municipal consolidation when

I hear those voices that will not be drowned Calling, there is no stone In earth’s thickness to make a home That you can build with & remain alone.

Politically shipping Zohran & Nithya rn sorry

I have never felt more patriotic

getting excited about this movie night chez moi

Zohran is hot; anyway

TRUMP: and this Daniel, he went into the den? MAMDANI: The lion's den, yes TRUMP: surely they ate him MAMDANI: Here's the part where it gets a little Broadway: they didn't TRUMP: Unbelievable

There once beached a whale on Nantucket, Whose corpse was too big to truck it, She rotted in place (you could smell it from space) But then Bill Gates asked ‘Could I

Christ on a cracker

when I see Teslas speeding in the bus only lane

at work I was asked do a presentation on 'what inspires me' so they're getting freshman-level contrapuntal analysis in bluebeam as punishment

that thing where you order a book because it looks interesting & it arrives & it's 904 pages

LA palette cleanse: really great graphic design deep dive into the Ruscha Sunset archive by @goodspeed.bsky.social focusing on the evolution of the signage www.sunsetoversunset.org/stories/signs

I would run out fingers counting major housing histories that are like “well that’s Boston, Baltimore, & St Louis, case closed!” because they couldn’t make sense of the sun belt

LA City Charter Reform Commission just voted to recommend expanding the Los Angeles City Council from 15 to 23-31 seats!! This will be HUGE for reducing the influence of money in our local politics.

new acquisition

American car culture is a public health crisis

A vote to sharply lower rent hikes for 1.5 million Los Angeles tenants caps years of wins for local activists and comes amid a national focus on affordability punctuated by Zohran Mamdani's victory in New York. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Have you ever met rich people lol

You could watch a hundred thousand films & nothing will be funnier than Marie Dressler’s reaction when Jean Harlow tell her she read a book at the end of DINNER AT EIGHT

HAPPY EXPLODING WHALE DAY!!!

the Great Lake states have their Ed Fitz bit, but Oregonians have something far cooler: happy Exploding Whale day for those who celebrate youtu.be/V6CLumsir34

Name & shame the supporters

it’s my oomfs in print @katewagner.wehwalt.net @lisairontongue.bsky.social

saw some bldgs in Texas

I feel like I just found a gold nugget! During my daily streetview ambling I just now discovered a 1925 apartment building designed by RM Schindler that was thought to have been demolished for the 101 freeway. But it wasn’t! It was *moved.* (first screenshot is from US Modernist)

“Dingbats” but they’re six story mass timber single stair bldgs in former single family neighborhoods

“I can’t go square dancing, I’m in Brooks Brothers” is a thing I just said in Dallas

Nithya Raman: "we downzoned all these neighborhoods and streets in [Los Angeles] and that led to the current housing crisis. Now feels like for the first time that saying no to housing has a political cost."

planners hate this one weird trick

Kaaaaaaaaahn

Everyone in Texas is so chatty until I say what I’m here for

we built the stately pleasure dome from the classic poem don’t build the stately pleasure dome

Single-stair plus multifam zoning on single-fam lots might be what prefab needs to take off. Manufacturing processes require scale and repeatability; only single-family lots deliver those. Homeowners want too much customization in ADUs, but developers might be profit-minded enough to see the vision.

trying to watch House of Dynamite but there are too many explosions outside

Now accepting food recommendations for Dallas & Houston

hahahaha

omg the jade vitrolite

RETVRN

Palms remains undefeated

LA vernacular is so powerful

It’s been 15 years but I still miss “veuillez trouver ci-joint” which is just a lovely thing to type

tbh they should raze the west wing too

always slightly weird when architecture is in the news

wait ahaha omg???

I cannot bring myself to care about the East Wing, sorry

*clears throat* Crescent City California