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My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.

(15 in Manhattan btw)

09.08.2025 16:47 👍 10477 🔁 1243 💬 635 📌 621
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Cycling like the Dutch would slash the world’s carbon footprint If everybody cycled like the Dutch, we could offset the UK or Australia’s entire carbon footprint.

“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes.

This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com

13.12.2025 22:01 👍 1350 🔁 493 💬 47 📌 58

Ég vissi ekki að það væru þættir. Þarf að horfa á þá. Mér fannst hún klárlega áhugaverð en já ég er samt ekki viss um að mér hafi þótt hún góð

30.11.2025 00:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bókin eins og fólk er flest eftir Sally Rooney. Kápan er ljós-grá-græn, tiltill og nafn höfundar í hvítu letri. Á miðri kápunni er teikning af opinni sardínudós en í dósinni liggur par í faðmlög, karl og kona, hún í doppóttum hlýrabol og hann í röndóttum stuttermabol.

Bókin eins og fólk er flest eftir Sally Rooney. Kápan er ljós-grá-græn, tiltill og nafn höfundar í hvítu letri. Á miðri kápunni er teikning af opinni sardínudós en í dósinni liggur par í faðmlög, karl og kona, hún í doppóttum hlýrabol og hann í röndóttum stuttermabol.

Var að klára þessa og veit ekki alveg hvað mér finnst

29.11.2025 13:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...

4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...

Car Size

xkcd.com/3167/

14.11.2025 21:15 👍 9905 🔁 2769 💬 114 📌 157

Fuglinn minn hefur heilt yfir mjög vondan smekk

26.10.2025 10:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Mikilvæg og þörf bók. Falleg, sár og mannleg. Mér fannst gott að lesa hana og kannaðist við margt eftir að hafa fylgt nákomnum ættingjum síðasta spölinn undanfarin ár. Það er ógeðslega erfitt og fátt í kerfinu sem gerir það auðveldara. Mæli með þessari bók

19.10.2025 21:28 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.

Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.

ALL ROAD USERS.

And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.

For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.

Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

15.10.2025 01:32 👍 613 🔁 216 💬 7 📌 15

Ég keypti bókina að sjálfsögðu í bókabúðinni Skáldu á Vesturgötu sem selur bara góðar bækur

12.10.2025 22:28 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Mynd af forsíðu bókarinnar Kúnstpása eftir Sæunni Gísladóttur. Á forsíðunni er gult fjall með strengjum eftir því miðju og bleik kona og karl snerta strengina

Mynd af forsíðu bókarinnar Kúnstpása eftir Sæunni Gísladóttur. Á forsíðunni er gult fjall með strengjum eftir því miðju og bleik kona og karl snerta strengina

Þetta var skemmtileg lesning, fljótlesin, góður titill og töff kápa

12.10.2025 21:39 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Bókin Morð og messufall liggjandi í bílsæti

Bókin Morð og messufall liggjandi í bílsæti

Þetta var mjög skemmtileg bók og gerist að hluta til á Arnarnesi mínum gömlu heimaslóðum

25.09.2025 20:51 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Part of the issue with people saying you can't cycle in winter/rain/wind/whatever is because they haven't tried and if they did they'd find out it's almost always fine but another is that we've normalised driving in unsafe conditions and, crucially, being expected to drive in unsafe conditions.

22.09.2025 18:00 👍 172 🔁 22 💬 8 📌 3
Fagurblátt Clariol fótanudd tæki í hillu, sést glitta í aðrar gersemar í kring

Fagurblátt Clariol fótanudd tæki í hillu, sést glitta í aðrar gersemar í kring

Ég fór í Góða hirðinn í gær og sá ekta fótanuddtæki í fyrsta skipti. Smá eins og að rekast á einhverja stjörnu

17.09.2025 07:35 👍 22 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Morgnarnir ganga best þegar við náum að gera þetta svona

28.08.2025 13:34 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Before long we'll have our first person killed by a car on a stationary bike.

27.08.2025 21:50 👍 27 🔁 4 💬 4 📌 0
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ETSC: Mutual recognition deal with U.S. will cost lives on Europe’s roads By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the United States, the European Union has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice…

This is an INSANE decision by the E.U.

“By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the U.S., the E.U. has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice that puts trade convenience ahead of saving lives.”

This will kill people.

27.08.2025 23:16 👍 2060 🔁 1030 💬 103 📌 291

i think about this a lot.

when we loved in bayern we didn't have a car, and would have countless interactions - both verbal and non-verbal - with people of all ages.

that does not happen while driving.

24.08.2025 06:10 👍 77 🔁 9 💬 5 📌 0
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Reiðhjóla­bændur með vaktað hjólastæði í Traðar­koti til mið­nættis - Vísir Reiðhjólabændur bjóða í ár upp á vöktuð hjólastæði í bílastæðahúsinu Traðarkoti við Hverfisgötu á móti Þjóðleikhúsinu. Birgir Birgisson, formaður Reiðhjólabænda, segir þetta gert til að hvetja fólk ti...

www.visir.is/g/2025276569...

23.08.2025 11:23 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ókeypis örugg hjólageymsla í bílastæðahúsinu í Traðakoti á vegum Reiðhjólabænda í dag til miðnættis

23.08.2025 10:15 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

*Ég spurði gervigreind..*

Nei, ég vil ekki vita það. Segðu mér endilega frá hugmyndum þínum, draumum, hugdettum, vitjunum, dagbókarfærslum langaömmu þinnar, hvað maran þín sagði i myrkrinu, en ég hef engan áhuga á að vita hvað random generator reiknivélin þín hefur að segja.

18.08.2025 18:27 👍 53 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0

This @tomflood.bsky.social classic from today sums it up

14.08.2025 00:36 👍 128 🔁 17 💬 4 📌 0

🤩

29.07.2025 00:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Svo fínt 🤩

29.07.2025 00:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

😂

19.07.2025 15:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ég er sammála @glytta.bsky.social elska Skeifuna

19.07.2025 13:24 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Elska

19.07.2025 01:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

lots of speculation about the obamas getting divorced but the thing you have to understand is that we need affordable housing

16.07.2025 22:14 👍 8676 🔁 889 💬 121 📌 31
Hvítur jeppi sem ökumaður hefur lagt uppi á gangstétt og hjólastíg

Hvítur jeppi sem ökumaður hefur lagt uppi á gangstétt og hjólastíg

Skutbíll sem er hálfur uppi á gangstétt

Skutbíll sem er hálfur uppi á gangstétt

Lagningar dagsins í 102 Reykjavík

14.07.2025 21:14 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Cities aren't loud, cars are loud.

I had a direct experience of this a couple months ago biking on Coronado. The bike path along the silver strand and state highway 75 is cacophonous. 10 seconds after separating from the highway at the southern end I could hear birds chirping.

07.07.2025 02:24 👍 53 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0