Cameron Monagle @cmonagle@mastodon.social

Blobmoji are back 🥰🥰
https://developers.googleblog.com/2022/04/what-is-black-and-white-and-read-all.html?m=1

but!! i can't find any evidence of this occurring as required in 2019, so somebody should really make sure that vermont hasn't annexed the connecticut river, or maybe someone please go tell vermont that now is their chance to annex the connecticut river.

so, back to ✨new✨ england: the new hampshire and vermont border follows the connecticut river, but was disputed for a long time, until 1933 when the supreme court ruled that it was at the west bank at the "mean low-water mark".

so what better way for neighbouring entities to agree on a border? by beating the bound, of course. both states adopted laws to perambulate the border every seven years, just to make sure they're still on the same page.

#history #newengland

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/05/14/border-dispute-reaffirm-boundary/QliLE4hDCTfjOXiISXtOMI/story.html

perambulation is an 📜 ancient tradition 📜 from england and wales, where they would take the town children for a walk around the borders with literal sticks swatting at the demarcations, often with light child abuse to make sure the memory is extra-vivid. kids would have their heads dunked in streams, or be thrown into nettles.

literally giving kids swirlies so they don't forget where the town ends.
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#england #wales #history #trivia https://daily.jstor.org/beating-the-bounds/

something i learned about today: perambulation, or "beating the bounds"

which is when the board of selectmen of a small new england town meet with their neighbouring town counterparts and walk along the shared border, presumably not unlike petulant siblings dividing their shared room, to make sure they agree that "this side of the bendy pine tree is OURS, that side is YOURS 😤" and perhaps to place an stone, just to make sure it's clear.
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#newengland #history #trivia
https://www.wsj.com/articles/some-devoted-new-englanders-went-for-a-stroll-in-1651-and-havent-stopped-since-1432308932

"Where the curb is, is kind of like the tailoring for streets"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsDaZH-RpWA

#urbanism #urbandesign #infrastructure #nyc #architecture #activetransport #biking

Tracking mask compliance on public transit as masking mandates are dropped.

~ 10% drop over one week in users reporting "most" people are masked on their bus/train 🤯

#urbanism #covid #masks #publictransit #transit #bus #train

https://transitapp.com/masks

Hadn't really appreciated that the plex + alleyway combination was so unique to Montreal, but it really does define the city's fabric.

#montreal #polqc #urbanism #architecture

https://www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idees/703044/urbanisme-le-secret-de-montreal-est-dans-ses-plex-et-ses-ruelles