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Aug 29, 2024: Yimbys for Harris $100k Reblog via StarrWulfe (JLGatewood) http://YIMBYsforHarris.com ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR HARRIS/WALZ!! Support better neighborhoods/affordable …
Aug 19, 2024: Why does it seem like Atlanta’s transit agencies continually aim lower and lower when it comes to planning? I was this many years old when I was told …
Jul 21, 2024: #LFG.
Jun 16, 2024: In honor of Father’s Day, I’m going to engage in one of my favorite past-times: $#!+posting dad jokes. 😏 If you’re a dad (or you …
Jun 11, 2024: Apparently they were trying to film Speed 2 near my house today…
May 15, 2024: Invasion of the street car snatchers We have a ready-made 150-year-old vacant right of way around central Atlanta begging for rail-based transit… And the mayor is considering “slow moving …
May 4, 2024: New Fediverse Bluesky bridge in beta testing The bridge has been built and the switch has been turned on! Even though there was a lotof struggle and strife, arguments, and knockdown-drag-outs, …
Apr 27, 2024: Inconsolable Tangential War Victims It’s very hard to ignore the amount of suffering going on by people who just a few years ago were living an idyllic life just like me; worried …
Apr 27, 2024: Bicycle safety tech "gadgetbahnery" [embed]www.youtube.com/watch I'm all for new tech but all that's really needed are Dutch style separated bike lanes and protected signal crossings if …
Apr 26, 2024: Since I would love to have Telegram be a first party “citizen” of the Fediverse, the network of open social media network apps and sites …
Apr 13, 2024: Japan has good neighborhood streets [www.youtube.com/watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puV5D7P8_N8) I've been telling people for years how the narrowness of the streets in Japan is …
Apr 7, 2024: Last Week Today! S2024E9 Was a busy (two) week(s) since the last one, so let’s catch up with happenings: 🎂 March 20th and 31st marks “Birthday Week” with the …
Apr 5, 2024: This will be my album cover if I were a musician right now.
Apr 3, 2024: Of course we picked the only day it’s raining down here to be camping at the JAX beaches. Well we’re gonna still make the most of the time off! But …
Mar 22, 2024: Promises made, promises kept.
Mar 17, 2024: Last Week Today! S2024E7 🤦♂️ OK, I skipped out on hella posts for this category. I know, I know… I'll backfill them later, but I really hadn't done much of anything …
Mar 10, 2024: Throwback Post #1: Waxing Nostalgic on Blogs and Smartphones As a few-times reporter in the bustling world of full-time journalism, I found solace and expression through my personal blogging. The keyboard was my …
Feb 23, 2024: Messing around with Bluesky post embedding codes Per this post, I’m testing some ways to embed Bluesky posts into my Wordpress powered site here. As I find other ways, I’ll add them here. …
Feb 18, 2024: On the subject of Connecting Federated Social Media Networks The past few days on the Fediverse have served to remind me a few things: The internet is as smart and as ignorant (and everything in between) as the …
Feb 6, 2024: Bluesky takes the velvet rope down 🦋 Bluesky has opened up and requires no waitlist now, so if you were searching for a Twitter alternative, then here you go: [simpleblogcard …
Feb 2, 2024: …Now they’re just grasping at straws. We asked for something like this back in 2018 complete with a framework to provide AirBNB style …
Jan 23, 2024: Hello COVID my old friend, I hoped we'd never meet again Here we go again with the bullshit. This time, my sense of smell is 90% gone. 😩 Paxlovid enroute and no real symptoms other than post-nasal drip from …
Jan 15, 2024: Last Week Today! S2024E1&2 In the tradition of those of us who can't do the daily "my day be like" journaling posts, there's the tradition of the weekly post that sums up what …
Jan 13, 2024: What's the difference between a blog and a social posting site? This is gonna be a radical and controversial statement but in 2024, anything posted to the internet at-large, should be considered a “social post”. In …
Jan 10, 2024: Fifteen Years Of Wordpressing Unfortunately my previous blogs are lost to the ether but they were all mostly powered by Wordpress. I might gather some of my backups and make some …
Jan 8, 2024: What happened to passenger rail (in Georgia)? Last month I talked about how with Georgia's new federal funding for rail corridors, we could imagine a regional rail system that would make moving …
Jan 6, 2024: I'm dreaming of a new website engine Let me get right to the point: I want a way to use my space on Craft.do as a blog. I love using Craft as my space to outline and organize and it ticks …
Jan 5, 2024: Me looking hella disheveled after getting a giant qtip up my snout. All I wanted was more powerful meds to dam up the waterfall in my sinuses. …
Jan 4, 2024: Time to get the last of the 年賀状wannabe cards shipped off to Japan! 🏣 (Some of y’all may know you are based on 郵便番号)
Dec 31, 2023: It's 2024 in Nippon! Do you have your ticket to ride? 明けましておめでとうございます。 今年もよろしくお願いします。
Dec 24, 2023: メリクリ🎁🎄🎅 メリクリ🎁🎄🎅 May you and yours enjoy all 12 herbs and spices during this season of joy. Also on "ABC🌟🐺XYZ"
Dec 24, 2023: The Week ending 12.24.2023 The week before Christmas — not much going on except the twice checking of lists and making sure of naughty or niceness. The Tribe: celebrating one …
Dec 23, 2023: Content Creators: Substack's dumpster fire should also be the one lit underneath your @$$ If 2010-2020 was the Great Social Media Consolidation, looks like 2022 and beyond are gonna be the Great Innanet Decentralization, and I’m 1oo% …
Dec 19, 2023: What are post kinds? I needed a way to have a decent taxonomy for my posts on this incarnation of the blog, especially given its social features. A few places I hang out …
Dec 17, 2023: Rudolph's grades won't be having his parents shouting out with glee... [embed]www.instagram.com/p/C09Rgbg…[/embed]
Dec 13, 2023: When Mastodon Met Threads 🐘➕🧵🟰❓ It has started: Mark Zuckerberg announced social network Threads will be starting its activity pub interoperability testing now. 🔗 I have been saying …
Dec 9, 2023: Good news everyone! Georgia has federal passenger train study funding! In combination with some great news about funding a lot of sorely needed railroad projects and studies at the federal level, Georgia's U.S. Senators …
Dec 8, 2023: Seriously? Elon was trying to get a tax break for X here in Atlanta?! As the [AJC](https://www.ajc.com/news/fulton-board-to-consider-10m-tax-break-to-x-formerly-twitter/4V66VOJ73RCFPA5DI54FAFVLBA/) reported, X (formerly …
Dec 1, 2023: Atlanta Beltline Loop Saga: The Man with the Original Plan drops big facts/FAQs Over the past few days, the “Father of the Beltline” himself, Ryan Gravel, created a massive 70-something-odd long FAQ in response to the …
Nov 21, 2023: ATL is the transit Bizzaro Land we need to fix Last time in this series, I talked about an organization called Better Atlanta Transit that counter to its name, wants to end all talk of having light …
Nov 19, 2023: Vivaldi's Mastodon instance appears to be down and I have some advice for SNS users Yikes 😬 My second-most used Mastodon instance is @starrwulfe@vivaldi.net… I hope its scheduled downtime and not a DDOS or worse. The good thing about …
Nov 16, 2023: RCS slated to launch in iOS 18 Its_happening.exe just got loaded! Later next year, we will be adding support for RCS Universal Profile, the standard as currently published by the …
Nov 13, 2023: Party like its 1700000000 A rollover event is about to take place and geeks, nerds and neckbeards around the world will be refreshing their datecommands tomorrow evening to …
Nov 12, 2023: Doin' too much": 💥😖 Time for a micro/macro blog rethink? At some point yesterday, my Wordpress instance (thus the place where the thing you’re reading right now came from) ran out of memory. 🤔 I …
Nov 11, 2023: Overnight crash Dropping a note here to make sure my site is back up – Things got crash happy overnight with the database eating all the RAM for some reason. …
Nov 8, 2023: If this is the case— Then how is that wacky NY Times poll from last week correct?!
Nov 7, 2023: Return of "Return to Atlanta" I really hope the author of this blog indeed does come back to chronicle the changing landscapes of Atlanta’s Beltline. While I don’t have …
Nov 6, 2023: Federating the fediverse: BlueSky alpha version ICYMI: There’s a way for you to crosspost to BlueSky from your own #indieweb enabled website thanks to Joel’s (@joel@otter.garden) …
Nov 1, 2023: Halloween Hope everyone had a frighteningly good Halloween yesterday! 🎃👻
Oct 30, 2023: Any way to practice a layout using a regular nonprogrammable keyboard? I want to jump into the world of ortho keyboards and start trying to learn a more ergonomic key layout. I happen to have a small foldable bluetooth …
Oct 28, 2023: In the spirit of POSSE, I just spent 3 hours trying to get some backfeeds from silos like Instagram and Facebook going… I made it work before, but I …
Oct 28, 2023: Microtransit: what happens when you add ride hailing to regular city transit bus service. In parts of Gwinnett, there’s no waiting for a bus at a …
Oct 28, 2023: Happy Belated Subway Day Yesterday was NYCMTA’s Subway Day– On October 27, 1904 the New York City Subway started running it’s then total length between City …
Oct 25, 2023: Farewell Richard Roundtree Richard Roundtree, AKA "John Shaft". RIParadise, 1942 - 2023
Oct 23, 2023: I really hope Chris doesn’t mind me borrowing literally 90% of his layout, formatting and general overall aesthetic from Boffo Socko when I’m ready to …
Oct 23, 2023: Vergecast: Musings on POSSE, SNS and Indieweb vs ActivityPub My whole presence in the #fediverse is predicated on POSSE (and PESO) principles along with federated posting and SNS. I'm a semi-active part of the …
Oct 20, 2023: I usually go and buy a new computing device once every 6 years or so. This year my trusty Late 2017 Apple MacBook Pro i5 8GB/500GB is officially …
Oct 17, 2023: Suddenly a new ATL transit NIMBY group has appeared! 🫢 www.youtube.com/watch The whole reason the Beltline even exists is because it was meant to be a transit corridor. A multiuse trail was also part of …
Oct 9, 2023: job done Well that does it for me tonight. I got a lot done on this here ol' site. I’ll continue to kick the tires and fill in the gaps but so far so …
Oct 8, 2023: Ok. now the real test. Do replies in the Friends plug-in show up where they’re supposed to go… 🤞🏾
Oct 8, 2023: Good question. Need to turn on NHK and see what’s up…
Oct 8, 2023: Izu Tsunami Advisory In reply to Steve Herman: "Warning for #tsunami as high as one meter issued …" - Journa.host by Steve Herman. Looks like it isn't going to do any …
Oct 8, 2023: Testing again. Hope the activitypub folks cans see this now….
Oct 8, 2023: Well I for one am glad you’ve made it back. I too also had a crazy meltdown involving my lack of skill at writing Go code and paying attention …
Oct 8, 2023: Reblog via Jason L Gatewood If I had this guys’s job, I’d need several smoke breaks too.
Oct 8, 2023: I remember someone once stole the REFLECTORS off my second (third?)-hand mama-chari 3 speed bike somewhere in L5P back in the day. All in the span of …
Oct 7, 2023: We were on a different set of tracks leading nowhere and everywhere at once.