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@justupthepike.bsky.social
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maryland policy director @ggwash.org, your east silver spring civic association VP, pit bull parent, elder emo, just out here getting cuter. no growth has to mean less is less. they/them. https://linktr.ee/justupthepike
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grateful to @evanmglass.bsky.social for speaking to the East Silver Spring Civic Association tonight and listening to my neighbors, who want something done about traffic safety. just this year drivers hit an 11yo in February, me and my dog in May, and this week a kid biking to school—
November 11, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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it is perfect porch weather rn and Drizzy and I just got a visit from his best friend Poutine, who lives across the street. such a cute pair 🥹
a black dog with a blue harness and red collar stands on top of some wooden steps looking down. there are leaves all over the ground. an orange cat approaches him a black dog wearing a red collar and orange bow tie sits next to an orange cat. both are looking off into the distance.
November 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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in our @ggwash.org testimony I noted that parking in bike lanes (or on sidewalks, crosswalks, etc) is unsafe and shows that we don’t care about this place—which discourages people from wanting to come and spend time here. ggwash.org/files/ggwash...
Dear Council President Stewart and members of the County Council: My name is Dan Reed and I serve as the Maryland Policy Director for Greater Greater Washington, a nonprofit that works to advance better land use, transportation, and housing policies throughout Greater Washington. GGWash supports Bill 28-25, which would prohibit drivers from stopping, standing, or parking in bike lanes. There are a lot of demands on the curbside in Montgomery County, especially in our downtowns like Silver Spring and Bethesda: whereas once the focus was solely on parking cars, our curbsides now have to handle a growing number of deliveries and dropoffs. Bicyclists and scooter riders are also part of the mix, as on some streets that’s the safest place for a bike lane to go. We need to do more to manage all of the things competing for limited curb space. That’s a primary reason why drivers park in bike lanes, even though every time someone does that, they’re putting others in danger. If there’s a car in the bike lane, someone riding a bike or scooter has to swerve into the general traffic lane or up on the sidewalk, increasing the chance of a crash. Bill 28-25 would add bikeways to the other places where drivers aren’t supposed to stop or leave their car, such as sidewalks, crosswalks, and intersections. This is already the law in the city of Rockville, Howard County, Baltimore, Washington, DC, and Virginia. Prince George’s County will soon take up a similar bill. Finally, I’ve attached a photo of the recently-completed bike lane outside the Solaire Social food hall on Dixon Avenue in Silver Spring. Drivers are constantly parking in it, rendering the bike lanes useless at best and dangerous at worst. It also makes downtown Silver Spring look like a place where the rules don’t apply, which isn’t the
November 6, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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feeling personally invested in the new jersey governor’s race after seeing this “STOP OVERDEVELOPMENT” campaign ad which appears to only be on jack ciattarelli’s instagram page www.instagram.com/reel/DPUaYcs...
November 5, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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this is about New York but could apply to many places, including Maryland: when we make it hard to build homes, tenants and working families lose. more supply and tenant protections go hand in hand jacobin.com/2025/10/new-...
screenshot from a Jacobin article: The answer is straightforward. We know what New York City’s current land-use regime has to offer: anemic housing production citywide combined with displacement-driven development in a handful of neighborhoods, an approval process that’s manageable for politically connected developers pursuing megaprojects but slams the door on modest efforts to build three-story walk-ups in low-density neighborhoods, a political environment in which tenant advocates campaign for years to win concessions from developers and wind up with a handful of barely affordable units, and a crippling housing shortage that gives landlords the upper hand against tenants.
November 3, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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idk why anyone's surprised that downtown Silver Spring doesn't have a ton of lunchtime business, but fascinating to hear that Solaire Social's bar was actually the now-closed food hall's big draw. a rare W for the decade-long push for more nightlife here www.bizjournals.com/washington/n...
"We need more businesses in Silver Spring to support an lunch crowd," Kausner said in an email. "Compounding that, less people are working from home, and even if they are, they're likely to save costs and eat at home as well. Solaire Social had programming that attracted decent traffic at night, but those customers were more likely to patronize the bar rather than eat."
October 31, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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from the MoCo reddit page. should I be flattered that this joker thinks I am that current with my slang 😆 let me enjoy what’s left of my youth
I couldn't even make it through the article. Did high school senior write this? Some neighbors are big mad about the rezoning saying some pretty gnarly things
October 29, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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we always get good turnout at our @ggwash.org happy hours in silver spring and tonight’s at the new commas food hall was no different! a bonus: hocus pocus on the tv
A group of people standing around a well lit room with tables and chairs A TV with some Halloween decorations around it showing the 1993 Disney classic Hocus Pocus
October 23, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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i’m also frustrated that Thomas Taylor suggests having the Purple Line next to a middle school is a bad thing. it’s good that kids can walk to school! it’s good for kids to be able to access transit! and frankly I trust light rail conductors more than most drivers to be careful around pedestrians
October 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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back at the mosaic district in merrifield for the first time in years and almost didn’t recognize it—and it’s bc of the big mature street trees! this development opened in 2012 (here’s a photo from 2015) but the trees make it feel much older
October 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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*goes to Bethesda* where are all the proselytizers? are people here not also in need of Jesus? it is literally named after a place in the Bible
October 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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look okay Drizzy got caught in the storm it’s not his fault he smells like wet dog
a wet dog sitting on a porch during a rain storm
September 23, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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*CRISP & JUICY SPECIAL UPDATE* I have safely returned to Maryland and wasted no time in getting Crisp & Juicy, while Drizzy wasted no time acting like @mocomikee.bsky.social didn’t feed him for five days. love you big guy
September 16, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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I really wanted a space where queer folks could meet each other at #yimbytown and I’m stoked that we pulled it off! also my neighbor gave me this pride flag and this was a great excuse to use it 🏳️‍🌈
September 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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counterpoint to both of the things I just said: on the #yimbytown conference app you can say what you’re interested in and it’s not looking good for me 😆
A screenshot that says are you interested in arranging a meet up with people interested in emo? Beneath that, it says one person interested in an emo, and I am the only person named
September 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
justupthepike.bsky.social
three years ago at #yimbytown I attended the founding meeting of
@welcomingneighbors.us, maybe 10 people max, and yesterday we had 150 folks from 50 orgs in the US and beyond. it’s cool to see how much this community has grown and to meet so
many awesome people who care about the stuff I care about
September 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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modest mouse blasting in the ballroom at @yimbytown.bsky.social breakfast before @hatethegamebook.com, who graduated college a year after me, spoke. 1000 people here and I feel like I know most of them. gives me hope that it does feel like millennials are finally stepping into our power #yimbytown
September 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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bonus Paul Rudolph: the view from my hotel room is of his Temple Street parking garage (1963) which, if you’re going to look at a parking garage, you could do way worse
A blue sky, with big puffy clouds, and in the foreground are a city skyline. At the center is a big concrete parking garage with sort of rounded edges.
September 12, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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I have been in New Haven for three hours and already I have
1) eaten ice cream
2) touched a Paul Rudolph building
3) walked around most of Yale I guess
4) saw a picture of a dog
excited to have a few moments of alone time before the onslaught
It’s a scoop of chocolate and vanilla ice cream, and in the back it’s a bike race, but it’s kind of blurry Paul Rudolph’s Yale school of architecture, a large concrete building, but the concrete has a wavy texture kind of like corduroy. I really enjoyed touching it. A big road with some very old vaguely English looking buildings in the background, and some trees in the foreground, but the leaves are falling A banner with a drawing of a dog with a bird on its snoot, and in the background is an old medieval looking college building
September 12, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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going to @yimbytown.bsky.social next week in New Haven? join @tonybyrne.bsky.social and I for YIMBY Idol, where three pro-homes advocates compete to solve a thorny problem...and one will win the coveted crown. that's Sunday 9/14 at 3:15–
September 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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there will always be meetings and people will always be mad at meetings. it is not news and shouldn’t be reported as such. @thenimbee.bsky.social however did make news (and got kicked out for it) bethesdamagazine.com/2025/09/11/c...
Headline for Bethesda Today: More than 150 turn out to discuss University Boulevard Corridor Plan County executive spoke at hearing, interrupted by Nimbee
September 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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and on Monday 9/15, join me and @burhanazeem.bsky.social @andersem.bsky.social @futurewise.bsky.social @charlescgardner.bsky.social for a debate on the merits of inclusionary zoning. it was invented right here in Montgomery County in 1974, and I'm on the side of "it is generally good"–
September 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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going to @yimbytown.bsky.social next week in New Haven? please come to one of my sessions! on Tuesday 9/16, @alexbaca.bsky.social (whose birthday is today!) and I will talk about recent Ws in DC and Maryland and how we're using polls to give electeds cover to do the right thing
September 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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today @govwesmoore.bsky.social signed an executive order creating housing production targets for Maryland counties–a @ggwash.org priority for over a year and a crucial step to tackling our housing crisis. we're grateful for the governor's leadership on this issue! www.thebanner.com/community/ho...
September 3, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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as a former property manager and owner of a pit bull, I am always happy to talk to @mattyglesias.bsky.social or anyone with facile takes about pet policies in rental housing www.theargumentmag.com/p/the-forgot...
“This is not even a question of banning pit bulls from the city, just of whether or not building owners should be allowed to decide for themselves what kind of pet-related policies are best for their building. Council member Robert White just owned a pit bull named Roscoe whom he loved, so he decided to go to bat for the narrow interests of his fellow pit bull owners and got the council to go along with him.”
August 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM