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full stack content engineer, portlander, t1d
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I dunno how, but someone needs to come up with YIMBYism for commercial spaces.
After housing, this is the next big zoning reform: the right to do business. Always found it odd that the USA, supposedly the land of the free market, makes it the hard if not outright illegal to open a business in most places.
Like many other planning failures, this one's also rooted in racism.
Like many other planning failures, this one's also rooted in racism.
The al pastor taco truck at sleepy North Berkeley BART is booming every night with neighbors, cyclists and families. Imagine what we could do with fully legalized street vending citywide.
February 13, 2026 at 3:01 AM
I dunno how, but someone needs to come up with YIMBYism for commercial spaces.
bro they're making you slightly trapezoidal in the group chat right now
Sitting here open-mouthed at this Sound Transit board presentation, because it was just explained that making Ballard Link's Seattle Center station "slightly trapezoidal" would save the agency a HALF BILLION DOLLARS.
February 13, 2026 at 1:30 AM
bro they're making you slightly trapezoidal in the group chat right now
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Congratulations to @senkhanhpham.bsky.social, who earnestly studied this boring but important policy issue, changed HER OWN mind on it, pushed through a year of painstaking negotiations after I personally was ready to leave it for dead, & finally came out with a green light from everyone. 🏆
February 13, 2026 at 12:36 AM
Congratulations to @senkhanhpham.bsky.social, who earnestly studied this boring but important policy issue, changed HER OWN mind on it, pushed through a year of painstaking negotiations after I personally was ready to leave it for dead, & finally came out with a green light from everyone. 🏆
a 50+% farebox recovery ratio is unusual for combined bus + rail systems and basically unheard of in the US en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farebox...
February 12, 2026 at 5:13 AM
a 50+% farebox recovery ratio is unusual for combined bus + rail systems and basically unheard of in the US en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farebox...
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I get it, I miss soft pretzels and arcades too. but saving the dead mall isn't going to bring back 1994. Same energy keeps Memorial Coliseum as an aging husk instead of the AAA baseball stadium for the Beavers in 2010. We can be more audacious than a dead mall.
blog.ronbronson.com/you-dont-alw...
blog.ronbronson.com/you-dont-alw...
You Don’t Always Get a Second Chance (On Civic Moonshots) - Ron Bronson
blog.ronbronson.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:36 AM
I get it, I miss soft pretzels and arcades too. but saving the dead mall isn't going to bring back 1994. Same energy keeps Memorial Coliseum as an aging husk instead of the AAA baseball stadium for the Beavers in 2010. We can be more audacious than a dead mall.
blog.ronbronson.com/you-dont-alw...
blog.ronbronson.com/you-dont-alw...
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of all the ugly things to save, I cannot understand all this caping for a dead mall
February 12, 2026 at 3:32 AM
of all the ugly things to save, I cannot understand all this caping for a dead mall
when I say yimbyism is a big tent I’m talking about this guy specifically
February 12, 2026 at 2:28 AM
when I say yimbyism is a big tent I’m talking about this guy specifically
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When Border Patrol shot two immigrants in Portland, they claimed they had ties to gangs. The Guardian later wrote a story exposing those claims as a smear campaign, but the narrative was regurgitated by city leadership that took DHS at their word.
Now we see the true agitators in Eugene were DHS.
Now we see the true agitators in Eugene were DHS.
🚨🚨🚨Video captures a DHS employee break the window at the Eugene Oregon Fed Building.
They declared a riot and tear gassed everyone over it.
They declared a riot and tear gassed everyone over it.
February 11, 2026 at 4:15 PM
When Border Patrol shot two immigrants in Portland, they claimed they had ties to gangs. The Guardian later wrote a story exposing those claims as a smear campaign, but the narrative was regurgitated by city leadership that took DHS at their word.
Now we see the true agitators in Eugene were DHS.
Now we see the true agitators in Eugene were DHS.
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Oregon lawmakers on the hunt for money to balance the state’s transportation budget offered a look Tuesday at the difficult math problem before them. Lawmakers are looking at freezing open positions and pulling money from certain programs as they work to avoid deep layoffs at ODOT.
‘Budget pothole’: Oregon’s transportation funding challenge comes into clearer focus
Lawmakers are looking at freezing open positions and pulling money from certain programs as they work to avoid deep layoffs at the Oregon Department of Transportation.
www.opb.org
February 11, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Oregon lawmakers on the hunt for money to balance the state’s transportation budget offered a look Tuesday at the difficult math problem before them. Lawmakers are looking at freezing open positions and pulling money from certain programs as they work to avoid deep layoffs at ODOT.
whenever you get people on the left saying that environmental review timelines and zoning codes don't matter and what's actually important are abstract debates about deregulation this is all I can think of
February 11, 2026 at 7:00 AM
whenever you get people on the left saying that environmental review timelines and zoning codes don't matter and what's actually important are abstract debates about deregulation this is all I can think of
that’s right: portland’s TUF should include discounts for car free households, transit riders, and low income households, just like TUFs in other cities in the portland metro
Love being told that I, a non-car-owner, need to pay the same rate as my neighbors who own four 5+ ton death machines that will continue to rip up our roads.
Having to cough up $150/year to subsidize "free" parking, Autonomous Tesla pedo-mobiles and monster-sized SUV's/Trucks is NO from me.
Having to cough up $150/year to subsidize "free" parking, Autonomous Tesla pedo-mobiles and monster-sized SUV's/Trucks is NO from me.
February 11, 2026 at 1:30 AM
that’s right: portland’s TUF should include discounts for car free households, transit riders, and low income households, just like TUFs in other cities in the portland metro
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What if you held your "national media event" unveiling new Cascades trains in the Pacific Northwest, where the trains will run!
February 10, 2026 at 7:39 PM
What if you held your "national media event" unveiling new Cascades trains in the Pacific Northwest, where the trains will run!
green building material industry policy 🙌
As the mass timber industry continues to grow, I’m interested in how we can make sure these new jobs are good-paying jobs, and that East Portland’s students have pathways into mass timber careers.
February 10, 2026 at 5:10 PM
green building material industry policy 🙌
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Aside from all the other reasons not to believe these people, every one of the “vehicle attacks” I’ve seen scrutinized were either totally phony -like Renee Goods. Or ones where like an ice agent rammed the purported assailant. Like that woman in Chicago
Ricketts: "No face masks -- we're seen a huge increase in attacks on our ICE agents. There's been 180 vehicle attacks. Overall attacks on DHS are up 8,000%. There's many so many doxxings of officers they've had to set up a tip line. This is very very serious."
February 10, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Aside from all the other reasons not to believe these people, every one of the “vehicle attacks” I’ve seen scrutinized were either totally phony -like Renee Goods. Or ones where like an ice agent rammed the purported assailant. Like that woman in Chicago
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I bet the pot of gold is restricted but not budgeted!
February 10, 2026 at 1:51 AM
I bet the pot of gold is restricted but not budgeted!
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Starting a thread of speculation on what Luthen is talking about until it stops being amusing to me
February 10, 2026 at 12:50 AM
Starting a thread of speculation on what Luthen is talking about until it stops being amusing to me
man, RIP. flags half mast at portland city hall tomorrow 🫡
Greg Brown, Cake founding guitarist who wrote breakout hit 'The Distance,' dead at 56
Greg Brown, Cake founding guitarist who wrote breakout hit 'The Distance,' dead at 56
Greg Brown, a founding member of Sacramento alt-rock outfit Cake, has died. Friends honored the guitarist, who wrote the band's enduring hit 'The Distance.'
www.latimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:18 AM
man, RIP. flags half mast at portland city hall tomorrow 🫡
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Seattle votes for a car-free, transit-first mayor and they win the Super Bowl…just observing and noticing (this post does not contain any judgments)
February 9, 2026 at 3:27 AM
Seattle votes for a car-free, transit-first mayor and they win the Super Bowl…just observing and noticing (this post does not contain any judgments)
weirdest ad of the night for me has been serena williams doing an ad about losing weight on GLP-1s. why is serena williams trying to lose weight?
February 9, 2026 at 2:32 AM
weirdest ad of the night for me has been serena williams doing an ad about losing weight on GLP-1s. why is serena williams trying to lose weight?
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thank you bad bunny for highlighting the importance of critical power distribution infrastructure bsky.app/profile/cost...
It’s the weekend everyone, so you know what that means. Time to drink two polar seltzers and do a thread on the power transformer shortage. Without transformers, we don’t get a clean energy transition. And as energysky knows, there’s been a shortage due to covid, supply chain, & labor constraints 🔌🔋
February 9, 2026 at 1:35 AM
thank you bad bunny for highlighting the importance of critical power distribution infrastructure bsky.app/profile/cost...
having a very infinite jest super bowl so far
February 9, 2026 at 1:11 AM
having a very infinite jest super bowl so far
anti-defamation league ad showing one kid standing up for a jewish kid who's experiencing antisemitic bullying and then turning to the camera and saying "just to be clear, giving a nazi salute at the president's inauguration is totally fine" was crazy
February 9, 2026 at 12:53 AM
anti-defamation league ad showing one kid standing up for a jewish kid who's experiencing antisemitic bullying and then turning to the camera and saying "just to be clear, giving a nazi salute at the president's inauguration is totally fine" was crazy