S. Ruprecht

Spent a decade growing plants for a living, now engineering the software, MNdiyBio, bikes are better than cars. 🚴

Plant a damn tree 🌳
#Stopline3

[S. Ruprecht @SteveRuprecht]

@queso_gatame @bobvocado @wideofthepost You want supply then meet people where they are instead of pretending the market is going to provide anything of value for people who aren't privileged enough to participate in it.

[S. Ruprecht @SteveRuprecht]

@queso_gatame @bobvocado @wideofthepost Sure, that's what they say they want but for some reason any time a community gets involved in a project democratically asking for affordability and supply over whatever market rate housing a developer has to offer YIMBYs come out of the woodwork to shit on them.

[S. Ruprecht @SteveRuprecht]

Twitter is getting so damn bad. All it does now is show me shit I get pissed about posted by people I don't even follow.

[S. Ruprecht @SteveRuprecht]

@DavidGriscom Fracked my own oil and built a refinery to keep the woke government out of my business.

[S. Ruprecht @SteveRuprecht]

@perdricof Not many people know that degrowth is mostly about chopping, stacking, and burning wood. This tweet is devastating for degrowth and they don't want people to read it.

[S. Ruprecht @SteveRuprecht]

@wideofthepost If we see our YIMBY vision of privately funded, abundant, affordable housing, five years from now that unhoused person will trade in their tent for a $1200/mo apt left behind by a guy who moved into a $1500/mo new unit across town. Basic supply and demand.

[S. Ruprecht @SteveRuprecht]

@wideofthepost Whatever, dude. Overheard an unhoused person at the bus stop the other day pleading, "Sure wish they'd rezone single family." They get it!

[S. Ruprecht @SteveRuprecht]

@bobvocado @wideofthepost This isn't about any specific type of food. If people can't afford food we don't buy well-off folks food hoping for the prices to drop. For some reason people can talk that way about housing right now and not come across as a Reaganite psycho.

[S. Ruprecht @SteveRuprecht]

@adamjohnsonNYC "Excuse me, waiter, what's the soup of the day?"

Turns, knocks over empty chair next to you, gets stuck, beeps until someone from in back moves the chair, apologetically answers your question and resets your waiter.

[S. Ruprecht @SteveRuprecht]

Hop on that cat bus from My Neighbor Totoro

[S. Ruprecht @SteveRuprecht]

Trees taking over the streets and we just roll with it is the type of urban planning I'd fight for.

[S. Ruprecht @SteveRuprecht]

15 vine swing city

[S. Ruprecht @SteveRuprecht]

@amityf Hi. If you need me I'll be at the bottom of a dog-pile for suggesting transit should be free.

[S. Ruprecht @SteveRuprecht]

@christianbrits Obviously the all powerful DSA did this and not the small group of rich turds who formed the astro turf group SOS, burned piles of cash suing the city and got this on the ballot in the first place.

[S. Ruprecht @SteveRuprecht]

@savesummitave @MetCouncil Using #thelorax to "save" the Once-lers' street. Nice.

[S. Ruprecht @SteveRuprecht]

@dbrauer All Energy installed ours. Went as planned, no hang ups. Don't know much about the competition but as others have pointed out the biggest ass pain of the process for any installer is Xcel.

[S. Ruprecht @SteveRuprecht]

@Econ_Marshall "this ain't it bad faith strawman" I say but also smash that heart button and retweet when liberaltarian think tanks post articles like "Having principled opinions about housing hurts the poor, makes you a bad progressive" or "Environmentalists are stupid and bad, actually"

[JT Haines, JD MPP @jt_haines]

The math making the most sense to me is the math that say the fastest way, possibly the only way, to 100% renewables involves an overall reduction in energy consumption — i.e. a wartime footing. Few, even in the climate space in MN, seem to address this. #IPCC

[S. Ruprecht @SteveRuprecht]

@nkulw "Let's keep building housing until housing prices go way down and rent affordable for everyone!!", said no landlord or developer ever.