"Michael Monaco"

i've debated for a while about starting a blog of some sort; i have a lot to say that i don't usually feel like converting into microblogging format. i'm going to try out Ghost for a while and see how it goes. it'll probably be mostly housing stuff, but today it's about colonialist violence.

When i walked in, the count was at 312 people, and there were at least thirty behind me in line. Great turnout, great meeting, great time-delayed-livetweet!

Come out this evening!

It’s going to be a beautiful evening to hang out with friends new and old while watching the sunset. Come and join us this Wednesday at Bar Botanical in Crozet!

For first time attendees — look for us on the roof top patio, we'll be the folks with name tags (and, in my case, most likely wearing a Livable Cville ball cap). Feel free to DM me or @mmonaco.bsky.social if you have any questions

This Fri, Oct 23: @airbrycki.bsky.social joins @harvardkennedy.bsky.social Data + Donuts to discuss approaches to measuring housing affordability, what different data sources tell us, their limitations, and the complexities of tracking housing stock & production. www.hks.harvard.edu/events/data-...

“i pay tax before, but still pay tax now?” We spoke with dozens of half-literate morons about the machinations of local governance. Here’s what they’re saying.

Eternal kudos to the indefatigable @crenshaw-dev.bsky.social for livetweeting local government.

Blessed are the live posters

Do Impact Fees Do More Harm Than Good? Lessons From Calif: Park fees sit unused. Traffic mitigation fees don’t mitigate traffic. Affordable housing fees make housing less affordable. They are net-negative for city budgets in the long run. publiccomment.blog/p/do-impact-...

This is the animating principle of my YIMBYism.

John Yoo, aka Torture Memo guy, advocate for state-sponsored torture for almost 25 years. Obama should've prosecuted this guy for war crimes back in 2009.

The Why Cheap Art? Manifesto, Bread & Puppet Theater, 1984

it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit

BOS and SB need to be paid more; BOS should be paid a full-time wage and be a full-time job.

Happy @cvilleweekly.bsky.social day to all who celebrate! This week, our cover belongs to former at-large Albemarle school board member Allison Spillman, who cut short her first term and resigned last month. I wanted to know why -- so I asked her. c-ville.com/the-former-s...

I’m about to add this to my housing spiel before I vote for projects

Can we PLEASE get this plastered across billboards and newspaper headlines and on people’s foreheads? 😭

Update: the dialect map quiz thing going around is a cheap knockoff of the good one, which is here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Genuinely will never forget watching this when it aired. You feel like Moses coming down the mountain, face radiant from the burning bush.

I’ve given to this! Help if you can. It’s rough out there, we keep us safe.

Folks this might be the best thing you'll read all week.

Once again thinking about Octavia Butler's brilliant 'Bloodchild', an incredibly sophisticated discussion of the family and its hierarchy through the lens of complex and disturbing human/alien mutualism. www.are.na/block/23328715

One thing Im proud about with this project is using non sound source material & turning it into sound. For example, I converted all this archive material, newspaper clips, etc, into WAV files using a image to audio translator & collaged them together to illustrate the history. You hear what you see.

One of the biggest intellectual vices in progressive politics/nonprofit world is constantly trying to shut down legitimate debates by insisting your preferred outcome is what "the community" (an ontologically good thing with undefined boundaries and homogeneous interests) wants.

"We need housing for teachers." "We need housing for artists." "We need housing for firefighters." This command and control shit drives me crazy. Just build enough housing for people.

Alas - whatever those guys in hi vis and hard hats were doing carrying around a "no left turn" sign, it was not, apparently, installing the sign.

huge news, Crozet: I'm pretty sure I saw VDOT out at Mudhouse installing the long-awaited "no left turn" sign at the revamped entrance to the Square

Join us this evening!

A person at top form. It’s amazing when you consider his damn-near perfect earlier albums of music to be in effect false plateaus, but even with how good they are you kinda gotta. Scholarship, digital humanities, musical ability, a deep love for the land. danielbachman.bandcamp.com/album/the-wi...

Folks, these are always a good time; "just" getting to spend quality time with other people who care deeply about our area is a real treat. Come on out!