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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social

lmao people on nextdoor love to talk about completely normal occurrences in the weepiest, most distraught phrasing you can imagine

J West Medford • 4d • ® I am absolutely heartbroken that someday this week when I wake up, my end of Arlington Street in Medford will be marked up with a hideous hodgepodge of white lanes for parking, walking, biking(?). The lovely tranquility of what felt like walking a dappled country road will be visually destroyed, taking with it a sense of peacefulness and calm…..something so difficult to find these days. I can understand why the half of Arlington Street hosting the tennis and basketball courts and the children's playground would have benefitted from the lanes, but I don't see any need for, or benefit in, marking up the half coming down to High Street. This is so, SO disappointing. 45 • • •
aug 24, 2025, 3:52 pm • 720 53

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Dickardo 𓅸 O'Johnson @dickardo.bsky.social

you know this person was also upset about the cracker barrel thing.

aug 24, 2025, 4:09 pm • 3 0 • view
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Curt&Courteous @mrtuden.bsky.social

I'm from Medford and there's no Cracker Barrel around but the equivalent was when Dunkin Donuts became just Dunkin lol Medford townies really wish they could live in 1998 forever

aug 24, 2025, 4:17 pm • 5 0 • view
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Dickardo 𓅸 O'Johnson @dickardo.bsky.social

they were probably still really upset by it even though they have never been there. its more about wanting the aesthetics of what they think rural life is while not actually having to live the shitty parts like driving 2 hours for groceries.

aug 24, 2025, 4:46 pm • 2 0 • view
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Uneasy Writer @uneasywriter.bsky.social

I do think “Dunkin” is kind of stupid. On the other hand, I don’t care what they call themselves, I just wish they wouldn’t run out of cinnamon cake donuts and then not make any more.

aug 24, 2025, 4:29 pm • 2 0 • view
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minthara blasting menthols @grave.ink

ah, social media syndrome has crept into normie corners too, i see

aug 24, 2025, 4:20 pm • 3 0 • view
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Canrugger @canrugger.bsky.social

People know there are actual tragedies in this world right?

aug 24, 2025, 4:12 pm • 6 0 • view
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2000 SCC 69 enjoyer @sirilyan.com

Press F to pay respects.

aug 24, 2025, 4:03 pm • 2 0 • view
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Spooky @spookycandle.bsky.social

medford sucks ass LOL

aug 24, 2025, 4:44 pm • 1 0 • view
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Mentoch @mentoch.bsky.social

Having half of a street have lanes, and then the rest of it not have lanes seems like an incredibly inefficient (and potentially dangerous) way to design traffic patterns.

aug 24, 2025, 3:56 pm • 4 0 • view
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Kinchman @kinchman.bsky.social

We live in the Age of the Drama Queens (and I include guys).

aug 24, 2025, 4:05 pm • 4 0 • view
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veronica @cointelprozac.bsky.social

man the people of massachusetts are absolutely in love with their terrible unmarked roads. they want to repaint the main street in my town which has an ambiguous number of lanes (1? 2?) and people are having a total meltdown about it

wide road with no lane markings
aug 24, 2025, 4:11 pm • 17 0 • view
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QuiJohn @quijohn.bsky.social

Ha the same thing happened in my MA home town. My wife (from the Midwest) would lose her shit every time we drove there, “how do you know when you’re supposed to form a second lane?” It was more a feeling than actual rules. Kids today would say vibes.

aug 24, 2025, 7:22 pm • 7 0 • view
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Johnny Dump @benjbrew.bsky.social

Only in the US can people be so embarrassing all the time

aug 24, 2025, 4:02 pm • 5 0 • view
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Henry Mensch @hcm.li

ffs. this is Medford. a freaking suburb! it's not Mayberry!

aug 24, 2025, 4:28 pm • 4 0 • view
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Bogus Logus Gravy Sommelier @thejollycrank.bsky.social

They can always move to the actual country for those dappled roads.

aug 24, 2025, 4:57 pm • 5 0 • view
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nihilisticuffs @nihilisticuffs.com

Jesus, put it in your journal. 😂

aug 24, 2025, 4:26 pm • 8 0 • view
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niko oneshot but they’re duen @duen.bsky.social

i saw a callout post for a dog on there once. named him and everything. cooper the newfoundland

aug 24, 2025, 4:34 pm • 3 0 • view
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buttitwins defense squad @gracieminabox.bsky.social

aug 24, 2025, 5:28 pm • 0 0 • view
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Maddie Ouranía @maddiequestions.bsky.social

nimby poetry

aug 24, 2025, 3:53 pm • 95 0 • view
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Perihelion @tassja.bsky.social

lines on the floor :< :< :<

aug 24, 2025, 4:20 pm • 8 0 • view
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Keith Taylor @mrkeithtaylor.bsky.social

White lines take my sense Of peacefulness and calm $200 a gram. I remember When it was $40 or a handjob

aug 24, 2025, 4:13 pm • 3 0 • view
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instinctvalue.bsky.social @instinctvalue.bsky.social

youtube.com/shorts/6snhT...

aug 25, 2025, 1:33 pm • 0 0 • view
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mirroredreality.bsky.social @mirroredreality.bsky.social

lol, I just wanna yell,”Get rekt, loser!” at these people.

aug 24, 2025, 3:54 pm • 17 0 • view
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Agata @agatakobe.bsky.social

How do road markings destroy your sense of peace and calm?? You must be seriously fucked up if this is your measure of peace and calm.

aug 24, 2025, 7:07 pm • 1 0 • view
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Southern Violet @southernviolet.bsky.social

You see they want to pretend to be lords in a manor house and not be reminded other people exist because ew

aug 24, 2025, 8:32 pm • 3 0 • view
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Agata @agatakobe.bsky.social

Imagine separating people walking and cycling from people in their cars by some disgusting intrusive lines right through the tranquility of the tarmac!

aug 24, 2025, 10:13 pm • 3 0 • view
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eschneider @eschneider.bsky.social

If this is Medford, MA, I almost have to believe this is trolling. Almost. :/

aug 24, 2025, 5:26 pm • 2 0 • view
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John O’Donnell @jodami.bsky.social

I only know Medford from Fallout 4. It’s seen better days.

aug 24, 2025, 3:55 pm • 7 0 • view
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QuiJohn @quijohn.bsky.social

I haven’t been to the real Medford since the 90’s but I thought Fallout 4 freshened it up a bit

aug 24, 2025, 7:20 pm • 2 0 • view
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John O’Donnell @jodami.bsky.social

Just off of he map is Acton. I was born on the “real” one. You cannot believe how gutted I was it isn’t there.

aug 24, 2025, 7:24 pm • 2 0 • view
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Jean-Paul Blartre: Mall Cop @oldpappythomas.bsky.social

when i lived with my mother she was obsessed with that site and would burst in freaking out about something and eventually it'd be like "there was a guy walking down the street" or "someone saw a car they didn't recognize." it ruled. there was an old guy down the street that sat in his garage...

aug 25, 2025, 4:14 am • 1 0 • view
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Jean-Paul Blartre: Mall Cop @oldpappythomas.bsky.social

post, post, posting away about all this stuff and so I started slowing down in front of him, doing the "pointing to my eyes and pointing to him" thing, and then driving off, and apparently he would post all these posts freaking out about it, which ruled.

aug 25, 2025, 4:14 am • 2 0 • view
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James Phillips @arlecchinoswart.bsky.social

That street borders a park. I’m sure it gets a lot of bike and pedestrian traffic.

aug 24, 2025, 10:14 pm • 0 0 • view
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GT @granitetide.bsky.social

visually destroyed

aug 24, 2025, 3:53 pm • 14 0 • view
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Nostalgic Cryptid ♠️ @mudfire4.bsky.social

I love the question mark next to biking as if it’s the first time they’ve ever encountered that word

aug 25, 2025, 3:48 am • 8 0 • view
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Marie @mistresscaution.bsky.social

I knew a bi king once.

aug 25, 2025, 3:51 am • 5 0 • view
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social

every bi man is a king

aug 25, 2025, 4:04 am • 8 0 • view
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silver @silverboots.bsky.social

They’re upset about…lines painted on tarmac?!?

aug 24, 2025, 6:50 pm • 1 0 • view
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Jack Letourneau @jlet.bsky.social

Well, if painted lines marking the bike lane are too ugly, I suppose we’ve just got to use a physical concrete barrier.

aug 24, 2025, 5:08 pm • 7 0 • view
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Bailey Wolfe, Voice Actor and Lactase Apostle @bbwolfevox.com

Ah, yes, I too hate road safety and accessibility

aug 24, 2025, 3:56 pm • 6 0 • view
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Chairman Goa Tse-tung @jctenton.bsky.social

biking(?)

aug 24, 2025, 4:02 pm • 5 0 • view
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Jack of The Shadows @porkrocket.bsky.social

We need a deep dive study on why people in the US get so mad at bike lanes/cyclists.

aug 25, 2025, 1:26 pm • 1 0 • view
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MissyMoo 🌸🐮🌸 @missymoo.bsky.social

These people should have journals

aug 24, 2025, 4:30 pm • 4 0 • view
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🏳️‍🌈 Mother Of Exiles 🏳️‍⚧️ @dragynwing.bsky.social

You should see the coyote debate on my Nextdoor. I keep getting banned for saying that they weren't here before us (PNW). And for saying that I hope the 4th of July fireworks gives several of them heart attacks. 99% sure Nextdoor is owned by Acme at this point. Buncha coyotes passed a captcha.

aug 24, 2025, 3:55 pm • 9 0 • view
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walking mirage @wolf.observer

what a strange thing to hope

aug 24, 2025, 4:06 pm • 15 0 • view
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🏳️‍🌈 Mother Of Exiles 🏳️‍⚧️ @dragynwing.bsky.social

They're overpopulated and hazing works. It's Nature.

aug 24, 2025, 4:24 pm • 0 0 • view
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walking mirage @wolf.observer

you should probably read this: coyoteyipps.com/2014/11/19/m... and in regards to what you call "overpopulation:" which of the two alternatives would you rather have? 1. thousands and thousands of rats (what happens if the coyotes are simply removed) 2. urban wolves (a return to pre-coyote norms)

aug 24, 2025, 4:31 pm • 11 0 • view
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Hegelian vs. Predator @telemark.bsky.social

I fully support the “urban wolves” proposal

aug 24, 2025, 4:48 pm • 7 0 • view
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🏳️‍🌈 Mother Of Exiles 🏳️‍⚧️ @dragynwing.bsky.social

I am ready for urban wolves. Give me an apocalypse I can be proud of.

aug 24, 2025, 8:55 pm • 1 0 • view
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Bailey Wolfe, Voice Actor and Lactase Apostle @bbwolfevox.com

Are they also freaking out about coywolves? If not, there’s a chance to seed some informative chaos!

aug 24, 2025, 3:57 pm • 2 0 • view
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🏳️‍🌈 Mother Of Exiles 🏳️‍⚧️ @dragynwing.bsky.social

No, they wanna save the coyotes here. They'd cheer a new species of invasive "doggo" that is becoming increasingly aggressive towards kids. Had one guy tell me coyotes don't attack kids so I have no reason to want them hazed and 6 months later, after many pet attacks, we get a local human one. Ugh.

aug 24, 2025, 4:00 pm • 1 0 • view
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🏳️‍🌈 Mother Of Exiles 🏳️‍⚧️ @dragynwing.bsky.social

If people would just stop acting like urban bumfuck Disney Princesses with coyotes, we'd be better off. Ah...I think I'm displaying why I got banned from Nextdoor.

aug 24, 2025, 4:01 pm • 5 0 • view
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Dickardo 𓅸 O'Johnson @dickardo.bsky.social

lmao get rekt, coyotes rule, yuppies drool

aug 24, 2025, 4:11 pm • 1 0 • view
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🏳️‍🌈 Mother Of Exiles 🏳️‍⚧️ @dragynwing.bsky.social

Lort.

aug 24, 2025, 4:22 pm • 1 0 • view
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Bailey Wolfe, Voice Actor and Lactase Apostle @bbwolfevox.com

Ahhhhh, good ol’ animal-is-cute conservationism?

aug 24, 2025, 4:08 pm • 1 0 • view
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🏳️‍🌈 Mother Of Exiles 🏳️‍⚧️ @dragynwing.bsky.social

Shitlibs, too! The "brain go off when animal involved" crowd is errwhere!

aug 24, 2025, 4:23 pm • 1 0 • view
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Eternal Cat War @eternalcatwar.bsky.social

I caught a ban for insisting that this one bobcat is actually named Robert

aug 24, 2025, 4:18 pm • 12 0 • view
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🏳️‍🌈 Mother Of Exiles 🏳️‍⚧️ @dragynwing.bsky.social

Now I'm jealous

aug 24, 2025, 4:22 pm • 1 0 • view
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SkyFuneral @aaronmk.bsky.social

King shit

aug 24, 2025, 4:46 pm • 2 0 • view
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🏳️‍🌈 Mother Of Exiles 🏳️‍⚧️ @dragynwing.bsky.social

King Robert the Cat

aug 24, 2025, 8:56 pm • 1 0 • view
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🧫🐁 @chips.bsky.social

get this person a fainting couch

aug 24, 2025, 3:58 pm • 6 0 • view
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Dr. Jimbosaur, Esq. @jimbosaur.bsky.social

I didn't realize, prior to reading this, that it was possible for something to read as "extremely West Medford." I just didn't believe that was something that could exist. It was too specific, too esoteric and provincial. And yet, here we are.

aug 24, 2025, 10:25 pm • 1 0 • view
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A sliced tomato sandwich (w/ basil) @tsrhodes.bsky.social

biking(?)

aug 24, 2025, 4:01 pm • 4 0 • view
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Millie @thatmillie.bsky.social

Let’s not kid ourselves: if the kids playing happened on her half of the street, she’d be opposed to lines there, too.

aug 24, 2025, 4:15 pm • 7 0 • view
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Super Saiga @supersaiga.bsky.social

the only other people I've known to be distressed by white lines on the road are recovering from cocaine addiction

aug 24, 2025, 3:57 pm • 4 0 • view
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Swamp Witch 🌱🌻 @beneathhergaze.bsky.social

I am once again begging weirdos online to learn what actual problems are like

aug 24, 2025, 4:02 pm • 16 0 • view
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Union Construction Worker @construction-trash.bsky.social

OHMYGAWDTHEYGONNAPAINTMYSTREET!!!!!!

aug 24, 2025, 3:56 pm • 26 0 • view
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𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑛𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑠 @petestaiano.com

My god………..the horror

aug 24, 2025, 4:01 pm • 3 0 • view
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scoutsaber.bsky.social @scoutsaber.bsky.social

>country road >dappled what

aug 24, 2025, 3:58 pm • 9 0 • view
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Dave Provost @daveprovo.st

There hasn’t been a dappled country road in Medford for, I’m gonna say, 250 years.

aug 24, 2025, 5:37 pm • 3 0 • view
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Generalised Algar Disorder @algarrhythm.bsky.social

"biking(?)"

aug 24, 2025, 3:54 pm • 19 0 • view
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littlemouse16.bsky.social @littlemouse16.bsky.social

The end of the road next to High St, aka the end culminating in a rotary next to a gas station???

aug 24, 2025, 4:27 pm • 5 0 • view
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littlemouse16.bsky.social @littlemouse16.bsky.social

That is .01 miles away from an actual walking path along the Mystic River?

aug 24, 2025, 4:29 pm • 6 0 • view
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roy 朗井 @live.from.roys.house

lol i was like, i wonder what this street looks like that's so special if i don't have the wrong place... that's just asphalt. there's already markings! who cares

idk it just looks like an american suburban street to me. big fat asphalt road for big fat american trucks. there's rocks and trees on one side (a sidewalk? very inaccessible if so), houses on the other
aug 24, 2025, 3:58 pm • 56 0 • view
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derek van vliet @derek.bike

this dapple ain't dappling, Janet

aug 24, 2025, 9:52 pm • 9 0 • view
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Flat Pluto Society @adhdgobl.in

I love that they're losing their mind over marking up the road itself, as if the asphalt is what makes this a pleasant area and not the nice, tree-lined field across the way.

aug 25, 2025, 4:26 am • 7 0 • view
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Memento (Lasagna) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social

or it's always in response to like the city cutting down a few trees for new section 8 housing or a community garden

aug 24, 2025, 4:52 pm • 17 0 • view
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a werebrick @bigblocks.bsky.social

in their heads they're freedom fighters

aug 24, 2025, 5:14 pm • 4 0 • view
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floot the gender woo gerbil 🇵🇸 @flootzavut.bsky.social

I'm sorry, are they having a tantrum about... road markings... the kind that keep people safe...?

aug 24, 2025, 3:56 pm • 32 0 • view
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Super Saiga @supersaiga.bsky.social

they are pretty! look someone made art out of them:

a giant ball, about the height of a house, sits in a grassy roundabout. It's a black ball which appears to be made of asphalt and includes road markings such as double yellow lines, continuous white lines, broken white lines, and arrows. It looks like maybe a giant scraped up the road and rolled it into a smooth ball between their fingers and left it there
aug 24, 2025, 4:01 pm • 6 0 • view
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Super Saiga @supersaiga.bsky.social

There's a scheme where for every million Ireland spent building a motorway, a percentage of that had to go to public art decorating the motorway. Some art had to be moved for being so engaging it caused accidents, so artists tried to create things you could enjoy out of the corner of your eye.

aug 24, 2025, 4:03 pm • 6 1 • view
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social

yes. it's a part of a larger argument where people are so so so so mad at the cities putting in bike lanes

aug 24, 2025, 5:01 pm • 30 0 • view
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Mr. Shidded Doo Doo Pants @mrshiddedoopants.bsky.social

I used to work for a family in Somerville that hated bus lanes with a passion because it personally inconvenienced them

aug 24, 2025, 5:40 pm • 2 0 • view
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Elan Cat @elanthecat.bsky.social

but if they put in bike lanes, how will i drunkenly drive my giant pickup down the street without mowing down 20 people cait

aug 24, 2025, 9:19 pm • 6 0 • view
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floot the gender woo gerbil 🇵🇸 @flootzavut.bsky.social

🫠 why are people 🫠

aug 25, 2025, 6:25 am • 2 0 • view
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Sean of the FFS @sheepbop.bsky.social

Whaaaat. First world problems to the Nth degree.

aug 24, 2025, 6:51 pm • 1 0 • view
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Uneasy Writer @uneasywriter.bsky.social

“dappled country road” Get out of here. Go on. Git.

aug 24, 2025, 4:27 pm • 3 0 • view
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Dermot O Connor @animatewithdermot.bsky.social

Sounds like a Real Estate fluffjob.

aug 24, 2025, 9:22 pm • 1 0 • view
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Jim @jimllmixit.bsky.social

Someone on here described Nextdoor as Facebook for dogs. Who's that outside my house? What's going on over there?

aug 24, 2025, 4:02 pm • 120 5 • view
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Devilboy Bitch Baby (18+ content) @desdemonical.bsky.social

I love how a bike lane ruins the picturesque charm and not the fucking car centric road

aug 24, 2025, 6:34 pm • 4 0 • view
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Craig Hayes @craighayes.me

This person doesn’t have enough real life struggles.

aug 24, 2025, 3:53 pm • 57 0 • view
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susanorr.bsky.social @susanorr.bsky.social

Things Are Going to Hell is a classic NextDoor category. Others include: Those Damn Kids I need a plumber/auto mechanic/etc. I am a plumber/auto mechanic/etc. looking for work That Looks Suspicious What’s That Siren? Free Stuff Who can give me free stuff? Beware of This Person

aug 24, 2025, 4:44 pm • 4 0 • view