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“maddie” @lilbitthinky.bsky.social · 6h

car dependency

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 20h

Finish this sentence: “The biggest obstacle to actually turning MY city into a better city for people is __________________________.”

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“maddie” @lilbitthinky.bsky.social · 7h

interesting

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Grosdoriane @grosdoriane.bsky.social · 2d

I fear I may have finally cracked the case.

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Joe Patrice @joepatrice.bsky.social · 3d

Amazing

Tweet: @vexwerewolf
Right-wingers literally straight-up admitting "it's harder to discredit the left because the left is almost always telling the truth"
Scott Jennings @Lum 21h um, yes, that's really a problem
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The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality rightwing content.
That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well.
In essence people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly arent usually on our side.

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Goblin Gower, PhD (the Ph is for Phantasm) @medievaliste.bsky.social · 4d

Either universities are private businesses that get to set their own priorities or they’re public goods that are obligated to serve everyone. You can’t have it both ways.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 3d

Psst: Stop burning stuff on Earth for energy. Let the burning fireball in the sky be your energy source.

T&E @transportenvironment.org · 6d

NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows.

The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets.
🧵⤵️

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Moira Birss @moira.bsky.social · 3d

The mass protests in Ecuador against austerity measures dictated by international finance is clear example of the export-extraction vicious cycle generated by today’s international financial architecture, as we describe in a recent @cplusc.bsky.social report: climateandcommunity.org/wp-content/u...

The image is a circular diagram illustrating a cycle of interconnected issues. Starting with "Debt," the cycle moves to "Export-oriented production," which leads to "Extractivism." This then causes "Social and environmental underinvestment," followed by "Civil society opposition," and "Repression." The repression leads to "Climate vulnerability and biodiversity loss," which in turn drives the need for more "Debt," completing the cycle. The diagram uses purple rounded rectangles to represent each stage, with arrows indicating the direction of the cycle.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

get in losers we're repenting

Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 3d

Liberation theology in the USA. More please.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 4d

Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths:

"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."

"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."

Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US?

It’s unfortunately not uncommon for pedestrians to be killed by cars in the US.

www.construction-physics.com

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skytransitcyclist.bsky.social @skytransitcyclist.bsky.social · 4d

Maybe we should make insurance cost proportional to vehicle weight and maximum speed?

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“maddie” @lilbitthinky.bsky.social · 4d

must be the car centric infrastructure

Austin News @austin.thesocial.news · 14d

Pedestrian fatalities remain high in the U.S.

#Austin #Fox7

Pedestrian fatalities remain high in the U.S.

Across the country, pedestrian injuries and fatalities remain high. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), every 72 minutes a pedestrian dies on U.S. roadways.

www.fox7austin.com

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 4d

we are literally besieged in all aspects of american life by unrestrained plutocrats who themselves are surrounded by toadies and sycophants, not one person there to tell them that their hair looks idiotic, their plan to invade portland is insane, that their AI does not work. bring back hard truths

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5d

None of us can do everything but each of us can do SOMETHING.

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“maddie” @lilbitthinky.bsky.social · 4d

none of these feel like bad things

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 5d

the basic problem is that it is easier to reproduce an artist's style in almost every detail or answer most questions with like 88% accuracy than to walk up four steps

Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 5d

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 4d

I think that's part of it but the other part is it's men -and in this case especially rich men - and they already don't do those tasks, so they don't see them. This is why we're getting Samsung TV's with ads and not fridges that remind us to eat the lettuce before it spoils

James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 4d

This is the tell that they don't want people with creative capacity. They want menials and drones that they can use extract wealth from their lives and labors, then discard before the next quarterly report.

The actual cruel burden is the point.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 5d

it’s said all the time but I think we should continue to hammer home how insane it is that we got dead-eyed bros trying to sell us robots that will free us from the supposedly cruel burden of “creative careers” instead of the actual cruel burden of “doing menial household chores”

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 4d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 5d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 7d

No War on Chicago
No War Anywhere

No War on Chicago; No War Anywhere!

“The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to ga...

www.haymarketbooks.org

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“maddie” @lilbitthinky.bsky.social · 5d

cars could never

Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 5d

Caltrain’s new electric trains are designed to recuperate energy when breaking. The agency made a deal to sell that energy back to the local power supplier, which will net the agency millions of dollars in annual revenues.

Caltrain electrified trains return power to grid, offsetting energy costs

For decades, Caltrain has been known for what it takes off the roads. Now, it's being rewarded for what it puts back into the power grid.

www.cbsnews.com

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nanaslugdiva @nanaslugdiva.blacksky.app · 5d

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 5d

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

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“maddie” @lilbitthinky.bsky.social · 5d

actually yeah

Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 5d

I would like to just take a moment to invite you to enjoy Cake's 1996 mega-hit 'The Distance'.

It's likely that you know this song, perhaps even love it. But just take a moment to revel in the utter masterpiece that it is.

Surrender yourself to it.

You deserve it.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 5d

policy idea: something good for once, anything really

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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.bsky.social · 7d

"50 % of profits went to the wealthiest 1 % of individuals, predominantly through direct shareholdings and private company ownership. In contrast the bottom 50 % only received 1 %."

It was a cost-of-living crisis only for the many.

#Inequality

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Best of times, worst of times: record fossil-fuel profits, inflation and inequality

The 2022 oil and gas crisis resulted in record fossil-fuel profits globally that rehabilitated the oil and gas industry, obstructed the energy transit…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 7d

Imagine being the Secretary of Transportation for the entire country and cheering ripping up a crosswalk because of your hatred. Sad little man

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 7d

Just openly cheering the destruction of any representation of gay people in public space. They think their power is totally unrestricted, and the entire country will support them rolling back society to the 1950s, or maybe the 1850s

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“maddie” @lilbitthinky.bsky.social · 7d

no way we could have it this good

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