Ruth Nelson

@ruthjnelson.bsky.social

Spatial Data Scientist for the City of Amsterdam || All things urban 🌆, policy 📝, AI 🦾 and spatial data science 📍 Website: www.ruthjnelson.com

Something that has become very clear to me from working on housing and urban policy more generally is that a lot of people — including a lot of professional advocates — think that there's a way to do policymaking without any tradeoffs, and the existence of tradeoffs means you did something wrong.

Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · 2y ago

increasingly obvious that a lot of people want left-wing policy but without the social democratic tax based policy for broad based funding

Bluesky feels like a breath of fresh air, whilst my Twitter feed feels like the earth is burning 🔥 don’t know which one is real, but I sure feel far more optimistic about the world seeing all this wonderful work/ideas from amazing people 🚀