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Marven 🇺🇲🇹🇹🇧🇸 🇬🇾🇵🇸🇹🇼🇺🇦
@menorman.bsky.social
Many interests, few labels. Nothing I'm posting here is on behalf of any groups or organizations I might be affiliated with. 🚲🛹🚅🚂🏗️🥑🔋
Feel free to browse my wish list & surprise me: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2KEZIT91RWODS
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Do we have friends in #Indiana who have room for some very well cared-for cats in search of forever homes?

#Caturday #BookstoreCats #SignalBoost #CatLovers #ForeverHomes
Central Indiana, cats looking for good homes.
November 24, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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For folks who are curious, this is a good guide to biking etiquette around horses.
November 24, 2025 at 2:02 AM
the new study which is reviewed in this article (road.cc/content/news...) is surely going to get a bunch of bad-faith reads from ppl who oppose bike infra, but the reality is that a good grid of low-stress bikeways is a prerequisite for most to start biking, but they still need a nudge to get going.
Improving cycle infrastructure and public transport has little impact on car use, new review finds
These non-coercive measures need to be combined with measures such as higher driving costs or reduced car access to have an effect
road.cc
November 24, 2025 at 8:53 AM
is moldovan considered a romance language?
November 24, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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if neglect pattern continues i can only assume we will be homeless.

landlord can evict for any utility shut offs.

home is unkempt & inspection is next month.

Please advocate. post my links and graphics. Show people you care?

9 days to make $1133 rent
sponsor a bill in my ko-fi(.)com/memwho/tiers
November 22, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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💡 Tired of cloud-dependent AI for research?

Learn to use (mostly) local, tailored AI with #Zotero & #Obsidian! Explore your literature, notes and thoughts in a privacy-respecting way. Bring your own LLM's 🤓

Full explanation: www.thomasclaeys.be/evergreen/ai...

#AcademicSky #highered #tinkering
November 22, 2025 at 6:37 PM
...michael jordan?
Congratulations to Michael I. Jordan, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at #UCBerkeley and Honorary Professor at #PekingUniversity, on being elected as a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences!

#CAS #Academician #AcademicSky @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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#AcademicSky #PrejudiceResearch #Sexism

Leave me alone for a few days.

Busy with the latest by #LauraBates
November 22, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Came across this fun term, and had to share

Multidisciplinary dilenttantism: put together two fields about which you know little and get the worst of both worlds

#AcademicSky
November 23, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Inclusive sizing for cargo bikes:

The Super Mighty Jr.

A small production run of a children's cargo balance bike from Super Bicycles, which is based in Germany.

🚲📦

super-bicycles.com

#SuperMightyJr
#CargoBikeForKids
#PushBike
#SuperBicycles
#KidsIndependence
#ToddlerActivities
#BalanceBike
November 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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"We don’t have a housing crisis. We have an affordability crisis. They will want $4000 for a studio or small one bedroom. We have plenty of housing in the Bay Area"

Gary. Your screenshot shows 28,768 available apartments. The Bay Area has 7,765,640 people. That ratio is why housing is unaffordable!
November 22, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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The Nazis blaming Jews for the housing crisis in 1930’s Germany and JD Vance blaming immigrants for the housing crisis in 2025 USA
a woman says it 's the same propaganda in front of a window
Alt: Gif of Pam from the office, but instead of saying, it’s the same picture she saying it’s the same propaganda
media.tenor.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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I think this is mostly San Francisco finally shrugging off the pandemic, but it is *really* funny that rent prices in San Francisco shot up *immediately* after the city banned RealPage and other algorithmic price setting software.

My pre trends are incredible!
November 22, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Well, sure. Why have compassion for others? That's a sucker's bet.
Wyandotte County bans homeless people from sleeping outside, despite public outcry
A revised version of the public camping ban — which includes lesser penalties for first time offenses — passed Thursday night. Kansas City, Kansas Police called the measure “dignified” but opponents w...
www.kcur.org
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
what happens when the guy decides to start endorsing more mamdanis bc he likes to congregate around winners & realizes their policy proposals result in more wins for the public than the gop proposals?
November 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
baby steps are baby steps but that is not good intersection design & it also looks fairly narrow, esp to have vertical curbs like that
Market Street in Philadelphia has some gorgeous new raised bike lanes. Love it!
November 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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1/8
We track the right wing outrage machine to expose how fear programming spreads and how these narratives shape people’s beliefs before they know they’re being influenced. Understanding the playbook is the first step in defeating it. #Voices4Victory #DV1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue 11/21/25AM
November 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
👀🤔🤯
💡 "𝙼𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚎"

Hamburg-based cargo bike designer Sahabi Arouna refused to compromise. His challenge: full function AND easy storage.

His solution? The FOLD rides like a normal cargo bike.

“𝘈 𝘣𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩.”

👇
November 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Cargo bikes at Kagnew Station, Asmara, Eritrea, sometime between 1960-62 from my dad’s collection of slides. Looks like they have the US Army Corps of Engineers logo on them. This is a photo of the screen; we really need to get a scanner.
November 22, 2025 at 5:23 AM
something something equality feels like oppression something something
We are not asking for bicycle dominance or even for a complete end to car dominance.

We are just asking for a slight diminishing of total car dominance in favor of having a choice.

People who want to walk, ride bikes, or take public transit should be able to.

It would benefit everyone!
November 22, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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The Protector bicycle shipping crate
Manufactured by Ellison & Freckleton, NYC

Bicycle: Waltham Pneumatic Safety

ca. 1890s
November 22, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Republicans want to lock up people without due process because they don't like to see unhoused people. Instead of putting money into housing & mental health treatment, GOP gutted funding of SAMHSA (Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration). Deplorable. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
www.congress.gov
November 22, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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“We need to cut red tape to build more housing units — SFH, condos, apartments; whatever we can get,” says housing advocate to real estate developer.

“😍💰😍!” replies real estate developer. “I love this guy!”

”But how and why did they get along?!” asks beleaguered internet.

This is not hard, folks.
November 22, 2025 at 5:24 AM