this shot is so bleak lmao

France right now:

The French don’t look like they care about third place. Relatable! Anyway i hope everyone’s having fun

Beg buttons: bad for pedestrians, much worse for cyclists

Fuck it, we ball

Heat dome, smoke event, and now thunderstorms. INDOORS is really taking the W today

Begging US grocery chains to figure out how to make smaller stores work in urban (even suburban) situations. The stores are too damn big and too spread out.

Hey, urbanists, has anyone done a starter pack of Black urbanists? Urbanists of color? I have not found one. I could get one started but do not want to duplicate efforts.

James Cameron’s Lesbian Flirting 28 Hours

True story!

Overheard from a group of four guys on the subway: “Yo, why are you doomscrolling? You’re with the bros”

i'm at the heat dome i'm at the diarrhea lettucefest i'm at the combination heat dome diarrhea lettucefest

The price of housing is set by supply and demand. The only way to prevent bidding wars and reduce housing prices in high-demand places is to build more homes.

a 6-story apartment across the street from 1-2 story houses and the sky did not fall. wedding cake zoning is bullsh*t.

We stan

"Residents didn't oppose it blindly. We just wanted engagement. We read the plans, cited city code and asked questions about scale, traffic mitigation, safety and impact. But our concerns were ignored."

When you ban housing, ban hotels and ban airbnbs all you’re doing is encouraging rich people moving in and renting the limited stock you have

Okay but, like, how explosive

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

Construction is moving quickly on the new @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social dorm. Scheduled to finish in a couple years, it will house over 1,600 students and will be Berkeley's first 20+ story building. This will free up a lot of housing for the rest of the city. 🏘️

Lindsey Graham died last night of cardiac arrest. This is the major reason the fire service has won the requirement that every elevator in buildings over three stories (or apartment buildings of any height in some states) must accommodate a 7-ft. hospital stretcher. But the uncomfortable…

The Norwegian Football Association donated all proceeds and ticket revenues (totaling over $350,000) from their World Cup qualifying match against Israel to Doctors Without Borders for humanitarian aid in Gaza. Guess which team I’m rooting for . . .

Pronouncing “Binface” in the Italian way, like Dr. Spaceman

This is a made up problem with an extremely easy solution (liberal immigration) but of course the actual problem is these racists only care about white babies

lot of people in the replies doing the usual doomposting about stock market crashes, financialization, whatever. as if none of those apply to fucking home prices lmao. but perhaps more importantly: "your house is your wealth" is actually a pretty fucked up political economy!

Barcelona put a moratorium on new hotels and is banning short term rentals starting in 2028. This will almost certainly drive up the price of hotel rooms to the point where only rich people can visit and create black markets for cheap unregulated tourist accommodations.

This morning a driver struck and killed Louisa Gag, a biking advocate and transportation planner. Gag had coauthored a Vision Zero Action plan: visionzeronetwork.org/wp-content/u...

Headline of the year

polyamory is the final boss of YIMBY

Man, nobody could build a shithouse like the WPA.

Not to mention tying sports to *clubs* not *schools*

I think this an underrated YIMBY angle: absent a lot more (revenue-generating) infill development, there's about to be a tidal wave of suburban bankruptcies and/or significant service scalebacks in the coming decades.

Study: Average Woman Prefers Partner Who Is Member Of ZZ Top https://theonion.com/study-average-woman-prefers-partner-who-is-member-of-zz-top/

I don’t understand all the FIFA rules, but I believe our loss to Belgium today means we are required to adopt their street design standards

Fuck you Trump #BelUSA

Pavement color differentiation matters in urban design. Grey asphalt for everything is sterilizing and looks like car infrastructure. Segmented, color specific pavements define conflict zones and say who belongs where.

Senator Mitch McConnell (D-ME)

I think environmental protection laws should actually protect the environment instead of encouraging habitat-destroying urban sprawl.

You can tell that this game will destroy at least one nation's psyche and that's what sports are all about baby

The beauty of sports is you can just decide at any point “I give a shit about this now. Against all reason.” Ten minutes later you hate one of the teams more than life and it’s all downhill from there.

Why can't white Americans assimilate into our multicultural democracy???

12,000 residents. 250 shared cars. Utrecht is building the low carbon future while most of the developed world sleepwalks into climate catastrophe.

Today we celebrate as the Framers intended: watching Jaws (1975) in an air conditioned multiplex and slamming cold ones

It’s easy to be cynical about America and what America means, especially when that question has been perverted by bad political actors for the entirety of your life, but if you want to know why America is a unique place, and has the potential for good, look at the people who choose to come here.

Cape Verde defeats Argentina via a 2-3 loss in extra time

(I also found today to be a great exhibit of why stepbacks on buildings aren’t my favorite. Think of all the extra shade we could have had with a more front-loaded building! And, of course, the new trees that are in the works 🌳 ).

Some personal news: I am now a fan of association football