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A web browser with the Equity Alliance's voter guide open. The voting guide takes up less than 1/8 of my screen.
A tortise shell cat sits on the sill of an open window.
A screenshot of The Caped Crusader. Batman is looking at a backward map of St. Louis, which is Gotham.
A screenshot from the map selector of Subway Builder. Nashville is highlighted. An info box: "Nashville, 0.9M Very Hard, Bring rapid transit to booming honky-tonks of Music City."
Book cover showing the construction of the St. Louis Arch. THE BROKEN HEART OF AMERICA ST. LOUIS and the VIOLENT HISTORY of the UNITED STATES WALTER JOHNSON
A screenshot of a hand drawn map of St. Louis from 1895.
Screenshot of satellite map of Minnesota Ave and Pestalozzi St in St.louis. Pestalozzi becomes super wide at the intersection
A Toronto barrier with the tip broken off
A Bench For All art bench. On the seat is a map of Nashville, on the back a couple of benches.
A beautiful man with a curly mullet, a mustache, and a septum piercing. Big Brother cast member Barrett Pfeiffer, 27 Hometown: Benton, Arkansas Current city: Austin, Texas Occupation: Jumbotron engineer
John Siegenthaler pedestrian bridge with a sign that reads “ATTENTION BRIDGE WILL BE CLEARED & CLOSED AT 8 PM”
Illustration of the hit points on a pedestrian on a SUV and Sedan: “Size does matter SUV front ends are taller, so they strike pedestrians higher on their bodies. That means they are more likely to kill a pedestrian than a car that would 🪧 a person's leg.”
YOUR CLOSEST MATCH: Greta Thunberg Swedish environmental activist
The waiting room with a couple people in it
Carlton H Petway, Sr Waiting Room
Screenshot of abencheveryone • instagram account: •.. BENCHES ARE BACK IN BENCH JAIL FOR MONTHS, WE HAVE ATTEMPTED TO WORK WITH NDOT IN GOOD FAITH. WE TRIED THE TACTICAL URBANISM PERMITTING PROCESS AS THE LAYERS OF BUREAUCRACY INCREASED. WE RESPONDED TO MAINTENANCE REQUESTS EXPEDITIOUSLY AND THE TIME TO DO SO HAS ONLY BECOME INCREASINGLY STRINGENT. RECENTLY, NOT HAS DEMANDED WE ADDRESS ISSUES SAME DAY. NOW, THEY HAVE ASKED US TO REMOVE BENCHES WITH NO MAINTENANCE REQUESTS, GRAFFITI OR PLACEMENT ISSUES. WE REFUSED TO MOVE THESE BENCHES. NOT TOOK THEM.
A planter area that used to have a bench on Church st.
A hardback copy of The Veiled Prophet by Devin Thomas O’Shea
Instagram photo: Tennessee State Representative Justin Jones standing next to Illinois Governor Pritzker. Jones appears to be 6” taller than Pritzker.
A fountain in front of a mountain somewhere in New Mexico
Screenshot from article: Tennessee Representative Michele Reneau told Local 3 News that this is needed to protect Tennesseans on the roads. "This is just an important step in tightening the noose around this illegal immigration issue,' " said Reneau. "It's really important for the safety of Tennesseans to be able to make it as difficult as possible, and hopefully that discouragement by not being able to get that license will discourage them from driving."
DAILY FACEOFF Last Saturday, PWHL Detroit signed forward Britta Curl-Salemme to a three- year contract. She was the team's fourth signing of Phase 2 after Dary! Watts, Hanna Bilka and Cayla Barnes. While the former Minnesota Frost winger and U.S. National Team member is one of the more talented players in the game, the baggage she carries hangs over her like a dark cloud. From her morals to her criticized on-ice play, Curl-Salemme has become one of the most polarizing figures in hockey.
Place lovability test. 1. Cafe/Restaurants 2. Shade & Sun from https://youtu.be/4gkmQf7B3qY?si=xHa-LLNjI_kGiAV-
Maneuverability and Versatility Box trucks are known for their maneuverability and versatility, making them well-suited for navigating urban environments and making frequent stops for deliveries. Semi-trucks, while less maneuverable in tight spaces, excel in long-haul transportation and are capable of carrying a wide variety of cargo types.
Photo of two books Bicycle/Race by Adonia E Lugo, PhD and Street Fight by Janette Sadik - Khan.
Photo of Bicycle/Race by Adonia Lugo PhD: “Forget funding bike lanes, what we needed were bike crews at every high school; co-ops at every community center; stipends for the old guys who repaired bikes for kids in their neighborhoods. We needed to pay poor people for using bicycles and being a part of the growing network through which more sustainable transportation cultures could flow. What more direct action could there be to disrupt the usual devaluation of people who used bikes to survive?”
Clip from Tennessean article in the slow bar: “For three years, Slow Bar was the spot. With only Margot and Red Door East open for business, the beer-only Slow Bar was the first to solidify a music scene in East Nashville. Grimes is the first to admit that he was new to the bar business. That, combined with other unforeseeable bad scenarios, led to the demise of Slow Bar in 2003. The good news is that Grimes fell in love with booking bands.”
The Bell Centre in Montreal surrounded by Montreal
Lenovo Center arena in Raleigh surrounded by parking and nothing else
A bench with metal legs and wooden slats for the seat and back.
NASHVILLE BUSINESS JOURNAL The bridge is envisioned to be part of the maximum $175 million of public infrastructure Oracle pledged to build as part of a 2021 incentives deal approved under Mayor John Cooper that helped cement the company's recruitment to Nashville. Other potential infrastructure includes public park space, new paved Greenway paths, environmental site cleanup and a sewer pump station. Under that deal, Oracle would finance that amount of work up-front. Each year, the company would recoup some of that money by only paying half of the new property taxes generated by development of the currently-vacant industrial land.
"Those benches are a vestige of what Korean Veterans Boulevard could have been and what we hope a future East Bank Boulevard will be," Kupin tells the Scene. "Early in my term, I advocated for these benches to be moved where they would be more useful and used by everybody. KVB is a cut-through — let's elevate places like Walk of Fame Park and downtown greenways where we can placemake proactively."
Telephone pole with phone/fiberwires dangling on the sidewalk
Screenshot of STL magazine article: “Mayor Cara Spencer, herself an avid cyclist, says that the specific bumpouts that were removed were causing "massive choke points" when downtown played host to multiple events at the same time…”
Screenshot from MetroBike’s site: “1-Ride $1.75/30 Minutes All rides are $1.75 every 30 minutes Purchase at any station, online or in the mobile app.”
Wendy's with a bike with panniers leaning against the wall.
Street view facing across the street from Lost and Found. A huge Wendys Parking lot next to a sizable pawn shop parking lot.
Google search for Lost and Found, showing three locations on the same corner.
Water cooler with sign that says “parking is killing small businesses”
A Public Storage building
Satellite Map View of the Hume House Apartments There are curb cuts on Taylor Pl, but not on Press Pl.
Parking lot entrance of Hume House Apartments. The sidewalk in front has a curb cut on the right and a ramp leading into the parking lot on the left.
Cups from a bottom bracket with cuts perpendicular to the threads
One of the Towers on the modern Grand Viaduct: steel spire over a patina copper roof with a footing of bricks.
Hillary Knight posing in a Seattle jersey
Montreal Victoire away jersey. The jersey is cream/off-white with a Victore shield on the chest. There are dark blue, light blue, and maroon accents.
Street sign: Buchanan st to the right, Garfield ave to the left
Camera people recording promo for WeGo
Tankies and other Communists 10,257 This list blocks people who made or liked posts supporting the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Assad, Hamas, CCP, and North Korea. Marxist-Leninists and prominent tankie accounts, those who liked or reposted them, people who whitewash the history of communist tyranny.
Screenshot from Acme’s website: Acme's first floor is a take on the classic Nashville "Honky Tonk" - a "Funky Tonk" that spans multiple genres of live music seven days a week, fast-casual cuisine, and 28 draft beers on tap. Take Acme home with you by shopping our Acme Farm Store, a small farmhouse boutique with Acme-branded merchandise, local favorites, and Nashville-based artisan goods. The first floor is also home to the Acme Radio Live radio station, which champions the Nashville music scene with broadcasts, interviews, videos, and live performances. The second floor is a place where locals and visitors can socialize comfortably in a restaurant-lounge setting. With 22 TVs, this is the best floor to catch sporting events or award shows. The walls are adorned by museum-quality country music artifacts from Owen Bradley's collection. Customers can enjoy our full menu and exclusive sushi menu with a variety of fresh, hand-rolled creations, and an extensive bourbon/whiskey collection.
Map of Nashville at S 5th St and Crutcher St. A large paved lot surrounding a silo
MMA Two-component traffic paint is a highly versatile, durable option for line striping high-traffic areas such as roadways, parking lots, crosswalks, bike paths and bus lanes. Two-component paint is formed by mixing a pigmented base resin with a polymer curing agent. When mixed and applied immediately, these two elements polymerize to form a strong, long-lasting compound. Methyl methacrylate (MMA) is one of the most durable two-component marking paints available. MMA has a very long life cycle when compared to single-component traffic paint. Paints made with MMA can last up to 10 years
Raised crosswalk in front of the Snodgrass building
Screenshot from from freemanwebb.com leadership page. A photo of Bob Freeman with a beard. “Bob Freeman President (of Freeman Webb)”
Bob Freeman Tennessee State Representative Democratic Party
Ring cameras feed data to ICE to help round up immigrants ** Get a full refund direct from Amazon In the past few months Amazon Ring made Al and facial detection opt-in for all users. Worse, they altered existing features such that your footage can end up in the hands of Flock Safety, the company responsible for 80,000 license plate readers across the country. ICE has been documented using Flock to know exactly where to go to find susceptible community members. Don't help ICE round up your neighbors. What can I do? You can get a full refund directly from Amazon. Request a refund telling them their agreement with Flock is a massive breach of trust and invalidates the reason you invested into their security products. They are giving these refunds because what they are doing this is blatantly against the Terms and Conditions under which you originally purchased. → Reolink or Defender PhoenixM2 are great comparable camera alternatives.
Handles of various Nashvillians a strong cluster of council members and former council members, with an orbit of metro sickos on the left. My handle, much like me at a party is off in the corner.
A broken limb hanging above the sidewalk on Morrow rd
Dude with epic mane and beard holding a pink sign that says “pro science, pro choice, pro wrestling “