Bashir Warsame

[Bashir Warsame @baswarsa]

@survivor_nyc Please tell me this is a bit.

[Bashir Warsame @baswarsa]

@envisionedluna Some say Bushwick looking like a declining Midwestern town is part of its rustic charm. (Again, no one says this.)

[D. Malcolm Carson @dmalcolmcarson]

I beg to differ. The highest purpose of public transit is placemaking. The reason why places in the Far East like Hong Kong have such great transit with ~90% mode shares is that they understand this at such a fundamental that their entire model of how they design, fund and build public transit is based around the value created by its role in placemaking.

They literally build the transit, then sell the land that has been made more value for development, and then use the proceeds to build more transit. We used to do it in the U.S. with streetcar suburbs, so this is not unknown to us, but we need to do it a lot more in order to have great transit in the U.S. But the overall point is that moving people is the secondary purpose, creating great places is the primary purpose of public transit.

[big_pedestrian @big_pedestrian]

Transit agencies have one purpose: Move people safely at scale. They are not:
- A jobs program.
- A chance to sell new tech, new fuel, American vehicles etc.
- Social services or housing
- A way to fund non-transit infrastructure
- A political project

One job: Move people.

[Bashir Warsame @baswarsa]

@SagatSuntorn @kunley_drukpa I like how you have to show these areas (East Baltimore & Brush Park, Detroit) in the ’70s and ’80s, respectively, to illustrate your point, even though now these areas are steadily gentrifying and nicer.

[Mark R. Brown, AICP, CNU @Car_Free_USA]

Wynwood, Miami. 2026.

[Maya Luna @envisionedluna]

Someone should make AIPAC tracker but for an issue that actually matters to people like supporting a public option for healthcare, nuclear energy or building new housing

[Lee Kuan Yimby @LeeKuanYimby]

Amazing that we choose to function this way, and we just accept a random person gets murdered on the subway here and there.

[Country Club Conservative @alt_ccc]

My personal favorite argument in favor of Flock camera hysteria is “supporters of the Patriot Act said the same thing”. Yeah, and? The Patriot Act ended up largely fine too.

[Wendigoon @Wendigoon8]

The Imagination Library sends a book to a kid every month from the time they’re born until they’re 5 years old. These messages are from the first and last books sent. It’s hard to overstate what Dolly Parton did to not only improve the lives and educations of so many kids, but the impact she had on southern Appalachia as a whole. The land once known for uneducated, backwards hillbillies would not be known as the forests of rolling wonder and communities built on kindness and folklore without her. My friend’s son was heartbroken today, thinking Dolly herself was sending his monthly books by hand, and she might as well have been. I’ve grown up, and my daughter will grow up, in a land made better because of her and there isn’t a way to say “thank you” enough for that. These mountains are something special, made by God, and worth remembering for every story in them and every story they inspire. Dolly never forgot that, and her legacy will be the same as the hills she came from.

[Bashir Warsame @baswarsa]

Rest easy, Dolly Parton.

[Rachel🇨🇦 @tolstoybb]

I think it's aristocratic to seek out trailer park hookers. Variety is the spice of life.

[Jakob Diepenbrock @jakobdiepen]

Hard to recreate this anywhere else...

Supply chain + hardware talent (both areas where LA outperforms everywhere else) = reindustrialization.

[Bashir Warsame @baswarsa]

@SocietyInsites @LindsayJS She's right.

[Bashir Warsame @baswarsa]

@skibidiblazor God bless his tenacity.

[Bashir Warsame @baswarsa]

Once, catching the ferry from Oakland to San Francisco, I had to sit through a man explaining how his crypto startup was going to change the world, how the NFT project he was invested in was the future. I wonder where he is now.

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

San Francisco is a beautifully insane place

[tobi lutke @tobi]

@cafedujord New deal: when you get your pension deal it’s locked in and guaranteed. But now you are a dependent and that means no voting, just like dependents under age. Enjoy the deal, let people with a stake in the future decide.

[tidux @skibidiblazor]

@baswarsa @atlanticesque Chris Moltisanti would be better.

"I gots the Asian Flushing Jeans, T."

"The fuck you do, you're darker than half the NBA."

"I swear, T, there's this Chinese tailor in Flushing, I always take my blue jeans there."

[savage beating ensues]

[lej @_lej44]

One of the most slept on/interesting housing projects in LA now, hearing Aug 27th.

-Actually nice looking elder care facility
-In a single family zone next to Taft High
-Has a public cafe/bakery component
-Requesting *14 waivers* of LA rules
-Dev sued city in 2020 to accept it

[Bashir Warsame @baswarsa]

@andrewho03 Don't worry, I welcome it.

[Bashir Warsame @baswarsa]

@andrewho03 This is very coastal elite-pilled.