The Timber Yimby 🔰🏗️🪵

in the Coco cinematic universe, do only Mexican dead people go to the Mexican skeleton afterlife or is everyone else in sort of a “no it’s fine, I just didn’t expect it to be Mexican” situation

I… don’t think anyone has ever claimed that? Yeah, obviously housing is cheap in Kalamazoo. The point is you shouldn’t have to live in Kalamazoo to afford housing. People should live in Kalamazoo because they like Kalamazoo and want to live there.

I didn’t say every person or even most people in second-tier cities live there because of price pressures. But if 10% of your city is living there against their will, that’s a problem.

I think you have the causality backward. Lots of people live in the Atlantic Cities and Worcester Massachusettses of the world *because* NYC and Boston aren’t affordable.

The goal of urban planning should not be a to maintain a bloated job market for urban planners.

idk maybe the medieval church was on to something with “only 1% of the population should learn to read and they should have to end their bloodline and wear a funny hat to do it.”

Incredibly funny that Ivy League universities have divinity schools.

Like hi, I’m a student at Princeton. Where I’m majoring in Bigfoot.

A legal standard of child abuse that does not include denying children vaccines is not a good standard.

There’s a phenomenon where people compare present-day life with the lifestyles of past ultra-elites (medieval nobles, colonial administrators, the jet-set of the 60s) rather than the normal people of the past. Is there a word for this?

These tickets cost $25,000 modern day. And it’s an ad.

New streetwear for anyone who commutes in NYC.

Decent list but I urge you to bump Mamdani down a few points. His approach to housing is “a smidge of upzoning, then price controls price controls price controls and price controls.” It would be a disaster for supply.

MAGA true believers live in a fully Trump-themed world. You drink your anti-woke coffee, drive to work in your cybertruck, browse Truth Social, go home to a beef tallow dinner, and fall asleep cuddling your trumpy bear.

There is no liberal equivalent of this. We mock it , but it evidently works.

Disqualifying.

In a race where most of the candidates have (on paper at least) decent housing priorities, it’s an easy call not to rank Lander.

High school: the worst crime you can commit is plagiarism

College: the worst crime you can commit is plagiarism

Law school: the worst crime you can commit is plagiarism

Day one as a lawyer: it’s borderline malpractice not to copy work in bulk from other lawyers

Charlie Brown’s hoes live in one of LA’s many high-quality affordable apartment buildings.

“Is it possible to believe something while also believing the opposite of that?”

Manhattanites against the Manhattanization of Manhattan.

“I get that a lot of people are excited about crypto, I just don’t see the applications beyond fraud, gambling, and crimes.”

“You don’t get it bro, there are a million uses! For example [describes fraud, gambling, and crimes].”

I agree, but I think this could be a less controversial step.

Would you support a law requiring any vehicle registered to a driver under 25 years of age in urban areas to have a speed governor device (limiting it to the speed limit + 10) installed?

may I have some nåsi gorēng

New York is a two-party city, but with typical Yankee frugality we only have one of them.

Thank you for your patience, your toaster is now gay.

woooooo I’m using my Jew powers to turn your toaster gay WOOOOooooOoooooOooo

The concept that Mizrahi Jews (1) aren’t authentically middle eastern or (2) popped into existence in 1948 with no preexisting millennia of history is racist and stupid. Thanks for sharing though!

“We’re all trying to find the guy who did this.”

Can’t help but notice the words “Israeli,” “Jewish,” and “antisemitism” don’t appear anywhere in this statement.

Gotta all-lives-matter your Nazi goons’ attacks, huh?

There was another antisemitic attack in @cmshahanahanif.bsky.social’s district and some of the antisemites seem very confused about where they want Jews to live.

It’s very revealing of Jersey’s entitlement to call it “greedy” for New York to raise a tax on New York and not hand out free money to its neighbors.

Alternatively, when can New Yorkers expect our checks from turnpike money?