Rose Burt
@RoseHammerBurt
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she/her // Tech worker by day, musician by night. Baritone saxophonist, etcetera
Baltimore, MD
Joined July 2012
Using a traffic speed monitoring device, we analyzed speeds along 28th Street the months before and after installation of the road diet. 🐌 Congestion (under 18mph) is only up ~5%. 🏎️ Dangerous speeding (over 43mph, the speed camera threshold) is down over 90%. That's a win.
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it looks like another lovely spring day to REMIND YOU DELINQUENTS TO STOP "RESCUING" BABY ANIMALS. THEIR MOMS ARE MOST LIKELY NEARBY SO JUST MIND YOUR BUSINESS. FAWNS, DROP EM'. BIRDS, LEAVE EM'. RACCOONS, DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT. ARMADILLO?¿? ARMADILL-NO.
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If Buffy the Vampire Slayer were set in your city where would the Hellmouth be? IMO Baltimore’s would be the Rite Aid on Chase and MLK bc it’s seemingly ordinary but everything goes down there and nothing runs as it should. S/o to everyone who works there-braver than the marines
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“This country has socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the poor." – Martin Luther King, Jr.
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They/them not in a nonbinary way but in a way that honors my body’s microbiome and the thousands of species of bacteria, archaea, fungi, protists, and viruses that inhabit me
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Dear Teachers, As some of you may know, if you have any students in your class who identify as Christian, they may ask to be excused from school to observe the Christian holiday of “Christmas,” more popularly referred to as Yom Christmas or Nittel. 1/x
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Why do federal judges jail >75% of people before trial? A groundbreaking new report by me and my Federal Criminal Justice Clinic, featured in USA Today, explains why: https://t.co/AKbI92occX [1/6]
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on Halloween, someone reported this house in Baltimore to the Health Department for illegally running a restaurant out of a residence 😭
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I am furious that this happened. We have been asking for traffic calming on this intersection 29th and N Howard ever since I came into office- and many have before me. Remove Leading light, change the timing of traffic lights, narrow the road, and more. It’s Time @BmoreCityDOT
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So btw while we’re talking abt grocery shopping… grocery stores are absolute sensory hell.
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The world's first trombone rhythm game is instantly a GOTY contender. And no, I'm not kidding. Turn up the volume and hear Beethoven like you've never heard it before. https://t.co/Qu7Cmkhjzc
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The Lady in the Lake story and the Banner/WYPR's youth-carjacking panic piece are two examples of fake news stories that perpetuate false/incomplete narratives about Baltimore. Local media should work to correct/complete those narratives, but too often they take easy way out 1/2
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Baltimore's Central Avenue (currently being repaved ~90 feet wide) instead with a daylighted stream, as rendered by Dall·E
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I have spent a lot of time examining the limited public details on Renew Baltimore & here's what I have come up with: it will not work as quickly as the proponents are implying and could cause serious damage to Baltimore City for years to come. https://t.co/yUEzXkLAbU
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A recently unveiled plan to slash Baltimore City’s property tax rate would likely cost upward of $400 million per year, force deep cuts to education and other services, and make the city a less...
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Apologies for how technical this is gonna get, but here’s my full analysis of how the crypto industry actually works (1/245) 🧵:
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🧵Hi y'all! We have a few new folks here, so we thought we’d introduce ourselves. We’re the Baltimore Abortion Fund (BAF)! Our organization is run by an amazing group of humans who care deeply about reproductive justice, and is co-led by two queer women of color.
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Which 30 Rock fictional project do you think was the best one (i.e. highest quality/most entertaining), in a universe in which they’re all real? My bet is on The Rural Juror.
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