In other news, I paid of my student loans so that's cool

Been relearning how to draw after years of avoiding it. Here's a tree

Today's affordable housing is the market rate housing that was built 20+ years ago etc. To make affordable housing now and in the future, we need to build housing period. That includes the kind of housing that's pissing you off. Most of Austin's housing that is driving rents down is this type

Fix the supply issue and companies like Blackrock have much less reason to buy and hold housing. Cities like Austin have been building and showing by example that building housing, even market rate housing, brings rents down for everyone.

Vienna is the classic example from the left of social housing done right and they deserve praise. The problem with that though is they actually built dense housing compared to cities like in the USA. Single family homes are the true luxury housing

This

I made bread the other day

I just want apartments and trains

Looking up tech support answers online

In the wake of this last election I'm clinging on to basically just this since even with 2 new progressives in city hall in LA, I have 0 hope for Karen Bass or any of the city councilors to push for meaningful change even though the Olympics are right around the corner and we have plans like this

I've been on and off studying Japanese for years and the trip earlier this year was the push I needed to stay some what consistent with it. Obviously there's some pretty massive gaps in here but I've at least studied something for half of all the days this calendar year so that's pretty cool

❤️ UI + Sound Design ❤️

Some days I think to myself, I should just try going only bike and transit for a month or two and see how it goes then I look up transit access for my commute and see this

I know we desperately need to break from the 2 party system but this is heartbreaking to see. The Democratic party candidate was an environmental attorney who ran on climate and green party voters are looking like they are throwing it to R in a state that's currently running out of water

Weird crescent moon shadows from the partial eclipse today

I did a talk in the Netherlands about Jedi Survivor. It was amazing. Didn't get a good shot of the crowd but everyone was so lovely. Here's a shot about 20 minutes before we started

Doing star wars things

I'm in danger

Seattle took street space from cars to make a pickle ball court. So rad