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Dungeon Master Tim

@tstaub.bsky.social
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Planner in Indiana. ND '12, RU '23 Resident of the Jersey Shore, Key West, and Philly, Go Irish, Up Mayo, Go Birds, Go Devils, Go Yankees.

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 5h
@paulbarter.bsky.social has noted that as countries develop, cities shift from being oriented around motorcycles to transit. Unfortunately NYC is backsliding: people are shifting to e-micro-mobility because transit options are poor, and with that sometimes comes death www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/n...
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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 57m
Teens doing dumb and dangerous stuff on what are essential electric motorcycles is real and a problem in some places but I'd remind everyone that teens doing dangerous stuff on actual gas-powered motorcyles is the cornerstone of the 50's greaser culture everyone worships now.
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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 1h
Wondered why this was getting engagement and I see it’s because a big antisemite was mad Zohran is trying to address New York’s endemic housing shortage. The golden rule: every kind of crank moron has the exact same opinion on residential land use and urban density.
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Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 14h
Ralph Nader is also a big reason why California's home insurance market is in shambles: Prop 103 1988 www.latimes.com/archives/la-...
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Voters Splitting Evenly on Nader's Prop. 103
Ralph Nader's Proposition 103, with its promise of sweeping insurance rate rollbacks, was running dead even in election returns early today, with big blocs of urban votes still out in counties where i...
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Dungeon Master Tim @tstaub.bsky.social · 7h
Damn, this hit the nerve of Nader's Raiders. I hate him because he empowered wealthy NIMBYs to sue to stop housing and transit projects. Essentially, he helped create a means of regulatory action that favors wealthy land owners. Everything he did after is down stream of that.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 8h
Are Democrats really going to sit on Elon being back at the White House, praising data centers with Trump, and talking about their good times with Xi as Elon tries to buy another election and millions die from him buying the last one?
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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Lengthy Facebook post in which I address all the stated concerns of the solar opponents quoted in the local news Property values, farmland, fires, groundwater contamination, reclamation costs, wildlife, slippery slope, temperature, and agricultural character www.facebook.com/share/p/19KD...
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Dungeon Master Tim @tstaub.bsky.social · 16h
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 16h
incredible work by these reporters & editors. yes, “student journalists.” seems they can teach us a lot… www.thecut.com/article/corn...
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How Student Journalists Broke the ‘Cornell Seven’ Case
“Our coverage was absolutely completely raw from the lawsuit and nothing was concealed. At a minimum, that’s what we can do as the student newspaper.”
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Aimee Witteman @aimeewitteman.bsky.social · 18h
A footnote to my Lyme story: my husband hunts deer because we have WAY too many in the DMV. I call venison hyper-local, climate-friendly protein with ecological benefits (a take that is not wildly popular in Takoma Park). But after my diagnosis, I have a new slogan: eat the deer, reduce the ticks.
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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 20h
The Cornell victim has been doxxed on X. So worried for her. I hate this planet.
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Peter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · 22h
I am not going to lie. I absolutely LOVE passing drivers multiple times, especially if they punish pass me like I am slowing their important journey. Driving aggressively in most urban and suburban zones has zero upside and they fully deserve to be reminded of that.
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Dungeon Master Tim @tstaub.bsky.social · 22h
A month to go, I expect plenty of culture war stories to cover the news.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Left-NIMBYs love to pit welfare state expansion against land use reform, but the latter can 1) can achieve significant poverty reductions 2) without means testing or administrative burdens, and 3) at a net gain for the public budget, which can then be used to expand the welfare state.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"In the states examined in this analysis, a drop of approximately 20% in inflation-adjusted rents—as happened in Austin, Texas, and Minneapolis after those cities made reforms—could reduce poverty by 18% to 26% and child poverty by 21% to 38%." www.pew.org/en/research-...
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The Housing Shortage Is a Major Driver of Poverty
Housing costs are usually the largest item in a household’s budget and can determine a family’s financial stability.
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Appendix N Entertainment @appendixn.bsky.social · 23h
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 23h
between the metaverse, the pervert glasses, and now this fuzzy avatar mess, Meta is on a generational run of real-world Black Mirror episodes
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Building a distributed power system: Vermont encourages home owners to have batteries and connect them to the grid www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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The US state replacing power plants with home batteries
Spread across thousands of ordinary homes, Vermont's virtual power plant has become its largest power source. It's protecting owners from outages and providing cheaper, cleaner energy.
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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You tax things you want less of. It’s why they tax cigarettes. To make it too expensive to bother with that bad habit It is a disgrace this logical fallacy is applied to housing. If you believe in IZ you don’t actually want more housing, you just want certain housing, which prevents other housing
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Dungeon Master Tim @tstaub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
While inclusionary zoning is illegal in the state of Indiana, we would never add IZ to our code. We actively worked with developers and determined long ago that without subsidy, IZ would kill most development. So we use tools like tax abatements & low interest loans to achieve our affordability.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
it is quite confusing that “inclusionary zoning” is not the opposite of “exclusionary zoning”, but actually functions as a tool of exclusionary zoning
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026
Norway has solution to this actually, stay at home parents can get their share of the public daycare subsidy as cash, that way parents are not pushed one way or the other. the problem of course is virtually no one on the center or right actually gives a shit about parents
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And if you get the answer wrong, that's right, you're getting slimed
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Mike Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Honestly replace two of the three debates with quizzes
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Don't forget that @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social wants to let the GOP get away with all of this. He said let's turn the page and get on with business. He's on the side of the Nazis if he thinks this kind of thing is acceptable in the United States of America. This can't be allowed to slide. It can't.
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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 29/09/2026
She’s running (for Senate)
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Tom Broderick @trumbullbrod.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If this somehow isn’t already illegal, the CT General Assembly should outlaw this insane classist bullshit this upcoming session www.ctinsider.com/news/new-can...
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New Canaan voters to decide whether renters can serve on finance board
A decades-old rule that says finance board members must own property in town, an official said, was an “outlier provision."
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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 28/09/2026
Walking through Amsterdam, I was at first confused about what these structures were... until I saw a car pull into one. It's an automated underground parking garage. I knew these existed, but had never seen them before. Very cool in a sci-fi/engineering way, but not exactly a great use of money.
 A glass structure on a sidewalk/slow street area with a metal pad inside.A car driving into the glass box.Car on the elevator / storage pad in the glass boxUser control screen for the underground parking.
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YIMBYonese Liberation Army @dingbattitude.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Obama bailed them out and we get this in return
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Dungeon Master Tim @tstaub.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hey @uckema.com get in the comments, we've got Mt Laurel detractors.
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
GODDAMN IT THIS IS AMERICA
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Jill Pantozzi @jillpantozzi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Last month, a Google alert directed me to an interview I did with cartoonist Matt Furie—creator of Pepe the Frog…only I haven’t done any interview and I’d never even met Furie. So I clicked. "None of this is true": AI, content farms, and one completely made-up article. bsky.app/profile/then...
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taber @kvetch.gay · 28/09/2026
This map from 1951 shows how iron ore moved then along the Great Lakes, and almost nothing about this has changed in 75 years. To make steel, you need iron ore. To move iron ore significant distances, you need deep draft waterways. You simply can not get the stuff to fucking *Iowa*
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Dungeon Master Tim @tstaub.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If he knows how to win, why didn't he run for a third term as mayor of Chicago?
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Michael Love @elkmovie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yes but it’s important to note that it also made a bunch of New Jersey car commuters very, very angry
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Adam @adamshap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NYC’s congestion pricing program cut ambulance travel times by over a minute
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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 28/09/2026
New Top 772 dropped. Go find your team.
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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Coyote vs. Acme (2026)
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
NEW from me: Over the last 4 years, America has lost more than 200k jobs in creative fields like publishing, film, TV, or graphic design. It's the worst stretch for arts jobs outside of recessions. How much is AI to blame? And can the arts' business model survive?🧵 www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the...
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AI and the Fall? of the Creative Class
America is Losing Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs in Media, Film & the Arts. How Much is AI to Blame?
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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
omg that’s disgusting….where?
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trump announces he will sharply scale back fuel-efficiency rules for new cars and light trucks, gutting one of the government’s most significant efforts to reduce gasoline consumption and speed the country’s shift to electric vehicles.
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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wait, are you proposing a network of electric trains that connect different regional cities together quickly? I think there's a name for this type of transit, it's on the tip of my tongue.....
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Dungeon Master Tim @tstaub.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Why would you make your team wear black?
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Dungeon Master Tim @tstaub.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Doesn't he have a game to get to where he is inconveniencing everyone
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Dungeon Master Tim @tstaub.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
An honest question, who has been the best Chicago mayor this century? Is it Lightfoot?
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:
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Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people
Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
We had to wait for the....NEW YORK POST to write about this. Y'all know there is so much more where this came from but journalists don't want to dig and people are terrified to speak to any journalist seeing the type of reporting they've been doing
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Go on. Keep proving the point of the documentary, fellas.
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for 'Musk' (Exclusive) — The Hollywood Reporter
The Alex Gibney doc has received denials from YouTube, Meta, TikTok and X on running the trailer. Its U.S. distributor is appealing.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Top ten industrial use is maybe technically true but meaningless substantively. Water is agriculture and everything else.
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austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 25/09/2026
i must go to the only politician uncorrupted by capitalism: 🚀 MAACE 🚀
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