real life zac “Morgan”-ham
@guitardude1236.bsky.social
Every 311 service’s worst nightmare/most faithful servant
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Pittsburgh <—> Memphis
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Pittsburgh <—> Memphis
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i don't get the love for waymo in certain urbanist circles. it's safer cars, at least it seems that way from available data, but it's more cars. more cars are bad! we should want less cars!
December 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM
i don't get the love for waymo in certain urbanist circles. it's safer cars, at least it seems that way from available data, but it's more cars. more cars are bad! we should want less cars!
I want one so bad
December 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I want one so bad
BNA looking like Cities Skylines 2 is so funny
Did the people who designed the airport to be impossible to walk to think that maybe the most predictable thing ever would happen with increasing frequency
December 2, 2025 at 11:43 AM
BNA looking like Cities Skylines 2 is so funny
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Funny how when a person is killed in traffic, according to the Post it’s the “car” that did it but when anyone comes along to make streets safer it’s an attack on “drivers.”
November 30, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Funny how when a person is killed in traffic, according to the Post it’s the “car” that did it but when anyone comes along to make streets safer it’s an attack on “drivers.”
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Ex-official explained this in a way that will stick with me forever: Within fire departments, the EMTs are overworked and underpaid and don’t have time to advocate for policy. The fire chiefs, on the other hand, have a lot more time on their hands. So fire response, not medical, dictates policy.
November 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Ex-official explained this in a way that will stick with me forever: Within fire departments, the EMTs are overworked and underpaid and don’t have time to advocate for policy. The fire chiefs, on the other hand, have a lot more time on their hands. So fire response, not medical, dictates policy.
Drivers are seriously not ok
so our government made a big deal about banning speed cameras but one city left theirs running to see what difference the ban would make and you are not going to believe this
November 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Drivers are seriously not ok
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local man clearly suffering from economic anxiety
TRUMP: If you look at Somalia, they are taking over Minnesota.
REPORTER: What do the Somalians have to do with this Afghan guy who shot the National Guard members?
TRUMP: Ah, nothing. But Somalians have caused a lot of trouble. They're ripping us off.
REPORTER: What do the Somalians have to do with this Afghan guy who shot the National Guard members?
TRUMP: Ah, nothing. But Somalians have caused a lot of trouble. They're ripping us off.
November 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
local man clearly suffering from economic anxiety
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What happens when you downzone?
Our new open-access research paper in @findingspress.org investigates effects of decades of downzoning in Chicago.
Findings:
—Downzoned areas added 1/7th of the new units as comparable non-downzoned areas;
—Downzoned areas became more white & were more expensive.
Our new open-access research paper in @findingspress.org investigates effects of decades of downzoning in Chicago.
Findings:
—Downzoned areas added 1/7th of the new units as comparable non-downzoned areas;
—Downzoned areas became more white & were more expensive.
Downzoning Chicago: How Local Land Use Policy Has Reduced Housing Construction and Reinforced Segregation | Published in Findings
By Yonah Freemark, George Kisiel. Downzonings were used by US cities in the postwar period to preserve neighborhood character. These land-use policies were associated with lower housing supply, higher...
findingspress.org
November 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
What happens when you downzone?
Our new open-access research paper in @findingspress.org investigates effects of decades of downzoning in Chicago.
Findings:
—Downzoned areas added 1/7th of the new units as comparable non-downzoned areas;
—Downzoned areas became more white & were more expensive.
Our new open-access research paper in @findingspress.org investigates effects of decades of downzoning in Chicago.
Findings:
—Downzoned areas added 1/7th of the new units as comparable non-downzoned areas;
—Downzoned areas became more white & were more expensive.
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me: towers are good
them: no, we need nice 4-6 storey, human scale buildings
me: we do! let’s rezone the city so we can get 4-6 storeys everywhere
them: oh no, not like that
them: no, we need nice 4-6 storey, human scale buildings
me: we do! let’s rezone the city so we can get 4-6 storeys everywhere
them: oh no, not like that
November 27, 2025 at 3:56 AM
me: towers are good
them: no, we need nice 4-6 storey, human scale buildings
me: we do! let’s rezone the city so we can get 4-6 storeys everywhere
them: oh no, not like that
them: no, we need nice 4-6 storey, human scale buildings
me: we do! let’s rezone the city so we can get 4-6 storeys everywhere
them: oh no, not like that
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please spare a moment of pity for the folks struggling with the choice between "userbase that hates the current Silicon Valley trend" and "Skinner Box for making Nazis"
November 26, 2025 at 8:47 PM
please spare a moment of pity for the folks struggling with the choice between "userbase that hates the current Silicon Valley trend" and "Skinner Box for making Nazis"
Welp I guess this is why they made this announcement. www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/202...
November 25, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Welp I guess this is why they made this announcement. www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/202...
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Anti-solar NIMBYs aren't beating the accusations of being pretty dim bulbs. "Extracting from the sky" is a good one
November 23, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Anti-solar NIMBYs aren't beating the accusations of being pretty dim bulbs. "Extracting from the sky" is a good one
Something that frustrates me about transportation is that we are so obsessed with particulars and the exact conditions of any crash, you miss the glaringly obvious problem.
It's getting darker and colder, so there's been a wave of pedestrian crashes.
It's getting darker and colder, so there's been a wave of pedestrian crashes.
November 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Something that frustrates me about transportation is that we are so obsessed with particulars and the exact conditions of any crash, you miss the glaringly obvious problem.
It's getting darker and colder, so there's been a wave of pedestrian crashes.
It's getting darker and colder, so there's been a wave of pedestrian crashes.
Oof. It'd be an understatement to say that my RadCity changed my life. Rad has been a brand I recommend to people for many years because I thought they likely had staying power but I suppose no one is invulnerable to the Times.
brb going to buy as many spare parts as I can while I still can...
brb going to buy as many spare parts as I can while I still can...
Rad Power Bikes sends employees notice of 'potential' closure as efforts continue to 'save Rad'
#SEAbikes #Seattle
#SEAbikes #Seattle
Rad Power Bikes sends employees notice of ‘potential’ closure as efforts continue to ‘save Rad’
Read the full November 7 WARN letter (PDF). Seattle-based e-bike giant Rad Power Bikes has filed official notice to Washington State as well as the company's 64 Washington employees that the company could end operations "as early as January 2026." A November 7 Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification ("WARN") filed with the state (PDF) lists both service-level workers at the company's retail and repair shop as well as corporate workers at their Seattle headquarters, including top-level positions like CEO and CFO.
www.seattlebikeblog.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Oof. It'd be an understatement to say that my RadCity changed my life. Rad has been a brand I recommend to people for many years because I thought they likely had staying power but I suppose no one is invulnerable to the Times.
brb going to buy as many spare parts as I can while I still can...
brb going to buy as many spare parts as I can while I still can...
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Villains used to obfuscate. They looked normal on tv and said things like "Fiscal discipline." Now you have grotesque guys hissing "Empathy is weakness" like a cartoon
I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
November 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Villains used to obfuscate. They looked normal on tv and said things like "Fiscal discipline." Now you have grotesque guys hissing "Empathy is weakness" like a cartoon
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It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points
November 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points
Especially good episode! John and Andre are heroes when it comes to missing middle development, especially cool to hear them talk about it from a policy lens!
In this week's UCLA Housing Voice we speak with John Zeanah, Chief of Development and Infrastructure for the City of Memphis, and Andre Jones, an urbanist developer in the city, about a host of smaller-but-important code barriers to building missing middle housing www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/11/05/1...
Episode 101: Beyond Zoning with John Zeanah and Andre D. Jones (Incentives Series pt. 4)
Your city just legalized “missing middle” housing in its zoning code — now what? Looking at Memphis, Tennessee, we discuss the hidden non-zoning barriers to developing small apartment buildings.
www.lewis.ucla.edu
November 6, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Especially good episode! John and Andre are heroes when it comes to missing middle development, especially cool to hear them talk about it from a policy lens!
Pittsburgh could’ve had this headline already if folks hadn’t decided to tie the obviously effective, slam dunk, political winner of parking mandate repeal to the immensely more controversial, less obviously effective, political football of IZ
🚨Baltimore has done it! The second-largest US city, after Denver, to pass a complete repeal of parking mandates in 2025.
www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...
www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...
Mayor Scott signs controversial housing laws in effort to spur growth
A suite of housing and zoning reforms, once pie-in-the-sky dreams for some advocates, are now law in Baltimore, with Mayor Brandon Scott signing four bills Monday in a City Hall ceremony.
www.thebanner.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Pittsburgh could’ve had this headline already if folks hadn’t decided to tie the obviously effective, slam dunk, political winner of parking mandate repeal to the immensely more controversial, less obviously effective, political football of IZ
In that place today
October 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
In that place today
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At the heart of this mindset is the idea, "our best days are behind us" -- that more people can only make things worse, never better. For such an inherently conservative idea, it's espoused by far too many people on the lefty end of the spectrum.
"Cities should remain museum pieces for incumbents and any newcomer is strictly a burden" is the most loser mindset that powers the most loser politics in America today.
Moving to New York and pulling the ladder up behind myself, but wokely
October 26, 2025 at 4:04 AM
At the heart of this mindset is the idea, "our best days are behind us" -- that more people can only make things worse, never better. For such an inherently conservative idea, it's espoused by far too many people on the lefty end of the spectrum.
Essentially Amsterdam weather, except it happens about 11 times a day, always as soon as you step out of the shop/restaurant/tram
god, i love the sky. every now and then you'll just be going about your day and then WHUMF whole lake gets dropped on you. fantastic stuff
October 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Essentially Amsterdam weather, except it happens about 11 times a day, always as soon as you step out of the shop/restaurant/tram
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I want everyone who wanted to /did snidely deride No Kings to read this.
For my newsletter, I wrote about how I was affected by the No Kings protest in my town.
(I am no longer thinking about fleeing the country)
www.burnsnotice.com/no-kings-cha...
(I am no longer thinking about fleeing the country)
www.burnsnotice.com/no-kings-cha...
No Kings Changed My Mind About America's Future
Before this weekend, I couldn’t stop thinking about fleeing the country. No King’s made up my mind.
Readers of this newsletter know that, for the last year or so, I've been weighing whether or not I ...
www.burnsnotice.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I want everyone who wanted to /did snidely deride No Kings to read this.
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For my newsletter, I wrote about how I was affected by the No Kings protest in my town.
(I am no longer thinking about fleeing the country)
www.burnsnotice.com/no-kings-cha...
(I am no longer thinking about fleeing the country)
www.burnsnotice.com/no-kings-cha...
No Kings Changed My Mind About America's Future
Before this weekend, I couldn’t stop thinking about fleeing the country. No King’s made up my mind.
Readers of this newsletter know that, for the last year or so, I've been weighing whether or not I ...
www.burnsnotice.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:54 PM
For my newsletter, I wrote about how I was affected by the No Kings protest in my town.
(I am no longer thinking about fleeing the country)
www.burnsnotice.com/no-kings-cha...
(I am no longer thinking about fleeing the country)
www.burnsnotice.com/no-kings-cha...
As I eat this 6pc spicy tenders with a truly perfect biscuit (even tho I ordered 3pc), I can’t help but think about the time Bo Bice got mad online about Popeyes’ customer service. Probably no better way to tell everyone you have rancid vibes!
October 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
As I eat this 6pc spicy tenders with a truly perfect biscuit (even tho I ordered 3pc), I can’t help but think about the time Bo Bice got mad online about Popeyes’ customer service. Probably no better way to tell everyone you have rancid vibes!