Tom
@durhamster.bsky.social
YIMBY, Professional Transit Enjoyer, and Friend to All Cats
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I want to talk about a dystopian world we are entering - where every moment, event, and crisis just become commodities.
Life stops being something we live, but something we sell and trade. It will breed both corruption & emptiness.
1/ A 🧵on why our politics can't ignore this.
Life stops being something we live, but something we sell and trade. It will breed both corruption & emptiness.
1/ A 🧵on why our politics can't ignore this.
January 14, 2026 at 10:59 PM
I want to talk about a dystopian world we are entering - where every moment, event, and crisis just become commodities.
Life stops being something we live, but something we sell and trade. It will breed both corruption & emptiness.
1/ A 🧵on why our politics can't ignore this.
Life stops being something we live, but something we sell and trade. It will breed both corruption & emptiness.
1/ A 🧵on why our politics can't ignore this.
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Framing a violation of international law in the way of “4 easy steps to optimise your skincare routine” is a new level of ghoulishness.
I don’t even know what to say at this point.
I don’t even know what to say at this point.
January 13, 2026 at 11:20 AM
Framing a violation of international law in the way of “4 easy steps to optimise your skincare routine” is a new level of ghoulishness.
I don’t even know what to say at this point.
I don’t even know what to say at this point.
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People from Vienna in the suburbs of Kansas City next year for the World Cup:
December 7, 2025 at 7:05 PM
People from Vienna in the suburbs of Kansas City next year for the World Cup:
I was told to play Yakuza for the mini games. No one told me you can talk to masked individuals outside parking garages about economics.
December 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I was told to play Yakuza for the mini games. No one told me you can talk to masked individuals outside parking garages about economics.
Whelp, time for the finale of the most exciting world series since 2016!
November 2, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Whelp, time for the finale of the most exciting world series since 2016!
The pitch clock is the MVP of new rules added to American sports in the past decade.
9-inning MLB games lasting less than 2½ hours:
2005: 23%
2006: 20%
2007: 16%
2008: 16%
2009: 16%
2010: 17%
2011: 15%
2012: 10%
2013: 8%
2014: 6%
2015: 10%
2016: 6%
2017: 4%
2018: 7%
2019: 5%
2020: 3%
2021: 2%
2022: 4%
2023: 30% ⏰
2024: 39% ⏰
2025: 34% ⏰
2005: 23%
2006: 20%
2007: 16%
2008: 16%
2009: 16%
2010: 17%
2011: 15%
2012: 10%
2013: 8%
2014: 6%
2015: 10%
2016: 6%
2017: 4%
2018: 7%
2019: 5%
2020: 3%
2021: 2%
2022: 4%
2023: 30% ⏰
2024: 39% ⏰
2025: 34% ⏰
October 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The pitch clock is the MVP of new rules added to American sports in the past decade.
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A US-funded nutrition program was helping to keep this woman’s baby alive. Days after the program was cut, he died. https://cnn.it/4ndDYbl
A US-funded nutrition program was helping to keep this woman’s baby alive. Days after the program was cut, he died | CNN
Weeds cover the grave of Yagana Usman’s baby – a painful reminder of the months that have passed since she lost her infant twin to malnutrition. Her surviving twin’s fate now hinges in part on decisio...
cnn.it
September 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
A US-funded nutrition program was helping to keep this woman’s baby alive. Days after the program was cut, he died. https://cnn.it/4ndDYbl
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"Before January 2025 there had been no—zero, zilch—interest in killing off USAID. It wasn't something Trump ran on. It wasn't envisioned in Project 2025. It was only once Elon Musk decided that USAID was evil that destroying the agency became a policy goal for the Republican party."
The Boy Genius Who Killed 14 Million Poor People
What is the moral weight of responsibility for the men who carried out DOGE’s work?
www.thebulwark.com
August 1, 2025 at 2:36 AM
"Before January 2025 there had been no—zero, zilch—interest in killing off USAID. It wasn't something Trump ran on. It wasn't envisioned in Project 2025. It was only once Elon Musk decided that USAID was evil that destroying the agency became a policy goal for the Republican party."
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the United States should allow way, way more street food.
July 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
the United States should allow way, way more street food.
This game showed that PSG v Bayern Munich should have been the Champions league final.
July 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
This game showed that PSG v Bayern Munich should have been the Champions league final.
If we're just gonna speed run the early 2000's again can we at least bring back Nu Metal and the pre-social media internet?
June 22, 2025 at 3:43 AM
If we're just gonna speed run the early 2000's again can we at least bring back Nu Metal and the pre-social media internet?
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People seem to be under the impression that if you just bomb other people enough you can just get their government to implode with no further steps.
Which makes no sense when you consider Putin has been attempting that for 3 straight years in Ukraine.
Which makes no sense when you consider Putin has been attempting that for 3 straight years in Ukraine.
June 16, 2025 at 1:31 AM
People seem to be under the impression that if you just bomb other people enough you can just get their government to implode with no further steps.
Which makes no sense when you consider Putin has been attempting that for 3 straight years in Ukraine.
Which makes no sense when you consider Putin has been attempting that for 3 straight years in Ukraine.
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there is no greater indictment of American car culture than the school pick up line
we have built almost all of our country around the most dangerous and inefficient possible form of transportation
we have built almost all of our country around the most dangerous and inefficient possible form of transportation
May 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
there is no greater indictment of American car culture than the school pick up line
we have built almost all of our country around the most dangerous and inefficient possible form of transportation
we have built almost all of our country around the most dangerous and inefficient possible form of transportation
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May 23, 2025 at 12:52 PM
How can you not be existential about baseball?
Dodgers broadcast was discussing the science behind the perception of time between children and adults. After hearing the explanation, the color commentator pauses and asks, "Am I gonna feel any better?"
Andy Pages then smashes a dinger into space, thus ending the existential crisis on commentary.
Andy Pages then smashes a dinger into space, thus ending the existential crisis on commentary.
May 18, 2025 at 12:47 PM
How can you not be existential about baseball?
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"We need a cultural shift. We have to reimagine what good housing looks like — and recognize that compact, well-designed, community-oriented housing in walkable neighborhoods isn’t a compromise. It’s the goal."
@holz-bau.bsky.social closing Gensler interview quote
www.gensler.com/blog/unlocki...
@holz-bau.bsky.social closing Gensler interview quote
www.gensler.com/blog/unlocki...
Unlocking the Missing Middle: Why the U.S. Housing Model Needs a Redesign
Gensler is a global architecture, design, and planning firm with 57 offices and 6,000+ professionals across the Americas, Europe, Greater China, and APME.
www.gensler.com
May 8, 2025 at 8:44 PM
"We need a cultural shift. We have to reimagine what good housing looks like — and recognize that compact, well-designed, community-oriented housing in walkable neighborhoods isn’t a compromise. It’s the goal."
@holz-bau.bsky.social closing Gensler interview quote
www.gensler.com/blog/unlocki...
@holz-bau.bsky.social closing Gensler interview quote
www.gensler.com/blog/unlocki...
A game whose plot and world will forever live rent-free in my head and my heart. ❤️
Today marks 23 years of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind!
Celebrating you Nerevar. 🎉
Celebrating you Nerevar. 🎉
May 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM
A game whose plot and world will forever live rent-free in my head and my heart. ❤️
"this is central planning not even by a central planning committee"
MAGA Maoism in a nutshell.
MAGA Maoism in a nutshell.
The President said of the U.S. economy: "We are a department store, and we set the price. I meet with the companies, and then I set a fair price, what I consider to be a fair price, and they can pay it, or they don't have to pay it."
And then... I lost it.
And then... I lost it.
April 27, 2025 at 12:54 PM
"this is central planning not even by a central planning committee"
MAGA Maoism in a nutshell.
MAGA Maoism in a nutshell.
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Single family zoning has always been about excluding poorer people from wealthy neighborhoods.
April 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Single family zoning has always been about excluding poorer people from wealthy neighborhoods.
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The Evolution of the Republican Party in Two Adjacent Headlines (1990)
April 4, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The Evolution of the Republican Party in Two Adjacent Headlines (1990)
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Two streets next to each other in Norfolk, VA—one in a New Urbanist community that deviates from conventional street design, architecture, and zoning, and the other built in a style that can be found almost anywhere without restriction. Both streets have roughly equal home values.
(DPZ)
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March 18, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Two streets next to each other in Norfolk, VA—one in a New Urbanist community that deviates from conventional street design, architecture, and zoning, and the other built in a style that can be found almost anywhere without restriction. Both streets have roughly equal home values.
(DPZ)
(DPZ)
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"Economics is actually beautiful because it's the study of human cooperation... It's that cooperation that grows the pie bigger that is the most exciting part of economics, and it's also the part that's completely absent from the Trump agenda."
March 12, 2025 at 7:11 PM
"Economics is actually beautiful because it's the study of human cooperation... It's that cooperation that grows the pie bigger that is the most exciting part of economics, and it's also the part that's completely absent from the Trump agenda."
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>Italy
>conquest and empire
>conquest and empire
February 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
>Italy
>conquest and empire
>conquest and empire