Denton TX transit & urbanism.
Denton ZBA Commissioner - All opinions mine
My live tweets of govt meetings are "excellent" per the mayor
@abundanceDenton
Hey everyone, this hellsite has become less and less of a hellhome under Elon Musk. I, along with several other Denton twitter folks, will be migrating to bluesky. I'm dtxtransitposts on bluesky as well. We hope you can join us (we have join codes)!
Hey
@TwitterSafety
, thanks for permanently suspending Kelly Neidert. Since she's not allowed to create any other accounts, can you also perma suspend the organization she founded and tweets for,
@protect_tx_kids
?
Today I got to have a fun conversation with my boss.
I told her that if some of the TX Legislature bills targeting queer people pass, I will likely have to quit my job or flee the state.
She hadn't heard about any of them.
I have seen the same things happening in Texas queer communities, and there is a similar bill in the TX legislature at the moment. Internally displaced queer refugees are becoming more and more common in America.
@genna_buck
@MikeTRose
@EyePatchGuy
no it's ok, he wanted to call me by my deadname so I and an entire chat convinced him my deadname was "Ligma." he believed it for months.
there's also an entire PowerPoint from the college Republicans on why they banned him. truly an outstanding Type of Guy
@genna_buck
@MikeTRose
@EyePatchGuy
his entire argument completely collapses when you realize he's genuinely just an NPC regurgitating his granddad. I went to college with this guy, friends had classes with him, he's pretty incapable of independent thought
Last Saturday, open fascists and alt-right agitators, some carrying a banner with an adapted swastika, brought weapons and cameras and screamed obscenities at activists protecting a children's event in Denton.
@Muhammad_Speaks
lmao, "sorry, this was an automated message sent to all tenants. our mistake, we did not mean to send it to anyone who knows housing law. apologies"
Just Now: After Zera Coffee denied Kelly was having an event at Zera today, Kelly had an event at Zera today.
Activists disrupted the event, pointing out Kelly's habit of collaborating with Nazi and fascist positions.
So Kelly "I'm A Christian Fascist" Neidert, who organized an event last Saturday where a homophobic fascist told us "most of us want you all dead" is organizing a meetup tomorrow at
@ZeraCoffee
. I called to tell them about Kelly. They immediately hung up on me.
Denton Student Housing let a waste problem go completely unaddressed, and now the building has burned down.
1) this is what happens when you block basically any new housing for a decade, there's no competition in the market, landlords get to make more and care less
So Kelly "I'm A Christian Fascist" Neidert, who organized an event last Saturday where a homophobic fascist told us "most of us want you all dead" is organizing a meetup tomorrow at
@ZeraCoffee
. I called to tell them about Kelly. They immediately hung up on me.
"mentally distressed woman" steals 15 rings from local shop. No arrest. No attempt to prosecute. Nobody put in a position of suffering and potentially dying in the county jail. No police report. Woman was placed with mental care. This is community love.
Periodic reminder that YMCA is a song telling gay men who were kicked out of their families that the YMCA offered affordable Single Resident Occupancy units and were relatively queer friendly
Today, on Trans Day of Remembrance, I want to remember my friend, Alex. Alex was gender fluid, and had very religiously conservative parents.
One week we talked, and they said their parents had found out, and they were not doing great.
Then we never talked again.
DENTON IS GETTING A GROCERY STORE NEAR DOWNTOWN. Di Abruzzo Italian Market is opening tomorrow🎉🎉🎉
10am-6PM, M-Saturday, closed sunday.
508 S Elm St Suite 105
this is why the right accuses the left of being in the pocket of the wealthy, being paid protestors, only doing it for the money, having massive budgets, etc. It's because that's how it works for them, and they can't imagine that we actually just care about our issues.
@DaveWRose
@MarisaKabas
@RezaC1
is it the governments responsibility to protect the value of my car by preventing new cars from being sold in my market?
So I spent a chunk of the day riding around town finding every Chris Watts sign I could find, and am, as I write this, going through them finding out who is putting them up on their property (hint: the man is a landlord. He and his buddies own a lot of land. It's mostly theirs)
Hey y'all. DCTA is looking to cut our buses and put in more GoZones. We're trying to tell them to cut back on the GoZones, redo our bus network, and make it better. They're having a public feedback meeting this evening at 6PM at the DCTA Transfer Center at 604 E hickory!!!
Denton may seem like a "good not great" town to you, but have you spent time anywhere else in Texas? Denton's a solid 8/10 compared to the rest of the state
Activists also passed out flyers sharing receipts on Kelly's "I'm a Christian fascist" remarks, her organizations, "we don't have Jew money" remark, and threats made at Kelly's protests - "most of us want to kill all of you."
Hey guys, please. I know I say this a lot. Please vote Briggle, Meltzer, and McGee. the other slate is literally the 2 guys who kicked off the "get rid of the buses" thing and some rando who can't remember what district he's running for. Your vote matters in local elections.
every time I drive through Dallas I can't stop thinking about
1) how miserable and dangerous the highways are
2) how we spent the wealth of a small nation to build them, deliberately bulldozing Black/PoC neighborhoods to do so
3) Texans driving makes up 1/200 of all global CO2
Kelly posted an Instagram post mocking me for being trans and joking about me killing myself. I asked her if she really wanted to go for round two after I thrashed her on twitter, and she immediately blocked me lmaoooooo
fascists are literally the most cowardly people lmao
Can an urban planner explain what's going on here?
It's a 17 lane intersection that only has stop signs. I don't understand how this would function at capacity. who get's priority? imagine the nightmare for pedestrians....
Diet Nazis are mad that I exposed them as such to city council. They are, of course, welcome to show their face and state their legal name for the record before city council and try to pull this "achsually we are just Christian fascists concerned w degeneracy" shtick irl
Heads up, Denton County!
I35E at Brinker Rd. heading Northbound has been shut down to one lane due to an accident.
Expect delays and seek alternate routes!
Image taken at 12:45pm
In case you were ever wondering how much of Downtown Denton is dedicated to cars, here's a rough approximation!
Green = Road
Yellow = On street parking
red = parking lot
I'll redo it later in an actual software so I can give better stats, but here's the gist
We found records indicating that two students (a couple), one UNT, one TWU were hospitalized in a GoZone hit and run on Oct 10. I'd like to get in contact with them, does anyone know them?
UNT students: did you know Denton City council elections are routinely won on margins of a few hundred votes? Did y'all know there are tens of thousands of you?
Want better buses and cheaper rent? Start voting (and organizing if you have the time)
@genna_buck
@MikeTRose
@EyePatchGuy
like, my college Republicans folded when it got leaked that the president had called someone something like (accuracy not guaranteed) "a stupid [n-word] faggot." and this guy still got kicked out of them.
What is your biggest barrier to getting around in Denton with your current mobility methods? (ie, answers other than "lack of car")
For me, it's that most of Denton is a food desert. I cannot easily bike, bus, or walk to a grocery store bc there are 0 nearby.
a general consideration for my young community members tonight: they cannot make a group of people having a party look bad. Enjoy yourselves, don't ruin your night by engaging with them. They are there to provoke you, don't let them.
@genna_buck
@MikeTRose
@EyePatchGuy
his first response was "Ligma, what kind of name is that?"
to which i replied "it's Ukranian"
He proceeded to buy that for months despite like 10 separate people joining the chat, not knowing why he referred to me as ligma, and saying "hah, ligma balls"
Here's a list of fake pregnancy crisis centers that take appointments. If anybody is feeling pregnant, I'd really recommend getting an appointment from them. Maybe all of them! Maybe multiple appointments. Just gotta be sure.
Tomorrow! Come out & join us for Trans Day of Visibility! We have some great speakers joining us at City Hall, including Kristine Bray. Kristine Bray is a Denton transit activist. She live reports City Council, Public Transportation, & School Board Meetings at
@dtxtransitposts
.
Lantana is getting $1.7M in county money to rebuild .9 miles of road. Said road is only 22 years old, it's just too bumpy for the lantana millionaires 😢
Thank you everyone who lives in economically sustainable areas for your contributions to their luxury golf community!
@DentonRC
I have personally found that, when I attempt to "help" someone, and they say it is actually hurting, the best path forward is to stop, not tell them they're wrong.
In case anyone was wanting to buy a house anywhere near UNT, there is a grand total of 1 currently listed on zillow. it's 60 years old, 1600 sq ft, and costs $290k
"but i can see others" those are empty lots going for $400k - $1.1M
We should consider building more housing
I told her that some would come very close to outlawing my existence, and others would make it so I could not continue working in my industry.
She was shocked, then disgusted, and said she would send the concern upwards.
@art_pleb
@Noahpinion
I cannot imagine living a life so deprived of joy or meaning outside of money that I would avoid having kids because of an inheritance tax
Protest truck got its first test at the Corinth show. only two protestors showed up against the show, and they left as soon as the speakers turned on lmao
I'm out and about for my first day in Austin! 🧵
First observation:
Austin has so utterly failed to reform it's zoning to allow for affordable housing that Ohio is taking out ads encouraging people to leave by dunking on Austin
It's sad people had to spend their Saturday morning on this, but remember that Kelly is a professional, paid protestor. Her job is literally to sell bigotry.
LETS GOOOOOO
Vicki Byrd 69% on early voting
Paul Meltzer 57% on early voting
Patsy Sosa-Sanchez 61%
Lori Tays 53% (next closest: Terry Senne, 32%)
ITS NOT OVER YET BUT ITS PRETTY OVER
@EFJBGC
Kelly when people say "my kid wants to read books with gay characters:" "mmm sounds like child abuse to me"
Kelly when she invites people to show up to a family event with weapons: "if you didn't want me to threaten your kids all you had to do was not piss off my fascist friends"
Just drove to Trinity Mills (the end of the A-train line) to take DART to Dallas. Why not take the A-Train?
Well, it only runs till 10PM.
To catch the A-train, id have to leave Dallas around 9PM.
In terms of beloved local businesses that don't exist/don't exist the same way that used to, the shared armadillo/Boca 31 lot has gotta be one of the highest "oofs" per area sections of Denton
Ok, as the newest member of the traffic safety commission, let's talk about how *literally everyone* hates cars. We're gonna talk history, zoning, real estate values, and solutions. First, consider the difference between my girlfriend's "neighborhood street" and one in N Denton
@rnoonrivers
@BikeLaneDiary
say i'm the kind of person who can spend $700k for a condo. Does putting me and 169 other families like me in a condo project built on a few homes, instead of us all buying 170 single family homes, result in better or worse outcomes?
still not over the fact that the 6 mile widening of Bonnie brae cost $837 per resident (not taxpayer! children too!) of Denton. We could've just given out E-bikes to every single person and not had to widen anything. now we have no ebikes and a lotta debt
This morning, one of those alt-right agitators came before city council to spread fear and paranoia about THE PEOPLE PROTECTING A CHILDRENS EVENT. I took the stand to set the record straight.
We're very short staffed, and obviously she also is just concerned for my wellbeing, so telling my boss about the anti-LGBT laws and explaining how it would impact me and our workplace was very eye opening for her.
If your workplace is safe for you, I recommend you start telling people what's going on. People just don't realize the state is trying to outlaw queer existence. And if you're a manager, or business owner, please please please contact your state reps
Personally if I kept getting Nazis showing up to events I threw and wanted them gone, I would seriously question why my activism kept drawing Nazis, or at least yell at them to leave. Weird that she keeps just standing with them instead.
Here's a post from Kelly Neidert, the head of the group that organizes anti-drag protests across Texas who was in Katy yesterday. She calls Aryan Freedom Network and Patriot Front "feds." This is because her protests attract Nazis, and she can't admit they're real. They are.
Denton ISD wants to add a health clinic for kids, partneringwith an established Lewisville based charity and the Denton County Republicans are stirring themselves into a frenzy that it will be a planned Parenthood scheme to support immigrants. Remember to vote in local elections.
today Kelly "I'm a Christian fascist" Neidert told me that PTK has no members other than her, and I think she thought that was a gotcha, but I've sneezed and founded 10 person organizations so I really dunno how she's managed that
little tidbit from Kelly at the DISD school board meeting tonight: her little organization is her full time job, so somebody is funding her. Anybody wanna find out who?
I have seen the same things happening in Texas queer communities, and there is a similar bill in the TX legislature at the moment. Internally displaced queer refugees are becoming more and more common in America.
My friends are making plans to leave this state for their safety. I was advised to make an emergency plan in case I have to as well. This isn't overkill, the legislation that is threatening our lives is. Trans Tennesseans shouldn't have to seek refuge from their own home.
my account growth has stalled out, which i think means i've basically gotten close to 100% exposure for "Dentonites on twitter who care about local politics," which is kinda neat. Stuck around 1.5k followers, and 300k monthly impressions, but still slowly growing
I found one of the guys responsible for the bitcoin mining facility that doubled Denton's energy consumption and the bad news is he's really not that bright
TXDOT is planning to have 22 lanes of HWY through Denton. 22 lanes of noise and pollution, because Texas wants to settle the area north of us. Dallas, Austin, and all existing cities in Texas need to grow smarter, not push growth north, destroy the prairie and demand more highway
I've found my core message. It's simple:
America built it's infrastructure during the greatest period of national wealth ever. We assumed everyone would always be able to afford large homes, lots of land, 3 cars per family. That is no longer true. We need to change course.
It's fucking astounding how fast Denton gets miserable to be in once you step off the square.
Sidewalks? Those are where you put big poles, right?
Crosswalks? Haven't heard of them.
It's all car storage and empty buildings.