Jim was my friend in college. Six hours after he tweeted this, he was killed while biking by a car that ran into him. https://twitter.com/jimpagels/status/1380578057598214149

I just can't with 2021.

That was his last tweet.

If I didn't see it with my own eyes, I would have thought someone was telling me a sick joke.

Since I graduated college, four classmates I knew personally have been killed while biking by drivers who ran their cars into them.

In all four cases (including this one, AFAICT), the driver was 100% at fault and nothing the cyclist could have done would have saved their life.

"traffic violence" is the only way to describe this - our streets are public spaces, and they are designed to facilitate (and even exonerate) acts of violence against pedestrians and cyclists https://twitter.com/fvigeland/status/1381335176584835072?s=19

I want to both laugh and cry at this, because the writing is 100% his voice (he had a very distinctive and recognizable way of analyzing things), befitting the way he lived and worked and wrote.

and now it is also 100% befitting his death, too. https://twitter.com/fvigeland/status/1381462106814492672?s=19