Wait, who was annihilated on Instagram? I genuinely don't know.
07.03.2026 19:45
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Wait, who was annihilated on Instagram? I genuinely don't know.
the argument that being on Bluesky puts you in an epistemic bubble, the only way to leave it is to go to X, implies that it was impossible to know things before Twitter existed.
people assuming your only information source that gives good signal is your social media consumption.
that's wild man.
Man, he's probably awful in all sorts of ways, but he was the main champion of getting rid of the federal height limit in DC, so in a way I'm sad to see him go. :/
Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:
so if we are going back to the pre-westphalian era, it just becomes a fucking shooting match between states, which in 2026 is going to quick lead to "oh fuck I gotta get a nuke so that big country doesn't invade me to replace my internal political system [which they dislike for whatever reason]"
the fundamental problem with intervention in venezuela is it's a direct rejection of the 1648 wesphalian system and principle of [large] states not interfering in the internal affairs of other [small] ones (r2p aside for a moment).
if we we throw that out, we go back to pre-wesphalia. that's bad
like i said this when the US attacked venezuela. we are hurdling back into an extremely violent world, one which hasn't really existed since the 1700s and which nobody since hitler has really tried to enact. and it's entirely on trump's hands
there's a thing I like to call "load-bearing assumptions", that you don't notice until they're suddenly gone (e.g the air you breath has oxygen in it).
the post-ww2 order is a load-bearing assumption for basically the entirety of american life. trump took a sledgehammer to it in the last 90 days.
I think that all countries where it's legal to be gay should consider adopting a policy that you can get asylum if you are LGBT and live in a country where being gay is illegal.
It should be run as a metro-frequency system with trains every 5-10 minutes all day.
NJ Transit is an amazing network with atrocious service.
What is this meme supposed to even represent
Of cities in the country where parking is least necessary to daily life, DC surely ranks in the top 1%.
Almost all of DC is within reach of *some* transit service, and that transit service connects to one of the country's best rail transit systems (Metrorail).
Ahhhh i get it!!! Thanks!
It would be a great idea, because it would make congress more responsible to the public and end the imbalance of senators to population. How do you think the best strategy would be to eliminate it? Perhaps strip it of its powers and revert it to being appointed by states?
The mindset that lets a Silicon Valley software company think this is ok because they’re making machine god is no different than a cult. apple.news/AtL-nvW7WTxC...
Can you explain what this was? I was thinking it was gonna be a livestream discussion of your urbanist or other takes, but now I'm thinking it was a joke.
Really? I didn't know that!
this site may have its shortcomings but I don't think even the most delusional liberal user would say that bsky discourse represents more than the online parts of the liberal base, twitter users still think they are seeing something other than a misinformation and ai slop filled fever dream
twitter, as it existed as an imperfect but useable platform under Jack Dorsey, is as dead as the Washington Post. almost everyone still posting there is firmly in denial of that, but anyone who is honest can see it's a shell of itself
Red voters in the NYC suburbs seem unusually hostile even by American standards. I've long wondered why.
I’m so tired of seeing people bash Bluesky for being an echo chamber when X is an actual intentionally constructed echo chamber that is demonstrably radicalizing people across the political spectrum who still use it
I've started noticing that a lot of this is in Sacramento! Underrated city it seems!
Alas, in DC we musr make do with 8'-ceiling offices (I guess 9.5' floor to floor) due to the federal height restrictions 😞
Awesome, I've been wondering for a while! So 10'6" --> 9'.
Good to know. How does floor-to-floor generally translate into ceiling height?
Also zoned height limits. If floor-to-floors for modern market-rate multifam are less than 10’6”, I’d say it’s zoning.
The FPEs did it the way I thought it should be done for the MN study, and came to the conclusion that seven stories and 6,000 sq. ft. per floor puts fewer people at risk in case of catastrophic failures than a big double-loaded corridor building www.dli.mn.gov/sites/defaul...
Come meet @miguelward1.bsky.social, who’s running to be the next Ward 1 Councilmember in DC, tomorrow Wednesday, March 4 at 6:30 pm at the Grand Duchess to learn more about his transit & housing plans! partiful.com/e/UuTYQ9iv6O...
Why is it so low? I like high ceilings!