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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 1h

Why do you feel the width of the street is important? Because of the need to weave while driving on it?

Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 1h

Thanks. I see the project. Looks like a 1.5 sized parcel, so that's why they're allowed to build 6 instead of 4. Before the city's 2021 townhouse legalization that Kotek's bills supported, it could have been 3, but the parking still wouldn't have been required because it's so close to the 75.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 15h

other day i was at david lynchs grave just having a moment of thought and admiration and lookin down at all the flowers, and coffee cups, and two cookies and a coke, and wow it just hits you like a thousand suns that art is immortal. creation is too radiant to contain in a body. we trot across time

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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 11h

Woah! Unexpected sentiment

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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 12h

I know the area but not sure I’ve seen the street. From street view, looks like a lot of Portland streets I’d say - I agree, hard to fit 2 full lanes of parking and also 2-way car traffic. So are there some townhouses on the block now?

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Will U'ren @whollingsworth.bsky.social · 17h

Can't wait to see Bryan's take when he learns that Vancouver, WA did an IE4A across the entire city 🫢

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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 17h

Thanks for saying so! That's literally my number one reason for liking Kotek. :) But I am genuinely interested: any buildings in particular that get your goat?

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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 17h

thank you! totally agree this is a problem worth discussing

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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 18h

Good question. I believe MSW grads would be compared to the average working person ages 25-34 with a bachelor’s, not to the general population. Is your generalization still true? And it would vary by school, so unlikely to hit all MSW programs I assume? onlineteaching.umich.edu/articles/cai...

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CAI Policy Insights: Earnings Potential Drives Winter Rulemaking Consensus | Online Teaching CAI Policy Insights: Earnings Potential Drives Winter Rulemaking Consensus – Online Teaching

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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 21h

I don’t think it’s unreasonable to pooh-pooh people for anger about a policy or an argument they didn’t take the time to understand beyond a TNR tweet; I do think it’s unreasonable to further amplify the whole misunderstanding without linking to clarifying info open.substack.com/pub/matthewy...

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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 21h

His first tweet didn’t mention 4-year liberal arts degrees

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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 21h

When you don’t link to the arguments made, it’s certainly easier to make fun of what you are claiming they contain

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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I found it somewhat poignant as well that he has been trapped in a prison of his own nefarious design

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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Have you read the Blippy exposés?

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Matthew Gillikin @mtgillikin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I’m going to be thinking about this constantly moving forward

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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Good concrete example of the benefit of having a Democratic governor under Trump

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 03/10/2026

It’s only “value capture” if it comes from the Georgist region of land value taxation. Development fees and exactions are just sparkling housing taxes.

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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I stil haven’t read Why Nothing Works but feel like he’s the personal manifestation of the post-Moses, post-Nixon state-skeptical liberal

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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I am not an abolitionist either, but I don’t begrudge Green some long-term idealism. If he were throwing his political capital into immediate police budget cuts, I’d object. He hasn’t been.

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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Where was that? In any case that seems milder to me than a lot of his imo dumb tweets from 2020. If any of those tweets were running for office, I wouldn’t be supporting them. But they don’t reflect the person I observe working on council.

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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Well, it’s been my main fitness and nutrition tool for two and a half years and I’m in the best shape of my life. Counting calories went from unthinkable to a mild headache. Yesterday I used it in Sheets to quickly set up do pivot tables & vlookup for my workout history and make some tweaks.

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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There are some things it does poorly but I very much disagree with the claim that ai’s main problems include uselessness

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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

He’s further left than I am, but what you say has not been my experience at all! I’ve watched him successfully work across his aisle on multiple issues I care about. (Nor have I seen him demonize a political opponent, disparage democracy, lie, or act unscrupulously.)

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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There are not many parts of this great land where a femme-y dude with a lil mustache who says his top city council issue is Palestine lives around the corner from a precinct committeeman who wants to stress that he no longer cares what happens to the homeless people after they are off his street

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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Just wrapped up a canvass for @mitchgreen.bsky.social in the little slice of mixed-use, mixed-income, mixed-politics heaven between NW 21st & 23rd. Here’s to all the @portlandneighborswelcome.org endorsed candidates supporting the right of neighborhoods to evolve in this direction when they need to

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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Good question! The latest I could find was 4.6% in inner/central SE and 5.5% in inner/central NE. I'd say you could make a case for a local shortage in those areas, especially SE. cc @emma321.bsky.social. assets.noviams.com/novi-file-up...

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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Generally my take right now is that zoning isn't currently much of a binding constraint but we should be making ourselves resilient to future shortages, second best time to plant a tree is today etc. Meanwhile, looking for cost-cutting measures so decent new homes will pencil at lower prices.

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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The fact that Portland currently has a relatively high vacancy rate rn doesn't mean we wouldn't benefit from allowing a) more homes where people most want to live (increasing access to shareable amenities is usually good imo) & b) less expensive housing types, again especially in amenity-rich areas

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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Home sale prices are a different story, still well above the national average. I can't fully explain the rent/buy discrepancy other than to assume that buyers are still willing to price in an assumption of future appreciation.

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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Portland's rental prices are currently below the national average despite wages that are higher than the national average. That's thanks to an estimated 7% rental vacancy rate across the metro area. The vacancy rate has been falling but is still relatively healthy. www.hfore.com/wp-content/u...

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I wrote about how FNL was a heartbreaker when it premiered 20 years ago, and it's a heartbreaker to watch today [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/a...

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‘Friday Night Lights’ at 20: Can We Ever Get Back to Dillon? (Gift Article)

The football drama’s themes of community and hope are just as moving today, but ever more distant.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending

a graph of roadway and mass transit lights

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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That’s a solid candidate too

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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Jealous that Vancouver BC has a small builder working so publicly on specific zoning changes & their potential outcomes

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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Has any common misconception ever been more destructive to humans than the lump of labor fallacy? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of...

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Lump of labour fallacy - Wikipedia

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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I have attempted to both write and read many local-government budget stories and this one is an impressive bit of work

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you need to send a fundraising email with the header “We know you’re not an ATM” maybe it’s a sign you ought to reign in the grifter consulting firms that are alienating supporters with a constant stream of panhandling spam to raise money that mostly gets poured back into their own coffers?

Dem fundraising email headed “We know you’re not an ATM”

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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Toward the more socially adept?

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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Lol this is definitely Portland to me

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