Atlanta mentioned in the new Practical Engineering video about stormwater

this was an effective reminder of how to use basic stop the bleed equipment, without anything graphic. Which I appreciate because I'm easily overwhelmed. youtube.com/shorts/76vXA...

sometimes the pool noodle on a kickstand feels silly, but then I see drivers and I'm glad @sundance.bikesky.social gave me the idea

oh it's me roughdraftatlanta.com/2026/01/12/r...

At school bus dropoff, I heard on their radio that there was traffic on Riverside because a driver hit a pedestrian. It was loud enough for all the kids to hear. I have no further information about the victim's condition. It's horrible how this is normalized, as if only the traffic bears concern.

GDOT blocking the path for the stroller for no good reason youtu.be/OSS9yWgMq6I

Imagine if GDOT closed all car lanes with a sign announcing sidewalk repair a mile down the road

According to the Sandy Springs fire department, a quarter of the fires they respond to are car fires (over sixty per year) and they have had zero EV fires, ever. A lot of people are making bad risk assessments about cars based on what goes into headlines.

Here's a witness describing today's crash into a daycare parking lot, youtu.be/ho8f9pvotFM

Another driver just crashed into the daycare parking lot, where I was filmed for a news segment. Totalled a teacher's parked car. Video to come. #SandySprings needs to hurry up improving this bend in the road, it is unsafe. That sign to the right is new, a driver crashed into the old one last year

Walking out of the Dunwoody MARTA station, my kids commented how our destination was one of the closest to the station but not actually close. Then we talked about the mostly empty MARTA parking deck as we walked past it, before crossing the five lane road. youtu.be/HZwf0au0vDE

my new years resolution is to try to help the city govt make Sandy Springs safer for kids in strollers, walking, or riding bikes

if anybody needs a USB c charger or audio to help you fall asleep youtu.be/1jAeEPHvDyA

what did the six year old say to the seven year old? "Together we're six seven"

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

Good read. Among other things, it convinced me that the overwhelming prominence of Toussaint Louverture in my prior (and still) limited understanding of the revolution, without any disrespect to him, was a product of anti-Haitian historiography.

"The commission is set to discuss a request from Georgia Power to increase the state’s energy capacity by nearly 10,000 megawatts, equal to about five Hoover Dams, to meet an expected spike in demand because of the projected growth of energy-hungry data centers"

Georgia Republicans are using their last moments of power in the Public Service Commission to give massive clearance for data centers and higher energy bills. Guess whose dad wants to build 11 MILLION square feet of data centers in Middle Georgia? Burt Jones, who wants to be our Governor.

We have reinvented the calculus in the elevator

I want to move some awkward furniture, not worry about why Ace is showing me three different prices online for the same item. Their service has been great. I am still planning to pick up at my local store, just looking to make sure they had stock and, sigh

wow youtu.be/ARZA6pmdD8Q not only pressure, this phyphox app is going to do so many experiments, esp with kids off of school

Sandy Springs has a poll up about transportation planning that's open to residents or anyone who works, studies, shops, or just passes through. If you ever spend time in Sandy Springs please share your thoughts about how they could make it safer. safersandysprings.blogspot.com/2025/11/sand...

Piedmont Hospital and associated medical facilities have so much traffic going to them, and only the 110 bus for transit connectivity. State route 19, Roswell, is clogged. It's not going to happen but a new heavy rail line going north from Arts Center would be a better project than GDOT's new lanes.

Does anybody who does not regularly ride MARTA want to crowdsource weekend destinations? open call Shout out to Rough Draft for starting their dining series roughdraftatlanta.com/marta-dining...

Please spread this far and wide. A maker/artist space that I know and love called South River Studios burned down over night. Many artist friends and artisans have lost everything. Consider giving if you can www.southriverartstudios.com www.fox5atlanta.com/news/artists...

looking at Costco food court pictures, reminded that since Atlanta Costco locations (re?)started executive member hours in the morning I haven't been at lunch time. But, maybe the food court could have coffee.

tool batteries are insultingly overpriced per kwh and my cheap knockoff died, sigh

defunding local schools is a horrible result for metro Atlanta. Kids can't vote and it is a real shame how few voters understand that having a representative government means voting on their behalf.

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five lanes empty in front of the federal reserve on a weekday morning, but unsafe for anybody to walk there because a driver might come. What a waste. Make Atlanta Streets Alive permanent, Pedestrianize Peachtree.

@juliagaffield.bsky.social wow what an intro for a biography

good things are happening Hope everyone votes for @peterhubbardga.bsky.social for GA PSC today

wish this in-town MARTA train platform weren't surrounded by parking

want to get into 3D printing to make better storage for board games

sigh, the first #Atlanta mention in Life After Cars is a mom charged after a hit and run driver killed her child abcnews.go.com/US/mother-bo... "Guy had been convicted of two previous hit and run accidents. He pleaded guilty to the hit and run that took A.J.'s life and served six months in jail."

Who can "obtain economy value" from the trade secrets of a legal monopoly? Maybe all of the GA Power customers who would have lower bills if it weren't for the incumbents on the PSC hiding their dealings with GA Power?

Another day, another metro ATL hit and run fatality. Four in five days. If we had cabin video to review after the fact, how many of these drivers are even looking out at the road while killing their victims? www.fox5atlanta.com/news/pedestr...

Another horrible death today on our roads. So many Atlanta drivers commit hit and run attacks on pedestrians that this article about a dump truck driver doesn't mention that part until the fourth paragraph. www.11alive.com/article/news...

if you're reading this there's a fair chance you're in metro ATL and have the chance to vote to maintain school funding and to oppose paying higher residential GA Power bills for the sake of building new AI datacenters

why's it so hard to get a kid a normal cup of water at a restaurant, instead of a disposable cup with a lid

"It's unfortunate that we do have 300 apartments now instead of a state of the art pickleball racquet center" a mayoral candidate talking about 300 households that way is displacing my other thoughts about #SandySprings elections. Read There is No Place for Us by @brian-goldstone.bsky.social . 1/2

MARTA bus driver recognized me riding alone and asked about the kids, don't get that from a car

there's no reason for an uninsured vehicle driving through Atlanta to not be detected until after the driver has killed people www.wsbtv.com/news/local/g...

Wrote a little more. Please share with anybody in Fulton County and vote against the measures. safersandysprings.blogspot.com/2025/10/vote...

this is not an anti-displacement housing policy, it is about defunding schools. Especially for Fulton County. Voting against the exemptions, but I'm pessimistic. atlantaciviccircle.org/2025/09/24/a...

they'll just plant trees for you? I've been doing this on my own. FYI if anybody has space for a new one www.treesatlanta.org/yardtree/

Just a parent who thinks drivers should not speed past schools. Those high schools are full of kids starting to drive, how can we expect them to be safe behind the wheel if even the #SandySprings city council can't take speed limits seriously. safersandysprings.blogspot.com/2025/09/spee...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

@brian-goldstone.bsky.social Host asks candidate for Mayor of Sandy Springs to respond to the family working and raising kids in Sandy Springs in There Is No Place for Us His answer is not my answer. But so important that the book prompts the discussion about housing. bsky.app/profile/appe...