Austin has been building more combined bike lanes and sidewalks, and I don't expect pedestrians to have to keep track of when the sidewalk becomes a traffic lane suddenly.

Can't wait to get my new glasses and be able to happily read a paper book.

American Library Association releases 2025 Most Challenged Books List as National Library Week Begins State of America’s Libraries Report reveals 4,235 unique titles challenged in 2025, marking the second-highest total on record

"In 2025, 92 percent of all book challenges were initiated by pressure groups, government officials and decision makers, up from 72 percent in 2024. Less than 3 percent of challenges originated from individual parents." 📚

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I read exactly one paragraph before the cat sat on the book.

The book Copaganda by Alex Karakatsanis, with a tin of metal book darts.

Preparing for Tuesday's book club.

Is there really a rain dome blocking storms over Austin? Inconsistent rain forecasts have led to conspiracies about a rain-blocking dome that covers the city. The truth lies in an age-old fault.

There is some disagreement but this is one theory: www.kut.org/energy-envir...

I am getting light rain in central!

today is nonidi 29 Germinal in the year of the Republic CCXXXIV, celebrating blueberry

I was talking about this the other day to a co-worker and I sounded like I was describing some public access 1980s TV show that had been lost to time and not something that I watched just the other day that's a part of a major franchise. I felt like I was crazy.

I see a few locations listed near me but none of them are places that have imax... It's all lies!

Every third comment is required to be about Aunt Fritzi's chest

This morning, in the predawn black, the jays on one corner were in a ruckus. They weren't flying away like they were chasing a hawk; only making a lot of noise within the tree. The only creature I saw moving was a bat. Maybe there was a fox in the tree?

I guess I do currently have a bug-supporting native yard, but I want one where I don't live in fear of the code enforcers.

Landscaping, so that we can have a bug-supporting native yard.

"This person can only meet over lunch"="this person cannot meet on that day."

If you look at someone's calendar and you think, "Wow, this is so packed! Where will I squeeze in the meeting I want to have?", you can always choose to not schedule another meeting.

I had to stay up late to give the cat her medicine so I wasn't up early enough to go check on my grackle "friend" before work.

Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News

I am in a book club that's reading Copaganda and every page fills me with rage that I can't do anything useful with. bookshop.org/p/books/copa...

It is him!! He buzzed me again.

A slightly smaller male grackle flew by and bapped him a few times.

Hell yeah!

A puffed up Great-Tailed Grackle circling a smaller female grackle on a gravel patch.

I can't prove it, but I think I am looking at the same grackle that nicked me yesterday. He's doing zoomies to flirt with this lady.

Today I saw a bucket of softballs fall out the back of a truck onto a major street.

Tickled that yesterday I saw a woman warning strangers at the coffee shop about Amazon bricking their kindles.

He was trying to run off an interloper and I was a civilian casualty.

Yelped at the cafe after being skimmed by a low flying grackle.

The New Yorker described a researcher as discovering peptides at "the turn of the century." I was confused about how he was still alive for an interview until I realized what century they meant.

Little furry tank

For note syncing, I use an app called Fleeting Notes. (I am a big obsidian bro.)

I have to ride past a downtown hotel on my way home and that's the only place I see them.