It boggles my mind that some winter cities clear roads but not sidewalks. It’s an enormous middle finger to pedestrians (ESPECIALLY strollers, wheelchairs, etc.) and indicator of car-centric thinking. It doesn’t have to be like that! There are plows that can clear sidewalks! Here’s one in Ottawa.

Hey everyone! You might have known me in the past as Semiphemeral, but now I'm just called Cyd. Pretty soon I'm going to be hard at work deleting people's data from X. Follow me for updates and check out cyd.social

Really good thread here for folks who are concerned about Bluesky potentially succumbing to enshittification. It's designed to make that hard. I'm planning to write something about this at some point when my head is back on straight, but if you want to read something now, read this thread here:

henlo!

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