It isn't just the app - the DC 311 website is trash and often fails to accept requests as well.

The leadership and outreach from Casey Trees has just been abysmal lately. They sent an email asking me to donate $500 to plant a tree on NPS land, and when I asked if they had any comment about the White House tearing down heritage trees, they just replied "well, we have no influence over them."

@wmata @metrobusinfo the tracking transponder/GPS in bus 7307 (on the D36 route currently) is either broken or not turned on. It was not visible in any tracking apps as I waited at the bus stop. Please check it and repair if necessary.

I got to spend the morning and early afternoon at the offices of Akin Gump, serving as a moderator for an elementary and middle school geography competition (GeoPlunge). Amazing kids from all over the city there. And lord, they have a snazzy office with amazing views.

For 50 years the right has been telling us that the appropriate response to this is to open fire on these goons. They say we need assault weapons as a bulwark against a tyrannical government snatching people off the streets.

Stop and give thanks that you have a refrigerator and other daily niceties that you never have to stop and think about.

Compressor dead. Parts & labor covered under warranty, but the necessary parts ordered won’t be here for days. :( One neighbor has already given us freezer space (and others have offered)—thank you! We’re going to try to turn the fridge into an icebox for now. Turn-of-the-last-century solution.

Hey nothing like having your fridge die right after dinner! Especially when that fridge almost exactly 3.5 years old.

Spent the afternoon at DDOT for a meeting about crossing guards ("safety techs" in DDOT parlance). It was good. These people are HEROES.

You can buy a hashtag build the wall Trump shirt at the Ivy City Goodwill. Then burn it.

We walked into Maketto, and @bogrosemary.bsky.social goes “look, that lady has my Oscar the Grouch bag.” Then that lady walked past us and it turned out to be @pqkate.bsky.social! ;)

If you want a chocolate beer, get thee to Aldi. This Chocolate Lava Cale Stout is the most chocolaty (yet not sickly sweet) stout I have ever had.

The people pumping Matt yglesias into my feed make me realize that he should run for mayor or council because his weird obsession with insisting people triangulate would actually go over really well with the same voters who give us Mendo, Bowser, and Bonds repeatedly.

Imagining a world where more of us take this advice, fewer leaves end up piled in the street, and DPW ends up spending less time and money on clean-up crews, thus actually keeping on the clean-up schedule they publish but are never able to keep up with each fall.

@imagineterrain.bsky.social have you seen this? (h/t @mapesgeog.bsky.social)

Our end-of-year campaign starts today! Washington City Paper was built for moments like these: keeping our community informed when it matters most. Help us reach our $36,260 goal and power the reporting D.C. depends on:

A post for the @ggwash.org crowd to say “see?” and for everyone else to read and note “this should be us too.”

BTW fun fact, the term "bulldozing" predates the machine called a "bulldozer" by at least 50 years.

@bikeshare.bsky.social we found a piece off one of your bikes in our treebox this morning. Not sure if this is of any value to you, logistically or otherwise, but thought I would share anyway.

A.I. has ruined my favorite online pastime: baby and animal videos. Because now I doubt whether any I see are real. Thanks, A.I.

I am buying tickets for the Capital City Symphony at Atlas Performing Arts Center on H Street, and there is a service fee on each ticket (no surprise), but also a historic preservation fee on each ticket (what???!?)

Outstanding spotted lanternfly costume

"Neighbourhood interiors were never intended for commercial activity", says one letter writer. To be fair, this is true, if you toss the entirety of human history and modern day Earth outside North America in the trash, and think that urban planning less than a century old is ironclad natural law.

Amazon is helping to fund Trump's $300 million ballroom. Small businesses like this one are raising money to feed hungry families. So today's Low Quality Ad is for this high quality guillotine bag. Also, did you know the guillotine was invented by a French baker to slice bread? collabs.shop/b51zsm

I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.

Just an FYI to everyone that Costco sells weeks worth of classic Octoberfest beers in a box. I’m a third of the way through and they’ve all been delightful.

Does anyone have a recommendation for an adhesive to use to keep a plastic screw anchor seated in a hole drilled in exterior brick? $50 for a large tube of epoxy at Home Depot seems like a waste of money and materials.

Mosquitoes enjoying their last hurrah this week. (Enjoying hurrah = biting the hell out of my legs)

EVERY holiday should be observed on a Friday or Monday. Make them all 3-day weekend affairs. No more “one day off in the middle of a workweek” things. You have my vote!

Roberts Rules, and don’t you forget it

Calling attention to the “Republican attacks on trans kids didn't work” note.

@fakesharrows.bsky.social did you see this one?

It just feels like the air is a little cleaner today, the sun is a little brighter, the orange juice is a little sweeter. There is so much left to do, but it feels good to kick the fash in the teeth once in a while.

I need this shirt

We rode the 30 bus through the new transit center today. I had no idea we were going through a brand-new bus station! A pleasant surprise.

We caught the DASH Pride bus and took it across the city!

Art n a c o s t i a

They sell beer at this indoor play place (it’s almost all @portcitybrew.bsky.social beers). Smart, smart move!

The former Tony’s Place and the adjacent buildings on H St are surrounded by chainlink now, with the sidewalks closed off. (Sorry the picture is awful, but I was on a bus wrapped with an ad.) Anyone know what’s happening there?

Pride DASH bus!

No automatic train control on the Yellow Line! This ride has had more starts and stops than I can count.

Heading to western Alexandria (Van Dorn Station) in the afternoon. One of the last stations in the system I've never used. Just curious—when Alexandria and Arlington are rightfully brought back into the fold as part of DC, does western Alexandria convey, or does it revert back to Fairfax County?

Bring it on!!!!

Oh if we're doing that, can we blow up the superyachts of 3 people famously associated with terrorists? Larry Ellison - quietly part of Jan 6 Jeff Bezos - Three hops from Sept 11th Elon Musk - Works with extreme right wing groups worldwide, former KGB agents, etc.

These “operator availability” alerts are not unique. And then the bus that was supposed to come just drove by and skipped all 5 of us standing at the stop (stop no. 1001781). @wmata.com @metrobusinfo.bsky.social

Employers who commit wage theft and then threaten to "call immigration" when their employees stand up for their rights are trash and deserve a terrible, terrible fate.

The US Park Police, DC's most lawless and incompetent law enforcement agency, is on a hiring spree, aiming to more-than-double the officers it has in the city. wapo.st/4ofLO4K

@randomduck.bsky.social (h/t @hillrat.bsky.social)

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

Today @dennislytton.bsky.social writes about the need to put presidentialism down for good