Harry Hawkins

June 30, 2025: Judge Worrell voids Charlottesville’s zoning code after city’s attorneys failed to file a required document in time The city is evaluating next steps but can no longer use the new rules

charlottesville spent most of a decade revising its zoning code. it held endless community meetings and gave opponents ample opportunity to make their case. they lost. but a handful of rich homeowners sued and have gotten the new code overturned on a technicality.

seen some people complaining that this is a political stunt and lemme say if this was the kind of political stunt more politicians were doing on a regular basis we wouldn't be where we are today

dude is actually putting himself on the line here, fuck off with that shit

No problem, you too

I know there are Israelis who are against the genocide, we all know that so it's not worth 'well actually'ing about it unless they overthrow their government. Palestinians are reaping what they sow?? what??

sorry, but if you look at surveys of Israelis huge proportions support continuing and even expanding the war. policing language about them is a complete waste of time. about as helpful as yelling 'not all Germans' in the 30s

Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature | George Monbiot Economic inequality breeds resentment and a desire to get even. That’s what fuels support for even incompetent regimes, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

It's a straightforward relationship: high #inequality leads to the triumph of the far right. It will keep winning until governments deliberately seek to make societies more equal. I'm looking at you, Keir Starmer.
This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

sprawl is an unmitigated environmental, social, and economic disaster

it is no longer affordable (especially when you add in transportation and time)

sprawl is driving climate change. literally.

and it is a ponzi scheme - unable to fund maintenance and replacement costs

“There's no machine known that is more efficient than a human on a bicycle. Bowl of oatmeal, 30 miles - you can't come close to that."
- Bill Nye

If Hamas had killed 7 Israelis inside of Israel this week, it would be one of the biggest stories in the world, & all over the US media.

But Israel killed 7 HUNDRED Palestinians this week, including almost 200 children, & yet there's little outrage from our politicians or media.

Reeves scapegoating bats to cut red tape is absurd, says Packham Broadcaster and nature campaigner claims Labour’s attack on wildlife in push for economic growth is ‘PR disaster’

“It’s a PR disaster for Labour …People love wildlife much more than they like these numpties banging on about bats and newts.”
Well said @chrisgpackham.bsky.social 👏😀

Amazing things happening to language and meaning over at @theguardian.com

Tesla protest in Tucson AZ and all I can think is "holy shit, look at that fucking stroad!".

After 10 years of Labour membership, I finally cancelled a month ago and this week attended my first local @greenparty.org.uk meeting. I met good people fighting for the things that matter most.

Nearly half of those at the meeting were new members. Labour are losing support rapidly

this is unironically true. we have a few guys in the UK now making accessible, fun left-wing content with unapologetically masculine energy and they're hugely popular (they're not at all stupid but ygm). young men are so image-oriented and desperately need to feel represented

we just need stupider leftists. I'm dead serious. charismatic guys with the stamina to record 100 instagram reels a week in the front seat of their car saying stuff like "trump made summers too hot" and "the fries at wendy's taste better ever since they went woke"

Well caring deeply about politics turned out to be a mistake. Time to instead become emotionally invested in a field where I’ll never be let down: sports

As expected, public approval of congestion pricing in New York is following the same trajectory it followed in London, Stockholm and everywhere else it was tried. One would hope we could learn a lesson from such things!

Centrists bigots and right wingers have this all backward. YOU are the ones constantly bringing up trans issues. I would be happy to not think about this shit every day of my life unless I was talking to or reading something by one of my trans friends and thought of it in passing. SHUT THE FUCK UP

1. What explains the paralysis that seems to have overcome us, as we watch the most powerful nation of Earth spiralling towards fascist dictatorship? Well, a large part of it, I feel, is the surreal, astonishing uselessness of the Democratic Party. 🧵

they'll always collapse because it's always the same set of horrible blokes. Reform are ex-UKIP who are ex-BNP who are ex-National Front. not that we shouldn't take them seriously and organise to oppose, but they'll do a lot of that work themselves before the next election just by existing in public

A relative sent me 12 minutes of video footage of the family farm in varying weather around 1968-69. I didn't know this existed until today and it's so beautiful. I was born in '97 and only have fleeting memories of the farm, and sadly some of the relatives in the film. Here are some lovely stills.

Greens are the only genuine opposition at present. Lab, Con, Ref, LD are all the party of capital

man he's a perfect synthesis of patrick bateman and gob bluth, isn't he? so perfect that i don't have to say his name for you to know exactly who i'm talking about

if Elon Musk is so keen to remove all red tape and deregulate, why not look at the excessive parking requirements and single-family zoning restrictions in almost every American city? in a ‘free market’ shouldn’t people be free to build whatever kind of place they need?

report from two days on bluesky: mostly relieved to only see posts from accounts I’ve chosen to follow about stuff I care about. puts into perspective how algorithmic other platforms are now. this app feels better but trying to fix brain rot so will only visit sporadically. happy to be here ✌️

Charli XCX Does Line Of Coke With 11-Year-Old Make-A-Wish Fan MINNEAPOLIS—In a touching moment that left the terminally ill child excitedly rambling and beaming from ear to ear, witnesses confirmed Friday that Charli XCX had done a line of coke with 11-year-old ...

Charli XCX Does Line Of Coke With 11-Year-Old Make-A-Wish Fan

a map of land ownership in England and Wales might be the best piece of redistribution propaganda we could ask for

On the bright side, we are living in a time of incredible stain-fighting technology

haha exactly, and ‘unforced error’ is still ‘somewhat forced error because it was against someone also very good at tennis’

A tweet by Jason, longwall26, responding to a report that one in twelve men say they could win a point in a game of tennis against 23 time grand slam winner Serena Williams: Confident in my ability to properly tennis I take the court. I smile at my opponent. Serena does not return the gesture. She'd be prettier if she did I think. She serves. The ball passes cleanly through my skull killing me instantly.

Any excuse to share this, one of the greatest things ever put on the internet: