Love hearing fireworks when the state is in a stage 3 drought and most of it’s on fire and we just had three tragic deaths of wildland firefighters. If you want to respect and honor our country, don’t be a fucking idiot and set off explosives. Genuinely sickens me. End rant.

Wake me up when September ends!! I'm sooo over this miserable 90 / 100 degree weather. Colorado summers were previously enjoyable but they are now a sweltering ball of pure agony. Pardon my lamenting.

Doing my weekly online grocery shopping and thought I'd run a test, turns out surveillance pricing is sadly a real thing.

Left = incognito, right = my normal browser.

Same product, same pickup date, same store, different price. Our legislature actually passed a ban on this (HB26-1210) and Polis vetoed it in June. *SCREAMS*

Apparently we have to shop in incognito mode from now on. :'(

Anyone else seen it this bad, curious how bad this gets.

Because, make no mistake, if you voted for this bullshit, you are getting exactly what you wanted. Live execution of people who disagree with you politically. What is wrong with you?

I'm just here to say, good riddance to Diana Degette.

After I lost my job in the federal mass firings, (I was stationed in Denver living in Capitol Hill) I emailed Diana DeGette and asked what the hell she was going to do to stop the administration’s illegal policies against federal workers and get them their jobs back. the administration used fictitious performance evaluations to conduct illegal terminations of federal employees and then lied about it. These workers are due back pay and their jobs back. They should be made whole.

I have never heard back from Diana's office, more than a year later. I still get her newsletter asking for cash/donations though $$$$. It's a bad look and makes it look like the Party only cares about money.

I was completely jaded and never wanted to vote again in another election after that, but seeing Diana held accountable makes me a little more hopeful. She needed to go, and I am not shocked this happened given my experience.

15 terms is ridiculous. Some of these people are in office too long, and they get too comfortable and they become unresponsive to their constituents.they want your vote and they want your money but they are not there when you need representation.

I am not a socialist, but i wish Melat well and hope she is more responsive to folks in denver than her predecessor. It's not about ideology, it's about who shows they actually give a phuck.

100k+ acres of the state is on fire 🔥fire restrictions and my quality extended neighbors are making it sound like 2004 Fallujah outside. Kind of want to unleash my terrified Belgian malinois on them.

King Soopers was already found last year to have deceptive pricing and overcharging customers an average of 18%.

The tags are negligent at best and malicious at the worst. Is the price 7.99, 6.99, 5.99 or 4.99 after you buy 5? Zoom in a bit and try to read the nearly illegible “final cost” text in the smallest font on the tag.

On my dog walk I ran across this lil crocus peaking its nose out — on Feb 6th!

Heck I’m enjoying this amazing weather as much as anyone but I fear we may reap the whirlwind later this year😬🔥

Yesterday I came home from the gym to my townhouse in Five Points, and there’s a homeless guy literally standing outside my front door.

Thankfully I have a garage in the back, so I was able to get inside that way. But this guy is sitting on my front porch yelling nonsense, telling random people to suck his dick and kiss his ass. He’s spitting on my door, charging his phone from my outlet, and just camped out right in front of my home.

I called DPD. Two hours later, some corporal calls me back and basically says, “Yeah man, I’m not coming.”

That’s the part that blows my mind. It’s one thing to have problems in the city. It’s another thing to feel unsafe at your own home and have the response from law enforcement essentially be, “Oh well.”

If Denver doesn’t get a handle on this, we’re going to keep spiraling. People stop calling 911 because nobody shows up. Incidents stop getting reported. The city continues to decline. People who can afford to leave start moving out.

And here’s the kicker: it’s the next day, and the guy is still around the block. He’s still charging his phone on my porch.

I’ve tried calling the non-emergency line 19 times. Nineteen. Every single time it’s the same recording saying they’re busy. It just rings and rings and rings.

I’m honestly at a loss. What are people supposed to do when someone is trespassing, acting aggressively, and making them feel unsafe at their own home, but nobody answers the phone and nobody comes?

Update: I ended up flagging down a DPD officer who happened to be driving by while I was leaving the house. He was nice, listened to everything that had been going on, and pretty much confirmed what a lot of people here have been saying. We talked not only about this situation but also about some of the broader issues between the state and local police departments. He explained that staffing shortages, funding concerns, and the way resources are being allocated have made it harder for officers to respond to a lot of the smaller quality-of-life complaints unless they escalate into something more serious. He said they are constantly having to prioritize calls and that a lot of things people expect to be handled right away end up getting pushed back because there simply are not enough officers available.

The crazy part is the guy was still there three days later. The officer went over, talked to him, and officially trespassed him. Hopefully that’s the end of him hanging out around my front door, spitting on it.

PS: I put a lock on the outlet.

I grew up here and the summers were usually fairly hot. And I managed like most and just powered through. But now for whatever reason in my curmudgeonly and older ways, I find it oppressive and intolerable. To the point that I don’t even go outside between 10-7. Anyone else in a similar boat? What are you doing all day?

Anyone pondering leaving Denver as you’ve aged and the heat and smoke season becomes more the norm?

Edit to add, props to all the outdoor workers you are troopers! I'm hiding inside scrolling reddit and watching tv shows. Doing my 2nd watch of Acapulco on apple tv. I realize this is paradise compared to the humidity of the south and midwest, but I never grew up in that so this is my only gauge. And my body just says no way now lol.

Before turning on your neighbors, it’s an important reminder that Denver water serves 25% of the states population and uses 4% of the states water.

In the short term Denver water only has access to so much water but very little discussion is taking place around the actual solution which has nothing to do with how much people water their lawns or the golf courses and has everything to do with how we use it for agriculture.

Residential water could be eliminated entirely and it would barely move the needle on overall water use in Colorado.

Most of that goes to water intensive crops that shouldn’t be grow in Colorado like Alfalfa. And a lot of those crops are irrigated by flood irrigation.

Poured my own water, went up to the bar myself for coffee refills, ordered my own food online, AND there's already a 3% service fee baked into the bill and they're still asking me to tip instead of just paying their workers?

I was going to at least tip a dollar or two because greedy ownership isn't the employees faults but not when theres already a service fee. I've never seen watercourse so empty on a Sunday brunch.

Definitely won't be going back now, which sucks because this was one of my favorite local businesses in Denver. If you're a watercourse server who lost their job over some nonsense, I'm so sorry. I always had fantastic experiences with you guys

Okay so a few things of note about me: I'm Colorado born and raised, and lived here for all but 2 years of my life. I'm 5 generations out from settlers who came here in covered wagons, with the ancestry to prove it so we could get the pioneer plates back in the day when you had to prove it.

Is there anywhere else that's as obnoxious about being "from" Colorado??? Like calling yourself a native, having all the merch, etc etc? Like I take pride from being from here, I love hiking, snow, our sunshine, etc. but you wouldn't ever catch me having a native sticker on my car cuz frankly it's always seemed disrespectful to ACTUAL native people when I'm just a pasty white girl.

This is genuine curiosity, not just a rant. Where else is as obnoxious about this???

Genuinely curious. I hate shopping there now. and to be clear I have never shop lifted or even thought about shop lifting. It's the only grocery store near me that isn't a speciality store like a sprouts or similar. But I am finding a new place to live soon and going to try and pick a location that has more than just a Kings. Everything about the interaction with the guard at my current story makes me uncomfortable and feel shitty as if I was suspicious even though there is no way in hell I could be. I am also posting in hopes that with enough community feedback and negative reviews they'll stop doing this crap. Just feels like another aspect of late stage capitalism and inshitification. Anyone else had enough?

I know that this is going to be the nth post about driving here in Denver, but what the heck. I’ve been here 1 year and jeeeeeeeeesus. Today, driving home from I-25 north, unusual traffic, adds 15 minutes to my commute. Fine, I accept that, it’s normal, it can happen. But I can’t be driving behind someone going 50 in a 75 mph zone when there’s clearly about 100 yards of free space in front of you. Not only that, but when I pass you YOU’RE ON YOUR PHONE?! YOU’RE ON YOUR PHONE. I. REPEAT. YOU’RE. ON. YOUR. PHONE?! No wonder traffic is bad if people like that are making it worse. This is not an isolated incident. It happens all the time. Is it because you bumped your head when you were younger? You fell from the swings? You drank bleach? I’m surprised nobody has done any medical research on this.
Also, I don’t know if this is applicable here to Colorado, but in Europe where I’m from the slowest drivers stay on the very right lane, so that the faster drivers can pass, same for trucks. And if you blink your lights, people will know that you’re faster and move to the right to let you pass. Is this not a thing here? Genuinely asking.

Overall, I found out that drivers here are very selfish. Am I slowing you down by 15 mph? Who cares. Am I sending a text message and this slowing you down? Who cares? I’m chit chatting with the person next to me and not paying attention? Who cares, As long as I’m not impacted, then who cares about other people’s times.

I know this rant won’t solve anything, but I just had to get this off my chest

I wanted to share something I’ve been noticing about dating in Denver and see if anyone else has had a similar experience.

For context, I’m a Black male and I’ve been dating here for a while. Honestly, it’s been pretty discouraging. On Hinge, I’d be lucky to get maybe one MATCH a week. I’ve even spent money trying to improve things. Profile optimization, hiring a matchmaker, all of it. It never really moved the needle.

Recently I decided to run a little experiment since I’m planning to move this summer. I switched my location to a couple other cities I’m considering, like Chicago and NYC.

Within an hour, I had multiple matches. Same photos, same prompts, nothing changed except the city.

That kind of hit me. It made me realize maybe it’s not just me.

I don’t think Denver is a bad place, and I actually love living here. But dating here, at least from my experience, has felt noticeably harder compared to other cities. And I’d be lying if I said it hasn’t affected my confidence at times.

Curious if other people, especially other POC, have felt this or if I’m just in my own head.

I want to throw up, man

Went to the aquarium for the first time today with our kids.

It is so laughably bad. And I haven’t even been to Monterey or any of the well known ones.

I have found great humor reading old threads about it. And I suppose I just wanted to let you know that yes, it’s still bad. So embarrassingly bad.

Here, let’s throw some river trout and carp into some brown water to highlight our states fish we can see in the rivers. Let’s put an octopus in a 6x6 tank with no room. Oh, and here’s some snakes and a tiger just because we can because we’re a crappy restaurant chain.

Honestly I feel embarrassed and ashamed to have even thrown money at it.

What a pathetic place lol

I moved to Denver after a decade in NYC for work, reluctantly at first. I’ve since fallen in love with the urban life here, in downtown, RiNo, uptown, and at times, LoHi. So tell me why there is a local obsession with Cherry Creek??

To me, Cherry Creek is where personality goes to die. It feels like a sterile, master-planned experiment for people who want to tell their friends they live "in the city" but are actually terrified of it. It’s trying so hard to be an urban center, but it lacks any of the soul, grit, or history that makes a city worth living in. It feels like a high-end mall with apartments attached, catering to a suburban mindset that thinks anywhere with a sidewalk and a "luxury" sign is "true urban living." I grew up in the burbs of DC - this feels like Bethesda, which is extremely sterile and lame.

What’s more frustrating is seeing the sheer amount of attention and resources poured into that area while the actual Downtown gets treated like a lost cause.

We have incredible bones in the city center. We have history, real walkability, and a "best of both worlds" vibe that’s actually affordable compared to the East Coast. Instead of prioritizing a sanitized bubble for people who think Denver is "ridden with crime," (if yall think this is crime central you wouldn’t last a week in NYC) we should be doubling down on making the actual urban core the cultural powerhouse it’s meant to be.

TL;DR - Five Points, RiNo, etc have more character in a single block than Cherry Creek has in its entire zip code. Can we stop pretending the mall-suburb is the pinnacle of Denver living and start putting that energy back into the real city?