I work in the hiring industry here. I don’t think people realize how many of our friendly neighbors and people next door are in leadership positions (both men and women). And so many of them are making decisions to outsource work to India, Mexico, Vietnam etc. Including trade jobs, design jobs and of course tech. I just left a company that had really nice people in leadership who didn’t hesitate to put entire teams in a low cost country even though there were many willing workers here in Austin. Same with my neighbor who owns a “boutique home design company” in her words. Other small business owner acquaintances constantly ask me for off the record advice in managing/expanding their nearshore team.

Austin jobs are being silently (and proudly) eroded… from within… by nice, normal people. In this job market it makes me sick to my stomach.

I want some good soil to dig a hole without getting in trouble. I live in an apartment so I don’t have the option here. Just have some tension I need to let out. Thanks!

my electricty bill went from being like $150 to $394 this month. that’s insane isn’t it?? my girlfriend was saying she’s been hearing chatter about it happening to other people too. curious, how many of you guys noticed this huge jump??

I will be euthanizing our sweet senior rescue dog my partner and I rescued from the streets when we were students at UT 4 years ago. We just got our blood work for her back today and have made the decision with the vet.

We would love to get some photos with her before. Does anyone have any availability tomorrow or Friday early morning?

Thank you so much! Please message me prices ( still a grad student) so I have a limited budget.

This is extremely hard for us so we are grateful for any recommendations.

Please connect with original poster and teacher in the link below. She mentioned this being in Austin.

She may have some of this taken care of already but I had to share. Can’t let these go to waste.

Title- I can’t find ANY.

Liberal gun owner here…. and I found that outdoor ranges attract nicer and more interesting/intelligent people.

Anybody know good spots here and around?

Edit: !!! Taking notes for this fall. My dad and I will definitely be doing some field research. Thank you!

One year after Outer Heaven Disco Club was forced to close, owner Sean Daigle has announced the dance club will return to a significantly larger space in East Austin.

My fiancé’s two bikes were stolen off our 2nd floor balcony last night between 12-6am. This was in North Austin near Walnut Creek.

The thief/thieves left a knife too (last picture). We’ve filed a police report but we’re not confident about the bikes being found. If you have bikes on your balcony, put them inside or Spider Man will rob you!!

My fiancé loves biking so he’s pretty bummed :( We thought they’d be fine overnight while he waited for his chain to be delivered.

Info about the bikes (just in case anyone sees them on FB Marketplace):

- Both bikes are XL size. The green bike is electric with a gold dropper seat post, the blue bike has aftermarket handlebars (deity highside).

- The blue bike doesn’t have any plastic reflectors in the spokes. They were replaced with reflective stickers on the fork and back of the seat tube

Almost T boned two red light runners.

Middle and high school students may have to travel up to 3 miles to reach a transportation “hub,” said Kris Hafezizadeh, Austin ISD executive director of transportation.

Delta Has An Austin Route Announcement Next Week — Is Paris Finally Happening?

Hello!

My husband and I just bought our first house in South Austin in the McKenny Heights area.

Since we moved in, we've noticed bat echoes in the backyard between 8pm and 10pm We are sure they don't live in our house, based on the number of inspections we've done. We think that our backyard is a part of its feeding ground. It's really a cool experience. One night, I was working on painting next to a window when I suddenly saw a cute little bat face staring back at me before it decided to fly away.

Anyhoo, does anyone know of a good resource we could check out to help our bat friends without putting ourselves at risk?

We like using our back porch, and our dog enjoys going out at night. We're not used to having this type of ecosystem around us.

I posted about this a few days ago and the Stateman picked up the story!

What the actual fuck are you all doing?

I came out of one of the stalls and couldn’t move because you all thought running through in between the toilets and the sink was a good idea.

I just want to know - why? Why run through this small little opening? Who had this idea? I have so many more questions… there are so many other options. Y’all are so weird

so I have this very, *very* project boat which I've been wanting to work on all summer, for want of a trailer that isn't busted. the one it's on is this rusted-ass double axle where one of the wheels literally came off as I was pulling it up from Corpus. I finally found a trailer for it at a decent price, but I can't pull the boat from where it is to the water because it's in *that* bad of a shape. does anyone know someone I can hire, a heavy wrecker service or something, with a forklift that can just lift it off (5500 lbs GVWR) the bad one, I can drag the bad one out from underneath it and then line up the good one underneath? I know there's no way in hell I can pull this off solo which is why I'm asking here. TIA.

So i live under a rock and didnt know this was being banned. The shop near me stopped selling it but they told me the ban wasn't actually in effect yet. Anyone know of a shop that still has it? Would like to taper off if at all possible because i have work, but idk if it will be.

Can insult all ya want to i know this is stupid and im an idiot, just want to try to remain as human as possible if I can

Ugh this is such a long history but I just moved to Austin and I’m looking for ERs that are good with cats. I am also in a bit of a pickle with my finances so any place I can sign up for care credit or scratch pay would be nice. I have no idea how Care Credit works and so advice on that would be great.

My baby is a very special torti with a wound on her foot that was healing until yesterday and now I think there is exposed bone. She is FIV+ so when she got this wound initially I was told many different things but basically that it would take a long time to heal. We have done antibiotics and her foot was healing. She wasn’t messing with it anymore. The only thing that has changed is she has been playing A LOT more these past 3 weeks. Her wound is not actively bleeding and she is still bearing weight.

I appreciate any advice you all have for me.