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Allan James Vestal

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Journalism, code & politics. Food idiot acolyte and ALX ward system anti-apologist. (Crunchin' those numbers — and probably something with bacon on it too.) He/Him.

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IDK this is the wisdom I’m importing back from my five day stint in Indianapolis

10.03.2026 02:08 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Should’ve added (more) bread and waffled it maybe 🤷‍♂️

10.03.2026 02:07 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Ooh, I think falafel is one of the few staple items I’ve not gotten from them.

Oh no, guess I’ll have to do more research with a trip soon.

10.03.2026 00:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

100 percent this.

I think the falafel at Halal Guys is the least ~whelming~ thing on their menu.

(But I only ever get it as a side; maybe it’s better in platters/pitas as a meat alternative.)

10.03.2026 00:07 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

(But, y’know, only if there is a stiff drink within arms’ reach.)

04.03.2026 23:46 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Ask me how this is affecting news sites’ election night reporting programs!

04.03.2026 23:46 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Couldn’t find a spot to parallel park their Buick; migrated on to Fairfax.

03.03.2026 12:26 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

One interesting note: it can take a few minutes longer than you’d think to purchase these. I’m told they keep them in a walk-in, that they only open so many times in a 15-ish minute window.

Maybe slightly annoying if you hit it at the wrong time — but respect for keeping the product consistent!

02.03.2026 02:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I feel a pang of guilt getting them when it’s just us, because homemade biscuit dough comes together easily enough (especially with a Cuisinart!) … but these folks do this for a living and it’s just so very good.

02.03.2026 02:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Huge fan!

They also recently added chicken & waffles (made with waffles biscuit dough) for any … scruffy, waffle-inclined locals that may be lurking out there.

And their frozen, ready-to-bake biscuits have been great when we’ve had guests stay over.

01.03.2026 19:49 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Yeah, this data beggars belief. No way is New York 68% car / 25% transit / 8% active.

I may look into this methodology more, but for U.S. cities these numbers feel awfully inaccurate.

26.02.2026 13:34 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Watch it, John — if we hadn’t applied for that last $19, two of those flexposts would’ve been 1/8 inch shorter than the rest.

26.02.2026 03:45 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Mallory L., sporting a hyper-local “God Bless Alyia’s Wasteland” shirt

Mallory L., sporting a hyper-local “God Bless Alyia’s Wasteland” shirt

@kaylahornbrook.bsky.social this is you too, right?

24.02.2026 04:37 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Strong +1 for alt text.

Thanks, Kyle.

24.02.2026 04:23 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Lol, this is the hyperlocal content I live for.

24.02.2026 04:19 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Mike Rodriguez wearing Kayla’s “West End Best End” shirt and testifying in front of the ALX T&PB.

Mike Rodriguez wearing Kayla’s “West End Best End” shirt and testifying in front of the ALX T&PB.

@kaylahornbrook.bsky.social MERCH SIGHTING

24.02.2026 04:01 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

I am super intrigued by this. (Though I’ll confess that I’ve never been able to get behind the flavor of Tabasco — please excuse me if I substitute Crystal + cayenne instead.)

23.02.2026 03:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We should talk automation sometime! I’ve been tinkering around with Home Assistant for awhile, also on implausibly outdated Mac hardware. Would be curious what all you have planned.

22.02.2026 23:38 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

(And before I forget, earnest thanks to you + Anh + Ryan for all the work this past week and change.)

22.02.2026 21:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Here’s to those who chase ALL their dreams.

22.02.2026 21:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The “Guys literally only want one thing” meme, crudely pasted to read “Marta literally only wants one thing and it’s perplexing as hell*

“* but hilarious”

The “Guys literally only want one thing” meme, crudely pasted to read “Marta literally only wants one thing and it’s perplexing as hell* “* but hilarious”

22.02.2026 17:01 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Unsure what this is about, but I’d love to hear the story whenever your travels next lead you through DRBC…

22.02.2026 07:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I like this. Again, I’d put the criteria @ those who live in the D.C. MSA versus those who moved elsewhere and want to keep tabs.

That is, don’t limit to current Alexandrians (w/ FFX included) — but keep it to all who [even aspirationally] want to keep a bead on what’s happening in the City Of.

22.02.2026 06:53 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

(Note: I have no memory of making this)

20.02.2026 21:11 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’ll have to find that recipe and make a few dozen gallons, so I can walk it over to our most Sendak-ian drawing looking neighbor.

20.02.2026 21:11 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

<vestal132 is away: “Raised in the city in the halo of lights / Product of war and fear that we've been victimized. //// Yeah. I’ll be back after Jon Stewart”>

14.02.2026 04:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Who up connecting their three Loops tho

13.02.2026 04:25 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Next time would you pls post your reply — either On Here or in more private channels — for those of us playing the home version of the game?

13.02.2026 04:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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a man in a purple shirt is standing in a field with two other men . Alt: A printer (one that would have been commonplace in a late 1990s office) gets smashed to smithereens by three dweeby office workers. (A scene from the 1999 comedy film “Office Space.”)

I SWEAR TO GOD, reading about this gimmick makes me want to find the oldest or most useless microprocessor in my house and take out some Office Space printer-style vengeance.

12.02.2026 03:11 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s giving “guerrilla urban sledding content*”

* risky, almost certainly inadvisable, do not sue me

12.02.2026 02:57 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0