Alex Dickson
@adicksondc.bsky.social
Usually designing buildings. Often distracted by brick. Citizen, Cyclist, Pedestrian, Cat Lady. DC & HHI.
I am reminded today of this skit by Sarah Cooper.
November 14, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I am reminded today of this skit by Sarah Cooper.
Days at the Baltimore office are LONG. I don't mind the commute from DC but add long days in the office and I'm wrecked. I got home tonight at 10:50. This really isn't sustainable like this.
November 14, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Days at the Baltimore office are LONG. I don't mind the commute from DC but add long days in the office and I'm wrecked. I got home tonight at 10:50. This really isn't sustainable like this.
Strong boy is strong.
JD Vance calls ibuprofen "useless medication" and implies it's not "necessary, safe and effective."
November 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Strong boy is strong.
I was reading Stanford White's biography on Wikipedia this morning on the way to work and I have to say that this shit isn't new.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanfor...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanfor...
November 13, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I was reading Stanford White's biography on Wikipedia this morning on the way to work and I have to say that this shit isn't new.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanfor...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanfor...
Coffee, blackberries and finishing up reading my latest mystery novel on this rather grey sort of lazy Sunday morning.
Hoping everyone has an excellent Sunday!!
Hoping everyone has an excellent Sunday!!
November 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Coffee, blackberries and finishing up reading my latest mystery novel on this rather grey sort of lazy Sunday morning.
Hoping everyone has an excellent Sunday!!
Hoping everyone has an excellent Sunday!!
I love when Ikea furniture instructions indicate two people are needed to put the item together and singles around the entire globe are proving them wrong every day.
November 8, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I love when Ikea furniture instructions indicate two people are needed to put the item together and singles around the entire globe are proving them wrong every day.
Buying a Christmas tree in early November is how you set your house on fire in December.
November 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Buying a Christmas tree in early November is how you set your house on fire in December.
Now that I've been back in DC for a couple months I realize how incredibly devastating the loss of the Post and WAMU are to our city.
I'm grateful we still have really good journalists working in DC, but my god what a tragedy.
I'm grateful we still have really good journalists working in DC, but my god what a tragedy.
November 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Now that I've been back in DC for a couple months I realize how incredibly devastating the loss of the Post and WAMU are to our city.
I'm grateful we still have really good journalists working in DC, but my god what a tragedy.
I'm grateful we still have really good journalists working in DC, but my god what a tragedy.
Yikes!
Things change fast folks.
I've heard from several sources air traffic control staffing at #DCA is going down to one — yes, one — controller this evening. Expect significant flight delays and maybe cancellations tonight.
@washprobs.bsky.social #washingtondc
I've heard from several sources air traffic control staffing at #DCA is going down to one — yes, one — controller this evening. Expect significant flight delays and maybe cancellations tonight.
@washprobs.bsky.social #washingtondc
US airlines cancelled 780 flights, or 3% of total scheduled, on Friday, Nov. 7, the first day of the FAA’s shutdown-related flight cuts. Cuts will step up to 10% of flights at 40 key airports over the next week.
Safe travels everyone.
www.instagram.com/reel/DQxDlXR...
Safe travels everyone.
www.instagram.com/reel/DQxDlXR...
November 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Yikes!
600,000.
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 10:35 PM
600,000.
No. Absolutely not.
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st
November 6, 2025 at 10:31 PM
No. Absolutely not.
I need to figure out how to decorate my mom's apartment in assisted living for Christmas.
Has anyone done this? What did you do?
Has anyone done this? What did you do?
November 6, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I need to figure out how to decorate my mom's apartment in assisted living for Christmas.
Has anyone done this? What did you do?
Has anyone done this? What did you do?
So my computer was acting up today and I called our IT firm to help me out and now the computer is dead. 😭
However I listened to three episodes of the "Your Dead to Me" podcast that were excellent and the train to and from Baltimore was very pleasant. Gotta look at the good side.
However I listened to three episodes of the "Your Dead to Me" podcast that were excellent and the train to and from Baltimore was very pleasant. Gotta look at the good side.
November 6, 2025 at 1:22 AM
So my computer was acting up today and I called our IT firm to help me out and now the computer is dead. 😭
However I listened to three episodes of the "Your Dead to Me" podcast that were excellent and the train to and from Baltimore was very pleasant. Gotta look at the good side.
However I listened to three episodes of the "Your Dead to Me" podcast that were excellent and the train to and from Baltimore was very pleasant. Gotta look at the good side.
Yes, please.
ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections
November 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Yes, please.
As Tip O'Neill would say "All Politics is Local." Maybe it's less local than it used to be, idk.
New Yorkers will vote for different candidates for mayor than of cities across Ohio, Massachusetts, Georgia, and Texas. And THAT'S THE POINT.
New Yorkers will vote for different candidates for mayor than of cities across Ohio, Massachusetts, Georgia, and Texas. And THAT'S THE POINT.
![Screenshot of article that reads: “A Mamdani victory is a serious political problem for those in the party who believe, as we do, that our primary focus must be on flipping red and purple seats blue, expanding the map for Democrats, and creating a path back to Congress and the White House,” Matt Bennett, executive vice president of center-left think tank Third Way, told MSNBC. “The [Democratic Socialists of America] platform — which Mamdani has not repudiated — hands a potent set of weapons to Republican ad makers eager to tie Mamdani-style politics to Democrats running in much tougher places than deep blue New York.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ozma3timm5c32fa7bimb4zaj/bafkreidedpbe5cweyx6x5pz66ypn74fumifyvinjjr4prysjpvopaqi4vi@jpeg)
November 4, 2025 at 5:54 PM
As Tip O'Neill would say "All Politics is Local." Maybe it's less local than it used to be, idk.
New Yorkers will vote for different candidates for mayor than of cities across Ohio, Massachusetts, Georgia, and Texas. And THAT'S THE POINT.
New Yorkers will vote for different candidates for mayor than of cities across Ohio, Massachusetts, Georgia, and Texas. And THAT'S THE POINT.
"After the raid, the building’s Latino tenants were told by the landlord to vacate by the end of the month without what residents described as the legally required 30-day notice. The property is managed by TranGroup LLC."
So only latino tenants are told to vacate? Is this legal?
So only latino tenants are told to vacate? Is this legal?
“I heard banging and I thought it was a roommate cooking. Then I heard yelling.
Suddenly there were half a dozen US Marshals, US Park Police, ICE, and DC police as well, pointing guns at me.
National Guard was providing a perimeter.”
Suddenly there were half a dozen US Marshals, US Park Police, ICE, and DC police as well, pointing guns at me.
National Guard was providing a perimeter.”
SCOOP: Latino Tenants Told to Vacate After Georgetown ICE Raid
Witnesses describe multi-agency sweep at Wisconsin & O St. NW; 10–12 taken; Latino units “tossed;” ammunition left in the hallway, and tenants told to vacate.
migrantinsider.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
"After the raid, the building’s Latino tenants were told by the landlord to vacate by the end of the month without what residents described as the legally required 30-day notice. The property is managed by TranGroup LLC."
So only latino tenants are told to vacate? Is this legal?
So only latino tenants are told to vacate? Is this legal?
🧵
Here’s my my pitch for why you care about your state attorney general.
The entire conservative judicial machine *depends* on conservative state attorney generals.
John Roberts can’t take a case asking to destroy voting rights if a state attorney generals doesn’t bring it.
The entire conservative judicial machine *depends* on conservative state attorney generals.
John Roberts can’t take a case asking to destroy voting rights if a state attorney generals doesn’t bring it.
November 2, 2025 at 6:56 PM
🧵
I am going full gloom here and assume the Lincoln bathroom is just the second reveal (the Rose Garden "Club" being the first).
He's gutting the entire White House to install the architectural character of an anonymous mid-tier luxury hotel.
He's gutting the entire White House to install the architectural character of an anonymous mid-tier luxury hotel.
This is like Drunk History meets This Old House
November 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I am going full gloom here and assume the Lincoln bathroom is just the second reveal (the Rose Garden "Club" being the first).
He's gutting the entire White House to install the architectural character of an anonymous mid-tier luxury hotel.
He's gutting the entire White House to install the architectural character of an anonymous mid-tier luxury hotel.
This is, in fact, not an agenda to get excited about.
October 31, 2025 at 9:00 PM
This is, in fact, not an agenda to get excited about.
Nice!
Illinois will effectively eliminate parking minimum requirements in ~all of Chicago and much of its suburbs thanks to the transit funding bill that passed last night.
Also contains parking reform! This is a preliminary map of Chicagoland based on the People Over Parking Act provision.
It would also apply downstate though!
It would also apply downstate though!
October 31, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Nice!
How is everyone else's Tuesday going?
October 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
How is everyone else's Tuesday going?
Reposted by Alex Dickson
You can cook food for your neighbors. Set a free pantry box outside of your place. Pool money with your coworkers if someone at work has young kids or an elderly relative that likely has SNAP.
You don’t have to pry into people’s business, you can just do things & make it known help is available.
You don’t have to pry into people’s business, you can just do things & make it known help is available.
October 27, 2025 at 10:50 PM
You can cook food for your neighbors. Set a free pantry box outside of your place. Pool money with your coworkers if someone at work has young kids or an elderly relative that likely has SNAP.
You don’t have to pry into people’s business, you can just do things & make it known help is available.
You don’t have to pry into people’s business, you can just do things & make it known help is available.
Reposted by Alex Dickson
Honestly, I don't care what people seeking assistance at food banks do for a living, whether they work or not, what they drive, etc.
People are hungry. Give them food to eat. Plain and simple.
People are hungry. Give them food to eat. Plain and simple.
October 28, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Honestly, I don't care what people seeking assistance at food banks do for a living, whether they work or not, what they drive, etc.
People are hungry. Give them food to eat. Plain and simple.
People are hungry. Give them food to eat. Plain and simple.
Reposted by Alex Dickson
Adorable: I just met a D.C. couple that got married at the Wilson Building. The Marriage Bureau in Superior Court remains closed because of the federal shutdown, so no ceremonies are being performed there. D.C. is instead issuing licenses itself, and giving space for ceremonies.
October 27, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Adorable: I just met a D.C. couple that got married at the Wilson Building. The Marriage Bureau in Superior Court remains closed because of the federal shutdown, so no ceremonies are being performed there. D.C. is instead issuing licenses itself, and giving space for ceremonies.