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posting about housing or something

[interpretation @materialcritic]

me

[joe 🌍🏗️ @josephgfrancis_]

lmao "I really don't want to sound like Marx. It's just, I'm looking at the data"

[Basil🧡 @LinkofSunshine]

Barcelona is literally the biggest crybaby city in the entire world when it comes to tourists

They have less tourists per capita than most major cities, it's a bunch of upper middle class kids who want to find a woke way to be xenophobes

[New Left EViews @NewLeftEViews]

I’m a bit saddened and perplexed by how little Japan features in the imagination of those who think seriously about political economy, development, public policy etc. It rarely features prominently in any English language discussions beyond carry trade/FX and public debt. Maybe rail, maybe energy. (Excluding the usual boosterism which is unserious.)

It seems to me that Tokyo is the most fascinating example of urban policy: in any meaningful sense still the largest city ever, twice destroyed completely during the last century, eternally threatened by seismic catastrophe and tsunamis, a model of efficiency for public transit, walkability, public service provision, pollution. No city ever prompts me to ask “How on earth did they do it?” more than Tokyo.

[Paul E Williams @PEWilliams_]

Zohran has made DSA bend the knee to an agenda that also centers zoning reform and housing supply. And that’s frankly the best future YIMBY should hope—helping zone for a more humane housing agenda that directs the market to meet social needs.

[Paul E Williams @PEWilliams_]

The mayor of New York City is YIMBY-posting on Reddit, and you’re blackpilling? Get it together, we are so back

[Paul E Williams @PEWilliams_]

There is no such thing as a project or program that everybody likes and benefits from equally—no matter what it is, someone or some group will *always* have a reasonable claim of harm.

Everything that society has ever built has weighed the greater good above those harms.

[zoe ☠︎︎ @chainsawmontana]

that dog day afternoon mention activated me like a sleeper agent

[PJ @PJ11819211]

This is actually badshit insane.

[maria @ilmutus]

honestly y'all need to watch more shinya tsukamoto. his films are so oppressive and sweaty. his characters are frantic, uncomfortable, sex machines. if you ever feel angry, really angry, just put on TETSUO or TOKYO FIST. it's pure catharsis, humanity as terror.

[Elle 🦇 @gothamcityelle]

he’s so real

[brometh @bromethazine]

Thinking about how, in Infinite Jest, the VHS tape that permanently fries your brain’s pleasure centers is described as depicting a beautiful woman, bent over the camera in the way one bends over a child’s crib, whispering repeated phrases

[shﾑn @preset_2m3]

Tweeting that I want to kill myself but not in a sad depression way but in a I understand that human sensibility and consciousness inherently is the cognitive implication of death, something the constructed machine will never be able to achieve

[Paul E Williams @PEWilliams_]

DFW was ahead of his time, we are now in the moment of need for a new sincerity

[Alex Armlovich @aarmlovi]

I did not expect the Twitter Left to serve up a conditional pre-endorsement of Niskanen's social housing work

America is so far below Faircloth limit that it's not actually a limit: ROAD to Housing can actually facilitate 235k new public housing units through Restore-Rebuild

[ched @chedaccount]

@justinvelarde6 thanks ched

[sick public transit, gloria @seungylee14]

for me, this news is nearly as impactful as Zohran

[sick public transit, gloria @seungylee14]

now that he has some free time, Thomas Pynchon should get into Chainsaw Man imo, just a gut feeling he'll like it