John Miklos @jctmik.bsky.social · 2h(guy who pronounces ADHD as if it were a Sindarin word): "Àdhd" 000
Reposted by John MiklosPhilip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Terracotta and timber apartments in Isfahan, Iran The form works to self shade terraces and some of the glazed areas The architects are Use Studio 4628
John Miklos @jctmik.bsky.social · 18hAnd X gets a little more like [photograph of an overflowing latrine] 010
Reposted by John MiklosDoug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The combination of "everyone has to be in a car all the time" and "everyone is now performing for a camera and creating content all the time" is a bad combination and not a sign of a healthy society. 132827
Reposted by John MiklosBen Ross @benrosstransit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Basic problem is that buyers of new cars, the wealthiest car owners, determine the sizes of all the cars on the road. The income gap between new car buyers & the average car owner has grown for 2 reasons: 1) more inequality; 2) cars have longer lives, so new cars are a smaller fraction of the fleet. 4653
Reposted by John MiklosMax Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 07/10/2026A huge number of people do not have the emotional self regulation skills necessary to safely operate a motor vehicle. 1867373
Reposted by John MiklosCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Best "big" paper in the country and it's not even close. Yes I know I have Philly bias but I think a lot of people not from here would agree too 2148969
John Miklos @jctmik.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Now with horizonal AND vertical integration! Total monopolization! 000
Reposted by John MiklosPhilip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 07/10/2026100 new apartments, available across social and affordable rent tenures in Salford The building meets Passivhaus energy standards - meaning energy bills will be around 80% lower than normal By Buttress Architects 15212
John Miklos @jctmik.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"Thermal aerostat drone" (Pentagon hands me an eleventy bajillion dollar contract) 010
Reposted by John MiklosPhilip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Stunning new housing under construction in Amsterdam! 105 apartments, with a mass timber inner structure and brick facade - a great combination. By Monadnock Architecture - a short thread 🧵 39421
John Miklos @jctmik.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The Xmas decorations are starting to appear in stores (it's too early, I know) so here's a reminder: bring the magic of Mari Lwyd to Philadelphia this holiday season 130
John Miklos @jctmik.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Eh. That's the original rail alignment, the downtown subway was the new build spur from the repurposed tunnel and Panhandle Bridge 010
John Miklos @jctmik.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I've jokingly suggested- on multiple occasions- that the answer is "build more old buildings". An obvious contradiction, but time solves the paradox by making everything old, eventually. You just have to build today. 000
Reposted by John MiklosAnt Murdering She-Devil/Shelley @shelleyelwood.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I was a zoning officer for 5 years, they want to magically have 100 old houses/apartments appear out of the mist. Look, they are all really low rent/cost! And they are so old they don't have to meet all the current codes! That's what they want. While living in a McMansion. 1472
Reposted by John MiklosBen S @bensh3.bsky.social · 03/10/2026PA finally making moves to stitch together the intercity network we need 3214
Reposted by John MiklosTaras Grescoe 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 04/10/2026Build it and we will ride. 13711
Reposted by John MiklosTony Jordan @tonyjordan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026In 2018 I said cities had about ten years to price private driving before AVs arrived. It's 2026. The robotaxis are showing up on schedule. I'm still for the fleet model including transit, and still waiting on the cities. www.pps.org/article/wher...pps.orgWhere Do I Park My Autonomous Car? The Future of Mobility at Walk/Bike/PlacesThis September’s Walk/Bike/Places in New Orleans will tackle the tough questions of adjusting to a more autonomous future. 1112
Reposted by John MiklosJoey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Sort 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 502927795
Reposted by John MiklosBryn Davidson - Lanefab @lanefab.com · 02/10/2026Pick your flavour. 3 storeys to 6. Same site plan, same core, same green space. 263
Reposted by John Miklosdisc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026im ngl "landlord" is a word that reeks of subtle Anti-Americanism and we should probably expunge it from our vocabularies. 35716
John Miklos @jctmik.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Today I was reminded that hydrofoil boats are older tech than airplanes. Wild. 000
Reposted by John MiklosSam @samd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026it is quite confusing that “inclusionary zoning” is not the opposite of “exclusionary zoning”, but actually functions as a tool of exclusionary zoning 942544
Reposted by John MiklosHow-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 02/10/2026Listen: 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*?!?cbc.caHidden cameras show some stores unlocking speed limits on e-bikes, selling e-scooters that go up to 120 km/h | CBC NewsA 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... 511668379
Reposted by John MiklosEveryHeron 𓅣 @everyheron.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Perhaps not as poetic a weir as the weir of the #LostWords Heron poem by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/ever... 091
Reposted by John MiklosEveryHeron 𓅣 @everyheron.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This feels like it will be the Ultimate Weir The perfect challenge for the most experienced Heron to fish 1/2 🧵 2333
John Miklos @jctmik.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The Born Yesterdays are not used to archives, back catalogs, and reliable sources. They speak first, so someone might volunteer an explanation sooner, rather than wait and look for the answer on their own. LLMs only make it worse 020
Reposted by John MiklosBryn Davidson - Lanefab @lanefab.com · 01/10/2026This is the "Three/Four" - an accessible passive house 9 plex that could work citywide within existing R1 zones. To work it would need: 1. Remove (or) increase the unit cap beyond 6 units 2. Increase max height ~3m 3. Increase building depth (but keep the same lot coverage) 4. Remove density fees 2499
Reposted by John Miklosjam @socialistboat.dad · 01/10/2026Caffeine doesn't replace lost hours of sleep, it only masks the fatigue signals to your brain so you don't realize how tired you actually are. You still suffer the cognitive and physiological deficits from the sleep deficiency, you just can't tell. Which is good actually and fine I've decided 7922151
Reposted by John MiklosAaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 30/09/2026We need a War on White Collar Crime 57425
Reposted by John MiklosArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Man in a Blue Mantle, by John Singer Sargent, 1891, 📸 via @cjzero.bsky.social 295056758
Reposted by John MiklosDanielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The masculinity politics beat continues to be very necessary. goodauthority.substack.com/p/republican... 2347897
John Miklos @jctmik.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Ok but have you considered that this line, with the Airport Line, would give the RR network a lil pair of legs?? 010
John Miklos @jctmik.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Lantern Theatre had a good answer in their Measure for Measure from a few seasons ago: 000
Reposted by John MiklosElle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 27/09/2026News flash: you can put cinnamon and sugar in oatmeal 031
Reposted by John MiklosNolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This is an excellent post. These new systems in Asia are impressive. And, importantly, it's applying a lot of things that we figured out here in the 1960s and tried to build ourselves. This isn't foreign. 611719
Reposted by John MiklosSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If you care about keeping the Academy of Natural Sciences open to the public in Philadelphia, I need you to read and share this thread. Trish Wellenbach was sent from the mayor's office to oversee the Academy of Natural sciences situation. She needs to hear from us. Here comes the action item: 15557486
