Highlighting super-interesting academic research and trying to make it understandable and useful for a wider audience — without sacrificing nuance and integrity! — is just about my favorite thing I do on my channel

Check out the incredible video that @nerd4cities.bsky.social made on #TaxBaseFragmentation! www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF2g...

"Presented, at long last, with the opportunity to replace the pieces of the culture they have been hating for years, all these guys can do is create lifeless facsimiles of what they despise." defector.com/the-saddest-...

It’s never gonna stop being funny/sad how absolutely *terrified* conservative men are of just like… cities.

part of me believes that if every American could have a gap year in which they experience functional mass transit, including high speed trains, it would transform the way we get around in this country inside a generation

Of all the people to complain about businesses being “forced” to leave Seattle….

“White people can’t handle spicy food” only partially correct. There are two kinds of white people when it comes to spicy food, ones that can’t handle ketchup and ones that put hot sauce called like “insanity joe’s devilfucking sauce” on everything.

I'm boosted by DRVolts episodes on the topic. We really do need a movement and social proof, bc all the policy ideas are out there. Need to keep repeating them to drill them in, but there's a reason why @nerd4cities.bsky.social @thewaroncars.bsky.social are popular. People want to be part of change!

Should Democrats regain power, Sean Duffy strikes me as the least likely of the Trump cabinet secretaries to come out of a Congressional investigation into his ethics and finances unscathed.

New for the Nebulized: if you don’t know what tax base fragmentation is and what it’s doing to your city…well, now there’s a video for that nebula.tv/videos/cityn...

I’m a big fan of @nerd4cities.bsky.social His latest about NYC transit is a fanciful, bracing ride: youtu.be/bdCyZSIRhww?...

my top three favorite boroughs of new york: 1. new york 2. philadelphia 3. brooklyn 4. the one and only new york city! 5. boston 4. bodegas

Little known fact, I was once a Seattle Times paperboy. Usually just a slightly embarrassing entry on my resume, but today a shameful one. Oh how far you’ve fallen

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With his trademark snark, @nerd4cities.bsky.social does the calcs and shows that to replace the Lexington Av subway, you’d need THIRTY lanes *in each direction*. This is why cars can never be a transit replacement, no matter how good the automation. youtu.be/bdCyZSIRhww?...

I get this, but you have no idea how good we have it here until you’ve immersed yourself in the replies to a viral Threads post

The Threads post promoting this week’s video has like 500 replies now, and most of them are like this. Just so good. Could be time for a response video

"People go through many stages of their lives, and huge single-family homes aren't always the best option for them. The BUILD plan unlocks options that work for the many different lifestyles and budgets of Illinoisans." Zoning shouldn't be one-size-fits-all. Pass HB5626 to legalize middle housing!

An all-time banger video from Ray. An instant classic of the "let's take the idiots seriously" genre. Next video suggestion: "Let's give everyone in Hoboken a free parking space!" 😂

You guys, Threads is absolutely undefeated. What is anyone even doing on bsky

Inadvertent argument for why the Dodgers should never have left

that’s right

Pretty good start to the day when you wake up to your new video being in the #1 slot (especially when you have to beat out a new Man Carrying Thing)

Well obviously you’d fill in the subway tunnels with parking, so this is overstating it a bit

What would happen if you replaced the 4/5/6 Lexington Avenue Line with enough roadway to compensate? I spent a couple days filming in NYC and pondering the question nebula.tv/videos/cityn...

I think one of the main reasons I make videos instead of posting much is I prefer to anticipate idiotic arguments and address them proactively instead of wading through dumb replies youtu.be/vBSkLrYbLk0?...

weirdest fine dining trend to me is the excessive tableside presentations for things that don't need it. i find it bracingly awkward every time. what am i supposed to do while you cut my burger in half? how am i supposed to react? i just had to stop my conversation to watch you do this nonsense

My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area. (15 in Manhattan btw)

It was deeply unsettling to streetview the precise lat/long coordinates of recent traffic fatalities — ESPECIALLY on a street that used to be my commute when I lived in Interbay

Maps like this are trying to bully you. It is in the nature of county-level data to suppress the distinct characteristics of urban populations. Central Seattle is no less real because it doesn't have a county to itself.

IMHO the biggest problem the internet created is people can't admit to being wrong anymore. It's like "I'm standing on business" nah you're an obstinate twit that thinks you know better. That whole "I'm not owned" Dril tweet is probably his most prescient.

Bus Lane... or SCANDAL? 😱

It’s April and there is still no public seating at Pike Place Market on the street — people are sitting on the curb or standing. Give people a place to sit on the street!

Pike Place pilot: foot traffic +5.6%, sales +6.5%. People-first streets work. 🪑 Bring Your Own Chair 🗓️ Wed, 4/29 🕛 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM 📍 East side of Pike Place Grab lunch, take a seat, show demand for year-round seating. More info about BYOC @ Pike Place: www.streetsalliance.org/get-involved...

please, god, I’ve never wanted anything more than this

Seattle racking up Ws under Mayor Wilson — definitely coming up there to make content in the next couple months

SUCK IT, HATERS. The Pike Place pedestrian pilot is a success. pikeplacemarket.community.highbond.com/document/65a...

Cyberstuck in Oregon

It’s worth thinking about why they don’t call them protractable bollards

NEW // Sunday Video: Putting 12 Urban Freeways Out to Pasture Video via @nerd4cities.bsky.social. www.theurbanist.org/sunday-video...

Brand new on Nebula! Kind of had an idea of what I’d find when I did the analysis for this video, but it ended up being even more flabbergasting than I expected nebula.tv/videos/cityn...

Florida is a world leader in Sentence™ exports

I'd say that this applies to anyone traveling in a car in any city. Being in a car versus walking, riding, or taking transit fundamentally changes how you view a place and your relationship to it. I wish more leaders set this kind of example. www.npr.org/2026/04/16/n...

Ssshhh keep Ghirardelli a secret

Latest from @nerd4cities.bsky.social : Visits to Santa Rosa and SF, a trip on SMART, and a well-done deconstruction/roasting of Prop. 13. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWvz...

incredible that the lifelong Catholic in this specific situation is The Pope

2026 yall

Oh man looks like some trips up to Seattle are in my future

Graffiti seen in Portland, OR.