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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Was this a strategic sacrifice to protect your garden?

Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

We ran our fridge intermittently off of our Ioniq 5 battery during a 4-day outage in Colorado, trading an inverter back and forth w a generous neighbor. Doesn’t use much capacity and you can drive to somewhere w power to recharge if needed. We bought our own inverter for next time!

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

This was not confirmed, please be careful sharing unverified reports.

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Quentin Young @quentinyoung.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

For some of the best coverage out of Minneapolis and Minnesota follow the @minnesotareformer.com team, including @maxnesterak.bsky.social @michellemgriff.bsky.social @madisonmcvan.bsky.social @alyssachen.bsky.social

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 23/01/2026

definitely not sobbing as i sit here and watch this

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Mason Roberts @masonroberts.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Last day to speak up for a better Boulder! More voices are needed in the Comp Plan update. Even if you went to the open house, you can still fill it out - takes a minute! Link: a-boulder-future-boulder.hub.arcgis.com (Scroll to the green box!) #Boulder #HousingForAll #ClimateAction #SafeStreets

a-boulder-future-boulder.hub.arcgis.com

A Boulder Future

The City of Boulder and Boulder County invites you to help shape the future of the Boulder Valley. We are updating the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan (BVCP), which guides how our community will loo...

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Youth Mobility + Youth Independence should be our key metrics of success.

two kids biking on their street one is standing on the handlebars.

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Bryan Bowen @brybo3.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Boulder and many other towns are considering eliminating parking minimums as a relic of our suburban past. Join Better Boulder for guest speaker @tonyjordan.bsky.social and follow up conversation at Wild Sage Cohousing.

betterboulder.com

Join Better Boulder for a Parking Symposium!

Monday, April 14 | 6–7 PM ✨ Mark your calendars now! Ready for a parking revolution? Across the country, cities are rethinking parking to build more vibrant, sustainable communities. Come join Bette...

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Good morning to the IRS workers who processed my tax refund in a timely manner during a constitutional crisis, and fuck Chuck Schumer.

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Support our Boulder minimum wage workers! 5:30 today at the Bandshell, and bring a friend!

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

We were living in Vienna when Russia invaded Ukraine, and you, my US friends and neighbors, sent thousands of dollars to fund direct aid for displaced people. That's who we can and should be in the world.

Vienna's Heldenplatz at night. A crowd of thousands stands in the plaza waving flags and signs, surrounded by neoclassical buildings. The blue and yellow stripes of the Ukrainian flag are projected on to the historic Burgtor (monumental gate).

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

So glad to see you continuing to report on Boulder things!

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I tagged along on a 4th grade conservation and agriculture field trip today, and it's just plain stupid how much we're going to lose by dismantling public science.

A table with paper plates containing different types of soil. Children around the table are rubbing the soils between their fingers as an educator demonstrates.

An incubator and light box on a table in a dimly-lit room. Children are gathered around the table as an educator holds a duck egg over the light box to show the embryo inside.

An educator with brown skin speaks with a group of elementary school students in front of a tunnel-shaped display about soil properties and soil chemistry.

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Just what I needed this weekend! Thank you for the tickets and the reminder of the beauty people can create together!

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Filing tax returns feels like such an absurd act at this moment.

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I‘ve been part of one of these w Boulder‘s co-op houses for years, and it feels like a lifeboat in these times. New members welcome, DM for details!

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I’m taking the whole fam to their February concert…give them a follow to get your free tickets, and throw them a little donation for this delightful promo!

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

There’s been a lot of yelling about unplowed streets in Boulder of late, but this is why sidewalks should be the bigger story.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

This is really interesting. Groundbreaking study on the value of libraries and “third places.” “A whopping 82% of people who used the library’s physical space and 79% of people who physically attended programs reported more optimism regarding the future, compared to only 58% of digital-only users.”

bookriot.com

Innovative Study by UPenn and NYPL Finds That Public Libraries Positively Impact Community Health and Well-Being

"Our research found that patrons experience refuge, joy, connection, purpose, and expansion through their library use"

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Boulder Progressives @boulderprogressives.org · 13/01/2025

City councils often pay poverty wages, making public service difficult or impossible for many residents. Boulder Progressives was the primary organization supporting fair council pay in Boulder, which passed an increase for the first time since 1989.

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Yes on 2C: The case for higher council pay - Boulder Weekly

Boulder County's independent voice

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

You’ve been a rock for this community and such a relatable and accessible source for news. Wishing you rest and all the best as you move forward!

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Another weary parent for 15-minute cities 🙋‍♀️

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Feeling like I need a Bustang field trip...

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

...AND I'm salty that years of organizing are essentially being erased in this update. Boulder's co-op ordinance and occupancy fights have burned through a shameful number of everyday activists. And this confirms just how much of their lives we wasted.

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

It's deeply satisfying to see those 8 pages of regulations red-lined out of existence...

A screenshot of a section of municipal code. The text is all red and lined-through.

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Boulder 'legalized' housing cooperatives in 2017, but the rules were so restrictive that only one new co-op was ever formed under them. Groups of unrelated people already sharing housing had to compile book-length documentation and pay heavy fees for the privilege of recognition.

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

My Planning Board colleagues nudged Boulder one step closer to eliminating family-based residential occupancy limits tonight, including recommending striking all references to cooperative housing from our municipal code. Co-ops have their own chapter there!

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Henning Hansen @henninghansen.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Intrigued by the People’s Bookshelf at the National Library of Latvia. Each book in the collection has been donated by a member of the public and is inscribed by its former owner, telling a personal story relating to the book.

Huge shelves with books behind a glass wall

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Awesome! We did this at our preschool several years ago and even added a little bike rack. Unfortunately the stunt was not repeated.

A bike with trailer and a cargo bike with child seat parked at a temporary rack in a parking lot near a school entrance.

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The EV transition at Wild Sage. 6 years ago we leveraged our reserves to fund community solar and shared charging, and the family keeps growing. (h/t my neighbor) #cohousinglife

A row of three dark grey Nissan Leaf EVs in a small parking lot.

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Markus Pössel @mpoessel.de · 15/11/2024

Let’s talk a bit about what you, an average German newspaper reader in 1933, would have learned about Hitler’s rise to power. Let’s assume you read the “Vossische Zeitung”, a comparatively liberal middle-class newspaper. In modern times, the Berlin State Library library let’s you read it online: 1/

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1933 - ZEFYS

ZEFYS, das Zeitungsinformationssystem der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin ist ein Portal für den Nachweis und Zugriff auf aktuelle und historische Zeitungen aus Deutschland und der ganzen Welt.

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Handlebar mittens were a game-changer for me. Happy riding!

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SarahDawn @sarahdawn.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I don’t know who did this, but I probably know who did this. A+ work.

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Local meeting threads are one of the things I've missed the most since leaving the bird site, and this one is making up for lost time.

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

When your everyday is exotic enough to be news: www.npr.org/2024/11/18/n...

npr.org

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

"Things" = the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan, which dictates that many areas must remain 'predominantly single family' no matter how much support we have for modernizing our zoning.

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Boulder might allow duplexes within 1 block of transit corridors, but 2 blocks might break things. 🫠

Portion of city code defining a 350-ft zone around transit corridors where duplexes can be constructed.

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Vienna U3 for easy connections, great neighborhoods, and even access to hiking! 😍

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

"People new to engagement now have had practice at losing and getting back up again." 💯

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Any prediction on turnout for this one?

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I can't tie a big bow around these stories - I don't traffic in that kind of hope - but I can't let them go either. These are our neighbors.

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

The centenarian organizing her care team to get her to the polls, and the many friends calling for the elders in their circles. And finally the students - so many first-time voters - calm, polite, and professional as they made plans to expedite ballots from home and back again on tight deadlines.

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

A disabled man living at the shelter who lost all of his belongings while hospitalized, and planned his entire week around navigating our meager public transit system to replace his ID and vote.

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

The 90yo living abroad who didn’t receive her usual paper ballot, and had doggedly worked through the online system for overseas voters…only to have her signature flagged as invalid. The cure process required another hour on the phone, but she never gave up.

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Claudia Hanson Thiem @chthiem.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

The woman who called in a panic about swapping ballot envelopes with her spouse. They had voted together in the emergency room the night before, thinking he was suffering a stroke. “I raced home to let the dogs out and grab the ballots,” she told me. “He wasn’t going to die without us voting.”

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