#30daysOfBiking past so much free parking on stolen land, empty churches with empty parking lots, drivers without the requisite number of headlights or license plates unable to stay off of the painted lines, some living in their cars, full parking lots at bars, signs proclaiming "we believe... support isreal in this fight", and a storm drain / flooded bike lane from March is clogged again (new report number 2803666.) Screeching brake rotor and a rusting chain, thanks to last Thursday's rain.
The inherent violence of claims to land and power is a complicated fabric to unravel, but the externalities of driving bleed into housing, public health, money in politics, private prisons, and oil wars. Ask yourself "what's the simplest thing that could possibly work?", and try it. Today I'm going to lube my chain and bike to the grocery store.
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