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Why does that look like something you see from Cities: Skylines?

Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢@regimecpa.bsky.social · 2d ago

Love drone footage of new builds in exurban Texas, gives me a very particular kind of dread to look at that is hard to replicate with other photos.

The president of the United States is a mentally deranged con man and a pathological liar.

If you reduce the barriers to entry for building, more local, small developers would invest in architecture for personal, subjective reasons and there would be fewer mediocre hot takes on design. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

S.F. is rushing to build new housing, but we shouldn’t settle for mediocre design

OPINION: If City Hall wants its residents to get behind the “Family Zoning” plan, it needs to work a lot harder to build architecture that is well-designed, columnist Allison Arieff writes.

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Kinda crazy that the "why are US elevators so expensive" issue basically got national level attention almost entirely due to one OCD YIMBY. (that's a compliment). Never doubt if one individual can change the world it seems...

Sightline Institute@sightline.org · 2d ago

“There are many differences in construction costs between the U.S. and other countries, but I’m not sure there’s anywhere else where the difference is as large as the elevator.” @stephenjacobsmith.com

We're working with @metroabundance.bsky.social to collect cost drivers in California building codes and standards above and beyond national model codes/standards. See here for more – please circulate among architects, engineers, etc. in the state! admin.centerforbuilding.org/wp-content/u...

That turnaround with direct eye contact 😂😂😂 IG: @renjung.family

Uber Eats and DoorDash hid tip buttons and set default tips below 10%. As a result, tips for delivery workers fell 79%.  In January, we made these corporations change their apps — and in the past six months, we've put $104 million back in delivery workers' pockets.  This is only the beginning.

On the death of second floor residences in Main Street USA, or live/work units. dirtamericana.com/2023/02/uppe...

Upper floors in old buildings: why are they so hard to put to use?

It's enough to revive the street level of a historic commercial corridor with new businesses. But what about those upper floors?

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The American mind cannot comprehend the efficiencies of the Swiss single stack.

Remember America. The reason it is being reported that Trump has decided not to "obliterate" Iran for the 117th time is because the oil markets open in 8 hours. We know the trades are being set up by his people & traders to short & buy the bounce that will happen during the week. War by profiteering

San Mateo’s first SB 79 project. I’m sorry but this is too much lot coverage. Even NYC’s tenement house act of 1879 did not allow 91% lot coverage. The building should be 50 ft. deep at most. You should not pack an FAR of 4.5 into five stories, this is terrible design and will lead to a backlash.

Sloposition 13 Iconoclast🚰🔰@josh.hawn.xyz · 2w ago

found it: www.cityofsanmateo.org/4968/606-S-D...

As alway, our cartoonists nail it. #USDemocracy

My painting DARK STORM

Emergent discovery of @chittimarco.bsky.social's research on bidirectional lanes. Could enhance and formalize this with various other measures in the toolbox: tpa.transitcosts.com/atlas/toolbo...

Jason Rabinowitz@airlineflyer.net · 3w ago

Adding this bus lane for the Q70-LGA Link was a really simple improvement but it seems to have actually worked quite well. Shockingly, Queens drivers look to be respecting the bus lane!? Even though it's only an eastbound lane, some Q70 drivers use it westbound so it's kinda bi-directional!

This is Winnie. He got so excited that he briefly forgot how to be a dog. You can laugh, but he'd like to point out you look this ridiculous all the time. 13/10 (TT: brisbreaks)

He said don’t worry I won’t sleep in your bed. I’ll sleep in mine. 👍 IG: doggvids

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was murdered by ICE. His three sons called him “El mundo entero” — the whole world. They watched as their whole world died in a video posted on Facebook. Lorenzo was our neighbor and fellow Texan. He deserves justice.

Politicians decided to give curb parking away for free. Off-street garages charge fees. So at peak hours, curb parking is jampacked, garages are mostly empty, and customers complain. #Seattle has a parking MANAGEMENT problem, not a parking supply problem. It's politicians can and should fix it!

Good rundown of how single-stair reform in Connecticut was killed by the fire service: "The protracted set of approvals and reviews that single-stair reform was subjected to presented several points of potential failure, some of which lacked transparency." rpa.org/news/lab/sin...

Here’s an idea: to help people know who to vote for so they don’t have to turn to AI, American elections should have a system of robust partisan competition for all races, at all levels of government www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/u...

‘Who Should I Vote for?’ Voters Turn to A.I. Before Casting Their Ballots

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Todd Blanche's deadline to put up or shut up is tomorrow. It's true! @katiephang.bsky.social is a bad ass. Setting precedent and taking names. Check out our conversation about her case here. Never any paywalls. Ever. www.muellershewrote.com/p/a-major-wi...

A MAJOR Win for Independent Media Against Todd Blanche!

I'm still reeling from Judge Emmet Sullivan's 48-page ruling in Katie Phang's case against the Justice Department in the Epstein Files Transparency Act case. This is MASSIVE.

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This is Nala. She thought your face had disappeared. Turns out it was behind your hands the whole time. Incredible. 12/10 (IG: goldennala27)

Jon Ossoff is out with a new ad targeting sex trafficking. Ossoff passed a bill that saved countless young girls from the foster system. electjon.com

Parked but not idle: The buses “will charge up their nearly 200-kilowatt-hour batteries overnight, when the power supply is at its cleanest & cheapest, then send energy back to the grid from 4 pm to 7 pm on days when the grid is strained. The district will earn revenue for the power it shares…”

In Massachusetts, parked EVs will start feeding the grid this summer

Three electric school buses will kick-start the state’s groundbreaking vehicle-to-grid pilot program once school's out, with more EVs to be added in the…

canarymedia.com

My family is facing incredible challenges after a sudden disability has left one parent unable to walk and the other struggling with mental health issues. They need help to rent a safe home where they can rebuild their lives together. www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-bu...

Donate to Help Us Build a Safe, Loving Home, organized by Michelle Cullen

In the past six months, I have been hit with a catastrophic physical disability, los… Michelle Cullen needs your support for Help Us Build a Safe, Loving Home

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Here are the top 5 dogs of June!

So...the definition of "worker" is a person who works. Not a person who is "working class," which is a misleading and anachronistic term that is no longer really defined much by whether a person works. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o...

My pessimistic runs in the opposite direction! YIMBYism seems unstoppable, while no real popular or elite movement has built for transit. Instead even our largest cities only have transit cargo cults, which build transit-shaped abominations (ESA, PABT, 5x cost Subway extensions, RLX, “light rail”).

Pride Ott 🦦 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · last mo.

tbh I'm kinda growing more pessimistic about the future of YIMBYism in the US. Dense housing needs high-throughput transportation infrastructure, and I just don't really think that the coalition for that really exists to provide that competently

Dog cronching on a snack: 🔊 #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/aww/s/VHGQ...