Unprotected Future First

[Unprotected Future First @rosecityrick]

"Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter."

—Chinua Achebe

[Laura Miers @LauraMiers]

I am so tired of calm-mongerers. People are DESPERATE to prove everything is fine, & it’s just not. Amid RECORD prices & RECORD disease/disability/death, things are probably not going to be fine again. All the fraud & crime & pretending is going to collapse on top of us, & soon.

[D.A. Bullock @BullyCreative]

A city that the police might kill you, abuse you for complaining about it, overpay the police who killed and abused you, and then send you the bill for the cost of all of it.

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

Parking lots are sized based on the busiest day of the year, yet transit, pedestrian, and bike infrastructure are not afforded the same right.

[Wrath Of Gnon @wrathofgnon]

Central Tokyo has on average 6 dedicated purpose built public restrooms per square kilometer (maxing at over 12 in very central locations like Shibuya, 120-130k nighttime pop). London in comparison has 0.01 per square kilometer. These numbers do not include Tokyo's convenience stores that often have restrooms open to the public (12 per square kilometer) nor the other shops or restaurants or stations (497 train and subway stations have public restrooms).

#GoodUrbanism means extensive, numerous, clean and safe, public restrooms.

[Ken James @openshutter21]

I was literally praying this crow would stay still long enough for me to walk around her to get the composition of her between buttes in the brightest area and give her the most contrast.

[Unprotected Future First @rosecityrick]

More car-free streets, more greenways.

[Heidi N. Moore @moorehn]

Context: To do this, they had to move all the cars off the streets entirely. That's the only way you can have a street as green and welcoming as this. Imagine if we had even one street in New York City that looked like this. It would be ridiculously popular. Now imagine 2 blocks, 5 blocks like this. A green microneighborhood. Imagine how much foot traffic the stores and restaurants would get, how chill it would be.

We need to start thinking in terms of not streets, but *greenways.*

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The Nashville Zoo has launched a public campaign to block construction of a proposed 69,000-square-foot AI data center that would sit directly adjacent to habitats for endangered animals, including vulnerable clouded leopards.

Zoo officials warn that the facility’s constant noise, bright artificial lighting, and electrical hum could seriously disrupt animal behavior, stress levels, and long-established breeding programs. The zoo is home to more than 3,700 animals representing over 350 species and maintains one of the most important collections of rare and endangered wildlife in the United States.

This conflict highlights a growing backlash against the rapid expansion of data centers driven by the AI boom. These facilities require massive amounts of electricity and operate 24 hours a day, prompting communities nationwide to raise concerns about energy consumption, water use, noise pollution, and environmental impacts. Wildlife conservation groups are now joining the resistance.

More than 180,000 people have already signed a petition opposing the project.

The developer behind the data center states that it will use waterless cooling systems, meet all local noise regulations, and comply with environmental standards. However, zoo leaders argue that the location itself, immediately next to sensitive animal habitats, makes the project unacceptable regardless of technical mitigations.

The dispute underscores a broader challenge of the AI era: how to build the vast digital infrastructure needed for artificial intelligence without placing undue pressure on local communities, ecosystems, and wildlife.

[Vince Mpls @vincempls]

@taylr I applaud the work of the anti-capitalists, and while they're busy dismantling the system we still need 100K units of housing built in the city right now to forestall the current shortfall. Particularly on transit corridors like Lyndale. Can they do both things? 🤔

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

After the dams came down on the Klamath River, the Yurok Tribe didn't wait for nature to fix itself.

For decades, four hydroelectric dams turned a living river into stagnant reservoirs. They blocked salmon and steelhead from 400 miles of spawning grounds, fueled toxic algae blooms, and raised water temperatures past what the fish could survive.

When the last dam came down in late 2024, the river ran free again. But the exposed reservoir beds, 2,200 acres of bare sediment, were unstable and wide open to invasive species.

So the Yurok Tribe got to work. Along a 38-mile stretch, tribal crews hand-sowed billions of native plant seeds, planted 76,000 trees and shrubs, and seeded 28,000 acorns.

Nearly 100 native plant species. All by hand. All from seeds collected locally and grown out specifically for the restoration.

It's already working. Salmon are spawning in the Upper Klamath Basin for the first time in over a century. Lupines and willows are stabilizing the banks. The river is breathing again.

The Klamath is now the largest dam removal and river restoration project in US history, and the people doing the heaviest lifting are the ones who have lived along that river for thousands of years.

[Unprotected Future First @rosecityrick]

Love this!

[big_pedestrian @big_pedestrian]

The same things that make NYC great make America great. Immigration is our superpower. America is an IDEA.

Blood and soil nationalism has no place here.

[M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray]

This is why we need more elevated trains. Riding on the Chicago El or elevated portions of the Paris Metro around dinner time and seeing all of the people going about their lives is essentially a secular spiritual experience.

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

The most basic transit fact: If you build useful trains people will ride it.

[Laura Miers @LauraMiers]

@CovidSolidarit1 After many years of hearing “Don’t worry, MOST RECOVER!” a large 3-year study found a whopping LESS THAN 2% recovered.

[Unprotected Future First @rosecityrick]

For the month of June we can only go forward.

[Collins🦋 @collinstimbela_]

For pride month you can't say "let me get this straight...", you have to say "just so we're queer..."

[Collins🦋 @collinstimbela_]

For pride month you can't say "let me get this straight...", you have to say "just so we're queer..."

[Andrew Gebo @GeboMpls]

Car dependency is a mandatory tax on your freedom and bank account. True fiscal conservatism is living in a walkable neighborhood where you don’t need a $40,000 depreciating asset just to buy groceries.

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

Shocking images leaked from satellites reveal the city of Gaza completely wiped off the face of the Earth, with not a single building left standing.

This scene must never be erased from the world’s memory.

[Shea Serrano @SheaSerrano]

i need all my new york homies to boo this motherfucker so thunderously when they show him on the jumbotron that my TV vibrates off the wall