Paging @strongtowns.org

@element.io suggestion - trying to figure out what you are (open source-focused Discord competitor, maybe?) I clicked through to find a client and hoped the page I found would better explain it. It didn't. matrix.org/ecosystem/cl... Missing piece: No basic, prominent element.io link.

Much as I despise daylight savings time, how can anyone want it to be permanent? Abolition is the only way. 🌞

Ghouls called out: stevivor.com/news/bethesd...

Hey @mcdotnow.bsky.social & @mdsha.bsky.social - The concurrent/overlapping left turn off south kind Veirs with westbound University at Wheaton is dangerous and confusing. And potentially has an easy way to mitigate it. Can you please just post clear signage about uturn vs right turn right of way?

Hey @wmata.com - Can Wheaton talk you out of a sticker on the platform? Awkward still having to chase car 6.

Fukuyama debunks the AI abundance myth: we can't feed or clothe all not due to a lack of smarts, but priorities and resources. The world simply can't sustain the abundant lifestyle AI proponents promise, lacking even the electricity to run the very AI they favor.

“The apocalypse is loose on Portland. A plague of giant frogs is besieging the city”.

Hey @paulisci.bsky.social - Are students the problem? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

at some point traffic engineers & politicians need to be held accountable

Finally 📌

@ddotdc.bsky.social busted ped crossing light, 21st NW & E, southwest corner of the intersection approaching Main State

Genuine question for @arstechnica.com - Great you promote YubiKey FIDO tokens/passkeys as a gift for members, but why don't you support it to log into your service? And if it's a Condé Nast problem, here's a subscriber to each asking why his accounts to @wired.com , @newyorker.com are separate.

@bannermoco.bsky.social - competing DC papers all have 🎁 links Will be more tempted to continue after trial if added

Shouldn't have to be able to read Braille to get an elevator and not barked at for hitting the emergency button. At @wmata.com Farragut North, just as bad as either end of platform. And seriously: Just add stairs there. The escalators are always choked with people. Please!

The real reason no one is selling switch to game cards- Nintendo didn't bother imposing the same performance requirements on the cartridges that they did the SD cards: www.ign.com/articles/sta...

We’re holding our first community listening session on Tuesday, Aug. 26, at the Silver Spring Civic Building at Veterans Plaza. This is your opportunity to meet The Banner’s journalists and senior leaders. Come with your questions and story ideas! #montgomerycountymd #localnews

no, I said I wanted a tradewife. like a union electrician

Someone on here compared AI produced material as "digital asbestos " which in a few decades' time we will have to work out how to eradicate from the fabric of research.

Amazing how often the identical emergency & call buttons are indiscernible from one another at @wmata.com stations. How does responding to false alarms all day not cost you more than fixing the obvious accessibility issues with a little wayfinding elbow grease?

Great finally seeing the digital signage outside Farragut North integrating bus timings - Will the connections be made clear in MD & VA where partner bus systems share large, complex bus depots? @wmata.com & @mcdotnow.bsky.social

Once again, @safety.bsky.app - The block and spam report mechanisms are much too disconnected. It should be as simple as a "block the sucka?" checkbox with a default check, after the spambot, troll, whatever has been reported for moderation. And vice versa, but perhaps without the default value.

Hey @wmata.com - Did you guys get Coleman Domingo/Victor Strand to drive the red line this morning? Wild "where is he taking us" vibes for Fear the Walking Dead fans on car 3086. If not, dude has a future in radio! Enjoyable ride.

Serious question @ternbicycles.com & @bikeshopgirl.bsky.social: How is this a $3000+ bike? Why do Americans buy bikes without a CVT at a premium price point like that?

When is @mdsha.bsky.social going to finally do something about the wildly unsafe Galt & Veirs intersection in Wheaton, MD? At least one death and three major accidents this month at one intersection. + @natalifg.bsky.social

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

NPR interviewing outgoing @afsaorg.bsky.social president, who mentions his elected replacement was RIFed in the middle of their legal challenge to the end of collective bargaining at State: www.npr.org/2025/07/11/n...

Also talked about The Onion being inefficient on purpose. www.status.news/p/the-onion-...

Confused by @wmata.com bus revamp - The super busy 42/43 lines that used to carry State to work on 19th St and at E & 21st is just... Gone. Why are there suddenly no bus routes on E St? The demand was clearly there. Not looking forward to next rain...

Hey @montgomeryparks.bsky.social - Cracked off weld on the outer gate causing safety issues at the dog park, Wheaton Regional

Spargelzeit!

In a world where WTF didn't take off and @marcmaron.bsky.social tried to relive Air America glory days and got sucked in as a lifer on local news:

Awesome bike-heavy weekend, with Saturday spent at the grand opening of Rockville Bike Hub at their new location - It's back! (Moved to Twinbrook, super close to Metro & the Rock Creek connector off Veirs.)

This is what is happening to the US scientific enterprise.

Blocking new housing enriches existing property owners by forcing newcomers into bidding wars over scarce homes. If we want to lower the rent and stick it to the people getting rich off of real estate speculation, we need to end the housing shortage by building more homes.

The reboot we need is Robocop: More Than a Woman, staring Kate McKinnon as DC loses sanctuary city status. Paging #hollywood

They say @wmata.com's Forest Glen Metro is too deep for an escalator. I say it needs a fireman's pole. (And, yet again, that Farragut North needs an extra set of stairs at the platform south end.)

Legally culpable? Maybe not. Morally responsible? 80% MDSHA

Another bad hit, Veirs Mill & Norris in Wheaton

Suggestion, @wmata.com & @wmatagm.bsky.social: Please retool some of these to direct riders to the next bus. Why tell me twice about the trains? And why not offer any relevant info to someone walking off the train?

Howdy folks - Lemme ask: Should BlueSky have a pre checked "block this 🦆" button on their report page?

Six billion times this. Of all companies to kill physical games... www.xda-developers.com/scared-futur...

www.billtrack50.com/billdetail/1... included, merely tasking MD SHA with playing ball as their state funded roads criss cross the urban centers so critical to accomplishing Vision Zero. How cynical a play was this? Was this bill not passed by a veto proof majority?

@bsky.app - weird choice, not making it 0-1 clicks to block someone when reporting spam

Trying to figure out if the inadequate frequencies on downtown connectors will be fixed by @wmata.com's Better Bus initiative, after a crowded and soaked 43 ride. Yikes. First two suggestions to get down to State both say "nope - hop back on Metro" from Farragut North. www.wmata.com/schedules/tr...

Still there, @montgomeryparks.bsky.social @natalifg.bsky.social & @mcgexec.bsky.social, we need 311 back on relevant socials! If they can't deal with voicemail on a weekend, why should I have to figure out their web app? Just treat this like Twitter, eliminate that friction, move on.

Conclave Selects First Chicago-Style Pope

If Rodney Dangerfield were still alive today, would he have a wedding ring tattoo that's just gold "DNR" lettering all the way around?

Writing prompt for @nintendolife.com and other game journos: Koei and Nintendo released some incredibly laggy garbage on the gen1 Switch - There's a decent headline that could drive a vendor response saying "Hyrule Warriors vs 12 games getting free Switch 2 upgrades: Why not these laggy misses?"

@montgomeryparks.bsky.social - tree down, Pleasant View Park. Fell from the MCPS Einstein HS property line, blocking the southern passage through the park.