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Ian

@woolie.meowmeow.city
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Visual urbanist. I like trains, buses, cities, and maps.

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 19/10/2026
How I thought city politics would work.
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 19/10/2026
Go to your camera roll and search for "boat" and post one you like.
A sailboat at sunset in front of the Statue of Liberty, take on Staten Island Ferry 2023
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 14/10/2026
Permanent DST so that I never have to think about this bullshit ever again.
adding/subtracting a day on DST boundaries :(
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 12/10/2026
Looks like news sites are trying to defeat Reader Mode by scrambling the text.
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 10/10/2026
Claude: Son, you barely understand fares either, even though you helped write the spec. Here's everything I fixed.
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 09/10/2026
University of California Oakland
Squiggles on a map around Broadway and 21st
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 08/10/2026
Make me pretty Mr. Google Meet
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 08/10/2026
Yay
VS Code used 90gb and crashed
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 06/10/2026
I did not know this! Maybe it'll be mentioned in the book I happened to find at a thrift shop earlier today.
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 06/10/2026
This might be too deep a cut but the comments and hair have incredible Dr. Wright vibe from SNES version of Sim City.
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 06/10/2026
I asked the water consumption robot to fix Sausalito.
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 05/10/2026
Since before any of the founders were even born.
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 05/10/2026
It has a lot of stairs but worth it.
View from top of Kölner Dom, 2002Kölner Dom spire from top, 2002
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 05/10/2026
We even get a canonical Santa Claus in random 90s JRPGs.
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 05/10/2026
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 04/10/2026
Unexpected crossover
Popmart blind box for their "Duckoo" character with a theme inspired but probably not licensed from Wes Anderson's "Grand Budapest Hotel"Popmart blind box for their "Duckoo" character with a theme inspired but probably not licensed from Wes Anderson's "Grand Budapest Hotel"
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 02/10/2026
I went to double check; the actual FAA limit here is 390', I was under the impression it was lower.
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 02/10/2026
See also: 23 stories / 276' tower in downtown Berkeley actually under construction with no setbacks, no parking, no open space (although only a portion of the site is built to full tower height.) sfyimby.com/2026/09/cons...
Concrete is rising for Berkeley’s future tallest building at 2200 Bancroft Way in the Southside neighborhood. Crews are quickly moving on the 23-story student housing tower on the southwest corner of the UC Berkeley campus. UC Berkeley Capital Strategies is responsible for the development.
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 02/10/2026
You may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like. 25 stories straight up vertical on every lot line. sfyimby.com/2026/10/new-...
Proposal for an affordable housing high-rise in San Jose with a pure box design and no setbacks.
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 29/09/2026
A fun quirk of American urban planning is production of 990 page documents where the observable universe is a narrow strip a hundred feet wide. The yellow areas are unmeasurable and unknowable, we can only infer their existence through the forces they exert elsewhere. berkeleyca.gov/sites/defaul...
San Pablo plan area in black outline
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 29/09/2026
Montreal rejected a REM expansion project because it would have put elevated trains on this road. After seeing it in person, this road is an abomination and would be greatly improved by elevated trains down the middle.
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 25/09/2026
Someone should let California know that you can have a park with benches. In the city even.
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 25/09/2026
This savory crepe was extremely yummy.
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 25/09/2026
This low mezzanine that goes barely above the trains inside the station cavern is pretty cool.
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 25/09/2026
They had just made fresh bagels, it looks very tasty.
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 25/09/2026
This cute local chain even has some 24 hour locations.
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 25/09/2026
Montreal REM - Approaching Gare Centrale
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 24/09/2026
Rue St Catherine has more pedestrians and fewer people experiencing acute mental distress than even the best pre-pandemic day on Market @ Powell in San Francisco.
Lots of people out shopping in a normal first world country
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 24/09/2026
Uh no I am not even in the United States
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 24/09/2026
And extra chonky version
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 23/09/2026
Congratulations to the "set it on fire" crowd for dramatically increasing construction costs for affordable housing developers. Type I concrete for six stories! sfyimby.com/2026/09/cons...
According to comments by Tipping Structural, the project will be entirely concrete Type I Construction, after a “detailed comparison of life-cycle structural system costs incorporated recent and dramatic increases in insurance costs for wood-framed construction in Oakland.”
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 22/09/2026
Hello to everyone here. Feel free to say hi.
MobilityData conference
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 22/09/2026
Seems like an obvious candidate for a freeway cap.
Montreal central freeway
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 22/09/2026
Hello Montreal
Pho
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 21/09/2026
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 19/09/2026
I am so sorry
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 14/09/2026
Sitting at a Starbucks 300 feet from the beach in perfect Mediterranean weather with this amazing view ☺️ California really is the golden land.
South Shore parking lot
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 13/09/2026
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 13/09/2026
Car wash day
My truck and EV, good combo
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 12/09/2026
Maybe an imprecisely dropped pin is snapped to the nearest well known or scenic location. But it does it very reliably.
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 12/09/2026
While waiting on a CI run earlier I zoomed all the way out on Google Maps and then dropped the street view pin on randomly chosen locations in India.
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 11/09/2026
Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 11/09/2026
I was just re-editing my photo from a trip last year! I really enjoyed walking the area at night with a tripod.
Hōkan-ji  temple seen as negative space against a blue night time sky
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 10/09/2026
They added unlockable achievements to Claude...
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 10/09/2026
Not that I had any doubt, but I went to double check. Our base map tiles are provided by @protomaps.com and derived from OpenStreetMap data -- which (mostly) rejects nonsense like Gulf of America.
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 09/09/2026
cf.
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 09/09/2026
Estuary 2.0 - Oakland Odaiba
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 09/09/2026
Huh, interesting.
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 09/09/2026
Deep sigh
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 08/09/2026
Apparently! But this 1989 recording is mostly much older songs.
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