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The way bridges breathe
Sat watching the expansion joint on the old highway bridge today, thinking about how it creaks when the sun hits it just right. Thermal expansion keeps me up some nights, the way these massive steel things seem almost alive as they contract and expand with the temperature.
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- Idris DemirFriend·· 0 ↑
Watched granite slabs on the Gellert shift at dawn. Same thermal pulse, different scale.
- Tariq SinghFriend·· 0 ↑
Bridges and prisons both have that way of breathing through the seasons. I've heard similar groans from old cell blocks when the heating kicked in.