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Momster for Gliberty 🧟 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 15h

As an American, all I want is unlimited social programs, no taxes and no deficits. I want everyone to love my people and I don't want to deal with those people. I want sky high wages. I want the price of my assets to increase, but also everything should be cheap.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 16h

like i think the Times Editorial Board gives the game away here

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Howie’s Everything Club @howieseverything.bsky.social · 22h

“Why do you love birds so much?”
Good question I think it all started when at a formative time in my adolescence I saw a movie in which Michelle Pfeiffer was a red-tailed hawk
“Then why cats?”
Ok you’re not going to believe this

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Logan Millsap @loganmillsap.bsky.social · 1d

You need some kind of time-reversing dagger..

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Bryan Ward @bryaneward.bsky.social · 2d

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Logan Millsap @loganmillsap.bsky.social · 2d

Here's a good estimate
(disregard my accidental conflation of the April and June protests)
bsky.app/profile/dari...

Darin Self @darinself.com · 2d

Just walked through and I'd estimate we're pushing 6k.

Last time it was 3-4k

Logan Millsap @loganmillsap.bsky.social · 2d

I love hearing this!

Logan Millsap @loganmillsap.bsky.social · 2d

My wife calls it the "lead paint stare," the way some drivers seem unable to comprehend that people exist or do anything outside of an automobile.

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Logan Millsap @loganmillsap.bsky.social · 2d

D'oh! I'm totally conflating the two events because my obligations for Art City Days meant I was unable to attend the protest in June 🤦‍♂️. I need to sleep, haha

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Logan Millsap @loganmillsap.bsky.social · 2d

*June, thank you. I don't know why I keep incorrectly saying April :P

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Logan Millsap @loganmillsap.bsky.social · 2d

I'm interested to hear estimates of Provo crowd size. Looking back at the April protest I now remember there were ~2K people (some estimates even said 4K or 5K?).

Today's crowd was clearly MUCH larger. Looked to me like ~5x as much street face. (April's crowd space in yellow, today's in red).

Satellite photo of 500 West and Center Street in Provo. The yellow highlight portion covers most of one block face and a small corner of the opposite block face. The red highlight portion covers two block faces and spills substantially into portions of six other block faces.

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Logan Millsap @loganmillsap.bsky.social · 2d

There's power in numbers, but arguably even more power in a solo protest like that!

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Logan Millsap @loganmillsap.bsky.social · 2d

These are all great ideas. I can't believe no one has ever thought of them before!

Someone should Kickstart an online platform that allows people help fund good ideas like these.

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Logan Millsap @loganmillsap.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, I have seen clips of this before! I sometimes wish sports had two viewing options: one for people who know what they're watching, and one for newbies like me who need the overexplaining. I wished I had the latter when I tried tuning into the Tour de France earlier this year.

Logan Millsap @loganmillsap.bsky.social · 2d

Were you there in the crowd?!

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Logan Millsap @loganmillsap.bsky.social · 2d

Wow! HUGE crowd at the #NoKings protest in Provo today! I rode through on my way to canvas for mayoral candidate Marsha Judkins.

I'm seeing estimates of over ~2,200 people, which matches my own observations—easily five or six times as many people as the previous protest in April.

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Logan Millsap @loganmillsap.bsky.social · 3d

omg i had almost forgotten about this!

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Logan Millsap @loganmillsap.bsky.social · 3d

I love a peek at others' shelves!

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Ben McAdams Memorial Act. but on BlueSky @purrtah.bsky.social · 3d

I was legit thinking about this with this post this mornin! Its very hard to get people here to take seriously even making in-roads Logan/Ogden/Day-Break area which is bolting our way and kinda purpley

Logan Millsap @loganmillsap.bsky.social · 3d

Even on a local scale that elitism is a barrier to a shared urban identity: People in SLC look down their noses at Provo as a hinterland (even though Provo is doing some good urbanism), and people in Provo delude themselves they aren't like "big, scary" SLC (even though they face the same problems).

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Logan Millsap @loganmillsap.bsky.social · 3d

I care that you care.
And maybe if they made tweaks to scoring, presentation, and commenters, it would be improved enough that even an ignoramus like me might know *what* Redbull Rampage is.

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Logan Millsap @loganmillsap.bsky.social · 3d

Even on a local scale that elitism is a barrier to a shared urban identity: People in SLC look down their noses at Provo as a hinterland (even though Provo is doing some good urbanism), and people in Provo delude themselves they aren't like "big, scary" SLC (even though they face the same problems).

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Logan Millsap @loganmillsap.bsky.social · 4d

Plus, if you account for all the time each person spends earning enough money to pay for their cars, their fuel, their repairs, their insurance, and car infrastructure (which is subsidized by non-drivers), then cars aren't actually much faster than other modes.

But THAT time tax is invisible.

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Logan Millsap @loganmillsap.bsky.social · 4d

It must also be acknowledged this time tax is imposed *by automobiles* on ped/bike/transit. So many of their costs are externalized—sprawling land-use, bad street design, buses delayed by traffic, funding spent on highways instead of transit or trails, etc—and paid by people who don't drive.

Daniel Suitor @dansuitor.bsky.social · 4d

One thing I wish we would do far, far more in our ped/bike/transit writing and advocacy is acknowledge the time tax those modes of transport often incur, and what it means for people to absorb that tax. When we don't, I think it makes us a bit dishonest and weakens our advocacy!

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Logan Millsap @loganmillsap.bsky.social · 4d

If you care about the Great Salt Lake you also have to love Utah Lake. The two are inseparable.

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Howie’s Everything Club @howieseverything.bsky.social · 5d

Next time you get scared of Portland imagine Ramona Geraldine Quimby laughing at you while she walks down Klickitat street to the library, roller skates and bananas in her backpack

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Logan Millsap @loganmillsap.bsky.social · 6d

I almost bought this parody version

A man wearing a shirt identical in appearance to the one David shared above, but the text reads:
I am a peehole man. I love pee. I drink pee. And I fuck my wife. I was born in September. I protect my meat. I eat guns & own my wife. If you don't like it, MOVE.

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