It’s really very annoying that my kids don’t think city council live streams are fun entertainment. Submitted my comments ahead of time and very grateful for all the people filling in the news gaps online today.

I’m realizing that Bike to Work Day is a great time to share this sticker that @kylereardon.bsky.social designed: port-city-shirts.printify.me/product/2865...

Sitting here with my two whole children who had the audacity to be born in the past

I support efforts, in theory, to apolitically draw our districts. But, surprise, snatching all my income and my healthcare out of my hands and the hands of all my friends changed my praxis.

Looking at those 260 unreported Fairfax county precincts like I’m watching a piano being lifted to a high floor of an apartment building in a vintage cartoon.

Loudoun is over 90% including all of early vote and mail Above the 60-40 margin needed for a comfortable Yes win Will take a while for an official call But this looks like a redo of the 2025 AG race Shy Yes voters were a thing

Just gonna do ctrl+f “loudoun” until something happens

Truly insane the amount of money wasted on marketing to me this election

Hurricane NANA?

The cognitive dissonance between walking out of the Florence and the Machine opener and seeing a stadium ad for “beef” can’t be accurately described

Oh god, I just got my first ever email from PowerSchool. Should I be scared?

If I was opening one of the most impactful, beautiful, and collaborative affordable housing developments in the city, I might try to talk about it every once in a while? I might post construction updates and pictures from the roof and vignettes about the people involved.

I’ve been able to watch and share so much of this Artemis II journey with my four year old, and tonight I said “do you want to watch the spaceship come back to earth?” And she dropped every toy she had to cuddle up on me and see it happen. The awe and the wonder has been such a gift.

It takes place in ALX?

I alone would consume 43 cups of coffee on this ten day mission, put me in space as an experiment

Helen was, aside from her obvious skill, always just the nicest person to interact with at Housing (which is a tough battle when you also had Eric there, back in my day.) She wrote me a card when my eldest was born that had me in tears. A well deserved retirement.

Local friends - in your opinion, what's the best events calendar for local activities? Pulse checking a group conversation at work.

I told my daughter we were going to the garden center, and you would have thought I told her she was seeing N*Sync in 2002.

For the first time in a long time, we had a really big travel calendar year come up. I said “February? Nah, that’s too early to book tickets to anything.” Reader, I messed up what the heck is with these airfare prices.

My daughter just said “my mind fell apart” to explain why she didn’t use soap while washing her hands and, honestly? Girl I get it.

Oh my god this is gonna be a mess

My kids woke up this morning, after a 75 degree evening spent playing with a water table, desperate to go outside and continue the fun. Which I ruined for them by showing them the cold rain. It’s just annoying that *I* am the bad guy in this situation.

All the solar panel chatter has me thinking about an old question: Any recommendations for anything that isn’t a full-on solar roof but could help you charge a few devices? I had something like this once that was supposed to support a cell phone, about 10 years ago, and it was a piece of junk.

I spent a warm and comfortable 90 minutes outside building my new planter! Which was the exact length of time as my stomach-sick son’s nap and now he’s back up demanding graham crackers again and maybe I should have just gamed instead.

Got a few new things up this afternoon while I procrastinated on Photoshop updates: port-city-shirts.printify.me

I love Alexandria. I love being in a community that cares and engages and scrutinizes and improves. Thank you for being good neighbors. I am passing TF out.

How many people have we run off?

….a Bill Russell Becky Hammer back to back? I was gonna go to bed.

Her too! (Gia?) “I….also live in Alexandria and pay taxes and that’s how I would like the road to be used.”

Get Jacob in here.

I am deceased

I met Mike Doyle once, and what I remember about that interaction (aside from the cause he supported) is that he was so exceedingly nice. Helped me set up my display tent and supplies at the Fox5 event we were both at. Checked in a few times that day too.

@nradshaw.bsky.social talk more!!

He’s wearing my shirt!!!

“I asked AI” Is gonna make me throw myself in the sun

“The average age of RCA is 40 years old, are they represented here today?” AND “Excuse me, I’m speaking” In the same speech?!? Damn.

Woah, hot new exclusive and VERY pertinent to the moment:

No posters or flyers, new mailers

Since we’re on break: What’s the drinking game for this meeting? (Your rules can’t send anybody to the hospital, so “sip for anti-bike and yelling at clouds” is too easy.)

Looking forward to saying that we should keep sharrows to promote active and healthy living by increasing the share of “strong and brave” cyclists

Fixed it! 😂 elenah77.github.io/parking-obit...

Celebrating the fact that our recent firehouse elections offered an online voting component, this sticker is a direct callback to a 90s era AOL ad that I'll pop in a comment. port-city-shirts.printify.me/product/2700...

This post was so essential for me, a Woman Who Has To Answer 100 Toddler Questions About Birds Every Hour And Thus Struggles To Remember Other Things. Thanks, @ryanbelmore.bsky.social

I’m watching some Legends of the Hidden Temple with the kids, and I cannot get over how trash the consolation prizes are. “Hey kid, you were just humiliated on national TV! Here’s a voucher for chocolate milk powder.”

So I said weeks back that I was toying with a pin design from the storm. I've ended on a render here that I thought was kind of cool - took inspiration from labor movement pins. If I wanted to move forward, I'd need to ship 20 for ~$18, though. That feels like a lot for a niche but rad joke.

Photographed a concert tonight with @kylereardon.bsky.social , my pedometer *knows it*

My sick toddler is obsessed with “playing” super monkey ball with us and his sister. I have to get some work done today, so I have a YouTube live stream up - but he got wise to the fact that I’m not holding a controller, so he continually picks one up and shoves it in my face.

Finally got to swing a mattock. Y’all are right it slaps.

the first choice is literally what Jesus would teach, i feel like i'm losing my mind

“Mommy why are they singing and dancing like that?” “That’s rock music, honey.” “It’s loud.” “On purpose yes.”