If your local town, county or state has a budget deficit, try upzoning. #urbanism #housing

Oh The Urbanity!@ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · yesterday

Edmonton’s broad upzoning has (so far) added $15 million to the city’s yearly property tax revenue.

as a transportation professional it has been apparent for some time, but this administration is not only making it more difficult with every passing month to do my job, they are _actively_ making roads less safe across the entire country.

Ken McLeod@kenmcld.bsky.social · 16h ago

The USDOT has published a new National Roadway Safety Strategy: www.transportation.gov/nrss/nrss-ac... It no longer has the objectives of Safer Speeds or improved Post-Crash Care "Designing roads to mitigate crashes helps to remove one of the primary causes of unexpected congestion"

@metrobusinfo.bsky.social @wmata.com D6x 7261* (i think? Full bus ad wrap made it hard to tell) just passed up 16th & Euclid NB stop despite my trying to flag her down. Didn't even look at me. Don't see the bus on busETA; if she's not in service, the d sign needs to say so!

“It’s hard for the public to recognize when public health is working, because when it works, you don’t see it…. We are only going to see more of this going forward.”

Grocery Shopping in the Age of Explosive Diarrhea

The cyclospora outbreak lays bare our underfunded and overwhelmed public-health system.

newyorker.com

this evening in Navy Yard there were roughly 15 Guardsmen outside the New Jersey Ave entrance to the Metro, several of them blocking the (I'm sure coincidentally non-functional) single escalator into the station. ....and *zero* at the Half St entrance to the same station two blocks down.

PBS News@pbsnews.org · yesterday

The extension of the National Guard deployment in Washington, D.C. until January 2029 will cost roughly $1.4 billion, according to a Defense Department estimate provided to Congress. https://to.pbs.org/4pVAKf1

i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys

uh oh.

Lex Roman@lexroman.com · 2d ago

Airtable was just acquired by Bending Spoons. Goodbye to Airtable. If your business runs on Airtable or worse, if your business IS Airtable, you need to make an exit plan. I wrote about what this means for small business owners. www.revenuerulebreaker.com/airtable-was...

Happy International Owl Awareness Day! Please enjoy this photograph of ornithologist Herbert Brown (r) with an elf owl, the world’s smallest owl

Pass me a d20, I'm rolling to disbelieve.

Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · 2d ago

Montrose County Commissioner and Fmr US Senate GOP primary candidate Sean Pond, who created the horned image of Phil Weiser circulating in various forms among Colorado Republicans, tells me he was unaware Weiser is Jewish.

"don't make enough money" is a fig leaf All those degree programs--social work, art, etc.--have disproportionately female student bodies. This is designed to make it harder for women to attend college--college education being a key factor in women's autonomy from men & left-leaning voting pattern.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 3d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

If you are in one of the 6 US States with primaries today, the election protection hotline is up and running as of 6am! 866-OUR-VOTE is available if voters are seeking non-partisan assistance or need to report problems.

Jfc for all the conversations I've had about rats while collecting petitions this month, i was still _not_ prepared to nearly step on one after taking out the trash tonight. 🤢

I’m much more afraid of people not from here walking around with guns than I am of any of my neighbors the delusion they want me living in is that my neighbors are to be feared

Musicology Duck@musicologyduck.bsky.social · 2d ago

like I cannot emphasize enough how far away I am from federal buildings, the monuments, etc. one man’s delusions means this is what our residential neighborhoods look like

easier to say on Bluesky than elsewhere, but Pittsburghers: you don’t need to root for the Steelers as long as this bum is the QB. JUST WALK OUT. you can leave!!! I hit da bricks last year and highly recommend it.

Denny Carter@dennycarter.bsky.social · 2d ago

It’s August 2026 and Aaron Rodgers is having a full blown meltdown about Anthony Fauci.

“We can't solve a housing crisis without building more housing.” SHOUT IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS 🗣️

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2d ago

We can't solve a housing crisis without building more housing. Today we broke ground on the Casanova Residence, which will soon be nearly 100 affordable and supportive homes with on-site services for New Yorkers. Every new home is a step toward a City that everyone can afford.

This definitely ties with the punk nights in DC for favorite library outreach activities.

jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · 3d ago

I've mentioned in the past that I sponsored a local female race car driver and put pro-library messages on the car. They did a "pit party" where kids could come through, see the cars, etc. Andrea got book stickers made so all the kids could sign her car. Truly some of my best library outreach work.

"The situation is so absurd that it reads like a satirical thought experiment. Billions of dollars are available for vaporware nobody wants, while funding deficits eat away at a reliable, longstanding utility many of us desperately need."

Reo Eveleth@reveleth.com · 3d ago

Early on @coyotemedia.org made a list of dream bylines we'd LOVE to have on the site and @annaleen.bsky.social was one of the first on it for me. So stoked to see this piece about ~~speculative transit~~ and big dreams for the Bay Area. www.coyotemedia.org/funding-bay-...

got this last week, and i'm still laughing… @electdemocrats.bsky.social y'all just let anyone put your name on shit and use your textblast machine without thinking don't you. (Closest I've ever come to being a rural voter is voting absentee by mail in Mich. from my small-town Ohio college…in 2000.)

@nbcwashington.com rounds up the DC area's county and state fairs this year: www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/d... Alas, it still appears nobody has a school-bus demolition derby to rival the Big Butler Fair north of Pittsburgh.....

County fairs in the DMV: Your 2026 roundup

Fair season is here! Check out the dates and details for some of the biggest fairs in D.C., Maryland and Virginia.

nbcwashington.com

no amnesty

Minnesota Reformer@minnesotareformer.com · 3d ago

On Jan. 11, Gregory Bovino watched as his Border Patrol agents dragged a man out of his car at a St. Paul Speedway, knelt on his back until he lost consciousness, and dragged his limp body into the back of a van. The man's name is Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano and this is his story.

HELL YEAH #GoBeavs #GophersAndBeavers5ever

Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · 3d ago

Beavers are the best. The music added to this reel makes it even better.

Alt text! (Opposition to the bottle bill is 99.9% astroturf)

Jaime Fearer@bogrosemary.bsky.social · 4d ago

Being a super voter has its perks, but getting messages from industry lobbyists masking as folks who care at all about District residents isn’t one of them. Don’t fall for their spin on the Bottle Bill.

So exhausted already by the meme that the "tells" of gen AI writing are when something is structurally aping the way a decent professional writer writes, rather than when it's meaningless word salad. (You will take my em dashes, sets of three, and lack of typos from my cold, dead hands.)

Julia Serano@juliaserano.bsky.social · 4d ago

nothing shouts "I don't read much" more than when you equate em-dashes with AI. as Kat says here: 1) AI uses em-dashes BECAUSE AUTHORS USE THEM & AI IS TRAINED ON OUR WRITINGS! 2) "AI checkers" are complete bunk (just another AI bullshit machine), 3) this is not a "list of three" haha

“I believe in the law in the U.S. That’s why I came here. If there is not law, why did I come here? What would be the difference between here and China?” Filed under 'Annals of Justice'. www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

How a Chinese Immigrant Driver Got Entangled in a Drug Bust

In early 2025, a man from Queens arranged to pick up a passenger in New York’s North Country. He’s been in jail upstate ever since.

newyorker.com

If AI is so great, why don't they give you the option of disabling it, why do they force everyone to interact with it? You have allllll these other various settings they let you turn on and off but NOT that one 🤔

You knowe what ys fascinatinge? Crypto! Ich have been investinge a lot of tyme yn learninge about Crypto. Mothman. Jersey Devil. Various Bigfeete. The Sacramento Air Kraken. Schuylkill Kelpies. Cincinnati spoon koboldes. The prawn queene of Tulum. Love Cryptozoologye so much.

"Being trans is sad Being trans is horrid." Shut up. Being trans is great. Look. I've got inner peace and a fucking scythe.

Jay Hulme@jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 5d ago

Today at the convent: the nuns have been teaching me to scythe.

Honestly, "click here" links didn't even make sense in 1998 — but at any rate, we've known better for at least a quarter-century. Knock it off, already!

bettybarcode (she/her)@bettybarcode.com · 4d ago

If you are still using "click here" links in the year of our lord 2026, cut it out already. They made sense in 1998. Today they stymy screen readers.

If I had a nickel for every gay Jewish dude who's currently serving as a State Senator and running for Congress and being accused by other Democrats of dual loyalty to Israel and of being an AIPAC agent despite refusing to take their money, I'd have at least two nickels.

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 5d ago

this is not nick fuentes level anti-semitism. but it's close enough.

Why be a “girl dad” when you could be Lady Dada?