Not that I have much time to use either platform between my 13 month old daughter, mayoral duties, and dayjob...
I really need to formally move my social media over to Bluesky once and for all. Twitter is such a shitshow
Huge W @davidjaber.bsky.social next time I'm in WA maybe I'll make my way there! "This puts a small city known for its Victorian architecture, most of which is fairly rural in character, ahead of many of the state’s more urban jurisdictions." 🚫🅿️
Small but mighty Port Townsend appears to be the first city in Washington State to have fully ditched its off-street parking requirements.
this is the logical endpoint of suburbanite cop ideology that says all cities are crime ridden hellholes - a complete destruction of public space and civic life replaced by television-centric suburban sprawl where the only places that exist are homes, offices and shopping.
Idaho has a Senator named Mike Crapo
The Göring Company.
Elon Musk visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland on Monday weeks after the tech billionaire backed an antisemitic conspiracy theory on his X platform.
The trip came weeks after the billionaire apologized for boosting an antisemitic conspiracy theory.
Yesterday, I randomly had Return to Innocence (from the Pure Moods ads from, like, 25 years ago) & the theme song from Outlander get stuck in my head, seemingly out of nowhere. Both songs feature weird wailing. I wonder if its because weird wailing is my daughter's primary means of communication...
I do that sometimes with January and October, and did most recently at the outset of this week's council meeting to the confusion and mirth of all in attendance
Such an insane take. The Expanse is a love letter to liberal institutions and the complexity of managing complex systems. It's also an allegory for climate change (at least the latter half of the book series).