Mark Gresham

When all the low income apartments on the Reynoldstown side or flattened to make room for those gentrified boutiques, I guess. Ignoring the actual railroad tracks on that side, of course. And I guess on the Inman Park side it would be when they wipe out the existing cluster of shops, the church, and the law firm on the west side of the station, and all of the fairly recently built residences on the east side of the station along DeKalb Avenue for even more froofy boutiques. Well, there is a plain parking lot to the north, but I guess all those people who do park there, we'll just have to park on the streets, or maybe just forget about parking there to use public transit, ignore the newly built shops, and just drive out to the Edgewood complex to shop instead, which would be a lot less hassle and might actually have products they need.

BOTH SIDES OF INMAN PARK / REYNOLDSTOWN STATION, WHEN?!?!

@HowEPhil I wouldn't call it "totally woke" however. It's a bicycle path parallel to electric rail, not crazy-assed politics. "Totally woke" would diminish the proposition a great deal.

Salt Lake City has a train directly adjacent trail. Charlotte has a train directly adjacent trail. Atlanta planned comparable for 3 decades, has money & designed, millions visit, yet select few think “nobody would ride” or “let’s wait a decade to start another section first” 🚊

@BillyM2k Good to know! You can reply to this too.

only people i like can reply to this

@evanwch @MattWalshBlog @yashar Lindsey Graham has never met a war he didn't like.

@MattWalshBlog @yashar 💯

Today Lindsey Graham, who for some reason has been the White House's top spokesman for this war, went on TV and invoked Iwo Jima while calling for more escalation in Iran. Iwo Jima of course involved 26 thousand US casualties. It's extremely troubling that Graham has so much influence with the administration and has been so empowered to speak on its behalf. He is not conservative, he is not America first, he has never done a single thing in his career to advance the interests of actual American citizens, and he clearly wants this war to continue indefinitely and doesn't care how many Americans die in the process. He should have no influence and no say over anything. He's one of the worst people in all of congress and that includes the Democrats.

@ethanagarwal "The Revolution Will Not Be Telegraphed!"

Let’s block the building of telephone transmission lines until we understand the impact on the telegraph industry.

@BillyM2k Maybe neurodivergence will become the norm. 🤔

phew, good thing i’m neurodivergent

@jameszimmermann "Art by Mistake"

Gm daily bread Started dumping spelt into this thinking it was wheat so here’s a rare white/wheat/spelt/einkorn combo, should be interesting. Lots of discoveries are the result of “happy accidents” in the lab, we’ll see if this is one of them.

I don't think it's cataclysmic decision, you can unfollow someone, and then refollow them later if you want. Nice and flexible. But the truth is, there are 8 billion people in the world, and a few of them will not be missed if you unfollow, mute, or even block them. There are some people I have blocked, or just unfollowed, and I still feel I've made the right decisions (and in some cases just forgot them, and it turned out okay).

I’m facing a conundrum. I truly do not like unfollowing people but at times it becomes difficult to not entertain the idea.

Another thing that militant urbanists avoid or ignore in their propaganda and social engineering is heavy industry. They seem to pretend that it doesn't exist, the same way that creative anachronists cosplaying Renaissance and Medieval eras pretend that the Church didn't exist. There's a lot to be said about the history of both light and heavy industry in drawing rural populations into cities, especially during the Great Depression into World War II. For example, in Atlanta, there was a migration of rural farmer types to the city for blue collar jobs at places like the Chevrolet plant that was across the street from where the Federal Penitentiary is located, and the neighborhoods mostly within walking distance of those jobs, or a short drive away at most. The heavy industries that made those cities function, both socially and economically. These things do go farther back in history, with heavy industry companies such as King Plow to the west of downtown. That was when heavy rail was also dominant. Things that built the 1940s notion of a downtown-focused city that they wish to perpetuate, but without what made such a thing successful, the times, the technology, and the business culture.

@EarRelevant As a former bike commuter, I agree completely. But urbanist propaganda avoids your points. They imply that bikes are alternatives to cars instead of recognizing that it's far more likely to switch to a bike from a bus than it is from a car.

The "magic" here is pulling some people away from public transportation, weather permitting.

@johnkonrad @Dollarlogic You do know that when good Bostonians die, they go to France.

At my local liberal elite coffee shop a millennial woman is in tears because she can’t afford private school tuition. She’s on speakerphone so everyone hears. She qualifies for food stamps. She is an immigrant and a lesbian. Everyone is waiting for her to get off the phone to console her. OK. BUT… she just spent $3,000 on airline tickets for a vacation and booked $400 meal one of the nights. And summer camp for her kids while she goes. Every millennial I know is absolutely addicted to travel to foreign nations. WTF. They talk about it like it’s a human right. Why the F can’t she put her kids into her Subaru and drive them to Florida like a normal person? Or the thousands of great coastal vacation spots between Bar Harbor Maine and Key West. Why is nobody suggesting this to her? And it’s not just her. My millennial friends who have money are constantly jumping on planes overseas. Like if they go more than two months without travel they start freaking out. I’m generation x. I don’t get it. Someone please explain this to me in crayons. I mean I love traveling too but holy crap does it get expensive fast. Are these people all just in crazy debt?

@GAFollowers No, actually it isn't. The 1990s are hardly "old." The 1996 Olympics, and even the advent of MARTA decades before are not "old" Atlanta. You got to go back a lot farther than that.

Old Atlanta. ⭐️

First thought: "Of Mice and Men." But Lennie was not let off the hook because of his low intelligence, and George preempted the vigilantes by killing Lennie himself. Letting Shaquille Taylor off due to low intelligence would really be an injustice to society and the family of the victim, even if he did not have the capacity to understand what he was doing. This is a very weak point in our justice system, because the consequences of the killer's actions would be the same, regardless, whether he is of low intelligence or is intellectually brilliant.

Thoughts?

@BillyM2k The truth is, most new music winds up in the dustbin of history, and looking back, we rarely have those lost songs or compositions on our radar anymore, so the surviving successes of the past make those eras look better, for sure.

is modern music just crappy remixes of not-even-that-old songs wtf

Caveat being that "Twitter" no longer exists. It's "X". It just seems like continuing to call it Twitter perpetuates the wrong frame. If we want to correct the problems, we're probably going to have to recognize it as being X, not Twitter, and push to improve the X identity and its behavior.

@BillyM2k @AutismCapital if you don't need twitter to pay your rent, then you are pretty much free to try interacting with other people. i get the feeling some people are having fun behind the scenes of all the silly antics

Is it just us or has engagement platform wide on X fallen straight off of a cliff?

Well that's kind of like "Piggy" in Lord of the Flies, expecting that everyone would logically recognize civilized order (represented by "the horn"), but that is not the case, and Piggy, representing that civilized society, was one of the victims. Sometimes the seemingly obvious logic (perhaps because we are accustomed to it) doesn't convince or persuade the chaotic and violent who want to conquer or destroy it by the "death of a thousand cuts." And that is what's happening in the UK, Western Europe, and even in America to some degree (mostly the biggest urban cities). Remember that the enemy within believes in their own "righteousness" and will take us to Armageddon in their pursuit of it.

The British cultural heritage is based on Christ's teaching And Christ's teaching is NOT about acquiring power. Read the Beatitudes ! The Koran's teaching is ALL about acquiring power, killing 'infidels' and imposing Islam on everyone That why the British tradition is vastly superior, and more respectful of human dignity

@RobBurgner Plus the fact that most websites are "passive" by nature. They wait for someone to come to them. That's why you have to actively drive people or draw people to the website.

I was in a little country store years ago and saw something I’ve never forgotten. There’s a kid, maybe 9 or 10, just standing at the front of the store. Runny nose. Shirt half untucked. Belly out. Hair doing whatever it wanted. Not moving. Not browsing. Not… anything. His mom is about 10 feet away. She glances over and says, in a slow Southern drawl: “Pugsley.” Nothing. A few seconds later, a little louder: “Puuuugggssslyyy…” Still nothing. Finally, from across the store: “Pugsley, do somethin’!” 😂 For whatever reason, that moment stuck with me. Now, anytime I catch myself overthinking a project… tweaking something that’s already good enough… waiting until it’s “perfect”… I hear it. “Pugsley… do somethin’.” Most businesses don’t have a marketing problem. They have a Pugsley problem. Websites that are “almost ready.” Campaigns that are “about to launch.” Content that’s been “in progress” for months. Meanwhile… nothing’s happening. But it’s not just business. It’s the side project you’ve been “meaning to start.” The channel you’ve been “thinking about launching.” The songs sitting half-finished. The idea that keeps tapping you on the shoulder… and getting ignored. At some point, motion beats perfection. You don’t need flawless. You need live. You don’t need a masterpiece. You need momentum. So if something’s been sitting a little too long… You know what to do. Do somethin’ Pugsley. #TakeAction #DoneIsBetterThanPerfect #Momentum #Entrepreneurship #MarketingStrategy #PersonalGrowth #SideProjects

@R_A_Belcher @ajc Another difficult day looms with headline font line height much too short.

10:15: @ajc website tells me the airport is Chaos(!). But at 9:45 I heard ABC’s Steve Osunsami tell ⁦WSB Radio the security lines were short and moving after an admittedly slow start this morning.

@Rothmus That's most of it, a few extra details could be added.

@Sassafrass_84 @KurtS82001 Not as messy as Canada geese. Those things can get real nasty on a lawn.

@KurtS82001 No kidding.

Y'all seem to like farming content. ❤️ More of my little farm. This upcoming weekend is the coup cleanout.Which I do not want to do but will. It stinks. 🤮 We just got done building the chute. Now, we build a run for the peacocks. Oh, that's my cat we rescued. Hubby renamed him brownie. He thinks he is gonna get them quails. Yes, my chickens run around outside of the coop. We keep them inside away from predators at night.