Lots of very beautiful things to see in Northern Ireland but the conservative UK culture here sucks. Besides the ugly history and constant reminders you're in British territory, we've some horrible anti-immigrant signs and murals in neighborhoods

First time seeing a zero on the UV index, I didn't think that was possible during the day

lol there's a Charlie Kirk "no surrender" flag flying in Belfast. There's also a "Stop the Boats" flag on the same property

Intercity Irish rail is all beautiful, serene countryside outside and raucous, extremely Irish people drinking beers and shooting the shit at full volume inside

double decker bus foaming

Decided to come to Ireland after Portugal for no reason at all and my first impression is that Dublin is a young person's city

It's not high speed, but the train from Lisbon to Porto feels pretty damn fast. Fastest train I've been on, since I sadly have very little intercity train experience

R2-D2 bollard works hard to keep us safe :)

Hello Los Angeles let’s all vote for Nithya Raman tomorrow

Portuguese sidewalks be like

There's not much bike infrastructure here to speak of, but the path to Guincho was very nice

Some of the changes I'm seeing are due to an intense and overwhelming influx in tourism and temporary residents just in the last few years, but I'm also realizing some of the changes I'm seeing are because the Portugal I knew in 2008-2009 & 2011 was a much poorer country

I know the Portuguese are much more romantic than us, but just imagine if our cities created beautiful little public spaces where the primary purpose is to allow people to sit and enjoy a beautiful little place

Me at 16 discovering independence and joy on the suburban Cascais-Lisboa train and me at 34, happy to be back on my favorite train

Really funny moment catching up with my Portuguese host brother where he's talking about the rocketing cost of housing here and starts to explain to me, "the most basic rule of economics is supply and demand. We are not building enough housing to meet the demand" Oh brother, I'm way ahead of you.

All the best cities are filled with jacarandas

LA Times Poll: Nithya Raman Now One Point Behind Karen Bass For First Place

SD United Communities, one of the backers of City Council Candidate Richard Bailey and a major NIMBY group, tells us what they really want: disenfranchisement of renters, young, and minorities.

He had to endure a lot of hysterical screaming but it was worth it for the ass shaking

Bad Bunny live in Lisboa. It didn't feel real until the moment the show started

Panic! At the Metro

I'm seeing Bad Bunny in just a few hours and I'm fully relying on this to get his attention and make him fall deeply in love with me

One very cool change I'm seeing in Portuguese beach towns: so many local families are out on ebikes now!

I'm sorry but it is a bummer to see these new businesses in Portugal that look straight out of LA, where they sell poke, grain bowls and craft coffee drinks and every table is speaking English

Sitting at the dinner table in the garden for hours on a warm evening, talking, laughing, enjoying a good home cooked meal with the Portuguese host family that took me in 17+ years ago... God damn I am so lucky

I got excited by cute bus themed socks until I gave them a closer look

Can we start a consumer movement against businesses playing loud music in every damn space? I'm at the airport food court and each stall is playing different music aimed at the shared dining area, plus the terminal has its own music and announcements playing in the same space

me every time I post gym & bikini pics to an audience of urbanists that are only here to follow housing policy, local elections and the latest regional transit planning drama going down at MPO meetings

I've had my heart closed to Portugal for a long time because living there was such a big, intense coming of age experience loaded with emotion and memories. I've been afraid of reckoning with the distance of all those years away, seeing a place that used to be home as a tourist and a stranger

texting my old Portuguese friend from high school so we can meet up next week and she still texts like when we were teenagers on MSN xD ^u^

You can practically hear this pic from Bike Anywhere Day, taken on the in-construction Eastern Hillcrest Bikeway alignment!

I didn't want to judge her for being a suburban Clairmont PTA mom but man, Nicole Crosby is bad on housing. Vote Josh Coyne for District 2!!

The Vietnamese charter bus from Westminster up to the Bay already goes about 100 mph and they give you a banh mi with your ticket. I don't think Caltrans is gonna come up with anything better than that

In three days I'll be in Portugal looking like this and I'm going to be even more insufferable, obnoxious, out of control

These spineless fuckers: "Huge news: I have negotiated an even larger hole in the budget!" 😡

Cowards.

I usually pay with my sweet Train Festival commemorative Tap card and just assumed they already accepted tap credit/debit on LA Metro. Didn't realize SD MTS was so ahead with payment options!

I've never touched the stuff and I literally never think about it. Never created an account, never downloaded any food delivery app, so yeah, it's very easy to avoid. People who are addicted will rationalize their habits and claim it's necessary but if you don't start, there's nothing to quit

This guard also did more than the entirety of Uvalde PD did to keep children safe, without qualified immunity or bankrupting a city with overtime.

RAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

Somebody please help me balance my budget, my city is broke :/

Humidity 75% air temp 84° water temp 77° body off the charts

People post these rants as if we are all shut ins totally dependent on influencers to tell us what's going on outside. Padres games are sold out, when I want to try a new restaurant I have to wait months for a res, I wait in lines to dance at crowded clubs. I can see with my own eyes people are out

We really should rename this park (and Lindbergh Field, of course)

For those interested,

Okay we were there for a destination wedding, but Maui has to be the most straight married couple coded place I've ever been to

To clarify, that's a total of five people dead: three victims and two suspected shooters. The suspects, ages 17 and 19, "appear to have died from self-inflicted gunshot wounds," Wahl said. One of the victims is the mosque's security guard, he said.

UPDATE: Three adult men at the Islamic Society of San Diego have been killed during the active shooting, said San Diego Police Department Chief Scott Wahl during a press conference now. Two shooters confirmed dead. No motive yet. "We are considering this a hate crime until it is not," Wahl said.

At least one person, the security guard, was killed, and there are unknown additional casualties at this time. This is the largest mosque in San Diego County, and one that I often attend. :( www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/s...