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Besides the trees and other blooms popping off, the skinks are also getting out and about. (Or in this case, in. Our cat was stalking this cute little fella hiding out behind our sofa. She was so disappointed when we took it outside.)

Ehem, ehem, Charlottesville City staff... can we even get a quick-build off the ground this decade?

It's no surprise why it's hard to get independent journalism covering Hungarian politics. Makes those journalists a huge target for Orban regime.

Curs[ive]d Discourse

I got this one too and it seems like they've got a hold of a Democratic database of phone numbers (went to my cell # which I only ever gave out to Dem candidates)

There’s little weirder to me about this moment than seeing wired, the publication that for decades paved the road to US technofascism with their ridiculous propaganda of “tech optimism” & technolibertarianism, running articles like this. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad they are—it’s just ironic as hell

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

Shorter Trump: THE WALLS ARE CLOSING IN!

Things you can't unsee

Let's keep it "temporarily" closed as a feasibility study, like the reverse of the kind of study when they were opened in the early aughts. For at least as long.

I love redbud season, brief as it is!

The kids are on screens too much, I say, as I spend the vast majority of my workday in front of a screen, and a not insignificant amount of my evenings interacting with screens. So much of our society has been rewired towards computer screens. Hard to stem the tide.

I'm very glad I don't have any need to fly in the near future. I do feel bad for the people whose livelihood is in air travel.

Saving this screenshot for such a time as it may apply to someone else

Cooked. We are cooking ourselves and the planet. I just saw the Fluvanna Supervisors approved a major gas power plant expansion.

My poor hydrangea bush did not like those low 20s the other night

News story tonight on driverless cars suggested that the point of the technology is to “make better cities.” No it isn’t, and no it won’t. The point of the technology is to sell more cars, and more cars have NEVER made better cities.

Totally forgot to post this cat pic the other day

We're into the pun posting hours

A linear city, but make it a canal

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And I'm still not reading your goddamn substack.

March! In VA

Oh cool now the next generation has the opportunity to watch all their friends get blown up in order to further line the pockets of rich old perverts

Plum trees are popping!

Which way mortal man?

Charlottesville: Swords Into Plowshares needs your input. How should we recast the bronze ingots from the melted Lee statue? How can we reclaim public space? Come meet the design firms, see their proposals, view photos of the melting. 6pm Saturday, March 14 at the Jefferson School. www.sipcville.com

Really interesting way to think about the question of consciousness. Haven't really given a whole lot of thought other than assuming on its face that LLMs do not have it. However, it is fun to wade through the responses in this thread to hear what people who have thought about it have to say.

While driving up 340 yesterday to Luray, I saw a handful of signs that said "Stop the Steal" opposing redistricting. I thought, boy, can you imagine the frustration of not having any choice in who represents you in Congress? I cannot wait to get rid of McGuire.

seeing more disgusting genocidal racism talk coming from Israeli politicians now that more bombs are dropping. There is no justification. Every human being's life is equally precious and demands our dignity, care and consideration. Full stop.

Nice to have a day off with the kids that coincided with perfect weather for a day trip to Luray. This cavern is the showiest of show caves, so glamorous.

Trump us a family annihilator capable of tearing the whole globe down with him. It is the total fantasy of patriarchal defeatism. At the end of your life get all your property buried alive beside you

He's insane, got no brain. (Funding Trump's war this time.)

hey i know the charlottesville school district wants us to shut up about their terrible, expensive plan to put cops back in our schools but what if, instead: we didn't

I'd like to know if others have clocked this surveillance camera. I didn't have a chance to take a picture as I was driving but next time I'm out that way I'll have my passenger take the pic so I can geolocate it. I was pretty sure it was in Albemarle but it could be Nelson.

Fucking Flock! I just saw a pole mounted camera alongside route 29 southbound (facing south) just inside the Albemarle Co border with Nelson County. Since when has the county been installing cameras?

Abuser mentality

US cannot be trusted to support a true homegrown revolution abroad. (Regardless of who's the US president.)

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

Finally a warm weekend to get out in the garden and do some spring prep

The Iraq war is still within living memory for most people. Have we learned nothing?

This was originally scheduled for Jan. 25th, but the endless ice tundra prevented it. Now it's happening this Sunday 3/1 at PVCC Dickenson Building.

The City of Charlottesville is working to update our somewhat new affordable housing policies and is looking for public feedback on how to do it. We have three questions here for the community: https://connect.charlottesville.gov/housing/StudentHousing #cville #housing

10. But I think it’s the other way around. It’s not that Patel’s lawlessness is happening in light of these crimes. They are happening in light of his lawlessness. Why care about the law, or criminal consequences, when the country’s leading lawman shows so much contempt for it?

If you use AI to write your book proposal, I think you're a fucking loser

As the guy who wrote the book on zoning abolition, I'd like to go on record as saying: if you can use zoning to stop the concentration camps, fucking go for it.