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“They’re absolutely dead set against this,” said the alderman, who later named Northwestern Mutual and US Bank as two likely opponents.”
I don't understand what incentive a large company with an office building would have to want a freeway cutting through downtown. What am I missing here? Employee access? Some kind of tax thing? #milwaukee
https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2023/07/26/how-committed-is-city-to-tearing-down-794/
UPDATE: the govt killed it a month later: https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-scraps-brossard-traffic-light-that-rewards-good-driving-says-it-wasn-t-consulted-1.6456678
This. Is. Amazing.
Montréal suburb has a school zone traffic light that only turns green when its camera detects a car driving under the speed limit.
The light is on a 90-day trial, on a 2-lane residential street. Similar signals are widespread in Europe.
Before installation, vehicles averaged 40 km/h. But in the past week, average speed has dropped to 29 km/h.
I told a joke on a Zoom Meeting and no-one laughed.
It turns out I'm not remotely funny.
Twitter is dying, but my advocacy work helping trans people raise money via fundraisers depends on my five years of work I've spent writing on Twitter, so I need help.
If you're a trans person who needs help raising money for any reason, reply to this toot with your fundraiser. I'll reach out.
If you're a cis person and you can, please boost this post so your trans followers can see it.
Socialism is a scare word they've hurled at every advance the people have made. Socialism is what they called public power, social security, deposit insurance, and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for anything that helps all people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Had a nice evening walk along the coast and got to the harbour at the far end of the bay just in time for sunset ^.^
I always feel like a genius baker when I make crackers, even though they are super easy. Maybe that’s because when I was growing up and well after *nobody* made their own.Yet they are easier than pie crust, as wholesome as you want, and full of artistic possibilities. Here’s my recipe and a photo of the ones I made for dinner tonight. https://cookforgood.com/chia-seed-crackers/ #baking #recipe #vegan
Well this is good. 👍
Kyle Griffin MSNBC:
Rep. Schiff and 11 House Dems are urging Education Dept. to investigate if GOP actions to ban books, block access to American history lessons, and silence LGBTQ+ individuals in schools constitutes a legal violation of students' first amendment rights and civil rights protections.
Your regular reminder that if you have a “no politics” rule, what you really have is a community that is only welcoming to straight white cis men
In Germany, teaching the Holocaust is mandatory.
It includes visits to concentration camp, museums, etc. They don't shy away from their own ugly history. Yet the kids aren't damaged; they're strengthened, matured, humbled. The U.S. needs to do same with slavery.
Not that complicated.
I interviewed Michelle Yeoh a few years ago about #StarTrekDiscovery and I mentioned offhand that I'd written an article about what seeing her use her accent on the bridge of a starship meant to me.
She stopped and said "Wait, that was YOU?"
And then proceeded to talk about how much that article had meant to HER and how it contributed to the success of the show.
I can't think about it without crying.
(The original article: https://authory.com/SwapnaKrishna/On-Star-Trek-Discovery-and-Michelle-Yeohs-accent-aa6d2eb01b3a24970abf406c39146df33)
me: *screaming into the abyss"
the abyss: this could have been an email
Trans people have always existed and even sometimes been publicly celebrated, and there's infinitely more cases of trans people being victims of violence and abuse than perpetrators.
But the narrative that trans people are new and dangerous never goes away because it's so useful to authoritarians, who take advantage of the prurient-puritanical mores and ignorance they foment by subverting education and journalism.
Thanks to @markusl for pointing out this blog post from 2017 on the same phrase. It’s excellent.
https://thagomizer.com/blog/2017/09/29/we-don-t-do-that-here.html
“The reason most public transportation is seen as ‘losing’ money is precisely because it charges for trips. If you don't charge fares, suddenly it can't ‘lose’ money. It just costs money, the same as the roads.”
This random comment has given me my new favourite argument for removing fares from public transit.
Saying it now: Jimmy Carter is the ultimate model of an ex-president who used his time after office to be of service to others.
Ever since I've focused on Mastodon over Twitter, the one major thing I've said over and over again that was missing (but I was sure was coming) was a Mastodon version of Nuzzel or Tweetshelf. A tool to find what news links your followers are sharing.
And... @decius has just built one! Just released today, so may be buggy, but already looks amazing and INCREDIBLY useful.
