Me: is my cat ill or just being a diva? I think he’s being a diva. My cat: I have pneumonia you idiot Me: 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😞😞😞😞😩😩😩😩

Why do we need local media that covers meetings? Because this was talked about in June and apparently no one knew: meetings.cvilledata.org/meetings/cha...

Inside the city’s scrabble club that meets in the county.

The first useful daily progress notification I’ve gotten in years and UH OH. House divided!!!!

I’m glad we didn’t shlep down to Charlotte for this game, which would’ve likely included a very sad 5 am train tomorrow 😅

I believe you should be able to pay an obscene amount of money to yell at football teams at halftime. Like a 45 second “you can do better” tirade in the locker room.

Can someone explain this to me?

I am having vivid flashbacks to 2017-2019 watching Albemarle county electeds talk about a high school.

Tag yourself, I’m coat bath or huge wak win closet.

In the middle of a conversation about a forbidden Thanksgiving topic, the dog started peeing on the floor.

Taps the sign.

My battery model is slightly different than the two recalled, but I wonder how much that matters? I can’t decide if I should just scrap my whole bike or drop $500 for a new battery. I don’t think I ride my bike enough to justify getting a whole new bike at this time 🙃🙃

I said this in a group text but I’ll say it out here: maybe we have too much national media?

There is a ginormous praying mantis who’s been living on our downtown mall deck for more than a month and they’re looking a little rough now. Is there a safe way to move them or should I just let them be? (They really like to hang out on the door frame, like the photo below, which is not ideal)

Not just a garden, a garden with fountains! Plural!!!!

I’ve refused to read anything that woman has written in nearly 10 years, why the heck would I start now?

“Rabies vaccine mandates are ‘kind of the definition of fascism, where government and corporations have merged, and now it’s claimed that it’s science—it’s scientific, so therefore it’s public health.’” Ahahahhahahahahahahahahahahhahahaahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahaah slate.com/life/2025/11...

We’re on the next gen Acela and we used upgrade passes to get first class. First thing I saw when getting on the train: 4 people fixing the bathroom, as the toilet isn’t flushing 😅

Can an attorney or someone in law enforcement explain to me how “a ticket while on an electric bike or scooter will go on your driving record, just like with a car” when you don’t have to have a license to ride a bicycle or scooter?

This is the second (that I’m aware of) issue with a generic vyvanse in the last two months. I don’t remember there being this many issues before the patent expired! Luckily they’ve been fairly mild, as far as I’m aware, but overall it’s a little frustrating.

The outdated Tonsler location showing up places might be a VPAP, not state elections department, issue. Here’s the info for the address of an undeveloped property owned by habitat in the tonsler now Buford/CMS area, and what the state website says for polling location versus VPAP:

Someone needs to explain the time change to my cat. He thinks it’s time for lunch already 🥲

I think if you have a dream where you’re back in school you should get a free pass from work the next day. “I spent all night writing an essay on a book I haven’t read since high school!!! Please excuse my absence from work today.”

You could change everything after “how Virginia does” and this could apply to a lot of things.

Someone with uva football must’ve heard me mocking them earlier this year (But also how is a team that has almost lost to 3 unranked teams ranked 15?!)

Why are “get out the vote” efforts so creepy? There were the vaguely threatening sounding postcards last year, now I’ve gotten two of these texts this year.

I can’t see Andrew cuomo without thinking about these photos of him from 2020 www.vice.com/en/article/w...

Local news is definitely dying/dead because I haven’t seen any reporting on the draft PBR shortage in Charlottesville. Ten years ago my colleagues would’ve been on that! No happy meals at millers ☹️

I must meet Lois Beckett one day.

It’s called ADHD, and past instances of people speaking about specifically the airport. There are really actually only a few gaps in this currently (once you get out of the city). Green are shared use paths, blue are bike lanes, red is approved shared use paths (I added the red).

You shouldn’t be allowed to have a”Virginia is for lovers” bumper sticker on your car if you don’t give pedestrians the right of way, and you proceed to mock them when you illegally don’t stop.

I’m glad Joe flacco’s kids are learning all about what it’s like to be a Browns fan. What happened is correct.

Wow look at all these students on the hill who just witnessed history!

We’ve made it to reversion on Reddit.

Living in Charlottesville is like Groundhog Day except everything repeats every 5-10 years.

Today I saw Al Roker at the Amtrak lounge in Moynihan and I definitely looked at him like this because I could not process seeing him in person

Me waiting for my boyfriend of 4.5 years to get home so we can talk about Travis and Taylor

It’s gonna be one of those weeks, right? 🥲

Me, all the time.

Happy 8th Birthday to the best cat in the world, Leo!

I sort of hated writing anniversary stories of any kind when I worked in news, but it feels very bizarre that there is one single local Aug. 12 anniversary story today and it’s just a preview to a book discussion. c-ville.com/eight-years-...

Summer 2025 is sick girl summer.

Ten years ago I moved to Charlottesville. My biggest regret is laughing at my dad when he suggested we look into buying a house — when the median sales price was around $270,000 — because I thought I’d only be here two years.

I just successfully gave my cat two pain pills in the first attempts from a recommendation on Reddit and I feel like I just won the lottery! Cat tax photo:

I read The Unthinkable in college and the #1 thing I remember from it is do NOT grab your bag when evacuating an airplane.

The biggest annoyance about my ears being screwed up for the last 10 days is my ability to eavesdrop has gone way down 😞

Propaganda I’m not falling for: having a house with a yard.

The real question is why are we sharing 2.5 year old tweets from a guy who’s been dead for 9 months?

I dare you to look at the number 2 location in Virginia.

My new favorite thing is reading comments online from people who are mad that Virginia banned styrofoam containers at fast food places. It’s wild how much people love styrofoam 😅 My favorite comments so far: