David Donaldson

[PmAmTraveller @pmamtraveller]

Chicken in trousers, 1783. Found in the common-place book of Richard Carr, a young student from Westmorland, England.

[David Donaldson @davidadonaldson]

@404paigenotfnd Cotopaxi bags are fun if you like colour

[ariel @donotdelay]

It will be impossible for my household to do Dry January so I'm inventing a new challenge called Power Broker January

[Christopher Snowdon @cjsnowdon]

Trump has done more to increase support for free trade than anyone since Adam Smith.

[Econo ad absurdam @econoadabsurdam]

Buildings too tall, no setbacks, overlooks neighbouring properties, insufficient parking

Planning application denied

[Basho Society @BashoSociety]

cherry blossoms
falling onto
the faces of sinners

Issa

[Jason Furman @jasonfurman]

Hard to argue with the WSJ editorial page.

[Ana Ley @La__Ley]

One week after congestion pricing's debut in New York City, bus riders are experiencing faster rides and drivers are sitting in less gridlock at bridges and tunnels. The latest on New York's traffic experiment, with @WinnHu and @collinskeith https://t.co/ZL6XlcpKyb

[Nick Tyrone @NicholasTyrone]

A pretty damning first five years of Brexit, quantified here rather neatly.

[David Donaldson @davidadonaldson]

@SacamanoSays @Noahpinion Incarceration rate is less than one-third the US' and the murder rate is one-seventh, in case you were wondering

[David Donaldson @davidadonaldson]

@Snake1633691791 @Noahpinion What about Canada

[David Donaldson @davidadonaldson]

@Noahpinion The United States' incarceration rate is 16 times Japan's. Not sure what about this suggests going even harder is the answer

[Ambassador Jonatan Vseviov @vseviov]

Dictatorships appear stable.

Until they don’t.

[Asanka Epa @asa_epa]

Average number of cars per household in inner Melbourne;

This seems to be dependent on proximity to the city and train/tram lines (overlaid) as well as wealth.

[Kurt Andersen @KBAndersen]

If the Trump policy for punishing drug dealers—“everyone who sells drugs, gets caught selling drugs, [is] to receive the death penalty”—had been in effect in the 1970s, we might now have a different @HHSGov secretary-designate. https://t.co/QZLyEpRt5v

[Ahmed Al Omran @ahmed]

The incumbents in every single one of 10 major countries that held national elections in 2024 were given a kicking by voters. This is the first time this has ever happened in almost 120 years of records

[BasedSpaceGoji @Based_SpaceGoji]

Whenever life gets you down, just remember.

[Sydney YIMBY @SydneyYIMBY]

Terrific article from @ChrisEconomist emphasising that we need to let our cities change.

Sydney was not perfected in 1908, and the rules locking so much of our city in amber have almost zero evidence or scrutiny behind them.

The least we can do is measure their enormous costs.