Oh my god, two wins in one week? The universe is feeling generous today.

Amazing the damage car brain does to a person.

These civ 7 alliance types keep getting weirder and weirder.

lol the Mamdani campaign is playing “Not Like Us” at their election party😂😂😂

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I’m refreshing the NYC mayoral election results like mad. Polls closed three minutes ago.

I’m at the Friends of Downtown Community meeting to skeet about the Flock pilot program results. Follow this thread for the details 👇

Folks if you are tired of anti-growth advocacy in Albemarle hamstringing new developments, come hang out & plan with like-minded neighbors (including me) at Bar Botanical in Crozet this Thursday between 5 and 7. We can do better!

Learned today that there are non biting mosquitoes. And double bonus they eat other mosquitoes

Check it out!

Never before has a human had slight variation in their signature.

Everyone needs to tell my passion fruit she’s pretty.

No one day, I’m going to write a book on how fire is the healthiest thing for the environment.

AND we are excited to announce that in addition to our monthly social this Thursday at Ix @brazos.bsky.social from 5-7pm, we will have our first Albemarle County social on Thursday, September 25th from 5-7pm at Bar Botanical in Crozet. Invite all your county friends to join us!

Another way grasslands are the superior biome. Ticks don’t like them.

the entire purpose of masquerading american imperialism as “defense” was so that ppl could feel as tho war is a necessary evil. now there is no more need for obfuscation. i see it as the us moving into open fascism. vice is now virtuous. evil is good. up is down.

Non ironically, a better use of car parking spots.

American Beauty berry is a native plant whose leaves can be used to repeal mosquitoes and certain tick species! Also its berries are edible. www.tyrantfarms.com/how-to-use-a...

Got to admit. I’m feeling this new Pärnu multimodal infrastructure

If you are nerd, like me, a new mega study dropped on the effects of urban rewilding on pollinator populations. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Finally the anti European honeybee agenda is spreading

And the anti housing agenda continues

My queen

Common cville policy: pass a zoning ordinance for more housing but then prevent the housing from being built

I call her. One street of glory. As seen in Riga

I love when stained glass perfectly frames American car brain.

Latvian drivers are 10x worse than Estonians. I take everything back about Estonian drivers.

That will solve homelessness. Just make it illegal!

Went for a walk. Came back with 7 porcinis

This video is highly relevant given that pretty much every U.S. locality is selling your privacy to the lowest bidder: youtu.be/Pp9MwZkHiMQ?...

I don’t know who she is, but I like her vibes.

Just a reminder: native grasslands can sequester carbon more effectively than forests. Climate change reversal strategies need to include restoring grass biomes as a massive carbon sink. naturalcommunities.net/blogs/news/c...

Milk caps appeared over night in the Forrest, and I cannot stop myself from picking them

If anyone has a good pair of mucking boots they recommend, let me know. It’s probably time I stop wearing my Birkenstocks to pull Bittersweet.

“They are transing the trees” /s In more positive news, we might have a transgenic chestnut tree soon available for the public. This tree is 100% American chestnut, but scientists have genetically modified it with wheat genomes to be resistant to blight www.newyorkupstate.com/outdoors/202...

Well there go the beech trees. Glad to see a second tree species go extinct in my life time. (So far)

Here’s my proof that you can grow passion fruit in Virginia

Housing insecurity, and the myriad problems that come from it, will be a big issue in our area as long as people experiencing homelessness are demonized, supportive housing is not accessible, and new housing is viewed as a problem. Homelessness is a housing problem. www.29news.com/2025/08/25/c...

I only have to walk 178,000 KM to max out this pokemon. Guess I better get started then.

Call me crazy, but a government document website shouldn’t have this at the bottom of their webpage.

A unique partnership of City agencies, nonprofits, developers & architects transformed an old Queens hotel into 318 affordable homes—60% for formerly homeless families. The project marks the first under NY’s HONDA law. Via @citylimitsnews.bsky.social: buff.ly/NVj9fOQ

I’m no fan of Spanberger, however this is a very funny point lead. bluevirginia.us/2025/08/odu-...

Babe wake up a new affordable housing proposal just dropped c-ville.com/another-affo...

Having lived in Tallinn for several decades, I can officially say I’m not a huge fan of soviet city planning🧵

Kristen Michal, Estonian pm, said that food is too expensive in Estonian because there’s too much competition. I love the excuses politicians make. Sometimes it’s too little competition. Sometimes it’s too much competition.

Any climate strategy will require residential neighborhoods to shift from lawns. A 7,000 sq ft lawn (avg lawn size in VA) produces 2 tons of carbon emissions a year. Additionally, lawns also produce nitrogen dioxide and other climate warming gasses.

Oh boy it’s that time of the year where we get to tell Charlottesville we don’t want cops in public schools again.

I just realized that all of my Estonian studies tend to gravitate towards urbanist literature, so that means I have a very particular vocabulary. If someone asked me for my opinion on the weather, I’d stumble, but if they wanted to know my opinion on mixed use development, I’d be C1 fluent.

It’s that time of the year where my personality shifts to only talking about my mushroom hunt.