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Tim McCormick @tmccormick.org · 13/08/2026

intriguing idea, a type of #AlgorithmicRegulation i.e. automatic/adaptive regulation you might say. (oxymoronic as that might in a way be as an idea; or you might say, market mechanisms are that).

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Tim McCormick @tmccormick.org · 25/07/2026

yeah actually first I thought it might have been a visualization of results from proposed-reform-unlocked housing, which could be cool, but I can't see anything else in image that seems generated. it's so prominent and obvious though, on a skyline icon in the news, that seems like there was a point.

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Tim McCormick @tmccormick.org · 24/07/2026

the stock photo on article has a remarkably transformed, trapezoidal profile morph of skyline centerpiece #BigPink. (see actual, in 3rd image). I wondered at first if was some joke or point about collapsing downtown property values or office-to-residential conversion. bsky.app/profile/ande...

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Tim McCormick @tmccormick.org · 23/07/2026

illuminating thread by scholar whose #Odyssey translation was used for the new film adaptation; here's the cover art discussed — which, uncommonly, includes no boat or sea. "Odyssey is about complex interactions between people… Most of the poem doesn't take place at sea." bsky.app/profile/emil...

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Tim McCormick @tmccormick.org · 18/07/2026

"The poetic power is the organizing power par excellence—a capacity to bring the disparate elements of our experience into a powerful whole that is at once beautiful (an object of contemplation) and orienting (an object of praxis)." James D. Reid, paraphrasing #Novalis, in 2024 OUP compilation.

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Tim McCormick @tmccormick.org · 18/07/2026

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Tim McCormick @tmccormick.org · 18/07/2026

"Friends, the soil is poor, we must richly scatter/ Seeds for even a modest harvest." — epigraph to Pollen (1798), first published collection of aphorisms and fragments by #Novalis, (Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg) a pioneer of #LiteraryFragment form.

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Tim McCormick @tmccormick.org · 18/07/2026

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Tim McCormick @tmccormick.org · 18/07/2026

seems an important topic to trace the long arc towards pure State discretionary and staff/rulemaking control in land-use. It's been increasingly striking to me for years. Who/what drives it and is served, what outcomes occurring or foreseeable, how is or can there be accountability and rule of law?

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Tim McCormick @tmccormick.org · 06/07/2026

"You'll certainly fancy…that I am very fond of books…But you'd be quite mistaken. I am a machine, condemned to devour them and, then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history." — #Marx, letter to daughter honeymooning in Paris, requesting book catalogues archive.org/details/in.e...

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Tim McCormick @tmccormick.org · 26/06/2026

@valarie.bsky.social that quote I mentioned — different versions/edits

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Tim McCormick @tmccormick.org · 10/06/2026

#DailyTableau … sorting through journey gleanings, bookmarks, stickers, recent books, at a lovely coffeehouse perch, with attending spirit #WilliamSBurroughs. #InterzoneWest Tableau album: photos.app.goo.gl/Fcj4xRSWDjMG...

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Tim McCormick @tmccormick.org · 31/05/2026

epigraph to #JamesJoyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916): "Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes." ["He applied his thought to new arts [inventions]…[and altered the natural order of things]"]. — #Ovid, #Metamorphoses VIII 188: on Daedalus, mythic maze, wing, etc maker. #Bildungsroman

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Tim McCormick @tmccormick.org · 31/05/2026

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Tim McCormick @tmccormick.org · 30/05/2026

#Ischia is beautifully filmed as the 'Mongibello' in The Talented Mr Ripley (1999) and partly that of Purple Noon (Plein Soleil, 1959, www.reelstreets.com/films/plein-...); maaybe senseable in #Auden, "In Praise of Limestone" (1948)—though that might be as much or more to with his native Yorkshire

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Tim McCormick @tmccormick.org · 19/05/2026

"The #CommonReader is guided by an instinct to create for himself, out of whatever odds and ends he can come by, some kind of whole…some rickety and ramshackle fabric…to allow of affection, laughter, argument…serve[s] his purpose and round[s] his structure" #VirginiaWoolf archive.org/details/comm...

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Tim McCormick @tmccormick.org · 18/05/2026

could you point to what you consider to be the best evidence for PSH?

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Tim McCormick @tmccormick.org · 14/05/2026

thanks for great interview and art pointers! I recently watched, and really appreciated, The Motel Life (2012) because based on his novel, and am looking forward to reading/watching more by him. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mot... #WillyVlautin

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Tim McCormick @tmccormick.org · 12/05/2026

seems you use #StackedFlats to include part-floor apts, but doesn't WA define them as full-floor, per 2023 #HB1110?: "dwelling units in a residential building of no more than 3 stories on a residential zoned lot in which each floor may be separately rented or owned" app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?...

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Tim McCormick @tmccormick.org · 12/05/2026

reading Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing (Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts), 1826 iconic Romantic, lyrical, #wanderlust novella by Joseph von #Eichendorff. Tipped from Wim Wenders film Wrong Move (Falsche Bewegung, 1975) in which Wilhelm's mother gives him a copy as he sets out travelling. #Taugenichts

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Tim McCormick @tmccormick.org · 12/05/2026

"where have you been, my darling young one?" — #BobDylan "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" 1963 m.youtube.com/watch?v=T5al.... Sung by Wilhelm in #WimWenders, Wrong Move (Falsche Bewegung),1975, in Road trilogy; written by #PeterHandke based on #Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship. #Bildungsroman

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Tim McCormick @tmccormick.org · 06/05/2026

like, what if governments, developers, actually sought to do whatever possible to cause creation of what's most needed: housing much lower priced than $300k, much lower carbon, much more open to diverse building/dev/ownership options including self-build, incremental dev, and #MovableDwelling?

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Tim McCormick @tmccormick.org · 06/05/2026

if a minimum density pushes dev to this lower-cost option, what other levers might push it well further? e.g. 1-story max, or 500sf unit max, conceivably could steer development to perhaps much more affordable, flexibly buildable & financeable #CottageCourt. c/ @danbertolet.bsky.social

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Tim McCormick @tmccormick.org · 01/05/2026

oh agree, I'd love it and think it could be wonderfully generative if they explored it globally—what might *all* kinds of people want, get from common places, facilities? Just noting, even Anglo & French traditions typically leaned on consciously or not, have diverse and in ways conflicting strands.

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Tim McCormick @tmccormick.org · 01/05/2026

another key tradition that imo might usefully be brought in, occurs to me. is libraries, doing all kinds of and radically evolving things over time, and not just for well-being or leisure. p.s. #TorontoPublicLibrary was a big part of and inspiration in my 3 months in TO late last year!

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Tim McCormick @tmccormick.org · 01/05/2026

oppty to help them/us think it out more clearly, diversely! Canada has analogous indigenous common property traditions, also Crown lands and e.g. Halifax Common (1763), and inevitably influenced by US where commons have long been foregrounded esp #BostonCommon (1634) on which Olmsted system built.

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Tim McCormick @tmccormick.org · 01/05/2026

on what 'parks' might be, imo best to consider them as heir to distinct traditions, especially (in Anglosphere) both #commons, used and perhaps needed widely incl for production, work, life basics; vs 'park' mostly originating as royal/aristocratic hunting, leisure preserves bsky.app/profile/alex...

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Tim McCormick @tmccormick.org · 27/04/2026

lol, *of course* the account has a header image of exactly the kind of car often chosen by assault drivers. It's like a parody account.

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Tim McCormick @tmccormick.org · 25/04/2026

Reading (space) as a service: "Still Life with a Book" monthly event at Sidney Art Gallery and Museum, in #PortOrchard, WA, near current stay, offers "casual, quiet time to read in a creative and historical space, exchange…recommendations or discuss your literary endeavors." sidneymuseumandarts.com

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Tim McCormick @tmccormick.org · 23/04/2026

"The “message” of any medium or technology is the change of scale or pace or pattern that it introduces into human affairs." — Marshall #McLuhan. Understanding Media, 1964: Ch.1, "The Medium is the Message." #MediaEcology archive.org/details/unde...

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Tim McCormick @tmccormick.org · 23/04/2026

"[Ideology] enables people to deceive their conscience, conceal their true position and inglorious modus vivendi, both from the world and from themselves. It is a veil behind which humans can hide their own 'fallen existence', trivialization, and adaptation to the status quo." — #VáclavHavel 1978.

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Tim McCormick @tmccormick.org · 23/04/2026

"ideology has a hypnotic charm. To wandering humankind it offers an immediately available home…Of course, one pays dearly for this low-rent home: the price is abdication of one's own reason, conscience, and responsibility… [via their] consignment to a higher authority." — #VáclavHavel 1978

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Tim McCormick @tmccormick.org · 23/04/2026

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Tim McCormick @tmccormick.org · 23/04/2026

landmark essay on totalitarian/authoritarian social patterns and how individuals can counteract: #VáclavHavel "The Power of the Powerless" 1978. Iconically analyzes case of grocer fed up with it, taking down the expected "Workers of the world, unite" sign in his window. hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/t...

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Tim McCormick @tmccormick.org · 21/04/2026

"Authorship before print was in a large degree the building of a mosaic": for practical and cultural reasons, mostly gathering, copying, assembling, and preserving manuscripts — done variously, anonymously, by monks, scribes, bookbinders, librarians, owners. — Goldschmidt, 1943, via McLuhan, 1962

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Tim McCormick @tmccormick.org · 21/04/2026

Francis of Assisi (c.1181–1226) was renowned not only for caring for all animals, but for reading any scrap of writing he came across—as noted also of #Cervantes; explaining, "I do this because they have the letters which make the glorious name of the Lord God." noted in #McLuhan #TheGutenbergGalaxy

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Tim McCormick @tmccormick.org · 21/04/2026

elegiac note in #McDonalds wifi login screen: shows the 2018-demolished #1 Store Museum, which recreated Ray Kroc's first franchised McD's, #DesPlaines, Illinois. Actually was 9th McDonald's; vs the unacknowledged pre-Kroc original locations, which I visited in Jan, along former #Route66 in AZ & CA

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Tim McCormick @tmccormick.org · 21/04/2026

did glance at phone right at 4:20pm on 4/20, in time to get a screenshot! See also: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_%28.... There by the way is my lock screen and home screen, examples of a topic I'm writing about: #HomescreenDesign considering such interfaces as key places of habitation and #Homescape

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Tim McCormick @tmccormick.org · 20/04/2026

delightful, astounding, cornucopian gathering of book cover designs that themselves incorporate books, older book covers, or book motifs. from Dan Wagstaff @danwagstaff.bsky.social on the excellent Casual Optimist book culture blog, 2014 www.casualoptimist.com/blog/2014/07... #BookCulture #booksky

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