Theo in Arlington

👀 The ‘Arlington, Virginia Starter Pack’ contains local residents, civic leaders, & organizations to follow. It also includes the "Arlington VA" feed for even more neighbors & news! Use this to jumpstart your local community & share the link around to help our neighbors join: go.bsky.app/Vc7GG2W

Educate Yourself! Arlington county board candidates respond to @susmo.org questionnaire susmo.org/2026-county-...

Our Arlington is doing good

You can DM me if you want to help me out but stay anon 👀

Hey Alexandria friends, I'm creating a spiffy visual dashboard of my personal address book (yeah yeah 🤓) and realizing I don't have any of you in it w/ your neighborhoods. Represent your hood in my phone contacts by letting me know where you live (roughly). Also open to Arlington & DC & new peeps!

On Oct 26, the Arlington County Board is holding a Town Hall. Tell them that we need bold action on housing! www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

I'm calling this "fart hopping" or perhaps "prick jumping" in honor of the people that will be driving them #tesla

Hey Alexandria peeps & other friends visiting Old Town today 👇

Feedback Opportunity: Vision Zero 2027 High-Injury Network Safety Audit Engagement Please share your experiences on some of the worst corridors in Arlington County. publicinput.com/vzhin2027

I am requesting Chargas for my surgery recovery meal

I tried downloading my data from Facebook in preparation to further close or wind down my accounts there -- using the official Facebook export data tool, mind you -- and Facebook suspended my account. Note the "Download your information" link for extra irony.

Does anyone in Arlington or Alexandria have a Cornhole set I (a friend of mine actually) could borrow this weekend?

My final dinner (before hernia surgery) is the steak Waldorf salad at Locket, the hotel restaurant at the new Hilton in Rosslyn. Possibly the best salad I've had in my life (second time having it).;

This damn dog does nothing all day yet still has the gall to sleep this way #BananaBreadBandit

Well I was going to scale back some civic involvement to focus on wrapping up college (graduating in December!) & job hunting, but I'm proud to announce I've volunteered to be Transportation Commission liaison to the new Carlin Springs Multimodal Transportation Study to focus on #VisionZero.

The taxi we took back from Dulles misspelled the name of the company on the receipt. "Washington Flayers" is definitely a more badass name.

Let's see if I can curse it again and keep the summer days going. I finally packed away the last of my summer clothes and hung my autumn ones up. There's a big difference in the number of spare hangers I have left, so I guess this means I can buy more sweaters and flannel, yes?

-Recent advances in renewables truly are revolutionary and will decouple economic growth from climate change -We are going to end the housing crisis and leave our cities better and more vibrant than ever. -Trump fumbled trying to build a dictatorship and is headed for a massive electoral rebuke.

Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending

This is new. Bike blocking bike lane. #ArlingtonVA

@rorystolzenberg.bsky.social made this amazing interactive map of Arlington's General Land Use Plan (GLUP) Map from 1961 to 2024. Take a look and see how little has changed in 60 years: rorystolzenberg.github.io/arlington-gl...

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Question for the legal minds on bsky: How is it that Presidential pardons are deemed in effect *before* anyone has been found guilty of a crime? I thought pardons were to wipe away convictions that had already been ruled on? Is there a constitutional argument for undoing any such pardons? #legalsky

Greetings #ArlingtonVA. Your 12 days of #alxwhere envy are over. Enjoy arlwhere.com.

Young Lean and Gener8ion performed STORM II at the MTV Video Music Awards. Phenomenal. Lost to Taylor Swift tho. I like the removal of the blazers and swap of cigarettes for an ice cream cone.

*in DC, steps on to the Metro to head home* Four stops later: "f*ck I'm on the Blue line, not the orange"

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

I will pay Marvel five bajillion dollars if they have this song as the end credits track for #AvengersDoomsday (warning NSFW)

Today's task: pack away my summer clothes and bring out my autumn ones. Here comes the flannel!

*sob* I don't... 😭

For your serious consideration: the next Dem administration actually SHOULD build a 250ft arch somewhere in DC (not blocking views or a flight path) but decorated in bright rainbow paint & topped with statues of #LGBTQ+ and racial civil rights pioneers -- the National Arch of Diversity. #fysc

Let's give America some DEI

For your serious consideration: The U.S. will desperately need to rebuild scientific innovation. When Dems take back power of Congress & WH, they should rededicate U.S. Department of Energy towards advancing all physical science & rename to the Department of Energy and Innovation (DEI). #fysc #dei

Starting January 3rd, 2027, we should remove Donald Trump's name from the Kennedy Center and add the Smithsonian Institute's.

#HotTake: When Trump & GOP are gone from power, the Kennedy Center should be permanently taken out of the hands of the President and instead granted to the Smithsonian Institute along with a sizable endowment in order to "reach people across the world through art" and cultivate creativity.

The driver that killed a man in Seven Corners a few months ago has gotten off almost entirely free. No serious punishment at all. We need serious criminal legal reform to hold reckless and dangerous people accountable. #VisionZero.

I shaved this off a few days after the accident, and have remained cleanshaven since. Today at the corner market I've been buying bottles of wine at for years, the guy behind the counter asked to see my ID for a Merlot. This was the right move.

Yes, you said my name?

The neighbor knows: www.arlingtonva.us/Government/P...

It's me again with a thread of ALX housing action items, yay! 🧵 First up: feedback on the Duke Street Land Use Plan Recs is due tomorrow, 9/15: www.alexandriava.gov/DukeStreetPlan There was a small jump in people asking for lower heights & less density recently; it'd be great to balance that out