Favorites June 28 2021

(((Matthew Lewis))) has some Shoup for you @mateosfo

Hypothesis: Riding a bicycle for everyday trips is the gateway drug to local activism, and to realizing the crisis of democracy is government serving loudest voices, rather than majority. First thing that happens when you ride a bike for errands is, drivers try to kill you.

There's a whole thread about how you'll go down a rabbit hole of decisions on parking by rich white people who pay little in taxes only to discover that bike lanes won't be added for decades despite massive amounts of available funding. Somehow it gets worse from there.

Zoe Tillman @ZoeTillman

A win for Gavin Grimm, the transgender student who challenged his school board's bathroom policies — SCOTUS declined to take up Grimm's win in the lower court. Thomas and Alito would have heard the case. supremecourt.gov/orders/courtor…

Looks like a good outcome from the Supreme Court.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I get the sentiment, but the genuine pro-housing position isn't that you should go door-to-door convincing people to not be NIMBYs it's that we should have a structural change in the regulatory process to eliminate local veto power.

Central NJ Yimby 🇺🇸🚲🏙 @YIMBY_Princeton

Take: YIMBYs should probably spend more time on Nextdoor instead of Twitter.

Despite how good it feels, arguing with NIMBYs directly is bad.

Laurie Garrett @Laurie_Garrett

Just 0.8% of U.S. #COVID19 deaths are fully vaccinated people. yahoo.com/news/almost-cu… BUT nearly a third of deaths now in the UK are fully vaccinated. theguardian.com/theobserver/co… Differences? - U.S. vax'ing is mostly mRNA vaccines. UK is mostly @AstraZeneca MORE

theguardian.comWhy most people who now die with Covid in England have had a vaccination | David Spiegelhalter and Anthony MastersDon’t think of this as a bad sign, it’s exactly what’s expected from an effective but imperfect jab

Wow, these mRNA vaccines are *amazing*. If I’d gotten a J&J shot I’d definitely be looking to get one of the others.

Portland Streetcar @PDXStreetcar

In case you're wondering why we're canceling service for the day, here's what the heat is doing to our power cables.

By the way, it's been pretty hot in Portland. We can only hope infrastructure failures don't take out too much critical infrastructure as this summer continues to heat up.

Niagara-on-the-Lake, September 2018

No, I don’t understand why Niagara-on-the-Lake has such a strangely formatted, easily confused name.