Jason Roberts

Take equal parts outage, cute animals, and puns, mix for 3 minutes and spread evenly over the course of the day. Opinions my own, not my employer's.

[Jason, @jasonc_nc]

The width of this two way street, which has functioned perfectly well since 1908, is now considered too narrow to act as ~solely~ a one way fire lane for access to even a single building by today’s NFPA code. “For safety”

In reality this illegal street design is safer for everyone involved and means fewer accidents for fire department to respond to, and less severe injuries when they do.

To build this neighborhood today you would be told to remove the trees as an “obstacle”, replacing that space with more asphalt instead. More people would be injured or killed, but in the much rarer case of a fire the convenience of added working space is considered more important.

[Basil🧡 @LinkofSunshine]

NYC units built per day: 137
SF units built this year: 377

[Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma]

San Francisco, a city of 412,000 housing units, has completed 377 of them so far this year---but a leading candidate for Congress, Connie Chan, thinks that is too many

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

Insane story from NYC:

[Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma]

at long last, our nation's enemies have stolen the most dangerous technology in America's arsenal: the California Environmental Quality Act

[Basil🧡 @LinkofSunshine]

What's the most dangerous job in America?

You might think it's being in the army, or a police officer, or a construction worker

But one job has double the amount of people getting disability checks. 75% of LIRR employees are receiving disability checks from the NY Gov.

[sam @sam_d_1995]

oh my god, this is unbelievable: the striking LIRR worker complaining that Hochul “has money for everything except our salaries” LITERALLY MADE MORE MONEY THAN HOCHUL DID LAST YEAR

[𝕂𝚊𝚛𝚖𝚊 ❀ ���𝚊𝚛𝚍𝚎𝚗𝚎𝚛 @karma_gardener]

@jollier_raptor growing just almonds alone, no other agriculture, uses like 90x all datacenter water

[nim @nim_chimpsky_]

California environmentalists when you tell them you have to let people build things to achieve their decarbonization goals

[Ramez Naam @ramez]

Everyone who cares about climate should understand this. Texas, with no pro-climate policies, has blown passed California in clean energy. In large part because Texas has less red tape and makes it easier to build.

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

This is literally the funniest moment in the history of American foreign policy.

[Jack @tracewoodgrains]

being a California politician means opposing safer, more convenient, and more economical options for everything because if you show a hint of enthusiasm for anything exciting all your friendly neighborhood rent-seekers will revolt

[Arpit Gupta @arpitrage]

Would be helpful to redirect data center moral panic to reduce cropland devoted to ethanol

[Andy Masley @AndyMasley]

This was fun to write

[Jason Roberts @ionpro]

You can do a whole lot with buses. This is Dublin, mid-day, on a holiday, at one end of one of their bus spines. And Euro buses are really just night-and-day better than American buses too.

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

How is Zelenskyy still alive despite having zero ballrooms?

[Chris Freiman @cafreiman]

“We need elevator operators on elevators.”

[Aaron Bergman 🔍 @AaronBergman18]

Imagine being a well-off lobbyist and thinking “yes I would like to use my time here on earth to nudge up the probability that pigs live entirely in small cages so that pork can be very slightly more profitable”

I guess maybe they don’t see it in those terms?

[Emily Zanotti 🦝 @emzanotti]

How is it that every time I see a new photo of the Oval Office it has more gold stuff lol it’s almost like a sight gag

[Acyn @Acyn]

King Charles: I cannot help noticing the readjustments to the East Wing. I'm sorry to say that we British of course made our own small attempt at real estate redevelopment of the White House in 1814.