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Mpls Ped/Bike Coordinator. Cold weather apologist. Sports appreciator. Cookie enthusiast. State capacity booster. Opinions do not represent those of the City.
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Mandalay Bay [Las Vegas] by Sarah Morris, 1999 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137551

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Brief layover day in Philly and imho Center City is in good shape. Tons of new businesses, new development, and lots of people are out and about. Now if only our trip from the airport gate into Center City hadn't repeatedly encountered bizarre obstacles and infrastructure delays... plus ça change

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

submitted 1 day ago • 204 comments

Luigi discourse is cursed, and frankly a sign of political infantilism

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

The Republican Party has been the motivating force behind most visceral patriotism in my life, because their efforts to destroy the cosmopolitan liberal democracy in which I was born have made me realize that I am in fact quite attached to it, and willing to countenance a lot in it’s defense.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Very much like the Iraq War, somehow "I thought Elon Musk was a genius until a couple years ago" is now considered the more respectable and serious opinion than "I knew he was a fraud for a decade and was never fooled by him."

submitted 1 day ago • 188 comments

In the last twelve months I've somehow been at the sites of two regicides, which isn't the wildest thing in the world but still a bit unusual.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

the fact that this is just a straightforward retelling of yesterday's events without hyperbole

submitted 2 days ago • 84 comments

Absolute bollocks from Transportation Secretary Tom Duffy with his statement that congestion pricing “is a slap in the face to working class Americans” and access to NYC “shouldn’t be reserved for an elite few”. The MTA as a whole, and the Subway in particular, moves huge numbers of regular people.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

📍 Lisboa

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

This video reminded me of @tomflood.bsky.social’s famous quote: “Bicycles deliver the freedom that auto ads promise.”

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

📍Porto

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Auckland went all in on YIMBY, and the results are clear: 43,500 new homes in 10 years, and rents down 28% relative to peers. www.population.fyi/p/beyond-ske...

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Imagine turning a literal century of years old! What!!

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

There's a Crisis of Masculinity in this country and the only way to solve it is to let me act like a cross between a baby and a movie villain

submitted 7 days ago • 257 comments

I think it's both depressing and telling how many Americans (including many members of the elite media) view "masculinity" basically in terms of being an abuser and are excited and thrilled to sign up themselves and others for more abuse.

submitted 10 days ago • 70 comments

It's funny how precisely this exact look; cavernous white spaces with no seating, is *the* architectural hallmark of public infrastructure in Cuomo-era New York Moynihan, Grand Central Madison, renovated LaGuardia... all the same palate

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

A warning in advance that I will be sharing discordantly positive vibes on this platform for the next week. Tonight I am here to hear Susie Park musically posterize Gabriela Ortiz, tomorrow I am going to my Opa's 100th birthday party, and Sunday starts a long-planned trip. Needed sometimes!

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

They are just swinging sledgehammers in the dark.

submitted 8 days ago • 603 comments

a lot of this speaks to just how captured these boards are, and how little interest they have in their responsibilities to shareholders. rooting out woke employees and DEI programs rather than focusing on sustainable new growth isn’t in shareholder interests.

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

It's striking the extent to which there's never any justification given for any of this beyond "it's too many people" or "it's actually fake" and no apparent planning behind any of it. It's the aesthetics of "move fast and break things" without any discernible direction or purpose. It's cosplay.

submitted 8 days ago • 114 comments