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Walking is a right; driving is a privilege. Not the other way around. Bigots & bots will be blocked. Oh, and I RT ducks. #DriverNotCar #PlowSidewalksToo #WindshieldBias

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bettybarcode @bettybarcode.bsky.social · Dec 9

Maybe you see my #PlowSidewalksToo hashtag and think, "Yeah, sure, sounds great but it would require a massive tax increase and expansion of the public payroll and no one is going to willingly sign on for that. Real shame, though."

So: a thread. 🧵

#urbanism

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bettybarcode @bettybarcode.bsky.social · 2h

The Roberts Court will find some way to append an asterisk that amendment

bettybarcode @bettybarcode.bsky.social · 13h

Sorely tempted to plant a blond hairpiece & some orange makeup on the 12-footer, but I lack the PhotoShop skills

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 13h

"I will never know Diane Keaton, but she had a wonderful quality about her that made me think she’d always offer the best life advice and a damn good laugh while passing the joint back on a summer evening."

charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/a-toast-to...

A Toast to Diane Keaton

The patron saint of cool women.

charlotteclymer.substack.com

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bettybarcode @bettybarcode.bsky.social · 14h

They're so underrated!

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lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social · 15h

If the Supreme Court's Catholics don't put a stop to this Leo ought to excommunicate them.

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J. Elvis Weinstein @jelvisweinstein.bsky.social · 19d

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

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Urbanism+ Daily @daily.urbanism.plus · 21h

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Induced Demand

The counterintuitive phenomenon where increasing the supply of a resource (like widening a road) doesn't solve congestion; it simply attracts more usage until the new capacity is also completely full.

Induced demand - Wikipedia

In economics, induced demand – related to latent demand and generated demand[1] – is the phenomenon whereby an increase in supply results in a decline in price and an increase in consumption. In other...

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bettybarcode @bettybarcode.bsky.social · 16h

I did the udm=14 thing and it broke Google Books, which I use all the time. Anyone else experience this?

bettybarcode @bettybarcode.bsky.social · 16h

Relentless, overt hostility

bettybarcode @bettybarcode.bsky.social · 16h

I don't even live in NYC & I'm a ZM fan.

bettybarcode @bettybarcode.bsky.social · 16h

Completely agree. Spell it out.

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 17h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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bettybarcode @bettybarcode.bsky.social · 19h

[wailing] Noooooooooo

bettybarcode @bettybarcode.bsky.social · 23h

Walkability is apparently so desirable that this marketer claims with a straight face that these shoes possess it.

Close-up details of black pointy-toed 3" high heels with this copy:

The Sporty Kate edges out the So Kate when it comes to walkability — 100 mm vs. 120 mm makes all the difference.
Both are unmistakably Louboutin, both flaunt that red sole, but only one lets you last all night.
Discover more about Louboutin’s red-bottom icons.

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bettybarcode @bettybarcode.bsky.social · 23h

Thank you for using #DriverNotCar.

bettybarcode @bettybarcode.bsky.social · 1d

Makes sense.

bettybarcode @bettybarcode.bsky.social · 1d

Car traffic expands--and contracts!--to fill available space. Every city can and should decide how much space to allocate to cars and how much to use for other urban needs.

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 2d

“We assume that car use is an incompressible liquid that must be routed somewhere. But it’s more more like a gas that fills whatever space it is given.”

—Ian Lockwood, Harvard Loeb Fellow, transport planner.

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bettybarcode @bettybarcode.bsky.social · 1d

Often had to give out the email address over the phone at work and lots of callers had to be reassured that it would work no matter how they typed it

bettybarcode @bettybarcode.bsky.social · 1d

One of my high school teachers taught us a variation on this, that every org's first imperative is self-preservation. Not its only imperative in his version, but its first. Stayed with me almost 50 years later.

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bettybarcode @bettybarcode.bsky.social · 1d

Where are folks getting inflatable critter costumes? Are they rentable or do you have to buy? Clearly, these are essential gear at rallies, protests & marches! Post your links!

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bettybarcode @bettybarcode.bsky.social · 1d

*Thirty* years ago, this duo did a Johnny Cash tribute song. I still have the CD. See track 13.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y71K...

The Jazzabels - Café All Day

View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1994 CD release of "Café All Day" on Discogs.

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bettybarcode @bettybarcode.bsky.social · 1d

We really need to go back to the full spelling, anti-fascism.

bettybarcode @bettybarcode.bsky.social · 2d

Ages ago, before the internet, someone said, "The media doesn't tell you what to think, it tells you what to think about." Which might be relevant here.

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Samantha Brennan @samanthabrennan.bsky.social · 2d

An older post that always gets traffic at this time of year! #pumpkinspiceseason

fitisafeministissue.com/2016/09/26/s...

Scorn and Fetishization of Food: Gender Norms, Bacon (mmm… bacon), and Pumpkin Spice Lattes (like, yum!)

AUTHOR’s NOTE: This blog entry includes image captions that are rich image descriptions to convey the most relevant content to readers who don’t perceive the same content in the images as does the …

fitisafeministissue.com

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bettybarcode @bettybarcode.bsky.social · 2d

Would it help if we dropped "antifa" and returned to the full name, anti-fascism?