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Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Photos of my father-in-law's lovely & fairly typical neighbourhood in Warsaw [more info in alt text]. Lots of negative stereotypes out there about C/E European housing. My experience is estates across Warsaw & Poland more broadly are brilliant places to live, with lots of lessons for elsewhere.

People enjoy the evening sunshine in a leafy public court area between buildings in Sady Żoliborz housing estate in the north of Warsaw, Poland. A man walks his dog, a man cycles past, and children can be seen playing, including a small child learning to ride a bike. A sign to the left marks this as an entirely "Traffic Free" zone.

Two older women sit chatting in the evening sunshine as a man walks his dog on a wide lane that runs between apartment blocks in Sady Żoliborz in northern Warsaw. White housing blocks with balconies can be seen to the left of the picture, behind large trees. Pink flowers grow out of a concrete planter at the front of the image. This path like the others nearby is entirely traffic free - car use is limited to peripheral streets, with 'inner' estate streets reserved for walking and cycling only.

Not much going on here! But it's a snap of the apartment blocks in my father-in-law's neighbourhood. As you can see, every building faces out onto a public court, often with a mix of play areas or benches - and always surrounded by trees and greenery.

Looking down a quiet path that leads to the car parking area near the outer edge of the estate. Car access is limited to peripheral streets only, meaning the inner estate is kept as a tranquil place for residents. Planters with large pink flowers line the path, and a white eight-storey apartment block rises behind the trees. A bed of wildflowers grows to the right of the image.

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theluline.bsky.social @theluline.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Even in latin america, which is the most similar region to us in terms of racial/ethnic diversity, casual stereotyping is—in my personal experience—much more pervasive (being called “chino” as an asian person, etc)

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theluline.bsky.social @theluline.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Honestly worry sometimes that Trump is our Juan Peron

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theluline.bsky.social @theluline.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

This is key. ”Trash” in this sense is very weakly tied to income…

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theluline.bsky.social @theluline.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Nah, North American Union with Mexico (with eventual “American Schengen” contingent on progress in drug war)

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Ben S @bensh3.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

2) Mexico City RER, absorbing Lines A and B. Impossible pipe dream but sorely needed

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theluline.bsky.social @theluline.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

1 like = 1 passenger rail project idea

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theluline.bsky.social @theluline.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

I love Larchmont Boulevard as much as the next Angelino but it would be even better if there were housing on top of those cute cafes and boutiques

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Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

My general thesis about American subways is generally they have too few branches to their trunks because tunneling is really expensive but our neighborhoods are super low density. So it’s really tough if you’re not “New Yawk” to corral enough people for a a viable tunnel.

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theluline.bsky.social @theluline.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Mid-way through my early summer break in Europe, so time for some hot transit takes, beginning with England where I started last week

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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Australia’s model of frequent suburban rail is pretty cool and Canadians should know more about it.

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Emma the Sewer Socialist @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

It’s so exhausting. I don’t like the centrist elements to the latest pitch but the refusal of the academic left to engage with the need for abundance has left a void for it to be paired with other politics. They will be left behind.

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theluline.bsky.social @theluline.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

What I said a few days ago about police unions being the issue…

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theluline.bsky.social @theluline.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I would personally cancel any flight plans into DC this week.

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theluline.bsky.social @theluline.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Trumpisms sway over its supporters, convincing them to follow h over a cliff, is more akin to Stalinism than Nazism

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theluline.bsky.social @theluline.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Feel like cross-border shopping runs are going become to routine for those of us <200 miles from mexico or canada…

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Teri Goodson. 🚨🆘🇺🇲🆘🚨 @terigoodson.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

It feels like the United States is now occupied by a hostile foreign regime.

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theluline.bsky.social @theluline.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The US is already at hybrid regime status…

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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

This is such a common argument against allowing taller buildings.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

yeah i think the biggest failing right now is that civil society is not mobilized, Congressional minorities really can't do anything substantive, the just total collapse of american civil society is the scary thing

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David 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @dskiwalker5750.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Probably Phoenix. There is just no way to justify putting that many people in the middle of the desert like that

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

The NYC machine Dems are a cancer in Democratic politics - they gave us Adams, they’ve given us feckless, corrupt leaders, they lost us the House in 2022, and they’re losing their own state to Trump. Dumping them should be internal priority number one for the party

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

i think what's particularly demoralizing is that there is just no courage or principles behind the words of republicans who style themselves as serious conservative national security and constitutional thinkers, absolutely zero. its not surprising but my GOD these people are pathetic

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Parking Reform Network @parkingreform.org · 08/02/2025

Rest in peace, Professor Shoup (1938-2025) We will keep up the good work. Share your stories and thoughts with the parking reform community here: parkingreform.org/donald-shoup

Donald Shoup on a bicycle in two photos decades a apart. He is near a parking sign in both and wearing a crocheted sweater.

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theluline.bsky.social @theluline.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

The suburbs work as intended to suppress radical political organizing

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

We are in the middle of the most profound crisis of American government since the civil war and our idiotic political media can barely see it. Control of the US has been handed to a totally unelected oligarch whose politics are defined by close association with neo-Nazis and conspiracy theorists

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

The question to me is whether it's that WIRED is the only one getting this dirt, or it's that WIRED is the only one who dares publish it. The fact that these stories aren't being immediately vultured onto the New York Times front page with minimal or no attribution makes me suspect the latter

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

What I wish people would understand is that the Trump fanatics aren't really engaged in an ideological project. They're a mob made of the people who now dominate Twitter replies: men who derive deep psychological pleasure from imagining themselves as killers and torturers

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theluline.bsky.social @theluline.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

IMPORTANT: That shitface Gavin is still listed on the UC Berkeley Netsys website. netsys.cs.berkeley.edu/people/

netsys.cs.berkeley.edu

People | Berkeley Netsys Lab

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theluline.bsky.social @theluline.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Couldn’t Gavin take action against California tech companies and VCs a betting the takeover?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/02/2025

Murphy: "This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today. Let's call it what it is."

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🏳️‍🌈🌎One planet, one people @ttaylor36.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I think we need to have a National Walkout Week. That would send a really clear message to oligarchs and businesses that we’ve had enough of the indentured servitude mindset they’re pushing.

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Waifu_Depot @waifudepot.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

National labor strike is the only thing that will work & oligarchy knows it Hell look how quick even AOC was to vote against the rail workers strike

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I’m officially a ‘do something’ guy now, normally I know Dems are in the minority limited options, etc, but we are so far outside the normal limits of politics now. Fuckin’ physically go to the treasury building & make them arrest you. People are not going to able to pay rent tomorrow due to this

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theluline.bsky.social @theluline.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I don’t think Trump has the cleverness to consolidate an authoritarian regime. But he’s definitely going to make our “rule of law” and “corruption perception” ratings to plummet

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

The most disheartening part of all this is not a single one of our leaders is willing to tell the truth about the stakes. 1. We know the fires will get worse 2. We know insurers will be unable to offer coverage to people at risk of fires 3. The state is overexposed to risk due to the FAIR plan.

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Jeremy Wallace @jeremywallace.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I remain firmly in support of my initial proposal when the fires were still exploding: the city, county, or state building 10x the number of units that burned in the fires on safer, more transit-centric land.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up

A tweet from Matthew Stoller. It reads “The Panama Canal, Canada, and Greenland all have one thing in common. The U.S. has to defend them and has to pay for that. Trump's view is that if we're going to defend them we should get something for it.”

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theluline.bsky.social @theluline.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Riding an Amtrak long-distance route (the Floridian) over night for the first time ever. Some thoughts

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