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The "Penguincubator" or book vending machine launched by Allen Lane at Penguin/Bodley Head in 1937. For the price of a pack of cigarettes, you could get a novel. The machines were set up in busy spots in London, and the authors published aimed to raise the bar of what was available in paperback.

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"30 km/h (20 mph) speed limits work. From Brussels to Bologna, recent evidence suggest that they work best at their simplest, when the limit applies across a whole city. In Bologna, road deaths have dropped by half. In Wales... deaths and serious injuries have fallen by more than a third."

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Since he started at Crater Lake in January, Kevin Heatley has seen Crater Lake’s permanent workforce cut in half, and onboarding seasonal staff was delayed by a month. "Things are not OK," he said.

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After almost two years of work led by Portland nonprofit Depave (including a spat with the city over convoluted zoning codes), an unused parking lot at a historically Black church in Cully is now a green oasis, complete with garden beds, a picnic area, play structures, and more.

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A man tried to make a statement by burning 100 library books — the community responded by donating over 1,000 more. Book burners always lose in the long run. Reason, facts, and free thought can't be silenced. www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-n...

submitted 37 days ago • 29 comments

staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch 🧢 @trumpfile.org

submitted 42 days ago • 1396 comments

The U.S. mail is a vital system of communication and commerce that should not be distorted into infrastructure for dragnet surveillance.

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TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

submitted 43 days ago • 2312 comments

vandalism www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...

submitted 43 days ago • 489 comments

Like every other late 30-something I know, I'm thinking a lot lately about how the transportation system will shape my parents' lives as they age (which to some extent is already happening). Learned a lot from this conversation with @gregshill.com, including some surprises.

submitted 43 days ago • 8 comments

The radical right-wing legislature in Utah passed a bill that banned public schools and buildings from flying pride flags. But they are still allowed to fly city flags. So check out Salt Lake City’s newly adopted city flags.

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“Everyone predicted this would happen in a second Trump administration, yet politicians in a position to prevent it prioritized empty rhetoric over putting up a meaningful fight." Read our statement on the repeal of DOJ guidelines protecting journalists. freedom.press/issues/trump...

submitted 54 days ago • 16 comments

good advice

submitted 57 days ago • 39 comments

unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

submitted 57 days ago • 725 comments

An autism "registry" culled from private medical records could potentially violate federal privacy laws and runs the risk of abuse. It also harkens back to a time when disabled people were labeled, segregated, and excluded. We won't go back.

submitted 57 days ago • 670 comments

Feel like doing a good deed today? Please call Grande Ronde Vet in La Grande at (541) 605-0833 and pay toward prescription UTI food for Linda Christensen's cat Boo. She only needs $10 more for a small bag of food, or $45 more for a large bag. #cats

submitted 57 days ago • 3 comments

If you love your library, take action now. There are multiple ways to speak up for your library here: linktr.ee/tomesandtext...

submitted 59 days ago • 3 comments

Briefly met @danielhwilsonpdx.bsky.social in an elevator at @norwescon.org for #NWC47 and heard about his new book “Hole In The Sky”, exciting premise. Had to go out to my favorite indie bookshop and pre-order. Can’t wait for October! And just so #booksky knows, he was so very nice and human.

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Children have bedtimes, so parents can be hypocrites in peace.

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#NWC47 free library has an amazing selection. If aliens land today I’m giving them these four books. @norwescon.org keeps their community reading!

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@norwescon.org Norwescon 47 is so good even the trash pandas are geeky.

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Open your eyes and take electric bikes seriously. Please. Write about them. Interview users about their utter joyfulness. See how much they haul. Do the climate math. Do the public infrastructure math. Do the family finance math. Design roads for them. Design communities for them.

submitted 71 days ago • 5 comments

'Dandelions,' was painted by the Danish artist Bertha Wegmann around 1910. It wasn't an arbitrary choice of a plant to paint: the dandelion was used to promote the women’s liberation movement in Scandinavia because of its capacity for uncontrolled, strong-willed growth.

submitted 72 days ago • 87 comments

WASHINGTON (AP) — AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists, citing 1st Amendment.

submitted 72 days ago • 256 comments

In August 1946 the AP reported that Indianapolis children formed a picket line at a business that would only sell them gum if they first bought a yo-yo. They carried “We Can’t Chew Yo-Yos” and "No Bounty for Bubble Gum" signs. www.newspapers.com/article/the-...

submitted 73 days ago • 5 comments

you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos

submitted 73 days ago • 1306 comments

Bebe Apple

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Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

submitted 120 days ago • 132 comments