HMU if you need help on the tech side urbanists.social/@getalifemike

My software (Sidekiq) is at the heart of Mastodon so I’m biased but it’s really the only social media that can’t be billionaire controlled. That said, any big site is hard to run at scale. It’s a full time job.

I have no personal knowledge of the admin but pdx.social is an obvious choice.

Most local parties are run by people who've done the job for years because no one stepped up. So step up.

Be authentically you. Speak to your community.

There is a MASSIVE leadership vacuum at the local level almost everywhere outside major cities. Fill it.

This game is BORING. Choppy, defensive. No one wants to make a mistake.

Huh, now I have a word for one thing athletes are gifted at: proprioception

I do dream, but it’s more of a logical dream where I know action is happening, but there’s not much visual component to it. I have the typical anxiety dream occasionally of falling off a cliff, but I couldn’t tell you what the cliff looked like or the terrain.

what we need in PDX is a visionary mayor and council who can compel a systemic pivot across agencies to speed this climate adaptation work up rather than slow it down, to operate from a place of courage rather than risk aversion, and to invest in a unionized city green jobs workforce

There's no single tweak like "remove parking minimums" or "legalize single stair egress" that will allow for the dense traditional mid-rise developments Americans love to see.

We need a comprehensive rewrite of building codes to simplify them, match international peers, and allow traditional devt.

Gotta juice those arrest numbers

DE-PAVE OUR STREETS. Car infrastructure is expensive to maintain. As we de-motorize, places like Paris show that we can peel back the layers of asphalt and concrete to create a renewed, re-humanized, and re-naturalized city.

I’d be happy to talk more. @nbrhoodwrkshop.bsky.social and I are in early talks on a single stair project in Portland about that size and I would consider a significant social/coop aspect, I think it is important to build social connections and trust between neighbors when living more densely.