Carrie Kisicki

@cmkisicki

Maryland Housing Advocacy Manager at @betterdcregion.bsky.social, bird and baseball fan. high priestess of woke 2. posts & opinions my own

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Carrie Kisicki@cmkisicki· 13d

and now it is sleepy time. here is loyal Ted the Cat watching the end of the hearing with me from home

A black cat with yellow eyes sits next to a laptop showing street designs. On the wall behind him there is some embroidered flower art

Carrie Kisicki@cmkisicki· 13d

hope so but Scared

Carrie Kisicki@cmkisicki· 13d

I’m in Wheaton tonight testifying in support of Friendship Commons — 500+ new homes next to Metro on the former GEICO campus in Friendship Heights, MD! Thank you to everyone who took action through our @betterdcregion.bsky.social alert ✨

Rows full of people sitting watching a presentation in the Montgomery County Planning Board hearing room

Carrie Kisicki@cmkisicki· 13d

love these shoes but not recommended for the Wheaton Metro escalator

a pair of light brown leather (I think fake leather lol) high heeled boots against an escalator step

Carrie Kisicki@cmkisicki· 14d

let’s gooooooooooo 🙂‍↕️

Carrie and Graham in a crowded metro for the Noah Kahancert

Noah Kahan onstage at Nats Park from the nosebleeds

Carrie Kisicki@cmkisicki· 15d

Picture of Carrie holding up a back from the bakery Morning My Day. Texts beneath say, Headed home with my treats and most of my teeth
All of them if you count the one that's in my backpack

Carrie Kisicki@cmkisicki· 15d

having a normal one

Carrie Kisicki@cmkisicki· 15d

weather is making the Silver Spring™️ plaza look kind of ominous ngl

Carrie Kisicki@cmkisicki· 16d

hyped for the rest of this video series

ayoedebiri • 5h
I'm seated. The theater employees are scared and asking me to leave because it's
"not released yet" but I'm simply too seated

Carrie Kisicki@cmkisicki· 17d

dude omg I went on a boat tour with Captain Brian and Lucky Catch a few years ago. I fed flavor-blasted Goldfish to Jerry

A man in a gray t-shirt and white baseball cap holds a bag of flavor-blasted goldfish and is feeding one through an open window to a seagull on the front of his boat (the seagull is Jerry) in the foreground of the photo at left, you can see the back of my dad’s head lol

Carrie Kisicki@cmkisicki· 17d

remember you DO have free will 🫵 you CAN take a little bike ride to see the birds 🐥

baby yellow crowned night heron, it is brown with lighter brown stripes on its feathers and an orange eye, and sitting up in a tree shaded by leaves. not all its feathers are fully grown in yet. photographed at Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens in DC

adult yellow crowned night heron seen from below. she has a light gray body with blue gray wings, a black beak, and a black face with a white tripe down the middle. Her eye is orange-brown and she has two black feathers coming off the back of her head like streamers. her feathers are kind of mussed near her belly suggesting she is growing them back from a brood patch (when birds remove feathers to create a warmer spot on their belly to incubate eggs!) photographed at Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens in DC

Carrie Kisicki@cmkisicki· 19d

what’s he doing up there

black cat with yellow eyes peers down from the top of a bookshelf

Carrie Kisicki@cmkisicki· 20d

@mcdotnow.bsky.social the marked detour directs people to cross the street where there is no marked crossing or signage indicating a temporary crossing to drivers

Carrie Kisicki@cmkisicki· 20d

@mcdotnow.bsky.social are there plans to put a sidewalk back in on this section of 2nd Ave @ Fenwick? the barriers for the temp sidewalk were removed today, but the fence still blocks the permanent sidewalk. there’s no way to safely cross 2nd without doubling all the way back to Spring

Picture of 2nd Ave and Fenwick Ln in Silver Spring. On the opposite side, a fence blocks the sidewalk and a man is walking in the street

Carrie Kisicki@cmkisicki· 21d

noah kahan fans are transit fans! thanks for the ride @wmata.com 🥰

Navy Yard Metro platform packed with Noah Kahan fans

Carrie Kisicki@cmkisicki· 24d

Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens today!! 🥰🥰🥰

A hot pink lotus blossom with a yellow center

Carrie Kisicki@cmkisicki· 26d

here’s the same part of the skyline from a few years ago when @ss-dc-transit.bsky.social and I visited Pittsburgh. Is That Good,

Carrie and Graham with a blue sky and 1000x more visible Pittsburgh skyline behind them. It is not choked in wildfire smoke notably

Carrie Kisicki@cmkisicki· Jul 12

some people may even die horrible deaths after being denied medically necessary abortions, but that’s a sacrifice he’s willing to make, I guess

Lord Farquad meme “some of you may die, but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make”

Carrie Kisicki@cmkisicki· Jul 10

Read the working draft here: montgomeryplanningboard.org/wp-content/u...

Carrie Kisicki@cmkisicki· Jul 10

🚨 NEW from Montgomery Planning: - Friendship Heights Sector Plan working draft now up online - Planning Board hearings tentatively set for Sep. 10 (in-person/virtual) and Sep. 14 (in-person only) - Hearing signup opens on Aug. 3

Screenshot of an email reading:

Working Draft at the Planning Board

Next Thursday, July 16, Montgomery Planning staff will present the Friendship Heights Sector Plan Working Draft, the first full draft of the plan, to the Montgomery County Planning Board.

The staff report and the Working Draft are now available on the Planning Board’s website.

Staff’s presentation will guide Planning Board members through all of the plan’s draft recommendations. At the end of the presentation, staff will request that the Planning Board designate the Working Draft as the Public Hearing Draft and set the public hearing schedule.

Staff will recommend that public hearing be held in two parts:

Part 1: Thursday, September 10: a daytime hearing at 1:30 p.m. at M-NCPPC Wheaton headquarters (Second Floor Auditorium, 2425 Reedie Drive, Wheaton, MD, 20902). The hearing will allow for testimony in-person and virtually via Microsoft Teams.

Part 2: Monday, September 14: an evening hearing at 6 p.m. at the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Regional Services Center (805 Edgemoor Ln, Bethesda, MD 20814). The hearing will allow for in-person testimony only.

Both parts of the public hearing will be livestreamed and recorded for on-demand viewing.

Carrie Kisicki@cmkisicki· Jul 10

bonus footage of me sprinting back to our seats bc I missed James Wood’s leadoff home run

Carrie Kisicki@cmkisicki· Jul 9

Carrie Kisicki@cmkisicki· Jul 8

women in STEM 💅

A pigeon sits on top of some sort of open electrical box full of yellow wires at the Silver Spring metro platform. She is an engineer

Carrie Kisicki@cmkisicki· Jul 5

I have encountered a wonderful and enchanting Product

Mister Bee Mothman potato chips, based in Parkersburg, West Virginia. A paragraph on the back of the bag reads: The Legendary Mothman!
Anyone from the Mountain Region knows the tales of Mothman.
While checking on his potato crop one evening by moonlight, Mister Bee encountered the Mothman and tried to capture him.
In the scuffle, Mister Bee took a blow to the head and everything went dark. He awoke hours later bruised but unharmed. Since that time, Mister Bee has had visions and impressions of a unique blend of spices. Working for months at his snack kitchen here in Parkersburg, he turned these visions into a reality.
The result is an amazing flavor of potato chips made right here in
West Virginia....Enjoy!

Carrie Kisicki@cmkisicki· Jul 1

im gonna give a conservative estimate i thunk, it is 1,000 degrees out here,

Carrie looking down at her phone camera looking resigned. The sky is very blue, it is very sunny, I already look shiny and sweaty even though i have been outside maybe two minutes

Carrie Kisicki@cmkisicki· Jul 1

red line enjoyers stand up!!!! 🚇📢💪

Carrie smiling with the NIH building and a Metro canopy in the background as she goes down the Medical Center Metro escalator. She has a white and red t-shirt and blue sunglasses on her forehead, and is wearing a gray backpack

A Washington Metro train arrives to the Medical Center station headed towards Glenmont

Carrie Kisicki@cmkisicki· Jul 1

made it to the bus and saluted the Old Georgetown Road bike lanes. Moral of the story we need more shade, and more infrastructure for people and not just for cars!!!

Picture of the Westfield Montgomery Mall transit center. You can see a few buses going in and out or at stops (including the one I subsequently sprinted to get on, lol). The bus stops themselves have wide canopies for shade which is awesome!!! However you can see it is very sunny all around this island of shade and the path to get there through the parking lot( not visible in this pic) basically has no shade at all

Blurry picture through a bus window across some lanes of traffic and a median showing some flex posts on the other side of the road indicating the Old Georgetown Road bike lanes. It’s not a great pic sorry guys but we do love the bike lanes

Carrie Kisicki@cmkisicki· Jul 1

while there is technically a pedestrian path swinging out and around between parking lots (made up of very skinny sidewalks and long crosswalks across the access points for cars), it is clear that most people just cut straight across the largely unused parking lot, which is also what I did

A wide sea of empty parking lot punctuated by about ten small trees, with a low mall building in the background. Red arrows indicate a skinny pedestrian path of sidewalks punctuated by long crosswalks across parking lot access points for cars swinging out and around the closer parking lot. The sidewalks are not near or shaded by the trees

A very clear trampled down dirt desire path cuts diagonally from the sidewalk through a patch of grass into a mostly empty parking lot, indicating the most direct path to the transit center visible in the far background. There is no shade in the very sunny parking lot. At far right in the background you can see a pedestrian cutting through the parking lot towards the transit center. In foreground at left, two signs are visible—a faded no parking sign, and a ‘Bike Route — Begin’ sign, pole crooked as if dinged by a car

Carrie Kisicki@cmkisicki· Jul 1

who up navigating Hostile Pedestrian Infrastructure

To the right, a four lane road; in the middle, a very sunny, completely unshaded, unbuffered sidewalk, both the unbuffered unshaded sidewalk and the road stretching into the distance; to the left, the mostly empty surface parking lot of a defunct Jiffy Lube

A very long faded crosswalk stretches across a mall driveway entrance. Across the street, a pedestrian crosses a wide road. There is maybe sort of a skinny unbuffered sidewalk where the pedestrian is crossing to but it’s very hard to tell. In the far distance and elevated above a large surface parking lot, you can see the tents of a transit center. It is unclear how a pedestrian is supposed to get there. Also it is very sunny with little shade

Carrie Kisicki@cmkisicki· Jun 30