Web and app developer. Coffee, beer, and running, in any order.
It still amazes me that we’ve basically let ourselves be manipulated into buying, and even defending, that THIS is what “freedom” looks like. #cardependency
"Safety is a rhetorical weapon wielded to make people feel less safe. We are in an endless cycle of fear, which generates an authoritarian reaction, generating more fear and more authoritarian reaction. How do we break free?"
"We don’t know what our nation without police would look like. But we know that our society with police is violent, racist, precarious, unequal, and unfree."
~ Mariame Kaba
https://thebaffler.com/latest/illusions-of-safety-kaba
#Police #Abolition #MariameKaba
If you support walkability and safe streets but only if zero drivers perceive themselves to be inconvenienced by the infrastructure, then you don't support walkability or safe streets.
Everyone I talk to about adding passenger train service in #atlanta, even people who agree with me typically think it's impossible or too expensive. Caleb Stubbs put together this concept to prove it's possible using many existing rail lines, and very little new track.
Brilliant! These guys hid a Mike Wazowski shrine in a library. The reaction shots are pretty good, but I’m more impressed by the effort that went into the build.
(Via Waxy)