“Michael Monaco, representative from Livable Cville, expressed the group’s support for the redevelopment… ‘We hope that this represents a chance to create more affordable housing in this spot & really make something positive out of the site where Cavalier Crossing was.’” c-ville.com/bonaventures...

Cool stuff found on the Crozet trails today: sassafras, spotted wintergreen (which I learned about only today), and some kind of mushrooms growing in a live red maple.

Let em cook

I don’t find these assurances that “we shouldn’t be afraid of flock because other police data can be hacked” to be all that comforting

"Aw shucks, data? Shit's all over the place, whatcha gonna do."

Apropos to Cville area👇🏽we need all kinds of housing for all kinds of people, otherwise the city and county will be a entirely soulless amusement park for the rich

Car-brained all the way back in 1756, mad at pedestrians for having rain gear

"Legalize housing" sticker spotted at Mudhouse Crozet 🫡

This plant moved into the Old Trail commercial space before a business did

Adding cascading deletion finalizers to all my Argo CD apps, because I like to live on the edge: I am the drama

I'm hearing rumors about more bike racks coming to Crozet soon

Two stops later, and we are 90% full. One woman sat down next to another woman and said, “hi bus buddy!” 15 people + driver. I’d bet every one of us would had been sole occupants in our respective cars. #WeekWithoutDriving

See y'all at 5!

Mudhouse Crozet is really excited about Halloween

The Kubernetes governance team should have taxation power, just to charge anything in the ecosystem that uses the word "template."

Next one will be Albacore County meetup at Crozet Seafood

Are you interested in connecting with people who care about making Albemarle County a place everyone can afford? Come join us at our first ever Albemarle County social event this Thursday the 25th from 5-7pm at Bar Botanical in Crozet!

At one point I doubted traveling across the country, during the week of crucial policy votes in Seattle, to attend YIMBYtown. But it's been a galvanizing few days looking at the bigger picture where it's pretty clear that those of us advocating for more people-centric communities – we're winning.

Why are single-stair buildings actually SAFER than two stair buildings in some circumstances? It seems counter intuitive… obviously, more redundancy is better, right?

Hell of a line

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!

Hey, I need to remind y'all that *THIS* Thursday, Sept 11, you'll want to be hanging out with a bunch of cool folks at Brazos Tacos (Ix Park). It's very casual, so drop in any time from 5 to 7+ and we'll be there

I'm in

Thanks for sharing and for your record-keeping! Another good resource with transcripts can be found here: meetings.cvilledata.org/meetings/cha...

Fuck it @mtgillikin.bsky.social pitcher fan art (I'm sorry I can't get impulsive thoughts out of my head if I don't make them)

@mtgillikin.bsky.social's comments for @livablecville.bsky.social at last night's Charlottesville City Council meeting

To be clear: Kochis said homelessness service providers were NOT consulted before this first reading of the proposed ordinance.

we are not going to be able to effectively solve our local housing crisis until more people are able to wrap their heads around the simple fact that students have to live here too

Says he's experienced homelessness, starting around 16. Now 37, he lost his housing. Was working full time. Says he managed to get into a new place, but couldn't have managed the transition under this ordinance. "This is some crazy historian crap... aren't you guys all democrats?"

Charlottesville/Albemarle folks: reminder that we're going to the 6:30 council meeting today to oppose this ordinance!

Nope, fuck off with jokes like this

Oh and if anyone in the Crozet or Ivy area needs a ride, let me know.

Charlottesville/Albemarle folks: reminder that we're going to the 6:30 council meeting today to oppose this ordinance!

I'm really excited about SIG Multicluster, and not just because Intuit recently contributed a feature to multicluster-runtime as part of our work on GitOps Promoter 🙂

Not just homeless people. If you sit on a bench at Riverview Park and accidentally forget your water bottle there when you leave, you seem to be guilty of a Class 4 misdemeanor? Good thing the staff report and resolution specifically say they plan to enforce it inconsistently!

I think the thing that gets me is that I did have ethics classes in university. It’s just that the classes always turned into the women, nonbinary, and other marginalized people giving a shit and the cis dude bros not understanding why it was that important.

Back at the house, I'm not going down without a fight

[cont] c) Develop and implement a homelessness outreach program in conjunction with area homelessness services providers and related agencies Finally come to the Council meeting Tuesday evening at 630pm. Use this form to sign up for public comment: www.charlottesville.gov/692/Request-...

One's appreciation for GitOps increases with the number of 6am incident calls spent manually reconstructing cloud resources.

We're here live from the Crozet Bike Rack

Tree of heaven might be the nastiest plant ever. The spottern lanternflies are shitting on nearby plants and killing them.

Gentrification is what we call it when demand exceeds supply. It is not caused by bike lanes. The answer is not to suppress demand by enshittifying cities, or to justify endangering & killing people outside of cars as a rent control mechanism, but to increase supply.

Cars are the universal comparison for Things That Cause Harm [To Other People] And We're Fine With It.

"Words mean things," a controversial legal take

Of Monsters and Men is performing in Atlanta at the same time as KubeCon 👀

Sounds a lot like the recycling campaigns designed to get people to think that their neighbors are responsible for pollution rather than massive unregulated corporations.

Simple Boxes with Ornamentation are better than One Box Pretending To Be Lots of Boxes