they are dating :)

BE THERE OR BE SQUARE www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/l...

I forgot to post this GIF I made, but part of me feels like I'm slipping in effectiveness. Like I used to be so much more driven to esoterically talk about "urbanism is good because math" but now I want to say "you are psychotic if you don't tear up the asphalt and free the dirt"\

I have no idea who Graham Couch is other than something to do with sports, and I'm afraid to look it up at this point.

Trying to figure out how to best articulate my feeling on Michigan transit, in a way that both gets my emotions out and actually helps progress. All I feel is hate. A "If you are a dem who isn't actively working for transit, I want you to be as miserable as you make me every day" kind of hate.

Someone Gilchrist-pill me I don't know a single policy of any Dem governor candidates but I already know since he doesn't seem to be the designated party pick he's got something I'd support

I've always wanted to make a graph that visualizes taxable value across the city, but only recently thought to do so with a "slice". TV/A is a city's version of a job's dollars per hour. Parks and days off don't pay, and that's fine! But we need to balance it with income.

Got my first wider aperture lens I promise I won't abuse it but not do I already want to

If Amtrak is privatized and my train ceases to exist who do I get a refund from

I had my patio door open for an hour earlier today to let in some fresh air and now it's snowing

yes newrepublic.com/article/1909...

Obviously the "plant fruit trees along the road so no one ever is hungry" people haven't thought everything through entirely, but I'd like to take that idea and spin it into a"new city beautiful" movement that's mostly there to take lanes off roads

In regards to Lansing I now I ramble to people all the time about things like financial solvency, but seriously it's insane seeing a cash strapped city with the highest taxes in the region balance it's entire economy on an industry that HATES us, which is about to tank-

I have taken like 30 pictures of this church over the past 2 years to post to Twitter for a fun fact and AWLAYS forget to post them. Fun fact, the weirdly different lighter brick part of the church nearest to us is older than the church; it was a house eaten up by it.

A screenshot of a project I just started. It's still in the ugly "collect data and convert it to pixels" phase but hopefully this should be one of my most useful graphics to date for talking about Lansing: a city wide cross section of taxable values per acre

Wow this place fucking sucks like way more than I remember

Going to start a series where I go over my picks for potential rail lines in detail. First up is Detroit to Bay City, with Flint and Saginaw as the major new stops.

It's funny how last year I took a day off work for the State of the State address, and this year I've lost so much care for anything Whitmer says that I didn't know about when the address was until like a few days ago

I chose the worst city council meeting to attend man it's ten thousand demo order hearings

In a few months you're gonna miss this, and the cycle will continue

I know I'm weird for it but I'm so excited to file taxes I love filling numbers into boxes and then getting like a grand or so back because I make so little also TurnoTax rot in hell

Taken a little before 6pm. The days are not only getting longer but getting longer faster. There's still a lot of winter ahead of us but we've got a warmer week to enjoy.

Wrap free bus so I can look outside at

Not to be too cheesy about it but 6 degree weather with heavy snow is wonderful when you're taking a bus. Waiting at the bus stop stinks sure but no scraping windshields, shoveling, waiting for the car to heat up- seriously nice

Imagine living in a way where your first feelings of seeing some of the most beautiful scenery imaginable is "oh GOD the roads are going to be TERRIBLE and I need to shovel my DRIVEWAY where are the PLOWS"

Cool thing about snow is you can see how much money is wasted by excess road space in person. The world becomes an educational graphic.

Just checked a random house in my neighborhood Midwest stays winning

Made a CATA map that doesn't show routes very good, but shows frequencies. Service shown is MSU off season. Dark Grey is hourly weekdays Light blue is either 30-60 minute or wildly inconsistent Darker blue is 35 minute Green is 30m Yellow is 20m Red is 5-6 buses per hour

Best of luck Jimbo

Why were the bills left to Lame Duck? Why didn't the speaker call them in ASAP? Why was the Governor threatening to not sign bills? Why multiple times did I hear some bills "weren't in the party's priorities"? Whitsett was the bump that broke the wagon wheel but don't pretend it was a smooth road.

Just got off work and

Expressed frustration about the ebike bill dying on Nazi bird site and a state representative sicked his pack of dogs on me and all they did was call me a slur

you know what i think ill go to work today to the job that i work at and also not vote for corporate subsidies because i can do both things

You are not prepared for how many photos I took of the fog. Like 80 I'm only posting 12 for now.

I'm being lazy and copying this over from nazi bird site but seriously I'm so sick of the three stooges of city council doing everything they can to make sure changes take as long as possible. Let's go take a college econ course together and learn what "return on investment" means

You just know you're about to have the coziest but loudest ride of your week seeing this interior

I was almost mowed down by a semi turning left onto Cedar. A Leading Pedestrian Interval would have prevented that by forcing them to wait 5 seconds for me to go first. MDOT's response is that they won't do anything for at least 4 years.

I love how even slight detours feel cursed like what's the route 10 doing here you belong on the north side

It would accomplish nothing and take a ton of my time but I have an urge to make a big PDF of all the little things that annoy me downtown. Things like lack of trees near Grewall Hall or the lighting temp change on Washington, or talk about tree species- it's a lot about trees really

A state legislature (forgot to ask who) is butchering and giving away venison on Ottawa across from the Capitol

I won't comment on if murdering an actually evil person who definitely went straight to hell is ok or not, but it really is horseshit that every police department in New York and the FBI will pour thousands of times more resources into finding the guy than they would with any other murder.

www.wilx.com/2024/12/03/l... I was on the news again and even got quoted for the tagline: “For once we are seeing a development in Lansing where they are proposing scaling it up instead of scaling back”

I know seasonal depression can affect how you perceive colors, but no you also have to appreciate just how bleak winter can look. My phone doesn't do justice to how gray it is.

Certified "YEAH BABY" moment

Nothing quite tempers your hate for local and state governments than standing for 20 minutes in freezing temps in a place actively designed to be inhumane, praying your bus doesn't pass you up like yesterday

So I didn't intend to actually say this but it kinda just came out so uh There goes my chances at an appointment. Womp.

On the ride to work this morning I remembered when I was a kid, a woman was hit and killed right near the Shiawassee Bus Stop due to a car ricochet collision. When I stepped off the bus there was a different crash.

Once again if GM doesn't want the RenCen, Lansing will happily take it off their hands if they can bring it over.

It's always fun when a coworker asks me how I can stand walking to work in this cold weather, then I get to show them the 5, sometimes 6 layers of clothes I wear. Today was coat, jacket, sweater, button up, and undershirt, with hat and gloves.

Route 12 packed to standing room and everyone got off at Advent House and this lady says "wow they really all going to church huh"