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onebug @numberonebug9/22/2023, 1:37 AM

squircular reasoning @spiders

squircular reasoning @spiders9/22/2023, 1:25 AM

lifestyle centers are so creepy

this hotel is near one called "bay street" which not only is like a weird pastiche of a walkable downtown but with oddly homogenous archetecture and ONLY mall-ass shops (like literally a claires), but also they rent out APARTMENTS? so you can, live in a mall i guess? who tf is this for ??????? who's out here wanting to live right above a spirit halloween and a urban outfitters??

like just everything about it feels so Wrong. its unsettling, its uncanny. its unnerving. it feels like the creeping dread of everything becoming globalized and homogenized and privatized, distilled into a weird stepford wives dystopic private "street"

squircular reasoning @spiders9/22/2023, 1:36 AM

WHAT THE FUCK

The mall is built on an Ohlone burial ground and shellmound[1] and former toxic waste site.[1] Since 2001 there has been a "don't buy anything day" hosted at the site by descendants of the Ohlones that believe the site has desecrated the resting place of their ancestors.[5][6]

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~@modulusshift9/22/2023, 1:31 AM

Is it relatively new? Or more like "it's the 90's and I wish I could literally live in a mall" and now we're stuck with the consequences?

squircular reasoning @spiders9/22/2023, 1:33 AM

it was apparently opened in 2002

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_Street_Emeryville

liffy 💜@lifning9/22/2023, 1:35 AM

shoulda called em unsettler-colonialists

squircular reasoning @spiders9/22/2023, 1:37 AM

see followup post u are more right than you could ever believe

@sharnoff9/22/2023, 2:59 AM

oh yeah, bay street is definitely a lil funky lmao. haven't been in a while, but last I remember, it kind of perpetually looks like it was only built a year or two - almost as if "the universe could have been created like this just 10 seconds ago" was distilled into a couple blocks of emeryville

🌊@wave9/22/2023, 3:08 AM

i read it as "lifestyle centaurs" at first and was like, yes, ready to hear more

in reply to @spiders's post:

~@modulusshift9/22/2023, 1:38 AM

Sheesh. "Constructed on a Indian burial ground" feels like something that happens in a movie not real life lol

liffy 💜@lifning9/22/2023, 1:43 AM

the bay area continues to be extremely terrible in every conceivable way

vivian lim ⭐@viv9/22/2023, 1:49 AM

what the fuck

Aisling @DiscoDeerDiary9/22/2023, 1:50 AM

This feels like a monkey's paw for people's extremely reasonable wish to live in mixed zoning

jeroknite @jeroknite9/22/2023, 4:35 AM

Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

the julian sauce @julez9/22/2023, 10:09 AM

extremely cursed

Holly Wednesday (Dr.)@doctorwednesday9/22/2023, 7:14 PM

I'm pretty sure this is the plot of Poltergeist

but it's like, especially in places like the bay area or Los Angeles, it's built-up sprawl for miles around and it's so difficult to imagine it was all once a natural environment that could support human life in and of itself

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