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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 1d

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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Matthew Lewis is ready for progressive federalism @mateosfo.bsky.social · 1d

“The e-bike lets me keep riding bikes and spend time outside, even though I have this health condition,” she said. “I don’t think that a lot of people realize that e-bikes make things accessible to people with disabilities.” www.berkeleyside.org/2025/10/07/e...

Why electric bikes are everywhere in Berkeley

Residents of all ages and abilities are taking to electric bikes — used for commutes, school drop-offs, grocery trips and joy rides.

www.berkeleyside.org

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 1d

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

Someone in a frog costume facing down a line of police in riot gear

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1d

raging my way downtown

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Tony Jordan @tonyjordan.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine if a water pipe broke and the water department had to ask city council whether to fix it and then spend 12 months asking everyone on the street their opinion of how to fix it before they could start work.

That's how cities manage curbs.

Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 2d

This is the process chart for the City of Bellevue's potential plan to add parking meters.

Fourteen steps completed over the course of one year

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 2d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · 2d

The state goons are powerless before the awesome might of someone in an inflatable frog costume, and you seriously expect me to believe the situation is hopeless?

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 4d

wizard frog is insane

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Bike JC @bikejc.org · 3d

Today at noon, our second free bike tour of the #JCAST art fest rolls around Jersey City. Join us! Meet 11:30 at Grove PATH Plaza with your bike. Today we visit Downtown, the Heights, and Journal Square.
Route: ridewithgps.com/events/40081...
Live tracking map: bluelane.io/wTJAL4

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Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 5d

I've read Casey Johnston's work for quite some time now, and I've always found her writing to be smart, engaging and worth my time. I'll be getting this book. Check it out. You may want to read it, too.

Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · May 6

Today is the day! My book is out in the world. It’s not a friendly world for writing about science or women or especially women’s bodies right now. But I’m so proud to be telling a story that makes a certain type of person very, very angry. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/casey...

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Alec Perkins @alecperkins.me · 4d

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Bike JC @bikejc.org · 4d

Today at noon, our first of two free bike tours of the #JCAST art fest rolls around Jersey City. Join us! Meet 11:30 at Grove PATH Plaza with your bike. Today we visit venues in Bergen-Lafayette, Greenville and the West Side.
Route: ridewithgps.com/events/40080...
Tracking map: bluelane.io/pZTh0e

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 5d

The mystery of medical diagnosis!

Anyone: Why are there suddenly so many AHDH diagnoses?
Dr. Jen: Same reason there are suddenly more stars after we built telescopes.

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Alec Perkins @alecperkins.me · 5d

And another bike user hit by a driver near Cast Iron Lofts just now.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 6d

With news that Bari Weiss is going to be the new EIC at CBS News, I wanted to reup this piece I wrote 6 years ago about how she and Bret Stephens helped turn NYT into a moral panic factory www.mediamatters.org/new-york-tim...

How Bret Stephens and Bari Weiss have taken the NY Times’ campus concern trolling to new heights in just 2 years

www.mediamatters.org

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5d

Unanimous First Circuit takes pains to emphasize that this was an incredibly easy case to decide, despite writing a very long opinion knocking down every ridiculous argument the Trump admin made.

The analysis that follows is necessarily lengthy, as we
must address the parties' numerous arguments in each of the cases
involved. But the length of our analysis should not be mistaken
for a sign that the fundamental question that these cases raise
about the scope of birthright citizenship is a difficult one. It
is not, which may explain why it has been more than a century since
a branch of our government has made as concerted an effort as the
Executive Branch now makes to deny Americans their birthright.

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Alec Perkins @alecperkins.me · 5d

Meanwhile just this afternoon someone on a bike was hit by a driver in Bergen-Lafayette and a kid on a scooter was hit downtown. @safestreetsjerseycity.org

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Alec Perkins @alecperkins.me · 5d

Continues to astound me that business owners resist anything that might change this, not understanding that foot traffic is the key to their success.

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Alec Perkins @alecperkins.me · 5d

Just leaving this here for no particular reason, again. youtu.be/GsWj7Q5iPus

The Break with Michelle Wolf | Op-Ed | Netflix

YouTube video by Netflix

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Andy Lambert @cooperissuper.bsky.social · 6d

Every city should have an electric cargo bike library, and the @mplscargobikelibrary.com is creating a model that can be replicated anywhere, ready to scale as big as necessary.

We have @bikemn.bsky.social and @lauragmitchell.com to thank for leading the way 💚

usa.streetsblog.org/2025/10/02/r...

Report: A Third of Americans Can't Rely On Cars — And 16 Million Have No Access At All — Streetsblog USA

So why do we plan our cities like everyone can and does get behind the wheel every day?

usa.streetsblog.org

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jenn schiffer 🕷️🕯️ @jennschiffer.com · 14d

i am selling original pixel art watercolors and including a free airbrush sketch because i think that’s fun and that’s all i really wanna have

bugsrock.online/blog/pixel-w...

wow! original pixel watercolor paintings! free shipping and surprise airbrush sketch. shop now!

background image is a pile of my pixel art watercolors for sale

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Better Blocks NJ @betterblocksnj.bsky.social · 6d

James Solomon Answers the Better Blocks Questionnaire

James Solomon, a Jersey City Councilman, is running for mayor of Jersey City. Candidate responses are in bold. Any questions left blank, will be…

https://betterblocksnj.org/2025/10/02/james-solomon-answers-the-better-blocks-questionnaire/

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Better Blocks NJ @betterblocksnj.bsky.social · 6d

Bill O’Dea Answers the Better Blocks Questionnaire

Bill O'Dea, a current Hudson County Commissioner, is running for mayor of Jersey City. Candidate responses are in bold. Any questions left blank, will be…

https://betterblocksnj.org/2025/10/02/bill-odea-answers-the-better-blocks-questionnaire/

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Better Blocks NJ @betterblocksnj.bsky.social · 8d

Candidate Surveys for Hoboken Mayoral and Council Elections

Better Blocks New Jersey sent this candidate questionnaire to all the campaigns running candidates for mayor and city council in Hoboken.…

https://betterblocksnj.org/2025/09/30/candidate-surveys-for-hoboken-mayoral-and-council-elections/

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 7d

Some stories you may not be aware of if you’re not inside the circles where tech industry workers talk to each other: the groups at Microsoft that have been organizing for years to stop providing tech to enable genocide scored their first massive victory last week. www.theverge.com/news/785733/...

Microsoft blocks the Israeli military from some cloud and AI services

The Guardian revealed last month that Microsoft’s services were being used for mass surveillance of Palestinians.

www.theverge.com

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