If you’re looking for a recent album by a solo female artist that is about love and settling down and being famous and settling scores that is actually good, try Doja Cat’s Vie

All the hot water bottle brands represented on the dais at Traffic and Parking Board tonight: Owala (Kursten); Yeti (Ann); Hydroflask (Sheila); and Stanley (me)

Squashed several spotted lanternflies on my walk this morning, but what was more heartening was seeing how many had already been squashed by other people 🥰

A lovely morning, but opening the windows means experiencing the cacophony of gas leaf blowers that my neighbor apparently needs for the second time this week

FUCK OFF www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

For her new book, journalist Carter Sherman interviewed over 100 young people about why they’re not having sex. She says they’re “very horny” but also more isolated, self-conscious, and fearful. www.wired.com/story/carter...

These trucks should be illegal

Tune into the Traffic and Parking Board meeting on Monday to witness my absolute lack of a poker face!

Arlington finally put the Crystal Drive southbound bike lane between parking spaces and the curb! Only one car blocking the bike lane on my ride today!

i'm fine with kids having two toys instead of 30 but you're really going to have to take that up with the grandparents

Get a load of this asshole parked in the crosswalk on the Ave at Del Ray Ave during the busiest time of the week for pedestrians

Where do I donate to help people who have been sent or will be sent to El Salvador?

Love too backwards engineer a huge problem with a new project because I personally do not like change

To. What. End? wapo.st/4kmpGnI

I’ll never complain about humidity again

This is an earnest post about how heartbroken I am over the killing of the Presidential Management Fellowship program. I and many other competent and capable colleagues got our start in government as PMFs. You don’t end it unless you want to dismantle a meritocracy. (gift link) wapo.st/3D3kwMJ

OK Big Brother

When I worked at USDA in 2019-2020, the 12 hours of telework we got per week was considered draconian

Whaaaaaatttt!!!!

If you see a middle-aged woman anywhere in the US seeking out a taxi over Lyft/Uber, say hi — it’s me

Where are we sledding in Del Ray tomorrow?

What an extraordinary, devastating essay. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Made lasagna (including the pasta) and marathoning 30 Rock

Every driver in the entire DC region is just parking in the middle of the road to run inside and grab something real quick

I love it when James Marsden is in a kids movie. That casting is for the moms

lil mama go off

Watching Single Lady and reading All Fours in the same 3 days has been, shall we say, intense!

Not only is it closed, but all the Secret Service guys have, as usual, parked their SUVs right up to the intersection on Clyde so visibility is terrible, and I guess because the street is closed people going west on Del Ray think they don’t have to stop before turning?

There’s a whole lotta people driving without their headlights on this morning!

My friends and I got kicked out of Cheesetique at 9:40 because they were closing

Dragged my kids to Tons of Trucks after an eventful morning, only to have one kid restricted from entering the bouncy house because she wasn’t wearing socks, and then the ice cream truck was cash only. These were literally the only two things we did #tonsoftragedy

Just some unhinged signage in the 800 block of Columbus (and one of the residents of these addresses came out to chat when his dogs alerted him to our presence at 9am, suggesting we be careful because “possibly a homeless person” had been breaking into cars)

Anyone who drives to the Wharf is a godforsaken idiot

LMAO the City bragging about all their training/kid-friendly pools that are never, ever open. Called Minnie Howard and the training pool is closed until they can staff it, ie indefinitely

5yo: I don’t want to go to college Me: you don’t have to! *explains trades* 5yo: I don’t want to be anything when I grow up. You’re not anything! Me: yes I am! *tries mightily to explain natural resources management of public lands* 5yo: I want to be a unicorn!

The City pools are clearly plagued by staffing shortages. I know that there is a post-covid lifeguard shortage nationwide. The number of times I have gone to Old Town Pool with my 2 kids under 5 and learned the shallow pool is closed are many. Is it… fair… to suggest the City figure this shit out?

My friend’s Townie e-bike was stolen from her front porch in Lynhaven last night. The battery and display were in the house and the back wheel was locked, so the thief would not be able to ride it. If you see it, please let me know!

How do we get the City to ban gas-powered leaf blowers? (Is it something they have the authority to do?)

“9:40pm is the perfect time to chainsaw!” - someone in Del Ray this very moment

After my kids go to bed I have to try to change our Delta flights to northern MI (a tourist destination), originally departing at 6:30am tomorrow, to ideally sometime later in the week so as to avoid giving my “older” mother COVID. Tips and good vibes welcome 😬

Power’s out, yaaaaaay

If you’re into female pop artists and female rap/R&B artists, it’s just a great time to be alive

For the second time this week I’ve seen a woman walking around in this outfit

The northern part of Crystal Drive has flex posts along (some of) the south going bike lane. The southern part has this

I’m about to change out of my bike clothes, shower, and then put on clean bike clothes cc @juddlumberjack.bsky.social

Can anyone recommend a good seamstress (and is there a gender-neutral term)? I just had the hubris to ride my bike while wearing a new and beloved cotton sundress and it got caught in my rim brakes, resulting in many small holes 😫

This city is so great. I’m so happy to live here.

Whoa it’s a party at TPB tonight