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Beth Day @thebethocracy.bsky.social · 18h

I've been calculating the amount of each Seattle neighborhood elementary attendance area that overlaps with its walk zone. In how much of the city can kids walk to their assigned neighborhood school? Here's the answer!

Map of Seattle, showing the individual overlaps for each neighborhood elementary school with its walk zone and dot locations of each school color-coded to represent a low amount of the attendance area in the walk zone to a high amount.

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Eric Lind @elindie.bsky.social · 1d

fearful for Jamaica 🇯🇲

text snippet from linked article which reads: “ No Category 5 hurricane has made a direct landfall on Jamaica in recorded history. No one living there has ever experienced anything like what is about to happen.” above radar map of Hurricane Melissa

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 1d

Stop sign plus instructions for how to use it.

red stop sign with a second white sign attached saying "take turns"

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Eric Lind @elindie.bsky.social · 1d

the Strib is still *about* Minneapolis, but explicitly no longer *of* Mpls #StarTrollbune

Stacey Burns At Stake 🧙🏻 @wentrogue.bsky.social · 1d

Find someone who loves you like the Star Tribune loves reserving prime Sunday op-ed real estate for 1,300 word snarling takes from Carol Becker

Today’s Star Tribune op-ed page, with a wordy defense of Kupchella’s propaganda project “Precarious State”

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Eric Lind @elindie.bsky.social · 4d

transit schedule changes take a few months to come to fruition

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 4d

Besides the 1,000 laid off at Target, I'm sorry for any downtown shop or restaurant owners who made business decisions based on this theater that took place *checks notes* six weeks ago

Sports
The Minnesota Star Tribune
Strib Varsity
Food & Culture
Business Outdoors
Opinion Things To Do Obituaries
Target workers return J.J, McCarthy "School of the future How to help Annunciation victims
Live: Downtown
Minneapolis abuzz with Target and other workers called back to the office

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Action Committee for Transit @actfortransit.bsky.social · 4d

Good morning to the #TransitCat of the day, who has places to go.

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Eric Lind @elindie.bsky.social · 7d

it has gotten better, but the parking is all still there in ramps and under the newer buildings. it is SO easy to drive a car downtown Mpls and park it

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Eric Lind @elindie.bsky.social · 7d

15% of developable parcels downtown Mpls is surface parking. much more like Phoenix than Seattle.

why isn’t transit ridership recovering??!

Findings Press @findingspress.org · 12d

Off-street Parking in 15 US Cities

This paper measures surface parking in 15 U.S. cities using satellite imagery and deep learning, providing statistics, maps, and analysis that reveal variation and distinct spatial patterns across urban areas.

dlvr.it

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 7d

US downtowns are covered with car parking.

According to this new study, off-street parking takes up:
🔹 20.5% of downtown Dallas
🔹 22.3% of downtown Los Angeles
🔹 31.7% of downtown Tulsa

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Eric Lind @elindie.bsky.social · 8d

positive outcome: a lot of people who were there, better understanding that the news is made of choices

Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 9d

You can count The Minnesota Star Tribune among the Sunday newspapers that did not put protest news on the front page

hand holding front page up with articles about a brain injury caused by a scooter, a candidate for governor, a lake that has rebounded ecologically, and the federal shutdown ... there is a teaser about the No Kings protest

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Eric Lind @elindie.bsky.social · 8d

i think the intent is that “who goes where“ is a constant negotiation. mainly to slow cars opposing each other bc the tendency is to drive in the middle. in that i think it does ok

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Eric Lind @elindie.bsky.social · 10d

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Eric Lind @elindie.bsky.social · 10d

during the master plan writing, MPRB had Pratt 5th graders designing natural play areas and shared street!

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Eric Lind @elindie.bsky.social · 10d

it can go back on the list! long list though

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Eric Lind @elindie.bsky.social · 10d

October mosquitoes. sigh

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 10d

Transit formed the Beatles, says McCartney

nme.com/news/music/paul-mccartney-responds-to-rishi-sunaks-plan-for-another-beatles-museum-in-liverpool-3088760
In discussing the unique circumstances that helped The Beatles to exist - along with the cultural revolution of the '60s in general - McCartney also hailed Labour's 1947
Transport Act which helped them to meet on buses (and inspired a great number of his songs) but the Education Act of 1944 which made schooling much open and fairer for his generation and others to follow.
Speaking of public transport when he was growing up, McCartney said: "It was this amazing system, and I didn't realise that we were kind of the first generation to benefit from that.
"Also, there was an education act that meant that kids like me from not very well-off homes could go to very posh schools. This gave everyone over Britain this opportunity to be more mobile and better educated - and that was a big factor in the cultural revolution."

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 11d

Is whoever slaps the labels on The Minnesota Star Tribune news articles trying to tell us something?

The Minnesota Star Tribune

Minnesota News You Can Use
Donate
TWIN CITIES SUBURBS
Anonymous funders of Precarious State' film stay ... anonymous
When asked to identify
who paid for the
film on Minneapolis, Rick Kupchella has said his donors are business and community leaders."
By Matt McKinney
The Minnesota Star Tribune
OCTOBER 16, 2025 AT 6:40PM|

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Anders @derzquist.net · 11d

Part of the issue is that the same time tax is rarely acknowledged in car use, it's mentally metabolized as background static. Lightrail taking a while is a scandal; bumper-to-bumper on 694 is somehow different. Walking 2 blocks from a bus stop is notable; walking 700ft in a parking lot is assumed.

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Eric Lind @elindie.bsky.social · 12d

look your bsky fills up and you have to delete them regularly

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eevee @eev.ee · Oct 17

alright well hello everyone, the most important thing to know about bluesky is that posts are called "bleats" and everyone who tells you otherwise is wrong

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Official Ridicky @ridicky.bsky.social · Oct 19

also seems like a wasted opportunity that these aren’t called “bleats”

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randomizer dad @weffjebster.bsky.social · Jul 10

they coulda called them bleats

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Pup Tempo @puptempo.bsky.social · Sep 27

I always liked "bleats" as the bluesky tweet equivalent, and I know that would also lead to being called a bunch of sheep, but I don't particularly care.

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Mike Cohen 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @mikec415.bsky.social · Aug 15

They should have been called bleats

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