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neil21 @neil21.bsky.social · Jun 26

A thread of AI videos showing Pacific Northwest (looking at you #newwest #vanpoli #bcpoli) streets rebuilt as linear parks, and individual lots built with 4-6 storey apartments: #sfh2ses

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 10h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Alisa @alisambc.bsky.social · 16h

I would rather carry all these foods from Dan's Diner, walking uphill #NewWest, than to cook 🧗‍♂️

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neil21 @neil21.bsky.social · 13h

“Can we imagine the journey from apartment to street as joyous and celebratory, filled with daylight, fresh air, and lush plants? Not a furtive flight but a languid promenade, with spaces for repose along the way?” Idenburg nyra.nyc/articles/can...

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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab @lanefab.com · 15h

#SingleStair

nyra.nyc/articles/can...

Cancel the Corridor

What’s the case against double loading a corridor?

nyra.nyc

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neil21 @neil21.bsky.social · 13h

My middle schooler decided it was cold enough this morning to don his toque de grenouille du Festival du Bois. #newwest

Proud parent of an Anti-Fascist I guess?

neil21 @neil21.bsky.social · 13h

Hey look it’s #newwest FD’s mobile 6-storey second egress! #sharedstair

Ad for the annual pumpkin smash, featuring a 100ft cherry picker bucket on ladder

AI image of four to six storey single lot buildings from which NWFD say they cannot save you.

neil21 @neil21.bsky.social · 13h

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Aerial photograph of surfers on Tiree, Scotland

neil21 @neil21.bsky.social · 14h

Incredible trailer, despite the jarring dissonance of tortured noble public servants against the current headline makers who’d likely just armaggedon us all for the lolz m.youtube.com/watch?v=_wpw...

A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE | Official Trailer | Netflix

YouTube video by Netflix

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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 15h

"When the dust settles, we’ll probably see a whole lot of books written about the fancy math games that convinced investors that two companies passing $100 billion back and forth were creating $200 billion in value instead of having a net financial impact of $0."

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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 15h

www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-ge...

Japan sees early flu activity, with school closures

Japan typically reports increased influenza activity at the end of November.

www.cidrap.umn.edu

neil21 @neil21.bsky.social · 15h

“New ideas must use old buildings.” Jane Jacobs.

Photographs of the British Union of Fascists building in black and white, and below in colour the same building as a pizza joint.

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Anna F. Walker @spyglassart.bsky.social · 16h

Oh it’s #portfolioday!

Hi there 👋

I’m an Edinburgh-based illustrator. I love nautical themes, birds and bookish things. I work in Procreate but love a textured analogue feel.

Here’s my website with more info and prints available for purchase spyglassillustration.com

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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab @lanefab.com · 16h

At a lunch talk to hear Sam Bowman talk housing.

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neil21 @neil21.bsky.social · 16h

Is there convincing evidence that this isn’t sorting? That healthy people who can walk gravitate to cities, and less mobile people choose to live in sprawl?

Bryn Davidson - Lanefab @lanefab.com · 16h

Health and obesity.

Walkable cities have much lower obesity rates.

NYC and Japan as examples vs rates in car dependent North America”

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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab @lanefab.com · 16h

“Gentrification is directly downstream from housing shortages”

I agree with this

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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab @lanefab.com · 16h

2. “Focused benefit” is better.
Go super local. Do citywide upzoning but allow individual blocks to opt out. A block can also vote to upzone themselves and capture the benefit for their block.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

Flooding seen with water up to the crash barriers of local roads

Sheds and debris lie scattered in the storm

A small blue house has been blown onto its roof

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Climate Watcher @pmagn.bsky.social · 1d

Dozens Rescued As Floods Swept Away Homes In Western Alaska

Rescue planes and helicopters were sent out to coastal villages in western Alaska on Sunday as floods swamped homes, trapping some residents.

weather.com/news/weather...

Dozens Rescued As Typhoon Remnants Slam Alaska Coast | Weather.com

Rescue planes and helicopters were sent out to coastal villages in western Alaska on Sunday as floods swamped homes, trapping some residents.

weather.com

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Greenpeace UK @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social · 22h

This week we've seen...

🇪🇸 Severe flooding in Spain
🇲🇽 64 killed & many more missing in torrential rain & floods in Mexico
🇺🇸 Homes swept away by floods & hurricane-force winds in Alaska

This is NOT normal.

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neil21 @neil21.bsky.social · 20h

#bubblewatch

Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 3d

Nice: "More Working-Class Americans Than Ever Are Investing in the Stock Market: For the first time, a majority of low earners have an investment account, and more than half of those new investors entered the markets in the past five years" www.wsj.com/personal-fin...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

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will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 2d

This visual story from the FT is so good (paywalled but if you work for a university check if you have institutional subscription!)

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Chart shows the mix of how electricity is generated in California. During the day it’s mostly solar, at night batteries take some of the slack. There is also wind and hydro and some energy imported and exported (from eg solar surplus)

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Interactive Journalism @interactives.bsky.social · 2d

New on FT : “How mega batteries are unlocking an energy revolution”

How mega batteries are unlocking an energy revolution

ig.ft.com

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 2d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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neil21 @neil21.bsky.social · 1d

Children playing in #newwest er I mean SF in the 40s by Fred Lyon

Photograph of two kids playing on a steep hill