Housing. The #1 most alienating thing about Canada to young people is the extraordinary cost of housing. As a housing nerd, I know it’s mainly municipal/provincial, not federal. But Poilievre identified a sore spot that the Liberals have long seemed out-of-touch on.

Practice practice. Many problems to shake out. Need to spend some time with these majuscules. If I do ever write the whole piece I'll need to do it at a smaller nib size (this is a 3mm pigma calligrapher marker) and in textualis quadrata so I can wrap lines wherever #calligraphy

This is the correct response from Americans when their government threatens to annex sovereign nations Contrast this with Dave Weigel's bloviation on using Greenland as a bargaining chip in the 2028 presidential campaign

Don’t Back Down, Europe open.substack.com/pub/persuasi...

Unión del Barrio first started its community patrol program more than thirty years ago in response to police harassment of Latinos. The group reactivated its community patrols in response to increased federal immigration enforcement in San Diego.

stephen miller visited the delphic oracle and was really excited when he was told 2026 would be about the triumph of the Will.

A U.S. president cannot be held accountable. Therefore, a U.S. president must never make a policy decision.

Deadly intersection for pedestrians "meets city standards." You said it.

Tonight's project: Purple science. Not tested so probably several bugs. Power lines are jank because I forgot I would need power

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

teensy blue vulcanus circuits module. Working on getting rockets well set up so I can eventually export all science from here

Came back with coal liquefaction and have completely ignored the power generation I went back for in the first place

Barebones vulcanus base is done. Need more power so back to Nauvis for turbines, which I forgot to unlock. I am tempted to do a very barebones run of all the inner planets to unlock stuff, which maybe means I should go back to my older save and start megabasing.

Off to vulcanus! Showed up to my fully loaded ship and no ammo had stockpiled 🤔 #factorio

Having a hard time not sidetracking to automate prod modules for my whole factory

HOLY SHIT www.theverge.com/tech/854556/...

This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets. polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...

This is definitely where we dogmatically diverge, because I'm of the strong opposite persuasion that death is bad and we should tax you excessively if you ever do it, as a strong disincentive. The dividends of this can be used for universal security, instead of random, unearned windfalls.

YES. Death taxes are an essential tool in the healthcare policy toolbox.

I frankly don't tolerate arguments against batteries that are couched in "look at all these materials we'll need to find!" when it's not acknowledged that the current status quo is "we find materials which we then set on fire and use once"

From the Metro Toronto Planning Board's 1959 draft Official Plan (voted down by Metro Council). You could not say something this obvious in Toronto's Official Plan anymore.

I want bicycle infrastructure that’s safe enough to do this

If you owe the bank a million dollars, you have a problem. If you owe the bank a trillion dollars, the bank has a problem. It's called TURBO-BORROWING. Buy my online seminar and I'll teach you how to become too big to fail

Fuckin got em

Americans are numbed by this to the point that many are surprised when others (Canadians) take threats of invasion or annexation at face value

Always good when we’re all doing a dril tweet.

Every now and again, I like to repost this. Single Family and prohibition of mixed use (proprietors living above businesses) were invented in California and aimed at restricting Asian Americans. It's indefensible www.kqed.org/news/1184054...

By God that's @regmonkey.bsky.social 's music

Midway Rising, a 4,000+ home redevelopment project, has been in the works for years, but it’s still being held up. Why? Legal challenges, CEQA, and a 50-year-old height limit in San Diego. I explain below!

While MTS and San Diego city officials encourage public transit use to attend December Nights in Balboa Park, bus routes 7 and 215 will both be diverted away from Balboa Park during the large-scale holiday event. More from @laurenjmapp.bsky.social: www.daylightsandiego.org/balboa-park-...

A left-NIMBY told me renters keep being renovicted so I asked how he deals with population growth and he said he opposes all developments that aren't affordable so I said it sounds like he’s just renovating old rental homes for rich people and then his tenants union started crying.

New blog post: "If You’re Going to Vibe Code, Why Not Do It in C?" stephenramsay.net/posts/vibe-c...

Experiments in feline aviation

1st attempt with Google Nano Banana

Don’t let consumerism erase the true meaning of the holiday 🙏

Another instance of "revealed preference" not considering confounding factors. The story here is that a lot of popular products have added AI things somewhere. Not that people prefer products with AI enabled because of such enablement.

never a good time to fedpost but now is a particularly bad time to fedpost

#calligraphy instead of doing work this week i guess

rfk jr moaning in olivia nuzzi's ear

graven images include photolithography

Defense also says of the remaining verbs besides assault — impede and interfere — Sandwich Guy actually helped the officers do their duty, to the extent it was “high visibility” crime patrol and prevention. Indeed, they became *more* highly visible when officers arrested him in double digits.

If these rich assholes want to keep their covenant, the city should slap a "pay through the nose for single family home density downtown" area rate on downtown's mansion district.

if you weren't supposed to invest in them then why are they named financiers

I wish there was a way to convey how much of a big deal this is to me, I wish you could feel it. Our work on housing policy, condensed in a single report, has finally been translated to English. You can download it here: carrefour.vivreenville.org/publication/... (Click "Télécharger le PDF")

My italic calligraphy is a bit rust but happy sweet 16