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Brandon @bedubble.bsky.social · 6d

I’m a proud, card-carrying member of the anti-car brigade

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Cassidy @cassidy.social · 6d

Chicago W!

Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 6d

This seems a lot stronger than what NYC passed under 'City of Yes'.

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Cassidy @cassidy.social · 6d

Nooooooo :( Won't stop me either 😆

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Cassidy @cassidy.social · 6d

Hold up. Sales tax on gas will go towards transit? Dreams come true??

Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 6d

The law is to generate $1.5 billion in new annually funding for the state’s transit systems through:
—Redirecting sales tax on gas from highway spending to transit
—Using interest earned on state roads fund for transit
—Enabling Chicago region to increase sales tax by 0.25% for transit

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Cassidy @cassidy.social · 7d

I've ridden transit enough to know that the guy just needed a little space and the cops made that situation 1000% times more dangerous for everyone.

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Cassidy @cassidy.social · 7d

Drunk guy immediately gets agitated, situation escalates, cops start following him around the train, drunk guy starts yelling about being racially profiled, two more transit cops show up.

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Cassidy @cassidy.social · 7d

This reminds me of a situation that happened when I was in Seattle recently, heading to the airport on the light rails. Drunk guy gets on the train, he's kinda loud and obnoxious, but not bothering anyone. After a few minutes, a transit cop walks over and stands right next to him.

beautiful women updates @aoife.bsky.social · 8d

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

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beautiful women updates @aoife.bsky.social · 8d

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

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gal fawkes @mel.bzky.team · 8d

hey guys i have a foolproof solution to the male loneliness epidemic

gal fawkes @mel.bzky.team · Sep 2

product idea

estradiol vial that says tactical estradiol for real men

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Cassidy @cassidy.social · 10d

hmmmm favicon.ico is larger than crouton.png?

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Cassidy @cassidy.social · 12d

And highways. I refuse to learn what “The Kennedy” is.

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Cassidy @cassidy.social · 12d

This is how I feel about the suburbs. “You expect me to know anything about Elm Ridge? Sorry.”

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Cassidy @cassidy.social · 14d

I must be not very smart or something because I’ve always put them in the in the toaster horizontally… but at least I knew they’re meant to be toasted I guess? I mean it’s in the name

🏳️‍⚧️ Chicken Puppet 🏳️‍⚧️ @chickenpuppet.online · 14d

In case you think this is a joke

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Cassidy @cassidy.social · 15d

NY City

K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 15d

folks, he's done it again

A.F. Branco political cartoon of a red airplane with a hammer and sickle labeled "Mamdani" flying towards a gray building labeled "NY City"

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Cassidy @cassidy.social · 20d

The choice is to slow down long before you have to slam on your brakes for a pedestrian in a crosswalk while fearing the car behind you.

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Cassidy @cassidy.social · 20d

Kill a pedestrian, or file an insurance claim. I can see why it’s a difficult decision

Cassidy @cassidy.social · 21d

“I decided that if New York is the city of ‘hey, I’m walking here!’, Chicago is the city of ‘hey, I’m driving here!’”

Nailed it.

Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 22d

Up on Nebula now: I went to Chicago to ground-truth the “crime-ravaged third world hell hole” allegations. You will NEVER GUESS what I found

nebula.tv/videos/cityn...

CityNerd — Shockingly, They've Been Lying to Me About Chicago

I went to Chicago to see if it's really the crime-ridden, third world hell hole I've been told. You will NEVER BELIEVE what I actually saw.

nebula.tv

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Cassidy @cassidy.social · 26d

Agreed about massive traffic calming though

Cassidy @cassidy.social · 26d

No, pedestrian yield signs are worse than useless. If drivers won’t stop for the stop sign then they definitely won’t stop for a yield sign.

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · Sep 27

8. American sidewalks should be at least twice as wide.

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Cassidy @cassidy.social · 26d

It seems bike score is weighted very heavily in this ranking, which is a...choice. NYC is the only city in the U.S. where the majority of households do not own a car.

Cassidy @cassidy.social · 27d

What is this ranking? SLC above NYC? Denver above Chicago??

[SCUTTLEBUTT] @fack.bsky.social · 27d

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOO

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · Oct 3

they're the ones who suck, why should i be the one to leave?

Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · Oct 3

I'm realizing a grim exercise/prompt may be in this ...

If others want to share, I'm curious:

Why aren't *you* leaving america (yet)?

Asking for trans folks in particular, especially those of us on HRT and/or other very directly threatened in terms of our healthcare ...

Reposts welcomed. Sigh.

Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · Oct 3

If i were 22, I'd maybe just bail on america. I'm 38 is the problem and I love my life here. My house, my gardens, my dogs. This is where I built my adult existence ...

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · Oct 3

This is just pure uncut fascist terror for terrors sake and it’s accelerating.

The republicans are at war against democracy and sovereign democratically held states and cities. Full stop.

Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · Oct 3

Logan Square neighborhood, Chicago. Man wearing a balaclava in a white, unmarked vehicle, pulls the pin on a tear gas canister and tosses it in the road.

"Just trying to grab some lunch and these fucking losers showed up. FUCK ICE!"
source: www.reddit.com/r/LoganSquar...

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Cassidy @cassidy.social · Oct 2

I walk slower in a crosswalk, just to balance things out

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