How to tell someone’s feelings about urbanism in 1 easy step
Ask them their opinion on Dutch Cycling infrastructure
Also probably check to see what their opinion on North American Car Dependence is and if they are normal about dense housing
You are right @autisticwreckingball the 15 minute city is a good starting point to see if someone is at least inclined towards urbanism because of how it is such a simple and basic good concept
@backsetx Then it’s a great time for me to explain Dutch cycling infrastructure for you. Dutch cycling infrastructure is infrastructure where bikes are given priority and separation from cars is placed at a high importance. It is does by building separated lanes and bike streets. Here are some photos of it below
Adding on because I did not know this:
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This is a good quick description of what I am talking about so I will reblog it for more people to see it
there is apparently a sizeable contingent of “walkable city” proponents who start frothing at the mouth and vocally supporting eugenics if you dare mention that many disabled and elderly and pregnant people need personal vehicles to get anywhere at all in a reasonable timeframe and that “paratransit” has always been a cruel joke.
this is why “15-minute city” is better terminology: if a person can’t get there on foot in 15 minutes due to physical limitations, they should be able to drive there in (well under) 15 minutes instead, and this will be straightforward to accomplish because there will be quintuple the amenities and drastically fewer people on the slower, safer roads.
there will still be personal vehicles in a well-designed 15-minute city!!! you just won’t be driving from the suburb part to the doctor part across 30 minutes of freeway traffic!
i am saying this because there are a lot of disabled folks who have entirely reasonable reservations about “walkable cities” not because of the name, but because there are some extremely vocal eugenicists out there who think if you can’t bike then you simply don’t belong anywhere in their walkable utopia.
san diego (12-26yo us residents, not the whole collection just commonly banned books)
these cards (part of the books unbanned initiative) get you access to each library’s complete libby/overdrive collection (unless otherwise mentioned), no hoopla/kanopy/physical copies included.
ebook collections are expensive to maintain (many american libraries have annual fees for non-residents because of this) but because of an uptick in book banning (particularly brutal in mississippi last summer) larger libraries have opened their doors more, which is very kind of them!
i’ve used my seattle card for the last several months and their libby collection has about three times the books that my local library does, which is wonderful for accessing more niche titles or skipping a waiting list. would love to hear of similar ebook initiatives internationally!
i use library extension (firefox/safari/chrome compatible) to check all my collections (+ the internet archive) at once, works for several different countries highly recommend it.
spotify seems to be offering 15hrs/month of audiobook listening to premium subscribers and while that does seem useful if you’re already paying and are after a new release with a long library waitlist, libraries are better for everything else.
internet wiccan tries to harm me with an emoji spell but i narrowly survive bc my phone is too old for updates so i just get black rectangles, easily one of my favorite color and shape combinations
Majd Arandas was a Palestinian photographer described as a “kind and gentle soul”. On Wednesday, November 01 2023, Majd was killed by an Israeli airstrike near his home in Deir al-Balah Governorate, central Gaza. He was only 29 years old.
your first mistake is treating transmasc / transfem like inherent opposites. your second mistake is treating man / woman in general like opposites but you all are not ready for that convo.
Who let’s a monk who only speaks Polish and Latin out of an monastery, and not only out of a monastery but to an airport, and not only an airport but the O'Hare airport located in Chicago USA
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