Fantastic piece from @leahstokes.bsky.social, with several practical ideas about how to reduce electricity prices.
I love Oasis
@nbcnews.com renew your contract with YouTube TV. I don’t want to pay more for your channels - I will simply stop watching. Stop the corporate greed!
In 2011, a stretch of I-195 that ran through the heart of Providence was demolished, freeing up 26-acres of Downtown adjacent land for new housing, public space, offices and labs and reconnecting neighborhoods once divided by the original highways construction.
📍Providence, RI
Remember, when it comes to the actual likelihood that a vehicle crash will occur at all, AND whether the consequences of a crash are serious, or even deadly, or not, speed is ALWAYS a factor. Including when the legal speed limits are currently too high. #SpeedKills #VisionZero
They should sell cookies at bars.
Here's a "human composting" company that's offering an alternative to standard burial. You become soil & sequester a little carbon!
It automatically got sorted into my promotions folder
Croc charms
shout out to slo
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People riding in a painted, slightly separated bike-lane
“Every $1300 New York invested in new bike-lanes in 2015 provided benefits equivalent to 1 added year of life at full health over the lifetime of all city residents.”
Among many other benefits, bike-lanes are a really smart public health investment. #CityMakingMath
www.reuters.com/article/busi...
Bike lanes aren’t just about bikes, they’re about giving people safer options, especially kids, seniors, and those without cars.
Opposing it says more about fear of change than concern for community wellbeing.
Scary things that you may have recently read headlines about that it turned out you didn’t have to worry about include: microplastics in your brain, black plastic spatulas, intermittent fasting, and plant based meat alternatives.
Also, no, you do not eat a credit card’s worth of plastic a month.
The moment a Low Traffic Neighbourhood goes in, drivers who want to rat run through your street will start shouting that ‘the old and disabled can’t cycle!!!’.
As Zwolle, Netherlands, clearly shows, segregated cycling and LTNs *increase* freedom for those with mobility issues.
Browsing for books in Hay-on-Wye
I don’t know how to say this without it sounding like a joke, but someone is listening to The Beatles on my account
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
The quoted post says “Blocked” for me, but I haven’t blocked any accounts. Does this mean they’ve blocked me? 🤣🤔