bettybarcode (she/her)

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Walking is a right; driving is a privilege. Not the other way around. Defund, abolish, prosecute. Oh, and I RT ducks. #DriverNotCar #PlowSidewalksToo #WindshieldBias

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bettybarcode (she/her)@bettybarcode· 24d

"On the contrary" is an idiomatic phrase used to strongly disagree with a previous statement or implication by asserting that the exact opposite is true. It serves as a direct rebuttal, functioning similarly to saying, "actually, the opposite is true".

bettybarcode (she/her)@bettybarcode· 25d

Cities did not wait until every household had 1 car per adult before ripping out streetcars and leveling neighborhoods for highways.

I would much prefer a world where cars are not a necessity as well, but this is not my experience with anti-car posters

This will become obvious if you ever mention that we'll need certain infrastructure before [insert reform here]

bettybarcode (she/her)@bettybarcode· 25d

@rmartincole.bsky.social If you collect automotive humor, this is yours is you want it. Fifty cents at the thrift store. Surprised that it has an ISBN.

Front cover of "New Driver's Guide to Things to Not Crash Into," by Len Dodykavis, 2019, red letters and car clip art on a black background.

Back cover of "New Driver's Guide to Things to Not Crash Into," by Len Dodykavis, 2019, red letters and car clip art on a black background.

bettybarcode (she/her)@bettybarcode· 26d

That yearbook photo showing a supposed goth guyliner Pete Hegseth that everyone's sharing today? It's fake, he was never that cool. Stop flattering him.

Hegseth's photo is the first one in the 3rd row. He looks like teacher's pet.

bettybarcode (she/her)@bettybarcode· 26d

What drivers see when you don't wear high-vis vs. what drivers see when you do wear high-vis, illustrated with the same photo of a driver gazing at a cell phone.

bettybarcode (she/her)@bettybarcode· 28d

When white people do not assimilate, we revere them.

An Amish family walks down a road, their backs to the viewer. The children are barefoot.

bettybarcode (she/her)@bettybarcode· Jul 12

What to do with cukes. Lime juice, chili powder, kosher salt. #vegan

White ceramic oval plate filled with cucumber spears, sprinkled in chili powder. The line juice and salt aren't all that visible.

bettybarcode (she/her)@bettybarcode· Jul 8

Sincere question: why do so many campaigns put so much stock in phone banking? They're just more spam calls for the rest of us to avoid & ignore.

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bettybarcode (she/her)@bettybarcode· Jul 7

I think the solution lies in sewing the loop onto the bag at an angle, like this crude sketch. Also, what do you call a loop when it isn't round?

Pencil sketch shows strap holding loop angled at about 25 degrees.

bettybarcode (she/her)@bettybarcode· Jul 7

I wish designers of shoulder bags with adjustable straps figured out how to prevent strap bunch-up.

Rectangular plastic loop connecting strap to body of bag is failing at keeping the straps flat. Instead they are bunching up at the corners of the plastic.

bettybarcode (she/her)@bettybarcode· Jul 6

Anyone else getting a lot of these error messages?

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bettybarcode (she/her)@bettybarcode· Jun 29

This seems to be the traffic violence reporting rule. When it's hit & run, the driver did it. When it's just plain hit, the car did it. #DriverNotCar

Screen grab, "Pedestrian struck by hit-and-run driver in Boston."

bettybarcode (she/her)@bettybarcode· Jun 28

When I'm gone, put a bike on my grave.

Small granite tombstone for Conrad Robert Nawrot, foster son of M. & A. Ottenbacher, 1930-2017. Someone has stuck a Barbie-sized bicycle lawn ornament into the grass. On the little bike is a label "Bicycle Bob." My relatives tell me he used to bike around town picking up pop cans.

bettybarcode (she/her)@bettybarcode· Jun 26

I am in the presence of greatness. IYKYK.

bettybarcode (she/her)@bettybarcode· Jun 26

When white women wear head coverings, we revere them.

Group of 5 nuns smiling at the camera, in full habit

bettybarcode (she/her)@bettybarcode· Jun 19

Spot the goth dragonfly

Somewhere in this pink rosebush a dragonfly lurks

bettybarcode (she/her)@bettybarcode· Jun 19

They did. Second paragraph in. Hence my original post. Automotive journalists can gush about the latest models without disclaimers like this.

Excerpt from article reading, " There’s a sentence that still sounds slightly radical in much of America, even though millions of people elsewhere in the world would barely think twice about it: Every family should own an e-bike.

"Sure, not every person and not every trip. Maybe not even as a complete replacement for cars. But as a standard household tool? Absolutely!"

bettybarcode (she/her)@bettybarcode· Jun 14

When the value of car storage exceeds the value of car usage #WindshieldBias

street parking is a kind of anti-car action, because I keep not driving because I got such a great parking spot and what a shame it'd be to lose it.

bettybarcode (she/her)@bettybarcode· Jun 13

No, the tarps were not necessary to protect workers or spectators from marble dust. They were there to protect one man's ego. From the NY Times.

A worker is partially visible behind the tarps at the Kennedy Center. "But a gap in the tarps allowed a New York Times photographer to observe a worker pulling the letter “A” from the wall. There was no sound of power tools; the letter appeared to come off by hand.”

bettybarcode (she/her)@bettybarcode· Jun 12

I guess it was inevitable that we'd drop search engine optimization (SEO) in favor of chatbot optimization

bettybarcode (she/her)@bettybarcode· Jun 11

Always fun when my ebike odometer hits a nice round number. I bought this bike 2nd hand on Labor Day weekend last year with 60 miles on it. The rest is me.