M1EK D
@mdahmus.bsky.social
It’s me, M1EK; your pal from the internet. Ask me why AURA sucks!
First attempt at Bluesky phishing. I guess that means it’s gonna make it yall!
November 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
First attempt at Bluesky phishing. I guess that means it’s gonna make it yall!
This is the kind of 'social spending' that's a complete waste; paying a consultant to produce a plan to pay people supposedly being 'displaced' and the end cost of all of this is worse for 'displacement' than just letting more things get built more easily at the start.
November 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
This is the kind of 'social spending' that's a complete waste; paying a consultant to produce a plan to pay people supposedly being 'displaced' and the end cost of all of this is worse for 'displacement' than just letting more things get built more easily at the start.
There are a lot of people (Julio and those with less convincing forms of blather) who keep trying to push back against budget cuts that the voters very obviously asked for, implying that they are impossible. This is Prop B redux. The will of the voters is clear.
November 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
There are a lot of people (Julio and those with less convincing forms of blather) who keep trying to push back against budget cuts that the voters very obviously asked for, implying that they are impossible. This is Prop B redux. The will of the voters is clear.
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This could be us if we weren't strangling the solar industry to help keep oil prices up
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This could be us if we weren't strangling the solar industry to help keep oil prices up
Just gave a totally #inspiring statement in a work meeting that since I was a young lad I always aspired to be a combination of a human rubber stamp and a human weathervane.
November 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Just gave a totally #inspiring statement in a work meeting that since I was a young lad I always aspired to be a combination of a human rubber stamp and a human weathervane.
As usual, though, Austin insiders are delusional about the nature of the average voter and of the impact the larger political system they live in has on them. For instance, Julio is harrumphing about cutting social services. Yes! The voters said yes! Cut those services now.
November 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
As usual, though, Austin insiders are delusional about the nature of the average voter and of the impact the larger political system they live in has on them. For instance, Julio is harrumphing about cutting social services. Yes! The voters said yes! Cut those services now.
The wrap-up on Q is very simple: Voters noticed tens of millions of dollars previously spent to help the homeless didn't do anything to make the public spaces any safer or cleaner, until the very end when Watson did a performative last-second Hail Mary on it. It's Prop B II.
November 5, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The wrap-up on Q is very simple: Voters noticed tens of millions of dollars previously spent to help the homeless didn't do anything to make the public spaces any safer or cleaner, until the very end when Watson did a performative last-second Hail Mary on it. It's Prop B II.
The magnitude of the Prop Q loss ought to promote a lot more humility from its proponents than has been in evidence so far.
November 5, 2025 at 3:29 AM
The magnitude of the Prop Q loss ought to promote a lot more humility from its proponents than has been in evidence so far.
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I voted against Prop Q, the first time I've voted against a local property tax increase. The recent actions and statements by the city show they cannot and should not be trusted with even more discretionary funds at this time.
October 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I voted against Prop Q, the first time I've voted against a local property tax increase. The recent actions and statements by the city show they cannot and should not be trusted with even more discretionary funds at this time.
I voted against Prop Q, the first time I've voted against a local property tax increase. The recent actions and statements by the city show they cannot and should not be trusted with even more discretionary funds at this time.
October 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I voted against Prop Q, the first time I've voted against a local property tax increase. The recent actions and statements by the city show they cannot and should not be trusted with even more discretionary funds at this time.
Lots of urbanists who profess to believe that incentives affect behavior who are pretending that enforcing the camping ordinance frequently won't get at least some of the campers to finally accept living under the rules involved in taxpayer-paid shelter.
October 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Lots of urbanists who profess to believe that incentives affect behavior who are pretending that enforcing the camping ordinance frequently won't get at least some of the campers to finally accept living under the rules involved in taxpayer-paid shelter.
Congratulated guys on old team at company that laid me off 2 years ago on a big release and got invited to their celebratory happy hour which then I couldn’t refuse so then I was awkward, happy, one beer, and now sad. The enb.
October 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Congratulated guys on old team at company that laid me off 2 years ago on a big release and got invited to their celebratory happy hour which then I couldn’t refuse so then I was awkward, happy, one beer, and now sad. The enb.
New bridge sitch from a couple days ago:
October 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM
New bridge sitch from a couple days ago:
A week in and Austin's longest-tenured urbanist is still the only one who had guts to reply in the lion's den. AURA is courageously throwing themselves happy hours instead of presenting their views where the normies are.
nextdoor.com/p/mjPBJcNMNL...
nextdoor.com/p/mjPBJcNMNL...
Sharing as an FYI for those who could not attend the community meeting tonight.
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October 23, 2025 at 1:05 PM
A week in and Austin's longest-tenured urbanist is still the only one who had guts to reply in the lion's den. AURA is courageously throwing themselves happy hours instead of presenting their views where the normies are.
nextdoor.com/p/mjPBJcNMNL...
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The city's most positive possible spin on encampment cleanup contains the fact that something like 51 of 53 people "refused intake". Bear that in mind the next time some credulous idiot tells you we don't have enough shelter so we have to let our public spaces be trashed by bums.
October 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The city's most positive possible spin on encampment cleanup contains the fact that something like 51 of 53 people "refused intake". Bear that in mind the next time some credulous idiot tells you we don't have enough shelter so we have to let our public spaces be trashed by bums.
Like ten or so years ago, two advogrifters took over AURA’s transit arm and strongly backed moving the 5 off Speedway as part of Cap Remap because it helped them - but they were also sure it’d boost ridership. It’s now slated for cancellation for low ridership.
October 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Like ten or so years ago, two advogrifters took over AURA’s transit arm and strongly backed moving the 5 off Speedway as part of Cap Remap because it helped them - but they were also sure it’d boost ridership. It’s now slated for cancellation for low ridership.
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I am not interested in living in a society of Universal Public Masking and neither are most people. This ask is not reasonable, and the invocation of solidarity in service of it is ridiculous.
October 14, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I am not interested in living in a society of Universal Public Masking and neither are most people. This ask is not reasonable, and the invocation of solidarity in service of it is ridiculous.
Austin's longest-tenured urbanist is fighting the good fight alone, per usual, all while the purportedly urbanist org is planning their next self-congratulatory happy hour.
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ROSEDALE SCHOOL
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October 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Austin's longest-tenured urbanist is fighting the good fight alone, per usual, all while the purportedly urbanist org is planning their next self-congratulatory happy hour.
nextdoor.com/p/fbLxqXgF6b...
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The biggest recent example of how AURA has just become another arm of the griftocracy is that they (we!) hated the Trump/Abbott/Republican claim being used for Bad PC in 2014; but they're fine with Zo! and Chito! using it now for a tax increase argument.
theaustinindependent.org/the-silence-...
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The Silence of the Shams - The Austin Independent
A campaign supported by almost the whole City Council claims that a proposed property tax increase replaces "Trump cuts." But, top City officials refuse to name any of those cuts. I can’t put it off a...
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October 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The biggest recent example of how AURA has just become another arm of the griftocracy is that they (we!) hated the Trump/Abbott/Republican claim being used for Bad PC in 2014; but they're fine with Zo! and Chito! using it now for a tax increase argument.
theaustinindependent.org/the-silence-...
theaustinindependent.org/the-silence-...
While DSAura is out there planning their next self-congratulatory happy hour, I'm literally the only urbanist in conversations like this one in which normies are shocked that we got rid of parking requirements: nextdoor.com/p/nR2knknNzq...
I am looking for info on the 20 unit property that is being built on E 33rd & E 34th (Tandem Lots).
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September 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
While DSAura is out there planning their next self-congratulatory happy hour, I'm literally the only urbanist in conversations like this one in which normies are shocked that we got rid of parking requirements: nextdoor.com/p/nR2knknNzq...
Me: Ear's bugging me and it'd take forever to see ear doctor like you're supposed to instead of trying "the technique" with the Q-tip.
Q-tip cotton breaks off in ear. Fuck. Can't get it all out. Call ear doctor today. First appointment is next Tuesday.
Time is a flat circle.
Q-tip cotton breaks off in ear. Fuck. Can't get it all out. Call ear doctor today. First appointment is next Tuesday.
Time is a flat circle.
September 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Me: Ear's bugging me and it'd take forever to see ear doctor like you're supposed to instead of trying "the technique" with the Q-tip.
Q-tip cotton breaks off in ear. Fuck. Can't get it all out. Call ear doctor today. First appointment is next Tuesday.
Time is a flat circle.
Q-tip cotton breaks off in ear. Fuck. Can't get it all out. Call ear doctor today. First appointment is next Tuesday.
Time is a flat circle.
Right around the corner. electrek.co/2025/09/21/t...
Tesla influencers tried Elon Musk’s coast-to-coast self-driving, crashed before 60 miles
A duo of Tesla shareholder-influencers tried to complete Elon Musk’s coast-to-coast self-driving ride that he claimed Tesla would be able...
electrek.co
September 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Right around the corner. electrek.co/2025/09/21/t...
Today's visa insight: there is no job Americans won't or can't do; but it may not be at the price you prefer to pay. This may or may not merit action; but a lot of people are getting salty about economics while forgetting the very basic concept of a market-clearing price.
September 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Today's visa insight: there is no job Americans won't or can't do; but it may not be at the price you prefer to pay. This may or may not merit action; but a lot of people are getting salty about economics while forgetting the very basic concept of a market-clearing price.
My comment on the visa thing is that last night our server at the ramen place was a smart kid with a CS degree who had been laid off a year ago after spending three years at his first job and unable to find anything in the field.
September 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
My comment on the visa thing is that last night our server at the ramen place was a smart kid with a CS degree who had been laid off a year ago after spending three years at his first job and unable to find anything in the field.
was just reminded that a former AURA board member ran for Seattle mayor, used that thing they have where they can get a shitload of public money, instead of getting a job; while he was stiffing his landlord on rent.
September 16, 2025 at 7:29 PM
was just reminded that a former AURA board member ran for Seattle mayor, used that thing they have where they can get a shitload of public money, instead of getting a job; while he was stiffing his landlord on rent.