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Benjamin Geer
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Software developer and ex-academic (sociology, conceptual history, Arabic culture, etc.), sometimes publishes classical sheet music, lives in Paris, en/fr/ar/de/it, blog https://benjamingeer.name/, publications https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2449-8558
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WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.

Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Annex businesses tell Ford to back off Bloor bike lanes
Stores in the Annex say the Bloor bike lanes have been a big boost to business. As Michelle Mackey reports, the neighborhood's BIA wants the province to back off its new bill that could see the lanes ...
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November 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Ninety minutes of modern orchestral music this (9/22/25) afternoon beginning at 4pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming on https://wmbr.org

#cambridge #boston #radio #modernclassical #contemporaryclassical #orchestral

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WMBR 88.1 FM at MIT
WMBR is the awesome little radio station broadcasting from deep within the basements of MIT in Cambridge, Mass.
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September 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Do I understand correctly that they think Nasser’s 1952 military coup in Egypt was an example of democratisation?
September 22, 2025 at 6:14 AM