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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 2d

F*cking bullshit ass single use zoning laws in the US 😡

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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 2d

Reminder.. We don't need Dickensian Debtors prisons, or homeless sweeps, or anything "innovative". We could just look to places that have solved this problem..

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Jun 28

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

It costs a lot less to house people.

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me

In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 2d

Reminder.. We don't need Dickensian Debtors prisons, or homeless sweeps, or anything "innovative". We could just look to places that have solved this problem..

bsky.app/profile/bren...

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Jun 28

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

It costs a lot less to house people.

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me

In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

thebetter.news

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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 2d

Omfg 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Bill Shaner @billshaner.bsky.social · 3d

Here's the 'send the homeless to work farms' line from Satya Mitra last night. You gotta love the applause (one lady very stoked) almost as much as him calling it "innovation"

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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 2d

Pretty sure one more lane will fix it.

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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 3d

I was saying I thought they’d pick him just for how he’d look in the cloak! 😂😂

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 9d

BREAKING: The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 100-page opinion -- says it is unequivocally, lopsidedly easy to determine that the Trump administration's view of birthright citizenship is wrong.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 9d

Excellent article.

We find ourselves in a nightmare fight against advancing fascism on both sides of the Atlantic.

We need moral backbone but it’s also critical that we pick the best things to focus on and hammer them home relentlessly.

Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10d

The politics of drawing a moral line: When we need to call out racism for what it is open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

The politics of drawing a moral line

The politics of drawing a moral line.

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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 9d

Love the article!

I think the “up” went missing:

“But we all also have things with which we simply will not fucking put.“

Love that turn of phrase 🙃

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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 10d

Please please let her lose 🙏🙏🙏

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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 10d

I will, of course, do the responsible thing when driving to another city and park my car as quickly as possible and walk, bike, transit my way around to do the things I need to do. 😇🚲

Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 10d

Sigh, I was hoping to make it the whole week with #WeekWithoutDriving but I have an appointment in Boston that's too close to a work thing I have to do here in Worcester so I have no choice but to drive.

It's terrible that the train is so slow and infrequent. We deserve better.

#WWDWoo

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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 10d

And critically, for those who don't have a car, their choices are simply reduced. I'd have to reschedule my doctor's appointment (and probably be bumped out months).

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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 10d

Sigh, I was hoping to make it the whole week with #WeekWithoutDriving but I have an appointment in Boston that's too close to a work thing I have to do here in Worcester so I have no choice but to drive.

It's terrible that the train is so slow and infrequent. We deserve better.

#WWDWoo

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Matthew Lewis is ready for progressive federalism @mateosfo.bsky.social · 11d

A couple years ago, @henrygrabar.bsky.social wrote about the premium most Americans are willing to pay to live in walkable neighborhoods.

It was, at the time, 35-40% -- so on a half million dollar house, a couple hundred grand.

This is vitally important. 🧵

Nate Pentz @natepentz.bsky.social · 11d

This open house on Milwaukee Ave is a zoo. There is a huge demand for folks to live on pedestrian/bike only streets!!!

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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 11d

Oh good!!

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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 11d

Oof.. That sounds not how that's supposed to work.. 🤔

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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 11d

Thanks for doing #WeekWithoutDriving Steve!

#WWDWoo

Steve Rolle @steverolle.bsky.social · 11d

Beautiful day to commute by bike. 15 min door to door mostly along Pleasant St, which is just about the same as it takes by car. Evening return is always a bit rougher…heavier traffic and less patient drivers. (1/2).

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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 11d

Was it Roy who was allegedly organizing rides to Jan 6th? Or involved in some other way?

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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 11d

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 11d

Roy is easily the most unqualified person in a sea of questionably qualified electeds in Worcester

She needs to lose

Make it happen and

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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 11d

Worcester, please do not let Kathy Roy be elected again in November. 🙏

Johanna @johanna508.bsky.social · 11d

Kathy Roy is endorsed by the 1776 Project PAC the only school committee member they endorsed in the state. Why aren’t we talking about this??? She is a sitting school committee member.

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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 11d

Just outrageous from the city 🤦‍♂️

Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 12d

Absolute fucking snake in a suit.

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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 13d

I dunno man, everything outside the shire sucked. Everyone got back traumatized AF.

It’s not like they went on a gap year to Europe and discovered lots of great things.

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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 13d

One of the nice things about Nu kitchen is their great outdoor area which is far from the road.

Unfortunately someone’s sitting in their car (in the parking lot next to the seating area) idling with a super annoyingly loud engine. 😡

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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 13d

Easy first day of #WeekWithoutDriving today.

I’m lucky because I wfh.

I’m also lucky because there’s a couple of places I can bike to in this city where I have a relatively low chance of being killed while getting there, one of those being Nu Kitchen!

#WWDWoo

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