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!! @KamalaHarrisWinBlog
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… …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 …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 …Bicycle safety tech "gadgetbahnery"
Saturday, April 27, 2024
[embed]www.youtube.com/watch I'm all for new tech but all that's really needed are Dutch style separated bike lanes and protected signal crossings if they really have this kind of money to burn. The vast majority of both cars and cyclists aren't going to download a "watch out for bikes" app, this is …Since I would love to have Telegram be a first party “citizen” of the Fediverse, the network of open social media network apps and sites that are connected with ActivityPub, I formally opened a suggestion for it to be added somehow if possible via the Telegram user suggestion portal.
I think it would be great if every Telegram user was able to tie into the #fediverse via making @username@t.me handles and using group chats/channels equate different conversation activities vis-a-vis Lemmy, Flipboard and Discourse.
Japan has good neighborhood streets
Saturday, April 13, 2024
Youtube embed code generator .boxes2{height:321px;width:411px;} #new img{max-width:none!important;background:none!important}#iframe{max-height:none!important;max-width:auto!important;background:none!important} I've been telling people for years how the narrowness of the streets in Japan is probably …Last Week Today! S2024E9
Sunday, April 7, 2024
Was a busy (two) week(s) since the last one, so let’s catch up with happenings: 🎂 March 20th and 31st marks “Birthday Week” with the fam, as it’s BoyType and MonkeyGirl’s turns to celebrate getting one year older. And me and SuperWife’s time to be broke AF. …This will be my album cover if I were a musician right now.
Of course we picked the only day it’s raining down here to be camping at the JAX beaches. Well we’re gonna still make the most of the time off!
But our campsite is a flooded mess at the moment so I guess it’s a movie day inside the camper for now.
Promises made, promises kept.
Last Week Today! S2024E7
Sunday, March 17, 2024
🤦♂️ OK, I skipped out on hella posts for this category. I know, I know… I'll backfill them later, but I really hadn't done much of anything noteworthy I guess so there wasn't the motivation to post one of these… Which is not the point of course, so I'll just shut up and get on with this …Throwback Post #1: Waxing Nostalgic on Blogs and Smartphones
Sunday, March 10, 2024
As a few-times reporter in the bustling world of full-time journalism, I found solace and expression through my personal blogging. The keyboard was my faithful companion as I clickity-clacked out my thoughts, observations, and narratives. Back then, my blog was not merely an online diary; it was a …Messing around with Bluesky post embedding codes
Friday, February 23, 2024
Per this post, I’m testing some ways to embed Bluesky posts into my Wordpress powered site here. As I find other ways, I’ll add them here. Simple Blog Card using a shortcode and plugin: [simpleblogcard url="bsky.app/profile/k…"] Bluesky.lol snippet creation using …On the subject of Connecting Federated Social Media Networks
Sunday, February 18, 2024
The past few days on the Fediverse have served to remind me a few things: The internet is as smart and as ignorant (and everything in between) as the macrocosm known as "human civilization" reflects upon it. Sometimes the victims will become the victimizers in any given situation, usually without …Bluesky takes the velvet rope down 🦋
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Bluesky has opened up and requires no waitlist now, so if you were searching for a Twitter alternative, then here you go: [simpleblogcard url="bsky.social/about/blo…"] Once registered, find me here: [simpleblogcard url="bsky.app/profile/s…"] For reference: Feature ……Now they’re just grasping at straws. We asked for something like this back in 2018 complete with a framework to provide AirBNB style housing and helping with Japanese government services like hoken, and the like. I’m sure none of the support part is included here and we all know how hard that is for anyone new to Japan.
Hello COVID my old friend, I hoped we'd never meet again
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Here we go again with the bullshit. This time, my sense of smell is 90% gone. 😩 Paxlovid enroute and no real symptoms other than post-nasal drip from hell and sore back though, so hopefully this'll be over in a few days. 🤞🏾Last Week Today! S2024E1&2
Monday, January 15, 2024
In the tradition of those of us who can't do the daily "my day be like" journaling posts, there's the tradition of the weekly post that sums up what happened the week before. In my nod to one of my favorite TV shows, Last Week Tonight, I'm swashbuckling (🏴☠️) the hell out their title and using it …What's the difference between a blog and a social posting site?
Saturday, January 13, 2024
This is gonna be a radical and controversial statement but in 2024, anything posted to the internet at-large, should be considered a “social post”. In fact, the same could be said for anything posted on the internet in 1994 too. Only the technology and methodology, and yes, nomenclature along with …Fifteen Years Of Wordpressing
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
Unfortunately my previous blogs are lost to the ether but they were all mostly powered by Wordpress. I might gather some of my backups and make some "backfill" posts and relive whatever moments I can find. Until then, let’s celebrate this milestone and thank the contributors and community …What happened to passenger rail (in Georgia)?
Monday, January 8, 2024
Last month I talked about how with Georgia's new federal funding for rail corridors, we could imagine a regional rail system that would make moving through the area so much better? Turns out, I'm not the only one, and our new favorite ATL urbanist Youtuber Nathan Davenport is back with another video …I'm dreaming of a new website engine
Saturday, January 6, 2024
Let me get right to the point: I want a way to use my space on Craft.do as a blog. I love using Craft as my space to outline and organize and it ticks all the boxes Tantek raises about capturing all the thoughts surrounding a good post first, then publishing it later after refining. It literally is …Me looking hella disheveled after getting a giant qtip up my snout. All I wanted was more powerful meds to dam up the waterfall in my sinuses.
👩🏾⚕️:“We gotta check you for flu and Covid”
🐺: “Y’all didn’t do that so the my wife when she was here a few days ago”
👩🏾⚕️: takes out big ass q-tip from quantum space “look up right quick…”
an entire eternity of poking all my childhood memories into mash later
👩🏾⚕️: “give it 15 minutes and we’ll know…”
🐺: achooooo!!! “I can’t stop sneezi—" aaaaachoooo!!!
Time to get the last of the 年賀状wannabe cards shipped off to Japan! 🏣
(Some of y’all may know you are based on 郵便番号)
It's 2024 in Nippon!
Sunday, December 31, 2023
Do you have your ticket to ride? 明けましておめでとうございます。 今年もよろしくお願いします。