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@bikeloudpdx.bsky.social 𝙚𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣@𝙗𝙞𝙠𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙪𝙙𝙥𝙙𝙭.𝙤𝙧𝙜 will be interested in NYC's use of data AND in the ed programs of @bikenewyork.bsky.social. Field trip, anyone?

The Vulnerable Road User Safety Assessment (VRUSA) used five layers of data analysis to determine high risk areas

Most looked like population maps

Most interesting is maybe STOAs (Short Trip Opportunity Areas) which used demographic and land use factors to estimate latent demand for walking/biking

If you paid taxes for 2025, you likely paid:

$124 — school lunch & nutrition programs
$49 — diplomacy to prevent wars
$19 — USPS
$19 — Federal Aviation Administration
$18 — national parks

and

$4,049 — weapons and war.

These priorities are hurting us all. We need change. #TaxDay

That's how you bring your friends along as support!

Thank you for advocating on this. Glad to know that our research center in Corvallis is still funded. How will you fight this move?

@ronwyden.bsky.social Thank you very much for your words. Months after my application for retirement benefits, I finally found out what amount I'd be getting -- thanks to @repvalhoyle.bsky.social's staff and NOT to MySocialSecurity, which hasn't let me log in for months.

Trying to reply to a cat pic & bluesky tells me “not enough resources.” I KNOW. THAT’S WHY I’M LOOKING AT CAT PICS. How else is one supposed to replenish?

When we design our world with justice, access, and inclusion at the center, we don't just lift up the few—we lift up everyone.

This is great, inspiring, worth the read.

I want a Democrats "Contract with America" 2026 that details everything they're going to pass in the first 90 days after the Blue Wave. Including full universal healthcare #leadership

"Planet Earth: You. Are. A. Crew."

Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch reflects on what it means to be a "crew."

I have rarely noticed the charge made of hurting a vulnerable person. I'm sad that it's necessary and content that it is being used.

SAFE Corvallis Community News is out now!
Mode share news, Bridges in planning, Happy Hours tomorrow at 4 pm.
mailchi.mp/fad4f5f26a07...

4/5. When Orbán loses, that exposes the weaknesses of MAGA: talk of peace but need for war; talk of prosperity but fleecing of the working classes; talk of the nation but dependence on an international oligarchical network.

Portlanders! Save a copy for me, please.

My choices differ from those of wise friends. I was early with personal computers, web conferencing and a hybrid auto. I'm reluctant with artificial intelligence, telephones and handhelds.

See the thread of agreement.

For those with means to adopt tech innovations, a considered life asks frequent discernment of which new wrinkles are worth including.

Adverse effects for our thinking are worth considering. So is inaccuracy coming from the sources artificial intelligence uses.

I wonder if they planned this...

REMINDER: DC summer internship applications close on 4/13! Apply here⬇️

hoyle.house.gov/services/int...

It is not an accident that the first cabinet members facing consequences are women.

Thread on transportation engineer education in US.

Happy Passover!

I read Jesus's interaction with a SyroPhoenician woman as showing a profound change in his outlook.

“May Day is a chance for us to replicate what we saw in the Twin Cities nationwide.“

@ezralevin.bsky.social and @maddow.bsky.social talk about the major national action planned for May 1 and why exercising our economic might is key for protecting election results. #NoKings

SAFE Corvallis is starting a Transit Team! Meet with others who care about public transit at Treebeards on Friday at 4. Happy Hour comes a week later and a block farther north.
mailchi.mp/a2c845688640...

Since early December the twin cities has been intensely learning, on the fly, the transformative power of nonviolent community action - in that short time: songs, awards, protests, firings of cabinet members, articles galore and a new form of neighbor - & folks, we’re just getting started!

SAFE Corvallis has an action alert out. It reminds us of an open house next week about the next set of neighborhood bikeways: 3/31 from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm at the Downtown Fire House. mailchi.mp/553fe37d825a...

Much of reactionary politics today is best understood as a Confederate restoration project.

-We Woke Up ICE and the Hotels That Supported Them - Aru Shiney-Ajay
We Somalis Have Always Been a Community That Responded to One Another - Amina Adan

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