Lucy Johnson

Former mayor, current unrepentant lover of politics.

[Lucy Johnson @LucyofKyle]

@TheCinesthetic It was the mullet. The mullet killed everything.

[Lucy Johnson @LucyofKyle]

@ElaineR7 @realfarmercody @tjdelsanto 3 ft wide in outer space. It exploded into tiny pieces after hitting the atmosphere, but before reaching the ground.

[Lucy Johnson @LucyofKyle]

@realfarmercody @tjdelsanto It was three feet wide. They don’t have telescopes that powerful pointing in the every single direction.

[Lucy Johnson @LucyofKyle]

@texasdemocrats @JohnCornyn Hey, as a fellow Democrat, this is tacky. Please take it down. We don’t need to act this way.

[Pope Crave @ClubConcrave]

Pope Leo quotes Gandalf in encyclical debut:

“It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.”

[Lucy Johnson @LucyofKyle]

@statesman All week on TikTok videos have emerged showing horrible conditions at Paseo for residents, including open streams of raw sewage on some floors, and yet this article, published today, mentions none of that? Is this one of those “paid” articles?

[Lucy Johnson @LucyofKyle]

This is incel level behavior from a supposed “mothers” group, and reminds me of the toxic “she must be sleeping with him” BS I sadly had to put up while in office. I don’t know who runs this group’s account, but it’s the most shameful post I’ve seen on X from Dems in a long time.

[MothersAgainstGregAbbottPAC/MothersforDemocracyPAC @MomsAGAbbott]

At what point are other journalist going to question @James_Barragan code of ethics? Notice how only HE has breaking news against Kendall Scudder? Why is that James? We hear you are allegedly sleeping with Monique who is running against Kendall. And funny how all this debt also happens when she was ED. It is time for you and Monique to let other people do your foolish bidding!

[Lucy Johnson @LucyofKyle]

@Lewis_R_W @Alicia_Bittle_ How does a doctor not know about that smell?! Even if he can’t smell it himself, surely it’s common knowledge.

[Lucy Johnson @LucyofKyle]

@mattyglesias It’s not a problem if that decline is happening at the simultaneous growth of smaller employment/tech metros, as decentralized innovation could actually benefit the country as a whole. But that’s not what’s happening either. 😭

[Lucy Johnson @LucyofKyle]

@dieworkwear @L0FI_beasts I don’t think you know the prices of things that aren’t clothes and accessories related, friend.

[Lucy Johnson @LucyofKyle]

@barkmeta No one was waiting for 8 days. Here in the US most lines started forming yesterday and early this morning.

[Lucy Johnson @LucyofKyle]

@evan7257 The one time Dan Patrick used his grandstanding for a noble cause. Good on him.

[Lucy Johnson @LucyofKyle]

@alexbruesewitz @brianeharrison Hey, so if JetBlue had bought Spirit and kept their business model they’d be the ones shutting down right now, and you’d be dealing with three times the amount of layoffs.

[Lucy Johnson @LucyofKyle]

@JFreerz I know you already feel stupid, but I’m just amazed it was able to actually bite you. Those things strike like drunk grandmas. They can hardly hit the target, let alone find the strength to latch on properly. Well done, sir!

[Lucy Johnson @LucyofKyle]

@felixprehn Once you see the ChatGPT writing patterns, it’s hard to see anything else, let alone take whoever this is seriously.

[Karthik @KarthikForTexas]

Since Abbott took office, ~2,000–3,500 homicides in Dallas, San Antonio, Houston & Austin have gone uncleared (rough est. from TX DPS data—caveat: approximate only; some cases may clear later via new evidence).

Uncleared means they DON’T EVEN KNOW WHO DID IT, let alone arrest the suspect.

Yet Abbott is threatening to defund the Texas Triangle’s cops—yanking $200M+ state grants—unless their depts help ICE deport abuelas.

This is not making us safer!

[Lucy Johnson @LucyofKyle]

@Drew_Scarlet98 The idea that an adoption agency would look at your genetic history is absurd. Most of them don’t even ask for medical records, just doctor’s approval if you have a medical condition.

[Lucy Johnson @LucyofKyle]

@Squirrelgirl510 @TrixyClare @ms_frazzled Hey, internet troll, when you say “smear campaign” you are making the charge that these are false allegations. That is the DEFINITION of a smear campaign: lies to ruin a reputation. You called these women liars, and the reporter who wrote about a paid operative, own your filth.

[Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc]

This is, somehow, meant to be an anti-Sherrill argument, but even when trying to pretend affordability would be bad they make the upzoned city look unfathomably cool. We could have this. You could afford to own a home and start a family. It'd be amazing.

[Yohan @yohaniddawela]

For decades, urban planners have rigorously tracked every car in New York City while completely ignoring the pedestrians.

An MIT research group has finally built the first complete model of foot traffic in an American city. They took baseline counts from the Department of Transportation and mapped a routable dataset covering every pavement, crosswalk, and footpath across the five boroughs. The resulting data exposes massive flaws in how cities allocate infrastructure funding.

Midtown Manhattan hits nearly 1,700 pedestrians per block per hour during peak times. Because officials see these massive raw numbers, they funnel the bulk of pedestrian safety investments directly into the city centre. The MIT model proves this bias is a mistake. Neighbourhoods in Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx routinely register hundreds of pedestrians per block per hour. People in these outer boroughs are walking in huge numbers, but they don't get the infrastructure to match.

The model also rewrites the maths on urban safety. Governments typically rank dangerous intersections by tallying up total crashes. High-traffic areas like Herald Square or Times Square rack up lots of accidents. Planners look at those totals and assume the area is highly dangerous for walkers.

The new system calculates risk on a per-pedestrian basis instead. When you divide the accidents by the millions of people walking through Midtown, the individual risk is actually very low. The true danger zones are around highway off-ramps and heavy car infrastructure in low-density areas like Staten Island. A pedestrian walking there faces a drastically higher statistical chance of being hit by a vehicle.

This framework changes how urban development works. Los Angeles is already applying the model to prepare its public transit and mobility networks for the 2028 Olympics. The state of Maine is using it to evaluate 140 different towns to identify necessary safety upgrades.

Planners finally have the hard data to prove what walkers have known for years. We spent the entire twentieth century designing our environment around the automobile. We finally have the tools to start building cities for people.

Link to paper: https://t.co/bUatVebqOj