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A street-level rendering shows mid-rise brick apartment buildings with large windows and balconies on both sides of a tree-lined street. Several cars drive along the road while pedestrians walk dogs and stroll on wide sidewalks bordered by planters and greenery.

It will have taken 10 years for the 100% affordable, 167-unit Phipps Houses project in Sunnyside to go from concept to keys in the door (opening 2026). It replaces a parking lot next to the train tracks. If NYC's Props 2–4 pass, it could’ve been done in a few years.

In related news the city of Vancouver won't allow neighbourhoods to create safe streets on Halloween

vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/10/30/v...

[REPOST] Why Halloween is So Good Here And What That Tells Us About Land Use

"If our older neighborhoods were forced to adopt our town’s current zoning restrictions, then trick-or-treating wouldn’t happen here." @stronghaven.bsky.social

once again posting The Chart

D.C. residents outraged after housing-retail plan flips to industrial The proposed shift has touched a nerve in a majority-Black swath of the city that has long hosted a disproportionate amount of the city’s industrial activity.

www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

This is why the State should just make legislative changes directly instead of relying on the good faith of local officials. Broad top-down changes like AB2097 (abolishing minimum parking) and the ADU reforms aren't controversial anymore - but the local-led RHNA-mandated rezoning has been a mess.

WE HEARD YOU!

After some serious brainstorming, we will be launching an initiative that addresses these problems by looping in support from Blue districts to help build out activist hubs in target red districts.

So, go follow @standupforscience.bsky.social and stay tuned!

But herein lies the problem: there's a whole hell of a lot of distance along the spectrum between "good for us" & literally "the end of civilization." Even if we can rule out both of those extreme outcomes, there are plenty of terrible things that can happen in between. [6/n]

For this reason, the Gates memo presupposes a false dichotomy regarding climate outcomes: The choice we are faced with is not between "good for us" & "the end of the world," but instead how much harm we are willing to tolerate, and endure, in the years to come. [8/n]

Here's the thing: 2.5-3C of global warming is actually still really bad news. Is it better than 3-5C of warming? Undoubtedly. But I don't think many folks, apparently including Gates & advisors, appreciate just how radically transformed a 2.5-3C warmer world would be. [10/n]

To me, the statement regarding "pausing" outdoor work during daytime, once it becomes too hot, seems bewilderingly out of touch. I'm 100% behind efforts to provide air conditioning to those who need it, but this ignores basic realities (including human physiology). [14/n]

I do not think "Is it beyond the pale to have a tattoo that is the symbol of the Nazi units which ran the death camps" should be a debate.
Making it a debate is being a Nazi apologist.
Please stop.

He smiled every day at a tattooed symbol of pushing men, women, kids, infants into gas chambers.
Seeing you 😍 a man who had himself labeled for 10+ years like the SS troops that ran the death camps cause he has charisma, his speeches leave people fired up & angry, and he is so manly is horrific.

Not to brag, but I’m a two time Test of Time winner now. Ok I’m bragging.

Originally posted by me in 2015: www.eclectablog.com/2015/12/why-...

The comfort people felt was an incredible affront, and luxury people bathed in public.

By @thefarce.org

I do think there's a shift here. Attitudes towards older teenagers are now much more "this is just a child" when it used to be more "you are almost an adult".

I wanted to offer some thoughts on the Gates climate memo that has been circulating this week. While I can't directly speak for others, I can say that my own response is one of dismay & deep frustration (and that this view is shared by many climate/Earth scientists). [1/n]

Person, woman, man, Epstein, files, now.

There are literally 8 candidates.

Defending Platner’s tattoo and dismissing his Reddit posts as insignificant is a kind of identity politics for privileged douchebags who believe that casual expressions of bigotry should not prevent a butch white man from getting the position of power, prestige, and authority that he is entitled to.

It’s a different model of strength and it is definitely needed. I also think with Platner we cannot ignore the very wealthy burning cash to achieve a vision for society that reminds them of their youth.

pretty clear a lot of dem pundits love Platner because they’re desperately insecure about their own masculinity, no? every time they vote for a woman or some nerd they die a little inside. they want senator muscles so they can feel okay about themselves again

AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.

There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.

Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8

The problem here is that people see this and think "oh so getting drunk and shirtless means you're a bad person now? so you think I'm a bad person?" And like it's okay to just say you should not be a senator. Most of us should not be senators! Most of us would be pretty bad at it!

Trump Fired
The commission, which was established by Congress more than a century ago and includes architects and urban planners, is charged with providing advice to the president, Congress and local gov officials on design matters related to construction projects in the capital region for approval.

F.C.C. Changes Course on the Price of Prisoners’ Phone Calls

It literally took decades of advocacy to pass these reforms, which would have prevented prison phone and teleconferencing companies from ripping off inmates and their families to the tune of hundreds of millions annually

Gina from Brooklyn 99 saying "how was I supposed to know there'd be consequences for my actions"

Graham Platner when he has a tattoo that he knows he isn't supposed to have

Depressing how CA measures to the rest of the US on housing, childcare costs, and more.

Most concerning - the share of Californians who lack the resources needed to fully participate in the economy is 58.1%, nearly the highest in the nation.

We can solve so much of this by building more housing