Rudbeckia
@rudbeckia.bsky.social
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"culture eats strategy for breakfast", when your culture is "belligerent stupidity"
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
"culture eats strategy for breakfast", when your culture is "belligerent stupidity"
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Kind of funny to think how many local governance issues could be fixed if more employees responded to [request for dysfunctional rule sidestepping] with "no"
November 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Kind of funny to think how many local governance issues could be fixed if more employees responded to [request for dysfunctional rule sidestepping] with "no"
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In a system that relies on variances, special permits, aldermanic privilege, and other discretionary approvals, development actually does happen. So the outside world sees cranes and construction crews out in the neighborhoods, and complaints about the system from savvy advocates ring hollow.
November 26, 2025 at 3:23 AM
In a system that relies on variances, special permits, aldermanic privilege, and other discretionary approvals, development actually does happen. So the outside world sees cranes and construction crews out in the neighborhoods, and complaints about the system from savvy advocates ring hollow.
it also deprives legislators of this feedback! I would explain the law to applicants and then send them to their councilmembers to ask for a change in the zoning law & got so many emails and calls from CMs ranging from confused to hostile.
This is a very good essay by a zoning attorney in Baltimore. I’m especially glad that it highlights a little remarked-upon dynamic in our discretionary, exception-based land use permitting system: it deprives voters of the feedback necessary to adequately judge the effectiveness of regulations.
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
it also deprives legislators of this feedback! I would explain the law to applicants and then send them to their councilmembers to ask for a change in the zoning law & got so many emails and calls from CMs ranging from confused to hostile.
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i’m not sure how but this is real antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/10...
November 26, 2025 at 3:18 AM
i’m not sure how but this is real antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/10...
put it on my gravestone
a poster’s poster
November 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
put it on my gravestone
when you write an interesting comment I’ll respond to it xox
November 25, 2025 at 11:21 PM
when you write an interesting comment I’ll respond to it xox
and it's sick
I travel to Boston several times per year, and it remains the only city I’ve visited where people walk around in articles of clothing with the name of the city they’re currently in. Not a college, not a sports team. Just the concept of Boston.
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
and it's sick
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Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/
November 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/
happy 2 help www.reddit.com/r/baltimore/...
November 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
happy 2 help www.reddit.com/r/baltimore/...
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_He's_ gone through an experience?
November 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
_He's_ gone through an experience?
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Don’t know why but this very sad clip reminds me of that scene from “40 Year Old Virgin” where homie says a breast feels like a bag of sand.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Don’t know why but this very sad clip reminds me of that scene from “40 Year Old Virgin” where homie says a breast feels like a bag of sand.
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the idea of a neighborhood character is every bit as reactionary as the idea of a national character, and is motivated by the same thing: "I deserve to be here and others don't"
Great piece on how density restrictions in zoning are essentially BS.
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
the idea of a neighborhood character is every bit as reactionary as the idea of a national character, and is motivated by the same thing: "I deserve to be here and others don't"
ya girl is going viral on yimby bsky
November 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
ya girl is going viral on yimby bsky
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nothing will radicalize you against zoning quite like engaging with zoning
November 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
nothing will radicalize you against zoning quite like engaging with zoning
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it's wild to me when people deny the racist history of zoning and restrictive covenants. Zoning and covenants were originally EXPLICITLY RACIST and then they were amended to be implicitly racist. Just because something is not visible to the naked eye does not mean it doesn't exist.
November 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
it's wild to me when people deny the racist history of zoning and restrictive covenants. Zoning and covenants were originally EXPLICITLY RACIST and then they were amended to be implicitly racist. Just because something is not visible to the naked eye does not mean it doesn't exist.
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spouse: what are you doing?
me, typing furiously: writing an op ed
spouse: 😑 I thought you were tired of people being mad at you
me, typing furiously: writing an op ed
spouse: 😑 I thought you were tired of people being mad at you
November 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM
spouse: what are you doing?
me, typing furiously: writing an op ed
spouse: 😑 I thought you were tired of people being mad at you
me, typing furiously: writing an op ed
spouse: 😑 I thought you were tired of people being mad at you
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Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
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It’s really uncomfortable to change your mind especially if it means accepting that you’ve been part of something that you thought was helpful that was actually harmful. But it won’t kill you! It’s ok. :)
November 24, 2025 at 12:48 PM
It’s really uncomfortable to change your mind especially if it means accepting that you’ve been part of something that you thought was helpful that was actually harmful. But it won’t kill you! It’s ok. :)
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Great piece from former Community Law Center attorney and BMZA executive director Becky Witt in support of allowing more housing options by ending exclusionary single-family zoning.
"Why I lost faith in zoning." tinyurl.com/5n8sh428 Baltimore’s former zoning board executive director, on why she supports @mayorbmscott.bsky.social bills to promote more density and multi-family housing in the city. [OP-ED]
Baltimore’s former zoning board director explains why she lost faith in zoning | Baltimore Brew
The mayor’s “Housing Options and Opportunity” legislation – including Bill 25-0066 – will go a long way toward fixing an unfair system. [OP-ED]
tinyurl.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Great piece from former Community Law Center attorney and BMZA executive director Becky Witt in support of allowing more housing options by ending exclusionary single-family zoning.
