Don’t let the pigeon lead the negotiations

This feels appropriate to the season. voetica.com/poem/3738

The county records of Sioux County, IA (where I grew up) were stolen by 55 Dutch settlers in sleighs in January 1872. They cut a hole in the log courthouse and moved the records safe from Calliope to Orange City. I had no idea this was so common! hawardenhistoricalsociety.com/history/siou...

And based on other people’s posts, there were fewer than 100K users just 4 months before I joined!

What is common knowledge in your field* but shocks outsiders? Community homelessness is a rich city problem, positively correlated with high housing prices. Poverty rates and substance abuse rates do not predict community homelessness. ** * Field I’m currently working in ** Colburn & Aldern 2022

Indian pizza is the best, and it’s all over Sacramento. These are just the ones in my neighborhood.

For what it’s worth, when I was an out-of-state college student in Texas in the 90s, I voted in the presidential election at a polling place on my campus and found the process very easy. Strongly support this messaging and hope it continues to be simple.

How do you fit four giraffes in a VW Beetle? Take the elephants out

Star Wars themed: What’s the body temperature of a tauntaun? … Luke warm Why don’t people eat Wookiee? … It’s a little Chewy