Conrail Twitty

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Is that urban planner yelling into the Internet again? Detroiter from St. Louis Posting about city services & urban planning from a justice perspective, the Rust Belt, community outreach, transportation, historic preservation, and cats.

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Conrail Twitty@grenadine· 25d

Thank you for your service 😭 Here’s a picture of the nameless kitten for your troubles

Photo of a black kitten laying on some library books and looking at the camera. He has tall ears. You can see his little claws. The books are bigger than him.

Conrail Twitty@grenadine· 28d

Kitten forehead size: One finger

Conrail Twitty@grenadine· Jul 11

The kitten dunk tanked himself (fell off the scratching post into his own water bowl) He’s fine, he farted in surprise and kept on playing

Photo of a tiny black kitten climbing a scratching post to swat at a colorful fishing pole toy

Conrail Twitty@grenadine· Jul 6

I’m at the Jiffy Mix factory. Does anybody need anything

A backlit photo of the several tall structures of the jiffy factory

Conrail Twitty@grenadine· Jul 5

I got one pic of just the car, which people have been saying is a customized bullet nosed 40s-50s studebaker hatchback! I meant to get more pics but we we got sucked into catching up!!

Photo of a red bullet nosed studebaker parked on the tree lawn between the sidewalk and the street. It has round lines and streamlined shapes. The headlights stick out and they are round.

Conrail Twitty@grenadine· Jul 5

We got frozen custard with friends! I don’t know what kind of car this is!

Photo of my hand with hot pink glitter nails holding a cup of frozen custard with a huge amount of patriotic sprinkles on it. In the background is some kind of very rounded looking, unusual red vintage car.

Conrail Twitty@grenadine· Jul 4

Got a good portrait of the kitten. Still feral but trusts us more each day. Marcus is doing a great job teaching the little one about play.

Photo looking down the side of a yellow velvet armchair at a tiny black kitten who is seated and looking back up at the camera with tiny yellow eyes. They have the strands of a plaid toy wrapped loosely around themselves.

Conrail Twitty@grenadine· Jul 2

An old image from the news showing a map of the City of St. Louis labeled “overnight dumpster fires” with approximately two dozen individual locations labeled with the big bold words “DUMPSTER FIRE” on the map

Conrail Twitty@grenadine· Jul 1

@marcusjmerritt.com got this photo of the kitten under his desk

Photo of a tiny black kitten looking worried, sitting on a wood floor next to a computer tower and a pumpkin shaped cat bed. There are a cat brush and a couple torn off pieces of sketchbook paper at the kitten’s feet

Conrail Twitty@grenadine· Jun 30

Well it has been an eventful night. Stopped on our way home to get some free plants and heard some distraught tiny screaming. Now this tiny little individual is in our house

Photo of a tiny black kitten inside a TNR trap with a can of tuna

Conrail Twitty@grenadine· Jun 23

AFAIK this is the last house standing on Antelope Street, the hidden street in Baden with railroad tracks running down the middle of the street. Only one property owner hasn’t sold to the railroad, and this is his house. Awful. I hope the people are okay. (Fire dept post from earlier tonight)

Tweet from the St. Louis Fire Department featuring an image of a crest that says “first alarm fire.”

The text of the tweet reads, “400 block of Antelope - Occupied 1-1/2 story frame dwelling, heavy #fire showing on the first floor extending into the attic/ roof. Defensive #fire operations underway. #STLCity
Engine Company 33 is first due.
Battalion 6 is in Command.
FIRST ALARM”

Conrail Twitty@grenadine· Jun 22

Screencap of block of text from article, reading:

"For years, GWAR would do whatever the
f-k we wanted. We would [fictitiously] kill politicians from both sides of the aisle. We would [fictitiously] kill famous people. We never had any backlash," he said, noting that this changed when Trump was elected president and "people started getting extremely upset about politics and music and politics in art."

Conrail Twitty@grenadine· Jun 21

We did end up going to see this and it was really good! I knew the general premise of Lysistrata but didn’t realize it was a comedy! Very entertaining production

Photo of my hand with long dark blue nails holding the program of Lysistrata in front of the colorfully painted historic Whaley House in Flint. A couple of actresses in flowing colorful robes are out of focus in the background.

The program reads, “Buckham Alley Theatre (Flint Area Alternative Theater) presents:

LYSISTRATA.

Written By: Aristophanes.
Adapted by: Amber M. Dillard.

Lysistrata: Katherine Lengyel.
Kalonike: Destiny Brent.
Myrrhina: Mads Cardinal.
Lampito: Casey DeMoss.
Stratyllis: Seán ÓTuathal.
Strymodorus: Bart Allen Burger.
Magistrate: Jason M. Lesiewicz.
Cinesias: Calvin Ito.
Spartan Herald: Coop Rhoades.
Chorus of Women: Bethany Folland, Rebecca Norris, Melanie Poisson, Natalie Popadich, Marie VanHorn.
Chorus of Men: Richard W. Hingst, C.J. McCarthy, Jim Waner, Jim Yoder.

Crew

Director
Amber M. Dillard.
Producer/Stage Manager
Crystal Dillard.
Sound Board Op
Crystal Dillard.
Front of House Manger
Amber M. Dillard.
Costume Construction
Melissa Leiewicz.
Lysistrata Costume
Katherine Lengyel.
Prostetics Construction
Katheleen Watchorn.
Props
Melanie Poisson.
Set Construction
Calvin Ito.

THERE WILL BE NO INTERMISSION

Conrail Twitty@grenadine· Jun 19

Ellsworth’s eye shape makes him look worried a lot of the time. It was Ribbon Hunting Playtime Oh Boy when I took this photo

Photo of a small white and orange cat laying on blankets. His facial expression looks like you just told him Santa isn’t real

Conrail Twitty@grenadine· Jun 17

It’s serviceberry season! I ate so many berries today

Photo of my hand reaching into a serviceberry tree, surrounded by dark purple ripe berries and green leaves

Conrail Twitty@grenadine· Jun 11

We didn’t find a pot of gold but we did get a reward

Photo of Marcus’s hand and my hand holding cups of ice cream in front of a mural of an ice cream sundae with a smiley face on it

Conrail Twitty@grenadine· Jun 9

I just saw this but free microchipping for the first 100 Ferndale pets TONIGHT

Flyer with the following text: Paw Protection.

Bring your pets to the Microchip Scanning Station Event!

Tuesday, June 9, 2026, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Ferndale City Hall, 300E. 9 Mile Rd
(in front of new scanner attached to West exterior side of building).

Free microchipping for first 100 Ferndale pets.

Demonstration of the new station.

Fill a Police Car with pet supply donations.

Purchase goodies from local vendors.

Get to know your neighbors.

Announcing a new pet microchip scanning station, attached to the outside of Ferndale City Hall, sponsored by Second Chances Animal Resources.

Learn more by visiting aaha.org/petmicrochiplookup or scanning the QR code.

Conrail Twitty@grenadine· Jun 8

There is a little free library near us that occasionally sets out homemade loaves of sourdough for people to take. Today we finally got one!

Photo of my hand, with a long banana yellow painted thumbnail visible, holding up a small round loaf of sourdough in a ziplock bag. “Plain sourdough” is sharpied onto the bag.

Conrail Twitty@grenadine· Jun 8

Reminds me of this dog riding a moped detail on the mural of this Detroit building that is either about to be demoed or is already gone (had a big collapse). Formerly a moped club, has also been a grocery store in my memory, but my fav name it’s carried is The Old Nasty Yacht Club

Google streetview of a mural on the side of a yellow painted brick corner storefront building. The image features an orange dog or fox riding a moped on a giant, rippling checkered flag with a gear in front of him

Google streetview of 701 scotten, an abandoned yellow brick storefront building with a corner turret and bay windows. A moped racing themed mural wraps around the building in a cartoony style, with huge checkered flags and people racing mopeds on top of them. Across the front in letters painted to look like lightbulbs are the words MOTOR CITY RIOT, but they are partially obscured by yellow boards.

Conrail Twitty@grenadine· Jun 7

Saw this RV today in the woods outside Detroit

Conrail Twitty@grenadine· Jun 6

Exciting Bosnian coffee report from St. Louis: They are serving 8,000 cups of coffee from this beast today

Screenshot of a tweet by Jacob Cersosimo that reads, “The largest coffee pot in the world has made the journey from Visoko, Bosnia to St. Louis, MO. The pot serves 8,000 cups of coffee & will follow the Bosnian national team throughout their World Cup journey in North America.”

Photo of a sign with a Guinness World Records seal. The sign reads, “CERTIFICATE.
The world's largest coffee pot was completed by the Vispak Food industry in Visoko, Bosnia and Herzegovia in June 2004. It measured 124 cm (48.8 in) tall with a base diameter of 95 cm (37.4 in).

Keeper of the Records,
GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS LTD”

There is a signature at the bottom.

Conrail Twitty@grenadine· Jun 5

It’s here

My hand, with a very long school bus yellow nail visible, holding up a packaged Provo, Utah, flag from the company Flags for Good

Conrail Twitty@grenadine· Jun 4

Reminds me of this spot I’ve been to in the Upper Peninsula. L’Anse, MI.

Screenshot from Google streetview of the sign for the Nite Owl Cafe in L’Anse, Michigan. It’s a vacuuform sign with blue 70s looking letters and an image of an owl with a yellow oval behind them.

Conrail Twitty@grenadine· Jun 1

POV: The Shawarma Inspector needs to see if you’re holding chicken. This will just take a minute

Photo of a young white and orange cat standing on his hind legs and propping himself up on the front of the stove so he can reach towards your hand

Conrail Twitty@grenadine· Jun 1

I saw Bakpak Durden’s tag before I saw the mural, and I thought “oh this is gonna be some gorgeous Black realism” …it is

Nighttime photo looking down an alley at a beautiful mural of Black hands carefully braiding someone’s hair. It was painted by Bakpak Durden and Kesswa in Detroit’s Eastern Market.

Conrail Twitty@grenadine· May 29

I was gonna get out the regular progress pride flag for June. But should we fly the Provo Utah flag instead?? We already have a different niche local flag out there normally

The old Provo, Utah, flag, which features the word Provo in a bold, black sans serif font with a drop shadow, with a single rainbow gradient line underneath it. It has a white background.

Conrail Twitty@grenadine· May 26

Finished reading the book. It got a little better, but not much. Both the love interests were blahhh and she chose the less compelling of the two. The book tried to do romance novel things but lacked the fun or self awareness of straight up genre romance.

A meme of Marcus the Worm crouching in front of a rock along the edge of a bonfire and saying “I don’t like this rock. Robert, it’s pissing me off.” There are two additional Marcuses superimposed on the edges of the scene. The image is watermarked by RoflGator.

Conrail Twitty@grenadine· May 24

We made Jiffy muffins. Product of Chelsea, Michigan!!

Photo of seven corn muffins of various sizes sitting on parchment paper on a baking sheet

Conrail Twitty@grenadine· May 24

Techno fest weekend afters (Meeting all the cats at the cat cafe after they close)

Photo inside the cat cafe. Numerous cats of different colors and sizes walk, lounge, eat, and monitor each other in a big room. There are pieces of human and cat furniture around the edge of the room and tall flowers painted on the wall.

Conrail Twitty@grenadine· May 24

We were looking in the window of the Ferndale cat cafe after hours and the guy came out and ASKED IF WE WANTED TO MEET THE CATS?? Immediate yes, extreme yes. This is my DREAM