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paddy frank
@pat-lafleur.bsky.social
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propagandist 📍 OH-KY-IN
transportation/environment writer
former corporate media cog
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Among a handful of route eliminations and updates, maybe most notable... The Southbank Shuttle has stopped service to Fountain Square (it will now only run along 2nd/3rd streets while crossing between Newport and Covington).

(image via TANK)
A blue, yellow and white old-fashioned trolley-style bus sits at a downtown Cincinnati curb in front of a street-side tree and a building fascia of all-glass windows. Text on the side of the bus reads: "Southbank Shuttle; www.tankbus.org; Bellevue-Cincinnati-Covington-Newport."
March 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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🪡 Meant to post about this last week but life got in the way... TANK bus 🚌 service in Northern Kentucky and downtown Cincinnati implemented route changes AND a planned fare increase over the weekend. Here are details:
March 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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This is the perfect time to have a deranged, ketamine-fueled automaker gutting federal regulatory agencies…
March 23, 2025 at 10:48 AM
pat-lafleur.bsky.social
spotted a fresh canvas at the Fifth and Scott parking garage in Covington
March 4, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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👎👎👎BOO👎👎👎

(ask me how I feel about this)
February 24, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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I'm simply overwhelmed by the volume of things to unpack in this photo...

(📸 Eric Lee/NYT)
Elon Musk stands in front of a window in the Oval Office with his hands steepled in front of his body. He's wearing a black MAGA ball cap and a black overcoat over a t-shirt. His young son stands in front of him, wearing a khaki peacoat over a sweater and collared shirt. He's staring intently at Pres. Donald Trump, who sits at his desk looking over his shoulder behind him at Musk, who is looking out of frame toward reporters. Trump has his hands crossed on the desk and appears to be listening to Musk. An American flag stands with the Oval Office's signature gold curtains hanging behind Trump's (viewer-right) shoulder.
February 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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b/c hundreds of billions of dollars isn’t enough, #Bezos will hijack your local bus stop, too, if it’ll get ‘im even more.
January 31, 2025 at 10:37 PM
pat-lafleur.bsky.social
It’s easier to hide behind 40 atrocities than a single incident.
Screenshot from the TV series "Andor": Andor, a person with shaggy hair and a scruffy beard is shown from the chest up with head turned to the viewer's right. There is a treeline in the background while the man looks intently at another person with their back to the camera, as if in conversation. The subtitle reads: "The pace of repression outstrips our ability to understand it.
January 30, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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It took nearly half a century, but the feds are finally considering pedestrians part of a motor vehicle’s safety equation, starting in 2026.
January 28, 2025 at 10:33 PM
pat-lafleur.bsky.social
Mainstrasse — specifically its eponymous corridor, home to 1000s of people and dozens of small businesses — endure a particular kind of hell any time the Brent Spence Bridge lower (northbound into Cincinnati) deck closes.

Moments like these aren’t inevitabilities of life. They are policy choices.
January 27, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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I joined that other site 15 years ago this year. Used it professionally, had a blue check before those could just be bought. Etc.

I know I’ve got data in there.

This is the report I get as a non-premium member. Did I do something wrong, or is this just musk residue? #twitter
January 27, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Remember, friends: When presented the choice, a capitalist will pick profit over people. Any other choice the system will reject.
January 25, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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I see you, @cincinnatimetro.bsky.social, and your on-board digital signs. Before I left, I was on the team planning their installation (still very early stages then); nice to see them up and running.
Interior shot of a Cincinnati Metro bus, showing about a half-dozen passenger scattered across the front half of the bus. Above in the high foreground and in the background are two digital display screens showing next-stop and other scrolling rider information. The text on the screens is branded with Metro's blue, cyan, green, orange and red-orange colors and starburst logo.
January 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
pat-lafleur.bsky.social
will someone get #tiktok a mint to rinse out that boot flavor?
Screenshot of dialogue box on TikTok iOS app, showing the blue and pink TikTok music note logo over a black background and white text reading: “Welcome back! Thanks for your patience and support. As a result of President Trump's efforts, TikTok is back in the U.S.! You can continue to create, share, and discover all the things you love on TikTok."
January 19, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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#cardependency
an edited stock image of a person holding a paint brush, squatting painted into a corner; other images are pasted over the painted floor, depicting cars sitting in standstill highway traffic, an aerial of a large interstate interchange, a person cycling past a “sharrow,” sharing a lane with auto traffic, a paved sidewalk that abruptly ends into grass, and two plastic patio chairs sitting empty under a bus stop on an unpaved shoulder; an image of an ev charging station is pasted over an open can of red paint sitting on the floor next to the person squatting in the corner; a tesla cybertruck is pasted over the paintbrush in the person’s hand.
January 19, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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(cont’d)
December 5, 2024 at 4:56 AM
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some silly editing fun, as a holiday snack 🍭

📍Fountain Square (39.1011705, -84.5128360)
🗓️ 17:41, 2024-12-4
📸 iPhone 14 Pro UW 13mm #iphonephotography #iphonography #cincy #cincygram
December 5, 2024 at 4:56 AM
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Cake icing is that it’s an official U.S. Government vehicle, to boot…
Closeup of the truck’s U.S. Government license plate, no. J133926, reading “For Official Use Only.”
December 3, 2024 at 10:06 PM
pat-lafleur.bsky.social
When people talk about “#carbrain ,” this is it.
A black pickup truck sits in the crosswalk at the intersection of Fifth and Walnut streets in downtown Cincinnati. Pedestrians are seen walking behind the truck, outside the marked crossing.
December 3, 2024 at 10:06 PM
pat-lafleur.bsky.social
👋 Hi, @bsky.app folks, I’m Pat, a writer, editor & media pro based in OH-KY-IN, finally jumping from that other site.

If you’re into journalism, digital media, equity, social justice, accessibility, fighting capitalimperialism, and/or finding alternatives to cars, let’s be Bluesky buds.
Photo shows Pat LaFleur in a button-down shirt and wearing a backpack and helmet on a bicycle on a city street in front of a Cincinnati Metro bus. Industrial buildings are in the background.
November 23, 2024 at 8:05 PM