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ab-cabra.bsky.social
AB
@ab-cabra.bsky.social
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Yelling into the void from the city that Jenny Lind dubbed "the most beautiful village in the world" and "the paradise of America" #carsruincities
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AB @ab-cabra.bsky.social · Apr 1
There are two attributes of roads that make people more willing to take a bike:

1. slow traffic (<25mph)
2. physically separated lanes

If you're building bicycle infrastructure without one of those, you're not going to increase ridership
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AB @ab-cabra.bsky.social · 8h
The neighborhood Tom who’s made the mail carrier his personal enemy
Wild turkey standing on a porch railing
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AB @ab-cabra.bsky.social · 9h
Love when $7.5M advances 50 shared use trail projects… or gets you one small 100 average daily trips vehicular bridge. (See Northampton Old Springfield Rd Bridge)

www.northamptonma.gov/DocumentCent...
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AB @ab-cabra.bsky.social · 9h
Waiting so long in the exam room, the light has turned off automatically…
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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d
Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back https://theonion.com/health-experts-recommend-standing-up-at-desk-leaving-o-1819577456/
Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back
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AB @ab-cabra.bsky.social · 1d
I wish as we walked around, floating over everyone's heads, we could see people with their trailing 30-day average daily energy use grouped by category: (home, food, work, transportation, compute).
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AB @ab-cabra.bsky.social · 1d
When do the satellite wars start?
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AB @ab-cabra.bsky.social · 1d
From earlier with my meager phone.

Harvest Moon, Summit House, The Meadows
Corn in foreground, meadow extending back to mountain with full moon and white house on ridge line
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AB @ab-cabra.bsky.social · 1d
It’s absurd that Rs don’t care about bald-faced lies by the government
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 2d
"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."
America is now one big bet on AI
It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy
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AB @ab-cabra.bsky.social · 2d
The deference we give to drivers is astonishing: speeding, blowing through red lights, crashing without a whisper; yet we jump on non-drivers the moment they step out of line.
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AB @ab-cabra.bsky.social · 2d
I installed an antenna to my TV, and now one of my favorite things to do is see what’s on PBS (4 of my 8 channels)
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AB @ab-cabra.bsky.social · 3d
PSA: don’t use cheap lithium ion batteries
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AB @ab-cabra.bsky.social · 3d
TIL the definitions of incubus and succubus

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AB @ab-cabra.bsky.social · 4d
T admin knows they’re driving economy into the ground and are trying to create a scapegoat
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AB @ab-cabra.bsky.social · 5d
There's a new development proposed nearby that doesn't provide 1 spot per dwelling unit and it's amazing how many folks act as if they're being forced to move into it and are worried about the lack of available parking.
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AB @ab-cabra.bsky.social · 6d
It's kinda amazing how sports arena workers must provide short-notice working hours flexibility so that broadcast networks can make more money selling ads.
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AB @ab-cabra.bsky.social · 6d
I spend way too much time thinking about how car-centric road design hollowed out our neighborhoods by prioritizing throughput over livability — and how reclaiming that space is so hard thanks to layers of engineering study requirements.
Annotated map of Florence MA
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AB @ab-cabra.bsky.social · 6d
From Reddit:

“Dunks might not have the best donuts in the state, but they do have the worst donuts in the state.”

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AB @ab-cabra.bsky.social · Apr 11
Feels like we do not have reliable short-term macroeconomic measuring devices to show the accumulating damage being done to the economy.
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Bill Scher @billscher.bsky.social · 7d
This fact is not breaking through. Republicans have the power to open the government by themselves.

They just need to use the “nuclear option” to suspend or change the filibuster.

Rs nuked three weeks ago for judges, so we know they’re able.

But they’d rather keep it closed and blame Dems.
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Washington Monthly @washingtonmonthly.com · 7d
Republicans Can End the Government Shutdown Today

If Republicans don’t want a bipartisan deal, they can kill the filibuster. So why aren’t they? –– @billscher.bsky.social

washingtonmonthly.com/2025/10/01/s...
Republicans Can End the Government Shutdown Today
Republicans can kill the filibuster and end the government shutdown without any Democrats. But will they do it?
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AB @ab-cabra.bsky.social · 7d
It’s unfortunate that society continues to normalize the abhorrent government behavior.

It’s amazing how half the public not giving a shit really breaks democracy.
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AB @ab-cabra.bsky.social · 7d
Some of the newly politically active folks in a local Facebook group are cooking up a conspiracy theory about conflict-of-interests.

Seems like they don't realize that every official takes ethics training every 2 years and is bound by both the conflict-of-interest and financial disclosure laws.
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AB @ab-cabra.bsky.social · 7d
Also a nice little add is the disappearing of cars from roads.
App maps screenshot showing no cars
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AB @ab-cabra.bsky.social · 7d
Always hard to believe that this was the best they could do
5-lane highway intersection
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AB @ab-cabra.bsky.social · 7d
Got to see @jeffspeck.bsky.social talk tonight in East Longmeadow, andhe unveiled a walkable future for the “Massterisk” (7-way) rotary.

That guy is inspiring!

Let’s save our downtowns with the Walkable City (and walkable hearts), please!