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Beck W

@loudtristero.bsky.social

bike and ped advocate. mechanical engineer, getting my PhD at NCSU.

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11.08.2025 17:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 162    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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A SPECIAL BUCKAROO MESSAGE. lucky day is out AUGUST 12TH @torbooks.bsky.social us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

11.08.2025 17:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 321    ๐Ÿ” 86    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 12

Shout out to the smut paddlers who spoke to me about their lives and livelihoods. I was overwhelmed by all y'alls responses and touched by our conversations.
Go buy some porn

09.08.2025 13:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 889    ๐Ÿ” 323    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

ahhh! somebody warn those poor officers! there's a woman in purple tights chasing them! it's so dangerous!

๐Ÿ™„

11.08.2025 15:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

we were watching It's a Mad (etc) World for the first time and after the car crash at the beginning someone says "these things happen" to which Ethel Merman's character blows up: "these things happen?? these things only happen because when they do, people say, 'these things happen!'"

NUMTOT queen

11.08.2025 12:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

this is a great perspective for so much of modern life! "that's just the way things are" ok but have you thought about *why* that's the way things are?

11.08.2025 12:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

i was trying to figure out why Ms Trunchbull, in the new Matilda, sings "find the bally line and toe it!"

I thought the "bally line" was like, a technical term used in the hammer toss or something. but I learned that it's just a British slang euphemism for "bloody"! learning is fun

11.08.2025 02:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

why is every character in the Alien Earth trailer extremely Yaphet Kotto- and Rutger Hauer-coded

11.08.2025 02:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

it already works and exists in bike-shares and scooter-shares. like, what is this fantasy land this person lives in lol. wait until they find out that you need a *government issued ID* to operate a car in this country ๐Ÿ˜ฑ

11.08.2025 00:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Mumford also foresaw a future of autonomous vehicles, warning that โ€œthe end product is an encapsulated life.โ€

10.08.2025 16:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 47    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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As Mumford realized (in 1962!), itโ€™s an illusion that cars provide freedom.

10.08.2025 16:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 90    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I just finished Lewis Mumfordโ€™s magisterial exploration of city life.

Published in 1962, it has some of the sharpest takedowns of car-centric society Iโ€™ve ever read.

Mumford: โ€œWe have sold our urban birthright for a sorry mess of motor cars. As poor a bargain as Esauโ€™s pottage.โ€

Choice bits ๐Ÿงต

10.08.2025 16:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 734    ๐Ÿ” 168    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 21    ๐Ÿ“Œ 21
A man with a spectacular 1970s mullet, wearing big wellies and a v-neck jumper over a T-shirt, looks at camera as he stands on a boat which is itself standing on the muddy bottom of an empty canal. He is holding up an enormous wooden plug on a long chunky chain

A man with a spectacular 1970s mullet, wearing big wellies and a v-neck jumper over a T-shirt, looks at camera as he stands on a boat which is itself standing on the muddy bottom of an empty canal. He is holding up an enormous wooden plug on a long chunky chain

Today is the 47th anniversary of this clearly unimprovable photo, from a story so absurd that it shouldnโ€™t be true, but is: the day a team of workers from British Waterways pulled the plug out of the Chesterfield Canal, and all the water emptied out

10.08.2025 10:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2126    ๐Ÿ” 788    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 57    ๐Ÿ“Œ 145
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This was my Tuesday morning traveling to City Hall in support of transportation funding. #savesepta

09.08.2025 14:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 158    ๐Ÿ” 17    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

oh my god this didn't even happen in the end! like they weren't even cheaply killing women to toy with us, they were just cheaply killing women because they didn't know what they were doing!

#horrorwatch

10.08.2025 02:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

my wife often falls asleep during #horrorwatch but she stayed up for this one! sort of a "can't look away" vibe to this. hey, that's exactly what exploitation flicks want to do!

10.08.2025 02:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

this is making me laugh so fucking much

#horrorwatch

10.08.2025 02:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

wow. what an ending. I can't believe munkar exploded. that was so nuts.

#horrorwatch

10.08.2025 02:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

holy shit that has to be what happened, there was no reason for that subterfuge scene lololol

#horrorwatch

10.08.2025 02:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

did they forget to hire a fight choreographer for this fighting movie

#horrorwatch

10.08.2025 02:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

holy shit the second guy WAS EVIL TOO! I mean worse than useless!

#horrorwatch

10.08.2025 02:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

is Deathstalker gonna rape this guy too

#horrorwatch

10.08.2025 02:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

ok I thought saluriman was gonna legit die then he's in the harem?? hang on low key saluriman is Deathstalker's best ally.

#horrorwatch

10.08.2025 02:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

that quote from early is fucking with me so bad

"choose your allies well!"

I'm like oh man his cool friends are totally gonna come in at the end and save him!

but then. they both just suck so much and one of em died.

#horrorwatch

10.08.2025 02:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I haven't seen Conan so I don't know how badly this is ripping that off, but it's like 80% just star wars, visually.

#horrorwatch

10.08.2025 01:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

aaaand then it's back to just constant sexual assault

#horrorwatch

10.08.2025 01:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

amazing sex scene. you just don't get that kind of action in blockbusters these days.

#horrorwatch

10.08.2025 01:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

holy shit I love this new guy's slutty little armor

#horrorwatch

10.08.2025 01:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

we have yet to see a woman on screen who isn't actively being menaced lol

this feels so much like a high school play lol

#horrorwatch

10.08.2025 01:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Nintendo, I'm onto you!! ๐Ÿ˜‚

#horrorwatch

10.08.2025 01:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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