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🏅 For anyone who donates at $500, $1000, $2000 or more, I will be shipping you a unique small-batch burnt-wood token as a tiered trophy for winning the game of #SaveVigilante. (Not affiliated w/the bar, just of my own design & making.) Ensure your full name is shown when you donate.

Tally ho!!

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This place is delightfully special, its owner is a sweetheart, they pay a living wage, and Austin deserves to have it around.

And I’ll personally be sending trophies to any people who‘re able to pitch in enough to really move the needle…

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Support Vigilante Gastropub & Games Support Us!

Game nerds! 🃏🎲 I need your help to save a local business:

Vigilante Gastropub & Games in Austin, Texas has been hit with an expensive repair cost and may close soon if they don’t raise needed funds by SATURDAY, Nov 22.

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Vote YES on Prop Q! Early Voting Oct. 20 - 31 Election Day Tues. Nov 4 Image of the newly completed Cady Lofts, a project funded by the City containing 100 permanent supportive housing units in Central Austin. At bottom left, AURA's logo with tag line "An Austin For Everyone"

Our membership has voted to endorse Prop Q!

Vote early Monday through Friday this week from 7 AM to 7 PM. Find your nearest polling location here: votetravis.gov/current-elec...

Prop Q protects our City's essential services, including supportive housing, safe sidewalks, & our EMS first responders

Heat pumps are having a breakthrough. They have one issue: The wrong name. The newly popular technology faces an issue: No one understands its name.

New rule, like the old rule:

Heat pumps are called icy hot fan blasters; air conditioners are called icy fan blasters.

@shannonosaka.bsky.social
@costasamaras.com
@jtemple.bsky.social
@jaimepalter.bsky.social

London’s low-traffic zones ‘cut deaths and injuries by more than a third’ Exclusive: Study also finds no change in number of casualties on roads just outside low-traffic neighbourhoods

NEW: Big study of low-traffic neighbourhoods in London suggest they cut road injuries and deaths by more than a third within their boundaries with no apparent negative safety effect on nearby roads. This feels a *major* boost for proponents of such schemes.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

TxDOT is working on its *first ever* statewide walk/bike plan.

This is huge. Support the Statewide Active Transportation Plan now:

🚶🏼‍♀️Take the short survey (deadline: 7/13)
🚲 Attend the in-person meeting @ Fiesta Gardens (7/8, 4:30pm)

Survey/event info: burnsmcd.mysocialpinpoint.com/txdot-statew...

Better things ARE possible but you have to fight for them which honestly sucks but fine OK

My co-working space peers are smart folks

Submit your comment NOW about the Austin Core Transportation Plan! Your voice is CRUCIAL.

The ACT Plan would be a big improvement but it needs to go much further. Help push for a calmer, safer downtown. See possible feedback below.

🗣️ Speak up here: publicinput.com/actplan#tab-...

A 5-story single-stair apartment building tucked nicely into a residential neighborhood with greenery, trees, and sidewalks

Austin City Council votes 10-1 to legalize 5-story single-stair apartments, making Austin the largest US city outside of NYC to legalize single-stair! 🎉🎉🎉

Many thanks to all the supporters and to CM Chito Vela for leading this exciting reform! We did it y'all! 🙌

⚠️CAMPO released its 25 year plan for transportation for our region, and we need YOUR help to get CAMPO to invest in transit, walking, cycling and safety. ⚠️

It will just take a minute or two!

actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

actionnetwork.org/events/testi...

Five people killed in 17-vehicle crash on I-35; suspect charged with intoxication manslaughter Five people, including a child and an infant, were killed in the crash on southbound Interstate 35 near Parmer Lane late Thursday night. Eleven people were taken to local hospitals after the crash, wh...

Heartbreaking news: five people, including two children were killed on I-35 in Austin in a 17 vehicle crash.

We must continue to work towards safer transportation infrastructure in our cities. 💔

www.kut.org/austin/2025-...

Here is a list of town halls taking place next week that you should show up at. I am sorry, I mean Chuck Schumer’s book parties. If there are any missing, please add in the responses. Schumer begins a book tour this week. Mon 3/17 7pm Central Library, Baltimore Wed 3/19 Politics & Prose, DC 7pm Thursday 3/20 at the Weizman, DC 12:30PM Sunday 3/23 · 3pm Moss Theatre Santa Monica, CA Mon 4/21 MJCCA Atlanta 7:30PM Line the sidewalks. (List may not be complete)

Here is a list of town halls taking place next week that you should show up at. I am sorry, I mean Chuck Schumer’s book parties. If there are any missing, please add in the replies. The only thing he should be doing today is cleaning out his office.

How do you feel about the fact that 96% of TX transportation funds are required, according to the TX constitution, to go to highways? 😡

Join advocates from around the state to talk to legislators at the capitol about these issues!

Zoom prep session: 3/23
Advocacy day: 4/3

Bonus: Today the 800 is running a #electricbus, and damn these things look & feel like the future. And they still smell like new-bus ✨ #Austin is that much more a serious city.

Some kudos to @capmetroatx.bsky.social:

The new #BusRapidTransit took me from downtown to 51st St in FIFTEEN MINUTES.
Literally as fast as driving.
Holy hell.

It was absolutely the right move to open these lines ASAP, even with long headways + diesel buses. “Done is better than perfect.” 🙌

Widening Highways Doesn’t Fix Traffic. Here’s What Can Highway widening projects usually don’t solve congestion, but less expensive toll programs known as congestion pricing can. Here’s why

Austin's I-35 expansion is in Scientific American:

"Widening projects are sold to the public by touting benefits that won’t last, but their unadvertised costs will remain for decades."

www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

Use your own bike:
- Lock your front wheel + the frame to whatever you’re looking it to
- Lock your helmet to your bike
- Take removable things like headlights with you

Biggest win:
- Tell Siri “I parked here” and it will mark it for you

Enjoy zipping around SXSW!

Welcome to #Austin, #SXSW folks! Some tips on #bicycling, by far the best way to get around SX:

Rent:
- CapMetro Bikeshare bikes rock. These must be returned to stations.
- Lime Bikes rock. They can be parked most places.
- Adjust your seat
- Be chill.

If you already own a bike…

For me personally, the new Rapids may reduce my own downtown travel time by bus from ~50min to ~30min. If you live northeast/central/southeast, try it out for yourself in the #TransitApp!

And the payment experience is a crucial part of the riding experience. I can’t wait to see the bump in ridership from that alone.

These aren’t the final-form of the Rapid lines, and I’m incredibly proud of CapMetro/ATP/the city for getting the routes operational soon, instead of waiting for perfection. Looking forward to more frequent service and electric buses, later on.

I know inflation & other things have made new @capmetroatx.bsky.social / ATP projects tough to deliver, but two huge things to celebrate this month:

🤳 Support for tap-to-pay & retiring the old, unintuitive app
🚌 Two new Rapid lines

And all JUST IN TIME for #SXSW!

RSVP to Sleep No More, Y’all | Partiful ~ Sleep No More, Y’all ~ A farewell happy hour for fans in Austin The McKittrick Hotel closes its NYC doors on January 5th. This happy hour is an informal & unofficial fare-thee-well for any Austini...

Hey #theatre fans in #Austin: If you like #immersivetheatre like #SleepNoMore, #CheerfulSecrets, #SpeakMoMore, or that #Westworld #SXSW thing, join this happy hour! SNM just closed its doors, so let’s toast and share tales of awesome interactive theatre. 🥂

RSVP:
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This could be a straight-up digital “Foundation”, if mirrored many places. I wonder if they themselves would be down for this (instead of starting an alternative from scratch). 🤓

Austin’s 37th Street Lights return Dec. 13 through New Year’s An Austin holiday tradition spanning four decades has returned once again.

The opening night for the 37th Street Lights starts today at 6pm. Come enjoy one of the season's premier car-free street events! 🎄🥳

More info: www.kxan.com/things-to-do...

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Godspeed. ✊ I donate any tolerable songs you find on this playlist - open.spotify.com/playlist/4K3...

Yes! For so long Austin’s new housing options have been “moderately-nice house or Soviet-era apartment building”.

I know it costs money, but people would support dense housing if it weren’t ugly af.