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kindly shopkeeper (hannah@posts.rat.pictures)'s status on Friday, 25-Aug-2023 05:45:55 JST kindly shopkeeper

Someone posted this on the chicago subreddit and i cant stop watching it
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1. An intersection where the streetlights are blinking on and off impossibly fast, as if they were somehow at 100x speed but everything else was normal
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  kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Friday, 25-Aug-2023 05:45:54 JST kaia
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  @hannah is that an emergency signal?
  
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  Piggo :verified_horse: (piggo@piggo.space)'s status on Friday, 25-Aug-2023 05:46:01 JST Piggo :verified_horse:
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  @hannah it's pulse width modulation of traffic!
  
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  [realhackhistory@home]# (realhackhistory@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 25-Aug-2023 05:46:22 JST [realhackhistory@home]#
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  @hannah oh I’ve seen this movie
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  nev (nev@bananachips.club)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Oct-2023 13:20:40 JST nev
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  @hannah one of my favourites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_Light_Tree
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    Traffic Light Tree
    
    Traffic Light Tree is a public sculpture in Poplar, London, England, created by the French sculptor Pierre Vivant following a competition run by the Public Art Commissions Agency for the London Docklands Development Corporation under their Public Art programme. Originally situated on a roundabout in Limehouse, near Canary Wharf and Millwall, at the junction of Heron Quay, Marsh Wall and Westferry Road, it is now located on a different roundabout near Billingsgate Market in Poplar. Eight metres tall and containing 75 sets of lights, each controlled by computer, the sculpture was described by Vivant thus: The Sculpture imitates the natural landscape of the adjacent London Plane Trees, while the changing pattern of the lights reveals and reflects the never ending rhythm of the surrounding domestic, financial and commercial activities. The Public Art Commissions Agency has said "the arbitrary cycle of light changes is not supposed to mimic the seasonal rhythm of nature, but the restlessness of Canary Wharf."Traffic Light Tree was installed in 1998 on the site of a plane tree that...
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  kindly shopkeeper (hannah@posts.rat.pictures)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Oct-2023 13:20:42 JST kindly shopkeeper
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  This kind of surreal, deranged urbanism is illegal to build in most american cities
  
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