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St. Louis is well poised to adapt to global warming through sensible urban design. For the wrong reasons, our comfortable biking season is lengthening. Reducing car lanes, adding bike lanes, and heat-absorbing greenery, is both urbanism and climate adaptation. #stlurbanism #stl #stlouis […]

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Nice! "This is the first mixtape since the inception of NHAM as an online magazine-style music platform for indie artists with a Fedi presence." Featuring @meljoann and other awesome artists. https://nham.co.uk/2025/03/nonchalant-hares-acknowledge-march-nham-mixtape-9/ #music #NowListening […]

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Finally stopped by Dad's Cookies on Louisiana today. Very cool little local shop, and good prices. #stl #stlouis #cookies #saintlouis

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I think if I ever left education I'd want to become a game dev and make my dream game of a city "improver" where you start with a preexisting city (real or generated?) and try to improve it as if you were the city council + mayor + streets dept using legal tools rather than omnipotent development.

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One thing I've come to realize as both an anarchist and educator is that all classrooms are prefigurative. One of the works of schooling, regardless of whether you do it intentionally or not, is to teach children the tools of society. Teaching them restorative practices and equitable decision […]

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I dislike "leopards ate my face" rhetoric. I'm not going to call for civility with fascists/racists/so on. But when someone is mad at the decisions of people they supported that's an opportunity to say "Now you see the problem too, how about we do something about it."

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Great article from BND about lifelong farmers' feelings about current uncertainty and specifically the Farm Bill that's been punted until September. https://www.bnd.com/news/state/illinois/article300775059.html #illinois #farming #farms #farmbill #tarrifs #stl #stlouis #saintlouis #bnd

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Are We Starting to Treat Plane Crashes The Way We Treat Car Crashes? “As aviation disasters pile up, is America in the midst of a culture shift in transportation safety — and what would that mean for advocates on the ground?” Via @usa.streetsblog.org

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I might as well set up a script to just post every Kea article here. Another banger, this time out city-to-city bus routes. https://usa.streetsblog.org/2025/02/20/is-the-intercity-bus-about-to-have-its-big-moment #bus #buses #streetsblog #urbanism

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Another great informational article about the City elections THAT YOU CAN VOTE IN RIGHT NOW. https://www.stlamerican.com/news/local-news/early-voting-begins-in-the-municipal-primary-election-for-st-louis-mayor/ #stl #stlouis #saintlouis #vote #elections

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I might be late to this one but great to see the Millennium Hotel getting a real revitalization plan! https://www.stlamerican.com/news/local-news/city-gsl-announce-millenium-hotel-plan/ #stl #stlouis #stlurbanism

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Hmm, here's a conundrum. I want to send a list of people to follow to a friend, but I'd prefer to do it privately. The "Specific People" option will make it visible to everyone else on the list. Is there no way, within Mastodon, to send a private message that mentions a mastodon user without […]

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This is not novel but I've started to think of mastodon instances as neighborhoods when explaining to people. You'll more easily see your neighbors, and the people they interact with. Your neighbors likely share some similarities with you. But you can still interact with anyone regardless of […]

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Anyone familiar with the navigation app HereWeGo? It's not open source or anything but it's also not Google and seems to gave much better mapping of STL than OSM currently does. Curious about experiences or knowledge of the company behind it. #maps #degoogle

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Great primer on the St. Louis Primary, which you can vote on TODAY. Get out and vote. https://www.stlpr.org/government-politics-issues/2025-02-18/st-louis-voter-guide-2025-st-louis-primary-election #stl #stlouis #saintlouis #mo #missouri #vote #primary

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Hit an extremely important milestone for any stl native today. #stl #stlouis #saintlouis #314

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Cities and schools are not typically designed by, or for, people with conditions such as autism. Often, the processes for how they get built exclude input from neurodivergent residents, a category that can include people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, dyspraxia, dyslexia and […]

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A small personal win, but after months of chaos, I've finally sat down and got all my digital calendars sorted out again.

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“I’ve heard it said that one of the aspects of grief that makes it harder to move on is that we keep rolling around this idea that ‘this can’t be happening. this can’t be real, this can’t be happening.’ And when I realize that the only lasting truth is change, as it pertains to this election, I […]

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"Moreno said witnessing the growing challenges some immigrants in her community faced inspired her to connect with a small group of like-minded individuals on social media. Eventually the self-described “group of fierce Latina women uniting to combat racial injustice & demand equality” was born […]

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Excellent news for Missouri: abortions will finally be accessible again. "Planned Parenthood clinics in Missouri will begin offering abortions after a Missouri judge granted a request from the provider to overturn licensing requirements for clinics that provide the procedure." […]

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This regime is taking tools meant for our whole society, and turning them into their personal weapons. "Historically, the bulk of investigations in the office have been launched after students or their families file complaints. Since Trump took office, the focus has shifted to “directed […]

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This might be the most clear example if revisionist history by our current regime yet. "The National Park Service website exploring the history and significance of the Stonewall Uprising has been stripped of any mention of transgender people." […]

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If you want to see for yourself, here's yesterday's Mayoral and Ward 3 Alder Candidate Forum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVA_0M26YyE I'll post the one from tonight when it pops up. #stl #stlouis #mayor #election #politics #alder #voting #vote

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After attending two mayoral forums, my top pick is currently Michael Butler. I remain cautiously optimistic about Cara Spencer, tho I don't like her reliance on police enforcement. I can't get over Tishaura Jones' record on the unhoused (like closing the parks in front of city hall for […]

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"Then an idea was floated: What if there was a weeklong strike among the immigrant community? A similar nationwide action was held on Monday, but some organizers say one day is not enough. The group settled on doing a grassroots Missouri-specific strike from Feb. 11 to Feb. 18 in hopes of […]

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Growing up in rural Midwest, where schools often sprawl on huge lots, it's really interesting to see what modern, ecofriendly, dense school design can look like. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-02-02/brooklyn-gets-nyc-s-first-passive-house-certified-school-building #urbanism […]

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Everyone interested in building community should check out the documentary Join or Die. Better yet, do a screening or watch party. It really drives home the need for community organizations of all varieties. #joinordie #communitybuilding #community #organizing #collectivism #individualism […]

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Really good NPR article summarizing a lot of recent government activity, if you're looking for the cliffnotes of the chaos: https://www.npr.org/2025/02/07/nx-s1-5289315/trump-week-in-review #np #news #politics

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"When [a car] gets above that average weight of the overall fleet, you're basically already as safe as you're going to be from raw weight alone," said Sam Monfort, senior statistician at the Institute and the author of the report. "But you can keep increasing risk to other people as you add […]

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"Missouri Senate Republicans said Thursday that they will continue to try to make transgender restrictions permanent after a bill temporarily stalled Wednesday night." "Senate Floor Leader Tony Luetkemeyer, R-Parkville, said the legislation is a priority for the Republican caucus this year." […]

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"While some have been public about their involvement, others have attempted to keep their roles secret, scrubbing LinkedIn pages and other sources of data. With little information from the White House, ProPublica is attempting to document who is involved and what they are doing." ProPublica is […]

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Navigating the current news ecosystem, avoiding corporate social media, AND actually fighting back is a lot. Here's what I do: * I made @InTheShellofSTL (I get the flyers from signal and local orgs' websites/newsletters.) * I read NPR, ProPublica, and several local news orgs. I post the most […]

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Navigating the current news ecosystem, avoiding corporate social media, AND actually fighting back is a lot. Here's what I do: * I made @InTheShellofSTL (I get the flyers from signal and local orgs' websites/newsletters.) * I read NPR, ProPublica, and several local news orgs. I post the most […]

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“Seems naive politically to try to advance the exact same thing that voters rejected,” she said. “Either they don’t believe that voters have already spoken out loudly and clearly or they think that voters are not smart enough to recognize what they’re trying to do, which is undermine the will […]

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"This is not a new fight for Black folks who knew books and even the knowledge of books to be precious contraband in an antagonistic country. And so, we are doing what we have always done to fight back — we organize. I can speak personally about joining the NAACP to launch a Freedom Library in […]

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“Either your tax dollars are going to go to pro investment for our youth, or we’re going to pay on the back end with issues surrounding violence or putting kids in detention centers, which is more expensive,” said Illinois state Sen. Christopher Belt, who also serves on the committee […]

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"Federal employees and supporters returned to the main Federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM) building today in much greater numbers to continue protesting an incursion into its sprawling computer network by a team of Elon Musk’s computer surrogates." […]

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I really don't know what to add to this. Woman killed by driver on the street and apparently that's not an arrestable or even fineable offense? What other situation do we allow this in but driving? […]

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I am now exactly proficient enough with a sewing machine to make precise, speedy mistakes.

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An interesting element of the fediverse is how younger/smaller platforms interact with more mature ones. So far, @InTheShellofSTL gets more engagement via mastodon accounts than pixelfed accounts. In a traditional social media ecosystem, that would happen via screenshots, or if you're lucky a […]

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