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Cat Brinkley

@drdrcatbrinkley.bsky.social
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Prof with a focus on #OneHealth- health is shared between humans, animals, and the environment #planner #veterinarian Interested in planning science, history of food systems, and future of development

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Cat Brinkley @drdrcatbrinkley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We can even quote Aristotle at them as this was known for 2,400+ years. "Poverty is the parent of crime" - that's why ancient Athens had an income program (folks had to present their case and qualify)
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Cat Brinkley @drdrcatbrinkley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ugh!! Glad you are ok.
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Cat Brinkley @drdrcatbrinkley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Can we be sure though? He's said "stand by" -- and "good people on both sides"
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Cat Brinkley @drdrcatbrinkley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm here in beautiful LA... And would rather "them" not "take out Los Angeles" ... And wtf. Attacking the second largest city in the US is not a "small price"
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
NEW: Food banks across America are being overwhelmed by surging demand. Scott MacFarlane went inside to see the crisis firsthand. Here’s what he found:
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“They don’t understand the scale of the hunger!”- An unfolding crisis at the nation’s food banks
Weeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states
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Karl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The video is extremely funny, and also the sad figure of Death wondering why she too can't find romance reminds me of my favorite José Saramago novel, Death With Interruptions (also published in English under the title Death At Intervals): bookshop.org/p/books/deat...
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Death With Interruptions
Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago's brilliant novel poses the question—what happens when the grim reaper decides there will be no more death? On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This of cour...
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Cat Brinkley @drdrcatbrinkley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I remember meeting Annie Dillard at a book talk when I was 12 years old. I told her that I loved "Pilgrim" - she was cranky and said there's no way that I could understand it. She was right- and set the bar. I'm leaning into becoming just as cranky. #shero
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Cat Brinkley @drdrcatbrinkley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the story of our @djusd high school parking lot. It's treacherous for kids to bike to school in #davis the self-proclaimed bike capitol of the US
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Cat Brinkley @drdrcatbrinkley.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Gotcha
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Cat Brinkley @drdrcatbrinkley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Use an alternate site - like nitter. Didn't feed the beast
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dirt of the looming dawn @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 05/02/2026
Dorothea Lange. Kern County, California (1938)
black and white photo of an industrial air pump at a rest stop with a hand painted sign that reads "air. this is your country don't let the big men take it away from you"
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Cat Brinkley @drdrcatbrinkley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
California needs a law like the EU General Data Protection Regulation which prevents influencers from profiting off the use of other people's images and names (commission.europa.eu/law/law-topi...). Time to write our assemblymember!
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Data protection explained
Read about key concepts such as personal data, data processing, who the GDPR applies to, the principles of the GDPR, the rights of individuals, and more.
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Cat Brinkley @drdrcatbrinkley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
California needs a law like the EU General Data Protection Regulation which prevents influencers from profiting off the use of other people's images and names (commission.europa.eu/law/law-topi...). Write your assemblymember!
commission.europa.eu
Data protection explained
Read about key concepts such as personal data, data processing, who the GDPR applies to, the principles of the GDPR, the rights of individuals, and more.
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Cat Brinkley @drdrcatbrinkley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Here's the thing- her strip teases and videoed city hall fellatio sessions get her likes and comments-- which Facebook and X pay out for (maybe $200/day based on # posts, likes, and comments)
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Cat Brinkley @drdrcatbrinkley.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I witness this weekly at the city's free charging stations-- they are only supposed to be used in 4 hour blocks and sometimes there are unhoused folks living in their EV waiting 4+hrs in line to charge
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Cat Brinkley @drdrcatbrinkley.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Is that what it is?? Same here
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Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Shocking.
NTSB graph showing the relationship between miles biked per person per year and cyclists killed per billion miles biked. There's an obvious negative trend (people bike more in place where it's safer to do so.
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Cat Brinkley @drdrcatbrinkley.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Gosh I love your posts. This is the kind of "news" I need in my feed.
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Cat Brinkley @drdrcatbrinkley.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
A friend asked his home-built AI what I would say about a planning book that I have yet to publicly review... And it was creepy what it got right. As long as profs review the material and approve it before it becomes a teaching tool ... this will still miss the point of education
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Cat Brinkley @drdrcatbrinkley.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Bet the manatee was a bit scared of the pod - glad to see the peaceful crossing
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Cat Brinkley @drdrcatbrinkley.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Now consider what it's doing to collective learning outside the classroom...
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Cat Brinkley @drdrcatbrinkley.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
What if Olympias hired Aristotle to teach Alexander so they could both overthrow Philip?
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Cat Brinkley @drdrcatbrinkley.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Madagascar is the 11th poorest country in the world. It's not untouched. It is beautiful - and its stewards need help protecting its many unique species
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Cat Brinkley @drdrcatbrinkley.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I think it was the outage playing havoc ... But my Gmail also keeps putting her messages in spam despite me repeatedly telling it not to... Which makes me always wonder about shadowbanning online + social media platforms like this (and others)
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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Cat Brinkley @drdrcatbrinkley.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
It's stochastic terrorism -- when a troll uses their following to direct hate to a target. Couldn't happen in the EU because the person posting is held accountable for their post... Here, all we have is online moderators (and complicit social media companies)
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Cat Brinkley @drdrcatbrinkley.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
What's up with Blue Sky? Why can't I find @heather Cox Richardson? Why won't her page load? #HeatherCoxRichardson
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Cat Brinkley @drdrcatbrinkley.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Terrifying
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Our “choice” to drive (if indeed we actually HAVE a choice… car dependency by design means we don’t) is an expensive decision for everyone, not just for us. #UrbanTruth
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Cat Brinkley @drdrcatbrinkley.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I'll just chime in to add that another thing to consider in the balance is how animal ag is a famine buffer. When times are lean, animals can be slaughtered and land that would have been used to feed them can grow crops for human consumption
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Cat Brinkley @drdrcatbrinkley.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
But if spelled incorrectly, jazzerSIZE implies the existence of Zydecoersize (also spelled incorrectly)
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.
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Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This is very important, and very well done, by @jamellebouie.net. I encourage you to watch it and share it. 
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Cat Brinkley @drdrcatbrinkley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Good news about the Classics.... We can always go back
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Cat Brinkley @drdrcatbrinkley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Great to see @newyorker.com cover food deserts. We looked at when a grocery store intervention stays open-- and found that ownership matters... Which is an important point for @mayor.nyc.gov 's public grocers onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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“If you Build it <i>with them</i>, they will come”: What makes a supermarket intervention successful in a food desert?
Using 71 planned supermarket interventions in food deserts, this study assesses the interplay between regional geography, management models, policy drivers, financing, and timing. We find that commun....
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Cat Brinkley @drdrcatbrinkley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
You might enjoy the exorcism of Hardin that we've done in urban planning: Hardin’s imagined tragedy is pig shit: A call for planning to recenter the commons, 2020 share.google/9Sc4z8VquXP8...
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Cat Brinkley @drdrcatbrinkley.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
What about all the giant snakes in murals at pompeii... Seems like something that would have come up in the archeology record?
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Cat Brinkley @drdrcatbrinkley.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Here's the link to donate to her opponent: docs.google.com/forms/d/1AKF...
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I would be honored to have your support for Davis School Board, district 4.
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Cat Brinkley @drdrcatbrinkley.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
That red beard!
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Cat Brinkley @drdrcatbrinkley.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Thank you for making this the summer talking point!
Cartoon of a scene missing from the Christopher Nolan Odyssey adaptation showing the cyclops Polyphemus ("the many fames" as classicist Emily Wilson emerging from an allegory of the cave. Two figures in the corner question what has upset her. One suggests she is either saying "no one" or "Nolan."
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Cat Brinkley @drdrcatbrinkley.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Every climate scientist I know hates Copenhill... I guess my hesitation to agree is that I would rather live next to Copenhill than any other landfills or W2E facility. All the others are definite disamenities (happy to be proven wrong!)
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Cat Brinkley @drdrcatbrinkley.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The Danish architecture museum has a super fun internal slide and lego displays ... Not a museum, but you can experience sci/tech with year-round sledding/skiing + views over the city (+ a cafe on top) @Copenhill ... Curious to hear your take on that "green engineering" feat of waste-to-energy
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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
RIP Charlie “Cunningham called bicycles the “perfect means for ‘right living.’” “They make people healthy and happy, and they free us from the tyranny of cars and the guilt of waste,” he said. “Of course, there’s a time and place for cars, but most of us use them too much.” “ @biketalk.bsky.social
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Charlie Cunningham, Mountain Bike Innovator, Dies at 77 (Gift Article)
In the late 1970s, he built what is considered the first off-road bicycle with a frame that was aluminum rather than steel, one of his many inventions.
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Cat Brinkley @drdrcatbrinkley.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
You know what AI cannot do very well at all? Make maps. It's a deeper sign of the fluidity with which models play fast and loose with our precious methods of communication, warping meaning-making -- which is fundamentally rooted in the context of place.
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Cat Brinkley @drdrcatbrinkley.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I remember when they first excavated the ancient city of the Minions and shouted: "I have gazed upon the face of Kevin!"
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Cat Brinkley @drdrcatbrinkley.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Still just as fixated on finding the penis for every animal-then proving those with one are superior lifeforms? Would be interesting if that wasn't the case in at least one version/commentary as Aristotle seems to have provided the rootstock for biosocial arguments of male superiority
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Cat Brinkley @drdrcatbrinkley.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I mean, who really wants this administration to know exactly who and where you are?
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Cat Brinkley @drdrcatbrinkley.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
5/5 Delphi likely curated a different narrative as evidence by the Polygnotus murals featuring the Fall of Troy (Iliupersis) which depicted (among much else) Medusa offering Helen a bronze bowl -- surrounded by corpses continuum.fas.harvard.edu/a-pausanias-...
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A Pausanias reader in progress: Description of Greece, Scrolls 1–10 - Classical Continuum Noel Spencer January 28, 2022
The date as noted here for Nagy's retranslation-in-progress, 2022.01.28, indicates the latest overall reworking of his project, started in 2018, which is to be accompanied by A Pausanias commentary in...
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Cat Brinkley @drdrcatbrinkley.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
4/5 Delphi prophesied Homer's death (a kind of rude thing to do). The oracle given to Homer, according to Pausanias, states: "Blessed and unhappy, for to be both wast thou born. Thou seekest thy father-land; but no father-land hast thou, only a mother-land..."
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Cat Brinkley @drdrcatbrinkley.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
3/5 Homer's Illiad and Odyssey are in dactylic hexameter-a poetic meter that was often used by the Oracle of Delphi- an institution that always had a female spokeswoman. Some say the meter was invented at Delphi by Phemonoe, the very first Pythia. Using this meter made a prophesy hard to plagiarize
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