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The Connor Haynes

@theconnorhaynes.bsky.social

Urbanist, video game developer, guitarist

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If it's all 3 games for 60 bucks then it's an insane value and you can't go wrong

16.10.2025 12:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The old games are fun but also little harder to get into. Id recommend starting with hitman 2016 (first of the world of assassination trilogy)

16.10.2025 12:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I want to know if the President of the United States is a pedophile. And I know the American people do too.

I'm shocked that Republicans would rather shut down Congress than stand up to a dead pedophile.

So why not release the files?

25.07.2025 02:33 β€” πŸ‘ 23764    πŸ” 4318    πŸ’¬ 1351    πŸ“Œ 219
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PPS: Nearly 11,000 drivers cited for illegally passing school buses in Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Public Schools reports that nearly 11,000 drivers citywide were recorded and cited for illegally passing school buses during the past school year, with 1,025 of those violations occurring o...

1 year. 11,000 tickets. Horrifying.

Pittsburghers, do better.

www.wtae.com/article/driv...

22.07.2025 18:29 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I mostly agree with this, but in the US we abandoned common sense cooling features like awnings when AC became popular because "they make you look poor." I am pro AC but also pro naturally cool design so we need less AC

11.07.2025 13:19 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Congress Gives ICE More Money Than It Could Have Ever Imagined It’s impossible to overstate how much power ICE just got from Trump’s budget.

Republicans just took away your healthcare so they can fund their secret police: newrepublic.com/post/197612/...

07.07.2025 13:28 β€” πŸ‘ 11050    πŸ” 4008    πŸ’¬ 412    πŸ“Œ 215

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

03.07.2025 18:58 β€” πŸ‘ 97771    πŸ” 38038    πŸ’¬ 4489    πŸ“Œ 2677
Orange graphic with images of Dave McCormick, and PA’s GOP Congressional delegation with text that reads β€œOne big bullshit bill- hurt 400,000 Pennsylvanians’ access to SNAP, shut down senior care centers across PA, cut 1 in 4 Pennsylvanians from medicaid, shutter access to care for kids and pregnant women, cost PA 49,000 jobs.”

Orange graphic with images of Dave McCormick, and PA’s GOP Congressional delegation with text that reads β€œOne big bullshit bill- hurt 400,000 Pennsylvanians’ access to SNAP, shut down senior care centers across PA, cut 1 in 4 Pennsylvanians from medicaid, shutter access to care for kids and pregnant women, cost PA 49,000 jobs.”

Dave McCormick just cast the deciding vote for this BS bill that raises costs of health care, food and utilities, and leaves Pennsylvanians to die.

The bill now goes to the House where PA’s GOP delegation will decide its fate. Call and let them know how you feel at 202-224-3121.

01.07.2025 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 102    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 6

People like when you unapologetically stand for something, specifically the working class.

This shouldn't be seen as some super lefty position, and we shouldn't need a poll to tell us it either.

16.06.2025 18:58 β€” πŸ‘ 3126    πŸ” 517    πŸ’¬ 87    πŸ“Œ 12

Brocasts aren’t republican. They are for young guys. If you want to connect you have to speak to them.

If you want to lose by 248k votes in 7 swing states, ignore them

20.05.2025 01:08 β€” πŸ‘ 4234    πŸ” 530    πŸ’¬ 465    πŸ“Œ 64

Thank you!

16.05.2025 13:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Do you have a source for this quote?

16.05.2025 12:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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So many people have grown up to be the villains of our stories.

08.05.2025 12:50 β€” πŸ‘ 49255    πŸ” 10987    πŸ’¬ 446    πŸ“Œ 304

Reminder, if you don’t have REAL ID you have to bike, walk, or take public transportation everywhere now.

07.05.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 331    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 2
Mario holding a white clawnand leaning against his car

Mario holding a white clawnand leaning against his car

Me on June 5

03.04.2025 01:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If only the pros outweighed the cons.

29.03.2025 14:35 β€” πŸ‘ 254    πŸ” 66    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 4

What’s the opposite of nation-building?

26.03.2025 21:42 β€” πŸ‘ 210    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 2
Toronto shopping street

Toronto shopping street

Half of business owners on this Toronto street estimated that more than 25% of their customers arrived by car.

In fact, it was 4%.

And the % of customers who who walked or cycled? 72%.

Retailers routinely overestimate the # of β€œcar customers.” Via @carltonreid.com www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

25.03.2025 05:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1908    πŸ” 615    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 65
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Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Finds Bank Analysis City of Madrid significantly boosted the takings of its shops and restaurants last Christmas by banning cars from the CBD, finds an analysis by Spain's second largest bank.

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business β€” closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.

There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.

Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

23.03.2025 06:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2586    πŸ” 923    πŸ’¬ 37    πŸ“Œ 58

Here’s the thing, American friends.

We know it’s Trump, Musk & Project 2025 that are attacking Canada economically right now, not the United States as a whole.

We get that.

So it’s not all of you, or your anthem, that we’re booing at hockey & basketball games.

We get he’s hurting you too.

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03.02.2025 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 883    πŸ” 132    πŸ’¬ 37    πŸ“Œ 13

Pittsburgh is for everyone...as long as you lived here for an indeterminate amount of time.

28.12.2024 03:30 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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'please limit apartments to the dangerous roads'

if the city continues to prioritize the demands of privileged homeowners at the expense of everyone else, our housing crisis will only get worse.

26.12.2024 22:56 β€” πŸ‘ 358    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 8

β€œAnything but sunny and 70Β°F (21Β°C), people are going to want to take a car.”

Oh boy. Here’s a packed cafe that almost everyone walked to at 21Β°F (-6Β°C).

In walkable neighbourhoods, this is just normal. You don’t think about it.

26.12.2024 21:32 β€” πŸ‘ 233    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 2
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β€œDense walkable environments are far outperforming low density suburban sprawl… Municipalities perform far better when they invest in mixed use, walkable development patterns rather than low density development patterns.”
πŸ“Š Urban3

Watch β€œThe Inherent Value Of Density” youtu.be/SmQomKCfYZY

24.12.2024 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 55    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1

β€œIt's amazing how pollution has dropped in #Paris in 15 years. @annehidalgo.bsky.social has filled the city with bike-lanes & not only has she reduced pollution by 40% but she’s also been re-elected.”

Trading car space for green space, bike space, kid space…trading pollution for people. Good trade.

18.12.2024 19:49 β€” πŸ‘ 3262    πŸ” 1121    πŸ’¬ 47    πŸ“Œ 76

Buttigieg is right, but what has USDOT accomplished re: road safety under his watch?

πŸ”Ή State DOTs still choose speed > safety
πŸ”Ή NHTSA still wasting $ on useless road safety PSAs
πŸ”Ή No major steps on car bloat
πŸ”Ή Tesla still misleading ppl on β€œFull-Self Driving”

17.12.2024 00:02 β€” πŸ‘ 174    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0

Pittsburgh and it's not even close

13.12.2024 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pennsylvania Shifted Cash From Highways to Transit – But Other States Could Go Even Further β€” Streetsblog USA "If your governor says they don't have money for transit, they are lying," said one advocate.

"If your governor says they don't have money for transit, they are lying," said one advocate. usa.streetsblog.org/2024/11/27/p...

27.11.2024 16:42 β€” πŸ‘ 73    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

I've seen some conversation about how we should support policies that subsidize electric cars. While they offer benefits over gasoline cars, it's a marginal change. We need to see order of magnitude changes in how our transportation system works in order to limit pollution and emission!

23.11.2024 15:21 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Drivers are among the biggest beneficiaries of transit that's good enough to deter significant numbers of people from driving and clogging up the roads ... even if it's hard to see such clear logic when you're staring through a windshield.

22.11.2024 18:40 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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