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8th gen Texan

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The next great American novel will be about the 80 year old Walmart cashier detailing his life of interesting experiences. McCarthy's Border Trilogy was only the third riff.

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@bluecollarprose @thomposting Jeez

[brian @brianonhere]

whoever designs online portals for local governments is making user interface decisions so bizarre and hostile they actually verge on avant-garde

[RoidedBalls🇹🇹 @Roidedballs]

This actually fucking rocks. Euros just casually enjoying a niche part of the country most people that live here will never experience.

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Tweeting this in the pool returning to homeostasis after riding a 24 mile transect of the city. Almost entirely through trails, greenbelts, parks and God forbid bike lanes when it was absolutely necessary

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Beyond all the special interest rent seeking bullshit, Austin is the best run city in this state by the metric of public good and it's not remotely close

[csz @cszabla]

genuinely could not believe this was texas

[marshall @marshallgeyer]

the freshly-opened confluence portion of waterloo greenway near rainey st is incredible

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Is your summer oppressive or permissive? In this way Houston is a brother of Hyderabad as Los Alamos is of Amsterdam

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Entire floors of my 80s building are vacant with half the lights on giving the whole structure an uncanny feeling. It's from a different time and a different society

It's what the workers felt like in Tie Xi Qui on the precipice of obsolescence. The worksite embodies worldview.

[Reverend Oda 🔎 @Oda_CM]

@BoneJail I saw an analysis that liminal spaces that look like dilapidated malls/stores/offices as being the new generation's versions of the earlier horror creators fascination with decaying victorian mansions and castles: living in the haunted ruins of past prosperity

[VB Knives @Empty_America]

The "Unbranded" documentary is quite good.

Follows a group of recent Texas A&M grads who rode from the Mexican to Canadian border on half broken mustangs.

It's real about the stuff that inevitably happens with all that.

I believe most of the stars became lawyers and bankers, which is not actually at all unexpected among the milieu who might do that stuff, those families aren't quite like you might think.

[🌿att @thisisbucked]

NM is the rare place where you may pitch a tent 7 minutes outside of town for free and be invited to shoot (you have your own piece right?) the spare roosters of a face-tat Hispanic local. After you spent the evening attending a public lecture by professors in a 100 y/o theatre.

[🌿att @thisisbucked]

Was talking to a coworker recently back from elopement. Ended up getting a no-fuss courthouse wedding

His stock is of the small yet influential intelligentsia in New Mexico. When a state has only 2 million people (+ a national lab) the prestige/knowledge economy looks different

[˗ˏˋ ´ˎ˗ @lapislagoons]

courthouse weddings are a status symbol now

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@kunley_drukpa E

[Hoops McCann @ravidravidravid]

saw a kid at the flea market selling a diorama of the day of my death, my lifeless body rendered in incredible detail, but he wanted fucking $100 for it lmao, no dice little idiot

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It's in practice a scheme to cull their elderly along with their expensive pensions and benefits

[Courtney Meehan @CourtneyMeehan3]

The reason the UK is so stubborn about AC and ceiling fans is that they don't want to admit that their grid can absolutely not handle it. They can barely keep the lights on as is. That's it. That's the reason why.

[🌿att @thisisbucked]

There is motion in the air lately. People reconnecting. Plans being made. Summer is only preheating.

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

This was impossible 3 years ago.

Then Austin passed the HOME initiative and now you can build 3 homes on any single-family zoned lot in Austin.

This is how you enable family-oriented housing in America.

[🌿att @thisisbucked]

The dozens of inundated aggregate mining pits along the Colorado are captivating. Some are accessible via kayak and have a certain out-of-bounds quality

One day they'll dig all the alluvium out and I hope they're turned over to parks like they do with stone quarries back east.

[Ben Thompson @BThompson_CI]

Austin is moving to annex the 4-square-mile Dog's Head "mega-site" on the Colorado River north of the airport, would support new mixed-use development there under 45-year agreement

Project could generate billions in property taxes, includes affordable housing and new trail/parks

[a random pynchon character @zaaaarbi]

The thing I probably admire the most about Herzog is his ability to combine very dry, matter-of-fact and fatalistic attitude to life with the ability to notice how incredible our world is and to wonder at its miracles and terrors, its beauty and ugliness.

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@ljmoka Sent this to a friend the other day, summed up Austin is in the perfect unstable position between dry and moist air masses