We were happy to donate books to first graders at Greer Elementary recently! Albemarle HS student teachers Brianna T. and Beatrice O. worked with the first graders this year. Here they are saying thanks for the books 😊

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

Going on 3 1/2 years now and still struck by how randomly grief hits

We often ask how to combat voter apathy. Well, on all levels, we must keep an eye on who keeps their word once they are elected.

Legalized anywhere/anytime/anything gambling isn’t just ruinous for sports, but will prove ruinous for society.

We highly recommend attending this event!

In 2014, New York City lowering the speed limit from 30 to 25 mph. In just the 1st year: Traffic fatalities fell by more than 22% Pedestrian fatalities fell by more than 25% The most dangerous drivers, those driving over 35 mph, slowed down the most. Via @transalt.org Speed is always a factor.

If you’ve been thinking about giving a donation to a food bank, this is an awesome time of year to do it! When kids are out of school for the summer, those who rely on schools for meals, often find themselves without enough food for the entire family.

“Viable alternatives to driving” is pretty much the only thing we need to talk about if we are serious about reducing traffic. And massive progress on that can be made if we just forego one or two unnecessary highway projects.

This is an interesting framework for thinking about Democrats. Agree that Spanberger offers a politics of no, and that's also true of e.g. Amy Klobuchar and Rahm Emanuel. I would say Booker, who I do not like, is nonetheless a politics of yes guy.

Question? Does every major higher education board appointment in Virginia have ties to Dominion Energy. Anecdotal evidence says “yes”. And what about running an energy and lobbying business qualifies one to serve in a University executive capacity?

Be human, be weird. Be you, the only you out of billions of ephemeral bright lights on this little planet.

charlottesville city schools happily announcing their new police hires on the same day the nyt puts out yet another damning report on police violence against school children 👍 great policy work guys what could go wrong 👍 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Important clarification bsky.app/profile/megh...

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Relevant to cville- and many other places. Gift article www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A great opportunity to be Trump's arch nemesis. Comment by noon on June 3. savingplaces.org/monumental-a...

i would love to be wrong about this, but from everything i’ve seen, “civilian review boards” exist to disrupt, defang, and derail political momentum for actual police accountability.

Why do we do @livablecville.bsky.social socials? Because having fun and hanging out are an essential part of building a better world.

“We’re all paying heavily for sprawl, whether we live there or not, & we’re all financially benefitting from infill housing, whether we live there or not.” — Our own @brenttoderian.bsky.social A critically important #UrbanTruth is the staggering costs of sprawl, and the huge value of infill growth.

In Brazil, the World Cup has always been more than soccer. But what happens when that shared passion becomes fragmented into thousands of micro-bets? In my latest article, I explore how online betting platforms are fundamentally transforming the way Brazilians experience the World Cup.

As far as I can tell, that extra $$ is purely because of larger median lot sizes*, not because of larger square footage. The difference in minimum lot size and price between R4 and R6 zoning in Albemarle County changes who is able to afford and more likely to purchase those homes.

My newest take on invasive plants just dropped: dailyprogress.com/opinion/lett...

Per MLS in Albemarle: - median asking price for new construction detached: $830K. Average: ~$1.1M - median asking price for new construction attached: $540K. Average: ~$576K. But hey, I've got mine.

Sadly, the primary contribution of American city planning is a scarcity of homes.

That's it, Crozet is officially full: there's no support for in-fill projects. A logical solution is for the County to triple the Crozet growth area S & W along 250 so homes can actually be built where existing infrastructure—like an interstate directly to where jobs are located—already exists

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Salute to Michael as always for both thorough live-tweeting and repping the YIMBY voices of Crozet.

github must be struggling mightily with bots. I just tried to create a new account and it's got an elaborate prove-you-are-a-human test that involves 9 repeated feats of strength and I couldn't pass either the visual or the audio versions

A reminder that MMR is safe for babies starting at 6 months and during times of outbreak we recommend a vaccine for babies starting at 6 months.

Really want to encourage people to read the chapter in this book on “blood sport” in colonial Virginia society. Gander pulls, cock fighting, & later, organized fist fights, were often hosted by the rural gentry to keep the male tenants entertained. Albion's seed : Fischer, David Hackett

" A relatively small number of buyers and sellers will effectively determine the valuation of a multi-trillion-dollar company. The new Nasdaq rules, which make the index weight disproportionately large relative to the float, could exacerbate this imbalance as passive funds are forced to buy."

“The dividing line between cities that succeed and those that stagnate isn’t geography, wealth, or even size—it’s mindset. Some places embrace experimentation, risk, and what @brenttoderian.bsky.social calls competent failure.” @momentummag.bsky.social profiles us. momentummag.com/urban-truth-...

WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you really should watch & share this news story. It’s pretty much perfect. Ford claims wrongly that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data. toronto.citynews.ca/video/2024/1...

It’s exciting to see the city’s investments in resident led affordable housing coming to fruition! Already accomplished: Crescent Hall renovations and phase 1 of both South 1st St and Kindlewood. Right now phase 2 of South 1st St and Kindlewood are underway, as well as phase 1 of 6th St.

“A megamonopoly of this size, with the kind of money to buy political influence that NextEra will have, will be nearly impossible to regulate.”

saying no one will use a protected bike land before it exists is like insisting there's no reason to build a bridge as you've never seen someone swim across the river below

“…altho climate models have done a remarkably good job predicting the warming… they have likely underestimated the effect global heating is having on critical impacts such as ice sheet collapse, sea level rise, and increasingly devastating and deadly weather extremes.“ Via @michaelemann.bsky.social

This is worth reading, for excellent communication & story-telling. “I’m driving less. I don’t want to see the world through a driver’s eyes any more. Before I began driving less, I had long had a melancholic sense that the city lifestyle I lived was cut off...” #UrbanTruth From @irishtimes.com

"We could end up with a lot more driving. And even if every individual, self-driven mile is safer, if you have that much more driving, you have more crashes overall.” - @davidzipper.bsky.social nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/22/w...

“Polls suggest that Americans’ confidence in higher education is at an historic low. Why… would faculty delegate their role as expert evaluators to machines?” dailynorthwestern.com/2026/05/21/o...

If only our kids had the same freedom as poultry.

Not feeling well today, so no Sat ride. Still, a long ride last Sunday gives me a big jump to share. I'm now at 89.1% of Cville overall (96% paved, 24% unpaved). To finish the paved stuff, I'm guessing there's about 5-6 hours of riding + an anticipated early June map update left 🚲 😃

A common comment on my videos about LLM "hallucinations" is that this isn't as much of a problem because LLMs "cite their sources" now. This is a category error. Citing a source implies it was consulted. LLMs do not consult, even with RAG. A citation might be *included* but it's not *consulted*.

A nice video from Mr. Barricade on a simple and affordable design to improve crosswalks safety while being ADA accessible

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

Some straight talk from @katrinacallsen.com:

"A year later, union members reflecting on the campaign considered Thursday's veto of collective bargaining legislation a "betrayal.""

a 200' wide, 114-mile long strip of rural land is apparently a top nine most endangered "place" in case you thought Preservation Virginia was actually about historic preservation and not rank nimbyism www.29news.com/2026/05/20/p...