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It turns out, I actually never knew what an avenue and a boulevard were I think we all need a refresher! From the 100% Invisible City book 💓

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This gave me clarity regarding the role of the academic voice in leftist movements, and why it is failing the working class https://youtu.be/kE8K9w3-b9U?si=zt5cbRV5eyyJeguR

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Soo excited! I’m officially going to week 4 :) lmk if anyone on here will be there 💓💓💓

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one reason why suburbs or even cities like Denver feel less walkable are bc the buildings facing streets are just too wide. when you’re walking past 100 ft of walmart wall, there’s nothing to engage with. no entryways, no people, no life. but streets with narrower buildings—20 ft or less—give you much more to interact with. more shops, more neighbors, more texture. we’re built for human-scale places, not oversized slabs made for cars. (Image by matthew Fredrick and vikas Mehta)

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Uniqlo collared shirts never miss First time in /firefits hi :-)

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Loooooll I told Backmarket they need to chill for their polycule subway ads and they got back to me 💀

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Re: loneliness epidemic The internet as a variant of the third place. physical, offline third places as“3a spaces,” and online spaces “3b spaces.” Separating the two helps to rethink socialization across digital and physical realms, offering frameworks to understand contemporary loneliness. Are 3b spaces a Faustian bargain? Post-COVID, they became both a new normal and a convenient norm for social outlets. but they’ve also led to deeper loneliness, as the craving for face-to-face contact that 3a spaces provide never really goes away.

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Addressing the empty bus lane myth https://www.translink.ca/buspriority

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So many of yall ….

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Really worth reading this thread https://x.com/manualzuru/status/1890403646048768450?s=46

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I admittedly feel quite described in the first part of this article, as a more “radical” leftist in my twenties—still bright-eyed and filled with hope for some sort of revolutionary future. My foot in the web 3 door also keeps me optimistic about building new institutional, economic, and governing structures rooted in solidarity and dual power. And I don’t necessarily consider myself a big Bernie supporter as I question his recent tour with aoc as a strategic method of the DNC to recapture/placate the left (and bc he refuses to call a genocide a genocide.) That being said, when I read pieces like this it makes me question if I’m just another generation of the fragmented left that will continue to make the same mistakes. #crashingout https://open.substack.com/pub/jenpan/p/bernie-deradicalized-me?r=cg2qk&utm_medium=ios

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Ranjani was my TA during urban planning grad school at Columbia in 2022. They’re so brilliant and taught me so much about housing and how land ties into capital. Never thought my alma mater would be this morally bankrupt https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/nyregion/columbia-student-kristi-noem-video.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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We really need to act like ants more often https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ4SgdIxS7c

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This space launch with Katy Perry and Lauren Sanchez is honestly one of the most infuriating displays of corporate white feminism I’ve seen Framing a billionaire-funded joyride as a tribute to “Mother Earth” and “taking up space” is beyond parody. The entire mission is bankrolled by a company largely responsible for the destruction of our environment and deepening wealth inequality. It’s not empowerment — it’s branding. Post-landing interviews are the icing on the cake: Perry tears up about being a “fierce female” role model, while Sanchez reflects on how “connected” we all are. Babes, it’s not space that divides us— it’s money. This is elitism disguised as feminism and is mind boggling-ly tone deaf Rant over https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/live-blog/live-updates-blue-origin-readies-rocket-launch-female-crew-rcna200921

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i’ve been saying I’m “crashing out” whenever I’m having a mini meltdowns and I’ve unexpectedly found this to be helpful It turns feeling bad feel like a meme instead of a crisis. softens the spiral, turns it into a funny little character plot point i can text my friends about

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compilation of joyful corners of the internet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TVxcOA-xuxOifbtFv23K-JTJziOEmCEiXtfmZPxK0-E/edit?gid=0#gid=0

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Sleep core product

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Georgian land tax premise: Let’s say: - You own a piece of land in a city - You don’t build anything on it, just wait for prices to go up - Ten years later, the neighborhood is booming—thanks to new subway lines, stores, schools - Now your land is worth 10x more, even though you didn’t do anything Georgism says you shouldn’t get to keep all of that profit—it was created by everyone else. So a land value tax would make sure you pay some of that value back into the community.

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