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aaliyahunleashed · 3 months

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Rare images of Aaliyah and Treach (of Naughty By Nature) at Urban Aid concert on October 5, 1995.

Images from @favouritethingsbyazzizz

#aaliyah #aaliyah haughton #aaliyah dana haughton #naughty by nature #Treach #Urban Aid #October #1995 #Concert #rare #exclusive #white #black #backstage #behind the scenes

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anim-ttrpgs · 2 months

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The Eureka Kickstarter Pamphlet

It’s not much of a secret that my career and future financial stability is riding on the upcoming Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy Kickstarter (April 10th-May 10th) being successful and hitting as many stretch goals as possible.

If you would like to help a disabled person have a viable career, and see more work from myself and A.N.I.M. in the future—well, first of all, back the Kickstarter on April 10th, but secondarily, spread the word so that others can at least know about it and may back it themselves.

Besides just telling people about us and reblogging our posts, a really helpful way for you to spread the word would be to go to this link here (it’s the same link as the one for downloading the free demo) and download the EurekaPaphlet3pg-1 PDF. It’s a foldable pamphlet you can print out and give to anyone who has an interest in TTRPGs at school, at work, at a con, etc. You can even print out a bunch of them and leave them at your local card&hobby store. These pamphlets even include QR code that will give anyone scanning them access to the free Eureka demo. Also, since it’s a PDF, you could also just send it to people online without actually having to print it out.

(Make sure when you do print it out, that you print it out double-sided!)

It’s a nice pamphlet with some of our best art on it, and does a good job of getting right to the point of what Eureka is.

If any of y’all could hand this out and/or show it to people, it could mean a world of difference for making Eureka and A.N.I.M. a viable career path for someone who struggles to hold down any “normal” job.

Set a reminder for the Kickstarter launch here.

See a preview of the Kickstarter campaign here.

Join our Patreon for just $5 and get perpetual updates on the in-progress prerelease version of Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy and several adventure modules.

Visit our website or go to our itch.io page (follow us there too so you'll get notified when the game fully launches) for more information and a free demo! Also, in case anyone didn't know, the free demo isn't just a small chunk of the game anymore, it's almost the full game. Like, everything. If you previously downloaded the demo that kept most of the game hidden, go download it again to get access to all of that hidden stuff and more!

Interested in actually playing this game, and many others, with the developers? Check out A.N.I.M.'s TTRPG Book Club, a club of nearly 100 members at the time of writing this where we regularly nominate, vote on, and then play indie TTRPGs! At the time of writing this, we are playing Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy, and sign-ups are closed for actually playing it, but you can still join in to pick up a PDF club copy of the rulebook to read and follow along with discussion, and sit in on and observe sessions! There is no schedule obligation for joining this club, as we keep things very flexible by assigning multiple GMs with different timeslots each round, to try and accomodate everyone! This round, we had over thirty people sign up, and were able to fit in all but one! Here is the invite link! See you there!

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imaginal-ai · 17 days

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takemyotherhalf · 1 year

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ChattanoogaUrbanistSociety

#chattanooga #mutual aid #community care #walkable cities #urban development #urban infrastructure #urbanism #ideas for getting involved #tiktok

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masterroadtripper · 2 months

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Con O'Neill as Tony in Urban Myths (2018) ↳ Episode 2x02, Backstage at Live Aid

(Remaining screenshots below cut)

"you are asking me to play god in the atheist world of physics!" - Tony

#con o'neill #urban myths (2017-2020)#this is actually really a cool historical one #where con plays the live aid 1985 generator mechanic

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catsniffer420 · 8 months

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also i stubbornly do Not want to put headphones on when my neighbour is being noisy bc i’m like. why should EYE have to block my ears? why, instead of making all that noise, can’t They shut up or perhaps die immediately instead? GOD

#i know i should just put the noise cancelling headphones on and accept that i need aids like that to cope with sensory overload #in a noisy urban area especially #but it feels unfair #why can’t the world just be quiet #i’m so stressed

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kratomqueen · 2 months

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Kansas City, before and after it was destroyed for cars (x)

#fuck cars #urban planning #public transit #public transportation #walkable cities #kansas city #robert moses #federal aid highway act #ban cars #notjustbikes #cars destroyed our cities #yimby #america #cars destroyed america #anti car

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cctinsleybaxter · 11 months

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also i’m sure someone else has made this post but the casualness with which lgbt+ teenagers and college kids are calling people/characters fruity and faggy and worse is like you guys need to chill i hope you aren’t doing this irl

#(except i know they are based on posts and seeing them in public!)#the divide between people who were born before 2003ish and after is insane #you guys cannot imagine just how culturally homophobic the US was even in urban areas/progressive cities #i was born in the late 90s and aids jokes were still very much a thing i experienced at school

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solar-sunnyside-up · 1 year

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My city last year made a bill that allows Community's to have the taxes that is allocated to that area for things like road and light maitance, garbage pick up, and parks etc… the money that typically the city would just give a general budget for the community is now handed over to the community association and voted on by is members (my city also limits a membership at 30$) Than the treasury and community President sets up the work for it. Technically, the bill covers our China town in particular, the Chinese community association is the ppl allocating things, but because it's also the general areas community assoiation it allows any other community group to apply for the same kind of status. I'm bout to buy my membership now that I know I'm not moving, and it gets me a community plot for 15$ and a pass for the pool nearby the elementary school. They just planted 15 fruit trees in the park last year, they have a public skate rink. Never let anyone make you think engaging in your community is worthless. It's scary sure. but it is worth digging roots into where you live, even if your renting.

#good news #community #mutual aid #stories #solarpunk #hopepunk #cottagecore #gardens #urban design #anticapitalism #it sucks if still works within capitalism but it's the foundations ofh ow these things work without it

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natinalpartisan · 11 months

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Choosing the Right Survival Prepping Option: A Guide to Find Your Best Fit

In uncertain times, being prepared for emergencies is crucial. But with numerous survival prepping options available, finding the right one for you can be overwhelming. Fear not, as this comprehensive guide is here to help. Whether you're a city dweller or a wilderness enthusiast, this resource will navigate you through various prepping options, from bug-out bags to homesteading, self-sufficiency to tactical prepping. Discover the essentials of food storage, water purification, emergency shelter, and first aid. Uncover the secrets of outdoor survival and wilderness skills. Explore the realms of self-defense, alternative energy, and crisis management. Equip yourself with the knowledge to make informed decisions and ensure your readiness for any situation.

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sidewalkchemistry · 2 years

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@sidewalkchemistry

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oldtvandcomics · 4 months

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Peter Cashorali's work is so interesting, because yes, it's fairy tales, but it's EDUCATIONAL fairy tales written with the explicit goal of passing down knowledge within the gay (men) community. Also, these books are almost thirty years old, so it is lived experience by what it now pretty much a previous generation. Fascinating read. Also makes you wonder what today's queer wisdom would look like.

#fairy tales #Peter Cashorali #there is a lot of AIDS in those stories #unsurprisingly #but still an interessting experience #I mean the blend between fairy tale and modern urban life in general fascinating #I feel like our equivalent of this would be the Internet #and how not to let social media drag you into a weird hole #where you become completely desperate and lose all hope in humanity #IDK #very interesting books

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imaginal-ai · 6 months

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slimethought · 4 months

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A century of HIV/AIDS... yes, you read that right.

“How About Nah” by roljui “Disco Knights” by Quincas Moreira “Cover” by Patrick Patrikios “Kreuzberg Nights” by Futuremono

Patreon: www.patreon.com/littlehoot Twitter: @hoot_little; @amandahootman Instagram: littlehoot_official

HIV/AIDS Timeline: https://www.nycaidsmemorial.org/timeline

“HIV Arrived in the US Long Before Patient Zero”. Donald G McNeil, Jr., New York Times, 2016: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/27/he...

“Chimp To Man To History Books: The Path of AIDS”, Donald G. McNeil Jr, New York Times, 2011: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/18/he...

“Colonialism in Africa helped launch the HIV epidemic a century ago”, Craig Halperin, The Washington Post, 2012: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation...

“Origins of AIDS linked to Colonial practices in Africa”, NPR, 2006: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/s....

“How a typo created the scapegoat for the AIDS epidemic”, Brian D. Johnson, MacLeans, 2019: https://www.macleans.ca/culture/movie...

“AIDS: Origin of pandemic was 1920s Kinshasa”, James Gallagher, BBC News, 2014: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-29442642

“Part One: King Leopold: The First Modern Bastard”, Behind the Bastards Podcast, iHeart Radio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-be...

“Part Two: King Leopold: The First Modern Bastard”, Behind the Bastards Podcast, iHeart Radio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-be...

“Gay Sex in the 70s”, dir. Joseph F. Lovett, Lovett Productions, 2004.

“Studio 54”, dir. Matt Tyrnauer, A&E Indie Films, 2018.

“The Reagan administration’s unbelievable response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic”, German Lopez, Vox, 2016: https://www.vox.com/2015/12/1/9828348...

“Cost of Treatment Still A Challenge For HIV Patients in the US”, All Things Considered, NPR (2012): https://www.npr.org/sections/health-s....

“Trump and Reagan’s Willful Incompetence During Epidemics”, Juan Michael Porter II, The Body, 2020: https://www.thebody.com/article/trump...

“Fire in the Blood”, dir. Dylan Mohan Gray, Sparkwater India, 2013.

“When AIDS Was Funny”, dir. Scott Calonic: • Reagan Administration's Chilling Resp...

#Eyeball Zone #hoots #littlehoot #history #AIDS #HIV #urban legends #science #racism #colonialism #Congo #Haiti #America #Myth #tragedy #Gaëtan Dugas

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reasonsforhope · 3 months

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As relentless rains pounded LA, the city’s “sponge” infrastructure helped gather 8.6 billion gallons of water—enough to sustain over 100,000 households for a year.

Earlier this month, the future fell on Los Angeles. A long band of moisture in the sky, known as an atmospheric river, dumped 9 inches of rain on the city over three days—over half of what the city typically gets in a year. It’s the kind of extreme rainfall that’ll get ever more extreme as the planet warms.

The city’s water managers, though, were ready and waiting. Like other urban areas around the world, in recent years LA has been transforming into a “sponge city,” replacing impermeable surfaces, like concrete, with permeable ones, like dirt and plants. It has also built out “spreading grounds,” where water accumulates and soaks into the earth.

With traditional dams and all that newfangled spongy infrastructure, between February 4 and 7 the metropolis captured 8.6 billion gallons of stormwater, enough to provide water to 106,000 households for a year. For the rainy season in total, LA has accumulated 14.7 billion gallons.

Long reliant on snowmelt and river water piped in from afar, LA is on a quest to produce as much water as it can locally. “There's going to be a lot more rain and a lot less snow, which is going to alter the way we capture snowmelt and the aqueduct water,” says Art Castro, manager of watershed management at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. “Dams and spreading grounds are the workhorses of local stormwater capture for either flood protection or water supply.”

Centuries of urban-planning dogma dictates using gutters, sewers, and other infrastructure to funnel rainwater out of a metropolis as quickly as possible to prevent flooding. Given the increasingly catastrophic urban flooding seen around the world, though, that clearly isn’t working anymore, so now planners are finding clever ways to capture stormwater, treating it as an asset instead of a liability. “The problem of urban hydrology is caused by a thousand small cuts,” says Michael Kiparsky, director of the Wheeler Water Institute at UC Berkeley. “No one driveway or roof in and of itself causes massive alteration of the hydrologic cycle. But combine millions of them in one area and it does. Maybe we can solve that problem with a thousand Band-Aids.”

Or in this case, sponges. The trick to making a city more absorbent is to add more gardens and other green spaces that allow water to percolate into underlying aquifers—porous subterranean materials that can hold water—which a city can then draw from in times of need. Engineers are also greening up medians and roadside areas to soak up the water that’d normally rush off streets, into sewers, and eventually out to sea...

To exploit all that free water falling from the sky, the LADWP has carved out big patches of brown in the concrete jungle. Stormwater is piped into these spreading grounds and accumulates in dirt basins. That allows it to slowly soak into the underlying aquifer, which acts as a sort of natural underground tank that can hold 28 billion gallons of water.

During a storm, the city is also gathering water in dams, some of which it diverts into the spreading grounds. “After the storm comes by, and it's a bright sunny day, you’ll still see water being released into a channel and diverted into the spreading grounds,” says Castro. That way, water moves from a reservoir where it’s exposed to sunlight and evaporation, into an aquifer where it’s banked safely underground.

On a smaller scale, LADWP has been experimenting with turning parks into mini spreading grounds, diverting stormwater there to soak into subterranean cisterns or chambers. It’s also deploying green spaces along roadways, which have the additional benefit of mitigating flooding in a neighborhood: The less concrete and the more dirt and plants, the more the built environment can soak up stormwater like the actual environment naturally does.

As an added benefit, deploying more of these green spaces, along with urban gardens, improves the mental health of residents. Plants here also “sweat,” cooling the area and beating back the urban heat island effect—the tendency for concrete to absorb solar energy and slowly release it at night. By reducing summer temperatures, you improve the physical health of residents. “The more trees, the more shade, the less heat island effect,” says Castro. “Sometimes when it’s 90 degrees in the middle of summer, it could get up to 110 underneath a bus stop.”

LA’s far from alone in going spongy. Pittsburgh is also deploying more rain gardens, and where they absolutely must have a hard surface—sidewalks, parking lots, etc.—they’re using special concrete bricks that allow water to seep through. And a growing number of municipalities are scrutinizing properties and charging owners fees if they have excessive impermeable surfaces like pavement, thus incentivizing the switch to permeable surfaces like plots of native plants or urban gardens for producing more food locally.

So the old way of stormwater management isn’t just increasingly dangerous and ineffective as the planet warms and storms get more intense—it stands in the way of a more beautiful, less sweltering, more sustainable urban landscape. LA, of all places, is showing the world there’s a better way.

-via Wired, February 19, 2024

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aurizondatatech1 · 8 months

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Navigating the Road of Data: International Traffic Survey and Data Collection Companies in India

#policy formulation #and infrastructure development. In a country as diverse and dynamic as India #understanding traffic patterns and collecting accurate data is essential for transportation planning #urban development #and more. International Traffic Survey (ITS) companies and Data Collection Company in India have emerged as crucial players in this domain #facilitating the collection and analysis of data related to traffic #mobility #and transportation systems. This article explores the significance and role of these companies in India's evolving landscape.#International Traffic Survey Companies:#International Traffic Survey Company specialize in collecting #processing #and analyzing data related to vehicular traffic #transportation infrastructure #and mobility patterns. Their services are instrumental in aiding government bodies #urban planners #and businesses in making informed decisions. Some key aspects of ITS companies in India include:#Data Collection Technologies: ITS companies employ a variety of advanced technologies such as Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR)#GPS tracking #traffic cameras #and sensors to gather comprehensive traffic data.#Traffic Studies: They conduct traffic surveys and studies to assess traffic flow #congestion levels #vehicle types #and road usage patterns. These studies are essential for designing efficient road networks and transport systems.#Toll Collection Management: Many ITS companies are involved in the management and operation of toll collection systems on highways and expr #ensuring seamless traffic flow and revenue collection.#Public Transport Analysis: ITS companies also analyze data related to public transportation #including bus and metro systems #to improve the efficiency and accessibility of these services.#Data Collection Companies:

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