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amy JUMBO JIBBLE brown🎈(she/her)

Not super proud of it, but I voted in favor of a parking lot because it meant tearing down a decrepit “historical” site and opening that space up to possible future development. If it hadn’t happened, nothing would be there for possibly decades. But the parking lot has none of those protections.

@artworms.bsky.social

At least where I am, anyone over 18 can apply to be a part of their Historical Landmarks Commission when there an opening. Get in there and slowly fuck it up. Warning: it is a genuinely rancid place to be. I only lasted a few months.

amy JUMBO JIBBLE brown🎈(she/her)

what if this is how I started my villain era

@artworms.bsky.social

Be prepared.

Dong Earhart

@dongearhart.bsky.social

This is totally true. I’m all for preservation - monuments like Penn Station being lost were tragic. And I love going to the Village when I’m in NYC. But this isn’t the mid-20th century when cities were hollowed out people should be able to live in the places meant for it!

Why is Newport stuck in the Gilded Age? They had 400 years of pirates, smugglers, planters, free Black folks, Native Americans, whalers, Quakers, gay sailors... Newport has been all of those things! Its past and image were intentionally flattened to flatter mostly one type of history.

Italo Calvino wrote "The Infinite Cities" to argue that each city contains infinite perspectives. My Pawtucket is different than yours and my Pawtucket next year will be different still. We should preserve not for the sake of a single aesthetic but as a reminder of all the things we have been.

@hannahjohnspoon.bsky.social

I think there should be some temporal equity here. Preserving all that we have been. Preserving the pathways towards all that we could yet become.

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