D18 Town Hall on Roadway Safety December 17th, 7:00pm Newport Mill Middle School, 11311 Newport Mill Rd, Silver Spring, MD 20902

docs.google.com/forms/d/1xn3...

It's that time again - Tomorrow marks the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims.

DC, Maryland, Virginia peeps: rideforyourlife.org - Easy enough starting point to get to with a short ride from Metro, MetroBus, or RideOn.

Bethesda to the National Mall, ~9 miles, 10AM start.

I get it, and I got there eventually - But it was clunky and didn't tell the story well, learning about Matrix first from the recent Ubuntu news.

Paging @strongtowns.org

Plus "Threads" threw me off, making me wonder if it was also an AT & ActivityPub client.

Strongly suggest having someone take a less dev focused look at the client list.

Element Web / Desktop Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

@element.io suggestion - trying to figure out what you are (open source-focused Discord competitor, maybe?) I clicked through to find a client and hoped the page I found would better explain it.

It didn't.

matrix.org/ecosystem/cl...

Missing piece: No basic, prominent element.io link.

Much as I despise daylight savings time, how can anyone want it to be permanent?

Abolition is the only way. 🌞

Bethesda announces new ways to pay for old Fallout During its Fallout Day Broadcast, Bethesda announced new ways to pay for old games including Fallout 4 and Fallout New Vegas.

Ghouls called out: stevivor.com/news/bethesd...

Signage like that used in similar scenarios on Old Georgetown

Hey @mcdotnow.bsky.social & @mdsha.bsky.social - The concurrent/overlapping left turn off south kind Veirs with westbound University at Wheaton is dangerous and confusing.

And potentially has an easy way to mitigate it.

Can you please just post clear signage about uturn vs right turn right of way?

So busy

So much wasted space at the three permanently idle fare gates

Hate this so much - @wmata.com & @wmatagm.bsky.social: Please add additional means to get off the choked platform at Farragut North, especially at the southernmost end.

6th car ends where now?

Hey @wmata.com - Can Wheaton talk you out of a sticker on the platform?

Awkward still having to chase car 6.

Talking about the Flash BRT lines - Have been tracking the Veirs one for some time, and curious if the end of fare collection means that new station construction will be significantly cheaper and simpler. Both here and on other new lines.

Will it?

Fukuyama debunks the AI abundance myth: we can't feed or clothe all not due to a lack of smarts, but priorities and resources.

The world simply can't sustain the abundant lifestyle AI proponents promise, lacking even the electricity to run the very AI they favor.

Will abolishing fare collection eliminate the need for stations on new lines?

Can expansion accelerate now?

“The apocalypse is loose on Portland. A plague of giant frogs is besieging the city”.

Harvard Students Skip Class and Still Get High Grades, Faculty Say

Hey @paulisci.bsky.social - Are students the problem? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

at some point traffic engineers & politicians need to be held accountable

Read with "the interval snack is the concept of sadness" running in my mind. I feel I'm going quite mad.

Are you quite certain that's a real place?

Finally 📌

No. Sorry, but please get 311 to show up.

Unreadable countdown

Unreadable countdown

Street sign

@ddotdc.bsky.social busted ped crossing light, 21st NW & E, southwest corner of the intersection approaching Main State

Oomph

Genuine question for @arstechnica.com - Great you promote YubiKey FIDO tokens/passkeys as a gift for members, but why don't you support it to log into your service?

And if it's a Condé Nast problem, here's a subscriber to each asking why his accounts to @wired.com , @newyorker.com are separate.

@bannermoco.bsky.social - competing DC papers all have 🎁 links

Will be more tempted to continue after trial if added

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Shouldn't have to be able to read Braille to get an elevator and not barked at for hitting the emergency button.

At @wmata.com Farragut North, just as bad as either end of platform.

And seriously: Just add stairs there. The escalators are always choked with people. Please!

Star Wars Outlaws Developer Defends Nintendo Switch 2 Game-Key Cards, Says Cartridges That Force You to Download the Game Are Better For Loading - IGN The use of Switch 2's widely-disliked Game-Key Cards has been defended by a Ubisoft developer who worked on the Nintendo port of Star Wars Outlaws.

The real reason no one is selling switch to game cards- Nintendo didn't bother imposing the same performance requirements on the cartridges that they did the SD cards: www.ign.com/articles/sta...

Why an MIT student quit college over AGI fear, and are we really next? An MIT student just quit college over AGI fears. What’s driving elite dropouts into AI safety and startups?

That pairs excellently with this: interestingengineering.com/culture/mit-...

We’re holding our first community listening session on Tuesday, Aug. 26, at the Silver Spring Civic Building at Veterans Plaza.

This is your opportunity to meet The Banner’s journalists and senior leaders. Come with your questions and story ideas!

#montgomerycountymd #localnews

no, I said I wanted a tradewife. like a union electrician

Better pic, and capturing a MoCo bus listing

Glad to be wrong or see a quick update - Saw a RideOn 34 listing.

Still worth calling out which systems are visible on these signs, and documenting that just showing the next two buses at a depot of that size just isn't enough information to help riders make quick, intuitive decisions.