Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
Theo in Arlington
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Adam Theo in Arlington, Virginia 👉 adamtheo.com 📃 I run the 'Arlington VA' feed here 🏘️ YIMBYs of NoVA yimbysofnova.org 🚴 County Transportation Commissioner 💼 Corporate Communications & Nonprofit Management at GMU.edu 🕺 I want to dance like Sam Rockwell
My most likely to upset Bluesky's community opinion is that tons of people using Bluesky have no idea what the company is or was founded to do and yet yell at the devs to make it something else, but the Bluesky devs are correct to build what they want, and if that's not for you, that's okay.
Disturbing thread and article from my colleague @pgeddington.bsky.social, including the possibility of deploying military force against domestic unrest. #FOIA @cato.org
Patrick G. Eddington@pgeddington.bsky.social · 2d agoA week after Trump issued his "national emergency" proclamation for the southern border, the military began planning for a potential invocation of the Insurrection Act & much more. Another major #FOIA get, out now. cc: @radleybalko.bsky.social @cjciaramella.bsky.social www.cato.org/blog/northco...
So yeah, if anyone is looking for an 8-shelf console table in cherry red finish with matching side tables from ikea (HEMNES line) for $275 around Arlington or DC, hit me up. I'll discount the $25+ I was going to spend on marketplace ads for it.
Theo in Arlington@adamtheo.com · 3d agoI absolutely hate Facebook / Meta especially trying to sell anything on its marketplace. It stupidly blocked my listing for a console table as attempting to sell a "recalled" product because I stated the cherry red finish was no longer manufactured by ikea. It has an even stupider review process.
I absolutely hate Facebook / Meta especially trying to sell anything on its marketplace. It stupidly blocked my listing for a console table as attempting to sell a "recalled" product because I stated the cherry red finish was no longer manufactured by ikea. It has an even stupider review process.
The MAGA mindset draws heavily on decades of evangelical culture. The worldview I grew up with was apocalyptic to its core. For them, the world is always about to end. Chaos and collapse aren't threats to that belief, they're confirmation of it. Enter Trump. /2
I want a version of LinkedIn that's more like IMDB... here's a project or a product and all the techies, designers, writers, managers, and various pixel pushers who made it happen.
After many stumbles, my weight loss has continued. I reached a milestone of where I was at in the beginning of the pandemic, ~163 lbs in March 2020. I celebrated with a delicious cheesy bagel sandwich (the Thunderbird) and an iced latte at the new Call Your Mother in Ballston.
Theo in Arlington@adamtheo.com · 9mo agoI've been working on my weight since September, and I'm excited that I am down 10 lbs since I began, now at 178 lbs from my original "skinny with a belly" 188 lbs. I now weigh less than I did in spring 2023. It's a third of the way towards my goal of losing a total 30 lbs.
The happy hour celebration of the 21st Century ROAD to #Housing Act becoming law (yes, us housing nerds do that sort of thing here in DC, a delightfully wonky town), organized by Inclusive Abundance, @upforgrowthaction.bsky.social, @yimbyaction.bsky.social, & other orgs was a wonderful time 🎉🎉
What these people don’t see is that by Beshear doing nothing he is actively doing something. He’s keeping the GOP controlled senate down one vote. If you’re screaming for him to storm the hospital then you’re actually screaming to give the GOP back their missing vote. Think first, “resist” later.
Karen L@kare-elle.bsky.social · 2w agoImagine not showing up for work for 6 weeks with zero explanation and just releasing one “proof of life” photo that’s obviously doctored and thinking you can keep your job. Mitch McConnell is dead and they’re stealing his seat like they stole a Supreme Court seat. And Dems are just letting them?
It's happened. I have senioritis. Bad. I currently have about 5 assignments due and I can't bring myself to be motivated about any of them. I'm struggling.
Ostensibly, the goal of IP is to "promote science and the useful arts." In practice, these coercively-enforced monopoly privileges prevent the preservation of knowledge.
Reminds me of the arguments of nimbys here in #ArlingtonVA against the Melwood, a proposed 105 unit affordable housing development primarily serving people with developmental disabilities replacing ... wait for it... ~*two walls*~ from an old segregated school from the 1970's.
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈@maxdubler.com · last wk.Whenever I feel bad about California’s insane NIMBYism, I remind myself that England exists: “Over 660 Bromley North residents have signed a petition calling for the car park to remain open, and the planning application for the [homeless children’s] home has received nearly 100 objections.”
The visual map provided is pretty damning but I have to remind myself all those rural counties are *very* low population and Republican, who typically distrust early voting. However, "the two localities with the most Sunday voters were Arlington (298) and Alexandria (128)." 👏👏
For the first time under a new law, Virginia’s election offices were open Sunday. In nearly half the state, no one showed up to vote.
Some localities have had Sunday voting before. Now it’s mandated. The turnout was spotty, with large numbers in two Northern Virginia localities, but most rural localities recorded no votes.
cardinalnews.org
Interesting: There’s now an anonymous, moderated list of companies that stop responding after you interviewed with them
Ghosted After a Job Interview? Report the Company
Ghosted after a job interview? Submit an anonymous report and see which companies candidates say stopped responding after interviews.
didtheyghostyou.com
3/ doing the math, 90 credit hours would make it possible for a really dedicated full-time student to complete the bachelor's degree in JUST TWO YEARS (x4 18 CR semesters plus x2 summer semesters of 9 CR each). That would have been amazing.
So many places to try once I've graduated and no longer a broke college student
Eataly Confirms First DC-Area Location, Landing in Tysons Corner in 2027
The wait for Eataly in the DC area has been a long one.
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As someone who has spent the past 3+ years for a bachelor's degree in order to switch careers into nonprofit management, I wholeheartedly endorse this plan. At least 20% of the courses I was required to take were pointless for my degree or redundant to what I already knew. #education #college
Virginia explores 3-year bachelor's degrees
The 90-credit programs could lower tuition and move graduates into the workforce sooner.
axios.com
For some reason Google's Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) now thinks I personally am @ezraklein.bsky.social and is gleefully informing me of all the nasty things people say about me. "A scathing critique of your insufferable tone and hubris."
Amidst all the skulduggery and corruption of our government, it's easy to ignore betrayals like this one. But what a rotten, rotten thing to do to young people, including the students who "won." www.notus.org/national/ame...
Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest
America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.
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It's my birthday so we went to Olive Garden for some good ol' fashioned Italian dining, but I didn't have my ID, so they arrested me for being an ImPasta.
Every arlingtonian should watch the final 15 minutes of tonight's Arlington board meeting, where @susanforarlington.bsky.social tries to insert a surprise agenda item to "study" the #MissingMiddle caps, presumably to extend/make permanent & the other CB members react appropriately.
Arlington County Board Recessed Meeting | July 21, 2026
YouTube video by Arlington County, VA
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“The fact that the trading firm would risk exposing the sordid details of such a trade in a lawsuit against a neutral party just shows how consequence-free insider trading has become. Maybe they’ll be one of the firms paying for faster access to Trump’s Truth Social posts.”
The Kleptocrat Nesting Dolls Behind Trump’s Potemkin Gas Stations - The American Prospect
How can Freedom Fuel afford to sell gas for $3.47 a gallon? That’s the wrong question to ask.
prospect.org
Les Femmes se battent, by Louis Léopold Boilly, 1818, 📸 by @CTriballeau
Ok I've added this book to my reading list. From the summary I get the feeling I could draw clear lines between the mythologization of many rightwing historical fetishes: Jim Crow 1950's, Nazi Germany, the U.S. Confederacy, feudal Europe, and now also ancient Sparta.
The Emotion Engine@emotion-engine.bsky.social · 3w agoThinking about how Osprey, a publishing house almost entirely devoted to publishing military uniform/equipment fetish material disguised as dry but picture heavy non-fiction tomes, put out a book dismantling the right wing mythologization of Sparta with an absolute all-timer table of contents.
I try not to overdo this bit but ... my man is begging for it. Let's go.
PEIPolitical 🇨🇦@peipolitical.bsky.social · 3w agoMiller: "It's not a coincidence that when you look at these violent Antifa demonstrations not one of the people that is demonstrating looks like a normal person. Not one looks normal. They're all deformed in some way in their appearance, in their dress, in their mannerism." #cdnpoli
In AI-generated America, everyone is glossy, white-coded, good-looking, and generic, which mirrors the Republican party’s project to dismantle pluralistic democracy, erase difference, and embrace homogeneity. ICYMI @alicetiara.bsky.social on slop and the right:
The Slop Doctrine
Why the right has overwhelmingly embraced terrible AI-generated imagery.
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ooooh I'm going to buy this as soon as the reviews show it is stable. I would love to load up a DC map and play around with a Blue Loop. Maybe even a @wmata.com route down Columbia Pike. 👀 #transit
Subway Builder Steam Launch Trailer
YouTube video by Subway Builder
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