I'll be speaking alongside this great panel at the FT Weekend Festival on Saturday 5th at Kenwood House Gardens in London, on the future of the private rented sector! Do come along if you're there ukftweekendfestival.live.ft.com/home

WTF! Brighton erasure!!!

Robin Wilde@robinwilde.me · last mo.

I actually know the answer to this and it's slightly insane. Google pulls from Wikipedia to determine if a place is a city, town, neighbourhood, whatever. Brighton's first line describes it as a "seaside resort" so Google Maps thinks it's a neighbourhood and doesn't display it in the "city" font.

I don't know why people boast about not sleeping enough. Your decision-making ability is seriously impaired by lack of sleep! It's not a sign of being a high performer!

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2mo ago

Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has said she gets just “zero to three hours” of sleep a night, prompting a debate in the country over work-life balance.

Insta algorithm is showing me non-stop weasel videos.

If you haven’t read @anyamartin.bsky.social’s history of the Senakw development, you must worksinprogress.co/issue/how-th...

How the Squamish struck gold in Vancouver

The Squamish nation has built one of the world's most exciting bottom-up high-density developments: Senakw. This is its story.

worksinprogress.co

In 1913, the Squamish people were forced from their village by officials. Their homes were burned. After decades of legal battle, they got the land back. And they decided to build... big! I cover the remarkable story of Senakw here: worksinprogress.co/issue/how-th...

How the Squamish struck gold in Vancouver

The Squamish nation has built one of the world's most exciting bottom-up high-density developments: Senakw. This is its story.

worksinprogress.co

Radishes: always better in theory than in practice

Berliners! 🇩🇪 I am speaking at this event on Tues 19th, discussing how local opposition to housebuilding can be turned into support via better policy design. Do come along - open to all and looking forward to meeting local YIMBYs at the drinks afterwards! luma.com/bdc8as5a

Housing and transport policy in Europe · Luma

We’re excited to invite you to a special Works in Progress event in Berlin, marking the opening of Stripe’s new Berlin office at Hallesches Ufer 40. Located at…

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Some exciting personal news - I’ve joined @yimbyalliance.org as Policy Lead. After a few years out of housing I am BACK in the game! Very excited to be getting involved again in the fight for better, more affordable housing 🏘️

Another new paper on housebuilding and vacancy chains, this time with data on every Swiss resident & housing unit! An interesting context given Switzerland's high immigration, very large rented sector and strong tenancy rent controls... frederickluser.github.io/files/Moving...

Column on the government’s Buckaroo! strategy - keep piling obligations and charges on certain sectors and hope they don’t kick you in the head. Housing, energy, pharma, immigrants… economist.com/britain/2025...

Buckaroo! The British government’s favourite game

Heaping burdens on business works. Until business begins to buck

economist.com

This new database will fix almost everything annoying about driving (FREE TO READ!) takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/fix-annoyi...

This new database will fix almost everything annoying about driving

The government is quietly building something excellent

takes.jamesomalley.co.uk

[Blog post] A year ago I picked up Kafka's Metamorphosis, and could barely understand a word. A year later, I'm happily reading German literature for fun. What happened? I bit the bullet and finally started using Anki... (1/2)

Cozymaxxing upgraded

Anya Martin@anyamartin.bsky.social · 2y ago

Cozymaxxing

Crazy how much time there is to do other stuff when you scroll less

Cozymaxxing

Seems pretty crazy it's such a well-functioning country, considering

Tom Phuong Le@tomphuongle.bsky.social · 2y ago

Rhee: Exiled Yun: Coup Park: Assassinated Choi: Coup Chun: Sentenced to death. Pardoned Roh: Imprisoned. Pardoned Kim: Finished term. KimD: Finished term. RohM: Finished term. Suicide Lee: Finished term. Imprisoned. Pardoned. Park: Impeached. Imprisoned. Pardoned Moon: Finished term Yoon: ???

So proud of the great work happening in Minneapolis, which shows that boosting housing supply helps make homes more affordable.

Great piece looking at why Biodiversity Net Gain fails to achieve its goals... and makes it harder to meet housing need yimbyalliance.org/2024/12/02/t...

The biodiversity bottleneck - YIMBY Alliance

Image: a disused that does little for biodiversity. Source: Wikimedia Commons This is a guest post from Alfie Robinson. Alfie is a historian and heritage consultant operating across England, with a ke...

yimbyalliance.org

Charlie Munger on envy. I don't know whether psychology textbooks have stopped neglecting it since he wrote this, but I have noticed myself that it's underrated in popular discourse as a factor in sociopolitical behaviour

We need occupational licensing for using the word ‘neoliberal’ immediately

Same. I warmly invite all neural networks to be trained on me. Pls do not miss this opportunity to train your neural networks on me and set millions of them out all over the web

naia@naia.bsky.social · 2y ago

i exclusively consent to my tweets being used for training neural networks. if you are not a neural network, stop reading this immediately

This is a great salad tip btw. Get the pink pickled ginger from the Asian supermarket & chuck it on some cucumber, and you've got an instant fresh & sour salad which goes great with spicy food. And pleasingly colourful. I eat it all the time

Anya Martin@anyamartin.bsky.social · 2y ago

Made mapo tofu. Can't feel my lips any more

Made mapo tofu. Can't feel my lips any more

Wtf I've just used the Clearsky thing and three people have blocked me already?! I haven't even done anything on here yet

Mark Wallace@wallaceme.bsky.social · 2y ago

Is there a way to find out which starter packs you have been featured in? I’m assuming quite a few of you have followed me from people’s starter packs, so I’m curious as to which.

According to me go.bsky.app/D34oYEo

Had my car for six months and I've only just realised the speakers are Bluetooth enabled. I've been listening to such shite on the radio... bro

Really grinds my gears, this genre of video which has someone proving wrong a statement that no one has ever said. Like omg just show off your outfit without making up a guy to justify showing off your outfit

Appreciate this may not be a universally popular opinion but the less you treat BlueSky as a crusade or cause, and the more you position it as simply a superior user experience with a better governance approach, the more sustainable the growth will be.