Steven L. Johnson (he/him)
@StevenLJohnson
Followers
4,481
Following
2,334
Media
1,881
Statuses
17,467
Co-curator, @freeartgallery 🖌️🖼️ YIMBY Co-chair, @livablecville 🏘️ 🚲🚶🏽🧑🏽🦽🌎 Admin: @steven @cville .online Mastodon server 🐘
Charlottesville, VA
Joined October 2008
Don't wanna be here?
Send us removal request.
Explore trending content on Musk Viewer
#Mchoice2024
• 1880144 Tweets
#MintAwards2024
• 1342449 Tweets
Call me
• 120699 Tweets
MCHOICE X ML
• 110205 Tweets
#ホロ0期生ライブ2024
• 102715 Tweets
#liSTeningPARTY
• 91804 Tweets
SING ALONG WITH YOKO
• 89204 Tweets
#Venue101
• 87875 Tweets
#ZMZMINZM
• 29586 Tweets
#SixTONESANN
• 28736 Tweets
BILLYBABE AT PRAEW2024
• 28675 Tweets
#青島くんはいじわる
• 23570 Tweets
リスアニ
• 23382 Tweets
ビッグラン
• 21854 Tweets
結束バンド
• 21604 Tweets
ライブ映像
• 21594 Tweets
最高のライブ
• 19373 Tweets
デスゲーム
• 18493 Tweets
Twitter調子
• 17233 Tweets
HALF TIME
• 17205 Tweets
紫耀くん
• 14460 Tweets
Hysteria
• 13597 Tweets
東海道南方沖
• 12555 Tweets
YEONJUN IS LOADING
• 11138 Tweets
コロンブス
• 10778 Tweets
アクキヨ
• 10170 Tweets
Pinned Tweet
I’m on the return portion of my more sustainable climate-friendlier travel for AOM 2024 conference. This is my second year in a row of a train and walking trip only—no cars, no planes.
I left my home in Charlottesville, Virginia, this afternoon to attend the Academy of Management conference in Chicago.
#AOM2024
4
2
63
5
0
41
@DrWesBellamy
I greatly appreciate your willingness to share these experiences—I’ve learned a lot about ugly things I’m not in a position to see or experience. Thank you for your forthright expression
3
5
281
There are always plenty of creative alternatives to escalating a situation with police violence. It's an indictment of UVa administration that no alternatives were ever attempted to meaningfully engage with our students
When you ESCALATE a situation from Tents to Rifles you’ve lost every potential for good.
The 20 students in tents could’ve been met w/ 20 Administrators who took a blanket & sat down on the grass days ago to simply listen instead of deciding to send 200 police officers w/ guns.
289
273
1K
9
61
274
Big opportunity for UVA to articulate the difference between racism, being race-blind, and anti-racism. I hope leadership rises to that challenge
The media coverage of this is an absolute clusterfuck.
@UVA
needs a strong statement supporting the student & the MSC. Now.
8
8
116
6
40
264
Crypto is an extractive technology hiding behind emancipatory rhetoric
Exporting pyramid schemes disguised as currencies to under-banked countries isn't liberation, it's predation and plunder. Full stop.
7
103
635
4
60
263
@RealJakeWiener
@equalityAlec
Having looked into the budget info that CPD has provided in past years via FOIA, I think it's mostly: "unable to provide an itemized budget." They've never had to justify their budget, so they just don't bother collecting data necessary to provide any meaningful details
2
21
260
@AstroKatie
We never tried a containment strategy in the US. Then, as soon as it was evident that deaths are concentrated among the less fortunate and the stock market is doing OK, patience for staying-at-home and urgency to help others dissipated
1
18
219
Fellow Virginians, if you haven’t downloaded the COVIDWISE app yet, please do so. The more people who install it, the better it works to keep us all safe. Best of all, the app is privacy protecting and battery friendly.
46
97
209
@girlziplocked
Do you think that arranged marriages—despite their many limitations, incl. their own trauma—might make a comeback to avoid modern dating trauma?
20
5
198
My mother passed away peacefully yesterday at the age of 85, surrounded by loving family members in her home. She lived a full life raising 3 kids, living on 3 continents, and travelling all over the world. Since retiring in 1999, she made 100s of quilts. I will miss her dearly❤️
60
1
186
A big reason traffic is bad in Cville is many people who work & shop here live elsewhere. Allowing higher density housing means more people can live where they want: close to work, schools, and shopping.
Shorter commutes for more residents = less traffic for us all
6
16
120
How many of the neighborhoods surroundings our schools are affordable for the average family, staff member, or teacher? Charlottesville should give landowners flexibility to build multi-unit dwellings in places, like near schools, where people want to live.
The Charlottesville zoning code bans density around many schools in the city. Seems inefficient to me!
1
9
66
1
17
101
Today I’m feeling grateful for in-home hospice helping my mother as peacefully as possible spend her remaining days in an apartment that has brought her joy for several years
12
0
103
Two professional announcements to share today:
— after an atypically long journey, I've been granted tenure, and
— I am now serving as Area Coordinator for my academic area (Information Technology) at the School of Commerce
23
1
99
Here's a basic question about the rapid escalation of UVA response to a small number of student protests: why was the chief of police assigned as the key person for in-person resolution of a policy-centered dispute between students and administration?
1
14
95
@TaisonBell
There's a rather perverse form of cognitive dissonance to embrace all other evidence-based medical interventions *except* a vax that protects from this really well documented global pandemic
1
3
94
Many communities are shaped by collective trauma. UVa/Cville have had many—with a notable series in the last 15 years. Today is yet another one where the local and the global intersect, with loud echos of the summer of hate that culminated in A11/12
4
11
93
@RealJakeWiener
@equalityAlec
More specifically, there's a huge category for salaries (and overtime) with no details on how cops spend their time. This means it is also impossible to have a meaningful conversation about true staffing needs
4
5
89
And, not just UVA! If you work in a college or university in Virginia and are paid by the state of Virginia, join our union
Shout-out to Ryan, Baucom, Longo, and the whole UVA admin for creating the conditions (pissing off so many people by calling in the cops) for the largest union
@UCWVAUVA
meeting I’ve ever been to. If you draw a paycheck from UVA, join us!
2
24
112
1
25
86
If no one is happy with your decision, it's 100x more likely that you've reached a horrible decision than it is you've found some mythical ideal compromise
3
12
84
@joshtpm
I expect him to show but ignore as many of the rules as he possibly can while claiming that Biden is breaking those same rules. For example, what are the penalties for getting ad-break advice from staff? Some people test every rule and dare you to enforce them
1
2
79
The city of Charlottesville has a decision: will we use our limited capital budget to fund pre-K to 12 public education or will we squander that money on luxury truck storage?
Society benefits far more from daycare for kids than daycare for cars.
1
9
81
This, a thousand, thousand times over. "Any application that could be done on a blockchain could be better done on a centralized database. Except crime." 👇🏽👇🏼👇🏾
Another essay in which I summarize my thoughts on empty appeals lobbyists make to the so-called "technical innovation" of crypto asset schemes, and why it’s all illusory.
The Handwavy Technobabble Nothingburger of Crypto
6
90
312
5
32
80
Okay,
@GovernorVA
this would be a good time to save some lives by issuing a statewide stay at home order
Let me build this out a little more. The below doesn't quite convey just how alarming the case trajectories are in the US.
We are in really, really bad shape, and getting worse.
12
173
283
1
16
74
Reminder: cryptocurrency repeatedly fails at fulfilling basic requirements of a currency as a store of value or a means of exchange
You can't build an alternative financial system on top of something that can't fulfill the function of money. Wishful libertarian magical thinking does not a currency make. That's basically my entire argument here put simply.
10
32
166
3
8
77
We keep each other safe. Please join me in providing financial support to the Blue Ridge Community Bail Fund
We are an
#abolitionist
, revolving bail fund located in the Shenandoah Valley. Please reach out to us if you or anyone you know needs help posting bail! And if you would like to contribute towards the funds we use to post bail, please donate here:
0
8
7
7
45
76
Cville peeps: if you don't subscribe to the Daily Progress, you should. As an example, today's electronic edition has 3 consequential local stories on the front page. Local news is essential for accountability for local institutions
5
9
73
Our neighborhood art gallery is now officially open. free art - take something or leave something or just enjoy viewing it. In Fifeville, near hospital (DM me for address)
4
6
76
2
6
73
This is a stunning statistic from the University-Community Working Group report: "Charlottesville is one of the most difficult places in the country for a person to climb the income ladder, ranking near the very bottom (3rd percentile) of localities in America."
2
23
71
Net it all out, bringing students back for classes accelerated the spread of COVID among the UVA student population (as well as the local community).
Pre-arrival only 1 in 280 students were infected.
Since return, we are already up to 1 in 66.
2
20
69
@jbouie
Direct health risk for us, too. When Lynchburg & Roanoke hospitals get overrun, guess where those folks will be heading next? Yep, Charlottesville and Richmond.
1
6
68
UVA reports 72 cases m/t/w this week w/ who knows how many more unreported positive at-home tests. 10-30% of cases will experience long-COVID symptoms. Yet, there's very little indoor masking happening on grounds right now. Help this make sense... are people just in denial?
9
16
63
Good morning from Cville. May your day be full of joy
1
2
61
This is one of those times when "news is the first rough draft of history" rings true. An excellent job by
@rmest0
of condensing a complex sequence of events into a newsprint length article
3
13
58
Got one this morning. Photo is from 10:30ish, cop confirmed the truck had hit the bridge.
@TravisKoshko
I’m starving… no metal meals in over six months!
1
2
32
3
2
60
It’s been over 7 months since my mom died. Grieving is such an odd journey. No clear beginning, middle, or whatever comes after that (I’m not there yet). Just gentle waves and loud echoes and an occasional lightening bolt out of seemingly nowhere.
11
1
60
It is a great honor for our “echo chambers” paper to be picked
@MISQuarterly
best 2020 paper & by
@AISConnect
senior scholars as a 2020 best paper winner
#ICIS2021
. Thank you to my great co-authors and colleagues who helped make this possible
@BKitchensUVa
@peterhgray
10
0
59
Good morning from Cville & a special good morning to those in the hospital and everyone caring for them
0
0
54
Thinking about how this is the 2nd mother's day since my mother died. I miss my mom—the longest, closest relationship of my life. The many feelings are too complex for a tweet. My heart goes out to everyone else with not-so-straightforward feelings today
It’s been over 7 months since my mom died. Grieving is such an odd journey. No clear beginning, middle, or whatever comes after that (I’m not there yet). Just gentle waves and loud echoes and an occasional lightening bolt out of seemingly nowhere.
11
1
60
4
1
56
In a move that was either *absolutely* brilliant or *incredibly* stupid, I got a bivalent COVID booster, an annual flu shot, and a 2nd dose of a Shingles vaccine all in one sitting today. I'll find out the verdict tomorrow
24
1
56
Well done by our colleagues over in the history department. I agree with their statement
Members of the History faculty
@UVA
condemn yesterday's police action and demand an honest explanation from the university. Proud to co-sign this open letter with 34 colleagues and counting.
187
375
1K
1
4
55
Peter Pan syndrome is a great term for the Cville NIMBY anti-more-affordable-housing crowd. Thank you
@IDoTheThinking
1
9
55
@dieworkwear
Someone needs to make a GIF of the last second of that clip — that hand gesture and facial expression says so much!
4
0
52
Reminder to my friends, both local and afar—and for myself, really—it’s okay to not be okay
2
1
49
Charlottesville is near the end of a multi-year process to update it's outdated zoning code. Zoning may seem boring, but it's really important. Historically—and in the present day—exclusionary zoning is one of the most potent forms of structural racism.
1
12
50
From an impressive list of recent
@LegalAidJustice
efforts: "In the year after UVA Health implemented new medical billing practices that we worked to improve, it collected only $34,000 in judgments against their patients. That’s down from over $7 million the year before!"
3
5
48
@Eugene_Scott
@UndeNIYAble
And, her comment along the lines that Duke would've been upset if he hadn't gone there only reinforces the point of the article being discussed
1
2
45
It's a reminder of how bad the bike infrastructure is in Cville and how dangerous humans driving cars are to humans walking, biking, and scootering along West Main street.
4
3
48
We really need to talk more about how "Bitcoin is deeply colonial, deeply extractive, and deeply damaging to the environment and marginalized people around the world."
Bitcoin is neither emancipatory nor liberating—it is exacerbating climate change and racial inequality.
Bitcoin is now worth $50,000 — and it's ruining the planet faster than ever.
My latest run through Bitcoin's eye-watering experiment into making the climate emergency worse:
41
313
703
2
19
43
Yay! Another small step towards a safer 5th Street. A pedestrian crossing with refuge at intersection with Ridge
2
4
47
Wishing the very happiest of birthdays to concerned local dad
@mtgillikin
. His public-spirited engagement and dedication to making Cville a better place for us all is truly inspiring. Join me in celebrating his birthday by making a donation to your favorite local charity
2
0
47
I've seen enough. I'm calling Charlottesville City Council race for Natalie E. Oschrin, Michael K. Payne, and J. Lloyd Snook, III. Congrats to
@Nat4Cville
@MPayneCville
@SnookLloyd
!
4
4
45
Happy Friday from Cville! Quite the sunrise this morning.
3
1
44
So, UVA is going to help make sure that at least 2,000 new homes are built nearby for those new employees to live in, right? Right? RIGHT?
Today was the groundbreaking for the Paul and Diane Manning Institute of Biotechnology at the University of Virginia. This first-of-its-kind translational research center will be a game-changer for health care in Virginia and beyond.
1
6
75
4
9
44
Will this be the year this sidewalk gap in Fifeville—between the city’s middle school and a large
@CvilleCityHall
park—is finally filled?
6
4
44
Here the text of what I said during public comments today in relation to 3 consequential land use votes that Charlottesville city council is considering tonight:
4
6
44
@littlegillikin
@4LarsTorres
@jmckeever
This is both a really bad way to treat employees and also a really bad approach to public health. Paid sick leave— including quarantining— protects us all.
2
1
44
Cory nailed it once again: one way that AI-generated art is bad is that it is soulless. Human-generated art is at its best when it conveys an emotion, an intent beyond the soulless corporate art standard of mere decoration.
One thing Myspace had going for it: it was exuberantly ugly. The decision to let users with no design training loose on a highly customizable user-interface led to a proliferation of Myspace pages that vibrated with personality.
1/
20
268
1K
2
12
43
Given the visual richness of the protest and the violent police response, it's an odd choice to pick a generic rotunda photo as the one and only photo for this UVA News release
A pro-Palestinian protest ended on Grounds Saturday after University, local and state police cleared the area. This followed repeated policy violations. Violent conduct and failure to follow police directions led officers to declare an unlawful assembly.
335
72
512
1
5
41
@dieworkwear
Once someone has spent most of their life living in hotels, perhaps a private hotel aesthetic feels the most comfortable to them? Not my jam, but I can see how being a celebrity warps all sense of normality
1
0
43
Good morning to everyone except whomever hit our car hard enough overnight to push it six feet forward and up onto the sidewalk.
12
0
41
My mother lived for 15 years after her first of multiple cancer diagnoses. There were some good years in there amidst a lot of pain and suffering. In all, she had a life well lived, one worth celebrating
1
0
43
Winning feels good. Lots of people did lots of work to make this happen. Thank you all.
Yes to our new yard signs!
We will be sharing details on how you can get one and spread support for a better zoning code for Charlottesville!
0
5
23
2
5
42
If your neighborhood association is trying to slow down a civic planning project with claims of a lack of broad-based input... ask them what efforts they are making to reach out to all residents—including renters—of your own neighborhood for input
3
1
41
This is blatantly anti-competitive. UVa is the largest single provider of UVA student housing. Killing off a directly competing project would reduce student housing choices and increase student expenses.
UVa has submitted a letter formally opposing the 2117 Ivy project.
7
2
15
2
8
42
We welcomed a new addition to the family today. Nearly reached cuteness overload
4
0
41
I'm proud of the Cville community for showing up in opposition of putting cops back in our schools and... equally annoyed that we are having to fight this battle once again despite all evidence of the bad outcomes putting cops in schools creates for students
at tonight’s charlottesville school board meeting, they’ll take a vote on the issue of school resource officers. the discussion at the may 18 work session left a lot of unanswered questions, mainly: why??
1
9
50
1
8
41
Happy birthday to
@socialistdogmom
! This is a great day to support the valuable service she provides to our community
1
7
38
Happy anniversary, my dear love—I'm grateful for your companionship. Thanks for the best 26 years of my life,
@HinesyK_
1
0
40
@Kasparov63
Because 500K fellow humans have seen the wisdom of following you on Twitter. Hope brings hope.
1
1
37
Saturday @ 4 PM at Tonsler Park is a great chance to show support for Affordable Housing in Charlottesville. Everyone is welcome. An double plus special welcome to the "I'm all for Affordable Housing, BUT ..." folks who spoke at last night's public hearing.
0
14
39
Well done, y'all! "Those speaking in favor of the ordinance outnumbered those speaking against it nearly 3 to 1."
1
5
38
I’m approaching the end of an 11 hour train ride up the east coast today and I’m convinced we need 2-3x the frequency of passenger trains along this route.
5
1
37
Okay, another bit of Cville land use fear-mongering to debunk.
An area doctor was quoted in the local media this week expressing concerns that more density along major corridors will create congestion that slows down EMS responses.
That's a bold, unsupported claim.
1
4
38
This case—airborne COVID infection in 5 min w/ closest contact at least 14 feet away in a restaurant lacking windows or ventilation system—is strong evidence that enclosed outdoor spaces that bars & restaurants have created for winter are a public safety hazard
#Airborne
transmission from 20 ft distance after just 5 min of exposure. CCTV footage showed source patient (B) had no direct contact w/infected (B) seated 20 ft away, or (C) seated 14 ft away. AC unit may've aided airflow. NOTE: restaurant lacked windows & ventilation system.
116
2K
4K
0
13
36
I’m impressed with the size of the fireworks arsenal someone in Cville decided to deploy on this (not so random) Sat. Night in November
4
0
37
the "NOT HAUNTED" sign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the sign
This just went up around the corner and I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS.
2K
11K
100K
1
7
37
As someone who researches and teaches about tech for a living, I agree with this from
@MPayneCville
"In my mind, it's a serious privacy concern no matter what you do, again, just because of the nature of the technology"
City Councilor shares his thoughts on Flock Safety cameras
1
2
6
4
8
37
Worst part of biking home today? Not the cold … I dressed appropriately for the weather … it was being stuck in car traffic because the bike lanes were left unplowed by
@CvilleCityHall
4
3
37
Hey, who knew... there's now a daily bus from Cville to Dulles! Cville stop is at Arlington Blvd @ Barracks Road
Taking the
@VABreezeBus
, a new statewide bus service provided by the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation
It runs 7 day a week & goes throughout all of Virginia to D.C. + includes a bus stop in Charlottesville 🚍
And it’s cheaper than paying for gas nowadays...
8
27
164
2
11
36
@socialistdogmom
akin to trying to discount any account by someone who (like me) doesn't know the nuances of terminology among the various highly lethal forms of semi/fully automatic assault weapons
2
0
35
This is a balanced, thoughtful plan for protected bike lanes between two major Charlottesville landmarks on West Main street—the corner at UVA and Cville's famed downtown mall. The plan retains same # of car parking spaces and makes a safer street for all!
Sent today:
Dear Mayor Snook and Councilors, City managers,
Happy Friday! I would like to request a pilot project to install parking protected and buffered bike lanes along West Main street as shown in this study I've put together.
6
13
83
2
3
35