@stateofthecity.bsky.social
Was @stateofthecity on Twitter. Veteran of a B-Grade, Film Noir genre of politics known as "local government." Current gig: second tour of duty in the Winnipeg Mayor's Office. Hometowns: Victoria, Winnipeg, Toronto. Working on 'Debt City' (see debt.city)
San Francisco, CA
10.03.2026 02:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Primary Maria: because neither your question, nor the neighbor, has anything to do with my point.
10.03.2026 02:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Clearly you haven't stopped yet
10.03.2026 02:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Why don't you stop
For one second
And think about the possibility that neither of those things has anything to do with what I'm talking about
What's killing our society from a hundred directions right now is exactly this kind of oblivious thinking, driven by people who can't imagine a consequence past what's on front of them. Read some Bastiat; just because an inconvenience is 'unseen,' doesn't mean it isn't there.
10.03.2026 02:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0![B.B. King - The Thrill Is Gone [Crossroads 2010] (Official Live Video)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:f233gewrunwymvpw6ymdxwrv/bafkreie4khpyqhv3w76zxwwomwipfhjrpdo2qsqwdehrramkuupobbkulm)
Not a bad choice to close the thread. Song of Our Times, etc.
youtu.be/SgXSomPE_FY?...
Hmmmmm
10.03.2026 01:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Have the Americans ended all trade with Spain yet? Has that hospital ship from Louisiana reached Greenland?
10.03.2026 01:49 — 👍 17 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0San Antonio, TX. Task forces / mayoral commissions / blue ribbon panels / advisory groups are one of the peak expressions of mayoring, especially in weak-mayor cities where it's one of the few tools a mayor has to conjure up policy options without asking Council for permission first.
10.03.2026 01:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oooh, I caught that. Often a mistake in politics to speak for someone else, especially a counterparty...
10.03.2026 01:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Metro Manila
10.03.2026 01:34 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Too much choking
Otherwise... creepily well done!
This is how I access Bluesky
10.03.2026 01:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"These days I speak in whispers"
youtu.be/P36YeOPBqIA?...
The man is so sad that he can't even sing it
youtu.be/5xj7gwFOvcM?...
Confession: sometimes, when I listen to 'New Grief,' I think about Old Grief, yes it's true, I'm 'shamed to say.
10.03.2026 00:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
My 'New Grief Blues' playlist still the mood over here
youtu.be/9Ri7TcukAJ8?...
Few things are as useful - and as ridiculous - in The Business than the unregulated ability to suddenly invent polling companies from thin air to conjure up scenarios and prospects (also from thin air)
10.03.2026 00:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Victoria, BC
09.03.2026 23:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The most important economic institution in Western Canada be hummin'
09.03.2026 23:42 — 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Vancouver, BC
09.03.2026 23:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Reform, in UK local govt
09.03.2026 21:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The District
09.03.2026 21:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I just want life to sound a little more like the harmonica lines in Eddie Hope's 'A Fool No More'. Is that too much to ask?
youtu.be/lSv1y3gYbeY?...
I think the key word here is "spent" - that $ is sunk capital costs. If they were just starting it in 2026 it would be one thing, but this has been underway for years and blowing it up now would be... a choice. Many would make it. But you're not saving $30m in 2026 $ blowing it up today.
09.03.2026 20:14 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0(Huh? They need Council approval for a short-term payroll loan?)
09.03.2026 19:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Blaine, Minnesota (pop 70k) in the northern suburbs of Minneapolis-St. Paul.
09.03.2026 19:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
London, UK. H/t @davehillonlondon.bsky.social
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Transit fare tech, in Leeds
09.03.2026 16:07 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Sometimes, even a pathological liar can mutter a truth.
09.03.2026 15:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0