Missing person in Fairfax

My dad is alive and well but I already inherited his record collection and am finding it a bit overwhelming to go through. Is there a service in the DC area that can go through a record collection, put a value on each record, sell the ones I earmark, and then take a cut of the proceeds?

Parking reform bill introduced in Virginia's general assembly, a banner day!

Great news

Montgomery County, Maryland, is held up as an example of good housing policy but it is in practice a great failure. Its public housing authority relies on property tax abatements and its rent control scheme has cratered new multi-family construction. montgomeryperspective.com/2026/01/06/m...

What's a successful example of minimum lot size reform that's not Houston?

If you want some nice speakers for an excellent price hit me up. Was not planning to sell but I realized a smaller pair would be easier to build a new living room around. www.facebook.com/marketplace/...

@mcmegan.bsky.social I just told my wife that I am reading a Megan McArticle and she said I should tell you.

Two things can be true: Maduro is a vile despot who stole the election & has caused unimaginable harm & trauma to Venezuelans, including economic collapse & mass migration. Trump’s invasion of Venezuela has nothing to do with helping Venezuelans & everything to do with Trump’s own power.

Good book but the littany of failures is so overwhelming as to be almost boring

200 block of King mobbed with pedestrians. What a glorious sight.

A portable toilet ended up in the road on Columbia Pike headed toward the Pentagon. How do I report that? Probably blown there.

Primary held with less than a week's notice in the middle of the holiday season. This is nuts.

Building more housing is central to reinvigorating liberal democracy

Crumbl cookies are borderline fraud

Can #arachnid bsky help me identify this? It’s about 1cm by 1cm inclusive of the legs.

Bravely solving the geometry problem

I don't feel that old as someone in my mid-thirties and also people 10 years younger look like literal children to me

Note to self

The No True Alexandria Parade Scotsman Fallacy

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I found another new way to say the same thing lucagattonicelli.substack.com/p/parking-re...

This will be the last Thanksgiving that Shirlington spends separated from Alexandria--the West Berlin of Northern Virginia.

Thanksgiving celebrates abundance.

I was, apparently, super locked in during the housing panel with @ebwhamilton.bsky.social and others at FREOPP's conference on Friday. FREOPP is a great think tank dedicated to lifting up Americans in the bottom half of the income scale, check them out!

Gonna 🧵 some insights from this data portal as i take lil work breaks 1/ Low density residential zoning might be bad for our local economy? Maps show inventory of various building types, overlayed with Residential Low zones. Big swaths of Alx have no commercial uses, or nearby (hello 🚗 traffic)

Roses are red Violets are blue Rent control in LA is going to be a disaster just like it is in New York and everywhere else

Sic semper single-family zoning

Rabies confirmed, be careful with your pets and kids out there

“We’re excited to start on the next chapter of housing reform, which should include the launch of Zoning for Housing’s promised second phase” - me

Elected officials understand that housing is popular

Is this appropriate now?

My full statement regarding today's summary judgement dismissing the lawsuit against Alexandria's zoning for housing reform:

It’s a real shame the Bible doesn’t cover whether you should do something like this or not.

PHASE 2 WHEN

"If we ever close the door to new Americans, our leadership in the world would soon be lost."

Follow @jsarriot-voice-va.bsky.social who organized a rally for housing reform on Sunday in Northern Virginia with more than a dozen elected officials and almost 1,000 attendees. Spot her in the video!

Evil! Ezra Klein is evil! This site is cooking brains.

Meet baby number four! Be the residential density that you want to see in the world.

Is 20% of this building set aside for income-restricted housing?

Ross Douthat has recently interviewed a post-liberal far-left twitch streamer and a Christian nationalist and both, when asked about their most extreme views, say, ‘Oh, that's so far in the future, there's no point talking about it.’ Rather suspicious! (We will see how mature the reaction is here.)

Jay Jones should resign.

I'm actually quite impressed by all these pasta cognoscenti!

My kids have starting drinking tea and playing chess each evening, but in the most hectic way possible

Have not checked YIMBYs of NoVA's email subscriber count in a while .... 2,319!

A red Toyota RAV4 flipped onto its side near Bailey's Crossroads

Even I did not know we offered this service

“You do not see a link between paracetamol use in pregnancy and autism in children.” Author of 'Expecting Better' Professor Emily Oster explains the studies on paracetamol use in pregnancy, after President Trump warned pregnant women against using the painkiller. #Newsnight

Acetaminophen is not associated with any increased risk of autism or ADHD in a study of 2.5 million births comparing siblings. Also, the simplistic studies showing a relationship link autism to very high levels of the drug. We have good information that people can use to make an informed decision.