Abby L. Watson

Do you ever experience phantom smells? Because as I was browsing this year’s #CommonGroundCountryFair fair book, I swear I could smell lanolin and Sweet Annie. Giddy with anticipation.

www.mofga.org/fairbook/

Do you think we can get them to pay for some school busses for the kids? 🙄 FFS.

COR-EY COR-EY COR-EY!!!!
🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

A black cat with white-tipped paws and white whiskers, curled up on a blanket-covered lap. His eyes are closed. The blanket is cream colored with a mauve grid pattern and a raised waffle weave.

Nothing better than those happy, rumbly purrs. What a sweet boy. I miss mine still and it has been almost six years.

Simon, you shouldn’t share your new carbon offset business idea so publicly like this.

A photo of a neighborhood group flyer notifying us of a proposed low-income housing development. The flyer includes a redacted image of the neighborhood layout and handwritten notes emphasizing the meeting details and pointing to a Facebook page. The text reads: Attention residents of the [redacted] neighborhood important notification! The 4-acre property located at [redacted] (where the large house is next to the [redacted] former school) has been sold to a developer, [redacted], who plans on *building six buildings intended for low-income housing. This would include 60 apartments along with a 70-90 car parking lot.* The project would stretch back behind the houses on Hillside Drive, down toward the playground. The township has started to plan out how to change the topography of this green space and obtain the necessary permits needed to move forward with the construction of what is being considered a *Low Income Housing Tax Credit Program (LIHTC). Some questions to consider as a [redacted] resident: - how will this impact the value of our homes? - how will this impact the wildlife and vegetation that live in that lot and in our neighborhood? - how will the impact traffic, the sewer system, storm water retention, and air quality in our neighborhood? The next planning review is scheduled for [redacted]. Public comment will be part of this meeting and we are encouraging residents of the [redacted] neighborhood to attend. Additional important meetings regarding this project will be held on March 11 and April 8. Each of these meetings will work to move this project forward - we MUST get involved with this! Please attend these meetings and voice your concerns. Please help save our neighborhood from further development!

My YIMBY moment has come and I am Ready 👏 For 👏 It 👏 Came home to this little number tucked next to my mailbox. Already composing my comments.

I have asks! Let’s see this as an opportunity to make the neighborhood better! Everyone deserves housing and we have to build more of it somewhere.

Isn’t this the line we were sold about crypto? And now some of them are making more on voluntary curtailment than on the crypto itself?

That’s what I’m saying!

My kingdom for some clarity on whether the Canadian tariffs actually apply to electricity imports. I maintain that electrons are neither articles nor goods, but I only play a lawyer on TV.

I’ve been on a one-woman crusade against shitty reporting about US OSW projects by calling them out on LinkedIn. It seems to be working? All it takes is one slapdash, first out of the gate article with a misleading headline, and other reporters just repeat the bullshit.

Is this the future of the electric grid in North America? I sure hope not. That would be bad for everyone, especially homes and businesses in the US Northeast.

From a personal observation, a lot of the homes near wind farms are in rural, low-income areas and aren’t in great shape. I know of a situation where a home bought out by a wind farm due to health complaints was found to have very high levels of CO, arsenic, and radon.

What a cool poster

Came here to say this. 💯

Good Trouble: JD Vance Chastised by Vermont Snow Reporter JD Vance, fresh off of helping his boss ambush & insult a foreign leader in the White House yesterday afternoon, is on vacation in

We need to salute courage wherever it appears.

The official snow reporter at Vermont's Sugarbush, where JD Vance came on a skiing vacation this weekend, pointed out in her snow report this a.m. that the Trump team is ignoring climate change.

Her report was pulled down
kottke.org/25/03/jd-van...

God bless Canada 🇨🇦

Literally the first thing I saw.

You’ll pry the horn section from my cold, dead hands. Long live funk.

The kicker is that any federal employee who strikes is barred from ever being employed by or holding office in the federal government. This provision also applies to anyone who plots to subvert the government. 🤔

How thoughtful.

I should clarify: it also becomes illegal to ever work for the U.S. government again.

You sure can! You can also obstruct from within in so many ways.

Consistency of employment rules, promotions, compensation, etc. There’s an entire independent federal agency that negotiates with federal worker unions. It’s called FLRA. Helps keep some from getting better deals than others due to nepotism, inequity, etc.

I’d like to credit my doctorate in general knowledge from Podcast University. I consume a pathological amount of audio information.

They do have unions that undertake collective bargaining, but they can’t strike.

The irony of this statute in this specific moment:

uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?r...

The touchscreen thing is a major deterrent to trading in my trusty old VW. That and the price of new (and used) cars is just stupid right now.

It’s illegal for federal workers to strike and they’d lose any chance at retaining their civil service protections. If the Supreme Court guts those, it’s game on.

Pine Tree Power, we hardly knew ye.

Fun fact: in the midst of the deliberations leading up to the Montreal Protocol, Reagan was diagnosed with skin cancer. Suddenly he decided maybe we should join the thing after all.