I improved the messaging of local NIMBY organization "Save Berkeley Shops".

People do not remember how groundbreaking But I'm A Cheerleader was (Go Sailor in a major motion picture, I mean, my god.)

"The dead tell the living where to walk, and the living never realize that that's what they are doing, and it's like that everywhere and with everything, always."

What I'm seeing is that we should encourage rifle ownership. If you're busy figuring out how pair your Kestrel to your Garmin, it grounds you in the present, forces you to touch grass, and make friends at the local PRS club.

stg back when I used to care and think anything mattered, I brought this idea up in staff meetings and in the "what are you interested in" parts of job interviews and just got annihilated by the optimists pessimism is the only way we will survive and thrive.

if your city planning department starts jabbering about "corridor planning," which is where they plan to only allow new homes that replace obsolete strip malls on car sewers, show your elected officials this.

Westport P&Z rejected an early childhood center/daycare (and a court upheld!) because it would “only” have 24 parking spaces, not the required 32.4. As always, parking mandates are arbitrary junk. We need childcare way more than fake parking numbers www.ctinsider.com/news/article...

Cities need to start putting tolls at their freeway exits, charging congestion taxes and taxing parking spaces. The people of this man's district are just parasites who just waste away into nothing if the Twin Cities didn't vandalize themselves to make these assholes' commutes easier.

never 5get the pickup truck man who punish passed me as I motorcycled at the exact speed of the valencia street green wave signs and got every green, only to drag race from red to red for the next 12 blocks. carbrain belongs in the dsm

It's a Neighborhood Electric Vehicle, but with gender

"Abolish ICE" is the minimum requirement for any politician running for federal office. This is the "law enforcement" function ICE performs: invading polling places to harass people over social media posts about the ICE agent who murdered someone on her way home after dropping her kid off at school.

Can we please stop using the phrase "starter home" it's not a jacket it's not a balance bike we should stop allowing realtors to drive the way we talk about our homes and cities

it rules how nimbys want to force homebuilders to build gigantic homes that people will have to share with roommates When the whole point is that there are more smaller households now

it's actually fucking rude to show up as a guest with your own food and drink "Thanks for the invitation, but you're too tasteless to serve me anything I would eat or drink." kids raised after internet replaced newspapers never read miss manners because it was next to the comics, and it shows

"squeezing semi-solid trash down a tube from the sink into a foul-smelling vat that is periodically drained and collected" The eating habits of the English have never been more succinctly described.

For context Every time a farmer complains "I can't make money" while growing hay &/or grain next to a suburb (notoriously filled with "people" who like to "buy fresh produce"), a conman gets his wings

"Corn/hay/pasture surrounded by suburbs" is a dead giveaway that the landowner isn't even trying to stay in the farm biz more than 20 years tops. They're just holding out for a development offer than they like.

carbrain should be in the dsm

Undergraduate City Planning Education in the New Urbanism Era made sure to teach the kids that, yes, you can survive without a carload of groceries by buying a bag or two each day on your walk or bike home from work They trained us for the long decades to come of arguing in comment sections

Biden, selecting a Secretary of USDOT: "GET ME THE GUY WHO REMOVED THE CROSSWALK FROM IN FRONT OF THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL!"

I think it's good to count the votes of people who have jobs and loved ones they like spending time with instead of just the votes from the unemployable, unloveable people with nothing better to do than spend a couple hours standing in line at the polls.

Here is why the "people" of Mississippi, whose "position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery," started the Civil War: It says that the USA: Denies the right to own slaves Nullifies the Fugitive Slave Act Advocates "Negro" equality Schemes to carry out emancipation

"People" of GA, contd: "The non-slave-holding States generally have wholly refused to deliver up to us persons charged with crimes affecting slave property." There it is: They fought a war because they were too lazy to catch escapees and were mad that decent Americans wouldn't do it for them.

Let's see what reasons the unemployable trash themselves gave for the war. www.battlefields.org/learn/primar... Ctrl+F "slavery" 84 matches

Union soldiers famously ambivalent on slavery.

health insurance is nothing like property insurance everybody has a body, everybody gets sick and dies. it comes for everyone. when you need it most, you can't keep paying premiums. wildfire and flood only come for people who own property in areas at risk, and those are discrete events.

STILL WAITING

This right here caused the Knicks' comeback

Personally, I think it was a big mistake to put fire marshals, who typically have zero training in traffic safety, in charge of critical street design decisions.

i just muted "platner" because I don't live in Maine. Geographic representation has one benefit.

Congratulations to everyone who said it would get this bad. Your prize is watching everyone who disagreed now claim no one could have predicted it would get this bad.

Higher car insurance premiums wouldn't be solved by socialized medical insurance, and they shouldn't be. The social medical insurance agency should absolutely recover its costs from shitty drivers that impose costs on it. We need to stop subsidizing dangerous drivers and roads with our bodies.

Does anybody know why the slop machines all use that font?

very serious city planners will tell you that upzoning is bad because of the infrastructure odd, fifty years ago there was 10x as much zoned capacity, but they were using the same pipes that are still there today What super powers did city builders past have? (replacing small pipes with big ones)

they're calling it "supporting transit's actual riders instead of running empty buses through exurbs"

Why do we build these car trails if no one uses them?

This is what setbacks took from us.

Kamala Harris’s husband was the lawyer who filed an environmental lawsuit against subway expansion on behalf of Beverly Hills, the wealthy and exclusionary LA enclave that famously had oil wells on their high school campus until recently. This is the first good dirt I’ve ever heard about him tbh.

down payment assistance is so fucking funny wealth transfer from the general fund to adults from rich families "here's $50k to go along with the $300k your parents will need to give you to if you want a mortgage payment you can afford while earning a wage low enough to qualify for the assistance"

We need to hold People's Planning Commission hearings in which we hear comment and hold votes on whether or not people like Neil should be allowed to live in our communities, and whether or not their homes should continue to exist, including environmental impact studies on their continued existence

Here's the thing though, farmers aren't cash poor. The median SMALL FAMILY FARM is clearing over $100K in annual income. AFTER farm debts & expenses. "But $100K isn't that mu-" They're farmers, Steve, they don't live in Manhattan

Hi! I'm a farmer! This NYT article is sweet, saccharine bullshit. Farmers knew Trump was going to hurt our business. Because he already did a trade war in his 1st term. I even did a video on why so many farmers support Trump, WHILE knowing he'd hurt our farms.

But this is why municipal governments in California are stuck doing nonsensical enviro analysis. Like so much in America right now, just takes one rich guy to ruin everything!

"you can't be a catholic and support the emperor over the pope" news to the ghibellines

Truly wild research on the change in bike mode share in NYC, London, Paris and Berlin. Between 2000 and 2023, Paris went from 1 out of every 100 trips being on a bike to *one out of 9!* Many people, including credible researchers, would have told you that that *could not* happen.

The Federal government may be trying its very hardest to make it impossible to visit other countries, but at least the California government is trying its best to make the domestic vacation alternatives worth the overflowing inbox. I love the Great Redwood Trail! Congratulations to these planners.

I need this sweater more than anything. Please help me find this sweater. I need to be Stained Glass Core. I would also appreciate the complementary high-pile carpet vest.

I think cars can be fun and useful, but municipalities have to start enforcing laws against drivers summarily slaughtering and maiming their residents. Drivers are already the leading cause of violent death/injury in our communities, and without a serious crackdown, they'll kill/injure millions more