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roadskater

@roadskater@mastodon.social

Inline skating the mean streets of NYC since 1993 and still alive to kvetch about it.
Webmaster for some scientists.
Java netCDF dataviz and cartography coder.
Somewhere left of center.
Recovering Idahoan.
Bobcat grad.
Jack Methodist.
Once upon a time RPGer and developer.
Erstwhile alternate history authority.
Miscellanea and erratica.
Born at 319ppm CO2.

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jamesthomson, to random
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Thursday: Finally gets Vision Pro
Monday: Is diagnosed with early-stage cataracts

Alanis Morissette Reaction GIF by MOODMAN

roadskater,
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@jamesthomson @fahrni I was so happy when the ophthalmologist said it wasn't glaucoma.

MissingThePt, to random
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Breaking: Biden Is Now Older Than at Any Previous Point in His Life.

roadskater,
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@MissingThePt Again!?

capntransit, to random
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The more I read about this, the better it looks! The New York City Department of Transportation is proposing to take a shitty, cars-only road that's a combination access road for the Van Cortlandt Park golf course and on/offramp to the Major Deegan Expressway, reallocate a ton of asphalt to parkland and a raised/curb-protected bike path, build sidewalks and stripe crosswalks. Yay!

https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/van-cortlandt-park-south-bailey-ave-feb2024.pdf

Proposal 18 Off Ramps: Relocate and normalize intersection geometries Add stop controls and pedestrian crossings Legalize north ramp’s left -turn Integrate old ramps into existing vegetated area On Ramp: Slow right turn movement Add pedestrian crossing Legalize left -turn onto ramp Benefits: • Calm vehicles exiting + entering the Expwy • Reduce crossing distance • Improve visibility at new crosswalks
Proposal 20 • Close slip lane and maintain Greenstreet • Provides space for Bx10 bus bulb Benefits: • Eliminates a conflict point between pedestrians, vehicles, and bicyclists • Reduces total crossing distance by 95 feet • Relocates crosswalk and creates a smaller intersection • Improves pedestrian infrastructure near bus stops BEFORE AFTER EXAMPLE PROJECT: BROADWAY, FLUSHING, GRAHAM AVE, BROOKLYN
Proposal 22 Realign off-ramps Reduce crossing distances Expand island and close slip lane Build new sidewalks Create bike connection Build pedestrian island Benefits: • Improve pedestrian infrastructure • Safer, shorter, and more visible pedestrian crossings • New bike connection to Park and Empire State Trail • Stop and slow vehicles entering and exiting the Expressway • Reduce vehicle and pedestrian/bicyclist conflicts

roadskater,
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@capntransit @Iragersh Access to EST from 242nd sucks if there's been any rain in the past several days because of that underpass that turns to mud.

dangillmor, to random
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If this is true, the vast majority of clicks on advertising at the deadbird site during the Super Bowl were fraudulent.

https://mashable.com/article/x-twitter-elon-musk-bots-fake-traffic

What will advertisers do about it? What can they do about it?

roadskater,
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@dangillmor This is my surprised face.

lzg, to random
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    @lzg That's a complete horror story in one sentence. Problem is, the author is probably out there somewhere trying to write a sequel.

    lzg, to random
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    roadskater,
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    @lzg And the tingle of feeling that you a great price.

    Andres4NY, to random
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    The Power Broker talking about a broke NYC under O'Dwyer (after lots of graft, corruption, and wildly expensive Moses highway projects), and how Moses proposed just doubling subway fares and sales tax while not raising income or property taxes... 😠

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    @Andres4NY Emphasis on "his projects". If it wasn't something that would be under his control afterward, he did a shitty job on it, if he did it at all.

    gwagner, to nyc

    2026 Soccer World Cup final will be in MetLife Stadium. That's 2½ years to figure out how not to turn this into a total embarrassment.

    The stadium is 8 miles from . When you ask Google Maps how to get there, it first asks you which of the 10 parking lots you meant. 🤷🏾‍♂️

    NY/NJ vs Madrid

    roadskater,
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    @Andres4NY @gwagner The Super Bowl some years ago was a proof of concept on how to F it up.

    Andres4NY, to random
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    ah that's exactly what i need this month, jury duty 🙄

    roadskater,
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    @Andres4NY @pleaseclap
    I've no idea about Queens and maybe things have changed in 15 years, but GJ duty was loads of fun. For some definition of fun.

    Regular GJ duty there is no questioning beforehand. Your name gets called or it doesn't. They might accept excuses of a medical nature.

    Special GJ duty is a different beast and I'm glad I escaped that the one time they tried to tag me for it.

    Andres4NY, to random
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    I need a bike routing option for OSM that's like, "prefer bus lanes".

    roadskater,
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    @Andres4NY @organicmaps I had so much trouble with Google Maps offering me bike routes that traversed cemetery roads (behind locked gates) that it was mostly useless for navigating Queens.

    capntransit, to random
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    'New York’s “Outer Borough Transportation Account,” … established in 2018 with the goal of boosting transit options in city neighborhoods that are far from subway stations

    'But last fall, Hochul — along with representatives appointed by Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins — ordered nearly all the money be used for toll discounts to drivers'

    We need more transit supporters in the Legislature to stop this from happening!

    https://gothamist.com/news/gov-hochul-backs-congestion-pricing-but-gives-free-tolls-to-queens-bronx-drivers

    roadskater,
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    @capntransit @Andres4NY Remind me, what if anything did Spitzer get done? I barely even remember him being governor, and yet he shared part of that one term with Paterson.

    (Cuomo the elder was governor was in his last term when I moved here.)

    lzg, to random
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    @lzg “She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.”

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    roadskater, (edited )
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    @lzg This is the story of NYC over the past couple years. There's like two weed shops on every block in my neighborhood now, and I'm not convinced that any of them actually have the required license.

    Andres4NY, to random
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    Week #2 of my spouse being on a business trip. The children have gone feral. I'm subsisting off tree bark and random snacks I find under the couch cushions. The neighbors are complaining about a smell, but I'm afraid of what I'll find if I go looking for it.

    roadskater,
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    @Andres4NY It's been 20 hours. I'm still waiting for an update on the cake.

    localmetro, to random
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    Remember not to park in the bike lane unless you're going to be really quick!

    https://www.localmetro.net/post/remember_not_to_park_in_the_bike_lane_unless_youre_going_to_be_really_quick

    roadskater,
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    @rejinl @Andres4NY @localmetro "Need"? 🤨

    gwagner, to nyc

    …if you invest in some insulation and perhaps even a heat pump & induction stove to cut the gas line.

    #NYC #climate

    roadskater,
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    @gwagner I have seen the unicorn, and god is it ever ugly.

    MissingThePt, to random
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    Bob Menendez says he’s “the best Senator money can buy.”

    roadskater,
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    @MissingThePt He probably said "as good as gold bars" and the Post got it wrong.

    bigzaphod, to random
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    What better way to celebrate 's 40th anniversary than by using BitCam https://iconfactory.com/bc.html to take a pic of your current Mac? 😛

    roadskater,
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    @bigzaphod ICU.

    roadskater, to CrystalsHashtags
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    I honestly don't know why it took so long to get my lately ass out of the apartment on Saturday. Finally, finally!, I started about 8 p.m. Thought I'd go to Red Hook, but the moment I finished crossing the Manhattan Bridge, I changed my mind and went to Greenpoint instead. Probably because the spot in Red Hook with the best views is a major PITA to reach after dark because of crappy asphalt and just-as-bad lighting. Greenpoint, though, is easy-peasy.

    Andres4NY, to random
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    So I was woken up this morning by my because he had an earbud nozzle/tip stuck in his ear.

    That's how my Saturday began, using tweezers to fish a piece of plastic out of a kid's ear.

    roadskater,
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    @Andres4NY That happened to a family member of mine. He was about 65 when it happened.

    His wife couldn't get it out, so he ended up going to the emergency room where they had to find the extra special set of tweezers, the ones that cost like $800 per use.

    lzg, to random
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    @lzg Do they then apologize when they bring more than you ordered (or paid for)?

    nixCraft, to random
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    Who taught you how to write program?

    roadskater,
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    @nixCraft Wrote my first couple programs in RSTS BASIC-PLUS when I was in ninth grade. Learned on my own. No idea what documentation I might have learned from. It was fun writing code to do array stuff without knowing how to code arrays.

    After that, three years of programming classes in 10th-12th grade. (My school district was ahead of its time.) Lots more BASIC-PLUS, some Fortran-77, some PDP assembler, etc. Have never taken a programming course since.

    lzg, to random
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    @lzg It's been a while since the last remake of "The Shop Around the Corner", and you've got part of a first act already.

    capntransit, to random
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    RT @2avsagas One of the elements of the complaint is that congestion pricing is an unfair burden on people who own not just one, but two, homes. Won't someone think of the poor New Yorkers who drive to their country homes in the Hudson Valley every weekend?

    roadskater,
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    @capntransit And every one of these people uses their non-NYC address as their home address when getting car insurance.

    molly0xfff, to random
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    i realize some of you may have thought i was joking when i said one of the things that made me excited about leaving substack was control over how my footnotes and references look

    🤩

    roadskater,
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    @molly0xfff This is where reading an ebook is absolute murder. I was trying to read Kuang's Babel last month, and all the footnotes got turned into end notes, and the Libby app makes going back and forth from text to end notes a complete nightmare.

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