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Nathan Allebach

@nathanallebach

2 years

The importance of third places and how car-dependent suburban sprawl kills them Full video on tiktok:

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Nathan Allebach

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4 years

dads driving to the airport at 3am for a flight at 10am

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Nathan Allebach

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how | / bad | ___/ the | / world | ___/ gets |/________________ the quality of memes

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Nathan Allebach

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How stadiums are built vs. how they should be built

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Nathan Allebach

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🛑 STOP 🛑 you've reached the doomscrolling checkpoint. this is your reminder to take a break from doomscrolling

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Nathan Allebach

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1 year

It’s genuinely wild to see people protesting 15 minute cities, AKA building places so most needs can be met within a 15 walk or bike ride, when that’s how cities around the world were built for thousands of years before the invention of cars

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Taking pics of random people in public for the sake of mocking them online is so gross and should be broadly condemned

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2 years

orange will acknowledge his anxiety

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Nathan Allebach

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1 year

This is what a walkable, sustainable, and productive place looks like. To build this in America, we need to ban minimum lot size mandates, parking mandates, and density restrictions, then legalize and incentivize the development of mixed-use, multifamily housing for everyone

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Nathan Allebach

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5 years

RT if you would watch a netflix documentary telling the full story of how fuckjerry built a multimillion dollar career off stealing other people’s content

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Nathan Allebach

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1 year

What makes Japanese urbanism so aesthetically pleasing? It’s simple: street parking is (generally) banned!

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Nathan Allebach

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1 year

Car-dependency is the status quo so most people don’t realize that cars and car-centric infrastructure are not only subsidized, but prioritized at the expense of other forms of transportation. 15 minute cities support those other forms, so owning a car isn’t *necessary* to live

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Nathan Allebach

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1 year

Here are some problems with pedestrian bridges, presented by @notjustbikes

FuckCars

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1 year

Thoughts?

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Nathan Allebach

@nathanallebach

2 years

@egoraptor That’s right!

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@nathanallebach

2 years

The walkable community of Hey Arnold

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Nathan Allebach

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@stroznuts Now this is parenting

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Nathan Allebach

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2 years

social media has broken some people’s brains into thinking they need to follow and have a take on every major event 24/7. this has never been the case in all of human history until recently for a select number of information addicts who can't log off some thoughts to consider:

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Nathan Allebach

@nathanallebach

1 year

The venn diagram between people who obsess over The White Lotus and Succession is a circle

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Nathan Allebach

@nathanallebach

4 years

@NotLameAsChris spaz and myra are twitter boomers who never got popular because their content is mediocre and instead of owning that they just go after anyone more successful with baseless conspiracies

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Nathan Allebach

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2 years

Who’s gonna tell them

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Nathan Allebach

@nathanallebach

4 years

i wrote about how a loosely-connected group of joke writers on twitter became viral icons and evolved online humor without getting the credit they deserve

Meet The Viral Icons Of Twitter

How a community of young joke writers became cult personalities and shared across the internet

nathanallebach.medium.com

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Nathan Allebach

@nathanallebach

8 months

We should be building WAY more bioswales. They: - direct and absorb stormwater runoff - filter debris and pollutants - calm traffic and add sidewalk protection - support native wildlife - make streets beautiful (Vancouver, Canada)

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Nathan Allebach

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2 years

@KeithLevenberg And it creates an army of drunk drivers commuting all the way back to the suburbs!

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Nathan Allebach

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1 year

Aaron Carter had such a tragic child actor story. The guy lost all his money and struggled with addiction, mental illness, and abuse from his family. In recent years he showcased manic behavior and clearly wasn’t getting the help he needed. So sad man

Aaron Carter Dead at 34

Aaron Carter is dead at 34.

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Nathan Allebach

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2 years

My followers almost tripled from this single post. Much love to Elad for tagging me and for all the new folks following along. I’m publishing an article soon about how more walkable (and rollable) communities can heal so many parts of our society. A better future is possible!

Elad Nehorai

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2 years

I’ve never seen a video so perfectly sum up the structural and cultural issues that have led Americans to be so lonely. So important. 1/2

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Nathan Allebach

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5 years

types of twitter brands: - pseudo woke corporation - "let's be like wendy's" - feet pic admirer - the boomer - the edgelord - the anime guru - the stan - guy who calls everyone fam - girl who got fired from buzzfeed - /r/memeeconomy lurker - wholesome mom - depressed socialist

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Nathan Allebach

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1 year

Nah, the intention is to design buildings that can be easily sold and adapted for future retail businesses, which is a result of consumer demand

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Nathan Allebach

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3 years

pain

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Nathan Allebach

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1 year

Reminder that the term “jaywalking” was propagated by the auto industry to demonize pedestrians so they could push car-centric development and eventually make it illegal to walk in the streets

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Nathan Allebach

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4 years

the state of conspiracy theories on tiktok cannot be understated. these kids believe ANYTHING and spread misinformation like wildfire

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Nathan Allebach

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1 year

I periodically update this google doc that has almost every twitter meme template from over the years. If the ship goes down you can hold onto these overused jokes, as a treat

Emoji, ASCII, and Text Meme Templates

docs.google.com

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Nathan Allebach

@nathanallebach

5 years

We really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really need you to stop stealing people’s content and posting it without consent or credit

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@BuzzFeed

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We really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really need you to capitalize the F in BuzzFeed

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Nathan Allebach

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6 months

This discourse has revealed that an insane amount of people are so culture war poisoned and car brained that they actually believe murder is justifiable or “understandable” in the face of frustrating inconvenience.

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Nathan Allebach

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2 years

“But how will people in the suburbs drive home drunk from sports games??” Hear me out: trains, light rails, subways, and busses

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2 years

How stadiums are built vs. how they should be built

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Nathan Allebach

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3 years

me ignoring all my friday emails

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Nathan Allebach

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3 years

did it hurt? when you realized that as long as your work is tethered to internet culture you can never truly log off

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Nathan Allebach

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2 years

The walkable community of Hey Arnold

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Nathan Allebach

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5 months

@ejdickson I understand people getting frustrated at kids. We all do at times. They’re kids! We live in a society! But I cannot imagine posting a sneering “own” like this toward parents/kids for something so trivial. I wish we could collectively remind everyone to have more grace for folks.

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Nathan Allebach

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4 years

people keep messaging me about the social dilemma like "dude i deleted all my apps it's crazy" and i'm just like "cool! my entire career is based on social media so i can never log off but i'm happy for you!"

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Nathan Allebach

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2 years

This is why it’s important for social media managers to follow meme culture

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Nathan Allebach

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8 months

Folks, I’m starting to think that building more houses is good

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Nathan Allebach

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1 year

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism Is illegal to build in many American cities

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Nathan Allebach

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1 year

It looks like I committed some kind of meme felony lmao

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Nathan Allebach

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2 years

These are the features of ideally walkable (and rollable) places!

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Nathan Allebach

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5 years

the future of social media advertising

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Nathan Allebach

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3 years

i know it’s said all the time but humans aren’t designed to take in constant information every day about things beyond our control from all around the world on mediums designed to favor the most extreme and provocative content!

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Nathan Allebach

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1 year

I’m a sucker for small storefronts

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Nathan Allebach

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2 years

Reminder that this video was about how car-dependent suburban sprawl contributes to our atomization and loss of third places — it’s not the sole cause! I didn’t touch on the decline of labor, rise of “the paranoid style,” globalization, automation, racism, social media, etc.

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I’ve never seen a video so perfectly sum up the structural and cultural issues that have led Americans to be so lonely. So important. 1/2

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Nathan Allebach

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A mixed-income apartment project in Harlem was blocked by progressives who demanded *more* subsidized units — now none will be built and a truck stop is being developed instead. This is a prime example of “perfect” being the enemy of “good”

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Nathan Allebach

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1 year

To those asking “why do people think making cities less car-dependent is tyrannical?” see this video. They believe policies to de-center cars in urban neighborhoods will lead to authoritarian lockdown zones of mass surveillance. It’s the latest trend in conspiratorial populism.

James Melville 🚜

@JamesMelville

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China 🇨🇳 15 minute cities. Urban incarceration. Each neighborhood zone is separated by a barbed wire fence. Anyone who wants to leave their zone requires a QR code/Covid passport and a face recognition scan. A dystopian hell on earth.

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When cities announce plans to make an area car-free, some people always object. Yet once built, their popularity skyrockets and no one fights to re-center cars. Images from Paris via @EmmanuelSPV

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Nathan Allebach

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2 months

We as a society owe an apology to the 30-50 feral hogs guy

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This is what happens when domestic hogs interbreed with wild hogs . The get larger each generation.

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paris hilton,, welcome to the misinformation beat

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Nathan Allebach

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smash mouth is sick of neil’s games too

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Nathan Allebach

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“m&m’s are going woke” no this is a corporation making a calculated marketing decision to target younger consumers and play into the trend of “standing for something.” it’s not some left-wing conspiracy, it’s literally just the market

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orange will acknowledge his anxiety

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If you enjoy urbanism and wanna learn how we can build more walkable communities to help solve the housing + climate + atomization crises, follow me on tiktok!

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These are the features of ideally walkable (and rollable) places!

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@ACraig2031 The Japanese do housing/development so well

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Prior to WWII, all US big cities and small towns alike were built to be walkable because that was the main method of transportation. Starting in the 20’s, policies lobbied by the auto industry changed that. Our lack of walkability has nothing to do with how “huge” the country is!

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Nathan Allebach

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The “15-Minute City” concept is popularizing around the world and simultaneously becoming a culture war issue. There’s a lot of confusion about what it is and how cities build them in practice. Do they restrict or promote people’s freedom of movement? Let's break it down. THREAD

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Nathan Allebach

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US and Canadian cities go from skyscrapers to sprawl because “missing middle housing” is illegal to build, due to single-family zoning — we can change that! The last 6s get cut off, full video on tiktok:

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3 years

OUR CAT DID THE MEME

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Every bus stop without shelter and a bench is a policy failure.

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@thegallowboob bro this cat just ate my soul

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@EladNehorai This is incredibly flattering, thank you for sharing!

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being a social media manager is posting a video of bees having a threesome and intentionally not calling it a “beesome” bc you know that’ll be the first thing people think of when they see it which will drive engagement 📈📈📈

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Let’s rebuild streetcar suburbs in America

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“Third places” in America be like

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you, tweeting at a brand: YOUR COMPANY SUCKS THIS WHOLE SYSTEM SUCKS YOU SUCK me, a social media manager: ok so do you want some coupons or a meme or something

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The urbanism of Bethlehem, PA

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@vitadisplay shout out to his family

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NIMBYs in residential neighborhoods block mixed-use buildings because they prefer *no* visitors near their homes, even at the expense of their own convenience to walk to amenities, while they gladly drive to (and park in) other people’s neighborhoods to do so

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why is this not allowed

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Single-use Mixed-use Suburban vs. Traditional Neighborhoods Neighborhoods Which is more economically productive, sustainable, livable, and worthy of spending time in?

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Nathan Allebach

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that’s what happens when you raise your prices twice in one year, cut a third of your content, and pump out countless subpar originals with no advertising or draw behind them

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Netflix is losing beloved shows, subscribers, and confidence

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Nathan Allebach

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witnessing brands market themselves as sentient horny personifications is emotional labor

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Every year, the town of Phoenixville PA creates a giant wooden phoenix then lights it on fire while everyone parties. This is how you build community

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Nathan Allebach

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3 years

i wish emails had a like button for when you don't need to respond but still want to acknowledge you saw them

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Nathan Allebach

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We should be building WAY more bioswales. They: - direct and absorb stormwater runoff - filter debris and pollutants - calm traffic and add sidewalk protection - support native wildlife - make streets beautiful (Vancouver, Canada)

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Nathan Allebach

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friendly reminder to my fellow social media managers that now is a good time to stop posting

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Raised crosswalks and continuous sidewalks prioritize the safety and convenience of pedestrians over cars, which is why they’re virtually nonexistent in US cities

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posting alone isn’t activism. it just makes us feel validated. which is... fine on its own, but gets weird during global crisis' when it's framed like a necessary pubic service or legitimate way to process things. we get rewarded when we post—it's important to acknowledge that

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This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most of America

nascar twink

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i shoulda never smoked that shit, now im at kim kardashians back yard play town......

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Hi diddly ho neighborinos, let's build more walkable communities!

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i was canceled for telling the truth

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Brands went from posting old memes to saying “bae” to roasting people to talking about mental health to being horny way too fast

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remember when dj khaled snapchatted himself getting lost while jet skiing

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i wrote a comprehensive analysis on how paranoia, pseudoscience, and moral panics became entwined with american culture throughout history, resulting in online misinformation, extremism, and viral ideological conspiracy theories like QAnon today

How America Became The Land Of Conspiracy Theories

A comprehensive mapping of paranoia, propaganda, moral panics, misinformation, and extremism

medium.com

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Nathan Allebach

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you can be a witness to those suffering without being logged on 24/7. you can comfort loved ones without being logged on 24/7. you can share opinions, aid, or resources without being logged on 24/7 i promise that your character isn't defined by your constant online presence

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No❤️

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no one has custom ringtones anymore individuality is dead

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Nathan Allebach

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React streamers are the worst content leeches. They steal thousands of dollars in potential ad revenue from creators who take the time to produce original videos. Platforms need to revamp their monetization so that original creators get most of the ad revenue from these people.

𝕭𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙩 

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Every single time without fail LMAO

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Nathan Allebach

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The 1980’s satanic panic never ended, it just evolved into pizzagate/QAnon by fusing myths of child sex trafficking with spiritual warfare and populism — a conspiratorial narrative that inevitably leads to violence. We have to keep pushing back against this false reality.