bread and roses (and hoping)
@weirdlilctydweller.bsky.social
Mostly Alexandria gossip, snark, and bitching about HUD stupidity.
Alexandria is cooler than where you live
gender = nope, they/them🌈
opinions all mine, etc etc
Alexandria is cooler than where you live
gender = nope, they/them🌈
opinions all mine, etc etc
Pinned
Housing prices are set by supply and demand. Housing is distributed according to people’s ability to pay. If we don’t allow new development at the high end of the market, rich people will outbid the poor for the best available existing housing. Building and operating homes costs money.
I really hate the thing where City departments are asked to cut budgets and then ACPS rocks up twenty minutes late with Starbucks and expects their over-budget funding request to be approved.
After ACPS 10-year plan comes in $54M over budget, subcommittee pushes for cuts
After ACPS 10-year plan comes in $54M over budget, subcommittee pushes for cuts | ALXnow
With less than a month until its adoption, city officials are pushing Alexandria City Public Schools leaders to make further cuts to the district's 10-year Capital Improvements Program, stressing budget...
www.alxnow.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I really hate the thing where City departments are asked to cut budgets and then ACPS rocks up twenty minutes late with Starbucks and expects their over-budget funding request to be approved.
I have a fancy new travel tripod!
@ericspiegel.bsky.social you can have yours back whenever (except while I'm out of the country)
@ericspiegel.bsky.social you can have yours back whenever (except while I'm out of the country)
November 26, 2025 at 2:25 AM
I have a fancy new travel tripod!
@ericspiegel.bsky.social you can have yours back whenever (except while I'm out of the country)
@ericspiegel.bsky.social you can have yours back whenever (except while I'm out of the country)
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Just dropped this elsewhere, so boosting, since the illegal-orders discussion is back in the news: there's some great GI Rights Hotline postcards and leaflets for printing and distributing, but here's one with the absolute basic message and phone number as a label template.
I've seen a bunch of people sharing leaflet and postcard-sized versions of the GI Rights Hotline info, but I haven't seen any templates designed for label printing, so 30 seconds with the Avery template maker made the simplest possible version with the absolute basics (to be seen from a distance).
November 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Just dropped this elsewhere, so boosting, since the illegal-orders discussion is back in the news: there's some great GI Rights Hotline postcards and leaflets for printing and distributing, but here's one with the absolute basic message and phone number as a label template.
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Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
November 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
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He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
deeply disappointed they held the conference reception in an art museum and we barely got to see any of the art
the food was good, tho
the food was good, tho
November 21, 2025 at 1:08 AM
deeply disappointed they held the conference reception in an art museum and we barely got to see any of the art
the food was good, tho
the food was good, tho
November 20, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Dear conference center,
Half-and-half and International Delight are not the same thing.
Half-and-half and International Delight are not the same thing.
November 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Dear conference center,
Half-and-half and International Delight are not the same thing.
Half-and-half and International Delight are not the same thing.
No, *you* just dropped $250 on photo related stuff.
(tbf, half of it is prints for possible display in the DRA Alcove)
(tbf, half of it is prints for possible display in the DRA Alcove)
November 19, 2025 at 3:02 AM
No, *you* just dropped $250 on photo related stuff.
(tbf, half of it is prints for possible display in the DRA Alcove)
(tbf, half of it is prints for possible display in the DRA Alcove)
It has been a day. I missed my train (damn you King Street traffic!), got on the wrong bus, and it starting raining while I was waiting for one going the right direction.
But! My faith in Alexandria is totally justified by the nice lady who leaned out her car window and offered me an umbrella.
But! My faith in Alexandria is totally justified by the nice lady who leaned out her car window and offered me an umbrella.
November 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
It has been a day. I missed my train (damn you King Street traffic!), got on the wrong bus, and it starting raining while I was waiting for one going the right direction.
But! My faith in Alexandria is totally justified by the nice lady who leaned out her car window and offered me an umbrella.
But! My faith in Alexandria is totally justified by the nice lady who leaned out her car window and offered me an umbrella.
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good time to plug freetaxusa.org which I've used for years -- uncomplicated and no bullshit (and yes it is free for federal taxes, you only pay to file state taxes)
November 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM
good time to plug freetaxusa.org which I've used for years -- uncomplicated and no bullshit (and yes it is free for federal taxes, you only pay to file state taxes)
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Timeline cleanse
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Timeline cleanse
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Oh god, it me.
Give me a deadline and I'll knock out a 5 hour task in 2 hours.
Give me 2 weeks for a 5 hour task, and I'll knock it out in the last 2 hours, and be miserable the entire 2 weeks
Give me 2 weeks for a 5 hour task, and I'll knock it out in the last 2 hours, and be miserable the entire 2 weeks
November 16, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Oh god, it me.
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A long history of men blaming women for... everything.
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 7, 2025 at 12:30 AM
A long history of men blaming women for... everything.
why do you attack me like this, here, on my own timeline?
November 16, 2025 at 3:54 AM
why do you attack me like this, here, on my own timeline?
Real helpful Metro (at Gallery Place)
![A Metro digital arrivals sign that says:
1. ? 8 [car] Train 2 min
3. GR 8[car] Train 3 min](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:77co7bymmabei5pjaj725dqw/bafkreidydz3toqisb4qkrwzz5buxj2l3adazrepbcvqggzbqb5lczknrfe@jpeg)
November 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Real helpful Metro (at Gallery Place)
Just how morally, ethically, intellectually bankrupt do you have to be to argue that 15-year-olds can sell sex but can’t affirm gender
November 16, 2025 at 1:58 AM
ARHA is truly the gift that keeps on giving
November 14, 2025 at 9:18 PM
ARHA is truly the gift that keeps on giving
Depeche Mode voice:
Your own personal chatbot
AI to hear your prayer
AI software
Put a prompt in the receiver
It'll make you a believer
Your own personal chatbot
AI to hear your prayer
AI software
Put a prompt in the receiver
It'll make you a believer
A new digital awakening is unfolding in churches, where pastors and prayer apps are turning to artificial intelligence to reach worshippers, personalize sermons, and power chatbots that resemble God.
Meet chatbot Jesus: Churches tap AI to save souls and time as pews get more empty
Chatbots answer prayers and algorithms write sermons.
www.axios.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Depeche Mode voice:
Your own personal chatbot
AI to hear your prayer
AI software
Put a prompt in the receiver
It'll make you a believer
Your own personal chatbot
AI to hear your prayer
AI software
Put a prompt in the receiver
It'll make you a believer
She is kicking his ass and I am living for it
November 11, 2025 at 9:46 PM
She is kicking his ass and I am living for it
I'm a Funny Zoning Nerd, but that is mostly because I am a firm believer that the government is not your HOA
Turns out the real political spectrum is just how people feel about free parking 😂
Tag yourself!
Tag yourself!
November 11, 2025 at 4:45 AM
I'm a Funny Zoning Nerd, but that is mostly because I am a firm believer that the government is not your HOA
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Not who I would have cast as President Skroob in the new Spaceballs but sure ok whatever.
Chris Cuomo is trying to make this atrocious little mustache happen even though it looks like he drew it on with a ballpoint pen
November 11, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Not who I would have cast as President Skroob in the new Spaceballs but sure ok whatever.
Here, have some recent night photos
November 11, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Here, have some recent night photos
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Of course @kaine.senate.gov is a coward who doesn’t have voicemail. But I’ve left a message for @markwarner.bsky.social to HOLD THE LINE!
November 10, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Of course @kaine.senate.gov is a coward who doesn’t have voicemail. But I’ve left a message for @markwarner.bsky.social to HOLD THE LINE!