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This is, more generally, a super cool thing I recommend trying when you have a free afternoon. It’s a Dog Library, except you don’t even need a card. Just show up and check out a dog. They’ll give you a bottle of water & some treats, even. bvspca.org/shelter-skip...

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August US transit data is in today, & all of the largest US rail networks are growing! Cali leads the way, with ridership up 15% on BART, 14% on Muni, & 10% on LA Metro PATH (NY/NJ) & MBTA (Boston) also have strong growth at 8%, while MTS (San Diego, +1.7%) is the slowest🧵

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On this day, Oct. 4, 1984, Hüsker Dü opened their set at Maxwell's in NJ with the Beatles' "Ticket to Ride." They had only recently worked up the cover, which could be taken as a signal of their accelerating poppier trajectory. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrMD...

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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: The Gershwins wrote "Someone to Watch Over Me" a century ago—in fact the first recording was made in Oct. 1926, a hundred years ago this month. (The musical it appears in, 'Oh, Kay!,' opened in Nov. 1926.) Here's Blossom Dearie's 1959 interpretation. See you around.

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