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John Yuda 🥄

@yuda.org

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5 USC § 3331 Husband, dad, dog walker, cyclist, outdoors enthusiast, occasional reluctant driver, Alexandrian, federal employee, vinyl record collector, jazz fan. “Refreshingly eclectic, like a thrift-store playlist that actually slaps.”

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John Yuda 🥄 @yuda.org · 25d

Do not obey in advance.

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John Yuda 🥄 @yuda.org · 5h

lack of understanding of laws (including very basic ones) strikes me as disqualifying.

John Yuda 🥄 @yuda.org · 6h

My most-owned artists:
1. Jamal - 13
2. Miles - 13
3. Mingus - 12
4. Trane - 11
5. Toshiko Akiyoshi (curveball!) - 10

John Yuda 🥄 @yuda.org · 7h

Mostly because I’m going to have to subsequently go through this with Lee Morgan and Keith Jarrett and John Coltrane and and and

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John Yuda 🥄 @yuda.org · 7h

Let me be clear: Seifeldein would be a disaster. I watched him closely for 3+ years.

John Yuda 🥄 @yuda.org · 7h

I’m at a crossroads. I either need to divest some of my Ahmad Jamal holdings (currently 13 albums with some key ones still missing) or just decide that I’m an Ahmad Jamal collector, (or at most piano jazz) not a jazz collector. #jazzsky

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John Yuda 🥄 @yuda.org · 10h

You know why

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Casey Kane @caseykane.bsky.social · 12h

The trailers also block the sidewalks, putting the most vulnerable into the street.

Trailers parked on Wheeler Avenue blocking the sidewalks, bike land, and travel lane.

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John Yuda 🥄 @yuda.org · 11h

Imagine being the Downbeat reviewer who panned At the Pershing: But Not for Me and called it “cocktail music”. Whoops.

John Yuda 🥄 @yuda.org · 12h

Fair enough!

John Yuda 🥄 @yuda.org · 12h

lol wut. Because his time on city council went so well and ended so auspiciously.

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John Yuda 🥄 @yuda.org · 12h

Oh I’d rather do, like, significant business process reviews and try to figure it out that way, not via firing. But you’d still probably get some errors.

John Yuda 🥄 @yuda.org · 15h

I feel like albums fewer than ten years old should be out of bounds.

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John Yuda 🥄 @yuda.org · 15h

Not all heroes wear capes.

John Yuda 🥄 @yuda.org · 15h

lol yeah that’s the norm

John Yuda 🥄 @yuda.org · 15h

I guarantee you if my grandmother were still alive she’d be like “I beat the fascists in a war once, I’ll do it again.” (She was women’s army corps during WWII)

John Yuda 🥄 @yuda.org · 15h

Yuuuuup

John Yuda 🥄 @yuda.org · 15h

Eh I think you could argue that a job created to do something as part of some inscrutable process shouldn’t exist, at least some of the time. Humans love to over complicate processes.

John Yuda 🥄 @yuda.org · 15h

Maybe it’s time to crack down on the tractor trailers left extending past the loading dock area, through the street parking, blocking the bike lanes, and into the travel lanes.

ALXnow @alxnow.bsky.social · 16h

Driver rescued after crashing into parked tractor-trailer in Alexandria's West End

Driver rescued after crashing into parked tractor-trailer in Alexandria’s West End | ALXnow

The Alexandria Fire Department rescued one person who was pinned in their vehicle after crashing into a parked tractor-trailer in the city's West End on Sunday, Oct. 12. The crash was reported at around...

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John Yuda 🥄 @yuda.org · 15h

Young Guns is criminally underrated.

John Yuda 🥄 @yuda.org · 15h

I decided a long time ago that if somebody steals my grody, sweaty helmet they probably need it more badly than I do.

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Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 1d

Explaining Canadian Thanksgiving to Americans

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John Yuda 🥄 @yuda.org · 16h

Very relatable, honestly.

Erin Sherman 🌱 @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 17h

It's easy to hate the October yellowjacket. But you try losing your purpose and realizing all that's left is stubborn survival until cold and starvation take you.

🐝 #insects
🍂 #fall
💀 #spookyseason

A yellowjacket, lying still on a skullcap leaf in a misty, chilly rain. A blurry splash of pink obedient plant flowers graces the upper left background.

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John Yuda 🥄 @yuda.org · 1d

It really is fun when that happens. Like the modern version of the old “get assigned a pen pal at random” services.

John Yuda 🥄 @yuda.org · 1d

My favorite here in DC is when they step off the escalator and — literally — immediately stop and look around. I don’t want to walk into you, truly! But you’re giving me absolutely no choice.

John Yuda 🥄 @yuda.org · 1d

Right? Don’t threaten me with a good time.

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