(New Account) Owl
new year new account to shake off thousands of followers.
MSW. Public policy, climate, water, disaster, #txlege, shelter dogs, righteous fights and sheer bloody mindedness. ATX she/her
- I am deeply, likely unfairly, critical of campaign literature that is jammed into my door. You, the inexperienced candidate, are so bright eyed and bushy tailed, and have no idea how it all fuckin works.
- Of course the random persons whose doors you have approached ALSO have no idea how it all fucking works, if my emails are anything to go by.
- The award for most pointless update goes to iPhone. Yes why not just change everything I like or am used to by adding unnecessary steps to every process.
- TIL about ETJs, MUDs, MMDs, and to a lesser extent SUDs. You really shouldn't move to a place without utilities and be surprised when your water rates skyrocket. It's not great, but there's also not a ton of actionable stuff I can do to help.
- It is costly to move water without infrastructure. It's costly to build infrastructure. Water should be more expensive, because we're running out of it, & because we're low on water workforce personnel. Try to live in places with existing infrastructure to save on future rate related sticker shock.
- And get involved with your city council! They're the ones setting those prices and voting on them.
- These posts brought to you by trying to figure out a constituent issue I have really no solution for. Texas should be a state in which all people have ready access to clean water, but alas, that is not the case.
- I bought a multivitamin, please clap.
- Take it from me, don't move to an ETJ.
- Plan for work: plug in ear pods as soon as I arrive and learn all about more wastewater permits and degraded water infrastructure. Currently: eating oatmeal in the truck while eyeballing the red line that is mopac.
- Hey did you hear the family detention center has a measles outbreak and the DSHS spokesperson said that "the medical care there is likely the best these aliens have had", and yes I have wanted to break a lot of skulls today.
- One of last week's immigrant children in the detention center has TB, so I'm sure that mix of TB and measles is really fuckin great for all these people trying to follow the legal immigration path and yanked out of their communities on violent racist whims.
- No I am not FINE.
- Left my office in a rage and I'm sure that will be FINE tomorrow.
- Someone sent me a link to a documentary about the floods and I asked myself as I clicked into it whether it is wise to view it. Probably not wise.
- Sometimes I think a "nervous dog on board" would be an appropriate bumpersticker.