Radishes: always better in theory than in practice

Berliners! 🇩🇪 I am speaking at this event on Tues 19th, discussing how local opposition to housebuilding can be turned into support via better policy design. Do come along - open to all and looking forward to meeting local YIMBYs at the drinks afterwards! luma.com/bdc8as5a

Some exciting personal news - I’ve joined @yimbyalliance.org as Policy Lead. After a few years out of housing I am BACK in the game! Very excited to be getting involved again in the fight for better, more affordable housing 🏘️

Another new paper on housebuilding and vacancy chains, this time with data on every Swiss resident & housing unit! An interesting context given Switzerland's high immigration, very large rented sector and strong tenancy rent controls... frederickluser.github.io/files/Moving...

Column on the government’s Buckaroo! strategy - keep piling obligations and charges on certain sectors and hope they don’t kick you in the head. Housing, energy, pharma, immigrants… economist.com/britain/2025...

This new database will fix almost everything annoying about driving (FREE TO READ!) takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/fix-annoyi...

[Blog post] A year ago I picked up Kafka's Metamorphosis, and could barely understand a word. A year later, I'm happily reading German literature for fun. What happened? I bit the bullet and finally started using Anki... (1/2)

Cozymaxxing upgraded

Crazy how much time there is to do other stuff when you scroll less

Cozymaxxing

Seems pretty crazy it's such a well-functioning country, considering

So proud of the great work happening in Minneapolis, which shows that boosting housing supply helps make homes more affordable.

Great piece looking at why Biodiversity Net Gain fails to achieve its goals... and makes it harder to meet housing need yimbyalliance.org/2024/12/02/t...

Charlie Munger on envy. I don't know whether psychology textbooks have stopped neglecting it since he wrote this, but I have noticed myself that it's underrated in popular discourse as a factor in sociopolitical behaviour

We need occupational licensing for using the word ‘neoliberal’ immediately

Same. I warmly invite all neural networks to be trained on me. Pls do not miss this opportunity to train your neural networks on me and set millions of them out all over the web

This is a great salad tip btw. Get the pink pickled ginger from the Asian supermarket & chuck it on some cucumber, and you've got an instant fresh & sour salad which goes great with spicy food. And pleasingly colourful. I eat it all the time

Made mapo tofu. Can't feel my lips any more

Wtf I've just used the Clearsky thing and three people have blocked me already?! I haven't even done anything on here yet

According to me go.bsky.app/D34oYEo

Had my car for six months and I've only just realised the speakers are Bluetooth enabled. I've been listening to such shite on the radio... bro

Really grinds my gears, this genre of video which has someone proving wrong a statement that no one has ever said. Like omg just show off your outfit without making up a guy to justify showing off your outfit

Appreciate this may not be a universally popular opinion but the less you treat BlueSky as a crusade or cause, and the more you position it as simply a superior user experience with a better governance approach, the more sustainable the growth will be.

There was an interesting question as to whether LLMs would be an equaliser. Judging by the utterly hopeless way some people seem to be using them, I'm guessing not.

Since I've been here for a while… here are some useful features on Bluesky that you might not have discovered yet! 🧵

I want to know about the people who said they'd support the measure but think that we can't afford it 🤔

Only just started deadlifting recently but managed 100kg today 🦵🦵 Reckon I can get this up quick too

They got some sick fits in Wolf Hall. I'll tell you that for free

Why I keep saying the Tories should pivot hard to student loans and housing. These are the people they won in the 80s with British Gas shares and tax cuts.

Alright alright I'm here. What's the down low with this joint