inoffensive, positive.
Taking it over so it can be systematically underfunded, complained about, and never run by people who set foot on transit.
See how easy it is to be plain spoken in politics?

And then he said: “If you don’t open the Strait of Hormuz, an entire civilization will die tonight.”

So they opened it.

Then he blockaded it.

So they closed it again.

Now he’s demanding they reopen it… so he can close it again.

Picture of an ebike

"Ebikes are insanely great technology. Cheap, rugged and reliable, they're basically bicycles that abolish hills. Once you've gotten accustomed to an ebike ..you'll never go back."
The mileage is great: 625 km per $1 (390 miles).

Hilariously, there are some on the New Left who think it's regressive and anti-democratic to villainize oil and gas companies and the elected officials they collude with. No, really.

Trump’s strategy to “fix traffic” is literally “one more lane, bro.” You’d think it’s parody but it’s actually true

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Donald Trump is stuck in “no man’s land” on Iran—he doesn't want to commit to war, but he's also unwilling to make the concessions needed for a deal.

So instead, it’s delay after delay—“two weeks, two weeks”—as the crisis grows more dangerous.

As Trump’s lies get more egregious (and repetitive) I have at least noticed fewer mouth-breathing bootlickers willing to defend him in my comments.

And the administration is leaking about how he’s hurting negotiations and how they’re keeping him on the sidelines.

I’ll call that progress.