Luke Diaz

Putting away our snow shovels, so if there's a massive snow storm, you know who to blame.

A pulled garlic mustard plant being held up.

And so it begins. Although, in my yard, the Dame's Rocket has always been worse than Garlic Mustard.

Where is Dane County in this? Our District Attorney, Ismael Ozanne, should be involved.

You can also register to vote on election day in Wisconsin, although it's better to do it early. elections.wi.gov/Register

Surveillance infrastructure will always be abused. The only way to avoid this is to not build it out in the first place.

"He says city staff looked through the cameras’ network audit and found “unidentified agencies,” as well as ICE, had requested data from the city.

“[ICE] would have access to it, regardless of what Flock says,” says Diaz."

Does ICE have access to Flock data? Flock data captured in Dane County has been shared as far away as Tennessee. That raises some flags for those worried about immigration enforcement.

The answer is Yes. isthmus.com/news/news/do...

Welcome!

As a public official it drives me nuts how other public officials sort of relatively try to keep information from the public. The public has a right to know. Just share the information! It's not a big secret!

That makes sense. To me, putting it in a further East neighborhood gives Madison more flexibility to design around it and kick off great development by it (maybe with a new bus route) and make it more efficient for Amtrak to boot.

Would keeping it further East in Madison help matters?

Record high support for abolishing ICE in latest YouGov/Economist data

Verona seeking public input on new skatepark design VERONA, Wis. (WKOW) — The City of Verona is inviting the community to help design a new skatepark while planning is underway. Residents are encouraged to complete the Verona Skatepark

We're gathering feedback on the proposed Verona skate park. It's still early and we're still deciding on a location, but most of the feedback on location we have so far favors a site near City Hall. www.wkow.com/news/verona-...

America has a housing affordability crisis. Building houses for rent can help Developers are building more single-family houses for renting. That can lower prices for both renters and buyers.

An alternate prospective on firms renting out homes. I don't think it would work in Verona because we don't really have cheap and easy land to develop where this would make sense financially. www.npr.org/2026/03/04/n...

Listened to the album on YouTube and pre-ordered a CD. It's pretty great.

At the moment no. But obviously things can change as it gets built. There's a public info meeting:

Wednesday, March 18, 5:00 - 6:30 pm
Verona Senior Center, 108 Paoli Street

www.veronawi.gov/918/Military...

It's such a great park.

Yeah, we use CivicPlus. We've raised it with them, but haven't really gotten anywhere.

Is there a way encourage the digital archiving services that local gov'ts use to include Bluesky? I'm on here, but I'm not sure the City of Verona (Wisconsin) can join because our digital archiving service doesn't support Bluesky (we need to preserve records for open records requests).

I saw this and at first thought "no, there's no way 'we definitely had alternative leadership in mind for Iran but I blew them up alongside the schoolgirls using AI' is what the White House is actually saying, that's too clueless and evil to be real"

A male northern cardinal singing in the hazelnut shrubs. You can see catkins in the foreground.

Cardinals look so vibrant compared to everything else out there right now.

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed

YouTube video by RunTheJewels Run The Jewels - a few words for the firing squad (radiation) (Art Video)

Current mood: "You ever notice that the worst of us have all the chips?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dgH...

Two delicious dark beers. Snow is falling in the background and there is a cribbage board in the foreground.

Trying to enjoy life. The Hop.Haus in Verona is pretty great.

I agree. I'm less optimistic the paving will get done in 2026 because we have to redo the bridges.

We are going to war and killing people for content. It's immoral and outrageous.

They are we thought they were (And we let 'em off the hook)

The next Democratic administration needs to sign on to the International Criminal Court.

Or make them with AI

One time either I or HR Block made a mistake in my tax filings and the IRS sent me a bill for the remainder + plus a small penalty. They know how much we owe! Just send a bill. Having to pay HR Block on top of all that is just so so so obnoxious.