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re: "La Sombrita," cutting to the real issue: the need to cut across agency silos to actually be able to solve problems—not just in a timely fashion, but at all.

https://slate.com/business/2023/05/la-sombrita-shade-bus-stop-los-angeles-kounkuey-background-history.html

How L.A. Spared No Expense to Protect Bus Stops From the Sun and Ended Up With … This?

“La Sombrita” was greeted with instant backlash. No kidding!

Slate

Ever had a herring-infused beer?

If you like intense flavors, have I got a story for you!

Join me on a visit to the Magdalens, the culinary Brigadoon of #Quebec, and the last smokehouse on the islands...

Welp. This has crossed my social timelines again today. And the ONE RULE I want to carry over from that bird place is this one: if the Tom Holland Lip Sync Battle Umbrella video arrives in your timeline, you must share the Tom Holland Lip Sync Battle Umbrella video.

Enjoy.

https://youtu.be/jPCJIB1f7jk

Lip Sync Battle - Tom Holland

YouTube

@lzg nor when they were getting genocided by rightwing death squads during the cold war

settler colonial eradication of indigenous peoples gets seen as a past, completed event rather than a still ongoing process of which current border regimes and anti migrant violence are very much a part

Fascinating framing. “The US has spent *$$$ trillions* for a transportation system with the public health impact of open sewers. This choice only makes sense if the goal is not the safe, efficient movement of people and goods, but to ensure markets for the PPE (3-ton cars) necessary to use our system.” https://twitter.com/bellachu10/status/1659222762752475138?s=20
Bella Chu on Twitter

“The US has spent *$$$ trillions* for a transportation system with the public health impact of open sewers. This choice only makes sense if the goal is not the safe, efficient movement of people and goods, but to ensure markets for the PPE (3-ton cars) necessary to use our system.”

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One for the book historians out there

i saw a post one time like

PEOPLE TODAY: hahaha all these weird memes will confuse future archeologists xD

FUTURE ARCHEOLOGISTS: *sobbing* why is there so much plastic. jesus christ it's in their bones

On the plus side, this. California is probably the closest to being on a war footing around climate, and that's still pretty far off. But that's what it is going to take. https://grist.org/transportation/electrify-everything-california-regulations-trucks-trains/
Electrify everything, California says — including trucks and trains

The unprecedented regulations will tackle air pollution and carbon emissions at the same time.

Grist

I want to ride on that!
(Liz Lemon voice.) 🍋

The Ferrobus combines old road bus bodies with rail wheels, and uses "otherwise abandoned rail lines in Chile, Bolivia and Colombia, to climb high into the Andes."

https://www.railsouthamerica.com/blog-posts/3-amazing-ferrobus-journeys-in-south-america

3 Amazing Ferrobus Journeys in South America

Apr 07, 2021 - Ferrobuses are the chasses of (old) overland buses put on rails. These vehicles are an exciting way to discover remote parts of South America, especially in the Andes. Ferrobuses often serve small villages in sparsely populated areas without official road access. Usually, the roads are so bad that a rail vehicle journey is much more comfortable. The Gondola Carril in Chile is an exception because it is a pure tourist train.