One of the things I miss about Facebook is the group "Bikes Leaning Against Things". Here's a classic candidate, taken by my son on a spring ride in the Texas hill country around Austin. #ATX #Cycling #Photography
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Park Horizon • Austin, Texas, USA
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"Women in the Mix" Recording Academy talk featuring the amazing recording & mixing engineer Trina Shoemaker, at Arlyn Studios ATX, SXSW 3/9/25 #sxsw #atx #austin #music #recordingacademy #recording #mixing #studios #audio #grammys
This is the time of year I miss living in #Texas #ATX. Reminiscing on my favorite season there and the greatest treasure of all: #LadyBirdJohnsonWildflowerCenter
Spring flowers in Texas - some past March pics #bloomscrolling
Timothy, Exterior Manager • Austin, Texas, USA
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The Wait • Austin, Texas, USA
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Speakermobile • Austin, Texas, USA
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Time for some photo dumps from SXSW - first one:
Jessica Simpson at the Grammy Block Party, at the Four Seasons in downtown Austin, March 12, 2025. Her first live music performance in 15 years, and she and her band actually sounded great, well above any of my expectations. #sxsw #recordingacademy #music #austin #atx #jessicasimpson
more photos at:
https://diasporasocial.net/posts/7ae99e10e27b013d71e20a04ffb1b246
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>Heyman was due at an Austin City Hall meeting about the HOME initiative. Officers did not detain him that day, even as they arrested students and piled them into police vans for transport to jail. The campus overflowed with outrage. Dozens of young people blocked the vans from leaving, until police deployed flashbangs and pepper spray to clear their path.
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>Heyman said he planned on filing a complaint against the officer. More than a week later, several police vehicles surrounded him while he was driving near his home. Troopers took him into custody; Heyman spent the day in Travis County Jail.
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>“When I got home later that night and checked my email,” he said, “that was when I learned that I had also been fired that same day.”
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>UT officials declined my request for comment.
We call this "collaboration." UT Austin collaborated with APD in firing a professor.
Engine 13 • Austin, Texas, USA
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>Panelist Felicity Maxwell, executive director of Texans for Housing, said officials across Texas and at the state level are looking at how to emulate some of Austin’s recent actions related to zoning, including the Affordability Unlocked initiative, which was intended to remove many of the bureaucratic steps that made affordable housing too expensive to pursue profitably.
Affordability and profitability are in opposition to one another. You cannot have both.
Austin Monitor · Housing panelists examine what's worked in Austin, and across Texas - Austin MonitorAt a South by Southwest panel discussion last week on housing policies in Texas, City Council Member Natasha Harper-Madison shared possible new components of the “agrihood” housing-plus-agriculture approach she championed last year. While sharing her views on steps the city…
In 1989 the walk up price for an all inclusive pass to the 3rd SXSW was $10 ($25 inflation adjusted to today). For 2025 it's $2295. #sxsw #austin #atx #tech #music #conventions #inflation #corporategreed
Parked • Austin, Texas, USA
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In town for #SXSW and want to come back to Austin? Don't miss the #PyTexas Conference April 11 - 13. Join us for three days of #Python programming, networking, and more!
Find out more @ https://pytexas.org/2025
The Many Hands of Govalle • Austin, Texas, USA
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Was most excellent getting to meet and hear Evan Prodromou, the main brain & big kahuna behind the team that brought us the Activity Pub protocol, at the Fediverse House talks yesterday at the Speakeasy for SXSW. Always great to see that a dev doing excellent work is also a truly cool person too. @evan #sxsw #austin #activitypub #fediverse #foss #tech #irl #meetups #atx #socialmedia
1941 Packard One-Sixty • Austin, Texas, USA
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I'm super happy that tech folks now have a regular convention here in ATX, but I need to note that the "topics" for SXSW in past decades used to be just "music" each & every year. Now the music part has atrophied towards just a footnote relative to the tech, cinema, comedy & education parts. I accept that the only constant is change, but I'd also love if some folks that are visiting here for SXSW could still support some of the "Live Music Capital" vibes. #sxsw #tech #austin #music #atx #ai
Does #FediverseHouse sound interesting? At least a little bit. The "A Better Web Is Possible" talk by Molly ( @molly0xfff ) sounds interesting at least, though it's a shame that only fifteen minutes appear to be allocated to it. Kit O'Connell ( @oconnell ) is part of a talk titled "Publishers: Audience and Autonomy" that also sounds interesting. On the other hand, you've got folks from Threads and Bluesky acting as a bright blinking "CAUTION" sign.
Do I live close enough to Austin to be there in-person? I suppose. It's a three to four hour drive from Fort Worth.
On the other hand, it all feels very, very corporate. Very bourgy, networky, startupy. And all in the worst ways. Corporations hawking their walled gardens^W^W bespoke, artisanal feeds with only the best free-range, organic advertisements sprinkled in (sparingly, of course). The general strategy seems to be "see all of the fediverse through our app," a blatant and bold Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish play if ever there were one, only this time, sold as an act of "unifying" the oPeN SOciAl WeB.
Maybe I'll be there. Maybe I won't.