No better motivation for an uphill bike ride than the clouds of doom looming over the city. Made it from Georgetown to Mt P in record time.

Well, this was the motivation I needed to call DoorDash and get them to cancel my subscription, which I had been trying to cancel for several months. Even got a one month refund out of it.

Martin Austermuhle@maustermuhle.bsky.social · 2w ago

Interesting: DoorDash is supporting the GOP bill in Congress to limit D.C.'s ability to increase or decrease taxes and fees, largely in response to the D.C. Council's recent vote in impose a new 20-cent delivery fee to help fund food-access programs. www.notus.org/metro/uberea...

No one told me how much of my one wild and precious life would be spent struggling with online grant application portals.

“They are not going to let us have it” is rape coded language. It’s the electoral equivalent of “I paid for your drinks and dinner, what do you mean you’re not going to go home with me?”

Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 4w ago

"We engaged in electoral politics. We motivated people. We banded together. We did it the way that we were told we are supposed to make change, and we won, and now they are not going to let us have it," Platner says.

Sorry to be cringe or whatever, but I did in fact tear up at my hometown July 4th parade. I love this imperfect, impossible country. I love the opportunities it has given me to learn and lead. I won’t give up on it, nor will I cede patriotism to those who so greatly misunderstand what America is.

Best part of the hometown parade is that they only use the southbound lanes of the street, and the northbound lanes are pedestrianized.

I’d been sitting on this book from @isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social for a few months. It turns out that actually the perfect time for it is this America’s 250th weekend, and the perfect place is in my childhood home in Massachusetts.

Almost heaven, Western Mass.

I have condiments in my refrigerator that are older than JD Vance’s Catholicism, I don’t need him to lecture me on the Nicene Creed, or frankly on any of the teachings of the Church or Christ.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · last mo.

Vance: People hang out those hideous signs in their yard that say, "in this house we believe blah blah blah blah blah. You know, love is love, science is science, whatever. No person is illegal." That sign is such a disgusting butchering of the Nicene Creed

My parents lived in Boston during the bicentennial, and growing up they told us all about the tall ships and other festivities. I’m living in DC for the 250th, and finding the incessant military flyovers a lot less charming.

I need some kind of premium HBO subscription that includes pop-up video style reminders (maybe from @jowrotethis.bsky.social ?) about dragons and sigils if I’m ever going to be able to follow House of the Dragon. I suppose this could also be solved by finding a nerdy man to date.

Thinking about rebranding Lock 4 as “the other reflecting pool”

It has recently come to my attention that Horace Mann elementary school’s mascot is the centaur (horseman) and I need to know the back story here. Surely I’m connected to enough local DC folks that someone knows?! Did the kids come up with this? The parents?

I know the other cities who elected democratic socialist mayors got major sports championships, but I’d just like to make a formal request that we get Statehood for DC

You know what’s great? Eating a ton of ice cold watermelon while sitting on my porch after biking home past lots of busy voting locations.

At some point we need to talk about the sheer amount of waste created by campaigns. At least the mailers are recyclable, but when I think of how many plastic lawn signs are gonna end up in a landfill after today it makes me nauseous.

Go vote, DC! It took me about 15 minutes at the Columbia Heights Education Campus, not a long line but a few technical snags with the check-in system. And LOTS of screens to get through on the electronic ballot.

Jesus, did they just do the flyover at 11:30 pm??

When you host an event in a National Park, you have to show them your signs in advance as part of the permit process. Sponsor logos are required to be no more than one-third the size of the event logo. But this is fine, obviously.

Jordan Uhl@jordanuhl.com · 2mo ago

The “Freedom 250” UFC fight at the White House features ad placement for the Saudis, along with gambling and crypto companies.

I’ve been feeling decidedly meh about the 250th, but this week has been full of reminders of what I love about this stupid broken country. Scots singing Country Roads in a Boston bar, all of New York taking to the streets to celebrate the Knicks, reclaiming the Kennedy Center name.

Having endured 18 DC summers now, I am delighted to finally have these horrors inflicted on folks who deserve it.

Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 2mo ago

more excited for the bugs than the lightning at this UFC shitshow if i’m honest

They better announce exactly when the exterior signage is coming down so we can all meet up down there and cheer as it happens.

Kennedy Center orders staff to begin removing Trump’s name after ruling

The Kennedy Center's general counsel instructed staff members in a memo to strip all uses of President Donald Trump's name from signs, brochures, the website and other materials.

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This week really had it in for me, but it’s Friday, I’ve had two glasses of wine and one gummy and it’s the most perfect temperature (no humidity) and I’m reading a romance novel on the porch.

Caught a glimpse of the cage fighting match looming over the White House this morning and it’s all just so stupid and on the nose.

Well, the good news is there are new valves on the radiators. The bad news is, I woke up at 2 am to a stream of water that had been dripping directly on my couch for several hours.

Maggie Downing@maggiedowning.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Revisiting this post from 6 months ago because now that it’s summer (this weekend’s weather excepted) my landlord is putting new valves on all the radiators in the house (5 in my one bedroom apartment alone). I simply cannot wait to only be sweaty for perimenopause reasons next winter.

Revisiting this post from 6 months ago because now that it’s summer (this weekend’s weather excepted) my landlord is putting new valves on all the radiators in the house (5 in my one bedroom apartment alone). I simply cannot wait to only be sweaty for perimenopause reasons next winter.

Maggie Downing@maggiedowning.bsky.social · 9mo ago

This skeet brought to you by a row house where it was 80 degrees in one unit and 65 in another, and until I arrived the solution was apparently to play passive aggressive games with the thermostat. So now I’m discussing radiator balancing techniques with the landlord.

Someone please remind me to either go out of town or not leave my house during police week next year.

I need to know who was in charge of decorating this bar set for last night’s SNL cold open

I am involved with/in charge of like 4 big outdoor events every year, and today is the first time ever that I have had absolutely perfect weather. I would like to know which weather gods I have pleased, and how to stay in their good graces in June, September, and October.

Walked past the Hilton on my way home from the farmers market this morning, I could’ve ended up in the background of at least three news stories from what I could tell.