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brad262run

@brad262run@mastodon.online

runner, bike rider, coffee drinker

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brad262run, to books
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“You don’t close the #libraries, remove the #librarians, and simply have the #books on the shelf. What about all the other #students? What are you saying to them?” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/29/houston-school-district-libraries-book #houston #texas #education #reactionary #rightwing

brad262run, to climate
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“the first big public rift between two industries that have spent a century working side by side”
“, , , and have walked back a substantial number of their previous commitments”
“This ad illustrates the regressive shift from excessive back to blatant ”
“Ad agencies are trying to play both sides of the issue, and it just doesn’t work anymore” https://newrepublic.com/article/174392/big-oil-turning-big-auto

brad262run, to running
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“Records are falling and times are dropping. Is it the shoes, or something else?”
"It’s easy to make an anecdotal case that are faster than ever. Backing that up with data isn’t quite as straightforward”
“It does seem like there’s something going on, both on the track and on the roads”
"Is there something new on the scene over the last few years?” 🤔
https://www.outsideonline.com/health/training-performance/why-are-runners-suddenly-so-fast/

brad262run, to cycling
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Proposed Road Redesign Would Allow Cars Into 🤦‍♂️
“In a environment, this plan leaves and at the mercy of drivers—as if vulnerable road users need more risk” https://www.bicycling.com/news/a44347564/proposed-road-redesign-would-allow-cars-into-bike-lanes/

anildash, to random
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One of the great things about drivers is, if a pedestrian or cyclist offends them in any way, they’ll drive more dangerously & threaten other pedestrians and cyclists. But if a car impedes them in any way, they’ll drive more dangerously & threaten pedestrians and cyclists.

brad262run,
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@anildash
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https://mastodon.world/@davidho/110575190013917196 Cycling down a two-way street and it narrowed to one lane; an oncoming Porsche stopped to let me through. I was so confused until I remembered that this is the Netherlands.

brad262run, to Buffalo
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“Today there are about 320 unionized stores in the United States — a rare bright spot for the shrinking . But the gains have come at a price, officials said. Only 13 of the workers who signed the original organizing letter are still with the company”
“In the last year, judges have ruled that violated U.S. laws more than 130 times across six states, among the most of any private employer nationwide”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2023/starbucks-union-fired-worker/

brad262run, to cycling
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53% of users began again after one year away from a
7% of users used the programs to for the first time ever
37% of users reporting that they traditionally would have made their most common trip by car
35% of users reported using to to work at least once per week
"each user accounting for a reduction of 71 kg, or over 156 lbs, of carbon per year” https://www.bicycling.com/news/a44174170/bike-shares-create-new-regular-bike-riders/

brad262run, to Plants
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“A recent study estimates that more than 13 billion metric tons of CO2 from terrestrial are passed on to mycorrhizal each year, equivalent to about 36% of global ”
“Understanding the role of mycorrhizal is essential for and restoration efforts, as degradation and the disruption of communities pose significant threats to and plant productivity” https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/mycorrhizal-fungi-hold-co2-equivalent-to-a-third-of-global-fossil-fuel-emissions/

brad262run, to climate
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    “It is a matter of that if we are asking nations to rapidly decarbonise their economies, even though they hold no responsibility for the excess that are destabilising the , then they should be compensated for this unfair burden”
    “Almost 90% of the excess are down to the wealthy global north, while the remainder are from high-emitting countries in the global south, especially oil-rich states”
    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/05/climate-change-carbon-budget-emissions-payment-usa-uk-germany

    brad262run, to random
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    “In , about one in five residents are immigrants and hundreds of thousands of US citizens live in mixed-status households”
    “In one year, the state’s GDP could drop by $12.6 billion”
    “traveling to is dangerous”
    “truckers have called for a boycott of shipments to ”
    “It’s an attack on our systems of trust, of neighborly everyday interactions—on our
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    https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/05/all-floridians-should-be-worried-about-desantis-new-anti-immigration-law/

    1br0wn, to random
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    @1br0wn Good, and terrifying, profile of by Corey Robin. Shows how the collapse in social trust is a feature, not a bug, of what America’s so-called “conservatives” want

    The Self-Fulfilling Prophecies of
    For decades, Thomas has had a deeply pessimistic view of the country, rooted in his reading of the Fourteenth Amendment. After the ’s recent opinions, his is becoming our reality https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-self-fulfilling-prophecies-of-clarence-thomas

    brad262run, to random
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    Former CEO’s transformative vision for ?
    Turn it into 🤷‍♂️

    launches flight bookings in UK push
    "The move is part of a long-term vision of chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi, who first talked about becoming a wider platform in 2018” https://www.ft.com/content/0acdb9bd-2ec9-4050-891a-e5d6b60d1d94

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    “To 's credit, they have been a wildly innovative company, inventing many new ways to make the pile of shit bigger and the pony more plausible” 💩
    “ won't ever recoup, but that's OK. The investors and execs made vast fortunes” 😡
    “the burgeoning ‘secondary market’ for managers' shares has turned investors and managers into co-conspirators in the Venture Predation bezzle” https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/19/fake-it-till-you-make-it/

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    Meanwhile in

    The number 1 app in isn’t , it’s a app
    “It remembers riders’ preferred taxi companies, allows them to book a ride straight to ’s Narita or Haneda airports at a fixed fee, and can reserve taxis anywhere from 15 minutes to seven days ahead of time, thanks to -informed demand forecasting. Riders can also earn with airlines ANA or JAL” https://restofworld.org/2023/japan-uber-go-taxi-app/

    brad262run, to random
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    "overall on the corridor has diversified and increased, with marked gains in ridership, and activity. Also important, the and protect , and even other from violence that occurs with increased speeds”

    Cars don’t have to rule , or the future of L.A.
    https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-04-19/cars-los-angeles-public-transit-culver-city

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    Meanwhile in 🚲

    How This LA City Is (Slowly) Turning Into Amsterdam https://youtu.be/8frx0e9Jlc0

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