Ian

sub-par tweets about housing & RE. dad, SMB owner, hater of foot prisons. ask me about your condo/hoa problems

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Why is it ‘cancelled’ in the U.K. but ‘canceled’ in the U.S.?

Because we gave them that L in 1776.

[1776 Live @250YearsAgoLive]

Pennsylvania has declared INDEPENDENCE from Great Britain.

Pennsylvania is the fourth colony to unilaterally declare itself as independent from the crown.

[Ian @Nativephilly]

@bobbyfijan @christopherrufo niche

[Eileen @EileenChollet]

Inside baseball on Pluto's demotion, told to me contemporaneously by someone who was at the 2006 @IAU_org meeting when they voted on it.

An American scientist at Caltech named Mike Brown had found a handful of icy planets similar to Pluto but further out in the solar system. The IAU vote was supposed to be to make those bodies official planets as well.

However, the Europeans realized that bunch of new planets + Pluto would mean that the Americans had discovered more planets than the Europeans. That was unacceptable to them, so they all voted to demote Pluto from planet status by creating a scientifically non-sensical definition of "planet". The 2006 definition requires that a planet must have "cleared the neighborhood around its orbit". This definition of a planet excludes Earth (we have the Moon in the same orbit around the Sun) and the gas giants (which also have large moons.)

Demoting Earth to a dwarf planet and the gas giants to "solar system bodies" would have caused an uproar, so they voted Mercury through Neptune back in as planets by non-scientific fiat.

To those readers who thought "I'm The Science, and pointing out that my nonsensical dictates are nonsensible dictates is disinformation and violence" started with COVID, well, the Pluto incident was 14 years prior.

[Ian @Nativephilly]

TDK ALL DAY

[Bueno @0xBueno_]

Which one did you use to burn CDs?

[Ethan Brooks @alt_w_v_g]

Got a letter from the HOA yesterday

Actual letter

In an envelope

With a stamp

In 2026

The letter said my trash can was visible from the street for too long on collection day

The fine is $50

I checked my Ring camera

The truck came at 7:03am

I brought the can in at 7:14am

11 minutes

$50

That's $4.55 per minute of trash can visibility

My therapist charges $250 an hour

That's $4.17 per minute

My trash can sitting in a driveway is now more expensive per minute than therapy

I looked at the letter again

It was signed by the HOA president

Her name is Karen

Of course it is

I know this woman

She lives four houses down

She still has Christmas lights up

It's March

I know because I drive past them twice a day

And because that's what I do

I checked the HOA bylaws

All 47 pages

Section 4.2 says all exterior fixtures and lighting must be seasonal and removed within 30 days of the applicable holiday

Her lights have been up for 97 days

I went to the HOA meeting

Tuesday night

7pm

In a church basement

Folding chairs

Fruit platter that nobody touched

Seven people showed up

Four of them were on the board

The other three were there to complain

I was there to read

My wife came with me

She didn't want to

But she said "if I don't come you'll end up on the news"

I brought my legal pad

Karen called the meeting to order

She talked about community standards

She talked about property values

She talked about the importance of curb appeal

From a woman whose Christmas lights are still blinking in March

I raised my hand

She said "we'll take questions at the end"

I said "it's not a question. It's a point of order."

She looked at me

I opened my legal pad

I said "Section 4.2 requires seasonal decorations to be removed within 30 days. Your Christmas lights have been up for 97 days. You fined me $50 for 11 minutes of trash can visibility on collection day while you've been in violation for over three months."

The room was quiet

One of the other three complainers said "he's right"

The board members looked at each other

Karen said "that's a separate issue"

I said "it's the same bylaws"

She said "we'll review it"

I said "I already did. Page 12. Happy to share my highlights."

My wife looked at the ceiling

Some things never change

Karen said "I think we should move on"

I said "agreed. I'll move on when the Christmas lights do."

Nobody laughed

I wasn't joking

I paid the $50

Because it's $50 and I'm not going to die on that hill

But if the rules apply to me they apply to everyone

So I filed a formal complaint about the lights

With photos

Timestamped

Funny how surveillance works both ways

The fine for seasonal decoration violations is $75 per occurrence

She's been in violation for 67 days past the 30-day grace period

I'll let her do the math

Or I'll do it for her

Because that's what I do

Make common sense common again

Plz fix. Thx.

Sent from my iPhone

[Ian @Nativephilly]

@RnaudBertrand Nn

[m. stanfield @resetbasis]

“Look, I’m totally supportive of housing for those people, I’m just not sure if this is the best site, ya know? I mean, traffic here is already bad enough, my husband Chet is routine delayed a few minutes here every morning. Hundreds of extra cars certainly won’t help.

And I’m honestly surprised people aren’t taking into account the noise and light pollution buildings like this create. I moved into this house my partners bought me because I love this quiet community and I just don’t want to see it disturbed.

Plus, I’ve heard that each apartment has at least 5 kids per unit, and I’m honestly concerned about the load on our already overburdened teachers.

Homestly, this feels better suited for the town next door. Lord knows the could use the tax revenue.”

[m. stanfield @resetbasis]

Just one little tax, alright bro. Just one. I swear, that’s all I need to get me over. Fuck. Man, look. I need it, alright? One small tax and I’ll straighten my shit out. Yea, no, it’s different this time. I mean it.

Man! Listen to me, alright? I’ve got a problem and I need help. Give me just a little tax this once. One fucking time man! All I’m asking. I’ll cut spending, put the dumb shit aside, and I won’t ask again. I’ll be straight, just need you to float me this one last time.

[Ian @Nativephilly]

@juansondeluxe @CigsMake @GoodAmericanMan

[Eric Nathan @BarstoolNate]

*Cracks knuckles*

As a kid, it was everything. We didn't have everything at the tip of our fingers. So the dopamine rush of going to Blockbuster and picking out 1 or 2 movies for the weekend was much stronger than the dopamine rush of scrolling through 8 streaming services to decide what to watch. We have it *easier* now, and with way more options. But is it a better experience, as stated? I'd say no, and not even close.

[El Club del Arte 🎨📷📚🖼🕍🎼 @Arteymas_]

La gente que nació entre 1975 y 1999 pertenece a una generación verdaderamente irrepetible.

No por moda, no por ego… sino por historia vivida.

Nacimos justo entre dos mundos.
Antes de que el internet dominara todo, pero lo suficientemente a tiempo para adaptarnos cuando llegó.
Crecimos sin pantallas táctiles, pero aprendimos a usarlas.
Jugamos en la calle hasta que oscurecía… y luego vimos cómo el mundo se volvía digital.

La generación anterior nos enseñó el valor del esfuerzo, la disciplina, la constancia, el respeto y la palabra.
La siguiente nos mostró el trabajo inteligente, la rapidez, la innovación y la tecnología.
Y nosotros… aprendimos de ambas.

Vimos pasar la historia frente a nuestros ojos:
📻 la radio
📺 la televisión
🎮 Mario Bros
📼 cassettes y VHS
📀 DVD
📱 Nokia
🕹️ Nintendo y PlayStation
🏬 los videoclubs
📲 Netflix, Snapchat
🤖 y ahora la realidad virtual

Somos la generación que recuerda y razona.
Que respeta la tradición, pero no tiene miedo de cuestionarla.
Que piensa antes de creer y analiza antes de seguir.
Los de antes no preguntaban.
Los de después muchas veces no recuerdan de dónde viene todo.

Somos el puente entre la era industrial y la era del internet.
Entendemos ambos lados porque los vivimos, no porque nos los contaron.

Por eso esta generación debería estar moviendo el mundo.
Porque los de antes ya no ven lo que está pasando…
y los que vienen no siempre saben de dónde salió lo que hoy tienen.

Somos la generación que conecta el pasado con el futuro.
Y eso… no se aprende, se vive…

[Ian @Nativephilly]

This is why folks who say "rent= theft" just don't understand how much goes into maintenance. You think all rent is profit? I've got a job for you in my maintenance department.

[Larissa Phillips @larissaphillip]

This is probably the biggest thing I learned living on a farm. We are in a constant state of defending our boundaries from decay, rot, overgrowth, wild animals, and just general collapse.
And the town doesn’t do it for us. I think this has a profound political effect on the rural mindset.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Laura Dern dropped out of college because UCLA would not allow her to take a leave of absence to film "Blue Velvet."

She gave David Lynch's script to the head of the film department in order to convince him, but he fired back at her: “First of all, if you make this choice, you are no longer welcome at UCLA. You’ll be out. But secondly, having read this script, that you would give up your college education for this is insane.”

Dern says that "today, if you want to get a masters in film at that school, when you write a thesis there are three movies you are required to study. And you know what one of them is? Pisses me off."

[Ian @Nativephilly]

The folks who can afford to buy this type of home aren't worried about the maintenance costs.

[Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist @UrbanCourtyard]

Genuinely what is the appeal of high-maintenance homes like this anymore when Modern Family life means spending your weekends at kids sporting events and having a busy event calendar outside of the home?

[Liam McCullough🇺🇸 @LiamMcCullough2]

Daughter is 7 weeks old- she had life saving surgery day 1 of life. I spent 2 weeks standing over her bassinet in the NICU, crying in the middle of the night, asking God why this was happening to my daughter and begging for strength to persevere while working 7 days a week in the middle of the NFL season. Wife and I haven’t slept more than 4 hrs/night since Nov. Last night, while holding her at 2 am, she briefly stopped screaming and made eye contact with me and smiled for the first time. No amount of success/money/fame/worldly reward has even sniffed the amount of purpose and fulfillment that single moment brought me.

[Mike Cosper @MikeCosper]

I've been thinking about this a bit.

We have this "vulnerability" culture in which people go online every five minutes and complain about what's bothering them in life. And a post about the frustrations of parenthood, especially when kids are young — blowout diapers, public tantrums, etc. — is going to get more attention than a simple post with a photo of a child, or a video of a person reading to their child. (Read to your kids, btw.)

So what we get is this weird recency bias, kind of like negative polarization in politics, around parenting. And it's unfortunate.

The other element I think of CONSTANTLY is that we've convinced ourselves, because of one-click Amazon orders and Door Dash and so on and so forth, that life is supposed to be easy. But nothing worth doing is easy. Being an athlete is hard. Writing is hard. Learning to play an instrument is hard.

Parenting is hard too. And what Roan doesn't say — and I guarantee in every case except maybe one or two psychopaths — is that every parent who complains about parenting would tell you they don't regret having kids.

Parenting is hard. But then some nights (as happened this week) you get to turn on a favorite movie and your teenage kid lays on your shoulder and laughs at the same joke you laugh at and talks about the film's cinematography because it's one of your obsessions you've passed along and no drug on the earth could levitate you more.

[Ian @Nativephilly]

@mhp_guy Find a good broker who will do it for you

[Ian @Nativephilly]

@it_unprofession Relevant
https://t.co/AwDAy5EYrB

[Lomez @L0m3z]

Over 50% of American adults have sub 6th grade literacy. Roughly 28% are not literate at all.

It is important to remember this at all times.

[Ian @Nativephilly]

"Incompetence looks exactly like martyrdom if your vocabulary is technical enough."

Saucy yet so accurate in all walks of life. Incredible line from @it_unprofession