Orca with speech bubble saying “Apartments are fine actually”

Back today after a week off and walking 60 miles around Rome.

shared the train back from Ostia Antica with a school group. the teacher saw Jack quietly reading and commented to me in Italian how impressed she was. She asked to see the book and was REALLY impressed he was reading English, at which point we had to give up the game and admit to being tourists

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Kid is such a braggart even GWU kicked him out.

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Anyone else a little bit bothered by the Nat Zoo’s baby. Elephant’s mother rejecting him already? 😭

Mamdani hasn't had time to really think about all that space he now has, because he spends most of his time at City Hall and around New York City. He tries to keep a semblance of his old life by getting around the city on foot, by bike or train. "If you spend every single day driving around in a tinted window security detail, you will have a very specific view of the city," he said. "You actually meet other New Yorkers and you break out of the bubble that so many have come to expect of politics, where politicians only seem to be spending time with other politicians or the people who donated to make them politicians."

I'd say that this applies to anyone traveling in a car in any city. Being in a car versus walking, riding, or taking transit fundamentally changes how you view a place and your relationship to it. I wish more leaders set this kind of example.

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Donald Trump actually exposed that other side of New York just yesterday when he didn't know what a corner store was

Lost Cause Day

“Expansion”

I have done a lot of work to fast-track much-needed housing, and through that work I have seen another area in desperate need of streamlining: transportation projects to increase bicycle and pedestrian safety.

Jack’s drawing of Pompeii (done while we were at dinner last night on the place mat)

lol the Venus in the seashell painting was flagged as adult content.

New streetery regs

Bloomingdale House Tour

Day trip to Pompeii today via high speed train. Mind blown. It’s incredible.

The new Roman Cycletrack around the colosseum- still under construction

This parking enforcement officer doesn't know it but they just saved the life of a child today.

#whichwmata

Cat door at the Colosseum

Our plans to take the bus to the Appian Way were foiled by the marathon today! So we took metro and walked on a very non-ped-friendly street to finally get there.

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

Infamous

I booked a regular massage one time and they accidentally (?) gave me a Thai massage and started climbing on the table on top of me without consent and that was not fun.

Leg 1 of our spring break trip - SL to Dulles

in the same breath they're like "I saw some kids smoking weed on the train once and it bothered everyone" but then also "I bring my pet dog on the metro without a carrier and bother everyone"

Meanwhile the same people who want to bring their dogs on the metro get mad about fare evasion.

😞

The safety argument is shakier than it looks The industry’s foundational claim — that humans cause 94 percent of crashes — has long been debunked. National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy herself called that claim “not accurate” and “often mis-cited” — and it’s so widely misused that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration removed it from its own materials. But the claim lingers in the national mind because it sounds right and it absolves Big Car from culpability. But even setting aside the flawed claim that human error causes virtually all crashes, the data meant to replace it can’t be trusted either; Waymo has declined to share any findings from its city testing with the public, and we argue we still do not have enough information to make decisions on safety. The result is a data environment that is not just incomplete, but actively contradictory: Bloomberg Intelligence reported that Tesla is 10 times safer than Waymo, while recent reporting has found Tesla’s robotaxi performing four times worse than human drivers in Austin. Waymo says its studies show that its vehicles are at least 80 percent safer than the average driver, but a close look at the source reveals that all 10 authors work for Waymo! We are being asked to reshape New York City’s streets based on something we may not fully understand or trust just yet. Any future permit must require independent data disclosure as a baseline condition.

And the "AVs are safer" argument is shakier than people in the industry want you to believe...

There’s something nice about the fact that I can grab lunch in one of the nation’s major transit hubs and listen to a string quartet for a few minutes before I get back to doomscrolling.

I love the tooth one near 4th and G St SW.