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Jay D. Aronson @jaydaronson.bsky.social · 5h

Check out this article by my amazing graduate student Abby Cramer! She identifies the links between today’s techbro eugenics and that of 20th c. eugenist Paul Popenoe, an early supporter of eugenic sterilization who became a marriage counselor to ensure “high quality” produced lots of offspring.

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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 50m

This is it, the Quality Train Content™ I’ve always wanted to post. A BNSF freight train passing through Everett, WA with several Boeing greenies on their way from Wichita, Kansas to Renton to become 737s!

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Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 4h

Pack of 3 in the lead at the Twin Cities marathon at 19.5 miles

Three men running in East River road in Minneapolis in the Twin cities marathon

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Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 17h

The Surly NA oatmeal stout is pretty good. You'll need to drink 10 x your regular amount to get drunk, but it's that tasty!

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Alex @mplsalex.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is a top tier business name. 10/10 no notes.

Google Maps image of The Spinal Frontier Chiropractic.

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David Welton @davidwelton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The code doesn't even need to specify 'corner'. That's where they make the most sense so that's mostly where they get built

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Stephen Heard @stephenbheard.bsky.social · 23h

Was it good urban planning? No. Did it work well as a stadium? Also no. Was it an economic engine? Also also no. But is it extremely cool to look at? You betcha. (Montreal, Quebec, Olympic Stadium)

Selfie in front of Montreal Olympic Stadium

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Tim @timzhu.io · 03/10/2026

You're basically Napoleon if you can make entire organization(s) get on the same database

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Kristof Smeyers @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Tenure track position for a social/cultural anthropologist here in Leuven, apply before 1 December: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Jose Andres is the absolute GOAT. turbolib who has brought meals to disaster zones after the Haiti earthquake & to war-stricken families in Ukraine and Gaza and now he’s YIMBYposting in the face of Spain’s severe housing shortage

@chefjoseandres
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Incredible to see the "experts" on resolving the housing emergency that Spain is experiencing! On every television! @telediario_tve @ANoticias
@tele5_noticias @noticias_cuatro The reality is that we have politicians who try to create decrees and solutions when they lack the preparation or knowledge to devise a real solution to the problem we're facing.
Spain doesn't have a problem of a lack of decrees. It has a problem of a lack of housing.
And as long as the Government keeps confusing announcing measures with solving problems, we'll keep paying the consequences of its inaction.
Subsidizing demand without increasing supply pressures prices. Regulating a market more and more without building new housing doesn't eliminate scarcity: it manages it. Taxing a type of rental can change incentives, but it doesn't lay a single brick either.

Because housing doesn't get cheaper by distributing scarcity. It gets cheaper by ending it.
Spain needs to build. A lot.
More available land. Permits in months, not years. More density wherever possible. Legal certainty. Much more public housing and also private housing.
But the Government isn't doing what's necessary. It prefers to intervene on the few homes that exist rather than create the conditions for there to be many more. It prefers to present patches as solutions and load the cost of its failure onto owners, developers, and citizens.
The rest can serve to redistribute, protect certain groups, or change incentives. But let's not confuse that with solving the underlying problem.
You don't fix a lack of housing by better distributing the few homes that exist. You fix it by making many more exist.
Less propaganda. Less patches. Less obsession with intervening on the same apartment.
More supply. More construction. More homes.

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Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

All this right of way and yet no room for a bus shelter?

A bus stop at an intersection of multiple bus routes in Saint Paul, Minnesota

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Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Vaguely hilarious to me, and yet telling about American government that the state of Minnesota closed down a highway (MN280) for repairs for months, but the two counties that own approach roads didn't take that time to repair roads that are so filled with potholes they are somewhat risky to drive on

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Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's even more of a mystery to me now why the fencing on Bridge 9 is just that little bit more tightly spaced than on the Washington Ave Bridge, from which you can get a decent view between the rails, and could poke a camera lens through. You can't stick your head through, and that's by design

Shoe tree behind the Washington Ave bridge suicide barrier

Mississippi River looking south from the Washington Ave bridge

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Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

for #MNUFC fans who want to see their players scoring goals, herewith both Boxall and Harvey scoring .... in the penalty shootout of this match in which you can also see the All Whites play in their black kit, which they do more than you might imagine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0aY...

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New Zealand v Panama | International Friendly Match Highlights | 1 October 2026

YouTube video by New Zealand Football

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Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Really good blog post by Harry Brighouse on Crooked Timber* about how and why the US and UK versions of the The Office were both very good, but in quite different ways (*still going, one of the great group blogs!) crookedtimber.org/2026/09/30/t...

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The Office: A sort of conjecture about why some US sitcoms are the way they are. — Crooked Timber

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 02/10/2026

Leaving the Trump thing aside entirely...what a portrait

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David King @cityplanning.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I would like to see transport modes regulated by their danger to life and limb, but maybe not start with cats. Cats shouldn't be left outside anyway, as they kill too many birds. Gift link.

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Is Waymo endangering cats? Minneapolis lawmaker raises feline fatality issue

Minneapolis City Council Member Jason Chavez made the point before a vote requiring Waymo to have a rider in their vehicles at all times when operating in the city.

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Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A treat to work w/ Ralph Lawton, @ermeara.bsky.social & Jonathan Skinner on this. This work made me realize I could probably spend the rest of my life just showing how changing age structure & other types of population composition affect associations we often take at face value. #demographyproblems

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Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In fairness to cars people thought they were really dangerous a century ago when they had normalized the alternatives of death on the rails and being thrown from horses.

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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 02/10/2026

Listen: I don’t want to minimize the danger of high e-bike speeds. But if the problem here is that stores sell e-bikes that can drive faster than legal limits, then where’s the story about how literally *every car dealership has been doing the same thing for decades*?!?

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Hidden cameras show some stores unlocking speed limits on e-bikes, selling e-scooters that go up to 120 km/h | CBC News

A new hidden camera investigation by Marketplace shows how some stores are selling e-scooters and e-bikes with top speeds much higher than provincial speed limits and with recommended rider ages young...

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Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Spent longer at this stop than planned after a driver refused boarding to 5 waiting passengers saying "all the seats are full, you'd have to stand". One guy tried to board, and the driver put out his hand with a halt motion saying "wait for the next one". Wild.

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Josh Hadro @hadro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fun fact: I also posted this on LinkedIn, but over there it has escaped containment and I'm now getting a stream of tech industry dudes sharing their one-shot VLM output and saying all it needs is "a good prompt." 🙄

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Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One day America will be rich enough to afford ... bus shelters and real time information signs at a high volume bus stop. Today is not that day. This stop is served by 3 moderate (10-20 minutes) frequency routes, but there are seats for 3 only.

A man sits at a bus stop on Central Ave in Minneapolis

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I took the Minneapolis Public Schools survey & selected the option to have AI-generated follow-up questions based on what I wrote. This strikes me as a useful purpose for AI Well, in practice, it means I get asked a follow-up question &, when I answer it, get asked literally the same question again

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kit spooks 👻 @kitsparks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

this is a good thread! part of why we need to keep reminding people that we’re still in a housing crisis is different polities are succeeding (a bit) on different fronts Halifax is building apartment buildings, still needs more and faster, and also is building almost no condos and houses

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Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you ban continuous solutions you are going to get corner solutions

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Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Another day, another instance of being slow to see words related to my research interests in the Spelling Bee. Also, still no love for HOON 😥

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Marco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Like, regulations that establish decreasing density at arbitrary distances from higher-order transit stations are pure political compromises, with no scientific evidence, and a caricature of how market forces work (or how laypeople think they work).

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Marco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The idea that planning should mandate, through regulations, an urban form that mimics market forces (higher demand induced by better accessibility along high-capacity rail, which translates into higher densities) is one of the silliest yet most persistent tropes our profession has produced.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A ambitiously have more letters than messages C contrive to repeat yourself across letters Rrepeat yourself across letters O Obscure the message you want to send S stretch one of the letters past breaking point T take more time than is necessary I irritate passers by C cheap out on design

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🎂Happy Birthday to us!🍾 MPIDR is turning 30 on this very day. 🎉 Thanks to everyone who has supported us along the way, helps moving demography forward and, overall makes MPIDR such a fantastic place! www.demogr.mpg.de/go/30yMPIDR | English www.demogr.mpg.de/go/30jMPIDR | Deutsch

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Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'll miss the months of neighborhood traffic calming we got from water main cleaning, and wonder why we can't have bumpouts and throated intersections all the time. I won't miss the warm water coming via our outside tap, or the sidewalk hazards. But I might take them as the price of calmer streets

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Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Does anyone know what dates the Economic History Association meetings are for 2027? And where?

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Dani Sandler @dismalscientist86.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

New Census Working Paper: "Gender Differences in the Returns to Double Majoring: A Case of Signaling?" by Andrew Smith, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, and Maria Zhu www.census.gov/library/work...

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Gender Differences in the Returns to Double Majoring: A Case of Signaling?

Women earn about 5% more for double majoring in college, while men see no return, consistent with double majors serving as a signal in the labor market.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it is quite confusing that “inclusionary zoning” is not the opposite of “exclusionary zoning”, but actually functions as a tool of exclusionary zoning

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Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Minneapolis Planning Commission Committee of the Whole* this week contains a proposal for 185 homes on the old Smith Foundry site, right on the Greenway which is great. This is a few minutes walk to Lake St light rail etc * early stage feedback on proposals lims.minneapolismn.gov/Board/Agenda...

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 23/01/2025

"Motorized vehicles create remoteness which they alone can shrink. They create distances for all, and shrink them for only a few."

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

there's a New Zealand PSA from years ago that conveys this incredibly well: all that's being asked of you is something very small that may make a very large difference, and what you do tells you something about yourself www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUj2...

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www.whoareyou.co.nz

YouTube video by RDKIWI

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NBER @nber.org · 29/09/2026

Open call for papers: Race and Stratification in the Economy. The conference will be held on April 2, 2027, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Submissions deadline 11:59pm (EST) December 10, 2026. More info www.nber.org/race-and-str...

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Tab C @drtcombs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Chch friends, don't miss this!!

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 29/09/2026

A fun quirk of American urban planning is production of 990 page documents where the observable universe is a narrow strip a hundred feet wide. The yellow areas are unmeasurable and unknowable, we can only infer their existence through the forces they exert elsewhere. berkeleyca.gov/sites/defaul...

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 29/09/2026

tiny road over north with no parking allowed. very cute very european. and somehow not a one way either! and yet every time there’s talk of building new, small streets like this we’re told it can’t be done

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John Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 28/09/2026

I guess you don't get where he is without whatever competitive sickness makes you want to rub it in the face of random shit talking fans in Columbus Ohio but Messi in MLS is so funny

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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Only 2 more days to buy "Antarctic Materialities" with the 50% code McCa6648 #histsci #polar #Antarctica #envhist #musuems www.berghahnbooks.com/title/McCahe...

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Antarctic Materialities | Berghahn Books

Independent Publishing since 1994

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Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just to put things in perspective, the US has a significantly higher pedestrian death rate from traffic accidents than most OECD countries have from homicides (most OECD countries are around 1/100,000 for homicide) www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

FIGURE 1. Pedestrian death rates,* by country — United States and 27 other high-income countries, 2013–2022

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/09/2026

i also love cats but people get less....moralistic...about cats in general (i guess because people deify dogs but are more willing to accept that cats are fallible, fallen beings just like us)

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