Kristen Vala

Design cities for people instead of cars.

Pro-YIMBY, Shoupista.

Laptops over phones.
Buttons over touchscreens.
Text over videos.
Down with QR Codes.

[The Girl with the Garfield Tattoo @shelbyboring]

Ever since I was a little girl I always knew I wanted to play the role of Wife Who Aggressively Lotions Her Body While Having A Conversation With Her Husband At Bedtime

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Fun fact: The underlying purpose of Al is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.

[dirk lauwers @Dirk_Lauwers]

De stad ongeremd inrichten voor de auto dat was de vorige eeuw. Ruimte heroveren voor wat natuur in de stad en voor mensen, dat is nu de opgave. Voorbeelden uit London en Parijs.

[Boston Smalls @smalls2672]

Kinda wild how much graham platner is being discussed by everyone. Every news station. Every media piece and now Ken paxton is not being discussed anywhere.

[AMWakeUp @AMwakeup]

Bezos's stepfather was a multi-millionaire. So was his father. His grandfather was the first director at DARPA. He had every single institutional & familial advantage & was making a ton on Wall St when Amazon launched. This re-write is just pathetic

[Seth Harp @sethharpesq]

Make no mistake: The US government will socialize the immense costs of subprime AI. They will force us all to eat the losses, while the perpetrators of the biggest fraud in history abscond to private islands. Be ready, because a deliberate rug-pull is the plan.

[Ren (Hater Era) @Elegant_Prose]

We talk a lot about how therapy speak has been coopted by manipulators, but not enough about how social justice language gets used by people "advocating" for shit that isn't an actual injustice.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Stop asking me to download your app. Let me go to your website. Why is everything an app??? I cannot have an app for every store, airline, or restaurant.

[Pablo Rios @waywardisopod]

There are people who use self-checkout with a buggie full of groceries. The rest of us with 2 or 3 items just have to wait for these people to finish self-check, and they're always so slow, don't bag after scanning, and will stand in front of the self-checkout machine once the transaction is completed to finish bagging. Self-absorbed, lack of situational awareness, just don't give a fuck, and insane masochistic behavior all rolled into one.

[Andy Boenau @Boenau]

"The bike lane is empty."

[Coby @Cobylefko]

Scenes from Brooklyn Heights, the most beautiful neighborhood in America

[SignalToNoiseRatio @clearSNR]

HOW TO LOWER THE COST OF AUTO INSURANCE:

Every cop car should have a license plate scanning camera on it. These should be used to pull over:

1) Fake license plates
2) Obscured or unreadable license plate
3) Anyone whose insurance has lapsed (nationwide database)

I don't care about the Nanny State complaints. There is no constitutional right to own an automobile. If you want to move secretly...get a bicycle.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

You have to read this. 

Trump demolished the East Wing of the White House and replaced it with a private ballroom funded by corporate donors. Now we know what they got for it. 

More than half of the publicly identified donors to that $400 million project won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion in the 6 months after they gave. Most of those same companies also had federal enforcement actions against them suspended by the Trump Administration during the same period. 

There is no honest word for that other than corruption. 
https://t.co/r40hZyargd

[Kristen Vala @KrisVal]

@globukkks @hanriclontz is there some sort of official definition/criteria for being average that women are supposed to be consulting before we follow our desires?

[Andy Boenau @Boenau]

Corporate media outlets insist on framing protected bike lanes as a gray area with some support and some opposition.

Just a minimal amount of curiosity would lead to headlines like "cold-hearted residents insist their convenience is worth sacrificing lives"

[Kristen Vala @KrisVal]

@moorehn Whatever personal definition anyone has about what makes a "real" New Yorker will never stop people from moving to/staying in NYC. What will this discourse even accomplish? Sufficiently shame people into changing their minds about moving? Convince transplants to move out??

[Kristen Vala @KrisVal]

@river_is_nice Like any other experience, it depends on the person. An intelligent, observant person can find ways to learn new things, have new insights, from anything. Only vapid, incurious people see nothing to learn.

[Jeremy Wilcox @jwilcox79]

This is one of my favorite statistics about the New York City subway.

[Jordan Crucchiola @JorCru]

Not for nothing, THE AMERICANS also had the absolute best promo art for every season

[Kristen Vala @KrisVal]

@NBACouchside Love him but he also has a stutter thing he does in everything that I can't stop noticing that feels like his crutch to hide his real accent the similar way male Brits make their voice go raspy/gravelly to hide theirs.