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fyi

Bollards save lives. End of story.
#WorldBollardAssociation

Cambridge City Council voted to pilot the full pedestrianization of a section of Brattle Street in Harvard Square.

Noteworthy is the decision to forgo a $300,000+ study stating; "bringing in an outside group to tell us what we already know is not the best use of tax dollars."

my biggest nightmare is that I won’t be looking at my phone when It Happens

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star)

Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

Zohran just went out and fixed the Williamsburg Bridge bike entrance. Just did it. No faffing, no nonsense. Bam. Fixed.

The specific error I'm getting when sending, regardless of Messages version, is "Tachygram Transport has failed to send the message" with chat_api_status=4. I'm wondering if @developers.google.com recently pushed an update to their RCS backend?

AT&T! I'm seeing 5-6 similar messages in the megathread on the forum and on the Reddit. For what it's worth, I had RCS working on an old (2024) version of Messages.

Any other folks experiencing RCS issues as of a day ago or so with @grapheneos.org? Google Messages shows RCS as "Connected" but every attempt to send a message results in a "not sent". RCS was working for me until this past week

A man pointing a knife at another man who has his hands up trying to protect himself. On the man with knife are the Google app icons and the text "DOWNLOAD US!" on the man protecting himself it says "But I want to use secure, open source apps instead."

🚨 Google wants to kill Android freedom: Starting 2027, unverified apps can’t be DOWNLOADED.

➡️ No installation of independent apps

➡️ Destroys alternative playstores like F-Droid

➡️ Google decides what runs on YOUR phone

Help us fight this plan! ✊

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As CEO of Mott’s Applesauce I really have to question your mental state if Applesauce isn’t on your plate, in your toilet, in the bedroom, really everywhere that Applesauce could help

NJ Senate Advances Bill Mandating Live Fraud Help for Social Media Sites New Jersey bill mandates 24/7 toll-free support on Facebook, X & Reddit for reporting social media fraud. Protect your money—click to learn how this law helps you.

A bill advanced by NJ State Senator Andrew Zwicker - with bipartisan - support, would require social media companies to have a toll-free number that was always available to users to report potential fraud and get solutions. With a human being answering the calls. www.tapinto.net/towns/prince...

Theranos warns patients that blood tests could produce complete bullshit results: 'only take these tests if you understand the implications'

If I had Peter Thiel “I’m going to conquer dying” biotech money, my thing would be that we need to engineer a human who is fully integrated into an e-bike. Like a Mulefa with their little wheels

it's so funny that no police budget on earth has prayer of containing Philly after a Superbowl win

Josh Kraft outlined his policy proposals, and they include (1) increasing the number of deaths in the city and (2) cutting taxes for large property owners.

Wait this is just joe rogan isn't it

Parallel universe Behind the Bastards where fascist version of @iwriteok.bsky.social shills alternative medicine and does critical deep dives into defenders of human rights

A truck empties a large bin, with a small crane lifting it high in the air

Emptying a bin in the Netherlands. Having these large bins on residential streets ensures there is no "bin day", residents are free to put their rubbish out whenever they please, which leads to less litter in the street. A sensor tells the local authority when it's full, meaning fewer truck journeys

Boston is the 1st city in the country to embed net zero carbon emissions standards into our zoning code. 👏 to climate advocates & forward-looking developers supporting our greenest, healthiest future.

hello, my name is sam altman with an important transmission.

you may be familiar with my product, mega-plagiarizer 9000.

i have compelling evidence that the chinese have plagiarized the mega-plagiarizer 9000 in creating their rival mega-plagiarizer.

this is unacceptable and will teach me nothing

Would anyone build parking if it wasn’t legally mandated? I sort of think they would. So why do some people think arbitrary minimums are in the public interest?

Viaduct supports

Catenary for electrification still standing

Beautiful mountain pass

I luckily got to visit the Milwaukee Road Pacific Extension

So cool, but incredibly sad to see some of the catenary poles for electrification still standing, reminding us of what could have been

Matt Damon holds up a girl's number in Good Will Hunting

You like apples? Well this is how many times I've listened to Fetch the Boltcutters. How about Fiona Apple?

Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath · 2h Wikipedia lies. Mainstream media lies. They will contort the truth to make you believe in a bogeyman. In falling for it, you’re giving up your God given ability to think for yourself.

Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire Wikipedia has been ideologically captured for years It's important that this is finally coming to light The most extreme bias is probably against Israel Foundation AI models are being trained on this biased data as if it's ground truth

Elon Musk @elonmusk · 3h Defund Wikipedia until balance is restored!

Elon Musk @elonmusk · 3h Since legacy media propaganda is considered a “valid” source by Wikipedia, it naturally simply becomes an extension of legacy media propaganda!

having succeeded in purchasing positions of influence inside the White House, the billionaires and tech VCs have now set their sights back on Wikipedia

We couldn’t build the places we fight so hard to protect.

Made up of a mix of single-family & multi-family buildings, Salem’s historic Chestnut Street dates back to the 1800s and sits in a protected historic district. Nearly every lot substantially violates current zoning.

This is fantastic. We need all cities to do this. Don't we all want clean air and a livable planet?

these people really are the biggest piss babies on the planet

the two things I believe most strongly in this world are that public services should be wholly replaced by the private sector and that the government should intervene instantly the second I personally feel a little bit scared

One of these is the rugged, do-everything #EV of the future.
The other is eligible for climate subsidies