Althea May 🦇🚌🚏

They couldn’t get to most of the questions, but I liked that they had a live Q&A feed where you could see everyone else else’s questions and people could ask them anonymously. Some got a little bit 🌶️

YA: "If you ask Americans if they want an apartment building next to them, they'll say now. But if you poll the same Americans an ask if you want to live in a town where young families can live, where workers can live, they want all those too."

Emphasis on better angels as *better angles*.

"I'm hopeful, because things have gotten really bad. This room would not be this crowded if it was going well."

Tells stories of personal housing, from a 150sq foot apartment right after graduation to the way his current home is hostile to the ADA and won't be a place to safely age.

History of Chinese Laundry in California as meeting a need (Californians would not do laundry) and the laundries by necessity proximity would mean racial integration in meighborhoods. Modesto Whites, having tried mob
violence and arson to drive them out, invented zoning as the mechanism of exclusion

YONI APPELBAUM Aretity Why We're Stuck: Housing and the American Dream in ABQ WELCOME! WIFI NETWORK: NHCC GUEST SLIDO INFO VISIT WWW.SLIDO.COM ENTER 507 PROGRAM 巻 Honewise livability speaker

wild and crazy night out in Albuquerque with @alymay.bsky.social listening to @yappelbaum.bsky.social

And yes, I could’ve saved a step by taking a pic with the iPad itself but I’m a millennial and allergic to iPad photography, that shit is for zooms only

Millennial Parenthood is getting couch locked while the baby naps on you, picking up your journal to see what to-do list items can get done by phone or iPad from your seat, realizing you forgot a pen, taking a picture of the to-do list with your phone, and airdropping annotating it with your iPad

Map snapshot depicting the predicted relative anomalousness of surface temperatures from the ECMWF ensemble over the Western U.S. in about a week from now. A a huge region of bright orange and red colors (depicting extremely high warm temperature anomalies) is centered right in the middle of the map, and covers essentially the entire region.

Lots of buzz online about an upcoming major March heatwave for the American SW & California. And in this case, it does indeed appear increasingly likely than an extremely anomalous and even record-breaking heatwave may envelop much of the SW about a week from now.

Democracy dies in news deserts, imo

Thank you for the ping! Next time I see you in person let’s talk

I do appreciate that he told us the guy getting arrested in unmarked cars out front wasn’t ICE (it was BCSO) but gosh I am so tired of us allowing cars to be unsafe with lackluster solutions because heaven forbid we let the traffic get a tiny bit worse in a city that barely has traffic for its size

The meeting with Mayor Keller was about the Lead and Coal safety study and it was just remarkably disappointing. A study I remember responding to when I was having contractions with my now 14 month old with only 200 respondents, appeasing make cars go fast over human safety…it was all messy

Mayor Tim Keller

Me: I saw Cllr. Rogers today at a meeting!
2yo: I WATCHED MR. ROGERS TODAY AT THE BIG KIDS MEETING
Me: I saw the mayor at another meeting!
2yo: THE REAL HUMAN MAYOR?? I saw the pretend mayor!!

Didn’t get a pic of @nicholerogersd6.bsky.social but D6 was great. @mayorkeller.bsky.social…we’ll talk

Gosh I hope not because I’m not vapor and it felt close-ish

Out: fireworks or gunshots?
In: fireworks or gunshots or bomb?

Bus on campus

Explanation of the stripes inside the bus.

This bus is electric!

Stripes made in Reading.

The new Reading 'warming stripes' double-decker electric bus came to campus today.

The bus is painted in the local warming stripes to start climate conversations throughout the town.

Woooooo library news, yay Janet!!!

*stand sorry I’m distracted

Aww thank you!!! I wish I could’ve used my full two minutes to talk about ranked choice but I can’t let a misinformation stand for

Honestly!! So tiny and yet so clutch!

Your earbuds are disgusting — here's the right way to clean them Think your earbuds are clean? Think again

Tom’s guide said to do this and I’m probably due for all of it tbh www.tomsguide.com/audio/your-e...

It does mean I won’t be using my headphones until I figure out how to sanitize that thingie but honestly, what a way to turn around my luck today 🍀

Lost the little ear squishy thing on my headphones on the way to my class earlier somewhere between home, bus stop, bus, and class and it turns out, the same driver picked me up to go to my next destination and there it was! Such kindness from the Great Material Continuum in the least Ferengi way

Pretty sure spotting a heritage Boston and Maine F40PH-3C on the MBTA would give me a high I could ride for a week. They look so slick

Opened this in front of my 2yo and now this is what he thinks Miles O’Brien looks like ffs

Always a good therapy session when you have to include a significant amount of backstory about zoning ordinances and how you derive your urbanist thinking as necessary lore

Good morning! ☀️ could’ve used more sleep, my older kiddo woke up early and I am in need of a nap

“Do you know the muffin man?”

“am I being detained? Am I free to go? I would like to remain silent until my lawyer is present.”

I genuinely love the design of WMATA stations