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I made a Bluesky feed: Pro-Humanity. Pin it if you want a break from all the AI drama and to celebrate in the human experience. (Just don't ask how I made it 🙈)

Chicago's alleys are underutilized.

This is huge. IMO Gleam has the potential to completely take over, and the main thing holding it back is ecosystem size & stability. So hyped to see how things progress.

ICE out here wearing masks because they know first hand how you easily you can be targeted with nothing but a photo of your face.

OUR SAFETY COMES FROM OUR NUMBERS, NOT OUR ANONYMITY

That's my QB

Fueled up with coffee and a breakfast burrito before my flight. Awake enough to be feeling the excitement for @syncconf.bsky.social!

Go Ireland 🇮🇪

3:30am for me

Maybe Chicago actually is a warzone? It's just a war on cars. I dodge traffic every day but I've never had to dodge a bullet.

FYI to whoever is in my network. Side note: It's always bizarre to me to see EVs lumped in with e-scooters and e-bikes. The cost EVs are so much more costly on all fronts (purchase price, public infrastructure build, etc.) it strikes me as silly to treat them as even vaguely similar.

Gun deaths are tragic. They happen far too often in the USA and it's a travesty more hasn't been done to prevent them.

Cities aren't loud, cars are loud. We chose to make our cities noisy & polluted asphalt jungles. We can also choose to change our cities into something better.

Yes!!!

I think Gleam is a really interesting language for municipal code. Strong full-stack type guarantees & low maintenance costs are an obvious win for tax-funded orgs. And given you have a finite number of users clustered together, a single BEAM server deployed nearby would scale extremely well.

Shout it from the rooftops! We NEED local, city-led financing of affordable starter homes. The current bank-led financing system doesn't view the home as the product, but the homeowner. It's a system that cares only about creating 30 years of mortgage payments, not about building shelter.

YouTube discussions are hilarious. @t3.gg: "I'm biased, account for my bias." YT comment with hundreds of likes: "Theo is biased!! 😡"

Homelessness is a policy failure, not a personal one.

Reminds me of CDOT swiftly removing @ctaction.org's fantastic traffic calming planters. Cities should actively support this stuff. Publish specs, make it easy for citizens to do it right. Solution to the underfunding problem hiding in plain sight. www.strongtowns.org/journal/2025...

While this is a bonkers take, I do empathize. When the only meaningful housing projects the system finances are massive and transformative, it's only natural for communities to resist. We need to find a way to replace high rise units with granny flats and duplex conversions.

NCDOT is spending $1.8B to make people's lives worse. This is what government waste ACTUALLY looks like: www.strongtowns.org/journal/2025...

If you were surprised to hear this news, join @parkingreform.org and you’ll be in the know.

It genuinely blows my mind just how unforgiving our cities are. Too infirm to make it make it to the other end of the pedestrian crossing before the timer runs out? Boom, you’re now playing real life frogger, and if you get squished by a semi-truck it’s your fault.

About two years ago, I saw a tweet from @mcuban.bsky.social A man in his late forties had just lost his job, and he was desperate for help. Cuban responded: “Start learning large language models (LLMs). Right now!” That moment stuck with me. open.substack.com/pub/trygveol...

Money doesn’t grow on trees, but it might grow indoors on wood chips: youtu.be/jI2LC3WTryw?...

Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

BREAKING - the Illinois transit omnibus bill has been posted as an amendment to SB2111 • RTA will become 'Northern Illinois Transit Authority' • Farebox recovery ratio is changed • Board appt process is changed • It removes parking mandates around transit??? www.ilga.gov/legislation/... #twill

How I feel hopping onto active discord channels, as an infrequent user

Cars aren’t just destroying the environment and making our cities unlivable, they’re also destroying your financial well-being: youtu.be/EYei1daW7Es?... We desperately need more affordable homes in places that prioritize car-free living.

Outdated building codes failing to keep up with modern safety features — a classic! (The two-stairwell rule was enacted before sprinklers, self-closing doors, and fire safe walls.) www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-...

This is a 100mph fastball Pete pulled to right with authority. I don’t even understand how this is possible.

youtu.be/iJVM-mkONiE?... Needs to be said. Now do a video about the joke of "economic activity” studies — where every $1 spent by some big organizer (e.g. NASCAR in Chicago) results in $10 of economic activity because it supposedly changes hands locally 10 times. @strongtowns.org

When you design residential streets to accommodate semi-trucks, people die. youtu.be/MQxZcFpb8kk?...

Ok I screwed up for LA and DC because of how their budget docs are written. This is now the fixed chart.

This feels special to me. I don’t know how else to say it. Lincoln Square is standing on the precipice of something great. I hope the right people realize it.