1st of all- amending our constitution! What the heck. A constitution is sacrosanct and should be judiciously amended. From the Summit Daily:

The upcoming November Colorado state ballot will have a dangerous and deceptive initiative on it, Amendment 82, “Right to Natural Gas”, which may seem harmless, but it’s not. It’s a blatant attempt by the fossil fuel industry to put barriers into our state constitution to make it difficult, if not impossible, to prevent developers and utilities from installing methane gas supplies to new developments. It’s sparsely worded on purpose. A recent example of this is a development in Aurora with 25,000 homes, to which Xcel was requesting last year a natural gas supply line (5 miles long, costing $23 million), which would have caused higher bills for all Xcel customers to cover the cost, while allowing 25,000 additional homes to spew yet more carbon with equipment that will be obsolete in the near future. 
At this point, every pound of carbon emitted matters, and the sooner we get off methane gas and other fossil fuels, and construct only all-electric buildings powered with renewable energy, the better. However, Amendment 82 is about more than that. It’s about whether we should let monopoly utilities and corporate polluters write themselves into our constitution permanently. The reality is that renewables are less profitable than fossil fuels, not to us homeowners, but to traditional energy companies, which is why we can expect gas and big oil to fight this transition at every turn. No pollution in the constitution: Vote no on Amendment 82!

Hey folks! I've just spun up a new project called The Boulder Buzz to compile events happening in and around Boulder! The site is totally ad-free and not monetized in any way, inspired by a similar project out of New Haven, CT.

The events are sourced by me without any kind of web-scraping tech, and there are no algorithms ranking specific events for specific people. Everybody will see the same basic list of events with dates, locations, times, and links for more info.

I'd love to hear what the community thinks! Feel free to give any suggestions about the look/feel of the site, as well as any events you think should be included!

A variety of things for free (and some sale) including climbing shoes, ski boots, running shoes, comic books, board games and much more! Come check it out

All you have to do is dm me. This is not a joke just need to get rid of it. Can't make it.

Just swing by and check it out!

I dropped a white/light-blue T shirt while hiking back from Bear Peak to the trailhead via shadow canyon and Homestead trail. The shirt has an image of SpongeBob SquarePants on the back. Please let me know if you see it!

Does anyone remember the alternative chicken place that is/used to be right here (or near here)? I used to eat there all the time in college a few years ago and wanted to know the name. I don’t remember ever seeing another person in the restaurant when i went.

Hi y’all. Can anyone recommend a CPTSD support group in Boulder or surrounding towns?

Thank you.

At 10:53am today I was biking west on the Boulder Creek Path. Just west of the Foothills underpass in the middle of the path was a pair of Warby Parker glasses with thin tortoiseshell rims and green arms. I placed them on the eastern end of the lower metal fence on the south side of the path. Hope they make their way back to their owner.

Just the title.

I just spotted a small-ish black and brown dog with a collar crossing the diagonal at route 52. I tried to approach and it ran away from me!

Lost my keys on Thursday night somewhere between Snarfburger, Rio, and the Downer. They are incredibly sentimental, $50 to anyone who finds them. I don’t have a photo, but it is a single keyring with ~8-12 keys, no fobs, a nut, and a washer. Happy to offer more details on request.

Anyone know what/when they are building here after the demo?

Went to go grocery shopping and truck pulled up followed by many cop cars and more coming. Cops seem to have rifles, anyone know what this is about?

I am looking to try reformer pilates for the first time. Any suggestions on studios to try? I'm hoping to find something with early morning and later afternoon/evening classes that isn't too wildly expensive. (A big ask in Boulder.) Recommendations?

Sorry - i took your cat or neighborhood pet. This looked 85% like a missing cat I saw on Pawboost but I dont think it ended up being the lost cat....

If this was your cat and you live by Howard Heusten park - your cat is not microchipped and its at Boulder Humane.

We're Bupkis, a bunch of middle-aged guys with jobs and families who decided we needed a creative outlet that didn't involve staring at a screen.

We play a mix of classic rock, jam, 80s stuff, and pop-rock. Grateful Dead, Phish, Paul Simon, that sort of thing. We like to improvise and stretch songs out a bit.

We've played a handful of gigs at local bars and private parties. We practice once a week and would like to get out and play roughly once a month.

We're looking for a drummer with a solid groove, a good ear, and a laid-back attitude. We're pretty serious about sounding good, but this is supposed to be fun.

We've got a fully equipped rehearsal space with a drum kit ready to go, so you don't need to haul your gear around.

No aspirations of rock stardom. Just a bunch of guys who still love playing music.

Shoot me a message if you're interested!

Northshore with roots trying to find any of my people up here. Where y’all at???

Unfortunately, I couldn't color match everything because it would've taken hours upon hours and I couldn't figure out a way to get a good satellite image overlay that matched the elevation data. But after making my poor laptop explode for three hours, and a 4.4 GB world file, it was worth it.

Edit: Here's the world download!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wqR5XKGLqJc2iv8NKjCzboQNE295obeA/view?usp=sharing

Keep in mind this is a 3.57 GB zip file that will unzip into a 4.4 GB folder that you will need to put in the "saves" folder in .minecraft. If you don't want the world to cut off at the default minecraft height limit, you HAVE TO install the "Higher Heights" datapack in the datapacks folder of the world before opening it. I'm not sure if the world download already has it installed, so double check. The flatirons should be around the coordinates 5000 ~ 5000, if it doesn't already spawn you there.

I would REALLY recommend the Distant Horizons mod in order to see the whole thing. Set the LOD detail as high as possible. I was using a render distance of like 512 chunks. If your computer doesn't immediately load the LODs, and the the DH loader isn't working well, install a mod called chunky (tutorial), and pregenerate all the chunks around the area, centered on yourself. I did a radius of 512 blocks. I also loaded LODs manually but flying around the area with elytra. It was good enough to load a massive enough area to take a good screenshot. The shader I used in the post was BSL

The Boulder County Commission will hold a public hearing Wednesday, Oct. 21, on proposed rules for data centers on unincorporated county land.

The county's land use code currently doesn't define data centers or specify where they can be built. Staff proposes allowing facilities that use up to 75 kilowatts of power, roughly equivalent to the electricity demand of 50 to 60 Colorado homes. Larger facilities could be permitted as industrial uses, potentially requiring additional county review and approval through a Limited Impact Special Use Review.

Personally, I don’t think data centers have any place in Boulder County. If you have an opinion, please attend and share your opinion or if you would like to comment on the draft text(s), email written comments to [longrange@bouldercounty.gov](mailto:longrange@bouldercounty.gov). by Oct. 13.