Mastodawn

Anne Crawford Jan 25, 2024

Amy Diehl, Ph.D.Jan 25, 2024

Mansplaining trains women to limit and doubt themselves at the same time that it "exercises men’s unsupported overconfidence -Rebecca Solnit

Excellent article on mansplaining by historian Charlotte Lydia Riley that resonates in every field.
https://www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781526174703/9781526174703.00009.xml

Reflection – Male historians explain things to me

Charlotte Riley explores the patriarchal cultures of expertise, evaluation, and promotion that deform the work of historians today. Gendered patterns of harassment and bullying represent one extreme of more pervasive forms including interpersonal interactions within the conference, seminar room or lecture theatre, and department meeting, conventions of citation and acknowledgement, and decisions about research funding, appointments, and promotion. Scholarly or pedagogic styles are intensely gendered, in ways that reward some – usually white men – and disadvantage others. The cliched protest ‘not all men’ obfuscates the distinctions between individual responsibility and structural privileges from which all men derive benefit. Expertise, authority, professionalism – those identities to which historians lay claim and on which working lives rely – are embedded in deep-rooted cultures of masculinity

manchesterhive

Anne Crawford Dec 29, 2023

My take:

Returning Valencia Street center bike lane to its “historic” iteration as a sanctioned double parking lane is not an option.

The huge increase in families, kids, and older people biking/scootering on Valencia has proven the need for a safe path across town.

It’s a wide street. Let’s join together to make this work.

— Can SFMTA adjust the ratio of parking spots to loading zones?

— Merchants need to decide — maybe on a block-by-block basis — whether they want parklets or car parking.

— Can delivery apps rent vacant storefronts as hubs for e-delivery bikes? You can park a lot more bikes than cars in front of restaurants. And reduce unsafe double parking.

— More bike parking is needed on every block. The new racks at the DeYoung offer a slim, practical design.

https://48hills.org/2023/12/opinion-the-valencia-street-center-bike-lane-was-a-mistake-and-has-to-go/

#sfbike #ValenciaStreet #SFMTA

Opinion: The Valencia Street center bike lane was a mistake and has to go - 48 hills

It's unsafe for cyclists, bad for small business, and shows the need for SFMTA reform.

48 hills

Anne Crawford Dec 19, 2023

Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, PhD Dec 16, 2023

Am I dreaming or did Discover Freaking Magazine pick up our puzzle paper

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/mathematical-solution-found-for-jigsaw-problem-weve-all-faced

Mathematical Solution Found For Jigsaw Problem We've All Faced

How big a table do you need for all the pieces in an unassembled jigsaw?

Discover Magazine

Anne Crawford Nov 17, 2023

Jesse Nov 17, 2023

We can't put in protected bike lanes, our roads are too narrow. #bikelanes #bicycles #CarsRuinCities

Anne Crawford Nov 10, 2023

Jym Dyer 🚲🌎Nov 10, 2023

• All hail the bike hero!
#BikeSF
https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/bottom-hill-bike-hero-san-francisco-18478090.php

Anne Crawford Nov 6, 2023

Ivey Janette McClelland Nov 6, 2023

Can't believe it,but it's been 1 year since I came here to Mastodon.

It was very intimidating at first,but now I've made new friends. And even reconnected with some who also migrated over from the bird site.

So GLAD to be here.

Glad that you've welcomed me.

Here's to more years🍾

Anne Crawford Oct 26, 2023

Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, PhD Oct 26, 2023

My husband picked up a 5 foot tall bookshelf from IKEA with our cargo bike and when I asked him how it went he said it was "very rewarding to bike past cars with something big" 💪😎

Anne Crawford Oct 10, 2023

Lee 🌏Oct 9, 2023

😂 😂 😂 I am literally crying.
Thanks for recommending this on The Urbanist Agenda podcast. @notjustbikes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9BUyWVg1xI

Conversation with an Engineer

YouTube

Anne Crawford Oct 10, 2023

Laffy Oct 9, 2023

Geez.

Via Anna Bower:

Bill Bachenberg, GOP donor & #Pennsylvania "fake elector," is being sued for allegedly failing to pay a cybersecurity firm after it did not find evidence of election fraud.

Per a court filing, Bachenberg allegedly assaulted the process server who attempted to hand him a summons: #legal #TrumpIndictment

Anne Crawford Oct 7, 2023

Safe Street Rebel Oct 5, 2023

Today along Marina Boulevard there were far more people on the mixed-use path than people in cars on the road. We're only going to get more hot, sunny days in the future. Marina Boulevard doesn't need all those lanes, maybe it doesn't need any of them.