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Alhambot @alhambot.bsky.social · 6h
A procedurally generated Islamic geometric tile mosaic: a seamless repeating pattern of interlocking eight-pointed stars separated by polygonal tiles. The strapwork is drawn as pale ribbons that weave over and under at each crossing, set over glazed compartments in aubergine, ochre and bone, in the Andalusi zellij tradition.
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Brian F. Kelcey @stateofthecity.bsky.social · 12h
Windsor, ON. I'll say more after October but for now, speaking strictly on the 'strong Mayor' part, I don't know how this doesn't kill the veto/pre-veto (eg what most people see as 'strong Mayor') for good. Between it and 2-3 other cases, it will mean the authority - windsorstar.com/news/dilkens...
windsorstar.com
Dilkens vows to use strong mayor powers to kill fourplexes if new council supports sweeping density
'For a lot of Windsorites, this was a central issue to them'
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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 29/09/2026
This neighbor was the real ShotSpotter www.freep.com/story/news/l...
freep.com
Neighbor warned Detroit police of violence before strip club shooting
A neighbor down the street from the illicit after-hours strip club said he warned police of violence a day before Sunday's mass shooting.
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every lot detroit.. before and after @everylot.det.city · 26/09/2026
3119 E CANFIELD Parcel ID: 13002329. Year built: Unknown Zoned R2 Tax status: EXEMPT (211.7S) Image dates: Aug 11 2019 on left; May 08 2026 on right
Street view imagery of 3119 E CANFIELD captured on Aug 11 2019Street view imagery of 3119 E CANFIELD captured on May 08 2026
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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 24/09/2026
how can this gas station be leaving drivers with "no alternative" but to pay up?? are they coercing people to purchase gas by force?
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Aaron Mondry @amondry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BREAKING: Detroit’s water department may decide to relocate from its historic downtown office building after discovering costly structural problems, with total renovations costing an estimated $30 million-$40 million. More info here: outliermedia.org/detroit-wate...
outliermedia.org
Detroit’s Water Board Building needs $30 million or more in repairs
The Detroit Water and Sewerage Department temporarily evacuated its offices due to structural problems in the historic Water Board Building, designed by Louis Kamper.
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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 22/09/2026
the solution is clear. abolish townships
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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 19/09/2026
jaunty roof line detected
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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 19/09/2026
woodward sidewalk is pretty wide but still probably shouldn't be e-biking on it
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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 19/09/2026
nature is healing
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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 17/09/2026
MDO carshare just keeps getting better: mdocarshare.org/michigan/ Peaches & Greens (3rd and Hazelwood) just added as a new location, and coming soon to the new rehabbed apartment building on Hamilton & Calvert
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Michigan Carshare - MDO Carshare
Need a car? Drive by the Hour. Discover the freedom of driving an electric vehicle without worrying about car payments, insurance bills, or maintenance. $5/hour or $60/day How it Works Booking a car i...
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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 14/09/2026
Every car in your city now represents over 12K/year being sucked out of your local economy instead of being spent on housing, goods & services. I wish more parking-obsessed retailers & elected officials understood this. #WindshieldBias #CarBlindness
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Pizzatown @djoodiwithad.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I dreamt there was high speed rail from Detroit to traverse city and mackinaw
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Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I think it's underrated in every discussion of deindustrialization ever that the existence of Metra and the 'L' helped substantially mitigate enormous job losses due to deindustrialization in Chicago.
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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 02/09/2026
Painful loss of eminently savable mixed use buildings in my neighborhood bsky.app/profile/ever...
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Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
USA airports build tons of structured parking which pays for a bunch of employee salaries, and underlies their borrowing picture, but aggressively incentivizes them to make transit to the airport poor. This is bad
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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 27/08/2026
nolan finley: "we've tried one thing and we're all out of ideas"
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I just hitched a ride with a coworker to a nearby meeting and I absolutely would have gotten their sooner on my bike. So now, I am wondering: Is there a catchy word or term for the regret you feel when you drive somewhere but biking would have been faster?
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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 27/08/2026
My contribution to the helmet discourse is to note that there is a strong inverse correlation between helmet use and cycling. There is no real-world evidence that you can convince lots of people to ride bikes and wear helmets. God bless you for trying, but I don’t think it will work.
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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 26/08/2026
😡
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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 26/08/2026
dan gilbert, best known for completely screwing up the alignment of the QLine streetcar against the wishes of the public, will now be the grand marshal of the thanksgiving parade
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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 25/08/2026
a good mnemonic to remember the names of the Great Lakes now is SHAME
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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 25/08/2026
a wild land boat appears
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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 19/08/2026
i (civil servant) have never even heard of the civil service commission lol
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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 16/08/2026
thanks, i hate it.
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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 08/08/2026
this article accurately nails the problem: "Stores need customers". Somehow, it doesn't seem to mention the obvious remedy of attracting more residents.
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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 07/08/2026
Ranger III spotted.
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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 07/08/2026
today's discourse reminding of the 2018 gubernatorial primary, where Shri won the City of Detroit over both Whitmer and El-Sayed. But nobody was panicking then that Whitmer was in trouble with Black voters.
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Jake Berman @lostsubways.com · 03/08/2026
this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?
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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 03/08/2026
we love to see multifamily rehabs
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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 03/08/2026
every single god damn day in this city.
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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 03/08/2026
Unpopular opinion. even if automakers did “take the streetcars from Detroit” (highly debatable!), that’s not an excuse for 75 years of inaction. it’s a ridiculous story to keep leaning on and lets the entire political class and electorate off the hook for their poor choices
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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 02/08/2026
Detroit should probably be doing this, but with closer to a million.
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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 31/07/2026
the hours of operation for the gordie howe bride multi-use path are out! and they're predictably terrible. 8am to 8pm and you have to be on the bridge 1 hour before it closes. so at the bridge by 7pm. so functionally you can't go to windsor for anything but the earliest of dinners/events
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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 31/07/2026
and it barely has any parking for bicycles
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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 31/07/2026
tired of seeing this stupid statistic trotted out by the worst people in metro detroit, so i wrote about it
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How should we measure SMART's effectiveness?
"3.9 riders per bus" is a dumb statistic.
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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 24/07/2026
ice cream loss ☹️
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Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Piggybacking off this to ask: What are people’s favorite Detroit street names? There are so many good ones but my top 2 are Ironsides and Regular. We might name the kitten Conant (A street I lived off of, named for a prominent abolitionist who advocated for Black people to be able to own homes).
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Detroit Greenways Coalition @detroitgreenways.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Study confirms that "Reducing car mode share and Vehicle Miles Traveled appear to be viable strategies for improving road safety." So why isn't shifting travel modes to transit, biking and walking a traffic safety strategy in Michigan? Any guesses? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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every lot detroit.. before and after @everylot.det.city · 21/07/2026
20258 CALDWELL Parcel ID: 13014349. Year built: 1953 Zoned R1 Tax status: TAXABLE Image dates: Sep 01 2019 on left; Sep 08 2024 on right
Street view imagery of 20258 CALDWELL captured on Sep 01 2019Street view imagery of 20258 CALDWELL captured on Sep 08 2024
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Canada is our friend, tariffs are inflationary and this is economic illiteracy. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/b...
nytimes.com
Trump to Impose 50% Tariff on Many Canadian Goods
The administration will use an untested legal provision to put significant duties on Canadian exports, reigniting a clash with one of America’s biggest trading partners.
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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 18/07/2026
voigt park 💚
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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 17/07/2026
Just saw a guy park a cement mixer in a bus stop and walk into a Metro by T-Mobile store. Sometimes the issue in NYC is that we haven’t carefully considered the needs of working people who need to drive to make this city run. But sometimes it’s just that we let people do whatever.
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Amelia Benavides-Colón @ameliacolon.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Rise and shine! 🌞🌞 I am back with @detdocumenters.bsky.social to cover this morning's Detroit/Wayne County Port Authority meeting scheduled for 9 a.m.
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readingsumn.bsky.social @readingsumn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The Motor City identity is so deeply ingrained that if you start talking about improving public transportation and reducing the need to own a car, people here will look at you like you laid a rotten egg fart. It's actually offensive.
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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 16/07/2026
not the day for this sort of thing
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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 16/07/2026
"I'm not sure what Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is doing this week." Mr. Finley -- you work at a newspaper. don't you have colleagues whose job this is?
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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This will come to no one’s surprise, but I can confirm. Detroit has the best parking of any city in America.
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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 14/07/2026
Detroit has precisely 2 of these and they're currently both disabled/broken. It's incredibly depressing.
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Briana Rice @brianarice.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Here’s how many pools some other Midwest cities have: Cleveland has 22, Cincinnati has 24, Pittsburgh has 17 and Indianapolis has 14. @outliermedia.org
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