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Sakshi

@sakshi.bsky.social

Dutton now ‘Welcome to leave the country’ #auspol #australiavotes2025

May 3, 2025 at 11:43 AM

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Peter Murphy

@peterwmurphy1.bsky.social

The Liberal Party is re-posting a pro-Greens TikTok influencer's videos without her permission BUT edited versions of them to make it appear the TikTok influencer is criticising the Greens. This is blatant disinformation. Will our media call the Libs out for this deception? 😠 #auspol #AusVotes25

April 5, 2025 at 8:28 AM

Tish Bee

@tishbee.bsky.social

Captcha and I are having a real difference of opinion over my humanity.

I may have an existential crisis over logging into Steam tonight.

January 22, 2025 at 8:01 AM

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Staid

@staidindoors.bsky.social

the key to reba's mortality can be yours

January 13, 2025 at 7:39 PM

Tish Bee

@tishbee.bsky.social

Suppressing my free speech!

January 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM

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onion person

@junlper.beer

losing my mind

December 1, 2024 at 2:21 AM

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Erin Fogg says Free Link

@criminalerin.bsky.social

HATES IT

My slinky tiger cat, Mr Sir, angrily baring his fangs at the childproof lock on the cabinets under the sink where the cat food is stored as plush void cat Familiar looks on

A closer crop on his furious face and flattened ears and angry eyes as he stares at the childproof lock on the cat food cabinet

November 30, 2024 at 11:29 PM

Tish Bee

@tishbee.bsky.social

I just don't know how The Onion is going to top this.

Knowledge Fight Out of Context @nocontextkf.bsky.social · Dec 9

Our next guest is a malevolent wizard.

Ep78.

November 20, 2024 at 11:41 PM

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Erin Reed

@erininthemorning.com

When asked what equal means in this context, the bill sponsor could not even define the word equal anymore.

November 20, 2024 at 3:11 AM

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Anne Thériault

@annetheriault.bsky.social

Thinking about the time the Roman emperor Commodus was trying to seem intimidating at one of ye old Roman spectacles, so he beheaded an ostrich and shook its head at the crowd, but the whole situation was so ridiculous that Cassius Dio laughed so hard that he had to stuff laurel leaves in his mouth

November 14, 2024 at 3:40 AM

Tish Bee

@tishbee.bsky.social

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June 28, 2024 at 5:38 AM

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief

@katie.bzky.team

strongly recommend all of you watch this so that you get why i won't stop yelling about this, but the academic article that ray is summarizing is a fantastic read. it's all really good, but a few choice sections:

4.1. Crashes
Traffic crashes kill 1.3 million people per year or 3500 people per day, and they are the eighth‑leading cause of death globally (World Health Organization, 2021c; World Health Organization, 2018). Over the past few decades, the number of crash deaths has not risen as quickly as car ownership—reflecting safety improvements in many places but safety reductions in others. Africa has the highest regional crash death rate per capita, and Europe has the lowest as crash deaths have been declining there for several decades. Importantly, crash deaths in the US were declining but recently began increasing again (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 2021; World Health Organization, 2018). This trend has been partially attributed to the growing popularity of SUVs which, due to their heavier and taller forms, are more likely to kill people outside of cars such as those walking (Monfort and Mueller, 2020; Ossiander et al., 2014). A US study found that children were 8 times m

5.3. Dependence and isolation
In car-dependent landscapes, individuals are isolated from people and destinations by long distances and physical barriers such as motorways (expressways). Without a car, one cannot access food, healthcare, work, education, family, or friends. Most people on the planet do not drive, including millions in car-dependent places. This results in social isolation, and “isolated individuals are at increased risk for the development of cardiovascular disease, infectious illness, cognitive deterioration, and mortality” (Steptoe et al., 2013, p. 5797). In car-dependent places, people who do not drive must remain in place until someone comes to visit or they can use buses (if available) or taxis (Milton et al., 2015). Emergency services can also be impacted by sprawling car-dependent landscapes as evidenced by fire and ambulance response time delays caused by road traffic and increased travel distances (Lambert et al., 2012; Trowbridge et al., 2009).

Car dependence

Car-dependent environments “disable” people who do not drive by restricting access to essential needs (Urry, 2006).

Automobility promises the annihilation of distance, but prioritises some people's journeys at the expense of others'. Some distances become larger, as when dual carriageways and fast one-way systems bisect inner-city areas, speeding up commuters while forcing local people to detour. Rather than dissolving space, the car economy redistributes it, and most disabled people are among the losers, along with people in poor neighbourhoods and children. (Aldred and Woodcock, 2008, p. 494).

Physical (in)accessibility and social (in)accessibility overlap and reinforce one another while also interacting with economic inaccessibility. Systems disable people via “social oppression, not a person's impairment” (Aldred and Woodcock, 2008, p. 487). Automobility, like many systems, is organised around the assumption of “able-bodied” movement with too few considerations for physical and

6.3.3. Parking
Unlike streets, parking is rarely used by people outside of cars. As such, parking space is distributed more inequitably than street travel lane space. On-street parallel parking consumes approximately 10-19 m2 per car and off-street parking consumes about 25-33 m2 per car (Crist et al., 2022; Héran et al., 2011; Héran and Ravalet, 2008; Shoup, 2011; US Department of Transportation, 2022; Willson, 2013). By contrast, a person standing, sitting in a wheelchair, or stationary on a bicycle consumes approximately 1-2 m2. An empty car in a car park consumes the space of about 20 people.

Outside of city centres, parking often appears to be free. Yet there is no such thing as free parking. Rather, “everyone parks free at everyone else's expense” through increased costs for goods and services (Shoup, 2011, p. 128). Some governments have minimum parking “requirements” or mandates that legally obligate property owners to supply a certain number of parking spaces for each building

March 30, 2024 at 1:26 AM

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Willow

@rockshrimp.bsky.social

At least it’s Friday.

February 13, 2024 at 2:16 AM

Tish Bee

@tishbee.bsky.social

February 7, 2024 at 7:34 AM

Tish Bee

@tishbee.bsky.social

A devious looking kitty that is clearly plotting chaos gazes out of a window under the caption 'Don't be part of the problem. Be the whole problem.'

February 7, 2024 at 7:32 AM

Tish Bee

@tishbee.bsky.social

My favourite anecdotes now involve explaining the technology of the time for them to make sense.

January 9, 2024 at 8:21 AM

Tish Bee

@tishbee.bsky.social

People used to tell me that as I got older, I would become more conservative, and I didn't believe them, but I've really come around on the Oxford comma.

December 31, 2023 at 1:44 PM