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BikeMN @bikemn.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

PSA: The chart we point to all session every time land use reform bills come up.

An image of a venn diagram consisting of three circles.

The white text of the blue circle reads "I want stable services"
The white text of the green circle reads "I want low density"
The white text of the red circle reads "I want low taxes"

Where blue and green circles intersect, the white text reads "high taxes"
Where the green and red circles intersect, the white text reads "service cuts"
Where the blue and red circles intersect, the white text reads "more density"

In the center, where all circles intersect, the white text reads "does not exist"

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avranakern.bsky.social @avranakern.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

If you post AI art, you're getting blocked. Sorry, I don't make the rules.

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Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

A front page for the ages.

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Jerome Alexander Horne @jahorne.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Research supports that biking contributes to a longer life and better mental health. Lower all-cause mortality risk, lower risk of any hospitalization, lower risk of cardiovascular disease, lower risk of cancer mortality and better mental health. www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

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18-Year Study Of 82,297 Adults Finds Cycle Commuting Halves Chance Of Early Death

Billionaires famously want to live longer. They should jump on bicycles, not spacecraft.

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Our Streets @ourstreetsmn.org · 20/12/2024

The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) is quietly eliminating the at-grade boulevard options (A and B) from the Rethinking I-94 project. This move, rushed before the holidays, deprives communities of a chance to explore a transformative alternative to the highway trench. 🧵(1/9)

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avranakern.bsky.social @avranakern.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

After a big snow, some cities plow bike paths, some don't. Minnetonka plows the snow from the road INTO bike paths. This 3' tall pile is impossible to bike over with my cargo bike. Prior to the plows coming, it was slow but manageable. #BikeMN #Winterbiking #Minnetonka #Cargobike

Blue bike next to pile of snow in middle of bike/pedestrian path. Nearby road is perfectly cleared.

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War and Peas 🧿 @warandpeas.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Explain this, humankind

Comic by War and Peas. Panel 1: Two green aliens are at a press conference, sitting behind microphones. One alien happily says, "Jesus? We love that guy!" Panel 2: A human reporter with a microphone looks surprised and says, "We’ve been waiting centuries for his second coming." Panel 3: The first alien casually responds, "Really? He comes to us every year." The second alien adds, "We invited him for cookies. What did you do?" The reporter starts to sweat. Panel 4: Both aliens pause, looking inquisitive. One alien asks, "Wait. What did you do?" All reporters sweat.

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eve6 @eve6.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Best decision we've ever made but to be fair we've made mainly really bad decisions

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D🥀. 🐍hei🧞😱 Add🕴🏻s🕸️n @drsaddison.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Figuring out a message for our holiday cards was a tough one this year. "'Looking forward to a great 20...' no. 'Hope next year is the best yet...' no. Uh." We went with a Vonnegut quote. "“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”

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avranakern.bsky.social @avranakern.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

The Grateful Dead is a gateway drug to bluegrass, y'all. There's a Dead --> Pizza Tapes --> Old and In The Way --> J.D Crowe and the New South --> Reno and Smiley pipeline. You start with Truckin' and end up on the hard stuff.

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avranakern.bsky.social @avranakern.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I used to be the kind of kid who loses mittens, but I'm not anymore. Now I'm the kind of adult who loses mittens.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 05/12/2024

You can only have two: - Unchanging physical neighborhood character - Housing affordability - Economic prosperity

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avranakern.bsky.social @avranakern.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Are you familiar with the famous ukelele player Nick Drake? What about the ukelele duo Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings?

Spotify saying "September was your Rainy Day Ukelele Folk moment. You were big on artists like Gillian Welch, Adrianne Lenker, and Nick Drake

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Happy 'I'm not buying anything in the sales because I'm anticonsumerist and also I'm too wealthy to need to look for bargains' day to all who celebrate.

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avranakern.bsky.social @avranakern.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

The Kendrick/Drake feud explained for white ppl: it's "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" with Drake as the Devil and America as Georgia. Now you can stop bragging about being totally ignorant and can start enjoying Kendrick getting his Golden Fiddle.

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Machine Gun Kill-Me @machinegunphilly.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Every day I try to love myself even half as much as Kendrick hates Drake.

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

If we pedestrianize the street... how... will... the businesses... survive??!1!?

Picture that I took in 2023 of a street in Bordeaux, france

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avranakern.bsky.social @avranakern.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Minnesota daycare drop-off update: one parent with sandals and no socks, one parent in shorts. It is snowing.

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avranakern.bsky.social @avranakern.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Increasingly bright headlights on newer autos make the driver feel safer by increasing their visibility, yet blind everyone else, which makes the roads less safe. This is just one example of how Americans have increasingly abandoned the idea of collective good in favor of individual comfort.

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avranakern.bsky.social @avranakern.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

Mando + Banjo = Good Mando + Piano = Good Piano + Banjo = Good Mando + Piano + Banjo = Bad

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avranakern.bsky.social @avranakern.bsky.social · 02/10/2024

The new Billy Strings album does slap, but it'd slap harder if he cut 3-5 of the weakest tracks and bought a better dreadnought.

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avranakern.bsky.social @avranakern.bsky.social · 02/10/2024

Listening to Brad Paisley for the sweet sweet guitar licks is like going to a jam band concert to score drugs. Truck Still Works is like standing for hours in 100 degree weather and only finding a gram of mids.

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James Bennett @ubernostrum.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

Evergreen:

Tumblr posts:

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Hot take of the day: a worrying number of leftists are actually just Evangelical Christians with the serial numbers filed off

The world is sinful:a capitalist hellscape but we just have to wait until the Second Coming/the Revolution happens when everything will be magically fixed. Any attempt to make actual progress makes you a lukewarm Christian/liberal anything less than the Apocalypse/the Revolution (which we are forever waiting for btw) is completely useless . Also consuming certain media or makin certain lifestyle choices is sinful and unchristian/bad praxis.

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There’s also a common obsession with an ideal “prelapsarian” past–Eden before the apple in Evangelicals’ case, life before colonialism, industrialism, capitalism, Christianity, agriculture(!) in some leftists’ case.

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 30/09/2024

There is no path — nor has there ever been a path on any issue — to changing things through disengagement. Opting out just makes the existing pool of voters more conservative. You cannot name one progressive achievement made by not voting. Boycotting power only transfers it to your opponents.

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avranakern.bsky.social @avranakern.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

...huh, I'm seeing a lot of interesting stories about Kris Kristofferson here. I hope he's doing well... wait a second... Oh No! youtu.be/9Hx99yvV5fM?...

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Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - Hashtag

YouTube video by Acony Records

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avranakern.bsky.social @avranakern.bsky.social · 28/09/2024

Les Trois Accords: making me cry with beautiful lyrics about queer love like "On pouvait toujours faire quelque chose de beau avec les amours différents" and the next song they're singing "J'aime ta Grand-mère" or "Je me touhe dans le parc" ("I love your grandma" and "I touch myself in the park")

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