Taylor Shelton
@jtsphd.bsky.social
professing geography @ georgia state, making maps @ mappingatlanta.org, editing @ atlantastudies.org, kentuckian in ATL, etc. etc.
ngl it's pretty sick to wake up and be represented by a socialist on the Atlanta city council
November 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
ngl it's pretty sick to wake up and be represented by a socialist on the Atlanta city council
Got an email about a workshop at work entitled "AI in the Classroom: What’s Possible, What’s Ethical, What’s Next?"
afaic, the only acceptable answers to those questions are, respectively: Not much of substance, nothing short of total abstinence, and probably putting a fucking bullet in my brain
afaic, the only acceptable answers to those questions are, respectively: Not much of substance, nothing short of total abstinence, and probably putting a fucking bullet in my brain
October 31, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Got an email about a workshop at work entitled "AI in the Classroom: What’s Possible, What’s Ethical, What’s Next?"
afaic, the only acceptable answers to those questions are, respectively: Not much of substance, nothing short of total abstinence, and probably putting a fucking bullet in my brain
afaic, the only acceptable answers to those questions are, respectively: Not much of substance, nothing short of total abstinence, and probably putting a fucking bullet in my brain
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Did you know that the Atlanta Braves' move to Cobb County in 2017 wasn't the first time the suburban county tried to lure a professional team with the promise of a new stadium?
Check out @andrewbramlett.bsky.social's new article in for more of this history!
atlantastudies.org/2025/10/20/c...
Check out @andrewbramlett.bsky.social's new article in for more of this history!
atlantastudies.org/2025/10/20/c...
October 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Did you know that the Atlanta Braves' move to Cobb County in 2017 wasn't the first time the suburban county tried to lure a professional team with the promise of a new stadium?
Check out @andrewbramlett.bsky.social's new article in for more of this history!
atlantastudies.org/2025/10/20/c...
Check out @andrewbramlett.bsky.social's new article in for more of this history!
atlantastudies.org/2025/10/20/c...
I think I'm in favor of disbanding the University of Kentucky football team. Would make my life a lot simpler, I know that
October 19, 2025 at 3:00 AM
I think I'm in favor of disbanding the University of Kentucky football team. Would make my life a lot simpler, I know that
My current council representative doing this bullshit on the same day I get campaign lit from one of the dumbasses running for my new district that touts more surveillance cameras as a top campaign plank 🙄
Councilmember Alex Wan introduces two pieces of legislation to install new Flock license plate readers.
October 6, 2025 at 10:53 PM
My current council representative doing this bullshit on the same day I get campaign lit from one of the dumbasses running for my new district that touts more surveillance cameras as a top campaign plank 🙄
It's really cool that this happened on my campus - indeed in the building where I spend 99% of my time at work - nearly a month ago and the university has never shared a single bit of information about it
3 new GA measles cases all traced back to single patient who went to GSU, restaurant, soccer event
“It’s about 90% contagious for someone who has not been vaccinated,” a physician at WellStar Urgent Care said.
www.wsbtv.com
September 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
It's really cool that this happened on my campus - indeed in the building where I spend 99% of my time at work - nearly a month ago and the university has never shared a single bit of information about it
Just got all the way through reading an article for peer review only to be encountered by the disclosure that the author used generative AI to edit their paper. Second time this has happened to me this year. Second time I've given an automatic reject decision. This shit has to stop.
September 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Just got all the way through reading an article for peer review only to be encountered by the disclosure that the author used generative AI to edit their paper. Second time this has happened to me this year. Second time I've given an automatic reject decision. This shit has to stop.
Yo @atlantaciviccircle.org, this is pretty gross, especially on a story about such an important topic. Can we just not?
September 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Yo @atlantaciviccircle.org, this is pretty gross, especially on a story about such an important topic. Can we just not?
"Policies that rely on profit-seeking developers will always be compromised by the incentive to extract value rather than provide it. Real-estate greed cannot be regulated out of existence so long as private landlords and developers remain central to the system."
Loosening the Markets | Chelsea Kirk
The guiding logic of contemporary housing policy is disarmingly simple: if we just build more, prices will fall. Expanding supply—by deregulating and streamlining approvals, eliminating rent control, ...
www.phenomenalworld.org
September 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
"Policies that rely on profit-seeking developers will always be compromised by the incentive to extract value rather than provide it. Real-estate greed cannot be regulated out of existence so long as private landlords and developers remain central to the system."
Reposted by Taylor Shelton
‼️ Join my team ‼️ @cplusc.bsky.social is hiring a Housing Policy Manager to help advance progressive housing and climate solutions alongside some of the best tenant unions, labor unions, policymakers, and researchers in the field.
Apply here by Oct 5! climateandcommunity.org/careers/
Apply here by Oct 5! climateandcommunity.org/careers/
Work With Us - Climate and Community Institute
Job opportunities at the Climate and Community Institute
climateandcommunity.org
September 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
‼️ Join my team ‼️ @cplusc.bsky.social is hiring a Housing Policy Manager to help advance progressive housing and climate solutions alongside some of the best tenant unions, labor unions, policymakers, and researchers in the field.
Apply here by Oct 5! climateandcommunity.org/careers/
Apply here by Oct 5! climateandcommunity.org/careers/
Today is somehow the 10th anniversary of my dissertation defense, aka the time one of my committee members made a point of telling me that they were "highly offended" I hadn't cited my advisor
September 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Today is somehow the 10th anniversary of my dissertation defense, aka the time one of my committee members made a point of telling me that they were "highly offended" I hadn't cited my advisor
I see that the YIMBY/Abundance crowd still loves to rely primarily on non-peer-reviewed working papers from economists in order to support their nonsense rather than looking at the mountain of actually peer-reviewed work showing that corporate landlords are, in fact, as bad as many assume them to be
August 13, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I see that the YIMBY/Abundance crowd still loves to rely primarily on non-peer-reviewed working papers from economists in order to support their nonsense rather than looking at the mountain of actually peer-reviewed work showing that corporate landlords are, in fact, as bad as many assume them to be
Shoutout to the back parking lot at Manuel's Tavern for its multiple cameos in Weapons
August 9, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Shoutout to the back parking lot at Manuel's Tavern for its multiple cameos in Weapons
I'm really excited to publish this excerpt from Gus Wood's new book in @atlstudies.bsky.social, which provides a whole new lens on Atlanta history.
Like how had I never heard about a citywide, multi-sited strike by Church's Chicken workers over discrimination, pay and community benefits before?!
Like how had I never heard about a citywide, multi-sited strike by Church's Chicken workers over discrimination, pay and community benefits before?!
In this excerpt from his new book, Augustus Wood examines one chapter in the long-neglected history of Atlanta's Black working class, telling the story of strikes against unjust labor practices and housing conditions by working class Black women in the 1970s
atlantastudies.org/2025/08/06/t...
atlantastudies.org/2025/08/06/t...
August 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I'm really excited to publish this excerpt from Gus Wood's new book in @atlstudies.bsky.social, which provides a whole new lens on Atlanta history.
Like how had I never heard about a citywide, multi-sited strike by Church's Chicken workers over discrimination, pay and community benefits before?!
Like how had I never heard about a citywide, multi-sited strike by Church's Chicken workers over discrimination, pay and community benefits before?!
Reposted by Taylor Shelton
In this excerpt from his new book, Augustus Wood examines one chapter in the long-neglected history of Atlanta's Black working class, telling the story of strikes against unjust labor practices and housing conditions by working class Black women in the 1970s
atlantastudies.org/2025/08/06/t...
atlantastudies.org/2025/08/06/t...
August 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
In this excerpt from his new book, Augustus Wood examines one chapter in the long-neglected history of Atlanta's Black working class, telling the story of strikes against unjust labor practices and housing conditions by working class Black women in the 1970s
atlantastudies.org/2025/08/06/t...
atlantastudies.org/2025/08/06/t...
My dad sent me the latest Paul Krugman newsletter about Atlanta and for some reason his citation for the idea that you "aren't allowed to build multifamily housing" in Atlanta is an editorial from a high school student newspaper 🤦♂️
July 28, 2025 at 9:33 PM
My dad sent me the latest Paul Krugman newsletter about Atlanta and for some reason his citation for the idea that you "aren't allowed to build multifamily housing" in Atlanta is an editorial from a high school student newspaper 🤦♂️
Very cool that my employer is finally switching from Webex to Zoom about five years after it would have made a meaningfully positive difference in our lives #betterlatethannever ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
July 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Very cool that my employer is finally switching from Webex to Zoom about five years after it would have made a meaningfully positive difference in our lives #betterlatethannever ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The wife is out of town and not able to watch Love Island at the same time, so she just received 17 consecutive texts with my play-by-play of tonight's episode before finally responding
July 12, 2025 at 1:47 AM
The wife is out of town and not able to watch Love Island at the same time, so she just received 17 consecutive texts with my play-by-play of tonight's episode before finally responding
Reposted by Taylor Shelton
We’re delighted to share our latest article, an excerpt from Hannah Palmer’s latest book “The Pool is Closed”. As she writes in the introduction, this piece “feels like the emotional heart of my book and it isn’t even about pools.”
Check it out 👇👇
atlantastudies.org/2025/07/02/f...
Check it out 👇👇
atlantastudies.org/2025/07/02/f...
July 2, 2025 at 10:10 PM
We’re delighted to share our latest article, an excerpt from Hannah Palmer’s latest book “The Pool is Closed”. As she writes in the introduction, this piece “feels like the emotional heart of my book and it isn’t even about pools.”
Check it out 👇👇
atlantastudies.org/2025/07/02/f...
Check it out 👇👇
atlantastudies.org/2025/07/02/f...
Reposted by Taylor Shelton
Today, Renee Tapp argues that recent attempts to solve the affordable housing crisis rely on a flawed understanding of housing economics and landlord business practices.
To address the high price of housing, we must recognize it for what it is: an antitrust issue.
To address the high price of housing, we must recognize it for what it is: an antitrust issue.
Prices and Supply, and How Landlords Control Them
Attempts to solve the affordable housing crisis rely on a flawed understanding of housing economics and landlord business practices. In reality, landlords are colluding to manipulate the market.
lpeproject.org
June 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Today, Renee Tapp argues that recent attempts to solve the affordable housing crisis rely on a flawed understanding of housing economics and landlord business practices.
To address the high price of housing, we must recognize it for what it is: an antitrust issue.
To address the high price of housing, we must recognize it for what it is: an antitrust issue.
Reposted by Taylor Shelton
Through an open records request, the Atlanta Community Press Collective obtained a list of City of Atlanta-owned surveillance cameras and automated license plate readers.
Geographer Taylor Shelton mapped the locations of those cameras, showing which neighborhoods are most heavily surveilled.
Geographer Taylor Shelton mapped the locations of those cameras, showing which neighborhoods are most heavily surveilled.
Atlanta surveillance camera network mapping with Taylor Shelton
Using APD data obtained via open records request, Taylor Shelton maps Atlanta's camera network and explores the city's surveillance strategy.
atlpresscollective.com
June 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Through an open records request, the Atlanta Community Press Collective obtained a list of City of Atlanta-owned surveillance cameras and automated license plate readers.
Geographer Taylor Shelton mapped the locations of those cameras, showing which neighborhoods are most heavily surveilled.
Geographer Taylor Shelton mapped the locations of those cameras, showing which neighborhoods are most heavily surveilled.
Atlanta is the most surveilled city in the United States.
But because the Atlanta Police Department claims that releasing the locations of these 60,000+ cameras will lead to terrorism, we’ve not been able to map their locations...
Until now. Read more 👇👇
But because the Atlanta Police Department claims that releasing the locations of these 60,000+ cameras will lead to terrorism, we’ve not been able to map their locations...
Until now. Read more 👇👇
City of Cameras
Atlanta is the most surveilled city in the United States. With 124.14 surveillance cameras per 1,000 people, we not only lead the country, we have more than twice as many cameras per capita as 2nd …
mappingatlanta.org
June 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Atlanta is the most surveilled city in the United States.
But because the Atlanta Police Department claims that releasing the locations of these 60,000+ cameras will lead to terrorism, we’ve not been able to map their locations...
Until now. Read more 👇👇
But because the Atlanta Police Department claims that releasing the locations of these 60,000+ cameras will lead to terrorism, we’ve not been able to map their locations...
Until now. Read more 👇👇
very upsetting when your wife, who studies environmental conservation, refuses to study prairie dog habitat conservation even though this organization has the cutest logo in the entire world
June 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
very upsetting when your wife, who studies environmental conservation, refuses to study prairie dog habitat conservation even though this organization has the cutest logo in the entire world
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Across the country, new "squatting laws" are being weaponized against tenants.
In Atlanta, Bolden Capital Group is using this law to force out families who paid rent—after leaving them in units with no power, collapsing ceilings, and rampant mold.
Landlords are terrorizing people with impunity.
In Atlanta, Bolden Capital Group is using this law to force out families who paid rent—after leaving them in units with no power, collapsing ceilings, and rampant mold.
Landlords are terrorizing people with impunity.
Atlanta tenants say they’re being wrongly labeled as squatters amid unsafe living conditions
On Friday, some tenants returned home to find their belongings outside.
www.wsbtv.com
June 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Across the country, new "squatting laws" are being weaponized against tenants.
In Atlanta, Bolden Capital Group is using this law to force out families who paid rent—after leaving them in units with no power, collapsing ceilings, and rampant mold.
Landlords are terrorizing people with impunity.
In Atlanta, Bolden Capital Group is using this law to force out families who paid rent—after leaving them in units with no power, collapsing ceilings, and rampant mold.
Landlords are terrorizing people with impunity.
Reposted by Taylor Shelton
Atlanta’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund, formed to bankroll housing initiatives, is now being used to cover bond debt and staff salaries — a shift that’s alarmed advocates and city officials.
For @atlantaciviccircle.org:
atlantaciviccircle.org/2025/05/26/i...
For @atlantaciviccircle.org:
atlantaciviccircle.org/2025/05/26/i...
INVESTIGATION: Dickens admin uses Housing Trust Fund to pay bonds, employee salaries
“From the very beginning, this looked too much like a slush fund, and not enough like a housing trust fund.”
atlantaciviccircle.org
May 26, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Atlanta’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund, formed to bankroll housing initiatives, is now being used to cover bond debt and staff salaries — a shift that’s alarmed advocates and city officials.
For @atlantaciviccircle.org:
atlantaciviccircle.org/2025/05/26/i...
For @atlantaciviccircle.org:
atlantaciviccircle.org/2025/05/26/i...