Here by accident. Left-handed by choice.
Los Angeles, CA
Joined December 2012
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"The goal of the #BanCars movement is not to render cars obsolete. It’s to give ppl the choice to live a life where car ownership, & dependence are unnecessary — regardless of socioeconomic status or physical ability to operate an automobile." 😎 MUST-READ jalopnik.com/what-i-mean-whe…
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Presiding over City Hall Square on the Richshuset building in Copenhagen, 'The Weather Girls' sculpture will help launch this year's Tour de France.
uıʞɹɐl ɯɐɥɐɹƃ retweeted
Two cheers for hopeful pessimism ...
aeon.co/essays/in-these-dark…
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👆Well said (as usual) Tom.
People are often mystified when they meet safety campaigners who don't promote protective & reflective gear for people walking & cycling.
We have our reasons ...👇
xitter.cf/VisionZeroCA/status/10… #pedestrianblame #bikehelmets
If #cycling #helmets mitigate injury then we should promote them & even mandate them, right?
Wrong, sez Dr. @HarryRutter. Cycling is benign, helmet protection is meagre, & we need to focus on eliminating the cause.
(@peterwalker99, How Cycling can Save the World, p. 163.)
uıʞɹɐl ɯɐɥɐɹƃ retweeted
"For millennia, people slept in two shifts – once in the evening, and once in the morning. But why? And how did the habit disappear?"
bbc.com/future/article/20220… #speeping #history #sleephistory
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.@Harvard is now considering #denaming more of its buildings, programs & professorships.
The committe cautions that “neither hagiography nor raw condemnation is likely to encompass & explain the full complexity of a life a name may represent.”
harvardmagazine.com/2021/12/… #Harvard
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In summer 2017, Chloë Chapdelaine was 18 and living in the tiny town of Foremost, Alta. With no WiFi or TV, she had one roadside attraction to pique her interest: a moose crossing sign. (1/6) macleans.ca/society/environm…
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I'm sure this will shock no one, but the usual Proud Boys /QAnon telegram channels are reacting like their team just won the Super Bowl right now. Already seeing comments about this setting a "precedent for rioters" and how they will be dealt with in the future.
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Judge Schroeder blocked lawyers using "victim" in front of the jury to describe the people Kyle Rittenhouse killed or wounded.
He approved describing them as "looters" and "rioters" and said a defense lawyer could "demonize them if he wants," according to @chicagotribune.
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Family of Anthony Huber, one of the people Kyle Rittenhouse killed, said the not guilty verdict: "sends the unacceptable message that armed civilians can show up in any town, incite violence, and then use the danger they have created to justify shooting people in the street."
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Future museums should be domestic scale, not monumental says Orhan Pamuk.
<< WE HAD:
Epics
Representation
Monuments
Histories
Nations
Groups and teams
Large and expensive
WE NEED
Novels
Expression
Homes
Stories
Persons
Individuals
Small and cheap >>
craftcouncil.org/magazine/ar…
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💚💚💚 University of Toronto @UofT --Canada's highest ranked university -- DIVESTS from Fossil Fuel. 💚💚💚
Who's next?
utoronto.ca/news/u-t-divest-…
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'The Value, Impact & Importance of Experimenting with Cultural Heritage Digital Collections'.
Wise & witty explanation of what worked & what didn't from @DEJPett:
youtube.com/watch?v=Go1ykNqP… #GLAM #digitalmuseums #culturalheritage #digitalcollections #3Dscanning
HT @mrchristian99
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My husband responded to my confusion and woe trying to understand Union Square station by doing in two hours what the MTA will not, and creating a tactile map of the place. This is a prototype but it only took a few minutes touching and talking it through to build a mental model.
ALT A 3d model of Union Square station with no labels but showing stairs, fare arrays, corridors and mezzanines in white filament. It's stuck to a glass printing plate with a wooden surface showing underneath.
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The Armory Show (NY, 1913) introduced Americans to the art of the European avant-garde (cubists futurist, &c.). This caused a stir among traditionalists, including Mary Mills and Earl Harvey Lyall, who satirized it with a spirited children's book.
publicdomainreview.org/colle… #cubies
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Victorian artist Harrison Weir was crazy about cats.
Story via @collectorswkly >>
collectorsweekly.com/article… #harrisonweir #cathistory #catfluencer #catsinart #cats #mentalhealth
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RIP Charlie Watts (1941-2021), Rolling Stones drummer.
Here’s Keith Richards on an incident in 1984 when Watts punched Mick Jagger, who (naturally) had it coming:
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Huge: After 7 months of protests by students and faculty over state's appointment of pro-gov rector to Bogazici University, Erdogan has removed Melih Bulu from his position. A rare moment where protests produced results. Will the university now be able to appoint its own rector?
