We need to do whatever it takes to get the bottom 20% of office buildings torn down and replaced by housing.

Did he sound as much like Trump in person as he does from reading your posts? 🤢

To be committed to NIMBY positions in 2025 (other than as grift or pander), you can't have basic competence in either arithmetic or spatial reasoning. These are the results.

He still deserves to be tossed in the woodchipper for plenty of well-documented non-Epstein reasons. He did some good things as president but he was personally a skeeze.

Rumor had it it was going to be Kettle but I hope Nelson’s loss changes that equation.

KC Metro really doesn’t have the right equipment for this. It’s better accomplished with 45’ intercity-style motor coaches with lower baggage holds. IMO we should require the pass’s operator to subsidize service using those, provided by a charter operator, as a condition of their permit.

Yes! There is a place for a book (which I don’t know exists) that actually provides useful advice for how to vehicular cycle as safely as possible in the most unforgiving environments. Forrester emphatically did not write that book.

A real window into the minds of political media, that 🌽 stars are a scandal but white supremacists are hunky-dory.

Those are beautiful. Simple boxes with lots of huge windows are perfect.

French was at least being tongue-in-cheek, criticizing Andrews. Douthat means it.

Why are real-time train arrivals so much harder in Seattle than anywhere else in the world @sound-transit.bsky.social?

Every day it seems like I’m just told “trains are arriving about every 10 minutes.”

Other cities don’t have this problem.

If there is ever a robot that can fully automate all house cleaning processes, that will be a large improvement in quality of life. Not as much as the washer, but really significant.