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Elrond Hubbard @elrondhubbard.bsky.social

My neighbor called the cops because I sent my 9 year old down the block to buy sour cream. I live in a small town with zero crime.

sep 1, 2025, 10:42 pm • 29 1

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Dan Watson @wats.ink

lots of places around baltimore do not allow young people to hang out with each other without an adult around. one particularly absurd one excludes *16-year-olds*. i’m only in my late 30s but i remember being dropped off at the mall to see a movie etc all the time as a kid.

this is just a shopping center with an AMC movie theater. a group of 15 year olds can’t see a movie without an adult at 1 pm on a saturday.
sep 1, 2025, 10:54 pm • 8 0 • view
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Dan Grove @grove.cx

It's pretty wild, because in SF or Seattle, kids are on the city bus without parents at 10 or 11. You know, the cities that are supposedly on the verge of being burned to the ground.

sep 1, 2025, 10:53 pm • 18 0 • view
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Lo-rah 🫀 @pastbriton.bsky.social

Yup. The kids in my seattle neighborhood lay in the street, walk to the lake, like a human life.

sep 1, 2025, 10:56 pm • 5 0 • view