"Benches are where optimistic visions of civic life meet reality. To remove them, or to curate who gets to sit, is to abandon the work of defining a civic ideal and determining, together, how to live up to it."
NEW: Why benches are slowly disappearing from public spaces — and why we need them back:
The train stations are especially stark. Vast, empty spaces that were clearly meant to contain something and now serve no purpose.
Outbursts Of Everett True By A.D. Condo P1-MR. TRUE IS AT THE OFFICE OF A FACTORY MANAGER WHEN AN EMPLOYEE ENTERS EMPLOYEE: MISTER GRIGGS, THAT MACHINE IS OUT OF ORDER AND DANGEROUS TO OPERATE MANAGER MR. GRIGGS: WELL, LET THE MEN RUN IT TILL NOON AND THEN WE'LL, HAVE IT FIXED - P2- MR TRUE IS VERY UPSET BY THE MANANGERS DISREGARD FOR THE WORKERS SAFETY MR. TRUE: DO IT NOW!!!! MR. TRUE POUNDS THE MANAGER RIGHT ON THE TOP OF HIS HEAD CAUSING HIM TO FOLD UP LIKE AN ACCORDION
Battle Creek Enquirer
April 11,1919
the ai shit is so bad. i saw an ig post citing a paper - with a screenshot of the paper - but the typesetting was all wrong. someone had reproduced page 1 of this paper in chatgpt. i went and found the real paper to read it but 1. why do i have to fact-check and 2. how many people got fooled?
*first picture* Dang, she went full New York on him, didn't she?
*second picture* Oh, she HATES HIM hates him. That is a seething anger & hatred that comes from having to deal with too many incompetent boors while just trying to do her job
Incredible shots of the exchange between Rep. AOC and RFK, Jr. at today’s congressional hearing.
(image credit: WSJ reporter @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social)
Yes!
PLANT MILKWEED!
I feel this. I worry about the sweat bees in the garden at my job, not because they're delicate and fragile but because kids are rough and curious
Extremely buried actual point:
"If we don’t preserve nest sites and someone paves over them, we could lose—in an instant—5.5 million bees that are important pollinators."
@ironspike.bsky.social is talking about the show "Alien Nation" & I am remembering so many things about the aliens. Like how spoiled milk was like alcohol for them
No Caine without Spamton
Did you know that one of the colloquial names for a tetanus is "lockjaw?" And that it's caused by a bacteria called "Clostridium tetani?"
If you want to boil down John Browns message it isn’t “rebellion” it is “slavery is against gods laws and must be fought by any means necessary.“
It was not “vote against the chief executive who is a dang Cheeto”
Oh. OH.
"Calling Mr. Oswald with the sw*stica tattoo, there is a vacancy waiting in the English voodoo..." That Mosley family?
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It's been proven at this point that every time we try to get conservatives to vote for Democrats all that happens is the Democratic party becomes more conservative & still loses. I'm pretty sure those left candidates win by energizing nonvoters to the ballot box instead
Look at you, hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone...
It's almost shocking how much coffee effects the mood once one has grown accustomed to it. I once found myself feeling depressed & paranoid wondering what was wrong. Turned out I hadn't had any caffeine that morning
Outlines are underappreciated, is what I'm saying. My sons would say outlines are goated
Outlines are fantastic. They aren't fully set in stone, so you can change them as needed, but boy are they useful when writing
As a former StoryCorps facilitator, this is fucking disgusting.
End the project already, Dave.
You created a good model: you encouraged people to sit and do oral history for 20 yrs.
Turning StoryCorps into a surveillance capitalism nightmare is not worth the money to keep the project going.
I like thing creature. They are a friend
When I tell you I was BLOWN AWAY by all this #SugarplumCafe fanart from tomatoteddy on Tumblr!
I'm such a sucker for group fanart and the Ladies look so stinkin cute in these poses and this chibi style 🥹 I literally can't pick a favorite!
I understand. Last thing you need is being accused of taking ideas from someone's fanfic
Past a certain revenue scale make it so that the CEO has personal liability for their stock options in perpetuity. Every company would suddenly become the most ethical firm alive.
A person being horrible doesn't make misgendering them okay. There are other, better ways to call her out.
Picture of a 3D paperback book on a green background. Book is Omniboz: Tales from the Land of Oz, cover illustrated by Eric Shanower with hero Oz and Baum fairyland characters at the top and villain characters at the bottom. 51% FUNDED! 17 DAYS LEFT! OMNIBOZ: Tales From To Land of Oz Edited by JENDIA GAMMON and ERNIE CHIARA STORIES BY ADRIAN TCHAIKOVSKY JENDIA GAMMON ERIC SHANOWER J.R. DAWSON ERNIE CHIARA JEANNIE WARNER VINCENT V. CAVA HELEN GLYNN JONES DENNIS K. CROSBY NICOLE FIELD PATRICK BARB https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/jendiagammon/ omniboz-tales-from-the-land-of-oz
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#books #fantasy #horror
Hey there's 10000 ways to express that Caitlyn Jenner sucks without doing this weird transphobic shit, this absolutely sucks
