One consistent conversation I had today with voters and volunteers was that so many of them want young people more involved and for people who don’t want to fight to step aside. Even in a solid blue county, they know we have got to build a deeper bench.

You African Studies majors out there: you too can become mayor of New York City!!!

Yes!

The wind knocked down my sign shearing off the bottom of the metal posts. Those gusts were not only strong, but creative, too! I'd like to keep the sign unless Zyahna is recycling them? Fingers and toes crossed for your victory tomorrow Zyahna! 💞

I'm spreading good in my neighborhood. Everything helps.

Some footage from yesterday's parade!

This is *INSANE* for a 3.5 mile ride. Is there something going on in town I don't know about?

Now that I found further information on this without a paywall, I guess I'm better informed. But it's horrifying to kill critters for any reason. (I was one of those who hated killing the Spotted Lanternfly but I took out a fair number of them.)

Lisa is awesome. Listen to Lisa!

Catalog launch! Great photography! Free books! Tomorrow! Watch all about it! www.29news.com/2025/10/24/v...

This is the only acceptable outcome. Too bad they waited to see what other universities would do before coming to this conclusion.

Sobbing into my lace hankie with one hand and clutching my pearls in the other.

TODAY!

This is amazing!

Friday at noon, the day before the 🚫👑 protest, show up to encourage UVA to resist DOJ extortion of higher education.

Every sign in DC marks the loss of someone’s neighbor, someone’s loved one, someone’s friend. Every sign marks yet another step in the march toward authoritarianism.

👏👏👏

These two are walking on the 300 block of 7th St., Southeast right now and people are trying to figure out who they are. Anyone know?

Whew just in time! I was almost out of things to worry about. Starlink Satellites Deorbit at Unprecedented Rate

Unsurprising vileness from the @nytimes.com who decided the best picture for the ceasefire deal is an Israeli celebrating. Yeah it’s the people who did the genocide who deserve to be featured!

okay everybody call dibs on your antifa title now, so we don't have any repeats! for example i am the secretary of the sister of the Duke of Antifa

Well, yeah, we're suing ICE. This wasn't really a hard decision. As little faith as we have in institutions, we recognize the value of drawing visible lines in the sand. We drew ours personally a while ago, but better late than never. May every protester be freed and may this occupation end.

Looks like today was a good day to stay off the roads.

This bunch keeps cranking out despicable actions. There is no bottom.

IT'S RAINING!

1971. That's nineteen seventy nine! We had a chance then.

If you think our tax $ should be spent to pay school cafeteria staff a living wage (and not to put police in schools), you're our people! Join us tomorrow!

I'll be keeping a close eye on my Zyahna for School Board sign! Thank you so much for getting it installed, Team Zyahna!

I missed a softball game in 8th grade to stand up for public education. I believed in our schools then, and I still do. My name is Zyahna Bryant, I’m 24 and I’m running for the Charlottesville School Board. I hope to have your vote in November. zyahnabryantforccs.com

“Mercy, Rock Me”

Is it time again to fly this flag? When a Black male college student is found hanging from a tree in Mississippi in 2025, this is neither an idle nor inflammatory question. www.pbs.org/wgbh/america...

She's got my vote! ❤️

I built a Mastodon bot that reports on Covid wastewater levels, which gives me weekly updates on how cautious to be depending on where I'm going. It turns out that @wvgg.co ported it to Bluesky and improved it, with twice weekly updates! Insta-follow for me. Recommended.

Thanks all you Foodies out there! You guys are the best! ❤️

Charlottesville friends! I need some recommendations for a quiet(ish) restaurant with good food for this Saturday at lunchtime. This coincides with the UVA-Stanford game set for 7:30pm. One is 89yo and has difficulty hearing and for the rest of us, we have difficulty competing with noise/chatter

Wow!

One of the reasons I trusted Bluesky when I started an account was it had a vibrant trans community, so this week seeing Bluesky mods putting thumbs on the scale to put them in danger has me thinking this may have become just another bad place.

The founding fathers had a lot of ideas that need updating for these times. The thing they didn't get wrong was separation of church and state. Religion in politics is core to the dysfunction of our time. Good governance keeps us going. Bad religion doesn't.

No argument here.

Today: ground beef 90/10 UP $5 PER POUND. I'd like to make baked spaghetti again in this lifetime so I bought a package.

❔ just wtf on god's green earth is going on here❔

Yay Virginia. Wegmans had vaccines this afternoon. I was turned away earlier in the week.

Anyone else in North Downtown just hear 6 unevenly spaced shots? Preston Ave?