Jason Aufdenberg

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

A leading American research lab is slated to lose its critical supercomputing facility, according to a letter released by the National Science Foundation.https://cnn.it/3MoF7zU

"Before Dachau was a concentration camp it was a town." Sobering interviews about the current state of affairs and what can be done about it.

You've got your traffic right when the sound of birds and people talking is louder than rush hour traffic!

Signed up!

Sidewalk on the west side of Nova Rd (Florida State Road 5A) in Daytona Beach with three lanes each way for cars.

This is the only road to the grocery store. Six lanes for cars, speed limit 50 mph, one sidewalk, 5 ft wide, only on one side of the road, for every one not in a car. In the middle of a city.

I am so happy that Liam is home!!!

@comixaction.com put out the call and @ethansacks.bsky.social gave me inspiration and the words — a good community is everything 💫 #Comics4Liam / comics4liam.com

FREE ALL THE CHILDREN caged in these horrifying detention centers… ABOLISH ICE!

What Americans Lose If Their National Center for Atmospheric Research Is Dismantled - Eos Five ways dismantling NCAR will cost the American people, and two ways to save it.

eos.org/opinions/wha...

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Map of the Netherlands that shows existing intercity routes (in green), planned and funded routes (in yellow), and routes now being planned for implementation (in gray) in the next 5 years.

The Dutch will double intercity bike routes in the next 5 years, from 1100 to 2300km.

Every city has local routes: Utrecht, for example, has 420km of separated bike lanes & bike streets. 𝘿𝙤𝙤𝙧𝙛𝙞𝙚𝙩𝙨𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙚𝙨 allow people to safety go by bike throughout NL.

More info:
www.fietsersbond.nl/nieuws/doorf...

It’s easy to think that schools in Minneapolis are closed because the Feds murdered someone in the street but no, the actual reason is that while that was happening, the Feds were busy doing other heinous shit across the city like tear-gassing a school

NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts

NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts.

Just awful. I used this library between 1987 and 1992 as an intern in high school and college. All of building 21 is closing, where all my mentors had offices, where the International Ultraviolet Explorer was controlled from.

[Episode #266] – Global Electricity Review 2025 (Lagniappe edition) | The Energy Transition Show Global carbon emissions from the power sector may be close to peaking thanks to an accelerating energy transition.

To close out a huge year, we are lifting the paywall on Episode 254 so that all can enjoy this comprehensive review of the data on the global energy transition with @ember-energy.org's @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social xenetwork.org/ets/episodes...

HNY from all of us at @TransitionShow! #lagniappe

People on bikes wait on car-free 5th Ave in Manhattan for cross traffic.

Screenshot from Love to Ride map of my journey on car-free streets through Manhattan for 20.7 miles.

… and Summer Streets in NYC in August was a blast. Car-free 5th Ave and others for more than 100 blocks!

Cargo Bike is at the corner of a residential intersection with houses in the background and a rainbow above.

Cargo bike is in the foreground on grass next to a trail. Rainbow is in the background over athletic fields.

Cool rainbow on my commute!

Image has text “2025 Year in Transit” and “I was in the top 7% of GO riders this year” with icons for my favorite lines: R and N in NYC and 60 in Volusia County, Florida.

My year taking transit using the Transit App in the USA.

Friends, our e-books are just $6.99 until 12/19. This deal is too good to pass up! Islandpress.org

A model image for the rotationally distorted star gamma Cas as seen from Earth. A football-shaped star about 1.5 times wider than tall, with a hotter, brighter pole and a cooler, dimmer equator. The star is orientated such that that the visible hot pole is pointed to the southeast.

New paper day! iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
Measurement of the Photosphere Oblateness of γ Cassiopeiae via Stellar Intensity Interferometry with the VERITAS Observatory

My first view of two-lane-wide bike lanes was on a visit to Portland, OR in 2017. Great to see this in NYC.

I love using my bike to take my other bike to the bike shop.

Cartoon: In the foreground, a character sits in a ladle outlined by stars (in the shape of the Big Dipper, the asterism in Ursa Major) sipping on a drink. In the background the Earth with the Moon beyond. The Earth has orbital path around it and two parabolic-shaped launch paths from the Florida peninsula.

From March 1, 1959: U-2 spy plane manual. Relax in the Big Dipper and watch the Space Race heat up. Not sure what this cartoon is doing in this manual. I looked at the manual while looking into the CIA-balloon film captured by the USSR to first image the farside of the Moon in 1958 (Luna III).

A pair of pumpkin pies sit side-by-side on a cooling rack. Crusts have astronomy theme: stars and spiral galaxies on one crust, suns and crescent moons on the other crust.

Operation Pumpkin Pie successful. #piesky

pRCV Study: Dive into the Mechanics ⚙️ YouTube video by Democracy Maine

Great video on details of proportional ranked-choice voting using real ballots from the multi-seat race in Maine. From @lwvme.bsky.social. In Florida we really need multi-member districts for U.S. House so that more voters are represented by their choices. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh32...

Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.

Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.

ALL ROAD USERS.

And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.

For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.

Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

Best takedown of Forester’s works I’ve seen. Wow.

Living it in Daytona Beach. Feels like February weather.

Action Center | League of American Bicyclists The League of American Bicyclists is proud to support actions at the federal, state, and local level to build a Bicycle Friendly America for Everyone. In our Action Center you…

Tell your U.S. House Rep to support money for biking and walking with help of the @bikeleague.org www.votervoice.net/Shares/B2kTM...

Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.

Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.

ALL ROAD USERS.

And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.

For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.

Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

For this cross walk pedestrians get a 7 second head start. Looking across the intersection, along the crosswalk you can see the signal head of the pedestrian signal. A cartoon bubble says "Walk sign in on". The left turn traffic in the background still have a red light, another cartoon bubble says "All red signals for 7 seconds".

This intersection has had a leading pedestrian interval since 2023 when the old crosswalk was less faded.

Looking east across the four-line arterial road Clyde Morris Blvd (SR 483) in Daytona Beach. The cross walk paint is just visible and badly needs to be repainted.

Same view across Clyde Morris Blvd after the crosswalk upgrade. Bright white bars and strips and a refreshed stop bar. Under the traffic light in the background you can just see the new crosswalk on another leg of the intersection.

Like night and day. FDOT comes through on request to upgrade crosswalks near campus. They added bars to the rungs on all three legs of the intersection.