Max Dubler, AICP 🏳️🌈
@maxdubler.com
Certified urban planner posting for California YIMBY about housing, and for myself about skateboarding and cameras. Tradeoffs are real. he/him
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Max Dubler, AICP 🏳️🌈
@maxdubler.com
· Dec 2
Salesperson: and as you can see, the jacket has this wonderful red lining
Me, an urban planner, eyes narrowing: it has WHAT
Me, an urban planner, eyes narrowing: it has WHAT
For a contemporary example of this, look at the extremely precise parking requirements in the ITE Parking Generation Manual.
A type of practice that I find interesting historically is the rigorously untrue. Astrology, for instance, was often a very tightly defined practice with a seriously requirement of learning: it just wasn’t actually real.
December 27, 2025 at 3:31 AM
For a contemporary example of this, look at the extremely precise parking requirements in the ITE Parking Generation Manual.
Nothing but respect to Mary and Mark Stevens for saving the Oasis, a beloved queer arts space. This kind of gift should be a model for Bay Area philanthropy.
Exclusive: S.F. drag club Oasis saved with multimillion-dollar gift
The LGBTQ cabaret and club was slated to shutter after New Year’s Eve, but will now continue, Oasis owner D’Arcy Drollinger confirmed, calling it “a Christmas miracle.”
www.sfchronicle.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Nothing but respect to Mary and Mark Stevens for saving the Oasis, a beloved queer arts space. This kind of gift should be a model for Bay Area philanthropy.
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Urbanism is really about being able to yell stuff at people from the comfort of your home instead of your car.
December 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Urbanism is really about being able to yell stuff at people from the comfort of your home instead of your car.
We’re also celebrating her:
December 26, 2025 at 10:49 PM
We’re also celebrating her:
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parking is a nuisance use because it inherently attracts car traffic, which everyone hates
December 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
parking is a nuisance use because it inherently attracts car traffic, which everyone hates
Threads boldly asks “what if Facebook looked like Twitter?”
December 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Threads boldly asks “what if Facebook looked like Twitter?”
I used to live very close to a Costco. One time I was buying two handles of tequila and nothing else (there was a buy two, get $10 off promo). The woman behind me in line looked at my cart and said “well there’s a romantic dinner for two.”
What's an insult you'll never forget?
December 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I used to live very close to a Costco. One time I was buying two handles of tequila and nothing else (there was a buy two, get $10 off promo). The woman behind me in line looked at my cart and said “well there’s a romantic dinner for two.”
No spoilers but Wake Up Dead Man’s use of the song Simple Gifts is perfection.
December 26, 2025 at 8:38 AM
No spoilers but Wake Up Dead Man’s use of the song Simple Gifts is perfection.
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christmas on bluesky
December 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
christmas on bluesky
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there should be a movie where a woman from a small town begrudgingly goes to the big city for the holidays and falls in love at first sight with ethiopian food
In the hallmark movies where the lady goes back home from the big city, they never talk about the game she must play pretending that the ethnic food in the small town is anywhere near as good as her family thinks it is. Just grimacing while eating mid Thai food.
December 23, 2025 at 8:43 PM
there should be a movie where a woman from a small town begrudgingly goes to the big city for the holidays and falls in love at first sight with ethiopian food
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The evolution of building rules in Paris, from 1667 to 1967. The Great Downzoning was truly global. hal.science/hal-01903202...
December 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The evolution of building rules in Paris, from 1667 to 1967. The Great Downzoning was truly global. hal.science/hal-01903202...
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[me telling my story how I survived a plane crash and lived on a deserted island for a year] it was crazy
[friend who once got a text from me where I accidentally called the grinch the grink] was the grink there?
[friend who once got a text from me where I accidentally called the grinch the grink] was the grink there?
July 3, 2023 at 4:13 PM
[me telling my story how I survived a plane crash and lived on a deserted island for a year] it was crazy
[friend who once got a text from me where I accidentally called the grinch the grink] was the grink there?
[friend who once got a text from me where I accidentally called the grinch the grink] was the grink there?
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I‘d be happier if I ran the world and the people who run the world seem like they’d be happier if they were mildly popular on social media, so perhaps we could work out some form of trade.
December 25, 2025 at 3:44 AM
I‘d be happier if I ran the world and the people who run the world seem like they’d be happier if they were mildly popular on social media, so perhaps we could work out some form of trade.
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Stopped in the Richmond Target this evening and shared it with the descendants of African slaves, Asian refugees, English settlers, and Hispanic immigrants - all doing that most American of activities: last-minute Christmas shopping.
That's the America I swore an oath to support and defend 🇺🇸
That's the America I swore an oath to support and defend 🇺🇸
I love the east Bay Area. People of different races and religions live and work together to build the American Dream. We in liberal society take this for granted but the national rise of extremism stemming from online content seeks to take this away from us.
darrellowens.substack.com/p/the-americ...
darrellowens.substack.com/p/the-americ...
The American Beauty of the East Bay
Americanism is facing its biggest challenge from extremism. The people of the Bay Area show why its worth fighting for.
darrellowens.substack.com
December 25, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Stopped in the Richmond Target this evening and shared it with the descendants of African slaves, Asian refugees, English settlers, and Hispanic immigrants - all doing that most American of activities: last-minute Christmas shopping.
That's the America I swore an oath to support and defend 🇺🇸
That's the America I swore an oath to support and defend 🇺🇸
My buddy Zak is a horse trainer who also likes wrenching on cars and he daily drives a Honda Odyssey because it’s great for doing errands, his ‘68 Mustang isn’t reliable, and his F250 is overkill for anything other than pulling the horse trailer.
we rented a chrysler pacifica for our trip down to see my folks after christmas and i now totally get why people like minivans. this thing rules.
December 25, 2025 at 5:36 AM
My buddy Zak is a horse trainer who also likes wrenching on cars and he daily drives a Honda Odyssey because it’s great for doing errands, his ‘68 Mustang isn’t reliable, and his F250 is overkill for anything other than pulling the horse trailer.
Husband came back from Costco with a bag of limes so I got inspired and made Mai Tais.
Special thanks to the good folks at Bitters and Bottles SF for putting me on these funky rums. If you’re in the Bay Area, they are THE spot for weird liquor.
Special thanks to the good folks at Bitters and Bottles SF for putting me on these funky rums. If you’re in the Bay Area, they are THE spot for weird liquor.
December 24, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Husband came back from Costco with a bag of limes so I got inspired and made Mai Tais.
Special thanks to the good folks at Bitters and Bottles SF for putting me on these funky rums. If you’re in the Bay Area, they are THE spot for weird liquor.
Special thanks to the good folks at Bitters and Bottles SF for putting me on these funky rums. If you’re in the Bay Area, they are THE spot for weird liquor.
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We sent a bunch of effete, Ivy League scientists into the desert and they returned with a portable sun.
every time I can recall from history that a group has centered a culture of martial virtue to the point of conflict,
the "soft intellectuals" the warriors distinguish themselves from have learned war real quick, dominate because they pay attention to details, and then go back to art and nerdy stuff
the "soft intellectuals" the warriors distinguish themselves from have learned war real quick, dominate because they pay attention to details, and then go back to art and nerdy stuff
December 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
We sent a bunch of effete, Ivy League scientists into the desert and they returned with a portable sun.
The Chronicle rated La Vaca Birria’s carne asada grilled cheese burrito as the best in the mission so I went to check it out and folks, it lives up to the hype. (You may need a nap afterward.)
The 5 best burritos in S.F.’s Mission District, ranked
Our restaurant critic tried burritos from more than 15 acclaimed restaurants in the...
www.sfchronicle.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:47 PM
The Chronicle rated La Vaca Birria’s carne asada grilled cheese burrito as the best in the mission so I went to check it out and folks, it lives up to the hype. (You may need a nap afterward.)
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the epstein files as rick owens fall/winter 2024
December 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
the epstein files as rick owens fall/winter 2024
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TCW is sort of the paradigmatic example of why you should pursue excellence in your craft over wealth and acclaim, because if you get the latter without the former, odds are you’ll still be miserable.
it requires an absolutely staggering lack of self awareness for chatterton to complain that he has lost elite opportunities because he has anti-woke views.
The Other Way the ‘Super Woke’ Left Discriminates
Race and gender aren’t the only categories that determine who gets special treatment.
www.theatlantic.com
December 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
TCW is sort of the paradigmatic example of why you should pursue excellence in your craft over wealth and acclaim, because if you get the latter without the former, odds are you’ll still be miserable.
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Who needs a village when you can have parking lots?
December 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Who needs a village when you can have parking lots?
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“Pairing free buses with paid parking says we value people in motion more than cars at rest,” writes Nicolas Rohatyn.
Opinion | The Way to Pay for Free Buses Is to End Free Parking
Free buses would be transformative not only for riders, but for the ecosystem of the city as a whole.
nyti.ms
December 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
“Pairing free buses with paid parking says we value people in motion more than cars at rest,” writes Nicolas Rohatyn.
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this is what some of you look like in your chore coats
December 24, 2025 at 1:41 AM
this is what some of you look like in your chore coats
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Friction is good and one of the most consequential tasks facing the designers and managers of social-technical systems in the 21st century is putting it back in in the right ways and right places.
I think one of the lessons that the huge success of congestion pricing in NYC is that charging a nominal upfront fee- even one far less the the levellized cost you are paying for elsewhere- is very good at cutting off the bottom 5% of bad behavior that makes things worse for everyone.
December 24, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Friction is good and one of the most consequential tasks facing the designers and managers of social-technical systems in the 21st century is putting it back in in the right ways and right places.
While this website’s lack of algorithm can be boring, I will happily take it over the Threads algo that shows me some variation of “Agree or disagree: people over 65 with paid-off houses should not have to pay property taxes!” post literally every time I open the app.
December 23, 2025 at 8:26 PM
While this website’s lack of algorithm can be boring, I will happily take it over the Threads algo that shows me some variation of “Agree or disagree: people over 65 with paid-off houses should not have to pay property taxes!” post literally every time I open the app.