I ran some errands yesterday morning, visiting two stores and a library that were all relatively close to where I live. I regularly bike a much longer distance to get to work and back, so by any right, I should have done the same for these small errands. If there had been some bike racks at the shopping center where two of the errands were, I almost certainly would have done so, but faced with the (relatively minor) inconvenience of not having anywhere to lock my bike while in a grocery store or optician’s office, I took the coward’s route and drove.

Lots of helpful thoughts in this post. Makes me think about the value of Mastodon for the academy—and other spaces that I care about. Also, I love seeing Doctorow and academic thinking come together.

This is a tragic detail in an even more tragic story. Government can absolutely be good, and our allergic reaction to spending, laws, and policy only makes these situations worse.

Hooray for additional bike infrastructure!

Yes for more transportation funding, but not if it’s all going to cars.

Northeast Corridor is great, but more trains in Kentucky, please. I don’t mind waiting.

Helpful read on infrastructure money coming to Kentucky.

Internet is a question of infrastructure, and infrastructure is a question of justice.