Twin Peaks: Bobby Briggs at the Roadhouse.

I wouldn't advocate a return to an Adbusters style 90s politics but a default skepticism of corporations and their products is a good thing

Folks if you are tired of anti-growth advocacy in Albemarle hamstringing new developments, come hang out & plan with like-minded neighbors (including me) at Bar Botanical in Crozet this Thursday between 5 and 7. We can do better!

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

All the way off

Self Edge has dropped new Sugar Cane jeans, their “1966 Jean”, that are great Jackpot pants: time-travel perfect repros of 1966 501’s. Even the denim itself is an exact match!

Sorry folks, if you post that ‘liberals’ say/want/think x, where x=an illiberal value, then I unfollow you. A man got to have a code.

people who talk about going to No Kings protests in terms of how to avoid getting kettled or black-bagged are Blue Sky’s version of men who talk about how they won’t go to a large city without a handgun and seventeen personal defense items

Peel Slowly In C

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

Hard to imagine a clearer case of Car Brain than blaming building materials for vehicular homicide

Travel choices are rarely about love for the car. They’re about reliability & ease. Ppl drive because it often feels like the simplest option, not because they inherently prefer sitting in traffic. When alternatives are designed to be predictable, safe & convenient, people choose them bit.ly/4guUVvr

me: i want to sleep in a human-sized hotdog bun 911: sir that's.....ok actually that sounds great me: so who do we call 911: [shouting in background] we're checking now

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We have handed the absolute worst people in this nation power and they delight in flaunting their wickedness and cruelty, not least because they think they can turn the world against us and leave us without allies or safe harbor. They see themselves as our jailors.

This is an extremely basic point, but one that bears repeating: in a law-governed society, the state cannot simply murder people it has identified as potential criminals. It does not matter if those alleged criminals are foreigners. If you illegally kill people, you have committed murder.

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

It's worth noting the only complaint is from a driving instructor who said that people still go too fast. Which is a good reminder that while lowering speed limits is important, designing roads that force people to slow down is even better.

Cornhole concerns at the zoning committee: "The cornhole game leads to a continuous thunking noise as the beanbag hits the target. When one goes in the hole there's a loud cry of success."

Urbanism is complex and manifold but my entire ideology could probably be simplified as proximity to sustainable bread production. And maybe a nice sweet pastry.

94% of Parisians live within a 5-minute walk of a bakery. My kingdom for urbanism this good in the US.

I know it's not the first time I've said this, but my brain is weirdly susceptible to gaslighting. I know the Trumpers are lying liars who lie and I still pause when they step up to the podium and confidently declare "WELL YOU DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING WHEN OBAMA FUCKED A WALRUS" and think wait, did he?

I just wish all the people who oppose traffic calming could understand how much joy and confidence children can get when they are able to safely walk and bike places.

Why are single-stair buildings actually SAFER than two stair buildings in some circumstances? It seems counter intuitive… obviously, more redundancy is better, right?

Co-sign this. We need to close those crossings and that’s a meaningful date to set the goal.

Science, bitch

Some news: This winter Team Oonee is launching NYC's first Dutch-Style🚲 parking hub in Brooklyn's Sunset Park. The Hub will provide free parking for 100+ bikes/scooters, and will include safe charging, and appt based repairs + lite service. This will make history in several ways. More deets in 🧵👇🏾

I find award shows incredibly boring but go birds fuck ice and free Palestine

they’re removing the height limits on the beers

Has there ever been a luckier sonofabitch in all time?

mf said broken english youtu.be/K4XD5MTMACg?...

I ate the beans in my Beanie Baby and now I am the Beanie Baby

(Jerry Lewis voice): GROYPERS

"Kirk told his listeners that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson of the Supreme Court “is what your country looks like on critical race theory,” that former Vice President Kamala Harris was “the jive speaking spokesperson of equity,” and that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “was awful.”"

"On the last episode of his show before he was killed," Kirk told "his audience, falsely, that “one in 22 Black men will be a murderer in their lifetime” and that “by age of 23, half of all Black males have been arrested and not enough of them have been arrested.”

This is the most watched news network in the country, and they’re calling for gas chambers.

Factcheck: false ❌

Grape Nuts (holding me back): Whoa whoa whoa, hey man, just let it go! This asshole isn't worth it!

One of the absolute highlights of my day yesterday was riding my ebike around Charlottesville for 10 miles, meeting a couple new clients, & riding the separated path alongside John Warner Parkway. It is *Amazing.* From Dunlora to Nest on Rose Hill took a Prince Caspian & part of Samson & Delilah

there's a weird feedback loop where the media's reaction to kirk's death pushes you to speak more ill of the dead than you otherwise would because it's the only reasonable response to the simpering praise they're heaping on him

The median Bluesky user

“They [African Americans] were actually better in the 1940s” -Charlie Kirk

“Islam is the sword the left is using to slit the throat of America.” -Charlie Kirk

“The great replacement strategy, which is well under way every single day in our southern border, is a strategy to replace white rural America with something different.” -Charlie Kirk

“I think it’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the second amendment” -Charlie Kirk

“We need to have a Nuremberg-style trial for every gender-affirming clinic doctor. We need it immediately.” -Charlie Kirk

“Happening all the time in urban America, prowling blacks go around for fun to go target white people, that’s a fact.” -Charlie Kirk

“Thou shall lay with another man, shall be stoned to death. Just saying... The chapter...affirms God's perfect law when it comes to sexual matter." -Charlie Kirk

"Democrat women want to die alone without children." -Charlie Kirk