A screen grab of a Guardian Opinion piece entitled "From Barcelona to Paris, cities thrive with women in charge".
Cities don’t thrive when space is owned by cars, they thrive when it’s shared by people.
From superblocks to school streets, this is what's possible when cities place care, empathy, and inclusion at their core—and why leadership matters more than ever.
Our piece in @theguardian.com: bit.ly/4sYZlzy
Totally. Small d downtown vs. capital D Downtown, I suppose.
As long as people know the difference between the humble, hardworking hamlet of Wenonah and those fancy, coffee shop-having capitalists in Keewaydin, I'm happy.
I think of both of those areas as part of "downtown," even though I know they technically aren't. I could certainly be in the minority (or all alone) in that thinking. In any case, I imagine the survey is really about the central part of the city, and they're using "downtown" more colloquially.
The robot that won a half marathon fell down and needed help from humans to get back up.
It didn't. The NYT story has this note.
It's funny to write that it "picked itself back up with help from humans." That's not what "pick itself up" means.
There's nothing cooler than telling other people what they should do to celebrate their teams. Next, they should tell people how they should feel and what they should care about.
As far as I can tell, everybody on Minneapolis BlueSky is spending the day deeply engaging with local politics and everyone on Saint Paul BlueSky is spending the day eating a giant sandwich and drinking beer. And that feels right to me.
TODAY: Folks in Texas are protesting the Dilley ICE detention center, demanding the Trump administration shut it down.
Signs read: NO KIDS IN CAGES.
Matheus Cunha of Manchester United celebrates scoring his team's first goal during the Premier League match between Chelsea and Manchester United at Stamford Bridge
Manchester United win at Stamford Bridge for the first time in six years to move 10 points clear of Chelsea.
I'll be they've never voted for the DFL-endorsed candidate.
The lesson is budgets mean nothing and the Frey admin is just winging it from one moment to the next.
Yes! Functionally worse, ugly, and they all have "up" arrows (so you know something good is happening) and gear icons (because we're working hard over here!). I'm not a passionate person, except for my hatred of those slides.
At first, I thought this was from inside a microwave.
popularized (11)
Not the longest word, but I think a lot of people are gonna like it.
O Lord, bless this thy hand grenade, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits ... in thy mercy
Media reporter emeritus @dbrauer.net says the Star Tribune's obsession with a supposedly dysfunctional Minneapolis City Council overplays minor issues, lets the mayor off the hook, and obscures what the city has accomplished.
Friends, I just remembered I have bagels from Asa's for tomorrow morning and I can't tell you how happy that made me. And the best part? It will make me happy again in the morning! ##NokomisLife #Mpls
Last term, Council President Payne led the most productive council in recent history. We aren’t stopping this term either. Progressives are delivering.
I don’t want to hear about a lack of “priorities” when progressives are the only ones bringing policy and solutions forward. 2/
Oming.
Came here to say this.
“There will never be a bell loud enough, a helmet strong enough, or clothing bright enough, to make up for poor infrastructure.” Billboard ad saying “join us in fighting for safe streets, by Vision Zero Vancouver, ad by Tom Flood.
There will never be enough victim-blaming to make up for poor infrastructure and missing leadership. But it sure makes a nice distraction for decision-makers hiding from responsibility, right?
Classic ad by our own @tomflood.bsky.social for @visionzerovancouver.ca. #UrbanTruth
A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric
I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.
Ugh, yet another reason I wouldn't work in the city's comms office under this administration.
These are all seats to watch the Twins play baseball, so how good are they really?
So we're just telling people what's in the forbidden tomes now?
Wide Amsterdam street jammed with colourful cars in the 1970s.
Remember this picture, & others like it, every time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam."
This was #Amsterdam in the 1970s.
Many of the cities we admire made tough choices regarding cars in the past, and are still making better choices today.
Better choices instead of excuses.
A minivan adorned with a no socialism sticker and several other stickers expressing support for various state universities and public employees.
TFW you hate socialism but love municipal employees and state universities.
👀
"In a wide-ranging interview with the Guardian last week, Hidalgo said pedestrianising the city’s riverbanks had been “a tough battle” but now that it had happened people did not want to go back."
Fun House Mirror typeface.
Seneca said we suffer more in imagination than reality. But he never almost got run over by a moron in a car.
“It’s not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. It’s the same as if you bought a cow or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you’re going to put them.” – Miguel Anxo Fernandez Lores, long time Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain
Remember, don’t buy a cow, or a car, and expect your city to give you someplace to park it. #UrbanTruth
