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@stephenknives.bsky.social

Normal/Innocent man who likes metal, data, and socialism, and making those more prevalent in St. Louis City. Also Blues 🏒, Cardinals ⚾, Rams 🏈, STL City ⚽, Battlehawks 🏈, and Mizzou 🐯. He/him

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This is completely true. Another interesting thing over that period is that recording high-quality albums has become much less expensive and more accessible. And lately touring has become way more expensive. So what it means for all musicians except for the super mainstream...

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I spent hours blocking every blue check, choosing who I follow and like, and I still got non-stop Nazi shit.

Corey Atad@coreyatad.com

genuinely, on X, if your feed is curated properly, you won't see much Nazi shit, but you will see more raucous conversations that threaten to go off the rails, or break containment badly. but they often don't, and then it's just fun. Bluesky is mostly unfun, or *really* unfun if a post explodes.

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Of course I don't trust "the government" or "big tech" not to abuse this, but I simply don't care. Cars are so profoundly harmful in so many ways and we need to stop using them.

George Pearkes@peark.es

Good. Distracted driving is deeply antisocial and if new tech helps us prevent it, good.

gadgetreview.comFederal Surveillance Tech Becomes Mandatory in New Cars by 2027New car surveillance tech becomes mandatory by 2027, using infrared cameras to monitor driver sobriety and alertness with privacy and cost concerns.
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I remember playing this on N64. Shame it turned out this way

Sarah Fenske@sarahfenske.bsky.social

Remember Banjo Popoola, the former St. Louis building inspector? He's now been hit with a federal indictment charging him with steering contracts to firms he controlled-- ties first exposed by @stlmag.bsky.social www.stlmag.com/news/banjo-p...

stlmag.comFormer St. Louis building inspector charged with steering city contracts to firms he controlledA former St. Louis city building inspector was indicted Wednesday on three counts of wire fraud for allegedly funneling city construction contracts to companies set up at his direction by his sister a...
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One thing about the housing crisis that I don't see emphasized enough (or maybe it is) is that there's no sustainable reality where everyone has a single-family home with a yard. I don't think it's wrong to have or want that, but the space and resources required for that would be untenable.

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I would love to shift the American perception that multi-family (owner-occupied) buildings aren't for families. The perception also shapes reality in terms of what resources and infrastructure are available to people living in those buildings, for sure in STL

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Good $#!t by @ryankrull.bsky.social : City yanks tax-exempt status for downtown’s Orpheum Theater | St. Louis Magazine share.google/Z8fNN6B0MRZd... I live very close to this theater and I can confirm the owners have done absolutely nothing with it in years, maybe ever

share.googleCity yanks tax-exempt status for downtown’s Orpheum TheaterThe Orpheum Theater downtown looks abandoned: its marquee bent, its doors chained shut, its future uncertain. There is, however, one change coming down the pike. After eight years of enjoying tax-exem...
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There are a bunch of little developments, like Streets of St. Charles or "downtown Chesterfield" (lol) that are independently ok, but overall sanitized, car-dependent, and designed to hoard wealth. There's a light rail that goes through the center of the city north/south and east/west, but no loops