Julie in STL

They’re so messed up.

A green nondescript building, home of picadilly at Manhattan

A sign on a bridge that reads CITY OF ST. LOUIS WELLINGTON BRIDGE 2013

A big White House with a tan turret

2 police vehicles parked on a sidewalk at a gas station

Completed 19 streets today and finished neighborhood 27, Franz Park. Now up to 49.02% of St. Louis City streets walked.

A black cat laying on a white fur rug with a sunbeam on it

My cat got mad at me because she was laying on top of me in a sunbeam but the sunbeam moved and it was clearly my fault. So now she has to lay on one of the three fur rugs I got her to access her sunbeam (not counting the fur rug in her tent, or her many beds) because I am awful and a monster.

So many bots. I know there’s real people mixed in but it’s like they want to emulate bots, which is soooo weird.

Hospitals Are Walking Away From Trans Kids. They Shouldn’t Over the last year, through fear and intimidation, the Trump administration has succeeded in shrinking transgender adolescents’ access to gender-affirming care. One by one, programs that previously se...

One by one, hospitals are abandoning trans kids as they preemptively cave to HHS threats over Medicaid/Medicare funding.

They ought to consider the terrible message walking away from some kids sends about their dedication to caring for all of them. My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com (🎁 link):

Ireland's basic income for artists changed my life. Other people deserve the same luck | Caelainn Hogan A pilot scheme offering some artists €300-plus a week for three years is being made permanent. But should something so fundamental be run like a lottery, asks writer Caelainn Hogan

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

To think, how quickly we could solve SO MANY PROBLEMS in both our country and frankly the world at large if we just gave people enough money to cover their basic needs. The only thing stopping us is a few greedy fuckers and a massive disinformation campaign.

One of the most impactful & quickest to implement things local elected officials can do to protect their community from high gas prices:

(re)implement Slow Streets and other quick build bike/mobility lanes to make it safer for folks to newly try biking.

Now half of historic permits are missing from individual city property and GeoSTL lookup pages and the city property search no longer links to GeoSTL. Things are getting more opaque.

I’m sorry blue maga has shown up in the comments. They’re always popping up in comments but never showing up to be allies or protect trans kids. Them invading does help make the blocking easier.

I know it's a silly jokey joke, but people REALLY need to stop anthropomorphizing their boyfriends. "My boyfriend told me" your boyfriend didn't "tell" you anything. "My boyfriend thinks..." your boyfriend can't actually think or feel; just output a convincing simulation of it based on probability 🙄

Every moment of my adult professional life and career decisions have been around having health insurance (ideally affordable health insurance) and I always wonder who I could have been and what my career could have been if that wasn’t the top goal I was chasing.

I heard some kind of incident or fire in the senior center next to Ruler. I’m glad they responded but I’m adding it to the noise tab.

What Was Lost: A Queer Accounting of the NY Times Book Review, 2013-2022 “Goodbye, Pamela Paul,” was the headline of Andrea Long Chu’s now-iconic, recently ASME-nominated New York Magazine farewell to the former NY Times Book Review editor, when Paul left the paper two …

*taps internet microphone*

After months of work, a project i've been coordinating for @literaryhub.bsky.social in conjunction with @maris.bsky.social is now live ...

We've commissioned 13 reviews of books by LGBTQ folks not covered by the NYTBR under Pamela Paul ...

lithub.com/what-was-los...

Between Spire jackhammering daily, doing things to steal plates that make my entire house shake, having endless beeping, and now having a refuse truck that can’t figure out how to correctly pick up a dumpster so he’s lifted and dropped it 7 TIMES, I am very overstimulated and need quiet.

Adding this to my ever-growing list of “if we all agree, why do we need a contract?” examples.

“Destroyed me” is so accurate. I graduated into the Great Recession and the un/underemployment left me damaged in ways I didn’t even realize until the Pandemic layoffs of 2020. After I did the deep depression thing, then I realized I had a second chance to find me. It was awful and necessary.

Several of the report’s authors previously studied the effects on American life spans of the Great Recession beginning in 2008. In a surprising finding, they concluded that the recession had extended Americans’ life spans — in part because people ended up driving less, and therefore had fewer fatal accidents, and because less driving and economic activity translated into less air pollution.

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"the recession had extended Americans’ life spans — in part because people ended up driving less, and therefore had fewer fatal accidents, and because less driving and economic activity translated into less air pollution."

Sweetbay magnolia (Magnolia virginiana), native species to the eastern USA; @mobotgarden.bsky.social Herbarium
Always appreciated for their scent, magnolias (esp. Magnolia x alba) began being used in perfumery in the 1990s. Flowers and leaves can be steam-distilled to obtain essential oils.

A speed hump sign. Someone has very lightly penciled in a question mark. Someone else(?) has responded in very small capital letters NO.

The most quiet speed hump conversation

Real talk: Progressives have completely failed to adequately address the significant impacts of Long COVID, and this has left an opening for the far right to exploit vulnerable patients and deceitfully blame vaccines for all chronic illnesses.

My friend is texting me about how she’s been boiling up in there, even before it filled up.

Current speaker says there’s 3 police officers outside the BOA committee meeting staring people down entering the hearing room.

Wesley Bell would never

I am watching online and have a scout inside texting me. I'm glad I can't be there because if my eyerolls to Tom Oldenburg ended up on @joshualawrence.bsky.social's socials, I'd have too many people making them into reaction images

Former St. Louis building inspector charged with steering city contracts to firms he controlled A former St. Louis city building inspector was indicted Wednesday on three counts of wire fraud for allegedly funneling city construction contracts to companies set up at his direction by his sister a...

Remember Banjo Popoola, the former St. Louis building inspector? He's now been hit with a federal indictment charging him with steering contracts to firms he controlled-- ties first exposed by @stlmag.bsky.social www.stlmag.com/news/banjo-p...

@coribush.bsky.social just joined the audience of the St. Louis BOA Public Safety Committee

I remember it being super windy this time last year, as I attempted multiple Friday fish park picnics and was attacked by my food and nature each time.

I had completely missed that we funded the port authority that way. I really hate the entire SLDC public process (or obvious lack thereof)

There was a moment on my walk where I swear I had lifted my leg to walk forward but somehow I was further behind thanks to the wind. And now it sounds even windier. 🌬️

Okay, I did 31 minutes of walking that I didn't want to do and rewarded myself by making chicken & wild rice soup and drop biscuits for dinner, did some reading, had some hot cocoa and now I'm snuggled in bed with the dogs. There are worse things.