Wrote a short gempost about what it means to live in a city as opposed to a city being a series of car connected archipelagos:

gemini://inconsistentuniverse.space/gemlog/2024-08-18-pedestrian.gmi

(proxy web link: https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/inconsistentuniverse.space/gemlog/2024-08-18-pedestrian.gmi )

Pedestrian Life and the Urinary Leash — inconsistentuniverse.space

@left_adjoint Damn, coffee shops in Portland are removing restrooms even for paying customers? I'm surprised that's even legal.

I do remember how every bathroom in Seattle had a rotating door code or a key (it's not like that here!), and here we do have, like, little bakeries and dessert shops without restrooms, but for somewhere designed around lingering that feels deeply counterproductive? (Or are Portland coffee shops not designed around lingering anymore?)