A man walks into the doctors office, says he’s depressed, his favorite social media app feels dead. Doc says simple: do like great poster Sharon and read a book a day on politics, and then post about the connections you draw. Man says: doc I ain’t got that in me Doc says: then log off

early christmas for marco diagram enjoyers

my crank transit opinion is that every system should allocate some portion of their budget to running absurdly high frequencies on random low ridership routes just to see if any of them have better-than-expected roi

this is good

Beautiful new social housing in Brisbane by Vokes and Peters, and Rothelowmann Can we have more of this please?

okay who let gpt-5.5 into the cbtc system

that's oomf! also best slogan this century

I’m running for Toronto City Council in Ward 11 University–Rosedale.

It was excusable to lend credence to Charles Marohn in 2012 when the field was so barren we had to extrapolate allegories for every urban issue from small town sewer project finance, but there are simply too many people now doing too much thorough, empirical, insightful research to do so today.

>is it a jorts or a gonzo >it's a good cat account sir >it's a gonzo

like 90% of the time when I'm presented with the option to sort by either relevance or recency, what I really want is some sort of "time-weighted relevance"

from @justjoshinyou.bsky.social

This has a lot of arches, but I kinda like it! Design for 48 brick apartments in Iran, by Amin Molaei Architect

maybe not in our lifetimes either

rare accidental pull on the "maxime bernier's extended family" subsample

comedy

Striking design for a brick office building in Iran, by Abar Office So much more appealing, and sustainable, than an all glass design!

@sharonk.bsky.social the nation's most prescient poster is having a normal one again

Making senior planners stand in public like this but the sign says “This planner scheduled 15 public meetings about zoning implementation after the 15 public meetings they held for the GPU”

Iranian architects and bricklayers seem to have the ability to *weave* brickwork! Apartment No.7, Damavand, Iran. By Studio Moon

it has never been more over

"Lastly, to my friend Donald Shoup, rest now, brother. We have the watch, and I’ll see you in Valhalla."

~4 weeks is apparently what it takes to get a For You with zero americans, bliss

for all the sitting around waiting for the One Good Well-Funded Mass Appeal Atproto Application to appear and wipe away everything that currently exists, what if that's never going to happen and this is the best we're getting

uk labour has figured out mitosis

the March for Billionaires does not uplift the BIPOC voices it claims to represent (Billionaire, Investor, People of Currency) astroturf?

who up morgan they sweeney

Damn…. Gotta love this combination of bricks and shadows Apartment building in Queretaro, Mexico. By Laboratorio de Arquitectura

atproto is the strong towns of social media

all the king's horses [me] and all the king's men [claude] couldn't put humpty together again [fix the bug]

Found some pretty recent and truly exceptional work by Chris Skillern, a Cherokee Nation citizen and type designer, in collaboration with the Dutch foundry Typotheque

now that I'm back do I get to do some discourse adversarial uses of atproto have existed and will continue to exist and will in time face the same failure modes as pre-atproto social and things will probably pan out fine in the long run

come, you spirits that tend on social bots unsuspend me here

holy shit, just like that?

it's neat when stuff like the github star count graph people love adding to their repos has a distinct visual style that's inconsequential to the purpose of the interface; nobody wouldn't have used it if it didn't have the hand drawn look, and vice versa, but it's there anyways

it's neat when stuff like the github star count graph people love adding to their repos has a distinct visual style that's inconsequential to the purpose of the interface; nobody wouldn't have used it if it didn't have the hand drawn look, and vice versa, but it's there anyways

Beyond being bad for affordability, I think discretionary approvals process are socially/morally destructive for this reason—they turn seemingly normal, well-adjusted people into monsters.

ah yeah fair enough

Cute courtyard housing scheme in Paris (of course!), includes the refurbishment of a historic building, and the addition of a new building By JBA Architectes

beautiful women named Type instantiation is excessively deep and possibly infinite

87.4% for poilievre, roughly expected, not an incontrovertible endorsement but enough to stay on and likely give some of the potential floor crossers second thoughts

this is going to save thousands of dev hours across the many social-app forks

how do I get bluesky to give me the exact amount of ai discourse I'm currently in the mood for and not a word more

kimi 2.5 beats gpt 5.2-xhigh on swe-bench? ossbros are we back