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Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️ @shoshana.bsky.social · 58m

Can cats see ghosts?

Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️ @shoshana.bsky.social · 6h

I love people who are like "I do my shot on Thursday" while I'm here thinking "my shot day changes whenever I forget and do it the next day" 😆

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Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️ @shoshana.bsky.social · 11h

So cute and peaceful! And I love the blanket they're on

Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️ @shoshana.bsky.social · 14h

Every year, I say goodbye to friends who get priced out.

Every year, more friends talk about how much longer they can afford to stick around.

Scott @scottsthoughts.better.boston.ap.brid.gy · 18h

Why do I want the city to build more housing? Is it because I'm in the pocket of big developers*? Is it because I want to displace longtime residents?

No, it's because I very selfishly want my friends to be able to find places to live near me. I want friends who are a walk/bike/bus away and not […]

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Scott @scottsthoughts.better.boston.ap.brid.gy · 18h

Why do I want the city to build more housing? Is it because I'm in the pocket of big developers*? Is it because I want to displace longtime residents?

No, it's because I very selfishly want my friends to be able to find places to live near me. I want friends who are a walk/bike/bus away and not […]

Original post on better.boston

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Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️ @shoshana.bsky.social · 17h

Sometimes I think my cat thinks, "why couldn't I have gotten a morning person?"

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Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️ @shoshana.bsky.social · 1d

Asking artists for use permission would kill Limewire

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Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️ @shoshana.bsky.social · 1d

I guess I had a history teacher in HS that taught me about it

Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️ @shoshana.bsky.social · 1d

Oo, I never saw that. I guess I should try and watch it.

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Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️ @shoshana.bsky.social · 1d

It's a perfectly cromulent feature

Simpsons image of Paul and Lynda McCartney saying "If you play 'Maybe I'm Amazed' backwards, you'll hear a recipe for a really ripping lentil soup"

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Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️ @shoshana.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds like the Red and Green Lines in Boston across the Charles River 🚂

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Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️ @shoshana.bsky.social · 1d

When people talk about a Black Magneto, I always think no company would give him Magneto's backstory.

Jewish Magneto's backstory is his parents killed in the holocaust. Would Disney show Black Magneto's parents getting lynched by men with confederate flags?

The US often won't confront its history.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

Ubisoft canceled an 'Assassin's Creed' game set after the Civil War

• Featured a Black Assassin who was formerly a slave

• Would fight the emerging Ku Klux Klan

• Leadership canceled it — concerned with US political climate & Yasuke backlash

(via Game File)

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Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️ @shoshana.bsky.social · 1d

One of the reasons I kinda like Alweg-style monorails is that they're really quiet and have minimal visual interruption in cities compared to most elevated trains.

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Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️ @shoshana.bsky.social · 1d

Yea, I think subways became popular in part because old heavy rail trains were very loud.

It's also why a lot of old rail lines avoid city centers: coal-powered trains were extremely loud and dirty. But it also means that a lot of our rights-of-way aren't as useful as they could be in 2025 🚂

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Hell-Raea-ser 🦋✨🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @raea.meangirls.online · 1d

today marks one year since bottom surgery!!!! unfortunately i accidentally deleted the original I LIVED BITCH post from the day of but here’s that photo. look how happy i am! i still feel that depth of joy a year later; if anything its only increasing. this is truly miracle medicine

raea a white woman in a mask and a hospital bed and gown smiling widely

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Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️ @shoshana.bsky.social · 1d

The absolute joy on your face is amazing!

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Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️ @shoshana.bsky.social · 1d

This is what I really like about it: you can see where things are in relation to other things and it lets your brain make connections that can be used for non-transit modes of getting around.

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Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️ @shoshana.bsky.social · 1d

I'm thinking like monorails - elevated so it's easy to cross, little obstruction, etc.

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Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️ @shoshana.bsky.social · 1d

It is kinda cool popping up somewhere different, but I've found it means that I often don't know what surrounds the different places and what is along the way - because I don't see things while being transported.

Seeing things along the way helps me find new things in the city.

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Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️ @shoshana.bsky.social · 1d

Like, I don't want to sound too down on subways and I certainly prefer a city with a good transit network, but subways sometimes feel like a city deciding that public transit is bad and shouldn't be seen, lest it annoy the driving folk

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Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️ @shoshana.bsky.social · 1d

One of the reasons I don't love subways is that they rob riders of views and stimulation, putting them in a dark tunnel

Elevated trains allow you to look out and see the world

Subways sometimes feel like the world saying, "The surface world is drivers! Now get out of the sunlight you non-driver!"

Brian Doucet @briandoucet.bsky.social · 1d

One of the cool things about the Vancouver Skytrain is the ability to photograph from the front window! It takes a bit of luck, patience and a clear windshield. But the results give a great impression of how transit has shaped the region. Pictures from April 2025.