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Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Kitten update: She's getting big! And apparently this is a comfortable way to sleep?

Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My seventh grader joined the school softball team this year, having never played before. Girls' sports have been mostly left alone by private equity so far and it shows. It's sad that this is denied to boys, but I'm enjoying watching her progress. Making contact on her first batting cage trip!

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Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm wary of politicians telling people that we can solve problems by taxing Other People. I'd like to see this framed as an issue of fairness: We're good at taxing labor income. But through an array of tax breaks, we don't tax income from wealth and pass-through income as much. We should fix that.

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Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Shoutout to Andrew Beaton (author of the piece) or whoever at @wsj.com had fun with the graph titles in this article about Travis Kelce.

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Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If I can find a good donut place while traveling, I make a point of buying some to bring back for my family. ChuChu Donuts were definitely worth the effort to transport back from Des Moines (and walking a mile out of my way early in the morning).

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Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The interior was just as ornate, and they let visitors wander around much of it when nothing is going on.

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Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I was not expecting the Iowa State Capitol to go this hard.

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Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The view of Chicago when coming into O'Hare still impressed me too, even through a cloudy window.

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Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I've lived in the DC area for over 15 years, but I still snap pictures of the view of the Potomac when my Metro train pops over the bridge on the way to National.

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Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It was a lovely day to meet this turtle in Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens.

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Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It was a beautiful day for a ride on the MBT.

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Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Looking up tour dates for my favorite Sardinian stoner-rock band (Elepharmers), I saw that they're playing this festival in Sardinia. I certainly wouldn't have expected to see Beth Orton listed, but this honestly sounds like a great festival lineup.

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Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Sometimes when someone gives a tool a name they find clever or funny, it can eventually end up just looking really dumb when use if the tool expands to other groups. Like, say, this:

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Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The Metro pop-up store has some nice Metro-themed merchandise, and also a lot of stuff for a dorm room (I guess?).

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Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We adopted an orphaned kitten that has been (after only a few days) playing well with the resident almost-one-year-old cat, and now my photo roll mainly looks like this.

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Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I've seen this graph before, but I still can't quite wrap my head around it being accurate. The bump around 2007 makes sense (around the time of a mandate to have passports to travel to more nearby countries), but I think what breaks my brain is the overall linear trend back to a 3% level in 1989.

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Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Not having many pictures of myself or any experience with dating apps, I used this picture and met the woman who is now my wife. I knew that things would work out eventually, but couldn't have imagined everything that would happen in four years. My daughter and I saw Taylor Swift in Amsterdam!

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Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

A milestone birthday today has me thinking about four years ago, when I traveled to NYC and first told a friend that after a year in therapy on my own, I knew I would be getting a divorce. I had no idea how hard things would be or how great they would then get, but his girlfriend took this picture.

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Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

My then-girlfriend found these great collapsible bike helmets for us to use while riding Bixi bikes two years ago, so obviously I needed to marry her.

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Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I'm getting excited about going to Montreal in a week and a half and went ahead and got my monthly Bixi membership (under $20 USD). That station density is just so beautiful.

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Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

She may not be a tiny kitten any more, but she's still an awfully adorable lap cat.

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Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I certainly didn't expect @dropout.tv to start streaming the works of Don Hertzfeldt, but I'm very excited to revisit some of these incredible films and watch the few I haven't seen before! I'll be starting with the incredible "The Meaning of Life."

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Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

It's been the same story in far too many U.S. cities: entrenched homeowners think they should be able to keep out all new housing. They're often willing to spend huge sums on lawyers to file lawsuits to get their way. I'm glad this is finally being recognized as generational warfare.

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Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Meanwhile, my nine year old is having a great time at Durham Bulls baseball camp, pitching with AAA relievers and attempting to hit scrimmage tosses from the outfield over the left field wall.

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Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It was just my 12 year old and me tonight, so we got Ethiopian takeout and I introduced her to Game Changer and Make Some Noise. It was a good night.

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Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

In the past year, I've requested a lot of records from state and local governments. I was most impressed by the Dauphin County Register of Wills, who not only implemented a great online system to request a certified copy of the record I needed, but put her name on the envelope it came in.

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Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

"Trains operating every six minutes" means a ten-minute gap between trains on the Red line at rush hour, apparently. (The middle train was later removed from the board)

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Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Visibility is not great in the DC area.

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Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Visibility is not great in the DC area.

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Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

This is Cocoa. The wildfire smoke was irritating her eyes so much that she now has to wear these goggles on her walks.

Small dog wearing pink goggles due to the wildfire smoke in the DC area.

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Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I'm flying back to DC today, and there's just a bit of smoke.

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Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I feel like this is the most Cambridge thing I can do while in the area. I hope Larry Summers attends!

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Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I rode the C line in Brookline many years ago and didn't fully appreciate at the time how rare such trolley lines are in the U.S. I rode it again tonight and yes, it was annoyingly infrequent. But it's an awfully nice line to ride when you're in no particular rush.

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Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The maintenance guy also thought I was an idiot, and that obviously I should have just used a coin to turn this and unlock the door.

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Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

We finally have a resolution! It is an oddly narrow door into the bathroom (possibly due to a renovation?). It also has the brilliant design decision that the door handle hits the bumper thing on the wall in such a way that it locks the door.

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Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

"Every room here has a bathroom," the front desk person replied. "There should be a door either to the left or the right after you walk in." I noted that there are two doors when I walk in. One goes to a closet. The other is locked.

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Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The kitten has grown up quite a bit, but she's still so cute.

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Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I got @justupthepike.bsky.social to join me for a Pedro the Lion show at a distillery in Beltsville last night, which was great. They played Yellow Bike (also seen in the concert poster), which my wife put on the first playlist she ever made for me. I mostly kept it together!

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Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Someone has erected significant fencing with gates at the two pedestrian entrances to the Reflecting Pool from the east, but it's hard to tell if this is intended to limit access to the Pool or the Mall. I think it's underreported that much of the National Mall has been blocked off for weeks.

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Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I'm no expert on this but it looks like the blue paint has worn off at what are potentially seams, where heavy hoses used for algae treatment may have rubbed it, and where the chemicals used for treatment may have impacted it.

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Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Contrary to some posts I've seen, the Reflecting Pool is not blocked off from view or pedestrian access. The water is somewhat clearer than last week, though there remain significant green patches (and treatment continues) Most strikingly, the blue paint has worn off in multiple places.

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