"They were so lucky I was looking"
Ummm no. Stopping in time for a child running onto the street is not heroic/lucky, it is your goddamn obligation as a driver. Cost of entry. Kids are allowed to be unpredictable, you are not.
This, but also Kent OH/$225k because our downtown got some new buildings and looks nicer now. Still plenty of run down student rentals=not gentrified!
Across an expanse of 5 lanes a young woman carting groceries waits in a turning lane to cross the street to her apartment complex.
Bad road design is putting this woman in danger. It’s a third of a mile to the nearest crosswalk and 2/3 mile to the nearest ped signal. A student was hit in this same location a few yrs ago & the police said to the newspaper: “I hope he learned his lesson.”
And many of these programs are net-earners because they teach gen ed classes with many students. Reduce the capacity to offer gen eds --> reduce gen ends --> end liberal arts education as we know it.
Yeah I dig deeper into this and admit that it’s very much about perception. I can email the chapter if you’re interested.
I have a whole (boring?) chapter on how to define small town vs city in my book. But also, town/city/village have municipal definitions that vary geographically. If I remember right Wisconsin interestingly follows New England on what these are.
Saratoga Springs is a small town of 28,000 people but not really small at all. I lived there at the cusp of its boom, still affordable on a $20k reporter salary. But you could see the internet & other forces pushing its success. This "success*?*" is something I write about in my book.
It seems I need to start a thread of "so Saratoga" activities. In this case, the (~beloved) local convenience store chain Stewart's is planning a new store ....with a condo on its second floor. www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
The acronym in the shape of Oklahoma really puts this over the top. 🏆
Right? I thought I’d at least try. My default storage is my bike bag but when it gets rained on fills with water & the lock rusted. Lasted 10 yrs though.
Trying to explain men's/women's bike differences to my kid which is annoying enough but then the images that show up first are saying men's bikes are racing bikes and women's are cruisers. (context is that my new ulock holder won't work on women's bike designs😡)
"Ohio’s public universities weren’t built to compete with each other or with private institutions. They were built to serve different regions, populations, and economic needs. That’s not redundancy — that’s democracy." ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04/09/r...
I bought UC regalia bc it’s cheaper bc it’s so common across CA! Also better colors than my own PhD uni.
The rise of AI will massively increase the value on being able to generate new information that isn't yet available in digital form. Can you call people and ask questions? Can you observe things in a systematic way? Can you navigate a library archive? This will set you apart.
🚨 NSF is already quietly eliminating the SBE Directorate, despite Congress’ mandate that NSF support the behavioral & social sciences.
Steps to counter this are in motion.
If you
- have an SBE proposal under review
- serve on an SBE grant panel
You can help! Fill out this form: shorturl.at/xuKw2
Every extra centimeter of hood height is another blind spot.
This isn’t an accident. It’s a design choice.
Stop manufacturing, selling, and buying these machines.
Image by @cleancitiescampaign.org & @transportenvironment.org
Watching this out the front porch and my non binary 10 yr old came running out “did they just say “the assumption that everyone has a gender?!!” I asked if they wanted to watch this video but they are busy playing Oregon Trail. Maybe later. But ❤️. Spreading the word. Thanks!
Every day! In a school zone! Regular enforcement would solve this.
Colorful tiles behind an induction range by Emu Tile, with the center one reading Kent with a tree.
my tip on that is to lean into it! I was excited to have a bigger canvas behind our induction range so I could add in some tiles from a local artist (a splurge, tbh, but pretty). I've also heard people complain about complex settings but our knobs work exactly the same as a traditional stove.
Excited to see this project moving forward. The Akron Innerbelt was closed in 2016 with exactly this - reclaiming the land to benefit the city - in mind. I really appreciate the focus of this project on remembering & repairing the harms done to these neighborhoods and people who live/d there.
Cleveland, city of light,
city of magic,
Cleveland, city of light,
you're calling me,
Cleveland, even now I can remember
'Cause the Cuyahoga River
goes smoking through my dreams
Burn on, big river, burn on,
Burn on, big river, burn on.
#GuardsBall #OpeningDay
I had some future preschool teachers visit my lab this week & they were like “I didn’t know maps could look like THIS”…. and kinda gave the same vibe.
A headline reading "Historic Saratoga Springs Building For Sale at Over $4M" showing what looks like an old red two-story grain store, which is in fact new, that is lifted up one level to add a third glassed-in retail space below.
The original red barn-like feed and grain store being demolished.
This is *so* Saratoga. All the news articles are saying this is a "historic building." It is not. It is the site of the last feed & grain store in the city, which was torn down as this street gentrified. In its place is a fake version, lifted up by one story over a glassed in retail store.
Because campus is very walkable but we need to get there & that’s not doable if sidewalks are covered in ice/snow/broken & gaps in bike network make it feel unsafe. There is no one at this meeting representing bikes/peds, just cars & bus.
Lots of hand wringing today at the transportation committee about parking availability on campus, esp high demand lots. I decided to be That Person & point out that the more people they can encourage to walk/bike, more parking for everyone else. This means pushing the city to up their game…
Street in Germany with staggered concrete pieces set a few feet to the left of the side of the road. Only one car can pass through at a time but bikes can freely move through
Friends! What are these things called and how can we get @arlingtondes.bsky.social to install them on neighborhood streets that are part of the bike network
"Researchers at the New York Botanical Garden looked at where water used to be, where there’s water now and where — thanks to climate change — water will be in the coming years. Those places are called Blue Zones."
Aerial image of a small town illustrating the disconnect of protected bike routes as a means of getting through/around downtown. A trail along the river, for example, has multiple sets of stairs that force cyclists to cut through parking lots and merge onto busy roads. To cross the river, another route goes along a bridge that is already narrowed by traffic cones due to structural problems, then sent up to an intersection on a hill with flashing yellow rather than all way stop.
I made this map of biking route disconnections for a project my senior capstone class is working on, and now I'm about to head off to a meeting on the other side of the river and experience this in person. 🙃
It's the fucking law that drivers have to stop for pedestrians in crosswalks you victim blaming assholes
