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safe/efficient junctions on the road network where I live: https://josh.works/traffic-bean

i saw the strava mention and I clicked through - this is a super cool project! The maps + visualizations are beautiful. Something about strava and the data we get from it is really…

working on bringing some basic, banal bits of infrastructure management to real-world traffic issues. I'm literally trying to fix broken junctions around me. It's at the same time …

I write for me, or the me of a few years ago. It sounds like you think I use more self-citation than you would expect, for someone writing only for themselves. Are you saying I'm w…

i write for me. I don't find most people in the USA to be worth taking seriously, either. Liiiike if someone thinks the primary purpose of police is something like "protecting and …

if a group of people (deputized slave patrols) is harassing and kidnapping another group of people (anyone perceived to be non-white), and I am talking about it, is it _me_ who is …

wow! Thanks for this link to the junction in Bodmin! I didn't know there were more. I'll save this and add it to the traffic bean post. Indeed, the junction can be a bit unfamiliar…

the junction in it's current form is like a wild, light-controlled, two-or-three lane hybrid between a roundabout and a standard junction. If you can do UK-style traffic circles, y…

'jaywalking' is a term that supports the concept of vehicular homicide. A normal ethical system would say the obligation to not kill anyone with a vehicle is on the operator of the…

I live in Denver - it's got the Standard American Design on every junction (every junction is a SAD junction) There's a house near here that was written about in an article - it's …

I started blogging in 2012, have been going pretty consistently since then. I currently 'go hard' on tiktok, because I've recently been collecting tons of footage of mobility netwo…

I do _not_ have any sort of insulin resistance, and have worn a CGM for a while, a few different times. (Purchased sorta 'just for fun', to evaluate my own metabolic responsiveness…

the biggest way to make a motorcycle safer, IMO, is remove the need for shifting. Lower the center of gravity, reduce the weight, increase the wind protection, make the riding stan…

Ooooh what a title In 2019 I was a bicycling a lot, and really wanted to get something with a motor, so I could be a bit faster/farther/not so sweaty with my trips. I had access to…

I find many people in my life seem very precious about their sleep, in a way that I am not. I also can sometimes endure a day that I detect fatigue in myself. I don't necessarily l…

timing can be a pretty big thing. Do you go up stairs slowly, or quickly? One step at a time or two? If someone is hustling up a staircase, the output can be quite high, even at th…

often-enough after a meal, I feel an impulse to walk a little bit, and I do. I live in a 5-floor building with roof access, thus six total flights of stairs. I find myself walking …

american-style intersections function with an order-of-magnitude higher safety and throughput and a much smaller square meter 'footprint' if they switch from 'controlled' intersect…

yes, exactly this. I believe it rises quickly to attention, upon researching at all the history of this "HOA thing" in the USA, is that they existed purely as a legal fiction to be…

no, i think it is the right move, especially if it landed as such a provocative statement to dig around on the profile, and then THAT RESEARCH revealed such a contradictory impulse…

ooooh, not clock as 'hit' but clock as 'I would note this thing seems to be true about you, and it would lead to me thinking at least a little less of something about you." That th…

supporting HOA's is supporting a key tool supremacists used in the USA for a long time to enact oppression and violence on people of the global majority. You can keep supporting it…

HOA's are part of how supremacists of the day, after losing a tool ("state-backed discrimination, segregation, and oppression of ppl of the global majority") figured out how to hid…

a lot of the 'oddness' of american 'policing' gets cleared up when considering one of the main origin stories of policing in America. Across the "american south"/the american slave…

I wrote a thing a while ago about my experience with continuous glucose monitors. This post about the Stelo is fascinating. https://josh.works/cgm