Laura

Newbury is PACKED today and what are we doing Boston, why isn’t the street closed every weekend March to November

we gotta dream of climate leaders who actually get things like infill housing done

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But also we’re terrified of the subway

to be clear, this is both bad and stupid, but the way my brain is coping with These Times is by wanting to make jokes about the danger of architecture tours

(i did that exact tour, the one in the background of photo four there, when i was there in july and it was fantastic)

In my observations, it’s some combination of
- don’t want to leave the familiar neighborhood
- emotional cost of admiring you’re old now
- emotional and logistical cost of the literal work to pare down one’s stuff

Change is hard! Cap gains taxes pale in comparison

Do you think the reason people don’t downsize is because they don’t want to pay taxes

In the US, everything that *makes cities work* costs 2-5x what it costs in Europe and Asia.

This includes, but is not limited to:
-Elevators
-Buses
-Subways

Why US Cities Pay Too Much for Transit Buses A new paper argues that lack of competition, demand for custom features and “Buy America” rules have driven up costs for transit agencies in the US.

In the US, even a “cheap” transit bus costs 2-3x more than in Asia or Europe -- and one agency may pay twice as much as another for nearly identical vehicles.

In Bloomberg, I explored a ripe opportunity to improve transportation by applying Abundance-coded, supply-side reforms.

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oh boy

It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers First published on October 9, 2009, this classic by Colin Nissan is our most-read article of all time. We’re celebrating the 16th anniversary of th...

IT IS TIME.

It's particularly the case among the Americans who are paid to decide which news is important, and who despite everything still can't bring themselves to accurately describe the fact that the president is serially murdering people and our systems are unable to stop him

They're racists & they're fascists but above all they are the pettiest two-bit criminals you've ever seen

I don’t know, pickleball can get real heated

....if this post is slightly incoherent, it's because my body is still convinced it's 2am

my work business trips are testing my ability to make super short connections, and if this keeps up, i'm going to have to start doing sprints to prepare

(50 mins at AMS in May, 40 mins at ZHR yesterday, and yes I made both of them)

I would love if good architecture or one more meeting could satisfy NIMBYs and get them on board with new housing.

Unfortunately, addressing their stated objections is almost always a waste of time because they are fundamentally opposed to any physical neighborhood change.

Block of Harvard Square will be permanently closed to traffic, European-style - The Boston Globe Multiple restaurants will have back patio spaces on Lower Bow Street beginning in the spring.

Cambridge is beating us again www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/18/m...

Oh wow

Photo: Large bronze and stone sculpture of a Black woman holding a large open birdcage in her lap; one freed bird stands on top of the cage, while two others stand on the statue's pedestal near her feet. The ornate facade of the Omni Parker House Hotel in visible in the background.

New sculpture on the Freedom Trail by Harmonia Rosales commemorates 219 known people who, we now know, were enslaved by members and ministers of King's Chapel (founded 1686). Dedicated today on the corner of Tremont & School Streets. @universalhub.com

TL;DR all the wine moms here in Massachusetts spent the last six months going to protests and reading weird zines and are now ready to lie down in front of fucking tanks.

A lot of Minnesota has been thinking about this.

tends to demostrate that in a lot of places construction is a corrupt cartel that benefits from irrational and complex building rules, keeps down competition and hence boosts profits

When is a tent too big? Regarding Abundance Conference 2025

I wrote up my thoughts about Abundance Conference publiccomment.blog/p/when-is-a-...

Because housing issues in America are mainly issues of technocratic fixes, theres a tendency to extract that resolution onto most issues. The reality is people were mad about immigration because social media propaganda fed them lies blaming homelessness and high cost on asylum seekers.

Confederate battle flag of the 28th Virginia.

They honored the last order their own fallen colonel had received after all. They advanced and took enemy colors. The flag they captured is still on display in the Minnesota State House. Sometimes, Virginia asks for it back. Minnesota says: never. It was bought with blood.

Yeah I just clicked ‘yes I qualify’ on the web form and the only questions the pharmacist asked me were about if I had allergies and so on

Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.

it's the housing costs, it's always the housing costs

Why on earth is anyone here *complaining* about an organization paying liberal influencers.

Do we just hate winning or something?