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Adam Mongrain @adammongrain.bsky.social · 15h

He’s right and he’s right to say it. (Something to look out for in papers about rent control: completely ignoring real world data in favour of models that authors play with. We don’t have to guess what would happen because we have had functional rent stabilization policies for literal decades.)

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 22h

We are going to be fighting this fight for the rest of our lives. You know the one I’m talking about. The important one. The fight for market share in the professional services marketplace.

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Adam Mongrain @adammongrain.bsky.social · 23h

Hey. This is phenomenal writing, don’t miss out.

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Adam Mongrain @adammongrain.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

He’s right, and he’s right to say it.

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Adam Mongrain @adammongrain.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Last time I revisited this was when I was sitting with @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social’s essay on elite capture and I think both insights « rhyme ».

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Adam Mongrain @adammongrain.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Very white liberal of me to quote Coates but: he’s right and he’s right to say it: "We, too, are capable of fictions because, as it turns out, oppression confers no wisdom and is rarely self-improving. There is no virtue in being kicked in the face. The virtue is all in what you do after."

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Adam Mongrain @adammongrain.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Who amongst us as not sometimes defaulted to tequila when arguing from unsure footing

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Adam Mongrain @adammongrain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

how... how big is that door behind Carney

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Adam Mongrain @adammongrain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Love your neighbour" as a moral duty only makes sense and is only important if your neighbour sucks.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Adam Mongrain @adammongrain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is the first time I was exposed to this idea and the reason it stuck with me is, of course, because I liked the people who were expressing it.

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God Does Not Play Dice - The Danger of Unquestioned Belief - Extra Credits

YouTube video by Extra Credits

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Adam Mongrain @adammongrain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

He's right and he's right to say it.

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Adam Mongrain @adammongrain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fellow 38 year olds: I am trying to remember the name of a video series of video game commentary that featured the animated/cartoon avatars of its three makers (two guys, one girl), very humble drawings but insightful content. It was more than ten years ago. I got nothing else.

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Adam Mongrain @adammongrain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tender, uncritical support for the 2% who want the leader of a separatist party to be the Prime Minister. Never let them tell you that your dreams are too big.

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Adam Mongrain @adammongrain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The reason why "Me, the protagonist of reality" is memetic is because we all feel it.

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Adam Mongrain @adammongrain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This entire thread is essential but I have a point of contention here, I do think that the intrinsic voyeurism and vanity of social media is the message. This is the acid that dissolves 'society' as the matter which is shaped by politics into collective projects.

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 28/09/2026

Jersey City reveals plans for the redevelopment of the Holland Gardens public housing, taking a moderate density, monofuctional, 192-unit complex and replacing it with a high-density, 753-unit project with commercial space, a community center, & a public library! newyorkyimby.com/2026/09/plan...

The new project, showing ground floor commercial

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Adam Mongrain @adammongrain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

He’s right and he’s right to say it.

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Adam Mongrain @adammongrain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

« negotiating the terms of our unconditional surrender » lol

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Adam Mongrain @adammongrain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is from a thread about mono/polygamy and I want to use the opportunity to say that I had a fun idea for a Tinder profile but since I have no use for it you can have it: "I want to date like Brandy Jensen writes: often, very well, and to the delight of thousands"

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Adam Mongrain @adammongrain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

just sent someone an email titled "Free compliments (not spam)" after sending I realized that's exactly what I'd use as a title if I wanted to spam someone

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Adam Mongrain @adammongrain.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yes. If there is friction, it means there is movement.

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Adam Mongrain @adammongrain.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

nothing coming up, time to open a new tab pointed to the Popular With Friends feed, bringing the total to three tabs

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Adam Mongrain @adammongrain.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

He's right and he's right to say it.

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Adam Mongrain @adammongrain.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Not (strictly) hiring but: I was exposed to some gender/dating nonsense earlier this week when a local celebrity asked about her followers' dating icks and one of the top comments was "drives with both hands on the wheel"

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm under no illusions about how things are or what the trajectory is. But I'm also excited for the future because that is where I will hang out with the people I care about and do the things I like doing, or haven't done before. Weird but telling that this holds less appeal for much richer people.

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Adam Mongrain @adammongrain.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

No solidarity in want. The future we’ll get is the one people are excited about (value-neutral).

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Adam Mongrain @adammongrain.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’m at the cinq à sept organized by UTILE. They are a non-profit housing developer and operator specialized in student housing. Just passed 1000 units in operation, building hundreds more. Heroes, more or less.

A room of people listening to a speaker talk.

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Adam Mongrain @adammongrain.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Making things worse while trying to help: a movement by and for well-meaning idiots

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Adam Mongrain @adammongrain.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I will do it. I will be the founder of an ineffective altruist movement.

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Jacob Loo Dawang @jacobdawang.com · 17/09/2026

I wrote an essay on how Edmonton seems to be an exception when it comes to good housing policy. In 2025, when housing progress stalled or reversed across Canada, Edmonton largely stayed the course. It took time, good leadership, data and a bit of luck. Read now 👇 2067journal.ca/the-edmonton...

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The Edmonton Exception

I moved to Edmonton in 2023, along with 100,000 others in two years, in the middle of a housing crisis engulfing much of Canada. It was a good year to be a housing advocate. Governments at every level...

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Adam Mongrain @adammongrain.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Just read the Gyges thread and well. When you put it like that.

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Marco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This incapacity to perceive vehicular travel demand as elastic, especially within the North American traffic planning practice, is reflected in the technical tools used to measure project impact: intesection-based LOS where the input level of traffic is a given rather than variable.

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Adam Mongrain @adammongrain.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Act II: The Father of Death is an album made by young people with big feelings and it spoke to me when I too was a young person with big feelings, but there is something to be said about how naive, earnest expressions resonate over the years. I’m so tired of giving up / I’m so tired of giving in

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Adam Mongrain @adammongrain.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Advait (also a fan of the Protomen's Act II: The Father of Death) is working on some of the smartest, most important stuff I know about. Everyone should read this.

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advait @advaitarun.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm especially proud of how this report connects transmission buildout to decarb and climate change. Of course, more transmission means more clean energy (incl OSW and geo!). But, just as importantly, more transmission means more grid resilience--IF the public sector can coordinate it.

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Adam Mongrain @adammongrain.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Sharon (this one @sharonk.bsky.social) is right that people on here need to talk about other things than politics, which is why for the remainder of September all my posts will be about The Protomen's Act II: The Father of Death

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Adam Mongrain @adammongrain.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hey this is terrible news. It shouldn't be like that.

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diego@estupido.fyi @estupido.fyi · 13/09/2026

"poor people actually like when things suck and you'll only hurt them if you try to make things better" is the same logic that dumbass liberals in San Francisco used to ban Algebra in 8th grade and justify worsening literacy scores of Black and Latino kids. this ideology is bad for social justice!

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Adam Mongrain @adammongrain.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Hey friends what's going on this Sunday? What are you all up to?

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Adam Mongrain @adammongrain.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In which I say what everyone is too afraid to say: knowing about @stephenjacobsmith.com's elevator study is a curse because you won't be able to stop talking about elevators for the rest of your life www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-Pz...

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Canada's Inefficient Building Codes #shorts

YouTube video by Missing Middle Podcast

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Adam Mongrain @adammongrain.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We should have one of those polls where people give their estimate of how much of the total population is made up of X minority, this time with the minority being wonks

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Adam Mongrain @adammongrain.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Isaiah is right about this in particular (read the thread) but this specific phrase is something we could yell out up to five times a day

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Micah McCurdy @hockeyviz.com · 10/09/2026

How long until we replicate the "we're a reasonable company with reasonable goals: to drain the ocean so as to find and kill god" tweet unironically.

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Deanne Mighton @deannemighton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Great episode by @mikepmoffatt.bsky.social and @adammongrain.bsky.social, worth a listen. Standardizing building codes would help. It's also interesting to see how mutual recognition—essentially “one registration, recognized everywhere”—plays out in the future.

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Dr. Mike P. Moffatt @mikepmoffatt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

New at the Star! Adam Mongrain ( @adammongrain.bsky.social ) of More and Better Housing and I discuss how the federal government can lower the cost of building social housing through a tweak to the tax code.

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This is how we could fix a problem Canada has been overlooking for decades

Social housing has been abandoned in Canada. This is how smart tax breaks could fix it.

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Adam Mongrain @adammongrain.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

[In the midst of a protracted international train wreck] Mike and I are in the paper today with a neat trick to dramatically increase the participation of social and nonprofit housing in the market, and it sure would be cool if you read it. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

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This is how we could fix a problem Canada has been overlooking for decades

Social housing has been abandoned in Canada. This is how smart tax breaks could fix it.

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Adam Mongrain @adammongrain.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

had to go to the corner store for chips because I didn't plan for labor day and I was reminded of the Twitter classic "guy who thinks airport food is expensive because of minimum wage"

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