Infinite Buffalo

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Michigander in DC after nearly a dozen years in Pittsburgh. Former nonprofit membership admin who nearly went to library school but turned to transportation planning instead.

Interests include maps, transit, & cities; biking & walking; libraries; baseball & hockey; puns; oxford commas; and semicolons.

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LocationWashington, DC (formerly Pittsburgh & Michigan. Not from or of New York.)
Boldly growing where no spore has grown before.
Become ungovernable:
It’s 2025 and I can’t sign up for a T-Mobile free trial because their form doesn’t think that a two character last name is a valid name. 🙄
"People were affected by layoffs" sorry, no, that makes it sound like a rainstorm. "Management decided to lay off these people" please.

@20002ist i mean, why not both?

(I of course can't find it now, but there was an image going around bluesky earlier of the Chicago Bulls logo with a pope hat nestled between the horns...)

First they came for the transgender people, and I said nothing because I was not transgender.

Then they came for the furries, and no one knows what happened after that because the net went down and no one could fix it.

DCDPW tonight told the Pedestrian Advisory Council that a major constraint to towing more dangerous vehicles is enough staff & resources to find & impound them.

Imagine if the Admin today had committed $800M to towing dangerous vehicles & making streets safer instead of…building a football stadium…

"We're allies, and we'd like to do more business with them, but that doesn't mean that we would like to become a part of the U.S." https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/greenland-united-states-denmark-independence-1235309203/

[OTOH "we're friends, we'd love to hang out more, but we don't want to get _married_" might not go over so well in the incel white house…]

The Battle for Greenland: ‘I’m Going to Keep Fighting for This Until I Die’

Trump’s threats of a takeover have put Greenland on the geopolitical map. We travel there to talk independence votes, fishing, rare earth minerals

Rolling Stone

@peter "they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, kill you and dump you in the ocean" is also a known practice of multiple South American dictators.

Of course, the US installed and propped up most of them, and taught them the practice, so we don't like to talk about that as much....