Counterpoint: not if I can help it

Purrfect repose

TJ MAxx, you get it

Funny how it's the youngest kid moving up that brings home the sense of kids growing up. Almost done with the last year of middle school 😭

Another point in favor of motor electrification, no need for engine oil. (I mean motors expansively, small engines, motorbikes, etc, not just cars)

Attending three track meets in the span of 4 days is a bit much! (2 middle school meets and one high school meet.) Very glad my youngest will be in high school next year so he and middle kid will have the same schedule.

Bike month in Charlottesville: The City of Wishful Thinking, where great bike infrastructure exists if you just believe hard enough and talk about it a lot. No actual changes needed.

The big, obvious change in that time: Chromebooks and tablets intermediating learning.

Still fighting Reconstruction

Geez. Kickbacks galore

I've planted a bunch of persimmon and the last few pawpaws we had in a patch at the end of my yard (had to rip up that invasive periwinkle anyway) so between that and numerous friends picking up seedlings, we've made a good dent. However there are still many persimmon and a few buttonbush left

Safe mobility for all, not just those in cars

"trust us, we won't drain your reservoirs"

#charlottesville anyone know where this guy's human might be? Wandering in my yard on the loose on Meade avenue

Back on their bullshit (lanternfly nymphs sucking the life out of an Ailanthus tree)

I hope for a very 2026 dummymander, especially if dear leader expires and depresses R turnout

It's very frustrating living in a country where the Republicans are given a free pass by the courts and by the media to do whatever deranged dangerous bugfuck batshit they want, but when Democrats make any change at all, the media hamstrings them and then the courts brain them with a cinder block.

Ffs 😡

We still have a lot of persimmon and a few button bush if anyone is interested

So many people were content with this county when it was being underinvested in. Welp. Now you have to deal with the realities that you created. A lot of us don’t want to live in a county designed by 70 year olds for 70 year olds.

I've been contemplating ditching chrome, this gives me a strong push to do that. (Switching to Opera.)

Native tree alert! 🌿 Through a miscommunication, we have 2 bundles instead of 2 saplings each of 3 types of native plants, parsimmon, button bush, and pawpaw. This is meant for anyone who wants to plant them so if you're in Charlottesville and have a place to plant these, hit me up (dm for address)

Now this is a rose! Been waiting for this bush to start blooming.

At the UVA track this morning for a big high school meet. CHS parents are volunteering at the shot put, which is right next to the discus throwers. (Not to worry, picture taken through heavy netting)

Friday night lights... Spring track and field edition (middle school track meet at Fluvanna HS.)

No, brutalist buildings do not need paint

Nearing peak peony season!

i write about white supremacist violence for a living. i’ve been writing a lot lately about white supremacist violence during the years of the civil rights movement and placing these things in context together has really changed the way i understand that history.

I talked with @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social about hope, backlash, political memory, and how history can help us understand our own power.

Lot of good writing on the gutting of the VRA, I just can't bring myself to repost a Substack link

there only two genders: shelter in place and meet your fate

This! "Environmentalism" is not saving the tree you personally can see out your window! Building more infill housing is better for a warming planet, and decreases sprawl, which preserves more intact wildlife habitat.

What in the hell is this?

"AI" is quite the bike understander (Ran across this on a blog post I was reading about triathlon bikes, I'm guessing all the text was llm generated as well. So much slop, everywhere you look.)

💥Before Hungary's election, Viktor Orbán labeled me a "Ukrainian spy" for exposing FM Péter Szijjártó's collusion with Sergey Lavrov, then his government filed criminal charges against me. Hungarian police have now dropped the case – for lack of any supporting evidence.🤷‍♂️

This year has been looking up for getting rid of awful people who share my name, I'm hoping this particular Andy walks into the sea very soon

This weekend I took down 3 of our 10 cedar trees in the hopes of controlling cedar apple rust fungus and give our apple trees a chance. Seven more to go

this is the same woman who went crying to the police when someone knocked her phone out of her hand because she wouldn’t stop filming the bleeding victims of the charlottesville car attack. on the scene of a mass casualty incident, feet away from a woman’s dead body, it was all about her.

Wow that's racist

We have discovered, yet again, that pedestrianization *raises* traffic to stores & *boosts* sales. All the fear-mongering was baseless! I'm sure this time the lesson will stick & the *next* group of merchants around the *next* proposed pedestrian street won't raise a bunch of nonsense objections!

Fighting back feels good. Winning feels even better!

My first article for New Bloom Magazine is out today! After having contributed photography I'm excited to dip my toes into the written form. Thank you @brianhioe.bsky.social for the opportunity!

All these years of progressively further rightwing and less representative congressmen can be reversed for at least one cycle if we all vote YES

Fight back!!

Good reminder!

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

Anyone know what type of snake this is?

Spring colors!

Timberrrr!

Not gonna say everything I really think in public but man, there are some people really invested in being pro cop. Appreciate so much the community members standing up against this bullshit