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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 28/09/2026

Yes, you can. Here's an example of a block notification I got from Listification. I can still click the 3-dot menu and get the option to block in return.

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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 27/09/2026

Here it is in all its burnt orange glory, courtesy of the Buffalo News. The avant-garde inevitably becomes the derriere-garde. #Buffalo #Lackawanna #architecture 🗃️

A two-story office building covered in orange metal panels is elevated on a series of narrow pillars, with automobile parking at the ground level.

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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 25/09/2026

Not an optical illusion, this can is actually cup-shaped, wider at the top than the bottom. I have never seen this kind of packaging before and am wondering what the rationale is. Easier to fill? Easier to unpack & shelve?

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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 18/09/2026

Small potatoes in the scheme of things, but overgrown shrubberies & weeds that block sidewalks are as bad as anything else that blocks sidewalks. This is an urban sidewalk on an urban street.

Tall weeds up against a wooden fence and between the sidewalk and the street block a sidewalk.

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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 18/09/2026

As someone who detests the phrase "green space," I decided to figure out when it entered the popular lexicon, which is just after 1960. When the damage to American downtowns was starting to be visible and everyone thought that nature band-aids were the answer.

Google Ngram charting the incidence of "green space" in its corpus of digitized books. There is almost no use until after 1960, when there is a steep increase, a drop around 1984, another increase around 2000, followed by an other drop.

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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: The Cowsills will not be opening for Ed Sheeran.

Seven members of a family that actually had the name Cowsills were recording artists in the 1960s. They're wearing a lot of plaid here.

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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 15/09/2026

Sharing this meme in the unlikely event that you haven't already seen it.

Four simplified illustrations depicting the history of traffic engineering, starting with direct routes for pedestrians & horses and ending with indirect or fragmentary routes for pedestrians, cyclists & transit and direct routes for cars

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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 14/09/2026

Pro tip for everyone who has to table-sit at outdoor events. Stop running around looking for rocks to keep your literature from blowing away and get a few of these.

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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 14/09/2026

Why aren't cyclists in the bike lane? Explained with one graphic.

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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 10/09/2026

Here's mine, also folding, about the same weight, ~30 miles/50km on a charge. Also hoping I can take it on a train.

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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 10/09/2026

Folding locks can also be threaded through helmet vents.

Black folding bike lock shown both folded up and opened out. It has flat bars hinged together.

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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 10/09/2026

I don't know who needs to hear this, but you do not have to carry your helmet around when you dismount. The vent holes in most helmets are large enough for standard U-locks & folding locks.

A white bicycle helmet hangs from a U-lock securing both helmet and bike to a street sign.

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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 07/09/2026

Spotted in Medina, NY, a park bench with a center section that can be raised to hold your lunch or laptop, and lowered again.

Black metal bench, center section lowered.

Black metal bench, center section about one square foot, raised up.

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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 06/09/2026

Ridgeway, Ontario, Canada. 🇨🇦

Sign in front of People's Memorial United Church reads: President Trump, the ice fishing on Lake of America is great in September! Enjoy!

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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 06/09/2026

I bought my Class 2 folding ebike second hand one year ago and have put 1200 miles on it since then.

Gun metal gray folding ebike, small tires, with rear rack, on a lawn

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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 03/09/2026

E.R. Thomas, a Buffalo automaker, writes that horses & cars are the only transportation individuals have, in a city that in 1906 had a mature streetcar system and robust bicycle culture. Predicts that people will be unable to take long walks. Excerpt from Machinery, Dec. 1906, p.207.

If it is a fact that for two thousand years the horse was practically the only method by which individuals were trans- ported with scarcely, if any, improvement, since the days of the Roman chariot, the automobile, being the only successor, must be the only method until some better way is devised. This, at the present time, is not even dreamed of or predicted. and hence, I believe that for a thousand years, the automobile, especially when changed, perfected and improved to suit the growing needs, will be practically the only method by which Individuals are transported beyond a walking radius. and the demand will increase and increase until the man afoot, beyond a short walking radius, will be a rarity. In fact, it may not be an idle dream to predict that within a century the practice of walking long distances will be discontinued and people will be unable to take long walks, but will use roller skates, bicycles, motor bicycles and automobiles.
E. R. THOMAS, Buffalo, N. Y.

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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 29/08/2026

Yeah, NYC is not flat. Here's an exaggerated relief map of Manhattan from Dreamstime.

Island of Manhattan rendered with black & white lines that depict topography.

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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 26/08/2026

They regularly turn up in helmet conversations. Here's one from today:

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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 24/08/2026

I am in a ca. 1955 bowling alley and this is the carpeting and I am swooning

Pattern of overlapping large and small rings in bright colors on a black background, some of them fluorescent.

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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 18/08/2026

Kitchen hack: use a cheap plastic pitcher for vegetable scrap on your counter. Make sure the lid fully blocks the pour spout or fruit flies will get in. Handle gives you easy dumpability into your compost or trash bin.

Translucent juice pitcher with handle and opaque white lid.

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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 09/08/2026

I'm old enough to remember this bestseller from 1988, when the problem was that women were too into men.

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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 07/08/2026

My tableware is a bunch of funky old mismatched silverplate, and I shamelessly play favorites.

Two knives, three forks, four spoons, all silver but none of them match.

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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 01/08/2026

This is what we mean by a Click Here link. From: medium.com/digital-done...

Top example (bad) shows a sentence, "The free event starts on Saturday. Want to register? Click here." Click Here is underlined to indicate that it has the link necessary to register.

Bottom example (good) show a sentence "Register now for the free event." Register Now is underlined to indicate that is has the necessary link for registering.

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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 29/07/2026

My sit bones hurt after 5 miles on the bike and padded shorts did not help. A wide, cushioned seat made all the difference. If you have girl butt, replace your anorexic saddle.

A lot of cyclists need padded shorts not because they’re doing distance or racing, but because they think the left saddle looks cool and the right saddle looks dorky. Left saddle is narrow, right saddle is wide.

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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 29/07/2026

My city painted some green bike boxes for left-turning north & south-bound cyclists. I think they positioned them wrong. From what I read, they're supposed to be where I drew red boxes. Instead, if I want to turn left, I have to go to the far corner in front of cross traffic. What do we think?

Aerial view of an intersection with crosswalks. Green left-turn bike boxes are painted in front of cross traffic instead right in the lane the cyclist needs to turn from. Red boxes denote what I thought was the correct placement.

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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 26/07/2026

By whose count? And if it is a valid criteria, when do we start depaving roads that are "lightly used?"

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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 26/07/2026

It is now illegal to lock up a bike in the city of Tonawanda, NY if there is no bike rack available.

New biking laws include his language:
Not allowed, parking against signs, piles, or trees.

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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 21/07/2026

Seriously, though, trash collectors are public health heroes and should be at the front of the Labor Day (a US thing) parade.

This 2-yearhold boy met his garbage men heroes and cried after waiting weeks to show them his toy truck

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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 18/07/2026

Cities did not wait until every household had 1 car per adult before ripping out streetcars and leveling neighborhoods for highways.

I would much prefer a world where cars are not a necessity as well, but this is not my experience with anti-car posters

This will become obvious if you ever mention that we'll need certain infrastructure before [insert reform here]

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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 17/07/2026

@rmartincole.bsky.social If you collect automotive humor, this is yours is you want it. Fifty cents at the thrift store. Surprised that it has an ISBN.

Front cover of "New Driver's Guide to Things to Not Crash Into," by Len Dodykavis, 2019, red letters and car clip art on a black background.

Back cover of "New Driver's Guide to Things to Not Crash Into," by Len Dodykavis, 2019, red letters and car clip art on a black background.

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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 17/07/2026

That yearbook photo showing a supposed goth guyliner Pete Hegseth that everyone's sharing today? It's fake, he was never that cool. Stop flattering him.