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summertime and the livin' is dani

@daniskitchen.bsky.social

pittsburgher posting adventures in cooking & gardening, travel, books, local/national politics, etc. she/her if we are professional colleagues and you think you recognize me, no you don't

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Slippy@damnslippy.slippy.me · 4d ago

focus on what makes you happy: a hot teacup against your belly. fresh sheets. turning up the heat in the apartment and cleaning naked as if it is August and everyone you love is coming over for breakfast. #SaturdayPoem

Marty McConnell Zoo what’s important is to know that you will one day be happy again. happier than you were with her, happier than has ever been possible. focus on what makes you happy: a hot teacup against your belly. fresh sheets. turning up the heat in the apartment and cleaning naked as if it is August and everyone you love is coming over for breakfast. you have had love, and that means your sternum is a divining rod for both passion and grief. because the tongue is the body’s strongest muscle, make it say joy. make it say I am a factory of splendid things. make it say the octopus is the smartest animal in the animal kingdom, and I am an octopus. I am an octopus. I am happy. my survival was not an accident, or purposeless. the car that could have ended me didn’t. the lies that could have brined my insides to bitterness didn’t. word on the street is, you have muscles other than the tongue. take them for a walk in the sun. or, if it is spring in Chicago and therefore grey as your actual hair, in the rain. there are people everywhere. some of them are happy. you are one of them. I am one of them. and it’s OK. you can be happy and have a baby. you can be happy and create disconcerting images of traditional Christian figures in compromising positions using masticated fireflies as paint. someday somebody will love you for this. or in spite of it. either way, you’re an octopus. I’m an octopus. say it: we are happy. say: it’s not so bad.
summertime and the livin' is dani@daniskitchen.bsky.social · 6d ago

this is how i read the pittsburgh trid btw trying to delineate ever smaller tax districts so that tax revenues generated by development in wealthier parts of town don't have to be shared with the rest of the city

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · last wk.

Even today there are huge, well funded efforts by wealthy elites to fragment US cities even further than they already are, e.g. to split Buckhead off from Atlanta or La Jolla from San Diego. No one seems to really care on the other side, and there's no countervailing force for consolidation.

summertime and the livin' is dani@daniskitchen.bsky.social · last wk.

kind of wild that republicans have more faith in the dem establishment than their own base does

Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · last wk.

For one thing, a good number of them are truly convinced that after they’re out of power, Dems will bend to their base’s appetite for punishing team trump, including but not limited state or local prosecutions that aren’t covered by trump pardons. They really do think elite Dems are gonna do…

summertime and the livin' is dani@daniskitchen.bsky.social · last wk.

unexpectedly wonderful encounter with an old acquaintance tonight has me feeling fired up and hopeful in a way i think has been missing for me lately. you never know where relationships will lead you but there's so many people to connect with and care about out there, grab every single one you can

The War on Cars@thewaroncars.bsky.social · last wk.

The next front in The War on Cars: car reduction strategies. It's not enough to just add bike lanes and pedestrian space. Cities have to actively reduce the amount of cars that flood their streets. A lot of that can be done by going after parking.

Melissa & Chris Bruntlett@modacitylife.com · last wk.

10,000 fewer on-street car parking spaces. That's the pledge from Amsterdam's new coalition government over the next four years. While many cities still argue whether change is possible, Amsterdam is reclaiming its public realm one tree, bench, bike rack, terrace, playground, and garden at a time.

summertime and the livin' is dani@daniskitchen.bsky.social · last wk.

cannot agree hard enough with these suggestions. not mentioned but also very much evidence of how problematic this corridor is is the absolutely rampant running of red lights throughtout. cannot remember the last time I traveled melwood through here and DIDN'T encounter at least one red-runner

Pittsburgh City Paper@pghcitypaper.com · last wk.

The way multiple grids converge at Baum and Centre creates a multitude of headaches for drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians. How can the city bring this mess into the 21st century?