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“We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed.” — II Corinthians 4:8

Get your mammogram, sisters.

More coverage. The Library of Virginia says 15% of patron requests are AI hallucinations. What's worse, patrons get mad & think they're lying & hiding books! Even worse yet, these are creeping into scientific and MEDICAL studies & reports. Hmm...what could go wrong? 😵

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Holy smokes, fifteen percent already! Unless people start getting real savvy about the output of LLMs I expect that number only grows.

steam heated waiting benches! hear that, New York and DC?

Maybe just as well it hasn't happened yet; I'm not confident we would have taken full advantage of the site previously. I hope when the time does come, we go wild.

Meanwhile, in Utah our stations are concrete wastelands surrounded by parking, with the barest hint of shelter from the elements and not a vending machine or even a drinking fountain.

We've got a long way to go but I believe we can relearn how to build real stations.

Wide angle interior photo of historic Utica Station built in the Beaux Arts style. Stately marble columns hold a high, coffered, barrel-vaulted over banks of windows that flood the space with light. People are seen walking on the terrazzo-tiled floor in the foreground, and in the background, behind the columns can be seen rows of wooden benches and archways leading to different parts of the station. The whole scene is decorated with charming, simple Christmas garland here and there.

Real transit stations are great places. My brother helps maintain this one in Utica, NY.

It sees 8 daily Amtrak trains, plus Adirondack R.R. heritage trains. It has a barber shop, a restaurant, steam-heated waiting benches, office spaces, a gift shop, & hosts the weekly farmer's market year-round.

It was exactly this essay and the 'Upzoned' podcast episode discussing it that inspired my post.

I don't understand it. Their brand is strong and their approach is unique enough to differentiate them in the "market" without picking fights. It's turning me off and makes it hard to recommend them.

Strong Towns has spent (wasted?) a lot of energy this year seemingly picking fights with YIMBYs and it's alienated a lot of people.

Which is a shame, because I really like ST and think their bottom-up focus & emphasis on finance are crucial and strengthen the YIMBY coalition if they aren't at odds.

These Americans understood they were part of a bold new experiment not just for themselves and their posterity but for the benefit of all mankind.

Today's selfish "America First" crap is so fundamentally un-American.

Haha!
Do you happen to know who the artist/author is?

Image of a telegram with the text from Alli's gift message, which reads: Mother stop Merry Christmas exclamation point I love you exclamation point Ms Roberts full stop.

I assume they're also delivering your gift via Pony Express? 😂

This feels like a "tell me you don't ride transit without telling me" response from the city engineer, et al. A quarter mile is far enough to make you miss your train.

Transit needs to be adjacent to the station if we want it to function like the nice stations people enjoy elsewhere in the world.

"'People ended up in the box just for asking the guards for anything. I saw a guy who was put in it for an entire day.'

"...people were put into the box simply for alerting the guards to someone's need for medication. 'They were taken to the box and punished for trying to help me.'"

Probably this guy:

(anyone smarter than me have real answers for Ben?)

Right!?

"...there was NOTHING to suggest that taking a stand this day would do something... the biggest lesson of the boycott is that we will not know what will work—you have to take step after step"

A short 🧵 on the Montgomery bus boycott and how the myth obscures the real work and lessons we can learn.

A smiling selfie of three people in front of a horse skull mounted on a pole and decorated with holly and flowers and ribbons and draped in a white sheet under which the operator is hiding.

We found Mari Lwyd at Springville's Holiday Festival last night. My first time encountering this Welsh custom.

It sucks so bad! Everybody loves our mail-in voting system here, but Republicans hold a supermajority in the legislature and just keep getting more and more extreme every year and our governor is basically just a rubber stamp.

These losers.

They don't actually care what the public wants, they just know they've created an electoral mess for themselves in 2026. So, they'll repeal to dodge accountability, but their union-busting bill will return.

As it happens, a party willing to go scorched earth and hold Republicans and their enablers accountable for their crimes is likely also a party strong enough to accomplish real reforms and (re)build big things.

But as we've seen, we can't have the latter without the former.

this is really it — this case isn't about the legitimacy of birthright citizenship or the 14th amendment, it's about the legitimacy of the court, and any ruling that doesn't uphold the former decides the latter

Not so different from SLC, where a handful of rich, powerful a*holes convinced their buddies in the state legislature to strip the city of control over city-owned streets.

Finally putting the 'CLUNK!' back in maclunky

This is so evil.

If you're old then I am dust! 😉
Miss you too!

Nice to see High Valley Transit growing year over year

Delighted to hear these compliments to my city on yesterday's episode of @citycastsaltlake.bsky.social "...a beautiful excuse to go to Springville; *cute* town in Utah County, there's a speakeasy in Springville—lots going on in Springville!"

This one is on my to-watch list but I have to admit, I haven't yet watched it because I know it's gonna get me worked up and angry all over again.