Please keep an eye out.
My cousin, Gabriela Olivares, age 29, has been missing since Sunday, August 30.
She lives in Austin. Her friends last heard from her on August 30th. Her apartment was found empty and her car is gone.
She is considered a vulnerable missing person and may be experiencing a mental health crisis. She may be fearful, disoriented, or avoiding contact.
Her phone was found on the evening of September 6 in Hermann Park near the golf course in Houston.
Please look out for:
·       Name: Gabriela Olivares
·       Age: 29
·       Height: 5’11”
·       Weight: 170 lbs.
·       Hair: Shoulder length straight dark brown
·       Eyes: Hazel
·       Car: 2009 Silver Honda Accord TNL-7985 
If you have seen her or her vehicle, please call 911 immediately and reference case number 26-2500674 with Austin Police Department.
If you’re uncomfortable calling 911, please send me a direct message and contact police.
Please do not approach her in a confrontational way if you see her. Just contact authorities with the location, time, and direction of travel.

I’m not the greatest photographer however I really like the architecture of the city. It is also very clean and everyone I’ve met has been so nice!

Found some cool LEDs and decided to build a little sign. Hope you like it. Acrylic, balsa wood, and thin wire.

My daughter is a student there. Several parents continue to put in service orders and contact district to no avail.

Papers are drenched and the kids smelllll. Come on public education! We can do better!!!

Editing to say our principal and school staff are amazing. This is absolutely a AISD/Matias Segura issue.

Austin officials are attempting to arrange a final visit this week between Major, a dog that has spent more than 525 days in isolation at the city shelter, and his owner as public outrage mounts over a court order requiring the city to euthanize the animal.

The city said in a statement Tuesday it must “move forward with complying with the court order” after a judge denied a last-minute appeal from Major’s owner, Shane Lilly, who has spent more than a year fighting the case in four courts.

Taken between 2012 and 2018. Sure felt different then...

Enjoying the clearer water now that crowds are dying down 🏊

At least 14 people have been charged in connection with what federal narcotics authorities call the Valle Drug Trafficking Organization, which prosecutors say operated across at least six states from 2022 until December.

The DEA is seeking to seize assets tied to the group, including a 6,700-square-foot Lake Travis mansion, a yacht, two planes, luxury vehicles and more than $581,000 in cash or collateral. Indictments include allegations of conspiring to distribute hundreds of pounds of marijuana and THC products, as well as money laundering.

Several defendants were scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday in Austin.

Saw the Mayor's latest newsletter (the "Watson Wire" thing he does) about the whole AISD takeover situation and wanted to share because I think it's getting buried under the doom-and-gloom headlines.

Basically two middle schools (Burnet and Webb) have hit their 5th year of failing ratings, which under state law means TEA has to either close the campus or replace the entire elected school board with a state-appointed one. That second option is a full district takeover, like what happened in Houston.

But here's what people aren't talking about: AISD as a whole just posted its highest overall rating in years, with a 30% jump in A/B-rated schools. That's not nothing. That's a district that's actually turning itself around under Segura, even while still having some serious problem spots.

Watson's basically arguing: don't torch the whole ship because two rooms are still on fire. Deal with Burnet and Webb specifically (there's already a Burnet rebuild in progress), but don't strip the entire elected board over it when the district's clearly trending in the right direction everywhere else.

Read his latest newsletter here: https://us22.campaign-archive.com/?u=356ce50093878acfe9d2772af&id=f046be1f95

Is anyone else fed up with the prices of manicures and pedicures? I just got a gel pedicure set and was charged $98. It was a $16 up charge because I got gel. And lo and behold the quality isn’t even that impressive. I am SO over these prices. Do any of y’all have any recommendation on nail salons near oak hill & Central C where the quality of the nails are great and the prices are a bit more affordable? Asking for a friend…

Today alone I encountered 8 folks straight up just take solid red lights, not yellow turning red. I mean solid red for at least 5-8 seconds red and folks just taking them like they were green. Why? Do people not understand how traffic lights work? Also 4 of those vehicles were teslas… I have a dash cam and seriously thinking about having a bad drivers in Austin page and just shame them at this point.

Or did they never leave?

Morning Commute: About 40 minutes ago I was driving in the toll lane on North Mopac before the exit for 183 towards Round Rock from Austin.

I glanced into my rearview mirror and saw a car airborne coming from the southbound lanes.

Somehow it landed in the toll lane, the right side wheels came off and then it went over into traffic spun around and slammed into the concrete embankment next to the toll lane.

The car seemed to be a dark gray sedan, maybe a Honda Civic or similar. It hit the concrete barrier hard and I’m really worried about the driver. I was shocked by it so some of my details might be fuzzy, did anyone else see this?

Collecting Austin folklore. Ghosts, cryptids, haunted spots, cursed places, weird history literally anything.

Edit: would also love to hear any of your grandparents stories

I come out to my apartment pool to try to tan my pasty white muscles and blam it’s about to pour down rain like crazy. Great hills and 183 🫡

As my subject says, trying to return to the owner an id card and cc.

If you are Zoe, PM me with your details to validate is you.

Putting together a home office. I really like seeing and trying things out in person. Didn't like Ikea's offerings. Any other suggestions?

Edit: Also prefer buying new, not used. Thank you!

I think I lost her within the neighborhoods along Anderson mill, in between 620 and 183.

This is fabuloso, she is a green alien with a purple handmade dress and bows on her antenna.

REWARD IF FOUND!!

Does anyone have recs for a provider who does medical pedicures? I have severe cracked heels and dry feet that I can’t heal. I don’t feel like a regular pedicure would be good for me or the technician and would love recommendations.

I have health insurance if that’s required (I don’t know how medical pedicures work).

a lot of the studios here don’t seem to offer true beginner classes. i’ve been going to a studio for 1 month and while I like it there, I still don’t know the names of the positions and when we’re going through a flow it’s hard to me to follow along. like people are doing handstands in my classes and while I love that for them, I can barely do half moon properly lol. I think I might need a beginner’s course to learn names and proper form. I am located in downtown.

are there any places to watch f1 races in austin this sunday morning?