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Watch Athena the owl and her owlets!

Dade Phelan is a spineless SOB

Anyone heard anymore about opening satellite animal shelters around the city? This sounded like a great idea when it was proposed by city council, but I haven’t read anything about it since. Maybe it’s part of the “strategic plan” mentioned in the article.

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/19230205

Cedar Park, Texas, is a suburban enclave that most reminds me of Scottsdale, Ariz. Wide, tree-lined boulevards without much crime and with people going about their lives in their neighbourhoods.

For those who think it's not going to happen locally, it likely already has.

Looks like TX Lege is chipping away at height and view restrictions so UT can build baby build.

New to Lemmy, hoping I can post this here. Reddit mods insisted I needed some apolitical post history before they'd allow me to post political events :/

Rolling format ends as fest adapts to life with no convention center

The vote was 11-0

This has to be the biggest batch of bullshit excuses I have ever heard. Gas, water, and sewer are all buried, but somehow burying electrical is “impossible”.

https://www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2025/03/burying-austins-power-lines-would-cost-50-billion-and-is-pretty-much-impossible/

"Organizers said they were assured by city leaders for months that they would be able to produce the festival "without these impediments." They added that they were ultimately told the bollards would stay intact ... making it impossible to produce without a financial loss."

“One of our employees said she asked for his ID, and he said ‘I’m Dan Patrick.’ And she said, ‘I still need to see your ID."

Happy Cactus for the win

Due to drought.

Solomun Weldekeal Araya is going to rot in Huntsville.

Related:

• NTSB to provide update on Friday morning I-35 crash that killed 5 people — https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/ntsb-to-provide-update-on-friday-morning-i-35-crash-that-killed-5-people/

Let’s hope this shit doesn’t spread any further than Fredericksburg. Area was recently sent a Red Flag Warning — https://member.everbridge.net/892807736729515/weather/xSJJ5P09X

Some fun free or low-cost SXSW shows!

@austin Fediverse House during South by Southwest

https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse-house/

Thought this was interesting. You’d think fare payments would be a solved problem, but somehow Siemens managed to screw it up.

This keeps getting deleted and/or locked in r/austin , and it looks like media is trying to keep this hush. So, I thought I'd put this here for awareness.

There's some organization in r/50501 , but as you might have seen in /c/reddit or other places, we're entering an era of controlled media in the U.S.. So, I don't expect that subreddit to last too long. If it does get banned, I think the fediverse is the best place to mass organize - discord/slack/signal or whatever are probably too obscure to organize large numbers of people.

I can't speak to the merits of this protest (if it will be effective, what it's goal is, etc.), but I thought you should at least know about it.

Just find your store, then search for whatever you can't find. Tells you what they have and what aisle it's on. IT'S AWESOME

@austin

I am looking for a tattoo artist (in Austin, TX, for those seeing this elsewhere than lemmy) to add watercolor-ish wild flowers to my arm. Any recommendations?