Really digging what Ben is saying about The next four years<\a>. I said it in 2017, and I’ll say it again: We sometimes need the worst of us to bring out the best in us.
This sums up my thoughts about the TikTok ban charade right now:
Isn’t this a “promises made, promises kept” moment from OrangeMan? Or will he reverse his own-goal and look like a savior… even though he was incessantly shoving this down our collective throats since forever ago.
🤷🏾♂️
They said it wouldn’t be much snow in Atlanta on the news last night.
Right now:
#snowday #atlanta
Dammit, c’mon Falcons.
New Years Traditions 2025: New Years Beans & Black Americans
Wednesday, January 1, 2025
New Years Day means soul food for most African Americans. In particular it means black eyed peas, neckbones and greens (mustard/turnip/collard mix) in mine. The beans symbolize planting seeds of success to grow in the coming year, greens for health and wealth, and neckbones meaning “making something outta nothing” since these used to be the “throwaway” part of the pig. Most of us do this every new year and down South, White folks, Hispanic folks, Asian folks, lots of us do it because the Culture spread like that.
Apparently Pets 3 is filming in the RV…
Godspeed Mr President.
I need to have this guy’s builder skills, time and space. I’d be both terrified and thrilled to drive this contraption 🤩
Keep your eyes on the prize. The battle is never fought alone so long as you remember the ancestors teachings.
That time my moms, my BFF and I rode the Delmar Loop trolley in our home town.
Testing once more…
Making a test post here… and now I’m updating the post with micropub…
Yimbys for Harris $100k
Thursday, August 29, 2024
Reblog via StarrWulfe (JLGatewood) http://YIMBYsforHarris.com ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR HARRIS/WALZ!! Support better neighborhoods/affordable housing/sustainable development!! @KamalaHarrisWin
Why does it seem like Atlanta’s transit agencies continually aim lower and lower when it comes to planning?
I was this many years old when I was told it was going to be an extension of the Red Line rail service from North Springs Station, about 5 miles away. Now all we get is a noisy, smoggy bus island in between 8 lanes of speeding traffic.
Nah, this ain’t it chief.
#LFG.
In honor of Father’s Day, I’m going to engage in one of my favorite past-times: $#!+posting dad jokes. 😏
If you’re a dad (or you have a dad– I guess that’d be everyone here except my immaculate conception, clones, androids and the asexual reproduction homies) please add to the ensuing and possibly annoying thread. Consider yourself warned for irony, cringe and general rando post fun & mayhem.
–Also go wish your dad a Happy Father’s Day before you forget 😜
Let’s get it started:
- I was going to get a brain transplant, but I changed my mind
- Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? ...He's all right now...
- I've been trying to come up with a dad joke about momentum . . . but I just can't seem to get it going.
Apparently they were trying to film Speed 2 near my house today…
Invasion of the street car snatchers
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
We have a ready-made 150-year-old vacant right of way around central Atlanta begging for rail-based transit… And the mayor is considering “slow moving people movers” and “pods” instead of connecting the downtown circulating streetcar to it (which it was why it was built) youtu.be/ViXU2ULsP… Please watch this video and feel my frustration and rage right now. 😡
New Fediverse Bluesky bridge in beta testing
Saturday, May 4, 2024
The bridge has been built and the switch has been turned on! Even though there was a lotof struggle and strife, arguments, and knockdown-drag-outs, @snarfed.org@snarfed.org, AKA Ryan Barrett persevered by taking into account everyone's opinions on what a cross-fediverse bridge between the ActivityPub powered landscape dominated by Mastodon and the ATProto protocol that powers BlueSky. It's important to many people including myself that all networks in what I call the Open Social Media Services (OpenSNS) collection of decentralized federated networks be able to talk and interact with each other; else we might as well just go on creating big-ass tech silos that eventually will wall people off based on pre-existing factors like ethnicity, geography, culture at best and/or consolidate power to just one group of people or companies at worse.
Inconsolable Tangential War Victims
Saturday, April 27, 2024
It’s very hard to ignore the amount of suffering going on by people who just a few years ago were living an idyllic life just like me; worried about having enough time/money to simply have a few days off to spend with wife/husband/kids/parents/family/friends… Or just sitting in a cafe and sipping a coffee or tea and enjoying a book or something. Now just endless war and death for what? Someone in a palace far away with some random agenda decided whatever and now their entire vicinity is rubble.