Pedro @PedroMiguel@qoto.org

Good night, #HephalumpWorld. I wish you interesting dreams.

New Year’s resolution: We stop saying history will judge them. We judge them now. With judges.

Just dropping in to casually mention that Trump paid $750 in taxes, total, a couple years ago. Zero another. $5.5 million returned to him another. And his effective tax rate is 4%. This is how the rich get and stay rich: by stealing from everyone else.

You don't have to look for a good Walk Score...just check out a place's Excess Parking Space Score.

Ratio of parking spots to homes in:

New York City: 0.6 : 1
Seattle: 5.2 : 1
Jackson, Wyoming: 27.1 : 1

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/26/us-cities-parking-lots-climate-walkability

@rbreich I actually know this one. Because corporate media is in on it too!

I DON'T WANT SELF DRIVING CARS!!!!

✔️ I want boring things like public transit that comes so regularly I don't need to check a schedule.

✔️ I want fast passenger rail so accessible and easy it's preferable to suffering airports.

✔️ I want cities that aren't built around cars-as-default

✔️ I want the country to own it.

Lovely news about young Sudanese archaeologists taking up the trowel. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/27/young-sudanese-archaeologists-dig-up-history-as-west-knows-best-era-ends #archaeology #reclaiming #sudan

"It's pointless you know Covid is in deer right?" Yep lots of deer spreading Covid around schools and shopping malls all saying stuff like "I'll never get the jab."

“There’s been this decades-long process of hollowing out cities essentially to favor the rich and those in the suburbs who drive everywhere,” said Wagner."
“Why should people pay high prices for housing but cars pay nothing for some of the most valuable land on Earth?"
#MoreHousing #LessParking
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/26/us-cities-parking-lots-climate-walkability

This will never not be relevant.

Alan Turing was a mathematician & cryptographer who was a leading code-breaker in the team that decrypted Nazi Germany’s Enigma machine during WWII. He inspired modern computing & what became artificial intelligence.

Instead of being hailed as a genius & hero, Turing was convicted as a homosexual & forced to endure chemical castration. He died by suicide at 41 in 1954.

The British government didn’t apologize until 2009 & Queen Elizabeth II finally pardoned him in 2013. #history #science

Eating too much cake is the sin of gluttony. However, eating too much pie is okay because the sin of pi is always zero.

Can we please never forget this. #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

I feel like twitter was a bar where for some reason everyone had a knife and now I’m here looking around like “none of you have KNIVES, right??” and you’re all like “why would I have a knife, are you ok”

On how many Mastodon hosts do you have an account? (Please boost for wide sampling, thanks)

In 2024, Paris will ban non-essential vehicle thru-traffic from its city center. The plan is expected to cut around half of daily car journeys thru the core. Residents, public transit, emergency vehicles, & people with disabilities will find it EASIER to move. Via @citylab
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-18/paris-is-banning-traffic-crossing-the-city-center-from-2024

#Paris #cities #CarFree #urbanism #cars #city

As a human rights lawyer who has done extensive immigration work, let me make something absolutely clear.

Asylum is legal immigration.
There's no "port of entry" requirement.
There's no "visa" requirement.
There's no "first country" requirement.
You enter the United States, and you apply for asylum.

Because asylum is legal immigration. Period.

Period.

@BrentToderian @lloydalter @conradhackett As with all figures concerning averages, we should not forget that this doesn’t reflect whether the distribution of all this newly acquired “space” is even across demographics. Those who have the resources will always be able to get more space to keep more things. Sadly, those who do not aren’t as fortunate.

The average INDIVIDUAL U.S. resident now has as much living space in their home as entire families shared in the 1950s. That’s 3X as much space per person.
We’ve convinced ourselves we NEED all that extra space, and the excessive stuff we fill it with that we likely wouldn’t buy if we didn’t have the space we thought we needed to fill.
We really don’t.
Via #TreeHugger @lloydalter @conradhackett #Sprawl #SuburbanSprawl #urbanism #cities #suburbs #suburbia