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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

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.

bettybarcode @bettybarcode.bsky.social · 8h

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 · 8h

*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 · 12h

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

bettybarcode @bettybarcode.bsky.social · 14h

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 · 15h

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 · 15h

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

bettybarcode @bettybarcode.bsky.social · 15h

Counting on you, pink pony squad!

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Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social · 18h

The world’s longest rainbow path. The 600 metre “Long Walk to Equality” by artist Travis Myers at Hanlan’s Point on Toronto Island … the location of Canada’s first Pride in 1971.

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bettybarcode @bettybarcode.bsky.social · 17h

Obligatory duck retweet

bird/h @birdperhour.net · 18h

#birdbot

bettybarcode @bettybarcode.bsky.social · 17h

Add to your resistance prep & training checklist:

Where to get inflatable critter costumes & how to operate them safely

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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bettybarcode @bettybarcode.bsky.social · 1d

Clearly winning the intrahive competition

bettybarcode @bettybarcode.bsky.social · 1d

Done, no idea what number I am. How do you know how many people block a specific account?

Also followed the blogging guys.

bettybarcode @bettybarcode.bsky.social · 1d

Memory fails me, has @paulisci.bsky.social done a "Things were simpler back then" thread?

NoxyMeArt @noxyme.bsky.social · Feb 17

Couldn’t say it better myself.

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Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @thesidewalkballet.bsky.social · 1d

Roz Chast.

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bettybarcode @bettybarcode.bsky.social · 1d

A girl can dream

bettybarcode @bettybarcode.bsky.social · 1d

Animatronic Doris Day

bettybarcode @bettybarcode.bsky.social · 1d

Ikea could do the funniest thing and build an elephant-sized chair for this 'lil baby.

bettybarcode @bettybarcode.bsky.social · 1d

Whoops, apologies for the redundant reply!

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bettybarcode @bettybarcode.bsky.social · 1d

Empty roads--which every city has--are a congestion relief success story. Empty bike lanes are a waste of tax dollars.

bettybarcode @bettybarcode.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, it sucks. We here in the US hate the wall-to-wall coverage, too.

bettybarcode @bettybarcode.bsky.social · 1d

New conspiracy fiction (not theory, for the love of god!) just dropped

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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bettybarcode @bettybarcode.bsky.social · 1d

Oooh, what questions were the most productive?

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bettybarcode @bettybarcode.bsky.social · 1d

This right here is why cell phone conversations are so awkward & unpleasant! Land lines allowed cooperative overlap, cell phones don't! Only one party can speak at a time, which is not how millions of us converse!

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 1d

A city of drivers expands, rapidly and inevitably, into sprawl.

A city of pedestrians, cyclists, and transit-users settles gradually and elegantly into itself.

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