What a fantastic idea! We can use Insta to tell people that the government is like a household! This will help guide voters towards better choices!

In Malmo, the uncompromisingly ambitious builder-developer ETC Bygg has achieved something revolutionary. This here is a building made from straw: 12 storeys, 38 meters tall, with a fully timber structure (including core), wrapped in EcoCocon's straw panel external wall system.

Ok? And who funded this study? Big Feeling Better?

Housing discourse is a proxy for arbitration between the stanger and the neighbour; the houses don't know they exist.

Bookmark this for the next "Firefighters oppose bike lanes" story. Individual firefighters or fire houses might oppose them, but the FDNY? Typically the department is all in.

Airbnb is in the news again in Québec, and I have to take the opportunity to reup @mtsw.bsky.social as the Most Correct Guy in Housing for ten (?) years running

i love it when the clock strikes 10:30 every morning and the usual sites publish their 3 infuriating news stories that will drive all discourse today like zookeepers raising the enclosure's gate and letting the seals get into the day's bucket of chum

It seems extravagant but when I reconsidered my candle budget I found that I could easily commit to 3600$/month for a car loan

This observation serves to illustrate how two things are true: the high end of the wealth distribution is grotesquely under-taxed, and even super-confiscatory schemes directed at that wealth can't replace a broad tax base.

An important contribution from Derek Guy's overall oeuvre is giving men like me the license to go for pants that sit as high as Goku's

The Montreal Icings

evertime I log on I have a great time, personally

I post on Bluesky because it’s where my computer friends are :)

why are people arguing about bluesky this morning? it’s a rainy day. you could be out there getting drenched and falling ill

Bring down hard costs, plan for volume, make sure the people making an honest living by doing useful things can pay themselves fairly.

It’s official. After a year of work our project is live!

Takeout/delivery and cooking your own food are both wrong. Instead you should be extracting atmospheric dust, nutrients, and moisture using specialized microscopic hairs called trichomes.

Yes and: Insta/TikTok/YT broadcasting an endless procession of hot people who lead relatively carefree lives in a way that makes their lifestyles seem banal rather than extremely rare. Makes our daily schlepping feel extra undignified!

Today I did my part, today I followed Joyce Carol Oates and made Bluesky live one day more.

Managed to get completely blindsided by the punchline

They’re right and they’re right to say it

All things considered Montreal has more family-sized apartments than most other cities, owing to the fact that duplexes and triplexes (of which there are lots) tend to have more rooms per unit than towers or mid-rises. The « problem » is that they are full of roommates, not families.

the problem is that people are producing discourses at below replacement rate

UBC’s campus is astoundingly beautiful. It is mind-blowing. I can’t believe it.

Made it to Senakw

They’re right and they’re right to say it.

Revisiting this piece to think through vacancy rate targets. I think this holds in all circumstances?

I'm going on Master Chef, looking Gordon Ramsay dead in the eye while I pop this in the microwave, then staring at him unblinking for two minutes until it's ready.

Energy based dirt healer

It will take all of us to save all of us.

This is quite incredible

"You hear theyre using chickens as camera gimbals now?" "What?" "Chickens. Strap a camera onto their head. No shake. Chicken camera gimbals"

Creating a revolving loan fund for mixed-income housing then adding unnecessary complexity by mandating banks act as middle men for the transactions to code it as “free market solution” agenda is conservative everything bagel-ism. www.remappingdebate.org/article/revo...

Rumble in the office chat this morning as I submit the view that the people who live in these houses actually like them

lol this home is for rent for $3545/mo

Another insighful and engaging piece. When someone sinks below the ground, the hole they leave behind is large enough for anyone to fall through.

The office chat is workshopping French alternatives and so far the best we've got is "noeud coulant réglementaire", i.e. "planning slipknot" 💀

Alright, I should have bookmarked it but I didn't: I'm looking for a blog written by someone who used to have CLT in their username about the left needs to have a plan to tackle antisocial behavior/crime because otherwise voters will turn to the right. Ring a bell?

Fun episode. From a BC perspective, land value taxes would be relatively easy to implement. But the bigger obstacle is that Vancouver property taxes are really low. For comparison, the effective tax rate here is comparable to that of a home bought in the 70s and protected by Prop13 in California.

Co-sign. People will ask and ask and ask for architectural diversity and vernicular architecture and I say we should let them have it.

LRT: There was an ad for an upcoming social event and the organizers made some questionable/tonedeaf/off-color pitch that it would be the right place to meet women. It was ill-advised because the the women attending are not going to meet people, it's a social/cultural event with 100's of attendees.

am as feminist and concerned about male abuse as you can possibly be but I also think it's incredibly bad that we're apparently building a society where you can only flirt on The Specific Flirting Apps and somehow nowhere else, you've never debated someone like me before

This made me think of @goldwagnathan.bsky.social's beautiful piece on Thaddeus Stevens' legacy. In spite of it all. In spite of it all. nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/2025/09/19/e...

Cool new building in downtown Montreal. chevaliermorales.com/projets/900-...

The replies to this actually persuading me the ban is good!

Otherwise, behold the cursed geography of the Canadian province most enthusiastic about high speed railways:

Late to the party but this is excellent.