bettybarcode

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Walking is a right; driving is a privilege. Not the other way around. All views mine except for the ones I picked up at a thrift store. Also, I RT ducks.

#DriverNotCar
#PlowSidewalksToo
#WindshieldBias

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Weird mental leap on my part, but maybe people get this unshakable belief in the power of signs to end unwanted behavior from traffic engineers

Happy Canada Day with love from the downstairs neighbors ❤

Okay time for fun. Go into your photo roll or whatever, and post the first image that makes you laugh literally out loud. Here's mine.

I would read the hell out of an essay on the stapled-down plastic shutter as a cultural artifact.

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Katie Mack

Plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery, I guess.

Great moments at #NextDoor: lizard goes missing in a dense, urban neighborhood!

If you are under 40, you may not recognize this.

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Bonnie Berry

Plagiarizing other people's tweets is uncool and unethical.

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bettybarcode

Someone please start an Art But Make It Cats account. @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social @catsofyore.bsky.social

Buffalo, the climate haven of the future.

Just a reminder that drivers express far more hostility towards other drivers, with real life danger, than urbanists do on social media. #WindshieldBias

This graph explains so much. "Luring suburbanites" was the obsession that formed Boomer sensibilities. It meant accommodating both their cars & their fears about the Other and taught them that they alone mattered. #CongestionPricing #WindshieldBias #CarBlindness

Just gonna leave this here. #WindshieldBias #CarBlindness #CongestionPricing

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ContextFall

$9880 in today's dollars.

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bettybarcode

Urbanists, please enjoy this rainbow NFTA bus at #BuffaloPride.

When the automobile era is over, will retired guys start highway museums with little model expressways?

[Sigh]

Yesterday's impulse order. Headlight and horn and phone bracket all in one.

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Cyn ✨

In the bathtub

Fair. Let's see your dishwasher zoning maps. Hand-drawn is fine!

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nzjanette

My two furballs

Obligatory duck content

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bettybarcode

Google Ngram shows spikes in "outside agitator" usage during WWII and the Vietnam War

Today's contribution to The Discourse: an Google Ngram on "outside agitators." What no one who resorts to outside agitator rhetoric ever explains is how these strangers parachute in and instantly convert everyone to zombie robots

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On the left, we don't hate them, we just condescend to them.