A couple of restaurants have closed recently on St. Peter in downtown St. Paul, and I can only assume they would still be open today if the city had finished their planned bikeway down that street.

I do better when I force myself to wait at least 8 hours before responding to any dumbassery.

Car addicts seem to only be able to talk from a perspective of car addiction. Meanwhile, people who have or who are working on escaping car addiction seem to be able to grasp a wider variety of perspectives. As pedestrians, as transit riders, as cyclists.

You just get better comprehension and policy from people who can percieve transportation in more ways than through the windshield of their private automobile.

Self-identified "objective" news outlets consistently take sides when car culture is the subject.

https://mobile.twitter.com/anotherJon/status/1085068357274165248

Sorry for the politics here's a compensatory shitpost

I did a bodily function!!

https://streets.mn/2018/11/07/everyones-2040-plan-sucks/

Good pinch in the arm about the the urgent need for more aggressive urbanism (housing+, transit+) as part of climate efforts.

If we had a standing/regularly recurring happy hour/after-work/pub trivia get together (e.g., every month, alternating between :flag_stp: and :flag_mpls: would you put it on your calendar (and occasionally attend)?

No, mndot, CARS are dangerous.

So in the last month of being a new Mastodon admin I've seen: (1) a popular instance wipe its entire database and (2) a popular instance's operator ragequit and take the server with them.

Definitely an education in mastodon failure modes!

My sense is that the decision to become a Mastodon admin comes with some responsibility to plan for continuity... the broader Mastodon community suffers when there is no plan or a lack of effort to carry it out.