Tim Thomas (he/him)

I really enjoyed Kickapoo but it's within the 100 mile border zone. We got stopped by plain clothes chuds with their fingers on the trigger of AR-15s. It was remote enough they could have killed us and rolled is into a ditch. I'm not going back until Trump is out of office.

I would be a one issue voter for a candidate that wants to use public funds to bring back cafeterias that provide adults affordable meals and free ones to children and the elderly

This is so ingenuous.

You might think I'm joking about the mailers, but I've been going to PFLAG meetings for about a year now and a lot of trans people coming out are mature adults. Sending a flyer of resources to a bunch of seniors outside of cities who may have always known they were this way... It's a choice.

It's gonna be really hilarious if this dirty trick leads to thousands more trans people coming out. "What's this giant bump on the graph", oh that's when Republicans sent out a trans & LGBTQ+ student resource guide.

I really wish every article about school closure started with a graph of the number of births per year. Why are we having this problem? - "well 5-18 years ago..."

Thanks Tim! Here's my profile on the District 9 race in Central Austin: www.austinpolitics.net/the-district...

@jackcraver.bsky.social's profile of Rich Heyman really highlights the fact that NIMBY/YIMBY is an issue outside of economic and political systems. You can be a die-hard communist or a die-hard capitalist and "be in favor of housing nearby, but just not *this* project".

"The push to put Prop I before voters was led by Save Austin Now, a political action committee co-founded by Matt Mackowiak, the former Travis County Republican Party chair." www.kut.org/politics/202... @kutnews.bsky.social

I posted about how the arts need lots of commercial space. Here's an article where I'm quoted talking about this. austinfreepress.org/riding-the-r...

I just put Conversation 16 by the National on our Halloween playlist last night and I apologize for nothing!

We're doing better at "building homes lowers rents", but we're struggling with "we need to overbuild commercial spaces" for much the same reasons. Art needs those rundown commercial spaces no one else wants. Rude Mechs just mailed me a history and they paid $600/month for the Off Center.

The counter point to what I reskeeted is most people do not want to build software (including many software developers who want to write code). It feels like the future is bespoke homelabs that you pay someone to help you customize. SAAS is dead. Long live SAAS.

As a dev, there is a whole range of emotions you might feel when someone can one-shot things with a single prompt, and feel those even more as the companies we work for invest in the technology and force us to use it... But what happens when what our company does starts to become democratized?

Is this before or after the plastic bags and Styrofoam cups blow out of the back of the truck? Those without homes in my neighborhood get blamed for these trash distributing trucks, but we had the trash before we had people camping.

I've switched to Music Assistant + Tidal at home and it has fewer "play some pleasant enough music" features. At first I was thinking I need to build something, but I've realized maybe I need to actually pick out what album to listen to next. This might be a good and decent break in my day.

"we should do what is necessary to enable people to live where they want" remains a radical proposal

I will accept James Patterson's takes on genre writing, but pretty much no one elses. If you think "formulaic" means "easy to write" that just says to me you haven't tried it.

Can we, like, not judge people on physical appearances just because we don't like them? That doesn't suddenly make it okay Also it's just really immature Like there are millions of things you could criticize that won't have an unintended blast radius

oof. gut punch! But this blog post is worth a read and a think

Attacks on Ms. Rachel is just a way to get the next generation to go "no contact". You must make sure the fox news watcher can NEVER have a normal conversation. All topics must be banned to keep the peace. They must feel hounded and persecuted by having a bad take on every possible topic.

This is sad. Netflix needs more sitcoms. Peacock with Stumble, Reggie Dinkins, and the Paper is clearly leading, but so pricey. Also they like to cancel their sitcoms too.

How do the "we're doing tree trimming in your neighborhood" spam texts keep getting through? They're fundamentally the same text every time, I don't understand why basic spam filters aren't catching them. Also is this the world of AI agents?

Isn't this the entire Republican brand now? Take any positive relationship, government service, or media and inject racism, sexism and/or scams?

For the last 2 years I have been tracking a generational change in the nature of software development, and I think I've finally decided where all of this turmoil is going to end up. It's good news, but not for everybody. https://seldo.com/posts/we-are-all-product-engineers-now/

I’m a Texan trans kid who almost died because of Ken Paxton. The world should know what he’s done. This was very difficult for me to write, but given what's at stake, I cannot bear to stay silent about what I went through at Paxton's hands. He must not be rewarded for what he's done to trans kids.

Kind of a lovely story with this one. Judith Moyers (you might know as creative partner/spouse of Bill Moyers, who passed last year) is now a first-time published poet at 91: www.texasobserver.org/poem-beware-...

i genuinely don't know if this helps them in an election, hurts them, or does absolutely nothing in either direction. neither do any of the people doing these things! but i care about the dignity of trans people and disabled people and i don't think those things should be for trade in any case

They built a bunch of "luxury" housing in Austin and the complex down the street from me is now offering 1263 sq/ft - 3 beds for $1,190*. And there are still more new units being built. Making it easier to build means more units. More units mean cheaper rent. YIMBY works. * It might be cheaper now

An urbanist mantra from "The girl who fell beneath fairyland" I'm a monster."... The Minotaur glanced up at her. "So are we all, dear," said the Minotaur kindly. "The thing to decide is what kind of monster to be. The kind who builds towns or the kind who breaks them."

YES. Raskin's "The Tattooed Potato" is amazing. My dad read several times to me and I read to my kids.

PBS keeps reposting this and the headline drives me batty. It mirrors anti-refugee language. In the article: "climate change is really making this part of the Mediterranean, especially the eastern part of the Mediterranean, really unsuitable for native species," So is the problem the new fish?