today, i was driving my spouse and i across the city to meet up with my family for dinner. unintentionally, i went down to a major stroad that is finally seeing some revitalization. i’ve driven down it alone plenty of times — usually when i’m heading to Braum’s to get us some 10pm milkshakes— but never been down it with them in tow.
so, as we make the turn at the stop sign and it clicks my autopilot off, i pat their thigh and start sputtering out a “look look look look look!”
my spouse— who doesn’t care about city planning/urban design, but listens to my ramblings because they know it makes me happy— looks up from whatever TikTok they were watching to peer out the window.
“look!” i say again. “they put in some protected bike lanes! they’re painted and have the barriers along the edge so idiot drivers can’t cross over and hurt a cyclist. and look!”
i point to the way the bike lane snakes back and around a newly installed bus stop. “they’ve installed actual bus stops now! i mean, i wish there was a bus lane so it wouldn’t halt the flow of traffic and create the potential for assholes in a rush to whip around a bus and endanger lives, but it’s a start and that’s a lot around here, y’know?”
we continue the drive, and my spouse endures my genuine excitement as i spot a newly-etched biking path and more bus stops. and then, just as quickly as it started, it comes to an end. a brief flicker of hope that reconnects to the concrete jungle.
but for those few fleeting moments, there was a healthy show of progression in an otherwise stubborn, rigid environment. and it filled me with immense joy.
as for my spouse, we had a discussion about the hostile design of the bus stop benches that we’d like to see undone eventually, and then we returned to our normal drive routine. i, the helmsperson, and they, the tiktok player with the volume high enough for me to hear/process it.
and idk, it was a neat little moment. :)
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some more Twst pokemon as my brain melts at the impending episode 7 drop tomorrow! ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
I went with Gholdengo and Cufant for Kalim, and Seviper and Malamar for Jamil! I went back and forth a looooot on whether to give Malamar to Jamil or Azul, but ultimately I think it just fits Jamil better. (Seviper was a given though)
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Just saying Bruce is one hundred percent the kind of dad to keep a twisted part from the first time Dick drove (and crashed) the Batmobile, just the symbol from Barbara's original home made bat costume, the first Batarang Jason ever threw (correctly, still got a smudge of blood on it), his tooth from when Tim knocked it out with the Bo staff, one of Stephanie's many Robin headbands (she was slightly obsessed), a printout of the first file Cass typed up herself, and the crossword puzzle from the first time he and Duke met.
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I really find it interesting how Zionists have no issues constantly using words like "Islamic" or "Islamist" or "jihadist" to describe the people they're killing without any fear of being accused of Islamophobia or that they're being bigots.
Because they know that we live in a world where anything or anyone remotely "Muslim" are automatically portrayed as inherently evil and deserving of death, especially in the US and other Western countries where Israel gets most of its support from them. So therefore, no one can be mad at them for killing all of these people, right? After all, they're only killing scary radical "Islamists" and "jihadists," NOT innocent people.
Meanwhile you would never hear any pro-Palestine people calling IDF soldiers "Jewists" or "Jewish extremists," even when they're literally branding the star of David onto Palestinians' faces and houses, instead we have to be very careful to not associate Judaism with Israel's crimes and are obligated to write a long essay about how we in fact do NOT want to kill every Jew in the world before we're allowed to show a shred of sympathy toward the thousands of Palestinian civilians being murdered as we are speaking.
Yet somehow that's not enough and they still hit us with the "when you say Zionists you actually mean Jews!" all while ignoring how they themselves aren't putting any effort into not demonizing Islam and Muslims with their words, because demonizing Islam and Muslims isn't an issue to them and the only way they can justify all the killing they're doing.
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"We're talking low prices."
It's Alecto, in her favorite t-shirt that she never got to wear from another life! I do hope there's still some Nona in her somewhere, but I also fully support her on her quest for revenge. Come on, Barbie-- let's go party.
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