Hey Gen-Xers… we only ever got one MMR vaccine! I just got my second one today plus Tdap! Free and easy with your insurance (if you are lucky enough to have insurance.) Get yours today before “they” take everything away!!

Whoa! Never heard this before! I took my kids to Sun Prairie this morning to see Jimmy the Groundhog, just like my dad took me years ago! What a fun time!

At least Americans have never been unreasonable about suddenly increasing taxes on tea

Another great article praising the great work of local Madison archeological historians!

It is a relief to know that our ancestors were worriers — awake in the darkness with crowded minds. Their worry is why we’re here.

This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.

She gave the best and most correct answer to that question!!

☝️ this.

And another graphic - from our Official Community Plan in Victoria:

I know this icon is supposed to be a video camera, but it looks more like a blocky angler fish in the middle of a conversation.

This is really informative! We should do this with wonderful historic places that urban renewal turned into freeways and parking lots! (Better yet…let’s build back the vibrant, usually black, neighborhoods we lost.)

I love space info…but this was perhaps not the best thing to read right before bed. Alas. Monkey Brain… here we go… sleep tight everyone!

We made life hard for wild turkeys. We worked hard to reintroduce wild turkeys and help them get reestablished in the state. We get annoyed by the chaos they now cause in cities. We embrace them as symbols of anarchy.

They don’t think about us at all.

www.startribune.com/the-triumph-...

This used to only be a bike lane by time of day. Now it's a full time buffered bike lane. A block over from here will be a two way cycletrack.

Piece by piece a network is built.

REMINDER: Those choosing to live in subsidized suburbs for a bigger house and yard are NOT also entitled to free-flow car traffic capacity (aka an “easy car commute”) into the city at the expense of the taxes, health, safety (hint: bike-lanes) & quality of life of city-dwellers.

HT Ian Lockwood.

Legendary Milwaukee urban planner attempts to quantify the actual impact of replacing Interstate 794 with boulevard.

$475 million in property tax revenue, 3,000 new housing units and new parks.

urbanmilwaukee.com/2024/11/21/c...

News events make me reflect on the larger “celestial” picture. I’m thankful that I saw three amazing celestial events this year with my kids: Total Solar Eclipse April 8, Aurora Borealis Oct 10, and a Comet Oct 15. The universe is magic!