Hello and welcome. Thank you for joining me for this ceremonial removal and recycling of MY OWN GODDAMN SIGN. 😈

Speakers 2:1 in favor and still a 4-3 vote…

HAPPY BIRTHDAY @sarahbagley.bsky.social

Someone please add “in person counts more” to the next bingo card.

Do those green bike lanes have a name?

@stephelms.bsky.social rocked it!!! Thank you!!!

Someone tell council I need to speak before 2 so I can get outside and catch a shiny Deino - it’s community day. 🙏

Vitamin D. (☀️) ✅ Protein loaded (🦟) ✅ Vibes (📈) ✅ LFG!!!!

Half the city is at little shop of horrors and omg these kids are so talented 🥹

Del Ray farmhouse always has something I need 😂

Do I have a perfectly good vehicle to carry these with in my driveway? Yes. Was this way more fun? Also yes.

SQUEEEEEE!!!

People of the skeets please advise - how do I not die from the upper right when I run out of Lucky Run Trail to destination? I assume a sharrow on Beauregard is not actually the correct answer despite what Google says here. Do I remember something about Dawes through NVCC? Help!

👋 from the rabbit hole this led me down. I pulled a bunch more stuff. There's a clearly a huge drop in the 17-18 school year, and two things happened that year. 1. VDOE stopped including grade level reading as part of accreditation and 2. we changed the SOL test (which is what I have to use here).

In 2015 Alexandria had perfectly average reading performance scores. Here’s what has happened since, for ACPS and nearby districts. Our drop is basically double anyone else’s. Demographics explain the relative starting points… But the change?

“Pedestrians do not have legal right of way while crossing outside the crosswalk.” Meanwhile in “the crosswalk”:

My morning so far: VIP crosswalk cross with crossing guard Leena —> clap for the MVCS bike bus parents (I think it doubled week over week?!) —> my sign has survived 36 hours💪 Happy Friday!!

Speaking of this: Bike friends - is there a correct way to detour the part of commonwealth that is closed between four mile run and Glebe? I just rode it backward in the bike lane after the guys looked at me like 🤷‍♂️

Ok hypothetically if someone keeps tearing down my Betterbraddock sign along the playground at Uhler, do I just keep putting one back in its place or do I escalate and put like 10. It’s just this sign, there are others still there. So it’s specifically an opponent and it has happened 3x now.

Busted into the DRCA house and garden tour Google Drive to sneak peak the house I’m assigned to and OMG I’m so excited this one is so cool!!! 😎

Damn @lightmikey.bsky.social 😍

@alexandriavagov.bsky.social this... was a mistake and I strongly recommend you take it down. www.facebook.com/share/r/1Azx...

Ours love yard signs with the word “save” on them.

Hearing through the mom grapevine that this kiddo is ok enough to be making a plan for how she wants to tell her friends herself on Monday. 🥹

This is the correct instinct for a journalist - dispatch calls don’t give us the whole story for sure. But the pattern gives us a useful signal. And Alexandria’s dispatch calls in April showed nineteen pedestrian, cyclist, or scooter strikes. We’ve seen news coverage of 6 maybe?

Once again, Alexandria is arguing over bike lanes. Please take action. History shows that we don't get bike lanes if we don't speak up. grassrootsalexandria.org/our-children...

I just wanted to say I hope that everyone who works hard to make Del Ray so awesome has their feet up right now. This weekend was 🔥🔥 🫠

PSA dairy godmother has created something called chocolate dipped strawberry with chunks of fresh strawberry and the chocolate dip cone stuff in it and it is divine. Like stole a bite of husbands, went back and got my own cone good. 10/10

If you are in tech, this is hilarious. www.the-silicon-trail.com

My kids class is curating a museum of “artifacts from the 1900s” which 1. Rude and 2. Behold my $20 MVflea bounty!!

someone tell me to stop analyzing 911 calls about pedestrian crashes and instead go buy books I don't need!

Does our gerrymander in the 8th have a name? Because I’ll admit I’m a bit jealous of lobstermander…

lol wut

For no reason at all I just learned that the plural of Oasis is Oases, apparently...

I could truly look at these old newspaper records forever. Hooffs Run and how disgusting it was (as well as school quality) was apparently a big topic when Alexandria sought to annex the Town of Potomac (now Del Ray) and everything up to Four Mile Run from Arlington. Check out this Op Ed. 😂

This is so freaking cool! ggwash.org/view/102942/...

Today’s betterbraddock.org comments so far are absolute gold. Same, kid. Same.

115 real life Braddock bike lane supporters has this guy in his feefees trolling as Iron Man tonight.

Anyone else in ALX having ting issues today? Just us?

Today’s LFL find. Be still my teenage (tweenage?) heart 🥰

PSA: tonight’s DRCA meeting is a banger. Alex Carroll from T&ES is coming to talk Vision Zero. After that: we are talking Bike Buses!

I totally forgot my cars behaving badly story from this morning! I was turning left from West onto Braddock - I'm the second car stopped at the red. All of a sudden the first car just...goes? I guess they must have decided that when Wythe has the green its safe enough for them? Absolutely wild.

Good morning from Ramona!

Can someone remind me how one becomes vice mayor in Alexandria…? Just wondering about it for no reason at all. Do they draw randomly out of a hat or…? I simply cannot recall.

Hey so the holograms at DCA TSA are… something…huh?

Alexandria: Alexandria-ing for over 100 years.

Man the catches hit DIFFERENT in NYC lol

Hit the phones Virginia. I assume Kaine would have to fall on the sword for this given Warner is up right now but I’m calling both.

What is an experimental online gathering?

Descending on the 15th Street PBL