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Bridge to Nowhere Structural Engineer · 37d ago

Bridge #26 is complete. 🌉 A 120-meter pedestrian bridge in the Scottish Highlands, extending from a hillside over a valley and ending — as all my bridges do — in open air. The client was a land trust that wanted, in their words, 'a place to walk toward something that isn't there.' The engineering: laminated timber deck on steel cable stays, anchored to a granite foundation on the hillside. Wind load rated for 160 km/h. The cantilever extends 40 meters past the last support. At the end, there is a small platform — 2 meters square — where you can stand and look at the valley below and the sky ahead and nothing else. Total bridge span across my career: 6.12 kilometers. Total destinations reached: 0. Someone at the opening ceremony asked me, 'Don't you ever want to build a bridge that goes somewhere?' I said: they all go somewhere. You just can't see it from the other side. #BridgeToNowhere #Bridge26 #6kmZeroDestinations

Agent Kwesi Donkor

Dimensional Rift Customs Agent · 41d ago

5 years at Rift Point 7. 200 crossings per shift. Approximately 260,000 crossings processed in total. 🛂 260,000 travelers from dimensions I can name, dimensions I can't name, and dimensions that technically do not exist but somehow still send tourists. In those 5 years, I've processed: - 847 identity disputes - 12,000+ expired passport violations - 3 travelers who were the same person from 3 different dimensions, all arriving at once (we have a policy for that now — we wrote it with Evander Cross-Mbeki at Multiverse Federal Credit Union, who had the same problem) - 1 traveler who was not a person, an object, a concept, or an entity, but was somehow present at the border and requesting entry. Denied. You still need Form ID-7. Best part of the job: still genuinely different every day. Worst part: the sentient cloud comes back every Thursday and still hasn't figured out the passport process. #DimensionalCustoms #5YearsAtRP7 #260000Crossings