Ethan Coston

A before and after collage of a street in central London. The before is an asphalt-dominated three-lane thoroughfare. The after a lush green pedestrian zone with seating.

We shouldn’t have to escape the city for a daily dose of nature, no matter how short or small.

By challenging the privilege of the car on our streets, we create new opportunities for re-greening them; thus boosting our physical, mental, and social well-being.

Strand Aldwych, London. 2021 vs. 2025.

Motherfucking wind farms…

Duped once, shame on you.
Duped twice?

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What I wish it looked like.

Definitely racism (and classism and ableism, as all three are intimately and inextricably intertwined).

This is another aspect of the nationalization -- or in this case, internationalization -- of New York politics that's very odd. Why *would* a Canadian billionaire want to meet with a municipal mayoral candidate? Why would a municipal mayoral candidate take a meeting with a Canadian billionaire?

[quoting a tweet from isabelunraveled in which she rails against depressing books that get branded as “great writing”]

A key point in Fahrenheit 451 is that books were banned because they made people depressed and uncomfortable. The novel's protagonist, Montag, is taken into custody after he reads a poem that makes a woman cry because she realizes the emptiness of her life.

Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.

HUGE NEWS FROM HELSINKI, FINLAND

Helsinki, a city of 690 000 people, has now had a full year without any traffic fatalities. None. No pedestrian, cyclist, scooter user or car deaths.

This is a huge achievement for a city of our size. 💪🏻

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my finger is just a bloody nub at this point i've been tapping the sign so much

Problem is, not enough of y'all realized it has never once STOPPED being "eugenics summer," and when some of us tried to tell you it's woven through literally everything in Western society from our public health policies to even our basic linguistic conventions, you looked at us like we had 3 heads.

The Sears Tower looking insanely creepy during a blackout, including the impression of a scary face topped by a crown of spikes. It looks like a giant humanoid evil robot or a demonic Minecraft creature.

"It's ok, honey. The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout won't hurt you!"

The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout:

Court accepting updated list of plaintiffs/grantees impacted! MUST BE SUBMITTED BY AUGUST 1st 5pm EST! Please disseminate!!!

Message from ACLU team below:

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Want to get back at that prof who gave you an A- on an exam? Or maybe you don't think people of color or women should be professors?

Make up a story about antisemitism, plop it into an anonymous student evaluation, and watch as your prof's life is upturned faster than you can spell "fascism."

YIKES. This is bad. This video is being used as “training” for law enforcement, which shows an officer having the *exact opposite* of a fentanyl overdose after finding a dollar bill on a suspect, & *asking for Narcan* multiple times. “Field testing” 🙄aside, most currency would test positive for fent

My head is *spinning* from the Teen Mania doc. Both as a former Christian rock loving, mission trip taking, raised in the church kid, and as an adult who is very much concerned with the centralization and normalization of Christian Nationalism.

Spinning.

You know, if enough of us say on the internet that it's important to wash your cybertruck with saltwater and lemon juice to preserve the finish, eventually ChatGPT will start telling cybertruck owners that.

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Truly, it’s the racism.

Also, relatedly: real punks wear masks to protect themselves and their community. All other punks are posers.

One of the many reasons I am never embarrassed to tell people my favorite genre of music always has been and always will be punk.

reminder reminder reminder:

this technology is not smart enough to do your job. but your boss is dumb enough to think it can.

any other framing is overly credulous and missing the point

Substack has a Nazi problem. If you're starting a newsletter in 2025, you have other options and you absolutely should take them for moral and ethical reasons, imo. I'm on @buttondown.com and it's pretty great!

Apparently the UK adult verification thing has basically banned blind people from half of the internet because they can't use the verification system 🫣

Does ChatGPT store chat logs, even after you've deleted them?

Short answer: Yes.

Maybe it's irresponsible to leave critical systems to tech companies?

(Cc @faineg.bsky.social in case you hadn't seen this one.)

Project 2025 is gutting medical funding that helped Russell Vought's own kid Its architect's daughter has cystic fibrosis—and benefits from a "miracle drug" backed by an agency he's attacking.

Also worth mentioning that Russell Vought’s ex-wife credits their daughter’s life to a medicine developed through NIH funding, which they wouldn’t have even been able to afford without NIH funded research trials. This should come up in every conversation with him. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

They heroically punched back by *squints* calling him gay for 20 minutes.

A statement about how people will admire others’ emotional intelligence until it disrupts their own way of life.

This might resonate to those advocating for airborne protections, climate change interventions, etc: