Me, when I feel the need to justify being judgmental of others
IanShade is a public good.
Baltimore, MD 🦀 Professional Materials Engineer, Proud Union Member, Amateur Urbanist, 🚲+🚆Commuter, Rust Belt Renaissance Evangelist
Note: I'm doing this even though I live in Hampden and will have to bike up the hill from midtown twice, so you have no excuse! Get your butt to bike party and have a great time! 🚲🎉
Charm City Dept. of TrainsportationBaltimore bike party is tonight! The weather is fabulous, the theme is neon disco, and the shirt is F I R E. Im going all out tonight with a fresh rainbow disco shirt, and (if the delivery comes in) bike lights, free glow sticks to distribute, and a disco playlist. See you there!
The intersection of this with AI targeting (like what appears to be responsible for hitting the girls' school in Iran) seems like it could be a problem.
Faine GreenwoodI used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:
To 'yes and' this, ill take the additional step that this prudence includes re-desigining our streetscapes to be safe, connected, and convenient to bike on. Anyone who argues that it's too big an ask to make the road network designed for bikes ignore the decades we've already done that for cars.
CarlReplacing something that is a massive inconvenience and expense to own and maintain with something that can do most of the same daily tasks without the expense and inconvenience isn’t extreme, it’s just the prudent thing to do.
Huge congratulations to @transitcolumbus.org and @mobileharv.bsky.social to their work with @thewaroncars.bsky.social during their book tour and the well deserved shout out on the book tour review! The Columbus section starts around 44 min into the ep. sites.libsyn.com/132228/final...
That should be every day! The best day for Fund Septa Day is the first day of the legislative session, the second best day is today.
Pedro Severino Superfan (Orioles 54-58)how about fund septa day
This admin is the worst and any institution who chooses to comply when they have the resources to take them to court sucks too. Fight, and at least if you go down you go down swinging. It's been proven repeatedly that selling your soul to them buys you nothing.
Steve HermanThe Trump administration’s EEOC withdraws its subpoena seeking the names of Jews working for the University of Pennsylvania. www.thedp.com/article/2026...
Columbus, the rancid vibes are leaking from the Statehouse to affect other residents
Roy EdrosoGet ready for Night of the Long Knives 2, Josh
Seeeeeeeeeeems bad
Susan RinkunasAlarming stuff happening. Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee know they have the power to block Todd Blanche from becoming Attorney General permanently—he can't lose a single vote. Several Senators are now extorting Blanche into tackling an anti-abortion wish list to get their approval 🧵