I'll be in DC at Franklin Park at 5 on May Day and I'm bringing DMV's higher ed sector. See you there!

Are our public spaces for people or for cars?

On Council I will push to lower the cost for streateries, ease permitting timelines, and have strong oversight over DDOT to ensure consistent guidelines and quick processing.

We do now know the NSF is proceeding with dissolving the Social and Behavioral Sciences Division. Congress might reverse it, but it is now already underway. YOU CAN NO LONGER SUBMIT FUNDING PROPOSALS TO SBE. Program officers are being moved to different parts of the agency. Call your Congress member

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Rally at the White House tonight

DC adds an average of 5,300 new housing units per year.

Kenyan McDuffie's big plan is 12,000 new units by 2030. That's slower than the status quo!

If that doesn't tell you what you need to know about McDuffie, IDK what will.

hit.housingand.org/jurisdiction...

Why are you aiming to *slow down* housing production?

something strange and horrible and somehow fitting that we should have a very real threat of madman civilizational destruction at the very moment when we also have humans on the dark side of the moon taking pictures that show how small, precious, and beautiful our world and existence is

“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

If you’ve never called your congressional reps before, do it right now.

“Acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population are prohibited.”

Geneva Convention Additional Protocol I
and
Department of Defense Law of War Manual, § 5.2.2

I know this is making the rounds, but I think it's right on the money. ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

Plan to reinforce sewer pipe was delayed for years before Potomac disaster A Post investigation found that D.C. Water put off reinforcing an aging sewer line before it collapsed as the National Park Service undertook a prolonged environmental review.

Turns out huge permitting delays at the hands of NPS—something we’re all familiar with in DC—played a big role in the potomac interceptor failure. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Why Trump’s War on DC’s Streets Matters The federal effort to remove a popular bike lane in Washington, DC, is part of a broader campaign to impose control over the city’s streets — and sideline its residents.

I'd really like Trump and MAGA to stop fucking with my city's streets.

Me, in Bloomberg

For #NSF and #NIH watchers, Grant Witness now has interactive data on numbers of grants and total funding obligations, broken down by institute and directorate, new awards and non-competitive renewals.

The stranglehold on new awards is still a disaster.

grant-witness.us/funding_curv...

Great thread about the source for Claude Code’s CLI being leaked due to a misconfiguration.

Includes analysis of the many ways that the code is a mess. The mess is so extreme that it's essentially its own coding pattern.

Much hilarity, starting April Fools' Eve: neuromatch.social/@jonny/11632...

Post-it with scribbled note: "Price of COLESLAW IS GOING UP!!!" (iykyk)

Want safe bike infrastructure on Taylor Street NE? Join us at DDOT's open house this evening!

drum.lib.umd.edu/items/c7aef1...

Love that it's via Virginia.

Literally faster to bike.

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Super nice for all those big draws to Annapolis Junction though. 🤦🏻

Said nobody ever.

But even that doesn't help if one wants to go from DC to Annapolis, only the reverse, AFAICT.

Also MARC > MDOT Commuter Bus, but it doesn't really matter if neither goes when you need to.

At least DC <-> Harper's Ferry has a world-class bike path between them. Riding to Annapolis suuuuucks.

I think it's just as bad: for both you only get "commuter direction" at "commuter hours" on weekdays.

Every now and then I'm blown away by the lack of transit options here. TIL: 0 transit options from DC (capital of US) to Annapolis (capital of Maryland), 32 miles away.

I'll vote for any council chair candidate that campaigns by bike.

Good thing scooters are limited to 10mph or this could have been worse @popville.bsky.social