Ryan Thomas Devlin

prof of city & regional planning, Temple University
informality + street vending
Born Santiago, Chile - raised in DC - in love with in NYC

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@MarkZuckerman Coldest winter I ever spent was summer in San Francisco 🌉

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This is what happens when everyone around you is too afraid to say, “Sir, that’s fucking stupid”

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@VivekGRamaswamy @NYCMayor 🤣

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@JHWeissmann @katie_honan I commute to Philadelphia for work. For what I pay in rent for 1br in Manhattan I could have a mansion in Philly. Philadelphia is nice. I like Philly. I could be content in Philly. But I'm only truly happy in New York. I have an irrational attachment to place. Economists hate me.

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@katie_honan @JHWeissmann Yes, exactly. You have a whole row house. But you're in...Baltimore. People who don't love New York will never understand the famous Updike quote: "The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding."

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I'm livid and distraught about @washingtonpost layoffs today. Sports was daily reading for me as a kid. I've been a subscriber in some form or another since I was 18. It's like the death in the family. And Bezos pulled the trigger.

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@dcsportsbog We need the BOG more than ever!

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@FB_Helmet_Guy @ChengLor_1990 1986

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@johndavittontv Why does it freeze in those disk shapes?

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@NeilNRockville @dougkammerer @kevinsheehanDC I admit I’m being a pain in the ass, but her family has been in Brazil for six generations, since the early 1800s. 🫥

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@NickiJhabvala I grew up in DC now live in NYC. The only reason I pay for online Post subscription is to keep up with my hometown sports teams. I plan to drop my subscription if Post drops Sports. I wonder how many people there are out there like me?

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@dcsportsbog @PostSports I grew up reading Wilbon, Kornheiser and Boswell. I'm convinced reading the sports page every day as a kid helped me learn to read. I loved your DC Sports Bog. I'm so upset about this news. Just know you all made a lot of people's lives a little better and more interesting.

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@grantpaulsen I suspect that most people who don't like bad weather games are gamblers who desire reduced variability so they can indulge in their compulsion. A compulsion that is ruining sports for all of us.

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@edfischman @spencernusbaum_ @barrysvrluga fair enough.

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@MarkZuckerman @JonHeyman It’s hard to care about this team anymore. Every time they develop a halfway decent player, they trade him. How long before we trade all these prospects for new prospects.

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@NickKristof Iraqis would question your use of the adjective “new”

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@grantpaulsen Football is an outdoor sport. Full stop. Anything else is blasphemy.

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@grantpaulsen Charlie Kelly core