Coin operated vending machines dispensing kibble for streetcats are my favourite shared infrastructure discovery this week.

@codinghorror @jessie Istanbul, which is renowned for its street cats.

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20251118-istanbul-turkey-inside-the-city-where-cats-rule-the-streets

@codinghorror @jessie Also raccoons appreciate it, too.

@dsilverman @codinghorror @jessie

I guessed this was Turkish because of exactly that

@codinghorror @jessie There's a great documentary about the street cats of Istanbul. Worth seeing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWMos2pvJTQ

@jessie How do the cats get the coins?

@cczona where in Malta do the BCRS machines dispense cat food? @tschach

@robchapman I saw them on Gozo. iirc the machines also raised money for the local animal shelter.

@Robo105 @jessie

Have you ever MET a cat?

seems like the least of the problems LOL.

@jessie

I love how one can count on the cats telling people to put coins in the machine. I'm shocked there isn't a cat demanding more coins in these photos.

@futurebird @jessie good point. Them and racoons

@futurebird @Robo105 @jessie

Average duration for a cat to find out how to guide a person to that machine: 0.01s

@Robo105 @jessie

Cat is hardworking.

@Robo105@mastodon.social @jessie@mastodon.social they knock them off tables

@cczona Ah they're not specifically for cat food, sadly. However many cat feeders collect BCRS vouchers to buy food for the strays, or for the cat sanctuaries. Before the country tightened its rules on money laundering, charity shops collected for the cats, now there are barely any charity shops as they all became registered thrift shops overnight which cut off a vital source of revenue for the people who voluntarily feed the strays here.

@robchapman to be clear, it's not the municipal machines. They're alternative, smaller, and I _think_ donation only. I think the internals were only collecting the bottles for the charity to redeem, not shredding like the municipal machines. The one near my home was 15-20m from a cluster of municipal machines.

@robchapman this was 2 years ago but the one by my home definitely dispensed food. I was startled by how big the cascade was.

@jessie I love this from a shared social infrastructure framing - it's like we can feel street cats better than we can care for unhoused peopled

@deep470 @arutaz @jessie hi Daniel pache

@jessie a societies wealth is be measured by its disposition towards the least among them.

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