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woke fear

@nicoleamurray

4 years

Thread of newly clear, pollution-free skies around the world. First up, Madrid.

Crespo

@CrespoToTheWild

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📍Madrid Enero 2020 | Abril 2020

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woke fear

@nicoleamurray

2 years

wait a minute-

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@nicoleamurray

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I hate cars. I hate that everything is designed around them. I hate the noise, the pollution, the death, the oil wars. I hate that so many people need them. I hate that it's so hard for so many to imagine another way. I hate it.

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@rap_knewnie @jeremyzorek Same energy

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@broadly @VICE Also, um, sex isn't "finished" when a man says it is

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@sammxxlynn @kkendalllieghh Except they didn't get dinner because their mom was turned into an etsy project

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@HippieSpiritt @Jaaaaycobb the pool and giant lawn indicate that saving water is not a concern for her.

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@nicoleamurray

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@bloodberry_tart blockchain

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THERE'S NOT ENOUGH HOUSES AND TOO MANY CARS WHY THE FCK IS THIS SO HARD

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@maxdubler good god

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@nicoleamurray

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actually I think its bad that getting housing and bike lanes and bus stops boils down to "who can scream at a mid-level government official in a church basement the loudest", i do not think it's something to aspire to.

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@nicoleamurray

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Cool new thing where rich people are using their financial situation to assert physical and mortal dominance over others on the road

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@nicoleamurray

7 years

@aacooper @Nonchalant_Leak @broadly @VICE My issue w this headline is that it's not acknowledging that sex is finished the *second* it becomes rape. >

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@nicoleamurray

4 months

this is an absolutely shameful thing for public sector workers to say.

UFT

@UFT

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Today, our union, along with teachers who work at schools in Manhattan and the Bronx as well as Staten Island Borough President @SIBPVito , filed a federal lawsuit asking the court to halt the implementation of congestion pricing in Manhattan.

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A lot of the comments/QTs are skipping right over the most important quote: "In any given week we might have 200-300 homes available. We get about 10,000 inquiries a week." It doesn't really matter if one landlord or 200 have this kind of power over limited supply.

Housing Crisis Watch

@HousingCrisisW

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Toronto landlord who owns 30,000 houses explains why young people don't want homes

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@nicoleamurray

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Americans burn +350MM gallons of gasoline in their cars *a day*. This number could be reduced by say, building apartments on top of grocery stores/generally near things, but most of the country's town planning authorities are instead like, no thanks.

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@nicoleamurray

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who looks at this and is like, yeah more of this

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@sammxxlynn @kkendalllieghh While you're here donate to @Global_Wildlife , they're in Texas where grandma murdercrafts is on a rampage

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@IlyassAmharar @CoralDeVille "an economic way"

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@nicoleamurray

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A 1% decrease in rents in an area that otherwise would have seen a 5-20% increase is phenomenal, actually.

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@nicoleamurray

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@PhantasmaPlumes @AAAAAGGHHHH

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@nicoleamurray

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"none of the new developments are affordable" BTCH NONE OF THE *OLD* DEVELOPMENTS ARE AFFORDABLE

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@nicoleamurray

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everywhere i look....i see george soros

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it's wild that "pedestrian safety" is a thing, bro why is it so dangerous to WALK OUTSIDE

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@nicoleamurray

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there's really guys out there who think trains and skyscrapers will destroy the environment, not cars and sfh sprawl HELP

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@ChristRobbins why would we want rich people here if we.... cant tax them

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@bigblackjacobin

Owner Of Mysterious Silver Spaceship Tank Revealed To Be Brooklyn Dad, Of Course

After half a year without any answers, we finally know the deep dark secret identity of the vehicle's owner: it's a random dad.

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@nicoleamurray

3 years

what's funny is the spandex $2k bike guys are the absolute bottom tier of bike advocacy lol they are the first people to be against bike lanes and for parking. get real.

Providence Leftist Radio Podcast

@plrpodcast

3 years

The whiteness and wealth of bike advocates always gets me. Not everyone can afford the same multi-gear $2,000 bike, helmet, and fit you got bro. These are hobbists who cloak their own desires in social justice and greening. Full stop.

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@eatinginmycar Half the replies are like "you don't have to be rich to outsource your domestic toil to immigrants 🙄🙄"

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@rollerbladeshoe @Jaaaaycobb @HippieSpiritt yes king

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@nicoleamurray

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BREAKING: Jerry Nadler, Dan Goldman etc call for a ceasefire.

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i think we should sit a while with the fact that it was small, mom'n'pop landlords (or the idea of them) that weasled their way out of good cause eviction.

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@nicoleamurray

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What people think gentrification in NYC is vs what gentrification in NYC actually is

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@nicoleamurray

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what we're seeing here is a bunch of single family homes with garages, lawns, and pools built on...wetlands. this development was scientifically created to 1) exacerbate climate change, 2) piss me off

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Seems bad

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@nicoleamurray

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if you think a gas tax is regressive wait til you hear about driving

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@nicoleamurray

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dear "cyclists should be licensed and registered" trolls, what class of license should this 5 yr old boy have gotten that would have prevented this (somehow! street legal) suv driver from killing him? please advise.

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@nicoleamurray

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wild that humans have been living in settlements for 10,000 years but only in the last ~120 or so do we need to stay constantly vigilant not to get squashed by 2-ton speeding machines.

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@nicoleamurray

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The regressive costs of cars for poor drivers isn't really in gas/gas taxes, or those kinds of fees. It's in predatory loans, high insurance premiums, and constant need for repairs.

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@nicoleamurray

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people talk about "community" as if they mean "rojava women's councils" and not "a couple dozen busybodies who otherwise don't know each other's names."

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@nicoleamurray

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"But I/some people need a car to--" Yeah man that's what I hate!!!!!

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was thinking about how exclusionary zoning is best understood as a legal way of creating "poor people containment zones," then saw this 10 mins later:

The Artist Formerly Known as Eric

@breakingbaht

1 year

YIMBYISM has a sole actual goal and sometimes they'll admit it if pressed: Moving poor people into rich and middle income areas. It's essentially the same thing as their beliefs about bussing, corporate equity, affirmative action, etc. The idea continually is that bad...

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@nicoleamurray

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@BicycleLobby You cant seen in front of your own car.

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@nicoleamurray

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just wana remind people that 1000s of people don't have cars but live in car dependent cities/suburbs as it is.

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@nicoleamurray

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"The city has now spent more on Uber than the traditional transit option it was considering, and has dramatically increased the number of cars on its roads, with worrying implications for air quality and the climate crisis." haha WHOOPS.

The Innisfil experiment: the town that replaced public transit with Uber

Ridership is high and there’s plenty of work for drivers, but success has come at a cost to this Ontario town

www.theguardian.com

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@nicoleamurray

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Any city/state/country that is even *a little* serious about moving the needle on climate change or public health needs to be doing whatever it can to get masses of people out of cars and onto trains, buses, eScooters, bikes, and/or their feet/mobility aids.

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@nicoleamurray

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2 steps to make parks better, summer 2024: 1️⃣ abolish open container laws immediately 2️⃣ enforce dog leashing with an iron fist

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@nicoleamurray

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I don't want to hear one more goddamn word about "reckless cyclists" ever the fuck again. never again.

Curb Jumping NYC

@CurbJumpingNYC

3 years

One person killed and one injured by a 60-year old woman driving a Mercedes-Benz who crashed thru an outdoor dining structure and onto the sidewalk in Queens after attempting to use the bicycle lane to pass a slower-moving vehicle.

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NYC Pols: "We demand an explanation!" NYPD: "We grabbed a woman and threw her into an unmarked van like we always do." Pols: "Ok thank u"

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@nicoleamurray

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begging "bikes won't save the world😤" ppl to understand that what we are really talking about here is whether or not "small fossil-fuel-based explosions that make 2000lbs of metal go forward" is the type of transportation system that is worth reproducing in a climate crisis

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Teens die in 116mph tesla crash, parents sue, Tesla spokeswoman said “unfortunately, no car could have withstood a high-speed crash of this kind." The top speed of this car is *130mph.* Why are cars that can't withstand a 116mph crash able to go faster?

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if I ever become president my first order of business: priority mail every American a lifetime public transit pass and a library card

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@nicoleamurray

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this is what privatizing transportation *actually* looks like.

Travis R. Eby

@travis_robert

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It keeps getting worse and worse, and guess why? Our leaders are doing literally nothing to stop it

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"capitalists created the housing shortage" only if by "capitalists" they mean "single family homeowners who collect astronomical economic rents" but somehow i don't think that's who they are talking about.

DSA San Francisco

@DSA_SF

2 years

There’s a lot of confusion right now around the housing shortage that capitalists created, and specifically about our endorsed Supervisor @DeanPreston , so let’s talk housing, and how to provide it at scale. 🧵

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@nicoleamurray

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@electrajpeg @jeongyeonhands I remember agonizing over tapping favorite. "Is this REALLY my favorite?!"

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@nicoleamurray

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"not building housing" is neither an anti-homelessness, nor an anti-displacement, nor an anti-renthike, nor an anti-landlord strategy.

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@nicoleamurray

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my politics are basically that cities are 1) good, 2) not a drive through service.

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@nicoleamurray

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"How else am I/some people supposed--" BRO! This is the part that SUCKS!!

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nimby: "we need affordable housing!" urbanist: "here is some affortable housing." nimby: "FUCK YOU THAT SHIT IS FOR POOR PEOPLE."

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@nicoleamurray

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i come from a family of renters on and off welfare. a retired owner of a $1.9MM home in Marin County saying this about feeling safe and secure just....it's appalling. i can't find the words.

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"But I/some people have no other choice--" YEAH!!! IT BLOWS!!!!!!!!

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@nicoleamurray

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@emceebois @sadtheropod @Hoodanarkata i didt get glomped at anime conventions in 1999 for you to spread these lies

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@nicoleamurray

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Amsterdam vs South Florida

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@nicoleamurray

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Reminder that ~80% of the world doesn't drive and it isn't going to be more cars, roads, and parking lots that will propel humanity into a more just and prosperous future.

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@nicoleamurray

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if you wanna know how housing works just browse landlord twitter

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I went to get a haircut at a salon on my block. I asked the stylist where she is from (Queens). She said, unprompted, everyone she knows is moving to FL or TX because of rent and asked me if I heard about "what's going on in Nassau county." Me: "What's going on in nassau county?"

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@nicoleamurray

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@enn_nafnlaus @elonmusk @cyrusposting Pick one.

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Gasoline is the most-consumed petroleum product in the United States, mostly by individual passenger cars carrying one person less than 6 miles.

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@nicoleamurray

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PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SHOULD BE FULLY FUNDED & FREE, I DON'T GIVE A SHIT

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@nicoleamurray

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American-style sprawl and car dependency are so CLEARLY the deliberate brain children of the gooniest real estate, automotive, and fossil fuel petrocapitalists in industry and government. This should be one thing socialists agree upon.

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@nicoleamurray

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marx never could have predicted 80% of Americans would be need to operate their own little oil refineries to go and get their labor alienated from them

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@Jaaaaycobb @HippieSpiritt that's the least of it, the lawn is 100x worse.

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@nicoleamurray

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did you enjoy the halftime show or were you thinking about zoning

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@nicoleamurray

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@Crazy_Procyon @CarloCoyote there's literally no evidence that a human ever lived there even once. not a scrap of trash, not a stick of furniture, NO small appliances, not an errant sock, nothing.

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@nicoleamurray

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I get the sentiment but this literally creates a market for sitting in traffic.

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@gr8whitebison

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You should get paid for your commute

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@nicoleamurray

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announcement: your tweet didn't include me, a total stranger, or my needs specifically, so I have no choice but to take the most uncharitable reading of it possible.

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@nicoleamurray

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get in the car loser, we're co-opting the language of the oppressed so we can continue to burn fossil fuels extracted from the global south without having to meaningfully organizing for a better world, so long as i can keep driving 💅

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@nicoleamurray

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the leftism we need: "Cities are natural fulcrums for working together, challenging hierarchies, curbing overconsumption of resources, and sharing the fruits of production. We welcome all comrades to our city." the leftism we have:

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@nicoleamurray

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@MrInfer17041959 @EmericanJohnson USSR used state- cops are sponsored violence just doing to oppress people their jobs 🤝 Most Americans

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@nicoleamurray

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remembering the days of suburban hell where i'd get in a car, drive 0.75mi to the grocery store, park, get back in and drive across 8 lanes to bank, park, drive across 6 lanes to walgreens, park, drive back home.

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@nicoleamurray

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@katewillett @allahliker Thanks for this. My mom went from a republican to a Bernie supporter in 2016, and that was before she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She passed without insurance 2 years ago. Every door I knock is for her.

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@nicoleamurray

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@Hoodie_Milly @ouijney I genuinely lol'd

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@nicoleamurray

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@PopulismUpdates what is double lit about this is he played Shogo Kawada in the movie adaptation of Battle Royale, a movie where kids have to literally fight for the right to live under scarcity. (this is pre-hunger games)

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@nicoleamurray

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Think of all the dances, performances, heartaches, fights, romances, friendships, protests, naps, phone calls, meals, plans, swims, schemes, all the small and large moments that have happened in Washington Square Park since it was given back to the commons.

M. Nolan Gray

@mnolangray

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Washington Square Park, 1960 versus today. 👀

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@nicoleamurray

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good God, this is such a trope. 90 PERCENT of the emissions attributed to these cos come from end use! as in: heating your house or gasing your car!

Ryan

@NurseRyanRN

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Just a reminder that BP created and popularized the idea of individuals having a “carbon footprint” to make us forget that 100 companies are responsible for 71% of global CO2 emissions

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@nicoleamurray

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a good housing model – however you think that is accomplished – does 3 things: ✅ keeps people who want to stay in place ✅ makes space for newcomers, including children/families of current residents ✅ offers options for people who want to leave anything less is incomplete.

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@nicoleamurray

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hot take: ban single serving bottled water in nyc limits. our water is amazing. besides the fossil fuels implications, nyc is left to deal with the mountains of trash while nestle and coke reap the profits.

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@nicoleamurray

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it's really frustrating when a 2-ton vehicle flies by down a residential steet at 35mph, then an ebike trails behind at 15 and the person standing next to you on the corner says "these god damn ebikes are too fast."

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@nicoleamurray

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@Kristin4Harlem Respectfully, this isn't true. Most units are empty because they are between occupants. 12k alone are empty bc the owner is elderly/in long term care. NYC has abt 275k "inexplicably" empty apartments. 76k people don't have homes & 1.5M live in overcrowded conditions. Not enough.

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@nicoleamurray

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@PHuenermund nyc has 27 NORCs across 4 boroughs, please just ride the bus even once

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@nicoleamurray

2 years

Good evening

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@nicoleamurray

3 years

in nyc, 40% of working adults live with a roommate and 1.5 million people live in overcrowded conditions so I respectfully ask the assemblywoman why "12 floors" is the more important metric here?

Yuh-Line Niou

@yuhline

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@wmeehan620 @ArmandDoma Happy to support a plan of 12 floors or less.

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@nicoleamurray

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"When traffic takes precedence over all other functions, [the city] can no longer perform its own role: facilitating meeting and intercourse. The assumed right of the private motorcar to go any place in the city and park anywhere is nothing less than license to destroy the city."

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@nicoleamurray

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here at the combination Eric adams safe streets presser, the crosswalk is blocked and people are running red lights right behind him event