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Conrail Twitty

@grenadine.bsky.social

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Is that urban planner yelling into the Internet again? Detroiter from St. Louis Posting about city services & urban planning from a justice perspective, the Rust Belt, community outreach, transportation, historic preservation, and cats.

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Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · Nov 14

Hi new people! Nice to meet you.

I am a Detroit area urban planner, transit advocate, and historic preservation professional.

#1 fangirl of the Open Meetings Act.

Come for the local government commentary, stay for the everything else (It’s mostly everything else.)

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 53m

Going Alpine in Berwyn, Illinois

Small one-story house with a partial mansard roof maybe. Attached to the front of the roof are two half-timbered gables, wood painted brown, wall painted white. There is a little wooden chalet-like roof over the front door at the left. The rest of the facade is covered in really bad faux stone in shades of tan, grey, yellow, and, peach. There is a double window at the right shaded by a metal awning. Two manicured shrubs are protected by the world's smallest picket fence,

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Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 1h

This is an unnecessary tech solution for cruel and uncaring COs and cops, using incarceration for things that require care, people baking in unairconditioned facilities, and so many other things that run deeper than a hard piece of plastic.

Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 1h

Traditional finger-worn pulse oximeters are less accurate for darker skin and are just generally known for having issues sometimes.

Sounds from the article like these things have a ton of issues too. Someone’s making bank off them though

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Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 1h

EXTREMELY this part.

Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 2h

I miss her!!

Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 2h

Thank you feral cat I found outside

strawbaby jam @strawbbfields4ever.bsky.social · 12h

always remember who was there for you at your lowest. thank you cigarettes

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Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 2h

I was thinking of taking a mini walk, perhaps this is my sign to do it

Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 3h

Sometimes I have to take a break from commentating the Rust Belt everylot pages to share my thoughts on what the MSU Surplus Store has goin on

Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 3h

We live someplace that actually seems to plow the roads now, which is WILD to me.

If we still lived in Hamtramck, seeing this would fill me with indescribable emotions

MSU Surplus Store @msusurplus.bsky.social · 20h

Winter is coming, be ready with your own plow & salt truck!
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Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 4h

Aww, from maybe tangentially occupied to clearly not occupied.

This moorish influenced architecture style is my favorite Detroit vernacular.

every lot detroit.. before and after @everylot.det.city · 8h

11700 LIVERNOIS
Parcel ID: 16017411.
Year built: 1930
Zoned B4
Tax status: TAXABLE
Image dates: Jan 27 2022 on left; Aug 13 2025 on right

Street view imagery of 11700 LIVERNOIS captured on Jan 27 2022

Street view imagery of 11700 LIVERNOIS captured on Aug 13 2025

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Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 4h

Rare pop top of a Detroit bungalow.

That is indeed the same house

every lot detroit.. before and after @everylot.det.city · 1d

8703 PRAIRIE
Parcel ID: 16023568.
Year built: 1924
Zoned R2
Tax status: TAXABLE
Image dates: Aug 04 2019 on left; May 19 2025 on right

Street view imagery of 8703 PRAIRIE captured on Aug 04 2019

Street view imagery of 8703 PRAIRIE captured on May 19 2025

Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 4h

Someone from our anti McKee neighborhood crew asked the guy if he wanted help fighting it, but he said he wanted to concentrate on getting his kid to a safe place.

Within days all their worldly possessions were on the curb.

That’s who Paul McKee is as a person. Never forget it.

Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 4h

One of the most fucked up Paul McKee eviction stories came from this block.

McKee bought a house a veteran and his kid were living in. Let the landlord NOT TELL THEM IT SOLD and keep pocketing rent & utilities.

They found out when their lights cut out in the middle of the night.

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Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 5h

This block had SEVERAL families living on it until Paul McKee forced them out and intentionally allowed the homes to be destroyed via brick rustling.

I distinctly remember when this block was inhabited, and also painting over some graffiti of a slur on a vacant when he started forcing people out.

Every Lot St Louis @everylotstlouis.bsky.social · 23h

1929 WRIGHT ST, ST LOUIS, MO, 63107

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Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 5h

This was the old Euclid Branch school. I didn’t go here but some of my friends’ younger siblings did.

Our school bus stopped here before it went to our school.

Every Lot St Louis @everylotstlouis.bsky.social · 16h

5061-9 RIDGE AV, ST LOUIS, MO, 63113

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Brandon R. @miguel2586.bsky.social · 13h

That's Ivory Perry's house!!

Every Lot St Louis @everylotstlouis.bsky.social · 14h

5111 RAYMOND AV, ST LOUIS, MO, 63113

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Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 6h

Thankfully this was about the mildest version of this happening you could experience, but yeah Not Ideal when they do that

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Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 6h

I got a surprise wet sock after a pain appointment yesterday. It turned out both the toilets in the clinic building were… mutinying

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Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 6h

*Better Maid calls their Chicago mix this, and I’m not about to argue with Better Maid.

They can do whatever they want at that factory in Gratiot and I’ll at least try it

Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 6h

I tried combining the leftovers of a bag of Detroit mix popcorn* and the leftovers of a bag of caramel popcorn.

I had the hypothesis this would be better than straight Detroit mix, but I was mistaken!! It needs the cheese

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Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 6h

I feel the impulse to sit here and pick apart the many layers of why that is Not Okay, but you know your own life experiences well.

I’m glad you’re working towards ending things with him, bc that is not how one should talk to anyone, let alone one’s partner.

Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 6h

That is not cool.

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Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 6h

Turns out when a game isn’t trying to frustrate you into watching ads or spending money, you can relax

Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 6h

I played Donut Country on my phone and that was really nice and chill!

If anyone has recs of similar phone games I would like to hear them

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Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 8h

This is like finding asbestos tiles under your basement carpet and then using the tiles as wall decor

Tiffany W @tiffany.thetriibe.com · 8h

every time i’ve turned on CNN this week, Rahm Emanuel has been on here.

he’s on Anderson Cooper’s show now

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