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*unironically* Omaha should have an expansive automated metro, tram, and suburban rail network

America is such an extractivist wasteland lol

Omaha and Nuremberg have nearly identical municipal/urban/metropolitan populations, but that's about where the similarities end...

What exactly is the point of TOD zoning if there aren't very strict parking maximums? Why does (almost) every multifamily developer build ample structured parking if something is 'transit-oriented'? Why is this insanity legally mandated?

Restricting housing growth to neighborhoods along the blue line + total abdication of the state in the development of public housing = inevitable price pressures, displacement

It simply doesn't have to be this way. The whole damn city inside Route 4 should be upzoned to at least Neighborhood Center

White percentage-point population share change; 2010 → 2020 census data by census block in the Charlotte urban area; red is -pp, blue is +pp

Black percentage-point population share change; 2010 → 2020 census data by census block in the Charlotte urban area; red is -pp, blue is +pp

Asian percentage-point population share change; 2010 → 2020 census data by census block in the Charlotte urban area; red is -pp, blue is +pp

Hispanic percentage-point population share change; 2010 → 2020 census data by census block in the Charlotte urban area; red is -, blue is +

Percentage-point change in share of population by demographic in the Charlotte area

The blue line is highly correlated w/ pp change in Black population share (Charlotte rezoned most of the inner sections of the line for TOD)

Meanwhile gentrifiers seek walkability not weak transit access...

Marriage-for-EU-citizenship is shifting from a ‘want’ to a ‘need’ lol

Scenes from Fürth over the past two weeks :)

RB12 Mittelfrankenbahn through Laubendorf (Langenzenn) to Markt Erlbach 🌤️🛤️🌳

The climate impact of the average American is several times higher than that of the average German, all while the US maintains lower living standards

And Germany advances while the US stagnates

Something to remember in conversations around consumption, demographic trends, or resource/energy use

Carbon intensity of electricity generation; Sept '22 → Sept '25

🇩🇪 ⚡︎ 517 → 285 gCO₂eq / kWh (-44.9%)
🇺🇸 ⚡︎ 442 → 422 gCO₂eq / kWh (-4.5%)

Per capita emissions from power sector; Sept '22 → Sept '25

🇩🇪 ⚡︎ 239.5 kg CO₂eq → 126.2 kg CO₂eq (-47.3%)
🇺🇸 ⚡︎ 454.3 kg CO₂eq → 437.6 kg CO₂eq (-3.7%)

AUS govt is paying the consultant-industrial complex to use clankers that lie to tell the govt how to cut welfare

And this is a *Labor* govt… things are bleak to say the least

Feeling visceral anger at the state of things 😅

Deloitte issues refund for error-ridden Australian government report that used AI Big Four firm will repay final instalment after incorrect references and citations found in document

on.ft.com/42n2Oxm Deloitte issues refund for error-ridden Australian government report that used AI

The Australian govt commissioned Deloitte last year for an assurance review “to help assess problems with a welfare system for automatically penalising jobseekers”

It went as well as one could expect…

Legalize it
Encourage it
Build it
Everywhere
Now

And the electorate has a pro-Palestine plurality! Popularists take note (not holding my breath…)

City of Seattle Ballots Counted: 117,602 Turnout: 23.45% Joe Mallahan 5,333 4.63% Ry Armstrong 1,223 1.06% Isaiah Willoughby 526 0.46% Bruce Harrell 50,061 43.49% Clinton Bliss 1,419 1.23% Thaddeus Whelan 483 0.42% Joe Molloy 482 0.42% Katie Wilson 55,214 47.97% Write-in 369 0.32%

Katie Wilson's lead has grown substantially in Wednesday's ballot drop. She went from a ~1,300 vote lead over incumbent Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell to 5,000+ today. www.theurbanist.org/2025/08/05/k...

*Israel’s **genocide

Germany is barreling towards this 2029 map and SPD really does not give a shit lol

Rashida Tlaib for President 2028 (I am so incredibly serious)

My favorite gauge of normie lib thought: NYT’s comment section

…and the most-recommended comment on today’s headline story calls for sanctioning Israel. The intra-party chasm now spans at least BDS

Avant / Après Rue de Gravelle dans le 12ème arrondissement de Paris, en cours de métamorphose : la quarantaine de places de stationnement sera remplacée à terme par une vingtaine d'arbres.

cities in the global Charlotte belt

Goiânia, BR
Lusaka, ZM
Plžen, CZ
Nagpur, IN
Sendai, JP

electoral landscape: reshaped

o7

"The Palestinian people have a right to rebellion. An occupied nation has a right to rebel."

— Gustavo Petro, President of Colombia 🇨🇴

Shout out to the two "Zhoran Mamdani" votes back in 2021

Unreal Since its inception, the Internet has been a symbol of boundless innovation and free-flowing information limited only by our imagination. While the Internet may not have always lived up to these lofty...

Guess I need to repost this piece I wrote last fall about generative AI, fascism and the mirror for fascism it has always been. This timeline is only starting its descent into technological fascism
Sorry yall wish i had better news abojt how this goes unless we actually destroy these fascism engines

The ambient nazism is increasingly intolerable

Justizpalast Nürnberg is still standing, though imho it’s a better fit for Gaza-related trials

In the US specifically, the process will amount more to a second Reconstruction