I would add the ability to have group chats in DMs.

Great piece on building codes.

Finally, some good news.

Reducing car dependency is a key tool in defending democracy in a whole lotta ways.

I hope California YIMBY is considered a “US YIMBY” org Their marquee SB 79 would have allowed transit agencies to build commercial uses at stations irrespective of local zoning This section was cut out by housers who want to preserve sites for LIHTC calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202...

Gavin really saw this statue and said “hair goals.”

Is Taco Bell Mexican food?

One in five Californians spend more than half their income on housing. Not having enough homes to buy or rent creates cutthroat competition and drives up prices. The solution is to allow a mix of homes of all sizes and prices, including apartments near transit, which would be allowed under SB 79.

Fossil fuel drilling, refining, and transportation already occupied huge amounts of land, as expertly documented by the photographer Edward Burtynsky. These land uses are much more destructive than solar panels!

We still need your help to get SB 79 over the finish line. Write or call the Governor's office to ask for his signature. It only takes a couple minutes with our easy to use online tool.

My fav unbuilt skyscraper of all time, the oh-so-nearly-happened Dearborn Tower in Chicago by Peter Ellis of SOM, with its layered facade that would have glittered like a waterfall on normal days and exploded in a bonfire of reflected light when the sun was low on clear days

Check out our collection celebrating the great symbol of "Red Vienna", Karl Marx Hof is an enduring icon of housing equity and a robust state that cares for the welfare of its citizens, designed by Karl Ehn and completed in 1930 architectural-icons.com/collections/...

700 Steiner street is often overlooked but she is a certified legend who has been serving the people for a century.

I think if you're GWAR, having Libs of TikTok introduce you to her entire dingbat audience is probably the best thing that could possibly happen

Seven years ago, the environmental organization I work for declined to support statewide upzoning near transit in California (SB827). This year, we co-sponsored SB79, that bill's successor. The lane is open for anyone who wants to take it, but climate funders getting onboard would be a big help.

The Great Resegregation in housing www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/r...

Tfw Debbie Harry starts rapping

Happy Autumnal Equinox. Happy Chicagohenge. Today, we move into another season of the year.

We should build more homes near public transit stops. That’s why we introduced & passed SB 79 — more homes, stronger transit systems, less traffic congestion, lower carbon emissions. It’s a win all around.

“Lee, 39, is one of L.A.’s most prolific builders of new apartments, especially in Koreatown, where her family firm has been based since 1994…She’s frustrated that Los Angeles falls woefully short every year at building enough housing to meet demand, driving up the cost of housing.”

Husband fell off a bicycle and ripped the fancy jeans he got in Tokyo so I pulled out the sewing machine and darned the hole.

I am getting privilege checked for joking about having too many tote bags. This site has the juice.

It doesn’t matter if the state passes middle housing reform. All you have to do is fight back with tree protection bills designed to ban middle housing growth. The defiance is republican level sabotage

Me taking things out: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me putting things away: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

I am calling for a moratorium on new tote bags. We all have more than enough tote bags already. Stop giving me tote bags at conferences. I do not want or need any more tote bags.

It also ignores that leaving was a form of influence! Millions sent a clear message about the minimum standards of fairness and respect we believe are foundational for civic conversation. Their obsession with our departure makes clear it was effectively communicated; they just don't like it

I don't want people to think I'm a radical, I want to believe what I do and be mainstream

If you want to perform radicalism for your peers, get a skateboard.

No one on X is interested in planning because Albert Speer is dead.

I still post on X for work reasons and the major difference between the sites is that I have interesting conversations with my professional peers on here and I get called slurs on there.

Student housing for the University of California system pays for itself and the UC system is not bound by local zoning. There is no good reason not to build enough to accommodate every single student and staff member who wants it.

We checked out the Edward Burtynsky exhibit at the International Center of Photography at the suggestion of @maxdubler.com and a rabbi at one of the synagogues we attend. Seeing giant prints of these cool photos was a trip. And NYC residents can go for free with a culture pass! But it ends soon.

“Why does transit seem to be in an endless emergency? Why is it so easy to assume that transit’s financial situation is hopeless? Because we have constructed our transportation funding streams to make transit’s costs visible, while the costs of car dependence are mostly concealed.”

people who talk about going to No Kings protests in terms of how to avoid getting kettled or black-bagged are Blue Sky’s version of men who talk about how they won’t go to a large city without a handgun and seventeen personal defense items

15 years ago you could trust that off-brand products would be almost as good as brand names because retailers had buyers who stocked good stuff. This is no longer the case. Thanks to the internet’s disintermediation of retail, you have to buy the brand name or take a real risk of getting garbage.

A single disk CD player, and a visor-folder of 12 CDs, afforded the perfect amount of musical decisions while driving.

Nobody at the conference saw any of these people or knew they were there.

Rick Cole talked about this in his interview with @awalkerinla.bsky.social and as he says it is 100% on democrats, who control every important institution at the state and local level in California. We could fix this and we choose not to.

Ron Thom’s masterpiece, Massey College (1963).

We have technology that reduces car-pedestrian accidents by 90% and car-cyclist accidents by 80% and a vocal contingent of the street safety advocacy world’s response to it is “a car is a car.”

Is public disorder often over exaggerated by the right? Yes it is! Should we still do something about it to reduce it, like building supportive housing? YES WE SHOULD! Even though I’m a socialist, I will happily to agree with Stan’s public safety views, we must make our cities More livable.

I think YIMBYism offends a certain flavor of lefty activists because they believe that housing is zero sum and that educated middle/professional class newcomers to big cities (read: yuppies) have moral standing to make material demands of local government in their own economic self interest.

"Though [Democratic] cities are far better than [Republican cities] in almost every regard, the homelessness crisis that the housing crisis begets negates all of it in most people’s eyes."

I strongly agree with every single word of this. Public disorder is toxic to the pro urbanist political project and we must take it seriously.

This may seem cute but if you do this too much the cyclists may become reliant on cars feeding them, disrupting the delicate roadway ecosystem

My only complaint is that my haters are worse at hating me than I am.

I love stancil because at some point he has said something that has pissed off literally everyone, but it’s not bc he likes to rage bait, it’s just bc he has his own principles and doesn’t care about anyone else’s opinion of them. lot to respect about that.

One reason I like Waymo better than human ride share drivers is that robots don’t watch football while driving me to the airport.

“I can, with technology, solve fundamental problems of politics” bad, stupid, there is no app that gets ride of collective action or principle agent issues “I can, with technology, change the underlying constraints of a specific political problems” maybe worth listening to! really depends!

Having cooked this, I regret to inform the timeline that the expensive and incredibly labor intensive grilled cheese is delicious.