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Mateo

@mateooo.bsky.social
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Civic technologist, musician & aspiring adobero. NM | TX . Here for 🌎 climate action, 🏛️ public interest tech, 🧱 earthen building + architecture, ⚽ fútbol y más.

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Ben Rollman @bensbrickdesigns.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
#austinfc
La Murga de Austin statement about the Austin FC walkout.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The "hydration break" really is a perfect American capitalist innovation: a nakedly commercial play to insert more ad revenue into a game that doesn't have ads anywhere else in the world, all under the guise of some humanitarian interest in the players' wellbeing.
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Charlie Henry @modalshift.co · 04/03/2026
This was a lot of fun to deploy last night with plenty of bugs left to fix. My ETL to grab data from the SoS website was pretty reliable though! texas-election-board.onrender.com
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Los Verdes @losverdesatx.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
ᴏᴜʀ 𝟤𝟢𝟤𝟨 ꜱᴇᴀꜱᴏɴ ᴏᴘᴇɴᴇʀ ᴛɪꜰᴏ ꜰᴏʀ ʙʟᴀᴄᴋ ʜɪꜱᴛᴏʀʏ ᴍᴏɴᴛʜ Honoring the legacy of the Black cowboy as told by the Black Cowboy Museum in Rosenberg, Texas. Learn more and join us in raising funds for the museum: www.losverdesatx.org/blog/2026-se... 📷 1: @zachlyons.com; 2: Katie Ensign
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Matthew Doyle @mattdoyle.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
ZORHAN IS ONLY PLOWING THE BIKE LANES!!!!
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Austin Road Conditions 🤖 @atx-road-condition.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
POOR roadway grip reported at: Lakeline Boulevard at US-183, was previously FAIR. Current roadway condition is: ice.
screenshot from a traffic camera nearby
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Los Verdes @losverdesatx.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Just to reiterate
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
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Mateo @mateooo.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
With a big Arctic cold front aiming for #Austin this weekend, I recommend following this account and checking updates before you hit the road. Great work @modalshift.co! 🥶
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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 23/12/2025
Imagine if serving in government was as prestigious as landing a job at Google. In Finland and Singapore, it basically is. Public service is seen as a privilege, a place where the most ambitious people go to solve the biggest problems. That’s the culture we should be striving for.
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Andrew Rumbach @andrewrumbach.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
This is the conclusion that I hope we will draw from the Zillow drama... that we need a gold-standard national data source for property-level risk to climate hazards that is transparent, accessible, and legally defensible. Private companies can help build it but the public needs to own it.
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Zillow’s climate risk reversal looks like a setback. It’s really a wake‑up call.
When private models sow confusion, it’s a flashing warning sign that Washington needs to fix federal flood maps,
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Mateo @mateooo.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
I’m proud to have worked on this initiative from the data and software side. 🦇💚
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Charlie Henry @modalshift.co · 30/10/2025
Day 10, only 2 more days left! modalshift.co/nov-25-election
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
New Mexico's economy is a fraction of the size of New York City's. If they can enact universal childcare — and relieve working families of a crushing cost burden — surely we can too. It's just a question of political will.
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New Mexico will be the first state to make child care free
The program, which is expected to save families $12,000 per child annually, is available to all residents regardless of income.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13/09/2025
Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.
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Taylor Barnett-Torabi @taylorbar.net · 06/07/2025
please, please dive deeper than NWS/NOAA budget was deeply cut so that’s why what happened in Texas happened. go a layer deeper like: theeyewall.com/chantal-make...
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Chantal makes landfall near Myrtle Beach and now moving inland as a rainmaker
In brief: After yesterday’s post on Texas, we wanted to raise a couple additional points after some reactions. Plus, TS Chantal made landfall near Myrtle Beach and is now a flooding threat fo…
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God @thegodshow.com · 07/06/2025
Welcome to America, where protesting illegal kidnappings without due process is an insurrection, but attacking the nation’s Capitol is not.
protesters surround federal detention center in Los Angeles
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Chris Given @cmgiven.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Direct File is now open source. Finally. A short, personal post about why: chrisgiven.com/2025/05/dire... Massive kudos to the Direct File team for pulling this off and showing their commitment to transparency and earning trust.
chrisgiven.com
Direct File on GitHub
Personal blog of Chris Given, government technologist. These words are always written by a human; I have no one to blame but myself.
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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
NEW: As ICE's raids stoke fear, La Brigada De Oro has paused its Nashville SC matchday involvement. Co-founder Abel Acosta spoke about a harrowing reality. “Our community is being terrorized right now. It’s in shambles. ... we’re being hunted. That’s how we feel.” www.nytimes.com/athletic/634...
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‘We’re being hunted. That’s how we feel.’ ICE activity puts an MLS fan group on pause
For members of Nashville SC's Latin American supporter group, there's a fear of attending games amid local immigration-related raids
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 05/04/2025
It's like they're speedrunning all the mistakes civic tech learned over the past 25 years.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Casar: You can quickly explain Doge with just two numbers. First: $8 million a day. That’s how much Elon Musk collects in federal government contracts. Second: $65 a day. That’s how much the average senior—someone who has worked their entire life—gets from Social Security.…
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 18/03/2025
Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.
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Elon Musk’s Starlink Expands Across White House Complex
Trump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted by the lawyer overseeing ethics issues in the White House Counsel’s Office.
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🎃 Loch Jessi Monster 🎃 @jessimurray.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
The literal opposite of the goals of civic tech
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 02/03/2025
You should know that a big part of 18F's work was to make sure multi-million to multi-*hundreds*-of-millions dollar contracts at fed *and* state level didn't go to shitty enterprise IT consultancies that *repeatedly* delivered tech that didn't work, was late, or didn't even do what it needed to
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Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org
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We're not done yet | 18F
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company. It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create. They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms. I’m happy to invest and/or help
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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 26/02/2025
Hello! I used my esoteric knowledge gleaned from my DC years to write about how Congress could EASILY defund DOGE: www.techpolicy.press/how-congress...
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How Congress Can Delete DOGE | TechPolicy.Press
Rebecca Williams explores how DOGE’s budget can be restricted—if Congress decides to act.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 23/02/2025
Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns. 100% of his salary is paid by WA state. Elon fired him. Share his story.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
New, at Can We Still Govern: Rachael worked as a govt technologist, specializing in trauma-informed design of public services. Then the Trump admin promised to put her and other public employees "in trauma." She explains what this means. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-weapon...
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The Weaponization of Trauma
The human toll being being paid by public employees
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Please stop saying it saved money until you understand the value of what was cut. They are downsizing, and if the stuff getting cut had real value, its not a saving.
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Allison Good @allisonwgood.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Hearing DOGE is cutting off access to EIA and NREL datasets 🔌💡
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
@wired.com: “6 young men—all apparently between the ages of 19 and 24 who have little to no government experience are now playing critical roles in Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)” & are heading up Musk’s hostile takeover of our government www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover
Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 31/01/2025
Washington is full of rule-following valedictorians who were inspired by the West Wing and did Model UN and moot court and studied their heroes and who believe in using government to help people. That's nice, but you need to learn how to swing on the illiterate bullies who steal lunch money.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
If you are a federal worker being offered a buyout, I would advise against taking it. Of course, this is a personal decision for everyone and it’s your choice. But these offers are a rush job. The legality is questionable and this admin does not keep to its word. They aren’t firing for a reason.
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The Cooligans @soccercooligans.com · 14/01/2025
Bad Bunny was performing in the subway a few blocks away from our studio, but we felt is was more important to discuss why Sebastian Driussi didn’t report for his Austin FC medical evaluation over the life-changing experience of watching Benito sing to us at the Rockefeller subway stop. #Dedication
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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
2024 was the most extreme year on record for the contiguous U.S., measured by NOAA's Climate Extremes Index. This measures the fraction of the country experiencing various extremes, e.g. below or much above average temps, drought, hurricanes, % of precipitation falling in extreme one-day events.
Climate Extremes Index for the Continuous U.S.
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Nathan Bernier @kutnathan.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
BREAKING: The curtain is finally lifting on Austin's long-planned light-rail system. ATP just released a detailed report on the planned 9.8-mile route. The Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) will be open to comment for 60 days. atptx.org/milestones/a... Story coming..
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Austin Light Rail Progress Update - Austin Transit Partnership
What is the DEIS? It stands for Draft Environmental Impact Statement and it’s a report required for all federally funded infrastructure projects that outlines the potential environmental benefits and ...
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Anthony Iannaccio @mrtonynacho.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Mister Rogers never misses
You know, your own imagination is far more wonderful 

Mister Rogers’ NeighborhoodThan any computer could ever be. You know why?

Mister Rogers’ NeighborhoodYou’re a living human being. And a computer is just a machine.

Mister Rogers’ NeighborhoodHuman beings are far more wonderful than machines.

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
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Denver Bicycle Lobby @denverbicyclelobby.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Take the Sheridan Blvd safety survey to tell planners where there are safety issues for walking or biking along the corridor: engage.drcog.org/sheridansafety
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Sheridan Corridor Safety Study
Through the Sheridan Corridor Safety Study DRCOG seeks to address serious and fatal crashes along Sheridan Boulevard and make it safe for all users.
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Mateo @mateooo.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
It's been another year chasing the ghosts of adobe past, present, and future. I feel grateful for all the sunny days I spent feeling the textures of earth and channeling relationships with ancestors and the living. 🧱 🌞 🤎 #earthenarchitecture #adobebrick #earthbuilder
Guy in front of Ron Rael's 3D-printed-adobe installation in Center, COGuy in front of a new mexico mural Shadow of a guy at Fort Garland Museum in Southern CO
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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Rest in peace to Jimmy Carter, friend of affordable housing.
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Mateo @mateooo.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
More passenger rail adventures on @amtrak.com. This time up to the mountains! 🎿 🚞 #WinterParkExpress
Two dude up way too early in the morning but excited to ride the train at Denver Union StationMustached dude chonking the duece on the train looking east at sunrise Bearded dude with a cup of coffee looking out the window of a trainTwo dude on the platform at Winter Park station, geared up and ready to ski. Thanks Amtrak!
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Mateo @mateooo.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Show me your pet and what they were named after
Lupe the catThe Guadalupe River
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Mateo @mateooo.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I found the new Gregg Popovich mural in the #SanAntonio Five Points neighborhood and was reminded of the philosophy behind #Spurs culture. Find inspiration and POUND THE ROCK!
Mural of Gregg Popovich in San AntonioWhen nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
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Mateo @mateooo.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Woke up early to watch the sunrise from a choo choo train. SAT -> AUS #Amtrak
Passenger train next to the Alamodome at dusk
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Mateo @mateooo.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Solid op-ed in #Denver @westword.com recapping the W 29th Ave bikeline debate. Mayor Johnston and Transpo Director Ford needlessly compromising and giving up an own goal against their campaign promises and stated priorities. www.westword.com/news/opinion...
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Opinion: Denver Needs to Commit to Building Safe Bike Lanes
The city promised to create a protected bike lane along West 29th Avenue. Then plans changed...
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Denver Bicycle Lobby @denverbicyclelobby.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
“Engaging in minute litigation over every block ultimately privileges the wealthy and connected. We must not allow a handful of these residents to override infrastructure improvements that affect the health, safety, climate and quality of life of the entire city.” www.westword.com/news/opinion...
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Opinion: Denver Needs to Commit to Building Safe Bike Lanes
The city promised to create a protected bike lane along West 29th Avenue. Then plans changed...
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