Nom de plume of Scott Henson, Austin, TX. Cancer survivor, househusband, recovering policy wonk (justice systems, civil liberties; innocence). "All my friends are buried here, and some of them are dead. So home is where I'll always hang my head."https://bsky.app/profile/gritsforbreakfast.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social/post/3mrs6ikbdls2uI've now twice seen Blue Herons out at the second coming of Jim Hogg's old fishing pond, which the city recreated just south of (now-capped) Oak Springs. There's a colony the birds near downtown (a heronry, its called), but I hope they also start nesting around that pond. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIgeZnNa_yg29 Jul 2026 14:53 +0000at://did:plc:qg6aj2ryckff6areegodnkws/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrs6ikbdls2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social/post/3mrs26mfops2uA bit like white folks in the 1960s choosing to close public swimming pools rather than integrate them. [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Jul 2026 13:35 +0000at://did:plc:qg6aj2ryckff6areegodnkws/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrs26mfops2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social/post/3mrroshk5gc2cTIL [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Jul 2026 10:12 +0000at://did:plc:qg6aj2ryckff6areegodnkws/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrroshk5gc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social/post/3mrqlju26w22vGroups urge Bexar County to declare jail deaths a public health emergency (gift link) https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/bexar-county-jail-act4sa-san-antonio-22359020.php?utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=copy-url-link&utm_campaign=article-share&hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZXhwcmVzc25ld3MuY29tL25ld3MvYXJ0aWNsZS9iZXhhci1jb3VudHktamFpbC1hY3Q0c2Etc2FuLWFudG9uaW8tMjIzNTkwMjAucGhw&time=MTc4NTI4MjAzNzMxNA%3D%3D&rid=NjlmMzc3YjMtOTc4ZS00M2Y0LTlkNTgtMjE4ZmYzNzNlZGY5&sharecount=NA%3D%3D28 Jul 2026 23:41 +0000at://did:plc:qg6aj2ryckff6areegodnkws/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrqlju26w22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social/post/3mrq5xy4n7s2iExcept teachers will be punished if they don't teach a VERY narrow version of these stories, judging from what's going on in Texas universities, where even readings from Plato can be banned (I'm looking at you, A&M) if they don't sufficiently conform to right-wing orthodoxy. [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Jul 2026 19:38 +0000at://did:plc:qg6aj2ryckff6areegodnkws/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrq5xy4n7s2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social/post/3mrpjehnuhs2nI don't agree with the brutalist choices made by the Army Corps of Engineers and the city in the '80s regarding the channelization of Boggy Creek and burying its tributaries, and even they wdn't endorse those methods today. But there's no doubt flooding was a real problem. These pics are from 1957.28 Jul 2026 13:29 +0000at://did:plc:qg6aj2ryckff6areegodnkws/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrpjehnuhs2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social/post/3mrnkabacxs2xI've found the last of the occluded Boggy Creek tributaries that ran though my neighborhood, there's a tiny fragment of it extant just below the park at the Alamo Recreation Center. A swale there that begins at the top of the hill and rolls down to a drain pipe going under 21st Street.27 Jul 2026 18:39 +0000at://did:plc:qg6aj2ryckff6areegodnkws/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrnkabacxs2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social/post/3mrknkqgb3c22Increasingly, it seems like this small daylighting project in 2014 was prescient and important. The buried stream they're calling Poquito Creek on the map in the left image likely was the Cemetery Branch in the 19th century, and "Chestnut Creek" was Maple Creek not long ago. [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Jul 2026 15:01 +0000at://did:plc:qg6aj2ryckff6areegodnkws/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrknkqgb3c22https://bsky.app/profile/gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social/post/3mripjfuxnc2vApropos of nothing, today bf sending her back after giving Mommy a couple of nights break, I sang the grandbaby to sleep to a slowed down, lulling version of the "Fall of Charleston." She was out like a light when I stuffed her in the carseat to go home. [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Jul 2026 20:31 +0000at://did:plc:qg6aj2ryckff6areegodnkws/app.bsky.feed.post/3mripjfuxnc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social/post/3mrib73qri222Among these long-buried creeks, a short stem arising in the state cemetery was known as the Cemetery Branch, we learn in a news article announcing the construction of a bridge across it on Chincapin St. (today, Rosewood Ave.) in 1900. [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Jul 2026 16:14 +0000at://did:plc:qg6aj2ryckff6areegodnkws/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrib73qri222https://bsky.app/profile/gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social/post/3mrhxgrdtx22kI'm rather obsessed w/ this 1885 map. 1st, it shows Boggy Creek jutting west of the A&NW RR tracks behind my house, but now it has been straightened and is all east of the railroad. 2nd, ALL the tributaries west of the RR tracks have now been buried.🧵 [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Jul 2026 13:20 +0000at://did:plc:qg6aj2ryckff6areegodnkws/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrhxgrdtx22khttps://bsky.app/profile/gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social/post/3mrgo3ph35s2bGot open records results on diverting Boggy Creek headwaters. TXDOT in 2021 told the city they wd run the creek's water through a pipe across the highway. But in 2023 they announced the Elon-Musk drainage tunnel. The city expressed "serious concerns" abt parts of the plan but didn't tell the public.25 Jul 2026 01:00 +0000at://did:plc:qg6aj2ryckff6areegodnkws/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrgo3ph35s2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social/post/3mrfzkohk7222Glad to see this, but wonder if they shdn't have included Merle Haggard instead of Johnny Cash, who is the only musician profiled who never did time. cc: @mauricechammah.bsky.social https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-midnight-special-review-songs-of-the-cellblock-45bf0a8d?st=Wyb5pH&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink24 Jul 2026 18:52 +0000at://did:plc:qg6aj2ryckff6areegodnkws/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrfzkohk7222https://bsky.app/profile/gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social/post/3mrfwioavn22zI'm a little closer to locating Manchaca Springs, an important stop on old Indian trails dating back thousands of years. Once the pioneers arrived, it was a stageocach stop and on the Chisholm Trail. They're in southern Travis County off Onion Creek, just north of the Buda and the Hays County line.🧵24 Jul 2026 17:58 +0000at://did:plc:qg6aj2ryckff6areegodnkws/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrfwioavn22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social/post/3mrflgns4vs2nThis state has been essentially ungoverned for quite a while now, on public health and much else, w/ the feds filling in gaps like the Dutch boy sticking his finger in the dyke. Now that this administration has replaced that boy w/ RFK and a sledgehammer, it'll get much worse before it gets better. [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Jul 2026 14:40 +0000at://did:plc:qg6aj2ryckff6areegodnkws/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrflgns4vs2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social/post/3mrfh4755p22nIn Tampa, the Ulele Springs had been capped and their waters channeled into a concrete pipe. After they were daylighted, "freshwater flows of 672,000 gallons per day," or about one cubic foot per second, emerge from them. https://southeastaquatics.net/projects/habitat-projects-2011/ulele-springs-restoration-project-124 Jul 2026 13:22 +0000at://did:plc:qg6aj2ryckff6areegodnkws/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrfh4755p22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social/post/3mrdklzdtes2uThis 1937 map shows a "Deep Spring" south of the Colorado River fueling a small, north-running creek on "the Old Houston place," but I can't figure out exactly where that is. This might be what the city calls the "Rainbow Concrete Springs" across 71 from Bergstrom airport behind the car park. https://ahc.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_cacc749f-3b7c-4e65-8339-0582ef16905b/23 Jul 2026 19:19 +0000at://did:plc:qg6aj2ryckff6areegodnkws/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrdklzdtes2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social/post/3mrdk6fnxq22uMore on lost eastside creeks. This 1885 map shows 3-4 different, small creeks flowing into what today is called the Poquito Branch of Boggy Creek. The Poquito Branch has been dewatered and is now a drainage ditch only flowing during storms, its historic tributaries all buried.23 Jul 2026 19:12 +0000at://did:plc:qg6aj2ryckff6areegodnkws/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrdk6fnxq22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social/post/3mrcwdkzywc2nA former Ku Klux Klan auditorium in Fort Worth was purchased by a coalition of nonprofits and is being renamed for a black man who was lynched the year it was built (1921). Will include "a 250-seat theater, two dance rehearsal rooms, classrooms, galleries and an outdoor reflection space." https://fortworthreport.org/2026/07/21/fort-worth-nonprofit-shares-design-concept-transforming-former-kkk-site-into-cultural-hub/23 Jul 2026 13:17 +0000at://did:plc:qg6aj2ryckff6areegodnkws/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrcwdkzywc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social/post/3mraucbw3wc2d"the island's genetically unique coyotes—colloquially called 'ghost wolves' bc they share ... DNA with the eastern red wolf, which is all but extinct in North America—have emerged as a potent symbol of the struggle between local conservationists and the deep pockets behind large-scale developments" https://www.chron.com/gulf-coast/article/galveston-margaritaville-ghost-wolves-22348681.php22 Jul 2026 17:35 +0000at://did:plc:qg6aj2ryckff6areegodnkws/app.bsky.feed.post/3mraucbw3wc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social/post/3mraf7qu5gs2vCorrupt and anti-competitive AF [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Jul 2026 13:05 +0000at://did:plc:qg6aj2ryckff6areegodnkws/app.bsky.feed.post/3mraf7qu5gs2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social/post/3mr6zhcnyzc2lBeen watching the Groundsell documentary and liked it, but it's a bit weird to have Woody Harrelson narrating it as the white savior of Thirld World farmers. 1/222 Jul 2026 00:02 +0000at://did:plc:qg6aj2ryckff6areegodnkws/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr6zhcnyzc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social/post/3mr6nsavtcc2cLeaving aside the absurdity of running away from questions at your own press conference, are there any comms pros left in the GOP? Posting your opponent's name/face prominently on the lectern is just dumb AF. Still shots all look like you're promoting him bc nobody can read the fine print! [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Jul 2026 20:33 +0000at://did:plc:qg6aj2ryckff6areegodnkws/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr6nsavtcc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social/post/3mr6mynwlhk2cThis dynamic started w/ RAM shortages but not surprising it wd metastasize into other areas [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Jul 2026 20:19 +0000at://did:plc:qg6aj2ryckff6areegodnkws/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr6mynwlhk2c