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Mateo_in_ATX @mateoatx.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

But the second group can be helped (albeit indirectly) by housing supply loosening - making it easier to build housing makes it easier on subsidized housing and getting more PSH options can help the latter folks.

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Mateo_in_ATX @mateoatx.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Yeah, the first group is very likely to be invisible - they’re couch surfing, or sleeping in cars, and showering at gyms. But they’re not on the street pushing a cart and setting up a camp (yet).

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Mateo_in_ATX @mateoatx.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I suspect there are levels of homelessness. There are people who are hanging on - they’re hit by a few setbacks (medical bills, lose a job, etc.) and can certainly be helped by ease of housing options. Then there are people who have fallen out of economic system and housing isn’t a supply issue.

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Mateo_in_ATX @mateoatx.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

With friends like these….

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Mateo_in_ATX @mateoatx.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

The three worst guests for any podcast: 1. Politicians 2. Other journalists 3. Recently Published Authors on Book Tour If this is your booking strategy get a new producer.

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Mateo_in_ATX @mateoatx.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Let's not make science and public healthcare a political football please. . .

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Mateo_in_ATX @mateoatx.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Oh, oh, oh. . .I know the answer to this one - call on me, call on me!!! Because modern "realistic" sound mixing SUCKS. If dialogue is meant to be heard and understood, then let us hear it. There's a reason stage actors use stage voices. . .

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Mateo_in_ATX @mateoatx.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

First we stopped sizing fire trucks to fit normal streets, now we don’t size them to fit in their stations. ‘murica!

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Mateo_in_ATX @mateoatx.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

As long as we're rebranding stuff - @projectconnect.bsky.social needs a facelift. . . and a mascot. I propose - el conejo - a speedy rabbit connecting you to your daily needs, wants, desires. @capmetroatx.bsky.social

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Mateo_in_ATX @mateoatx.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

I haven’t been this disappointed since The Phantom Menace

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Mateo_in_ATX @mateoatx.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

I’m calling it. In 20 years there will be more working DeLoreans on the road than DepLoreans.

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Mateo_in_ATX @mateoatx.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

You, the guy walking around in the mid-day sun, with triple digit temps, wearing a sweatshirt hoodie. WTF is wrong with you?

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Mateo_in_ATX @mateoatx.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

You can build with cinderblock now and get the same benefits of hurricane and fire protection. So it's not like you can't pay or this already, it's just pricey.

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Mateo_in_ATX @mateoatx.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Like any building technique there will be good and bad designs. There are some downsides - want to make a change, you're breaking concrete walls. I'm mostly skeptical that there will be significant cost savings. Concrete is expensive - so savings that go to labor might be paid in materials.

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Mateo_in_ATX @mateoatx.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Yeah, I remain skeptical that this is anything but a novelty or a specialty product for highly specific circumstances (hurricane, fire, design) and that cost savings won’t bear out. Maybe an incremental evolution, not a revolution.

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Mateo_in_ATX @mateoatx.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Is he also renaming it "Avitar"

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Mateo_in_ATX @mateoatx.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Don’t let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya.

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Mateo_in_ATX @mateoatx.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

In any case we need large flash flooding to occur if we’re going to ever fill the reservoirs. Floods are good. And, as it turns out, essential.

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Mateo_in_ATX @mateoatx.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Basically, every weather forecaster in this city has the same accuracy of Elon Musk does in predicting tech he’s not going to deliver next year.

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Mateo_in_ATX @mateoatx.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

If your forecast for torrential downpours isn’t 100% I’m just not believing you at all anymore and I’ll give a 75% discount on that 100% forecast.

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Mateo_in_ATX @mateoatx.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

My weather alerts have been one giant tease for over a year and I want it to stop.

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Mateo_in_ATX @mateoatx.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Very excited for the greatest grocery shopping day of the year to commence at 5:30pm.

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Mateo_in_ATX @mateoatx.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I know the south extension was a political need - but man, losing North Lamar to 38th is just. . .not great man.

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Mateo_in_ATX @mateoatx.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Lakeshore to Waterfront is a huge distance for urban rail line!

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Mateo_in_ATX @mateoatx.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Assassination of a CEO of one of the largest health care insurance companies at that time is also incredibly shocking

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Mateo_in_ATX @mateoatx.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Just a random killing? Or was he targeted?

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Mateo_in_ATX @mateoatx.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

How much is the annual inspection on those things?

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Mateo_in_ATX @mateoatx.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

How come ChatGPT is so much better at this than all the urban planners?

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Mateo_in_ATX @mateoatx.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I predict I will never see one of these IRL.

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Mateo_in_ATX @mateoatx.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

If TxDot actually out their dumb highway widenings to a vote for public approval they’d lose by double digits…which is why they don’t ask for approval.

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Mateo_in_ATX @mateoatx.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

If someone loses a lease in a tight market, it could mean financial disaster giving land lords incredible power. If the market is loose then tenants have options and much more power in the dynamic.

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Mateo_in_ATX @mateoatx.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Just to add that all of these effects are worst on the most vulnerable and least able to absorb the impacts.

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Mateo_in_ATX @mateoatx.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

It’s like the Heisenberg Observation Principal at macro scale!

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Mateo_in_ATX @mateoatx.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

This place seems cool and chill, and filled with cool doods who actually like cities - like the former place was when I joined, before….

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Mateo_in_ATX @mateoatx.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Non-fruit bearing cherry blossoms.

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Mateo_in_ATX @mateoatx.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Doing my best to tune out, but I see that the circular fire squad party has begun. I will not be joining that exercise. Good luck with that America.

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Mateo_in_ATX @mateoatx.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Curious about e-bikes but haven't made the leap yet? Between right now and next January is your best window. Coming soon, to an e-bike near you, big tariffs, and massive consolidation resulting in less competition and higher prices. Black Friday will be as good as any time to take the plunge.

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Mateo_in_ATX @mateoatx.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Hi, I'd like to apply for asylum here. How does one get refugee status?

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