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Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 30/09/2026

The biggest victory here isnt even the bus lane itself. Its a victory over The Process: - make a committee - meet with The Groups - make a report - start a non-binding referendum - make a pilot - make a report - make a plan - deploy a few years later People are SICK of this.

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Kitty (now Doggie Dog) @bathematician.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There’s also the practical issue that humans are already producing far far more creative work than any one person could consume, in pretty much every imaginable genre, and a lot of it is really good! You have to get *really* specific with your media tastes before you run out of human art.

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Azasloth @azasloth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Read somewhere “I can’t be bothered to read something no one could be bothered to write.”

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Maya🚂🚃🚄🚅🚆🚇🚈🚉🚊🚝🚞🚋🚌🚎 @trains.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

the bay area should have a population of 30million people we could do it withought touching a single inch of our amazing parks and natural areas

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chilito @hectorarbuckle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Can someone explain the appeal of the movie "RENT"? I only watched the first half hour or so, and the characters seemed like such entitled brats that I didn't feel like watching any more of it. Why is it popular?

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

My most radical take is that TOD is a scam invented by single-family home preservationists to find a scientifically sound way to concentrate "those people" is specific areas outside of where real people live, and urbanists have embraced it because it's better than nothing.

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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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chilito @hectorarbuckle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I kind of viewed the Gaza protests at Ivy League schools as being faintly ridiculous, because in my mind pretty much everyone was generally against Israel more or less - and the divide was between people who wanted Israel destroyed and those who wanted Israel to end the occupation but not to perish.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"In the states examined in this analysis, a drop of approximately 20% in inflation-adjusted rents—as happened in Austin, Texas, and Minneapolis after those cities made reforms—could reduce poverty by 18% to 26% and child poverty by 21% to 38%." www.pew.org/en/research-...

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The Housing Shortage Is a Major Driver of Poverty

Housing costs are usually the largest item in a household’s budget and can determine a family’s financial stability.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Left-NIMBYs love to pit welfare state expansion against land use reform, but the latter can 1) can achieve significant poverty reductions 2) without means testing or administrative burdens, and 3) at a net gain for the public budget, which can then be used to expand the welfare state.

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Benjamin Schneider @benschneider.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It can't be overstated how unusual this project is. It's just so big and dense. There are a lot of unanswered questions about how the engineering, operations, and management will work. The closest precedents are probably some of the mega-complexes in Hong Kong.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 29/09/2026

People mistakenly believe that unfunded inclusionary zoning is a way to tax developers and rich people to fund subsidized housing for the poor. It is not. In reality, it’s a tax on working and middle class renters. Actual rich people, who overwhelmingly own single family homes, pay nothing at all.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

retatrutide is going to change so many lives for the better

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bottomfishers for Nithya Raman @cahsrslut.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

damn the full quote and the context is even better. Do you see how easy that is @gavinnewsom.bsky.social www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think that is true, but I do not think it is necessarily an immutable law of the American Voter. It is a product of leadership and culture made up of individual decisions. It's a feedback loop, in part, of political leaders telling voters that it is right and good and just to be that way.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

People are also upset about non-economic things that get expressed in economic terms, like the fact that everything seems wildly out of control and we have a maniac in charge of the country

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chilito @hectorarbuckle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you zone an area for residential, it should be zoned for all kinds of residential. Otherwise you're just doing income/wealth-based segregation.

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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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chilito @hectorarbuckle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We should allow unlimited height and density in a lot places than we currently do.

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

We should allow unlimited height and density near San Pablo Ave.

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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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chilito @hectorarbuckle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I just read the Growth Machine by Molotch. It's fascinating how he goes from describing the "Growth Machine" system - which sounds nothing like current urban politics - to his incipient "no-growth" system - which sounds *exactly* like current urban politics!

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chilito @hectorarbuckle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

FAR is a silly metric. The middle building is nice, the rightward building is okay, and the leftward building is terrible. FAR treats them all the same.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This strikes me is a common misunderstanding of the argument for humanities education, which is not that it serves as some sort of individual inoculation, but rather than it produces a citizenry more capable of self-governance when distributed widely, especially for decision-makers of every kind.

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The combined undergraduate and graduate student populations of all Ivy League schools is about 140,000 students. The CUNY system alone is 250,000.

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Sic Transit PHL @sictransitphl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Colorado is showing us the way, but Illinois (and Pennsylvania!) has the critical distinction that its populations are higher and its distances are shorter, meaning that it can support *far* more service with a similar budget.

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Brianinja @brianinja.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

People want to talk about trains but are missing out on the transformative power of a well-organized bus network. Colorado's Bustang has knocked intercity bus service out of the park and added 18 new routes since launching Bustang in 2015. Illinois should directly copy Colorado's success.

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Bustang - Wikipedia

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It is legitimately insulting that we live in a time where democracy ACTUALLY IS under attack, but a bunch of neighborhood busybodies who hate housing think not having enough meetings is an assault on democracy. Get a grip missionlocal.org/2026/09/rich...

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At Richmond District town hall on Safeway housing project, neighbors see an assault on democracy

Some 60 people attended to listen and air their thoughts about a proposed eight-story Safeway redevelopment project in the Outer Richmond.

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Shane D - newest member Mary Hatch Bailey fanclub @myrthe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A huge mistake by Starmer in the UK was trying to put a brave face on the state of the country. Even reluctant to clearly criticise Brexit. Next US admin should (accurately) say "That man set fire to your future. Here's how bad it is."

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 24/09/2026

You know who has a solution to this though? @alonlevy.bsky.social. Just eyeballing it, I think my trip would’ve been doable in roughly half the time with the Lower Montauk S-Bahn and Union Tpke. light rail pedestrianobservations.com/2023/06/18/a...

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Assume Normal Costs: An Update

The maps below detail what New York could build if its construction costs were normal, rather than the highest in the world for reasons that the city and state could choose to change. I’ve be…

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 25/09/2026

If you want to talk about culture without being insufferable, it is important to be able to distinguish between “this art is bad” and “this art is not for me.”

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pleonasm @pleonasmical.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Every median voter's opinion boils down to "can't we all get along?" No, you stupid fucker. One party wants to destroy the nation, and if we lay back and let that happen you'd hear endless complaining from this same moron. There's a bonus, here, too: brainless national deficit sentiment

Sebastian, 50, independent, white, utility manager
I think it starts with our national deficit and just government spending overall — get that under control. Because I think everything flows from that. I mean, we’re writing checks that somebody’s got to cash eventually, and we’re just spending money left and right. Our deficit is in the trillions now. That’s not sustainable for the future. And the fact that they’re not working together, just constantly — they can’t agree on the color of the sky.

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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I love the idea that Democrats "can't stop talking about" this book I'm only just now hearing about by this person I'd never heard of before, and I'm a political obsessive political reporter's universe of people who are fun to talk to and hang with is very different from real people in politics

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chilito @hectorarbuckle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I really like this treeful pathway.

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chilito @hectorarbuckle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is so funny like isn't this exactly what Republicans are asking for lmao

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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The thing about trying to appeal to right wing bigots is that right wing bigots are all stupid idiots who get 100% of their news from propagandists so they will never actually find out that you were trying to appeal to them in the first place

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 24/09/2026

"No one on Bluesky thinks they’re interacting with a cross section of the population. But a lot of people on X do think that." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/we-di...

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We Didn’t Know Until This Day … Twitter Was the Echo Chamber All Along

Daniel Drezner says we are now in the Wile E. Coyote phase...

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chilito @hectorarbuckle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I never experienced the pre-COVID office, but I know organizations whose office culture was *obliterated* by COVID. I'm talking a handful of people working in an almost-full-floor office most days.

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chilito @hectorarbuckle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Should "urban planning" actually be the name of the field that oversees the management of land use and transportation systems? Or would another name be more apt?

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Ben Ross @benrosstransit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the project where neighbors' lawn signs read "No Apartments. No Compromise."

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America is a Pastoralpunk Dystopia @pastoralpunk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The key here to understand is that metroization really means running trains to metro-like frequencies, that is, 15 mins or better at most stations in the system

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America is a Pastoralpunk Dystopia @pastoralpunk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The LIRR should be metroized (and so should MNRR and NJT)

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chilito @hectorarbuckle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If people feel confident that they will be insulated from consequences if their offense is big and bad enough, then it incentivizes people to do big and bad things.

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 24/09/2026

Yes. I think the consensus among US elite pundits and senior politicians that the way to protect liberal democracy is *not* to punish elite figures who violate its rules is wrong. A norm starting at least with the Watergate pardon. The opposite is true. You need to enforce the law and Constitution.

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Emily Hamilton @ebwhamilton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Short-term rental bans have become sort of a progressive cause since the debate frames investors and tourists against long-term residents, but it's kind of ironic that requiring people to pay more rent at a time has come to be seen this way.

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chilito @hectorarbuckle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

i love the word "outwickler" (udvikler, Auswickler) for "developer". Sounds so sweet ;)

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Alex Freeman @northernnerd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Blurry silky Nightcorn #CornWatch

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