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Walking is a right; driving is a privilege. Not the other way around.

Bigots & bots will be blocked.

Oh, and I RT ducks.

#DriverNotCar
#PlowSidewalksToo
#WindshieldBias
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bettybarcode @bettybarcode.bsky.social · Dec 9
Maybe you see my #PlowSidewalksToo hashtag and think, "Yeah, sure, sounds great but it would require a massive tax increase and expansion of the public payroll and no one is going to willingly sign on for that. Real shame, though."

So: a thread. 🧵

#urbanism
bettybarcode.bsky.social
Another example of a weird American domestic decorating & design taboo: no depictions of cars allowed, except in man caves & boys' bedrooms. Otherwise, landscapes & cityscapes must be car-free to earn a place on the wall or your holiday cards.
bedubble.bsky.social Brandon @bedubble.bsky.social · 19h
USPS 250th Anniversary Forever Stamps are a model for walkable communities, urbanism, and car-free neighborhoods.

In this essay (1/250)
USPS stamps where the only vehicles are the low hood height USPS trucks and the streets belong to the people
November 28, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Join the #BlueSkyArtShow
Saturday November 29, 2025
The theme is #Warmth

Any art, any interpretation
Use both tags to be
included in our feed.
Multiple entries welcome

More details in the comments

#photography #drawing #painting #sketching #poetry
Photo of a window in a brick building shining warm light out on the pavement with text over it reading: Join the #BlueSkyArtShow Saturday November 29, 2025 The theme is #Warmth Any art. Any interpretation. Use both tags to be included in our feed. Multiple entries welcome
November 24, 2025 at 3:49 AM
bettybarcode.bsky.social
Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild, urbanist edition:

Bat
Deer
Skunk
Kestrel
Woodchuck
November 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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ohtheurbanity.bsky.social
“The vacated homes were substantially cheaper than the new units and spanned diverse locations and housing types.”

When people move into new housing developments, they free up space in older housing. This is good for housing affordability and availability.
yonahfreemark.com Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 1d
Interesting new working paper that studies chains of movers after the construction of a new apartment building in Honolulu.

Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
uhero.hawaii.edu
November 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
bettybarcode.bsky.social
#PlowSidewalksToo
tomflood.bsky.social Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 17d
"A city's priorities become as clear as the spaces they choose to maintain in the winter."

Creative done with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social
a sidewalk and bike lane covered in snow and the road perfectly cleared. One of these is not like the others. A city's priorities become as clear as the spaces they choose to maintain in the winter.
November 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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infobeautiful.bsky.social
Pyramid pie

(creator: unknown)
A pie chart titled with its legend "Sky", "Sunny side of pyramid", and "Shady side of pyramid". The majority of the circle, a large blue segment, represents "Sky". A smaller, bright yellow segment represents the "Sunny side of pyramid", and an even smaller, darker yellow segment represents the "Shady side of pyramid", creating a visual impression of a pyramid base within a circular sky.
November 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
publius24.bsky.social John Q. Public @publius24.bsky.social · 1d
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
bettybarcode.bsky.social
Every time someone with a big following uses the phrase "conspiracy theory," they're basically saying "conspiracy-might-be-true."

They now have to spend all this time refuting the conspiracy-might-be-true. When they could have written "conspiracy myth" or "conspiracy fiction" at the outset.
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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adamtranter.bsky.social
Just as you thought food delivery companies couldn't inflict any more misery on society:

Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
November 28, 2025 at 11:50 AM
bettybarcode.bsky.social
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:

Jackson Browne/Running on Empty tour
Talking Heads/Stop Making Sense tour
Grateful Dead
k.d. lang
Sweet Honey in the Rock
mirandayaver.bsky.social Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 1d
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:

- Springsteen (x46)
- Sandy Relief Concert (Springsteen, McCartney, The Stones, The Who, Waters, Joel, Bob Jovi, Clapton, Alicia Keys, Dave Grohl, etc.)
- The Rolling Stones with Van Morrison
- Tom Petty with Jackson Browne
- Sting with Paul Simon
ericmgarcia.bsky.social Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:
-Bon Jovi and the Goo Goo Dolls
-Ozzy Osbourne
-Rush
-Van Halen
-The Who
November 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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nytguildtech.bsky.social
No contract? No coffee! ✊☕ Our members are out supporting Starbucks Workers United in their strike as they fight for a fair contract.
Striking Starbucks workers picket outside a store in Buffalo, NY A dog next to a sign reading "no contract, no Starbucks"
November 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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i-am-hildemar.bsky.social
I don't recall where I found this, but I'd say this looks about right.
Two scales illustrating the social environment composed by men. The first, prefaced with "I've learned that a lot of guys visualize our social environment like this" shows over 95% of the line to depict "good men", and a small bit to illustrate "crazed evil men". The second line, prefaced with "But it's actually closer to this", is labeled as follows: at the 1/8 mark, "heroic men who will intervene" another eighth "well-meaning men who underestimate the issue", the next line, at about halfway, reads "men who think certain women deserve it (but aren't active predators)" , the line after that, "men who passively enjoy/consume/encourage predation", at the 3/4 mark, "textbook predators we're all afraid of" and a final mark nearly at the extreme end of the scale, labeled "monsters so cruel we can't even fathom them".
November 28, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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shabazzstuart.bsky.social
This Thanksgiving I am especially grateful for all the folks who are working to keep the city running/moving etc, so the rest of us can enjoy a meal with our friends and families.
November 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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aprilseventy6.blacksky.app
The parental units have been putting praise break music over their kids tantrums. 🤣🤣🤣
November 27, 2025 at 9:14 PM
bettybarcode.bsky.social
Obligatory duck retweet
birdperhour.net bird/h @birdperhour.net · 1d
#birdbot
November 27, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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mychal3ts.bsky.social
We raise our library voices to celebrate our Indigenous neighbors 💜

How wonderful to exist alongside Indigenous Peoples! You have always been here, you are still here. Celebrate & support them: their stories, history, community, art, food ✨

Thankful for you, we celebrate you today & every day 🧡
Mychal smiles in Indigenous purple shirt, holding the book CHOOCH HELPED by Andrea L. Rogers and illustrated by Rebecca Lee Kunz
November 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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ebonyteach.blacksky.app
This is quite literally HER land. 🤬
November 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
Banning street hockey in Canada?

This isn’t about protecting kids. It’s about protecting drivers from having to think about kids.
tomflood.bsky.social Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 2d
Get outside kids, enjoy the fresh air with your friends!
Just kidding, stay the F inside.
November 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
bettybarcode.bsky.social
I ❤️ this
joshuajfriedman.com Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 2d
They did it again! NYC subway Thanksgiving 2025, via @scootercaster.com!
November 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
bettybarcode.bsky.social
Here's how AI solves climate change: one LLM after another urges the adoption of windmills, solar farms & high speed rail across the US, which cannot be done because we sank all our capital into AI.
November 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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bookishjulia.bsky.social
Just a reminder that ordering books through an author’s @bookshop.org affiliate links supports independent bookstores AND authors.

In other words, your favorite authors get a lil’ extra money, as do actual bookstores (not that one billionaire website). A win-win.
November 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
I have often seen masculinity, conventional version, as a constant renunciation, in return for corrosive power. All the things you're not allowed to like, enjoy, do, say, wear, but (metaphorically speaking) this straitjacket comes with a gun.
maxkennerly.bsky.social Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 3d
So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.
November 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
bettybarcode.bsky.social
Here it is, the point at which driving became a right instead of a privilege. Blame Charles Reich. From "Why Nothing Works," by Marc Dunkleman.
#WindshieldBias
@thewaroncars.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
This is true. It is the best email I got this year.
I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM