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We keep each other safe YIMBY Co-chair @livablecville.bsky.social 🏘️ 🚲🚶🏽🧑🏽‍🦽🌎 More at: https://stevenljohnson.org Disclaimer: Personal account. Does not reflect my employer

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Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org · 6d

Another action packed newsletter! I used to think “Think Globally, Act Locally” was nothing more than a trite slogan, but now I can see it’s an urgent and essential priority

Livable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social · 7d

Our October newsletter just landed in over 1300 email in-boxes! It covers a Week Without Driving recap, an important and urgent environmental action alert, a call to fully fund Inclusionary Zoning, our upcoming social, and more!

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🏘️ 🚲🚶🏽🧑🏽‍🦽 Livable Cville - October 2025 Newsletter

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Indivisible Charlottesville @indivisiblecville.bsky.social · 3h

Last chance - Get ready for #NoKings, join us this Wednesday (October 15), 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Charlottesville to make bold, high-impact signs (for you to use and/or to share with others).

A photo of a hand lettered sign reading "Rise Up for immigrants, free speech, women, LGBTQ, VA Benefits, Social Security, History, Education..."

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Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org · 2h

It’s true! Were it not for his post, there’s no telling how long we might have gone before stumbling upon that idea ourselves

Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org · 5h

I hesitate to ask... is an autistic dog or cat even a thing? And, how would one know if they had one? Oh, nevermind, it's not a rational set of beliefs, so there's really no reason for me to even entertain it as such

Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org · 6h

C'mon Cville peeps, we can make this happen!

inimicus @moxievoxy.bsky.social · 7h

This was the best part of twitter and I think cville bluesky can bring it back

Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org · 8h

October #Spooky #Profilepic

Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org · 6h

for me, it's to have a stack full of assignments to grade. nothing fosters urgency to clean and tidy like avoidance of the tedious task of grading

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Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org · 8h

attn @moxievoxy.bsky.social

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Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org · 8h

October #Spooky #Profilepic

a photograph light-skinned grey-bearded man with glasses wearing a green striped shirt with various halloween theme elements added to the image: a witches hat, a pumpkin with a hat, and a black cat

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 9h

all of this tracks

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 1d

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org · 9h

If you're looking for Gordon Parks material or have any questions about him, you should connect with @johnedwinmason.bsky.social

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Matthew Gillikin @mtgillikin.bsky.social · 15h

I’ll add to that this whole situation is another very good reason for significant reform to how the Board of Visitors operates. They were told about these problems (and had a legal and moral responsibility to know about them), but chose to give Kent a massive raise and lengthy contract extension.

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Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org · 15h

Any specific reasons you have in mind? Expense of right of way acquisition? Because people who live in between want it to be as hard as possible for city folks to get there? Or ... ?

Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org · 15h

That would be amazing. Maybe it could go thru Biscuit Run and connect from its southern end down to Scottsville? I don’t know the area well enough to know if that would help much or not

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Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org · 16h

Yup, most of the distance between UVA/DTM and CHO/Hollymead area is county/VDOT maintained. The city can do more to safely create routes heading north, but further connectivity is a county/state funding issue

Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org · 16h

If/once it happens years from now, the Three Notch'd Trail will provide safe biking between Crozet and UVA/Cville. I don't know of any plans for getting out towards Zion Crossroads. The advantage of connecting Cville <--> CHO/Hollymead is there's lots and lots of people and places in between

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Matthew Gillikin @mtgillikin.bsky.social · 1d

I just read through a 250 page lawsuit filed last week against Craig Kent, much of his leadership team, and UVA filed by 4 current/former UVA surgeons and the widows of 2 men who died receiving care at UVA. It’s a look under the hood of what drove the no confidence vote a year ago. It’s really bad.

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Livable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social · 1d

This Tuesday, October 14 @cvilledems.bsky.social are hosting a Charlottesville City School Board Candidate Forum at the Jefferson School from 6-7pm. This may be the only forum, so it’s an important opportunity to learn more about the candidates.

CHARLOTTESVILLE SCHOOL
BOARD CANDIDATE FORUM
Zyahna Bryant | Dashad Cooper | Emily Dooley | Lisa Larson-Torres
6PM-7PM OCTOBER 14, 2025
THE JEFFERSON SCHOOL
JOIN THE CHARLOTTESVILLE DEMOCRATS FOR A FORUM WITH THE SCHOOL BOARD CANDIDATES. THE EVENING WILL BEGIN A LED DISCUSSION, FOLLOWED BY A Q&A. ONLINE ACCESS WILL BE PROVIDED BY CHARLOTTESVILLE UNITED FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION & IN MY HUMBLE OPINION

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Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org · 19h

Ah, I hadn’t heard about that. Thanks for sharing that info

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Activate Virginia @activateva.bsky.social · 1d

"If all the data centers planned for REC’s territory are completed, the co-op, which has fewer than 170,000 customers, will need enough capacity to power the combined populations of New York, Los Angeles and Chicago."

Co-Op Risks

Rappahannock Electric opens door to building own power supply. It’s not ruling out nuclear power.

thenewenergycrisis.com

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Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org · 1d

I think nearby condos are a more likely model than Eagles Landing. re: green space, I prefer higher density building in the city instead of far lower density eliminating green space in surrounding counties. I haven't heard anything about Lewis Mt. ... anything in particular in mind?

Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org · 1d

Among everything else, that's the part that frustrates me the most. Virginia, thanks to a long path dependency of DARPAs role in creating the Internet, is the data center capital of the world, and the average VA rate payer is forced to subsidize the AI companies that are trying to replace their jobs

Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org · 1d

Yeah, that price has an expectation of a whole lotta housing going in there. $100K per building lot would be 70 units... and, they can probably get a lot more in there

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Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org · 1d

AI CapEx is the only thing keeping the US economy afloat right now and the level of investment is based on an expectation that AI will replace nearly all existing labor costs. If it does, that's a major economic issue; if it doesn't, that's a painful bubble to burst

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Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org · 1d

I'm old enough to remember the dot-com bubble bursting and companies like Pets.com & Webvan (among many, many others) flaming out. But, the scale of AI investments is *far* larger though, as it is fueled by Big Tech monopoly profits and an intensive (irrational) hype-driven FOMO

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Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org · 1d

I wonder how many homes can be built on this 11 acre parcel?

everysale.cvilledata.org @everysale.cvilledata.org · 1d

240 STRIBLING AVE, sold to KEYVA COOPERS ROW, LLC on 2025-10-09 for $7,410,000. Zoned R-C, assessed at $2,153,200. Last sold in 2021 for $2,000,000.

Map view of 240 STRIBLING AVE from GIS database.

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Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org · 1d

I've been thinking for a while that the home insurance market is the mostly likely mechanism for forcing society to confront climate change and, perhaps, take seriously the necessary structural changes required to transition to a post-carbon economy