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Did you know the Seattle Parks Department permanently opened Arboretum Drive East to people 🚶🏻♀️🧑🏾🦽🚶🏻👨🏼🦯🚴🏿 and closed it to through 🚗 traffic in 2009? It was controversial at the time, but today no one is clamoring for through traffic to return. Park streets for park uses. – at Seattle, WA
ALT People walking with beautiful trees
ALT People walking in street
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Everything, Everywhere, All On One Plot
ALT Plot of objects with different mass and radius, going from subatomic particles up through living things up through stars and black holes.
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Maximum size of a PDF, version 7: 381 km × 381 km.
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Tomorrow, I start a journey across the Great Smoky Mountains, ending with a celebration of #OurCommonNature in Knoxville. Here’s "Appalachia Waltz" with Edgar Meyer, performed in the Smokies last year. ourcommonnature.org
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@bigearsfestival @OurCommonNature @GreatSmokyNPS
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The economic toll from collisions over the last ten years in Seattle is $1,785,000,000💸💸💸! If we spent just a fraction of that on PREVENTION, we could create a safe, healthy, sustainable, welcoming, vibrant, and affordable city. #VisionZero
Source: seattlecollisions.timganter.…
ALT table showing cost of collisions
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Asked ChatGPT to generate a fake season for the Met, but the fact that they're all male composers is very, very real.
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Peter Bastian (1943-2017) was a genius-type person who has devoted his life to music. Here's him playing a regular drinking straw like a medieval flute, proving that music can be found everywhere
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We have two copies available for any billionaires in need today.
ALT A screenshot of the Library catalog entry for "Twitter for Dummies" by Laura Fitton.
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My most controversial take: the invention of the dishwasher has done more to improve our collective quality of life than the Internet.
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One of my biggest pet peeves: When old historic maps overlap with modern political maps.
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me: I’m gonna learn a new instrument. What do you know about the piccolo?
Friend: very little
me: besides that
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This is incredibly interesting to me and probably at least twelve other nerds
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When mistakes are not penalized, we’re more likely to keep trying.
And if we keep trying, we have more chances of eventually succeeding. – at Miami, FL
