When you're not sure what's going on, but you still want to help the team...

#dog #dogs #gooddog #team #teamwork #tugofwar #battle #funny #humor #Wednesday #dogsofmastodon #mastodondogs

I've shot this when visiting #georgia.

When there is a #pig strolling through a #village, you are intrigued to #follow, but when he is casually joined by a #sheep, you are obligated to find out what’s more to the #story.

#Animals are amazing and I think there is happening so much more there we give them credit for.

#fujifilm #x100t #Caturday #Meowstodon #photo #photography #vegan #streetphotography #mastoart #smallstories #fediverse #love #friendship #peace #holiday #roadtrip

The biggest lie the US public ever bought into about public transportation - busses, subways, trains, is that should be a profitable service. They're not a profitable service, they're public infrastructure.

Aside from toll roads (which are a regressive tax on the poor and should be eliminated), we don't expect our roads or sidewalks to earn a profit. They're simply a utility that is granted to the public because you live there.

The roads don't close at 2AM just because not enough people drive on them for them to turn a profit, they're there 24x7x365 for people to be able to get from point A to point B no matter when they need to go there. When I buy a house on a road, I don't have to worry that some future administration will decide to tear up that road in front of my house and leave me with no way to get to work. It's simply part of our social contract that you can get to every location in town via a road and a car.

Why can we not offer the public the same for mass transit? Define an area of the city that is a Guaranteed Free Public Transportation zone. Every home and place of business within that zone is guaranteed to have public transportation service 24x7x365 to every other place within that zone. where you'll never have to wait more than 15 minutes, and you won't have to transfer more than 2 times.

Sure, maybe you say "After midnight, the busses don't run, but the city will pay for your taxis, because it's more efficient to run a fleet of taxis than to operate busses", but you've maintained that public infrastructure commitment.

#publictransit #masstransit

2 votes and no Speaker. This also means no House rules. So…chaos.

What is not being discussed, though, is how this is so reflective of why the GOP didn’t have a Red Wave and how they haven’t learned a single lesson. Not one.

Second, it now also means that any GOP speaker will be remarkably weak and unlikely to get legislation passed.

So, yeah, this is what the GOP has done…and they have no one to blame but themselves.

#gop #housespeaker #SpeakeroftheHouse #houseofrepresentatives

This is a great story of how Barnes & Noble’s new CEO who was hired in 2019 has turned around the company. Sales are up, it opened 16 stores this year and plans to open more next year.

The secret is the CEO really likes books and readers. So he stopped doing deals with publishers to promote their latest books & NYT best sellers and encouraged individual stores to promote books they found most interesting.

So simple yet…

https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/what-can-we-learn-from-barnes-and