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Bethany Crystal

tomorrow i'm teaching the retirees on my block how to use AI to jumpstart our block organizing efforts. LFG. 🚀

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Bethany Crystal

Well, as to be expected… my block association meetings have officially turned into AI training sessions for my fellow block organizers 😆😆

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gm this is the second year in a row that i've done a dim sum gathering for my birthday here's why i love participatory parties, and a few other ideas to help bring people together at your next birthday party or group gathering https://hardmodefirst.xyz/dim-sum-birthdays-and-other-participatory-party-ideas

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Had a really crappy experience today One neighbor criticized another's Christmas lights that are still up on a facebook group The "offending" neighbor answered back with grace Other neighbors piled on being mean and hurtful Was not particularly proud of my hood today

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Hey @clankpad can I clank here?

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Bethany Crystal

New post: Building community, not clutter let’s be real, sometimes digital channels get in the way of IRL progress (Anyone who has ever been on an old school email listserve knows what I’m talking about here….) Can the promise and potential of AI (maybe? Finally…?) help offload the work of community builders so we can use technology as the glue and let us spend our time where it counts? I don’t know but I am very keen to find out. https://paragraph.xyz/@bethanycrystal/building-community,-not-clutter

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Some parents had to go out of town and the rest of the neighborhood stepped up to take their kids to school and soccer practice etc...

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We need a neighborhood pickup and a neighborhood Miata

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Savannah Kruger

Building community in your neighborhood is sorta like retrofitting coliving into existing civic infrastructure. Here's a podcast we recorded w @cabin @jxn @bethanymarz & Shani Graham on building neighborhood communities. https://open.spotify.com/episode/0B3zqg6nLBgB2jR9qRrUOO?si=5851e32668664219

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Excited to drop this on a substack I've had a lot of respect for for a while now. https://supernuclear.substack.com/p/building-neighborhood-communities

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This weekend is the 4th annual McBain summer lawn games This year we're introducing a cardboard boat building contest Photos to come

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Don’t really see enough moats or drawbridges in modern day architecture… Ring camera this and ring camera that.

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Savannah Kruger

We just had a hike+ice cream hang with our neighbors in Boulder and it went really well. They were all lovely humans and several people thanked us for putting this on. Got some ideas for future events and a new inter-building whatsapp group started (!!!). This is a big deal bc the community we want to build can't have @jonbo and I at the helm, it's gotta be held by many co-organizers.

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Bethany Crystal

ok i am losing my mind over this *adorable* logo for our new block association, "The Manhattan 75" (part of my @cabin neighborhood plan this summer) with the cat on the roof!! 🥹🐈🌆 PSA - design by a recent Parsons School of Design grad on my block (who coincidentally is looking for design or photography work, if you need anyone!) /jobs

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Two pizza rule also holds strong for getting to know your neighbors

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