David A. Lampen

@davidlampen.bsky.social

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Card-carrying member of The Deep State. For everyone, the law. Ecoregion 65n

About 30 little orange flowers on a Butterfly milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa) in my front yard.
Closeup of a bright yellow Shrubby St John's Wort (Hypericum prolificum) bloom, with dozens of (I think? I'm not a botanist) stamens radiating from its center.
Three pink-orange tubular flowers from my coral honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens). They're peeking up over a mess of Lonicera leaves and unidentified rush/grass blades. Soft-focus wall of townhouses in the background.
My yard's first ever Amsonia tabernaemontana flowers in bloom
An Aquilegia canadensis in profile in the foreground with a single pink and yellow, bell-shaped bloom hanging off the top. It is growing out of a mulch bed. The soft focus background includes shrubby st John's wort and Thermopsis villosa, which are green and new, and cookie-cutter townhome suburbia below a pale blue sky.
A map of Virginia's future electoral districts. Pride flag colors spread south from Arlington, Alexandria and Fairfax to resume the good work of Reconstruction. The words "FAIRFAX WILL CONTROL" are superimposed on West Virginia. This is a promise, though some will take it as a threat.
A candle burning in a jar on a glass table on a porch
A 1988 Filippi Lido 90kg/XL 1X against a floating dock. Hatchet blades with wood handles.
A yellow crowned night heron in front of a glassy pond showing reflections of townhouses. The heron is standing on a wooden post holding up plywood that borders the pond; the far bank has chicken wire below a grassy slope and gravel path.
The "I Want To Believe" poster from the X-Files
Transit app year in transit recap screen Text in upper left quadrant: "2025 YEAR IN TRANSIT I was in the top 1% of GO riders this year" To right of text, a side profile cartoon image of a red F1 car. Below text from left to right, icons for the Red, Yellow, and Green lines
A white Waymo SUV infesting an EV charger in a parking lot
Text from the article linked in the repost. Highlighted portion: "MPD will maintain the discretion on whether a tow is warranted. “If you have an ‘I Love Knitting’ decal on the back of your car, you might slide the first time,” said Spiker."
A Canada Dry Ginger Ale delivery truck is parked blocking both a bike lane and a crosswalk. A cyclist pedals in the center of the roadway to pass the truck.
The USPS flag flies upside down at full mast in front of the USPS Headquarters building, seen from street level in L'Enfant Plaza, Washington, DC.
The final page of my 2024 Metro Rewind, showing my stats and rider archetype. I was a top 23% customer, top 13% rail, top 70% bus. I took 88 trips for 873 miles and 269kg of CO2 emissions prevented. I visited 13 stations. C4 was my top bus route. My archetype is 9-5er.