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@moldybasil.bsky.social

Distressed of Conscience Biking, walking, and taking the bus in Providence Rhode Island | Dense housing advocate | I think about plywood boats and mushrooms he/him Ask me about systematics or plant diseases

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If we -had- kept the great cove though can you imagine the highway interchange RIDOT would have built over it 🤩 just think if the throughput

07.10.2025 19:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The dried-out subdivisions of Phoenix - High Country News A groundwater crisis halted the construction of thousands of homes and pitted affordability against environmental concerns.

The past and future of water, primarily groundwater, and housing in the Phoenix metro. I learned some new things - including that it took 39 years (!) for Arizona's 1980 groundwater law to halt any growth. Thorough reporting from Tony Davis @highcountrynews.org www.hcn.org/issues/57-10...

06.10.2025 19:52 — 👍 22    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 2

Unless I just love the taproom the way I love some of my favorite bars. 3cross in Worcester was like this they could have been pouring natty ice and I would still have drank it cause I loved the place as a 3rd space. Though I always liked their beer genuinely

07.10.2025 01:57 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

And I also value a solid seasonal beer which I can look forward to off-season, and a couple properly unique specialty beers that really really feel special to the brewery you're at.

Anything between those two ends of the spectrum I don't really have the time or money to support I guess

07.10.2025 01:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I think my criteria for beer, given that I drink much less than I used to and I can't spend as freely as I once did, has become kind of an inverse bell curve. I value beer I can take fishing or to a cookout and have more than 2 without feeling dessicated and my taste buds blown out. -->

07.10.2025 01:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Two protesters holding up a sign saying “pedestrianise the M6”

Two protesters holding up a sign saying “pedestrianise the M6”

Say hello to literally the only protesters outside Tory conference this year

06.10.2025 16:02 — 👍 615    🔁 112    💬 26    📌 30
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“Are you going to go or not” lady yells 20x after I put her a timeout for driving in the 11th Ave bike lane.

06.10.2025 21:43 — 👍 96    🔁 6    💬 7    📌 3

Chuño?

06.10.2025 23:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Federal judge rules New York lacked right to build Thruway on Seneca land A federal judge just sided with the Seneca Nation in a decades-long Thruway dispute—but what comes next?

A federal judge has sided with the Seneca Nation in a decades-long Thruway dispute with NY state. What comes next?
www.wgrz.com/article/news...

06.10.2025 21:36 — 👍 189    🔁 41    💬 5    📌 3

Not this administration I can tell you with great certainty.

We don't own the new lab and they went out of their way to do it that way, same with DEM and DHS

06.10.2025 21:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This makes me very sad because I base my beer consumption strictly on proximity, but also anyone who didn't see the industry was on the brink of a rough "right sizing" for like a decade wasn't paying attention

06.10.2025 21:33 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Harry Siegel introduced me to this great satirist. Wow!!!

Revelatory.

flaminghydra.com/hell-yes/

06.10.2025 22:04 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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The Map Center Presents: How Maps Lie Join Andrew Middleton of The Map Center in Pawtucket, RI for a fun and informative talk on how maps tell all sorts of stories. Learn how historical and contemporary maps are...

If you're in the Boston area and you want to see some cool maps and learn about why we shouldn't always trust them, join me for my library talk "How Maps Lie" this friday! newtonfreelibrary.libcal.com/event/14866807

06.10.2025 17:17 — 👍 28    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 0

AHHHHHHHHHH

02.10.2025 20:12 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

I would be inconsolable

06.10.2025 19:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

😭😭😭😭

06.10.2025 19:45 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Kingston to Worcester lol

06.10.2025 19:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Goddamn

06.10.2025 14:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Now I just gotta see if there's a network going on here in Providence

06.10.2025 14:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Uh oh I'm hyperfixated on mesh networks and radio again

06.10.2025 13:53 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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a dog in a cage that says become ungovernable on the bottom Alt: a dog in a cage that says become ungovernable on the top
06.10.2025 12:44 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This isn't true unfortunately I had to use a c*r like a week ago

But I will be illegally using the Amtrak bus to get to Worcester on Wednesday so there's that

06.10.2025 12:25 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

I think the SRTA should run it's own Providence to fall river bus on the weekends to encourage tourism so I could take it

06.10.2025 12:12 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

I Never Leave Rhode Island (by car and instead prefer to use amtrak or the mbcr)

06.10.2025 12:05 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Budget Cuts and the End of the Line — The Map Center Well, the budget cuts come for us all, in the end. For the past year I've been a contractor for Amtrak where I've been working remotely from my desk at The Map Center. I've effectively been doing two ...

In continuation of my spotless record of earnestly oversharing about my career, I offer yet another blog post: www.mapcenter.com/blog/budget-...

06.10.2025 00:55 — 👍 84    🔁 16    💬 5    📌 1
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girls night girls night

05.10.2025 22:05 — 👍 35    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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The Anti-Social Century Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.

This one of many reasons that 21st century liberalism should reorient itself around *places*, namely creating places that are actually pleasant to live in, with generous public spaces that bring people's physical bodies into proximity.

05.10.2025 19:57 — 👍 355    🔁 58    💬 7    📌 9

Yikes not happy for the zone to cool down quite so much

06.10.2025 00:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Big Nazzo, the heroes we both need and deserve

06.10.2025 00:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Interesting

05.10.2025 23:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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