Tootfinder

Wife's traveling. She left a few days ago and I'm single-parenting for 2 weeks, so naturally:

Rozana, which offers rural e-commerce and logistics services to 21,000 villages across India, raised a $31.6M Series B led by Bertelsmann India Investments (Gyan Vardhan/Entrackr)
https://entrackr.com/news/rural-commerce-startu…

Rural commerce startup Rozana raises Rs 290 Cr in Series B led by Bertelsmann
Rural omnichannel retail platform Rozana has raised Rs 290 crore ($31.6 million) in a Series B funding round led by Bertelsmann India Investments.

RE: https://sfba.social/@MLNow/116032085703329563
wtaf?

Most of California's Democratic congressional delegation sent a letter to state AG Rob Bonta urging him to "closely scrutinize" the Paramount-WBD deal (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/biz/news/rob-bonta-paramount-warner…

California Attorney General Urged to Scrutinize Paramount-W.B. Merger
A group of 34 Congressional Democrats urged Attorney General Rob Bonta on Thursday to carefully scrutinize the Paramount-W.B. merger.

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Living On The B Side
A podcast about the transformative power of music — in life, healing, and human connection...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/living-on-the-b-side/

On Setting Up a Raspberry Pi Off-grid PV-Powered Server (2014) - How I set up a Raspberry Pi (Model B then B ) after the SheevaPlug. ~1.6W consumption typical, 400x less than my original server rack! #RPi #frugal #offGrid

On Setting Up a Raspberry Pi Off-grid PV-Powered Server (2014)
How I set up a Raspberry Pi (Model B then B+) after the SheevaPlug. 1.6W consumption typical, 400x less than my original server rack! #RPi #frugal #offGrid

Das #Rezept des Tages:
🌿 Aromatische #Bärlauchbutter selbst gemacht. 🧈
Mit nur zwei Zutaten – #Bärlauch und weicher

Bärlauch-Butter
Kräuterbutter ist eine frische Verarbeitungsvariante für Bärlauch. Sie hält sich nur begrenzt und ist etwas für die Erntesaison. Es sei denn, man friert sie ein.

Cardinals open offseason program with 'no B.S. guy' Mike LaFleur setting tone: 'Everything is a big deal' https://www.nfl.com/news/cardinals-mike-lafleur-no-bs-approach-everything-is-a-big-deal

Eine selten besprochene Sache ist das der israelische Staat nicht allen jüdischen Menschen ein Bleiberecht gibt, sonder explizit nicht-weiße Jüd:innen, z.B. aus Uganda oder Äthiopien ausschließt. Äthiopische Frauen in Israel wurden sogar Zwangssterilisiert. Diesen Staat mit dem Judentum gleichzusetzen ist weiterhin falsch.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
El Michels Affair:
🎵 Dhuaan
#ElMichelsAffair
https://elmichelsaffair.bandcamp.com/album/dhuaan-b-w-sha-na-na
https://open.spotify.com/track/042AGjynfDuMYtIbWBj1aq

A mtg where we deliberated on shipping a defect. Product irrecoverably hangs when events A and B - which we do not deliberately _preclude_ from happening at the same time - happen at the same time. A is nearly always "on"; B occurs at a configurable interval: every 5s to 5hrs. For best results with A, B (which takes only 1 second) should happen as frequently as is convenient. Recovery == full reset.
We're going to ship this. They .. and any of our customers who accept th…

How do I sort a list of tuples in a way that the items are in as few consecutive tuples as possible?
[(a,b),(a,c),(a,d),(b,c),(b,d),(c,d)] -> [(a,b),(c,d),(a,d),(b,c),(b,d),(a,c)]

There are downsides to having a self-hosted family chat room.

> Somebody had to move first
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-adopting-year-round-daylight-time-9.7111657

Xoople, which is developing a satellite constellation to collect earth data for training AI models, raised a $130M Series B, bringing its total funding to $225M (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/06/spains-xoople-rais…

Spain's Xoople raises $130 million Series B to map the Earth for AI | TechCrunch
The company is also announcing a deal with L3Harris to build the sensors for Xoople's spacecraft.

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yeah, man, then why'd you give me a fuckin' B?!

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JWST Unveils a High Mean Molecular Weight Atmosphere for Mini-Neptune TOI-1130 b - Evidence for Formation Beyond the Water Ice Line: #minineptune companion suggest both planets formed surprisingly far away from their host star.

Black Louisiana Town Says Officials Downplayed Toxic Danger - Capital B News
https://capitalbnews.org/roseland-toxic-explosion-cover-up-health-risks/

#Anthropic is the first American firm to be labelled a supply-chain risk by the US Department of War. Dario Amodei, the boss of Anthropic, apologises for bashing Pentagon—but still plans to challenge the Pentagon’s designation in court.
By @…:

„For […] Koreans watching [NASA‘s Artemis II mission] in real time on the KBS TV YouTube channel, the phrase took on an entirely different meaning. The AI-generated subtitles failed to grasp the aerospace context, misinterpreting “pitch” as an English expletive beginning with the letter B and then rendering its Korean equivalent.“
https://

Korean TV under fire over profanity glitch in AI subtitles for Artemis II - The Korea Herald
“Roger, roll, pitch,” said mission control during NASA's Artemis II mission, streamed live to millions around the world. But for some Koreans watching it

Which one is the neck pillow, and which one is the cat? #CatsOfMastodon #Erie

This is really good https://skywriter.blue/@eliothiggins.bsky.social/3mitbqzpvhk2x”
"Disordered counterpublics simulate VDA but invert its meaning. 'Verification’ becomes selective sourcing. 'Deliberation' becomes a loyalty test. 'Accountability’ means naming enemies. They look democratic on the surface but accelerate collapse.”
So much of this applies to so many spheres right now, but I see a lot of what I quoted in nominally leftist spaces.

Even more Star Trek Adventures:
Every Star Trek episode with a Starfleet member on a Klingon ship: "I will impress the Klingons with how stoic, tough and warrior-like I can be!"
GM: "What is Kenna's last scene for this episode?"
Me: "Kenna came with a duffle bag filled to the brim. Now she rolls up her air mattress, the self-inflating kind, and she takes her pillow — one she crocheted herself — and goes to Lieutenant Lo'B's quarters.&quo…

Trump to Host Brazil's Leader After Months of Ups and Downs (Adam B. Ellick/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/world/americas/trump-brazil-lula-meeting.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260507/p11#a260507p11

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The B-52's:
🎵 Love Shack
#NowPlaying #TheB52s
https://djwarrentrack.bandcamp.com/album/the-b-52s-love-shack-2-versions
https://open.spotify.com/track/4W4wYHtsrgDiivRASVOINL

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Vittoria/116359533026699877
Zou Jetten al een plan B hebben opgesteld met Willem en Maxima?
Een vreselijke van van de bordestrap kan natuurlijk altijd voorkomen...

Schon wieder eine CD-B-Seite manuell digitalisiert, weil sie auf keinem Streaming-Dienst existiert. Wir bilden uns ein, Spotify & Co. haben alles, aber verdammt viel fällt durchs Raster, sobald man nur noch darauf vertraut.
Aktuelles Beispiel: Frittenbude – Plörre (2010), die Remix-Bonus-CD zu Katzengold. Katzengold selbst? Drauf. Plörre? Nirgends. 11 Tracks einfach weg.
Physische Medien sind leider noch keine Nostalgie oder Müll. Sie sind Backup.

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2026 NFL Free Agency: Prescribing Plan A and B for 9 QB-Needy Teams https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2026-nfl-free-agency-prescribing-plan-b-9-qb-needy-teams

Longtime friends with a common commitment to YDS: Read our new story on alums Jim Waits '61 B.D. and Barbara Brown Taylor ’76 M.Div. and the amazing friendship that began when Dr. Waits hired her to be his assistant at Candler School of Theology in 1978. #WeAreCalled

Nexstar reports record Q1 net revenue up 13.1% YoY to $1.396B, net income up 64.9% YoY to $160M, and ad revenue up 19.1% YoY to $548M (TVNewsCheck)
https://tvnewscheck.com/business/article/nexstar-q1-revenue-hits-record-after-tegna-deal/

yep

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Death Valley Girls:
🎵 The Universe
#DeathValleyGirls
https://deathvalleygirls.bandcamp.com/album/the-universe-b-w-when-i-m-free
https://open.spotify.com/track/4eNcUZrlnRz3TbqUX1I8Ns

Oh I'm sorry, did you want to sit on the couch? #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon
This also show how much bigger Twig is compared to his mom!

Astrocade, which lets users create video games using natural language prompts, raised $56M, including a Series A and a Series B, and says it has ~5M MAUs (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/05/05/astrocade-ra…

Sequoia-backed Astrocade raises $56 million to let everyone build games
Astrocade, launched publicly less than a year ago, already has about five million monthly active users.

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fuck yeah #mamdani!
I'm in central queens, on a residential street. We have two giant mountains of snow outside (like, 8-10ft tall and pretty wide), that came from various plowings/shoveling (the alley next to my house, the fire station's parking lot, etc). The city just came w/ a backhoe and scooped it up and hauled it away. The backhoe needed to make multiple trips,but it'…

Fool me once (Iraq), shame on you; fool me twice (Iran), shame on me...we know it's all b.s. - we're not fools.
Trump official warned more leaks 'forthcoming' that could cost him his job - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/iran-war-leaks-forthcoming/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SeekAndDestroy
Judas Priest:
🎵 Breaking the Law
#JudasPriest
https://docbwildman.bandcamp.com/track/judas-priest-breaking-the-law-x-hellraiser-doc-b-wildman-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/2RaA6kIcvomt77qlIgGhCT

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What. WHAT. #FuckYeahMamdani
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nx7znvoex7ev3wcxn3tipovm/post/3mla3dhamrs27

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@mayor.nyc.gov)
I joined NY’s Cutest on the Bergen Bike Bus that they ride to school every Wednesday, rain or shine. We’re adding bike boulevards and more pedestrian space on Bergen and Dean Street, from Court Street to East New York Ave. It was a wonderful kind of day.

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Bengaluru-based Pronto, an on-demand home-help service, raised a $20M Series B extension from Lachy Groom at a $200M valuation, up from $100M in March (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/06/a-20-minute-pitch-wins-…

A 20-minute pitch wins Indian startup Pronto backing from Lachy Groom | TechCrunch
The investment comes as Pronto scales to 26,000 daily bookings and the market heads toward a potential $18 billion size.

Car people are fucking delusional. See higher in this thread for the street they're talking about, which is a tiny residential Seattle street that absolutely does not _need_ parking.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:fxjqjbmvithsqm6m7ds2uylj/post/3ml7zjivbfs2p…

Qagggy! (@qagggy.bsky.social)
Resident asks how much it would cost to “expand the street.” Matt says it would require a structural rebuild of the road.

NAACP challenges Tennessee's newly approved redistricting plan
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5869060-naacp-challenges-tennessee-redistricting/

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nyt remains a 🗑️ 📰
https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2eq3273yo4eq7xi7wxz2wqav/post/3mix2ygm73k2i

Josh Sternberg (@joshsternberg.com)
When @masnick.com says this, woof. “As much as l've made fun of the NYT for its bad reporting over the years, this is (by far) the worst I've seen.” https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/07/the-new-york-times-got-played-by-a-telehealth-scam-and-called-it-the-future-of-ai/

I bet it's really difficult to get a profile pic like that when you lack a spine. Probably a whole elaborate system behind him holding his head upright.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jl6bnuiemddpm3orm2kcedxh/post/3miw3zs3dak2f

Rep. Johnny Olszewski (@repjohnnyo.bsky.social)
Congress should pass a War Powers Resolution, and if there’s any indication President Trump will follow through on this threat, the cabinet must invoke the 25th Amendment.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
OutKast:
🎵 B.O.B.
#OutKast
https://xocaine.bandcamp.com/track/outkast-b-o-b-bombs-over-toxic-mowglis-mash
https://open.spotify.com/track/2PpruBYCo4H7WOBJ7Q2EwM

Corgi, which provides insurance for startups and uses AI to generate quotes, manage claims, and more, raised a $160M Series B led by TCV at a $1.3B valuation (Richard Nieva/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2026/05/06/corgi-ai-unicorn/

This AI Insurance Company With An All-Night Cafe And Cheeky Corgi Is Now A Unicorn
Named after the company-owned dog, Corgi embodies the sometimes-absurd San Francisco startup scene. And it just raised $160 million at a $1.3 billion valuation.

This is pretty much why I hate the two party system. You can talk to someone and they're CLEARLY a republican, and then they're like "and yes I'm a Democrat!"
I didn't vote for Eric Adams because HE WAS A FUCKING REPUBLICAN. It's not "vote blue no matter who", because "blue" is meaningless if republicans can wear that color.

Qagggy! (@qagggy.bsky.social)
Years ago, I went to Olympia to lobby on behalf of a nonprofit healthcare provider where I served on the Board. I didn't know legislators by name or districts by number back then and I just assumed from talking to him that Jamie Pedersen was a Republican.

Lebanese Doctors Warn Israel Is Inflicting Gaza-Style Devastation on Their Healthcare System | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-bombs-lebanon-hospitals

New York-based Patlytics, which builds software for law firms and businesses to automate patent filing and litigation, raised a $40M Series B led by SignalFire (Melia Russell/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/patlytics-raises-40-millio…

A startup building the Harvey for patent law has raised $40 million
Patlytics raised the new funding after securing more than 40% of the AmLaw 100 firms and growing revenue about 10x in a single year.

Sure, John...
Chief Justice John Roberts says Supreme Court doesn't have 'purely political actors'
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5867749-supreme-court-roberts-political-actors/

Airbnb reports Q1 revenue up 18% YoY to $2.68B, vs. $2.62B est., Nights and Seats Booked up 9% to 156.2M, vs. 155.77M est., lifts 2026 revenue growth guidance (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/07/airbnb-abnb-earnings-q1-2026.html

Airbnb tops revenue estimates, but Middle East cancellations rise due to Iran war
Airbnb reported mixed first-quarter results after the bell on Thursday and warned of regional weakness due to the war in Iran.

If you imagine #NYC police as Cartman (from South Park) doing the whole "respect mah authoritah!" bit, the behavior of the NYPD around the snowballs incident makes complete sense. It's not that anyone was hurt, nor was there any damage, but their fragile egos just can't handle not having their authority respected. Even when they do completely dumb shit like wandering into the m…

Shopping for bike stands. I'm not getting a professional quality one, but I would like one with at least a chance of holding up half of a heavier cargo bike. Found this one, which looks decent. https://www.amazon.com/VEVOR-Adjustable-Maintenance-Magnetic-Fol…

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lol a conversation I just had w/ a friend
[here's that MR: https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/268 ]

Die #Kernfusionskollektoranlage hat heute 0,389 kWh Energie eingefangen.
Gesamtleistung: 480 Wp
Ausrichtung: West
Anstellwinkel: 58 Grad
Diese #Balkonsolaranlage wurde durch das Berliner SolarPLUS-Programm gefördert.
Einspeiseverlust: 4.04 %

I'm jealous of all the parents whose kids grew up pre-covid. Not only did they miss out on the hell of homeschooling, they also caught colds and had normal recovery cycles. Covid hadn't fucked up everyone's immune system yet. I remember those days too - when the 14yo entered preschool, we were constantly getting sick. But it was normal sick - at most, a week of sniffles. Now everything lingers fucking forever.

I hope John Roberts contracts a particularly painful strain of flesh-eating bacteria.

8yo: "Hi Bored, nice to meet you!"
me: "Hey, that's my joke. You're not allowed to make Dad Jokes."

the irony that the linux kernel keeps getting pwned by encryption code that was meant to make you safer

If you're seeing articles about #chrome like https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/, just be aware that

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!
Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user deletes it. The pattern is identical to the Anthropic Claude Desktop case I wrote about last month, but the scale is between two and three orders of magnitude larger. This article does the legal analysis and, for the first time, the environmental analysis. The numbers are not small.

RE: https://social.ridetrans.it/@Andres4NY/116364677240501355
I didn't get shit done today. Thank fuck the US didn't nuke anyone.

RE: https://toot.io/@nondailychickens/116359609167329620
confirms my priors

hello it's me, the guy who spent 3 hours writing a single email because the kids just cannot stop interrupting me

Is there anything better than watching some poor dude flailing as he's hitting on some random woman? "I really like your shirt, it's such a cool vibe" "it's my work uniform."
I either winced or laughed at that, I can't remember.
[I don't know if he ultimately succeeded in getting her number, but always remember that this is what the apps have taken away from us!]

I'm so bored of the real-life spiderman pointing meme where everyone is saying "YOU'RE the reason Trump got elected!" Shut up already, Trump won because the game was rigged from before you were ever born, by a system that aims to divide and control all of us.

It's gonna be fun when the US gets embargoed by every other civilized country.

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@JDGeoShack/116364347462569712
I'm surprised that they didn't bombing include the girls school in Iran, but maybe they had to shorten it for length. If they included _all_ of his crimes, well..

what a week, huh?

8yo: "Dad?"
me: "I'm going to leave in a minute."
8yo: "What?! Why??"
me: "Because you keep talking to me. Go. To. Sleep."
8yo: "I haven't been talking!"
me: "Yes, you have. You *just* asked me to google sushi restaurants in DC"
8yo: "Okay, but this time it's important."
me: "Fine. What?"
8yo: "What does 'FOMO' mean?"
me: "A…

Hey, everyone's seen the #JohnOliver #LastWeekTonight segment on police (and FBI/ATF) stings, right?
https://www.you…

#AccidentallyTheEcoPresident might finally get us to stop producing so much damned plastic.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/591542/th

The global oil crisis is turning into an everything crisis
The global supply of oil and natural gas has been reduced by about a fifth, limiting supplies needed by manufacturers to make car parts, medical supplies, food packaging and fabrics.

Kudos to the NYPost for managing to find the one time Mamdani didn't smile in public! A man who smiles so much that City Hall released a parody video about his smile. But NYPost did it, they found the one single pic in existence that makes him look like a terrorist hellbent on destruction. I bet Murdoch paid some good money for that shit.

Second Ave. Sagas (@2avesag.as)
When did Steve Fulop turn into a tedious goon exactly? https://nypost.com/2026/04/05/us-news/nyc-business-leader-warns-exodus-is-brewing-over-zohran-mamdanis-tax-hike-crusade/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost

#HungryPanda sounds like an exceptionally shitty app. https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/03/06/hungrypanda-pressured-delivery-work…

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@Walker/116184344736735333
I take back the nice thing I said about NY's AG on here yesterday.

13yo: "Wait, mom! I need to tell you about the dog I pet at [school] recess!"

Can you even buy an acoustic longtail #CargoBike these days with smaller rear wheel (ideally also with steel frame)? The only one I can find is the Yuba Mundo Lux, which has a 26" rear wheel. Terns and xtracycles are all bosch-equipped (booo proprietary frame!)
I get that covid and tariffs have cratered the US bike market, but surely someone's still out there selling a basic…

Oddly, the speed of an old msata drive has gotten slower and slower over time. It's running debian stable, and that means it's regularly doing TRIM.. but hdparm -t shows 40MB/s disk reads. I've read that this often happens due to firmware bugs, so I'm going to try upgrading the firmware.
I grabbed an .exe from Dell's site, and ran it under wine(32) to basically unzip the files. Now a small side quest to install xfce on it and see if I can get a remote root terminal…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/116186352883690890
this. this so much. omg. it's so fucking infuriating to watch local governments doing the same kinds of shit as the federal government (less blatant nazi-ism, but pretty obviously se…

As usual at the kid's bday party, the vegetarian food was gone and the gross-ass meat (in this case burgers and less-gross-but-still-meat-tastic chicken fingers) remained. People need to stop overestimating how many people want meat at parties..

I couldn't care less about a bunch of rich people in Brooklyn, I just read the article for the delicious drama. However, about halfway through the article, I started to see so many #FreeSoftware parallels.
1) Volunteers spend countless unpaid hours creating/maintaining something to better their community.
2) For-profit business packages it up as part of their offering.

lol

Well that's exciting! 🤦

Trying my hand at being an influencer. This is our jabber family chat.

Help, I've Erie'd and I can't get up!
#CatsOfMastodon

omg. Too soon, #TheOnion. TOO SOON!
#NYC #Snowmageddon

illegitimateSCOTUSsayswhat?
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:alqdxbp33ceoyly2o46nvcrc/post/3ml2snxacqk2s

The Downballot (@the-downballot.com)
This is partisanship at its rawest. SCOTUS has clamped down on lower courts for rulings that could alter maps many *months* before an election—even when those maps have been judged illegal. Here, it's rushing to let the Louisiana GOP change a map *while an election is underway.* [contains quote post or other embedded content]

"journalistic simulacrum" is an excellent expression https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xtg6uhgsy2j7k2a6qtcood2w/post/3ml2mfzqz622k

Karl Bode (@karlbode.com)
I'm utterly fascinated by the modern art of journalistic simulacrum at no point do this piece's four authors consider wandering anywhere close to the idea of corruption, or that Trump says a lot of things that are utterly meaningless, or that our regulators no longer function in the public interest https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/technology/trump-ai-models.html

Sigh, another fundamentalist authoritarian regime declaring holy war.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4usmserhjqkvhldgedfjb3jw/post/3miofusuuik2i

Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social)
Trump says Iran has 48 hours to open up the Strait of Hormuz, “before all Hell will reign down on them. Glory be to GOD!”

from our illegal wars and funding of genocide at the federal level, right down to our local municipalities refusal to make our roadways safe while shoveling money to cops... this country has so much blood on its hands. https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.ap

Marc Hedlund (@marcprecipice.bsky.social)
Oh my god. “Nearly two years later, the issue remains unresolved. Some neighbors have argued against it, contending it’s not needed and that adding a light would lead to increased traffic on residential streets.” https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/colorado-news/man-dies-in-crash-where-he-petitioned-for-traffic-light-after-wifes-death/73-1fc1a49f-11ca-4deb-ac19-045a2896182e

#CarlHeastie continues to be awful, but NYers maybe want to give his office a call to tell him to stop blocking the Stop Super Speeders bill. His office # is 518-455-3791, I just called and someone answered right away.
#StopSuperSpeeders