Russell Richie 🔰🌐🏗🚲♿🏳️‍🌈
LightNews LightNews
banner
drussellmrichie.bsky.social
Russell Richie 🔰🌐🏗🚲♿🏳️‍🌈
@drussellmrichie.bsky.social
1.8K followers 2.6K following 1.1K posts
Associate Director of Cognitive Science @PennMindCORE. Treasurer @5thsq, Board Vice-President @pandpinst. he/him. Cancer survivor and ADHD haver. I sell land value tax, and land value tax accessories.
Posts Replies Media Videos
drussellmrichie.bsky.social
Seattle yearns for land value tax.
Screenshot from Katie Wilson's campaign website. A circled portion reads: Finally, under my leadership Seattle will join Spokane kn advocating for a land value tax as an alternative option to the property tax, that sould also create an incentive to put rundown properties to better use.
November 12, 2025 at 12:41 AM
drussellmrichie.bsky.social
Bluesky simply yearns for land value tax.
Screenshot from Katie Wilson's campaign website. A circled portion reads: Finally, under my leadership Seattle will join Spokane kn advocating for a land value tax as an alternative option to the property tax, that sould also create an incentive to put rundown properties to better use.
November 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
drussellmrichie.bsky.social
I recently had this built in my back patio. :)
A photo of a bike shed.
November 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
drussellmrichie.bsky.social
Boy howdy, if Mamdani believes that natural resources should be for the benefit of all -- and I agree with him! -- then he ought to also believe that the value of land, a natural resource, should be redistributed to all New Yorkers via a Land Value Tax!
A still from the quoted video. Mamdani says: When he was called a radical, Marc responded, A still from the quoted video. Mamdani says: If it be radicalism to believe that our natural resources should be used for the benefit of all A still from the quoted video. Mamdani says: and not for the purpose of enriching just a few, then I plead guilty to the charge. A still from the quoted video. Mamdani says: Are we brave enough to believe in a city that benefits us all?
November 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
drussellmrichie.bsky.social
Did Mamdani call him train daddy, or is this just the NYT citing his nickname? 👀
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
October 23, 2025 at 1:32 AM
drussellmrichie.bsky.social
Gordon Ramsay looks downward, and says: Delicious Finally, some good fucking zoning
October 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
drussellmrichie.bsky.social
Domino meme. Small domino: Cars pay $9 to enter NYC CBD Large domino: The largest American protests ever
October 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
drussellmrichie.bsky.social
This paragraph from paved paradise is so achingly perfect.
The parking theorist Sarah Marusek writes about parking as “frontier law,” by which she means people feel free to dismiss the impossibly prolix set of rules that govern who can park where, for how long, for how much. The nation’s parking supply is also a perpetual frontier in a more real sense, an asphalt territory whose prime plots are seized anew each day. American settlers got to stake their claim only once; American drivers get to put their divining rods to work every few hours.
October 14, 2025 at 2:37 AM
drussellmrichie.bsky.social
Philadelphians who want a safer city--->
Squidward looking through a window down at SpongeBob and Patrick.
October 11, 2025 at 11:46 PM
drussellmrichie.bsky.social
When I hear the Trump admin's demands on universities were inspired in part by Marc Rowan

www.inquirer.com/education/up...
"If I say what I think I'll be suspended six months" meme. It contains that quote and a photo of a soccer player.
October 7, 2025 at 1:52 AM
drussellmrichie.bsky.social
The developer wanted to preserve more of it in an earlier proposal, but it got nimbyed because it would have been a bigger building.
Rendering of a previous proposal for adaptive reuse of the painted bride building. The artwork is better preserved in this proposal, and the building is taller.
September 28, 2025 at 11:06 PM
drussellmrichie.bsky.social
The way I hate this intersection.
Passyunk ave and 10th street in south Philadelphia.
September 27, 2025 at 10:15 PM
drussellmrichie.bsky.social
👀
This book is 986 pages long!
September 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
drussellmrichie.bsky.social
A tale of two newspapers: one that sucks, and one that doesn't.

Subscribe to @inquirer.com !
NYT headline reading "Trump issues warning based on unproven link between Tylenol and Autism. Subhead: Top US health officials urged pregnant women not to use acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, claiming it could cause autism, though studies have been inconclusive. Philadelphia Inquirer headline reading: Trump makes unfounded claims about Tylenol and repeats discredit link between vaccines and autism
September 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
drussellmrichie.bsky.social
Sure seems relevant to our current era of high housing costs and low civic and social engagement!
Line graph showing civic and social engagement have decreased over time Graph showing housing costs have increased over time.
September 23, 2025 at 3:36 AM
drussellmrichie.bsky.social
One of the most interesting things in @yappelbaum.bsky.social's Stuck, is the idea that people join groups most when they can live where they want.
Text from the book. The resurgence of mobility revived other aspects of American life that had fallen off during the Great Depression. People sought out churches and clubs and lodges as they tried to construct community in their new surroundings. Between 1940 and 1945, rates of membership in American voluntary associations saw their largest recorded surge. Church membership ticked up, too. Just as the golden age of American voluntary associations in the late nineteenth century had been driven by the remarkable number of Americans moving from one place to another, its revival in the postwar decades was, too. Despite becoming sharply more likely to be living next to new neighbors, and to have moved to an unfamiliar place themselves, Americans expressed more trust in each other and more faith in institutions than they had during the immobile years of the Great Depression.
September 23, 2025 at 2:24 AM
drussellmrichie.bsky.social
When I'm in a transphobia contest and my opponent is The Economist.
Squidward? With his eyes bulging out.
September 21, 2025 at 8:17 PM
drussellmrichie.bsky.social
Incredible haul from
@yimbytown.bsky.social. Great goodies from @parkingreform.org @urbanistportland.bsky.social @futurewise.bsky.social @desegregatect.bsky.social @texansforhousing.bsky.social @americawalks.bsky.social @yimbyaction.bsky.social

Did I forget anyone? 👀👀👀
Stickers, pins, and cards from the organizations in the post
September 16, 2025 at 11:13 PM
drussellmrichie.bsky.social
@hatethegamebook.com Daryl Fairweather keynote talk @yimbytown.bsky.social on how to fix housing.

Love everything here, especially land value tax. 🤓
How to change the housing game: Legalize and subsidize dense housing Climate conscious new construction and retrofitting Streamlined permitting and approval processes Land value tax
September 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
drussellmrichie.bsky.social
When you're going to @yimbytown.bsky.social
A smiling white man with a pink shirt, blue hat, and flip up sunglasses is standing on a sidewalk, with his backpack and suitcase.
September 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
drussellmrichie.bsky.social
A mayoral candidate from or evoking the Progressive Era, you say?

(The George posting will continue until land distribution improves)
A headshot of Henry George, who came in second place for NYC mayor in 1886, on the United Labor Ticket. Henry George is most well-known for his advocacy of Land Value Tax, a tax on all the unearned land rent that accrues to land owners. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1886_New_York_City_mayoral_election
September 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
drussellmrichie.bsky.social
That's right.
A mural on south 9th street in Philly, the heart of the Italian Market. The centerpiece is a grocery bag that says "our market" in several languages.
August 31, 2025 at 6:26 PM
drussellmrichie.bsky.social
Something is wrong with my Wikipedia android app
Screenshot of the Wikipedia app. The photo is from bee movie, but the text is about the EU.
August 30, 2025 at 11:31 PM
drussellmrichie.bsky.social
Haha I love the family connection to the DeMilles.
Gif from Sunset Boulevard. Norma Desmond says "Alright Mr DeMille. I'm ready for my closeup."
August 25, 2025 at 2:25 AM
drussellmrichie.bsky.social
You know what other 19th century (sort of) socialist also ran for mayor in New York City?
A photo portrait of Henry George
August 25, 2025 at 1:54 AM