Bryon Russell
@bryontrussell.bsky.social
I do it for the pain.
Incongruity is my joie de vivre.
Incongruity is my joie de vivre.
Arguments to effect of "But who will do those shit jobs for crap wages?" as justification to maintain a caste of illegals, is most racist, deplorable, anti-labor, Apartheid thinking imaginable.
Not in favor of deportations, but 100% against systemic Labor Apartheid to break back of organized labor.
Not in favor of deportations, but 100% against systemic Labor Apartheid to break back of organized labor.
We hear that immigrants are "freeloaders," yet they're being arrested at their workplaces and LA's economy is floundering without them.
Hello?
Hello?
July 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Arguments to effect of "But who will do those shit jobs for crap wages?" as justification to maintain a caste of illegals, is most racist, deplorable, anti-labor, Apartheid thinking imaginable.
Not in favor of deportations, but 100% against systemic Labor Apartheid to break back of organized labor.
Not in favor of deportations, but 100% against systemic Labor Apartheid to break back of organized labor.
Facadism & Facadectomy is a really great design strategy when it's well-executed, as this appears to be.
But when it's not thoughtfully considered, it's bad-bad
But when it's not thoughtfully considered, it's bad-bad
One of the largest in situ heritage retentions underway in North America right now. The United Building by Davpart and B+H Architects. A new 54 storey building will use the first structural bay as part of the retention strategy to integrate the facade of the 1928 office and 1961 modernist expansion.
March 25, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Facadism & Facadectomy is a really great design strategy when it's well-executed, as this appears to be.
But when it's not thoughtfully considered, it's bad-bad
But when it's not thoughtfully considered, it's bad-bad
It's boring over here. I'm just going to say it.
I mean, I like you all, and that's the fucking problem.
It's just not fun without the bozos. Like my need for random aggression is not met here. I'm just not happy unless someone is telling me to go fuck myself.
Maybe I lived in NYC for too long.
I mean, I like you all, and that's the fucking problem.
It's just not fun without the bozos. Like my need for random aggression is not met here. I'm just not happy unless someone is telling me to go fuck myself.
Maybe I lived in NYC for too long.
February 25, 2025 at 3:13 AM
It's boring over here. I'm just going to say it.
I mean, I like you all, and that's the fucking problem.
It's just not fun without the bozos. Like my need for random aggression is not met here. I'm just not happy unless someone is telling me to go fuck myself.
Maybe I lived in NYC for too long.
I mean, I like you all, and that's the fucking problem.
It's just not fun without the bozos. Like my need for random aggression is not met here. I'm just not happy unless someone is telling me to go fuck myself.
Maybe I lived in NYC for too long.
The drum beat of the train wreck tech has become continues. Microsoft broke windows with a mandatory security update.
This is core functionality not working. What happens the day that it all just shuts off? Things feeling very fragile these days folks:
www.makeuseof.com/windows-11-u...
This is core functionality not working. What happens the day that it all just shuts off? Things feeling very fragile these days folks:
www.makeuseof.com/windows-11-u...
Don't Update Your PC Yet — Latest Windows 11 Patch Breaks File Explorer
The Windows 11 KB5051987 update stopped File Explorer from working.
www.makeuseof.com
February 18, 2025 at 9:50 AM
The drum beat of the train wreck tech has become continues. Microsoft broke windows with a mandatory security update.
This is core functionality not working. What happens the day that it all just shuts off? Things feeling very fragile these days folks:
www.makeuseof.com/windows-11-u...
This is core functionality not working. What happens the day that it all just shuts off? Things feeling very fragile these days folks:
www.makeuseof.com/windows-11-u...
Hello beautiful, nice to see you again. Next stop NYC.
February 2, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Hello beautiful, nice to see you again. Next stop NYC.
"Buy American" ... And we have trouble affordably manufacturing pipe.
Meanwhile:
Meanwhile:
February 2, 2025 at 3:05 AM
"Buy American" ... And we have trouble affordably manufacturing pipe.
Meanwhile:
Meanwhile:
What The Actual Fresh Fucking Hell Is This? The first lady portrait is a severe B/W corporate raider powersuit shot w/ a resolute war-hawk persona?
Tha Fuk?
Tha Fuk?
January 27, 2025 at 10:20 PM
What The Actual Fresh Fucking Hell Is This? The first lady portrait is a severe B/W corporate raider powersuit shot w/ a resolute war-hawk persona?
Tha Fuk?
Tha Fuk?
This oh how this needs to come back. Love.
December 23, 2024 at 9:49 PM
This oh how this needs to come back. Love.
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The built environment pre- and post- zoning enforced parking mandates is so radically hard to believe
A quarter mile separate these two business districts in Norwich Connecticut but they may as well be a world apart
A quarter mile separate these two business districts in Norwich Connecticut but they may as well be a world apart
December 23, 2024 at 2:22 AM
The built environment pre- and post- zoning enforced parking mandates is so radically hard to believe
A quarter mile separate these two business districts in Norwich Connecticut but they may as well be a world apart
A quarter mile separate these two business districts in Norwich Connecticut but they may as well be a world apart
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This is fuckin gorgeous 🥰.
I admit to having a weakness for
* shingles,
* deep window reveals,
* drip edges,
* carbon storage.
Roman Hutter Architektur
foto: Markus Käch
www.instagram.com/p/DDoKBo4Mlm...
* shingles,
* deep window reveals,
* drip edges,
* carbon storage.
Roman Hutter Architektur
foto: Markus Käch
www.instagram.com/p/DDoKBo4Mlm...
December 22, 2024 at 10:00 AM
This is fuckin gorgeous 🥰.
There's a lot to love about a city that has good cast iron design in the street:
December 22, 2024 at 9:58 AM
There's a lot to love about a city that has good cast iron design in the street:
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a few years ago @holz-bau.bsky.social inspired me to help him design an entirely car-free Aurora Avenue and when you give this space back to transit biking and people its astonishing how transformative something like this would be
December 21, 2024 at 5:04 PM
a few years ago @holz-bau.bsky.social inspired me to help him design an entirely car-free Aurora Avenue and when you give this space back to transit biking and people its astonishing how transformative something like this would be
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Concentrating ~all of your city’s new less-expensive housing on polluted and dangerous main streets while reserving the quiet side streets exclusively for people wealthy enough to afford single family homes, which are the most expensive and luxurious type of housing, is profoundly classist.
Patios can only be on main streets. New housing can only be on main streets. Bike lanes can't be on main streets. Young person - enjoy your dinner right next to unfettered vehicle traffic and fumes, make your way back to your apartment to enjoy in the noise and fumes at night.
Councillor Holyday's motion to refer the corner store legalization item back to staff for more consultation CARRIES 18-1.
December 21, 2024 at 5:25 PM
Concentrating ~all of your city’s new less-expensive housing on polluted and dangerous main streets while reserving the quiet side streets exclusively for people wealthy enough to afford single family homes, which are the most expensive and luxurious type of housing, is profoundly classist.
We need light duty freestanding electric tower cranes that are remote operated in NYC. The knuckle booms need to be GONE and these kinds of tower cranes made cheap and easy.
December 22, 2024 at 9:02 AM
We need light duty freestanding electric tower cranes that are remote operated in NYC. The knuckle booms need to be GONE and these kinds of tower cranes made cheap and easy.
She's completely correct of course. I'm going to say that we started down this path on August 15, 1971 and everything that's happened since then has been political theater as the oligarchs and their servants dismantled our representative democracy.
AOC: “Oh, I don’t think we’re witnessing the START of an oligarchy. I think we are fully here.” 🇺🇸
December 22, 2024 at 7:12 AM
She's completely correct of course. I'm going to say that we started down this path on August 15, 1971 and everything that's happened since then has been political theater as the oligarchs and their servants dismantled our representative democracy.
I feel like a not insignificant contributor to the Japanese decline in birthrates is the scalding hot baths and polyester underwear:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17335598/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8279095/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17335598/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8279095/
December 22, 2024 at 7:00 AM
I feel like a not insignificant contributor to the Japanese decline in birthrates is the scalding hot baths and polyester underwear:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17335598/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8279095/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17335598/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8279095/
Among the things we cannot have in the US bc of our "Standards as Trade Barrier" philosophy: high performing modern heat pump condensing washer dryers.
We have an UNBEARABLE & disharmonized product certification standard for heat pumps which is used by US manufacturers as a moat to protect them:
We have an UNBEARABLE & disharmonized product certification standard for heat pumps which is used by US manufacturers as a moat to protect them:
December 21, 2024 at 7:40 AM
Among the things we cannot have in the US bc of our "Standards as Trade Barrier" philosophy: high performing modern heat pump condensing washer dryers.
We have an UNBEARABLE & disharmonized product certification standard for heat pumps which is used by US manufacturers as a moat to protect them:
We have an UNBEARABLE & disharmonized product certification standard for heat pumps which is used by US manufacturers as a moat to protect them:
Going to keep saying a few things about housing. Particularly:
No politician is serious abt housing if they are not addressing following:
1) Construction Financing
2) RE Taxation
3) Sales Tax
4) Reform of Labor Risk
5) Tort Reform
6) Trade Relations
Please notice what's missing on that list.
No politician is serious abt housing if they are not addressing following:
1) Construction Financing
2) RE Taxation
3) Sales Tax
4) Reform of Labor Risk
5) Tort Reform
6) Trade Relations
Please notice what's missing on that list.
December 20, 2024 at 1:02 AM
Going to keep saying a few things about housing. Particularly:
No politician is serious abt housing if they are not addressing following:
1) Construction Financing
2) RE Taxation
3) Sales Tax
4) Reform of Labor Risk
5) Tort Reform
6) Trade Relations
Please notice what's missing on that list.
No politician is serious abt housing if they are not addressing following:
1) Construction Financing
2) RE Taxation
3) Sales Tax
4) Reform of Labor Risk
5) Tort Reform
6) Trade Relations
Please notice what's missing on that list.
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"like moving 40 dead hippos from DC to Philly without a wheel"
delightful video about the winter solstice at Stonehenge
#solstice
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx-K...
delightful video about the winter solstice at Stonehenge
#solstice
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx-K...
Decoding the ancient astronomy of Stonehenge
YouTube video by Vox
www.youtube.com
December 19, 2024 at 11:54 AM
"like moving 40 dead hippos from DC to Philly without a wheel"
delightful video about the winter solstice at Stonehenge
#solstice
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx-K...
delightful video about the winter solstice at Stonehenge
#solstice
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx-K...
Have a condo project in SOHO, probably one of the highest value areas in the world.
Construction costs, taxes, and debt have reached the point where a condo in SOHO won't even pencil.
Folks, this is a 5-alarm 🚒 for housing and I'm not sure anyone's receiving the signal.
Construction costs, taxes, and debt have reached the point where a condo in SOHO won't even pencil.
Folks, this is a 5-alarm 🚒 for housing and I'm not sure anyone's receiving the signal.
December 19, 2024 at 10:20 PM
Have a condo project in SOHO, probably one of the highest value areas in the world.
Construction costs, taxes, and debt have reached the point where a condo in SOHO won't even pencil.
Folks, this is a 5-alarm 🚒 for housing and I'm not sure anyone's receiving the signal.
Construction costs, taxes, and debt have reached the point where a condo in SOHO won't even pencil.
Folks, this is a 5-alarm 🚒 for housing and I'm not sure anyone's receiving the signal.
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The Killings of Young Mothers
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | The Tragic Link Between Pregnancy and Homicide (Gift Article)
For women under 25, getting pregnant more than doubles their risk of homicide.
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2024 at 12:41 AM
The Killings of Young Mothers
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
No-one is seriously talking abt Affordable Housing when the Mortgage Recording Tax is 2.175% and a typical development must by default pay that TWICE at minimum.
That's 4 and a quarter percent of the cost of production.
That's 4 and a quarter percent of the cost of production.
December 10, 2024 at 6:09 AM
No-one is seriously talking abt Affordable Housing when the Mortgage Recording Tax is 2.175% and a typical development must by default pay that TWICE at minimum.
That's 4 and a quarter percent of the cost of production.
That's 4 and a quarter percent of the cost of production.
Japanese perfected the wood post & beam prefabricated & precut house assembly. No jobsite waste. All precut complex joints, assembled w/ mallets. Software generated w/ 1 week lead.
This house went from a clean concrete foundation to top out & temp roof in 6.5 hours w/ six men and no crane.
This house went from a clean concrete foundation to top out & temp roof in 6.5 hours w/ six men and no crane.
December 10, 2024 at 12:42 AM
Japanese perfected the wood post & beam prefabricated & precut house assembly. No jobsite waste. All precut complex joints, assembled w/ mallets. Software generated w/ 1 week lead.
This house went from a clean concrete foundation to top out & temp roof in 6.5 hours w/ six men and no crane.
This house went from a clean concrete foundation to top out & temp roof in 6.5 hours w/ six men and no crane.
The Indian-American to Christo-Fascist-Adjacent accessory model minority pipeline.
Indians having a moment, & it's not really a good one.
Who stands up next to take their place in a racial hierarchy queue for the highly desired global ethno-nationalist eschatology celebrity deathmatch?
Indians having a moment, & it's not really a good one.
Who stands up next to take their place in a racial hierarchy queue for the highly desired global ethno-nationalist eschatology celebrity deathmatch?
December 10, 2024 at 12:36 AM
The Indian-American to Christo-Fascist-Adjacent accessory model minority pipeline.
Indians having a moment, & it's not really a good one.
Who stands up next to take their place in a racial hierarchy queue for the highly desired global ethno-nationalist eschatology celebrity deathmatch?
Indians having a moment, & it's not really a good one.
Who stands up next to take their place in a racial hierarchy queue for the highly desired global ethno-nationalist eschatology celebrity deathmatch?