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Jordon

@mechvibrations.bsky.social
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New Mexico, En/Fr/Pt/Es, an MA and 2 BAs, book worm, swimmer, Democrat, Urbanist, video gamer, cyclist. Views are my own 🌈🇫🇷🇺🇲🇨🇦

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Jordon @mechvibrations.bsky.social · 16h
We did it, Joe!! Yimby update from the trenches of Albuquerque
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 03/10/2026
“Voters deserve to know the values driving our housing policy. How much housing have we sacrificed, and how many music schools, parks, and other public amenities have we left on the table to maintain the character of low-density neighborhoods?”
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
From electric vehicles to “DEI bike lanes,” transportation has become a partisan battleground. But 50 years ago, Washington came together to save transit systems, address deadly car designs, and reduce vehicle pollution. Much has changed—and it’s not just MAGA. My exploration (gift link) 🧵
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Why US Transportation Policy Became a Partisan Battleground
Republicans and Democrats keep clashing over what was once a comparatively nonpartisan issue. When did getting around turn into another thing for Americans to fight about?
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Jordon @mechvibrations.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
2 progressive city councilors in ABQ (Nichole Rogers, Joaquin Baca)voted to close a shelter that is providing services, right as the cold season is starting. If you needed evidence as to why nimbyism in ABQ is a disease and that we can't even get so-called progressives to do the bare minimum
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Jordon @mechvibrations.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
And ABQ might actually abolish one of our most corrosive forms of stakeholder vetocracy ❤️❤️
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Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Great reminder that the ongoing and intensifying American affordability crisis cannot be solved without major land-use changes (ending sprawl, accelerating infill development at scale) that enable people to ditch their cars and access cheaper/more sustainable mobility modes
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Strong Towns Albuquerque @strongtownsabq.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
🚨 ABQ ACTION ALERT: Tonight, City Council’s LUPZ Committee considers O-26-55, which would make quick-build street safety improvements a routine consideration when we repave or restripe streets. Speak in support! Sign up by 3:30 PM today: www.cabq.gov/council/find...
Action Alert graphic from Strong Towns Albuquerque. Dark blue background with abstract light blue and orange shapes. Text reads: “Support O-26-55, Quick-Build Safety Eval for Road Projects. Today! Tell City Council: Support O-26-55. LUPZ Committee, tonight, Aug. 12, 5 PM. Public comment signup closes at 3:30 PM.” Bottom text says, “Link to sign up to speak in Story!” and strongtownsabq.org.Strong Towns Albuquerque graphic explaining what O-26-55 would do, with colorful rounded text boxes and a photo of a bicycle pavement marking. Headline reads: “When we touch a street, let’s make it safer.” Albuquerque is considering a policy to make quick-build safety improvements part of the conversation whenever streets are repaved or restriped. Quick builds are lower-cost, fast, and adjustable, allowing dangerous streets to be improved now and treatments refined over time. Examples include safer crossings, protected bike lanes, slower turns, and pedestrian refuges.Collage showing examples of quick-build street projects around the country. Photos show painted curb extensions and pedestrian space protected with flexible bollards, a protected bicycle lane separated from traffic by posts, and other low-cost street safety treatments. A paper-style caption in the center reads: “Need some visual aid? Here are some examples of quick-build projects across the country.”Strong Towns Albuquerque call-to-action graphic on a dark blue background. Large orange headline reads: “Sign up to Speak and Write In Your Support!” It asks residents to email members of the City Council Land Use, Planning and Zoning Committee and lists Councilors Tammy Fiebelkorn, Renée Grout, Brook Bassan, Dan Champine, and Nichole Rogers with their city email addresses. A second box encourages people to sign up to speak at public comment. Bottom text reads: “Let’s Advance This Proposal to City Council!”
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Greater Albuquerque Association of REALTORS® @abqrealtors.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
What does a stronger Albuquerque look like? Explore how housing choice, thoughtful development, safer streets, fiscal responsibility, and community collaboration can help create stronger, more resilient neighborhoods with @strongtownsabq.bsky.social www.gaar.com/blog/article...
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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Newsom's AB 179 cuts per-home affordable housing costs by $60,000–$70,000 via lower impact fees, which already cost affordable developers $300 million a year statewide. Market-rate developers, who build most new housing, still pay these fees in full. www.kqed.org/news/1209068...
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Newsom Signs Law to Reduce Costs of Building Affordable Housing | KQED
The reforms are expected to reduce the cost of affordable housing construction in California by an estimated $60,000 to $70,000 per-unit.
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Jerome Alexander Horne @jahorne.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The first three towers of the Sen̓áḵw in Vancouver. A major Indigenous-led, multi-tower residential and commercial development project by the Squamish Nation located on ancestral reserve land. Meaning "the place inside the head of False Creek."
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EmmanuelSPV @emmanuelspv.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Before (2022) / After (2026) Rue de la Croix-Nivert in the 15th arrondissement of Paris
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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 01/08/2026
car brain is the real-life equivalent to the myths about toxoplasmosis. efforts to reduce trash rotting in the street festering with disease and rats being met with "but muh parking!?????" is beyond parody. these people would happily live in a landfill if it had assigned parking.
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Strong Towns Albuquerque @strongtownsabq.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The Rail Runner has turned 20! What might the next 20years of rail runner look and how can we leverage this amazing investment for homes, sustainability, and economic development? Let's make the next 20 years of Rail Runner even better! 🚉💪
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Strong Towns Albuquerque @strongtownsabq.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The Rail Trail has the chance to transform an underused corridor into a safer, greener connection between neighborhoods. 📍 Wednesday, July 29 🕟 4:30–6:00 PM @ Explora 🍻 Social hour follows at Ponderosa If you support better walking, biking, and public spaces in #abq come help show that support
Strong Towns ABQ event flyer with the headline "Show up for the Rail Trail Town Hall." The event is Wednesday, July 29, from 4:30–6:00 PM at Explora, 1701 Mountain Rd NW. A photo of the completed Rail Trail segment with its distinctive steel archway appears alongside the Strong Towns ABQ logo. The bottom reads, "Let's help make the Rail Trail happen!" with a roadrunner silhouette.Information slide titled "Rail Trail Info & Town Hall." It invites residents to learn about the West Old Town Rail Trail, ask questions, and help shape a project intended to connect neighborhoods, improve safety, and create lasting public value. It emphasizes that strong community participation from supporters can help ensure the discussion reflects broad enthusiasm for the long-planned project. The Strong Towns ABQ website is listed at the bottom.Social hour announcement titled "Social Hour to Follow!" It invites attendees to continue the conversation after the public meeting at Ponderosa Brewing Company, 1761 Bellamah Ave NW, from 6:00–8:00 PM. The text welcomes both longtime advocates and first-time attendees and notes that non-alcoholic beverages are available. A photo of Ponderosa Brewing and Sawmill Village appears in the upper right.Accessibility and venue information slide. It notes that the venue can be reached via ART Red and Green Lines (Old Town Station, about a 15-minute walk) or Route 8 (Rio Grande & Mountain stop, about an 11-minute walk). Bicycle parking is available. Ponderosa Brewing offers a full menu with vegan and vegetarian options, non-alcoholic beverages, and wheelchair accessibility. The design features desert-themed illustrations including cacti and a roadrunner.
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Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 25/07/2026
Kick her out of office, pronto.
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Shane Phillips @shanedphillips.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
This is a genuinely shocking contrast. www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Street homelessness went up in Los Angeles. In Nithya Raman's district, it was nearly cut in half
Street homelessness — people living outdoors or in their vehicles — went down by 49% in Raman’s district compared to the previous year, she said at a press conference Friday.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Bass promoting fare-free LA metro is a really funny example of a politician attempting to pander but instead landing on a proposal that, within the community of people who care a lot about the issue, is a specific shibboleth for not knowing what you're talking about: bsky.app/profile/mayo...
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Jordon @mechvibrations.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Show up to the Public Info Session to help make the Rail Trail a reality! 💪
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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Thanks to a pro-growth local culture and advocacy by YIMBY groups like @sacyimby.bsky.social, California's last great middle-class metropolis will not be going down the inequality-and-stagnation doom loop of the coast. www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/n...
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Sacramento housing advocates cheer city zoning code changes - Sacramento Business Journal
Final votes on the changes are expected by the end of the year.
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Strong Towns Albuquerque @strongtownsabq.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Thank you everyone for coming out, and special thanks to Mark Baker and the team at 505 Food Hall for hosting us! We hope to see you at the next Strong Towns ABQ meeting on August 19th, again at 505 Central. #abq #albuquerque #downtownabq #strongtowns
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Jordon @mechvibrations.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
So disappointing that the Downtown Albuquerque neighborhoods are represented by Uber Nimby Debbie O'Malley in the state senate. We deserve better than someone who sees new neighbors as something that lowers the quality of life..
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amb @amb.fyi · 14/07/2026
“Corridor zoning” was a political grand bargain we should no longer find acceptable for urban housing politics in the twenty first century. It’s time to buck up and legalize the urban just future where housing as abundant, accessible, and affordable - and not just relegated to the major streets
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Jordon @mechvibrations.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
City of ABQ bans skateboarders and even trick bikes from Civic Plaza but then says it wants "eyes on the street," chasing away the people that put eyes on the street in the urban crater that is civic plaza. Let the people skate!!!
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 13/07/2026
Great piece on San Francisco's hesitating embrace of skateboarding as a way to put eyes on the street. sfstandard.com/2026/07/13/s...
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San Francisco: The city where skateboarders won?
The city has spent around $9 million on skate infrastructure in the last decade. It’s hard to believe it used to jail people for skating on the sidewalk.
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Jordon @mechvibrations.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The ART serves such good aura tbqh
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Daniel Trubman @danieltrubman.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Streets are for giant gift horses from our defeated and departing Greek rivals, not cars.
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Infrastory @infrastory.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The solution to Los Angeles’ bad transit ridership? It might just be more buses. Read the latest Infrastory now: open.substack.com/pub/infrasto...
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Los Angeles could do with more buses
Bringing the Toronto Model to LA would be a gamechanger
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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
It really would be remarkable how much benefit la would see from just running buses like Toronto
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Jordon @mechvibrations.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
KHive has like a high batting average or whatever, idk how people fell for Planter.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Graham Platner minutes ago posted a video calling these allegations of sexual assault him "categorically false." He goes on to say: "we're taking the time to reflect on the best path forward" but also: "you never turned your back on me, and I will not turn my back on you now."
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Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
anyone who finds more things to like about this country than me is a glassy eyed, historically illiterate moron. anyone who likes fewer things is a nihilistic doomer
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Jordon @mechvibrations.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
So pumped for this stadium and the new district of mixed income homes, retail, and activity it'll bring, all right next to Albuquerque Rapid Transit and replacing abandoned and under utilized structures and empty parking lots ❤️❤️⚽🏟️
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fangy @jeannesfangs.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
witnessing the birth of a new all timer post is such a beautiful thing
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 02/07/2026
The White House is openly saying they want to eliminate a minority group and people still want to say this is about sports.
 Supreme Court Bolsters President Trump’s Push to Eliminate Transgender Insanity
The White House
June 30, 2026
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rust belt city enjoyer @rustbeltenjoyer.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The cats of South St Louis 😸
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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Happy "SB 79 Becomes Law" Day! Let the building begin!
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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Do not ask for whom the cold one cracks open for the cold one cracks open for thee
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
It’s surprising how many people who mention the climate crisis in their bio viscerally hate bikes (and bicyclists)
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The Needling @theneedling.com · 27/06/2026
Man Waving Pride Flag Like Wand at Egypt-Iran World Cup Match Accidentally Turns Both Teams Gay: tinyurl.com/ycxhuuxf
Man's arm pointing sparkling rainbow Pride flag at Seattle Stadium field toward World Cup match
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The thing I would really like people to understand is that policymaking is all about choosing between imperfect options and doing nothing is very often a much worse choice than doing something that has some downsides as well as upsides.
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House Sacramento @sacyimby.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
YIMBYism works
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"Michael Monaco" @mmonaco.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Something i try to convey when talking with people concerned about "luxury apartments:" the most "luxurious" form of housing is in fact the large single family detached home.
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Andrew Fister @andrewfister.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Correct take. Trump is the embodiment of the worst fears about developers that we hear people express.
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
People across North America want to make World Cup pedestrian zones permanent. We should be doing this in Seattle too.
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KRQE News 13 @krqe.com · 26/06/2026
How UNM is helping the World Health Organization respond to global disease outbreaks
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How UNM is helping the World Health Organization respond to global disease outbreaks
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – From Ebola in Africa to a hantavirus outbreak at sea, a team at the University of New Mexico is playing a critical role in global response. When outbreaks sprea…
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Jordon @mechvibrations.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
abqurbanist.substack.com/p/alvarado-d... I am agitated that the waiting room at Alvarado is closed since the pandemic so I yapped about it becoming a brewpub/restaurant like we see at Denver and LA Union Stations-why not make it into something, especially now that the new Rail Trail is right there?
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Alvarado Deserves Better Than a Locked Door
Why it is time to reimagine the Alvarado Transportation Center's closed-down Waiting Area as a Harvey-style Brewpub & Restaurant
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Strong Towns Albuquerque @strongtownsabq.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The best time to influence what gets built in your neighborhood is before a project is proposed. Join the Near North Valley CPA Open House on June 24. Speak up for housing choice, cottage courts, safer streets, and better transportation, all while enjoying free food, live music, and a bike carnival.
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William Skudlarek @willskud.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
“Smaller changes can be more arcane, but taken together, they can reduce a builder’s costs. A simple example: allowing builders to use a single central staircase, instead of two, which frees up space to add larger apartment units more suitable for families.”
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The Great American Housing Shortage Is Finally Forcing a Search for Solutions
“Granny flats” in California and single-staircase codes in Texas: States are trying to fill a gap that has pushed homeownership out of reach for many.
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Jordon @mechvibrations.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The first part of the ramp across the railroad tracks between Downtown and East Downtown has opened!
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