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Aside from the murder, crimes against humanity, etc.—it's remarkable how bad he is at this act a decade into it. A real hillbilly would not g-drop "fishing" here. It's a stressed syllable. He got so caught up talkin' and comin' and whatnot, he forgot to be doin' proper velar nasal alveolarization.

Pack it up, y'all. Nobody will do it better.

Wow, I can't believe @seanforfive.bsky.social threatened to email the zoning administrator to find out if eating ass is a permitted use in the RM40 zoning district

There is a German TV show called "Unser Supermarkt" which is like a reality TV show about a supermarket except the drama is just supermarket employees talking about missing barcodes and where to stack the Kartoffeln and very normal checkout processes. It is peak German culture.

Euclid and its consequences. 800 words not sufficient, but local governments' virtually limitless land use powers—in a nation of otherwise severely limited gov't powers—leads local governments to use the land use hammer for every nail. Progressive politicians should roll it back. Laugh meanwhile:

This is a totally fascinating deep dive into one of those European social housing projects that goes mini-viral in North American housing circles because it's so pretty and cheap--and it turns out to be a lot more complicated. brendanwhitsitt.substack.com/p/24-does-eu...

On one hand, it sucks that we have a system that allows a small number of cranks to delay public goods and force the public to spend tons of money on frivolous legal defenses. On the other hand, it's fun to watch the worst person you've ever encountered lose over and over and over again.

West Nashville (now The Nations) under the original 1933 zoning code was Residence B and Industrial A zones. Residence B allowed 4 units/lot—equivalent to the density proposed in this rezoning. Industrial A had no residential density limits. This remains a colossal down-zone from 100 years ago.

Sebald did it a whole lot more better.

This is good art-crit

Historic ruling in Colombia as Uribe becomes first former president convicted of a crime. Now faces prison time. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Because I assume few on this website have, or know anyone who has, a WSJ subscription:

Theoretically, I believe U.S. governments (esp. local) are too constrained. But as a practical matter, I believe governments should not be allowed to use word processors.

Architecture is my passion

I have been in six different buildings so far this week and every one of them has had an out-of-service/malfunctioning elevator.

Gross. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children estimates that around 4,600 children are abducted by strangers each year; a small fraction of those abductions are by undocumented residents. ICE has abducted at least 6,166 children into detention already this year. Source:

Because I assume few on this website have, or know anyone who has, a WSJ subscription:

North America has progressed beyond a need for single-stair architectural competitions. North America now needs single-stair pro-forma competitions; single-stair construction debt product competitions; single-stair management services model competitions; condo finance/liability reform competitions.

Strong Towns should be understood first as a Catholic (derogatory) organization. No further explanation. Fellow former cultural-Catholics will understand.

I swear to god nobody reads my fucking articles. www.yellowbrickurban.com/popular-arti...

Consider a different perspective

Gotta hattip Google on this one.

Correct. IZ is an economic integration program that has, over time, become mistaken for an affordable housing production program—it does not do that well, because it does not move up the bid-rent curve well. It only works where low-density residential is the only viable development option.

@charlescgardner.bsky.social and @yellowbrickurban.com cover how Nashville developers did the same thing prior to the city legalizing detached duplexes: www.mercatus.org/research/res...

Wow, I had no idea he said this. We cannot allow this man to destroy our Great American Cities with his Big Government discrimination.

My brother-in-law pays €1400/mo. all expenses included for a one-bedroom with "condo-quality finishes" in this complex, a block from a tram stop and adjacent to a supermarket.

Your fave left-of-center local elected took the guided tour with the council travel budget. Real Sozialwohnungsbaukopfen paid their way to drop their wives off at a pool to spend a few hours reading in The Original German and taking photos to share on an app that turns them into Web 1.0 thumbnails.

One cool thing about not allowing a private industry consortium to write absurd density diseconomies into the building code: cities can create U-Bahn-accessible downtowns on former airfields at the urban edge, instead of building streetcarless streetcar suburbs on former airfields in the urban area.

I love that Austrians have a German sense of humor.

Books!!! I'm so grateful to Matt Lassiter, Richard Rothstein, @eherbin.bsky.social‬‬, @judithkafka.bsky.social‬, @nrooks.bsky.social‬, @tracylsteffes.bsky.social‬ & @trounstine.bsky.social‬ for their thoughtful and generous words of support... 🗃️ @uncpress.bsky.social, @sonyabonczek.bsky.social‬ ‬💐

Coulda drunk a hundred waters with how hot it's been in Vienna these days

JaneJacobsism: anti-government liberalism for conservatives

Finally got around to this fascinating episode of the superb @gregshill.com + @jeffrlin.bsky.social show & reading paper. Both are... dense... for laymen. Basic: the history of highways bring run thru Black n'hoods is well documented—but highway construction also *created* Black-segregated n'hoods.

Or, the absolute worst-case scenario: your code requires side setbacks, so developers build a couple of 3,000 ft² townhouse units because the devil's trifecta of buildable widths, market parking demands, and code-driven height thresholds make flats undesirable or impossible.

Great case study on negative effects of the combination of heightphobic building codes and excessive lot depths. This could be anything from a very normal building with efficient studio/1bd units—four per floor—to a nice Wohngemeinschaft-style setup with better light, to spacious 3-/4-bedroom flats.

Just saw that Canadians are doing No Tyrants rallies and today might not be the time to say this but annexation has its merits.

Extermination camps have historically been both grand architectural statements and potent feats of engineering. America will host one of its own one day. Here is what to look for.

Does anyone else's dog use their teeth to unlock the deadbolt and paw the handle open on your apartment door to go run around the hall while you're at work?

I'm convinced that pitch clocks and limiting pickoff attempts and the other speed-up-the-game rules to reignite public interest in baseball all pale in comparison to just getting Black dudes to play baseball again. Sports are better with athletes. Speed up the game by speeding up the game.

This is what happens when you defund NOAA.

GenAI isn't good for everything, but it is pretty decent at indexing scans of 113-year-old socialist newspapers.

Nice. (Real estate financing conditions are not nice, though.)

One of the things I am right about and everyone else is wrong about is that Bogotá is so much better than Medellín.

Pretty exciting new transit-oriented development announced by DC Metro on a now-mostly-vacant parcel right on top of the Red Line North Bethesda station. The multi-million-sq-ft project is life sciences and residential focused—and will include a new station entrance. www.wmata.com/about/news/M...

personally, i wouldn’t buy a home right next to an elementary school playground and then complain about the joyful noise of children playing outside on a beautiful day!

Inside you there are two wolves

Correct, but also... This is not a very good report—among many basic methodological and definitional issues, it conflates gentrification-driven displacement with repopulation. The type of gentrification-displacement in Nashville is very different from the abandonment-repopulation in D.C./U Street.

Aside the point, but this is a shit sentence. "...in angry pleasure, in pleased contempt..." CHOOSE ONE!! It's either: 1) saying the same thing slightly twice with near absolute synonyms 2) confused about the emotion 3) trying and failing to convey that the character is confused about the emotion