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Walt Haim
@walthaim.bsky.social
· Nov 22
A Map of Pittsburgh area urbanization over time, qualitatively separated into three eras.
It feels like the start of a thesis.
Our region has grown with characteristics unique to us, and I could only have made a map like this experiencing different zones through my own experiences living in them🏡🖤💛
It feels like the start of a thesis.
Our region has grown with characteristics unique to us, and I could only have made a map like this experiencing different zones through my own experiences living in them🏡🖤💛
Photo/graphics/art-centric bluesky wen?!?
as a self-identified creative, I'm starting to get the anxious sense that the collapse/enshitification of platforms (technofeudal cloud fiefs) will be more disruptive than anything related to gen-AI. It's a strange realization.
November 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Photo/graphics/art-centric bluesky wen?!?
as a self-identified creative, I'm starting to get the anxious sense that the collapse/enshitification of platforms (technofeudal cloud fiefs) will be more disruptive than anything related to gen-AI. It's a strange realization.
November 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
as a self-identified creative, I'm starting to get the anxious sense that the collapse/enshitification of platforms (technofeudal cloud fiefs) will be more disruptive than anything related to gen-AI. It's a strange realization.
so many runners left on base.
Blue Jays giving BIG Mariners vibes...
November 2, 2025 at 4:19 AM
so many runners left on base.
Blue Jays giving BIG Mariners vibes...
November 1, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Blue Jays giving BIG Mariners vibes...
Go to bed, orange asshole...
BREAKING Trump has ordered Department of War to start nuclear weapons tests to match China's and Russia's.
October 30, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Go to bed, orange asshole...
omg they got Reynolds Street 😭🙃😭🙃
October 22, 2025 at 1:55 AM
omg they got Reynolds Street 😭🙃😭🙃
meme'ing AI-slop; Strip District edition
October 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
meme'ing AI-slop; Strip District edition
Here come the Gestapo / Imperial Storm Troopers.
NEW - The feds are seeking Pittsburgh office space for an unspecified law enforcement agency expansion in the region. Reporting from WaPo and NPR indicate that ICE is behind the request as part of a 10,000 officer nationwide expansion www.axios.com/local/pittsb...
Feds quietly plan Pittsburgh office for unspecified law enforcement
NPR and the Washington Post both reported last month that the office space request is being made on behalf of ICE.
www.axios.com
October 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Here come the Gestapo / Imperial Storm Troopers.
wonderful article.
love the concluding line:
"We can preserve the Strip District without remaining stuck in the past."
love the concluding line:
"We can preserve the Strip District without remaining stuck in the past."
The Penn Ave. bike lane lawsuit is based on change aversion and bad faith, so say I:
Transit Talk: YOMPA (Yes On My Penn Avenue) - Pittsburgh City Paper | News, Dining, Music, Best Of, Arts, Film
The lawsuit halting work on the Penn Ave. bike lane extension seems based on misconceptions.
www.pghcitypaper.com
October 2, 2025 at 2:09 PM
wonderful article.
love the concluding line:
"We can preserve the Strip District without remaining stuck in the past."
love the concluding line:
"We can preserve the Strip District without remaining stuck in the past."
yeah. this checks out.
one thing that is true for everyone reading this: unless something changes dramatically the number of people who agree with you on what basic facts constitute "reality" will shrink every year for the rest of your life
September 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM
yeah. this checks out.
Love that my 'discover' page on here actually integrates a lot of art and city nature photography. Great cleanse from how doom-dialed my X feed is.
September 19, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Love that my 'discover' page on here actually integrates a lot of art and city nature photography. Great cleanse from how doom-dialed my X feed is.
Did the audiobook of Abundance and generally enjoyed the big-picture thinking they were trying to do.
And I get the concept that to make progress, we do have to deal with existing systems to an extent. But this extent of Thiel & Co.?!?
Big meh.
And I get the concept that to make progress, we do have to deal with existing systems to an extent. But this extent of Thiel & Co.?!?
Big meh.
Over the last few months I've become fascinated with Abundance, the new nominally liberal ideology pushed by liberal stalwarts like Ezra Klein. But if you peak behind the curtain and look at the funding you discovering something horrifying: Peter Theil, the Koch
Moreover, ICE must b destroyed
Moreover, ICE must b destroyed
September 9, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Did the audiobook of Abundance and generally enjoyed the big-picture thinking they were trying to do.
And I get the concept that to make progress, we do have to deal with existing systems to an extent. But this extent of Thiel & Co.?!?
Big meh.
And I get the concept that to make progress, we do have to deal with existing systems to an extent. But this extent of Thiel & Co.?!?
Big meh.
Listened to a fantastic review of and deep dive into "Abundance", bringing receipts on how on the funding level, it functions as another front the technofeudalist-oligarchy is using to consolidate wealth and power.
Great work @miawong.bsky.social on 'It Can Happen Here' podcast.
Great work @miawong.bsky.social on 'It Can Happen Here' podcast.
September 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Listened to a fantastic review of and deep dive into "Abundance", bringing receipts on how on the funding level, it functions as another front the technofeudalist-oligarchy is using to consolidate wealth and power.
Great work @miawong.bsky.social on 'It Can Happen Here' podcast.
Great work @miawong.bsky.social on 'It Can Happen Here' podcast.
What a delight to watch Paul Skenes pitch...🏴☠️ This futurist dynamic capture of motion and energy has been living in my head for awhile now. Love how this live-sketch rough-draft turned out. (👀 in other mediums, digital and other physical media 👀)
September 5, 2025 at 1:31 AM
What a delight to watch Paul Skenes pitch...🏴☠️ This futurist dynamic capture of motion and energy has been living in my head for awhile now. Love how this live-sketch rough-draft turned out. (👀 in other mediums, digital and other physical media 👀)
Hottake: Lilillydays does have a certain charm to it.
August 15, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Hottake: Lilillydays does have a certain charm to it.
This kneejerk reaction to the highway closure reducing traffic into & out of town is really getting me seriously taking an evidenced stand against cross-town highway access.
In and out via highway but not across.
Let the city be the city & not a speed bump between suburbs.
In and out via highway but not across.
Let the city be the city & not a speed bump between suburbs.
August 10, 2025 at 11:55 PM
This kneejerk reaction to the highway closure reducing traffic into & out of town is really getting me seriously taking an evidenced stand against cross-town highway access.
In and out via highway but not across.
Let the city be the city & not a speed bump between suburbs.
In and out via highway but not across.
Let the city be the city & not a speed bump between suburbs.
Make the Squirrel Hill Tunnel closure permanent.
August 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Make the Squirrel Hill Tunnel closure permanent.
Hear me out:
("The Zone at Troy Hill")
("The Zone at Troy Hill")
July 9, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Hear me out:
("The Zone at Troy Hill")
("The Zone at Troy Hill")
Help. I want to move to Torino. Questa città è maraviglio.
June 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Help. I want to move to Torino. Questa città è maraviglio.
Just finished the Abundance (audio)book... From a spiral dynamics lens, it feels like a 🟡 treatise.
But it's an easy mistake to read it from a 🟠 or 🟢 lens, both seeing it's critiques of 🟢 as an endorsement of 🟠, rather than an an invitation to integrate both to a 🟡 system.
But it's an easy mistake to read it from a 🟠 or 🟢 lens, both seeing it's critiques of 🟢 as an endorsement of 🟠, rather than an an invitation to integrate both to a 🟡 system.
June 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Just finished the Abundance (audio)book... From a spiral dynamics lens, it feels like a 🟡 treatise.
But it's an easy mistake to read it from a 🟠 or 🟢 lens, both seeing it's critiques of 🟢 as an endorsement of 🟠, rather than an an invitation to integrate both to a 🟡 system.
But it's an easy mistake to read it from a 🟠 or 🟢 lens, both seeing it's critiques of 🟢 as an endorsement of 🟠, rather than an an invitation to integrate both to a 🟡 system.
is COMcheck a ploy to manufacture consent to deregulate building sustainability regulations?!? Because if so, it's working.
May 23, 2025 at 9:32 PM
is COMcheck a ploy to manufacture consent to deregulate building sustainability regulations?!? Because if so, it's working.
The latest version of the COMcheck web app might be the most soul-sucking mind-frying piece of software I've ever used. Ever. It's soooo bad.
May 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The latest version of the COMcheck web app might be the most soul-sucking mind-frying piece of software I've ever used. Ever. It's soooo bad.
DAE feel like local PGH politics / the recent primary elections very cleanly fit into pseudo-psychological Consciousness-Development models and laugh whenever national media comically tries to shoehorn it into binary national political narratives, or am I just in a weird niche?
May 22, 2025 at 1:57 AM
DAE feel like local PGH politics / the recent primary elections very cleanly fit into pseudo-psychological Consciousness-Development models and laugh whenever national media comically tries to shoehorn it into binary national political narratives, or am I just in a weird niche?
is it neurotypical to stay up til 1:19am on a thursday meticulously masking off bits on a brand new bicycle frame in anticipation of spray painting it on a low-humidity sunday?
April 25, 2025 at 5:20 AM
is it neurotypical to stay up til 1:19am on a thursday meticulously masking off bits on a brand new bicycle frame in anticipation of spray painting it on a low-humidity sunday?