Canada's so good at turning bus lines that have the ridership to justify a metro line into trams that have the ridership to justify a metro line

1) Bad underwriting for retail lease rates (higher than probable market); 2) As a function of 1, despite size of projects, sizing for retail space seem indicative of leasing strategies that target credit tenants - which require larger addressable market, and typ. don’t have urban models.

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

It's worth asking why Mission Bay and Brooklyn Basin each have thousands of new residents but support essentially zero new neighborhood retail.

"Are Québécois Latinos?" - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked after 10,321 pages of heated debate,

I can hear people having fun and cheering for the Super Bowl from rooftap bars, but I'm doing something much cooler, taking pictures of buildings in the rain.

America's most beautiful city.

American urban and transit policies are third-rate before most other developed countries, but culturally there's just no fucking comparison and victory goes to the country that's least maladjusted to the realities* of modernity. *women, queer people, and immigrants are people

“AHEAD OF THE WORLD THE GREAT AMERICAN FOUR TRACK RAILROAD LIGHTNING EXPRESS PASSENGER AND FREIGHT TRAINS, ALWAYS ON TIME.”

TIL that both the Angles and the Saxons were people from what is today Denmark/Germany. Why is Terf Island so weird about immigration?

Gonna go downtown and see if I can get any good photos of the super bowl party stuff.

Having just spent a week in latam I can proclaim with confidence The IAD mobile lounges are the only high-platform BRT system in the world that makes any sense

You shouldn't be in this industry if you don't understand the 3-2-1 backup rule.

These billionaires and their allies show up to rallies and shout down the millionaires of our city. This has to stop now.

I think more Americans should learn about real estate in Santa Clara - like this home that sold last month. The American Dream is going strong here!

people in this industry _really_ should be more familiar with the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s. people remember the Woz and Bill Gates, but not the People's Computer Company, open hardware kits, users' clubs, OG hacker ethos. none of what we have came by accident, we reached out and took it

Maybe we can run Ossoff for President.

A basic work truck for any tradesperson costs about $50,000. A maxed out Mac Studio with 512gb unified memory (capable of running frontier open-weights LLMs) costs under $15,000.

My Instagram ads are getting weirder

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Yes, this is a viable PhD topic.

Groypers will be like “you can’t use a singular they as a pronoun“ but then make up words like “foids” because they don’t think women are human.

Everything is gender, including gender.

Misty likes it! #MistyTheCat #DesignWithZ

We probably should not create robots that are like, 99th percentile in human athleticism. youtu.be/UNorxwlZlFk?...

Reminder-to-self to put a big Mexican flag in the rear window of my truck.

America's long military decline started when defense and aerospace jobs were moved out of Southern California. If you want the world's best workers, it has to be here. youtu.be/WqpjYUrEMbM?...

I'd prefer to ride in a taxi with lots of sensors operated by a remote human than a taxi operated by a local human.

There's something about this one that looks very modern and digital art esque. Looks like it could be in a animation supplement or something.

Kids, don't forget to calibrate your monitors before investing any time in photo editing.

Unpopular opinion: all children should be sent to boarding schools.

The Claude Ads use a track by Dr. Dre, which is a very interesting decision by a San Francisco based company. www.youtube.com/watch?v=De-_...

Class I Nationalization

Don’t let anybody tell you that developers won’t build single-stair buildings on larger sites. Three right in a row.

As an Eldritch Tumblrite, I am fascinated. As a linguist, I disagree. Bsky could never achieve Tumblr's neo-Dadaist nature because collaborative back and forth posting is seen as invasive and creepy. Tumblr lacks bsky's fear of contact and not only accepts 'cringe' but actively strives for it.

yeah Bluesky is primarily a Tumblric language

We paid $500k to keep a man alive just for ICE to murder.

I think we all need some care.

Ordered a (used) Fujifilm 70-300mm f/4-5.6 and I didn't even read a single review first, just going on vibes and the strong resale price as an indicator. Somehow this will be my first telephoto lens in 25 years of photography hobby.

Watching a person use markers on a coloring book is surprisingly relaxing. youtu.be/MDXCpgeXv2g?...

Bluesky in particular is a place where the conversation is driven by the people who have the time and space to participate in the conversation. You don't really just "jump in."

what the fuck man

There are a lot of peer-reviewed journals that publish research on the basic economics of housing supply and affordability, so if somebody is putting out white papers rather than peer-reviewed research, it’s probably because it’s low-quality work www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/r...

When ICE Watch starts in the Bay and I decide to pull a Will Stancil in my old truck, at least it will force me to socialize IRL and break my bad habits. Ha ha ha.

There is a path forward for California High Speed Rail.

Yall have to see this slide

The very best thing that can happen for the world today is BTC $0.