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Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 17h

What office does Brad Lander want, and how do we help him get it?

Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 1d

Three day old baguette?

(Axis unclear.)

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Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 6d

I have my study materials!

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Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 7d

Korean-inspired fried rice for the American pantry.

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Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 11d

For a sense of how much land premium revenue contributes:

app7.legco.gov.hk

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Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 11d

So, the government makes a pittance in revenue while property developers make huge margins.

And the annual revenue for property taxes looks like HK$12,800,000 after built.

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Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 11d

The last residential tender was $602,000,000 in Tung Chung.

SHKP can construct 401,149 square feet of space. At an assumed HK$15,000 per square foot, $6,017,235,000 … a 10× in revenue in eventual sale.

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Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 11d

It does, but that’s not a problem once you put 40 floors on top of it, each floor subdivided 8 ways.

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Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 11d

The other thing, high land prices benefit capital more than government.

For a property that sells at HK$14,000,000 rateable value is ~HK$400,000, an annual revenue of HK$32,000 in rates and government rent.

0.2286% property revenue rate.

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Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 11d

We should build public housing enough such that there’s slack in the system and no wait.

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Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 12d

Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · May 1

🎶 That’s me in the seat belt, safe on the minibus.

Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 12d

We have universal public health. Fines that pay for the collective costs of flouting rules made for peoples’ safety subsidize the cost of providing health services when the rare event happens.

Regressive? Sure. But if you’re too poor to pay the fine, buckle up.

(I always wear my seatbelt.)

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 13d

Probably a bad sign the original OSINT nerds are posting satellite imagery of the White House for BDA

Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 13d

New satellite images show the scale of demolition that has occurred on the East Wing of the White House in less than a month.

October planet imagery showing the east wing demolished

September planet imagery showing the east wing before work took place

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Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 14d

This looks like significant early mortality for men. Smoking?

Joel Chan @kjoules.org · 14d

Why I thought you'd never ask

(Chart by @kjoules.org and Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department) Population pyramid 1961 vs 2025, where the 2025 data excludes Foreign Domestic Helpers

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Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 14d

Nothing if not consistent. ❤️

Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 14d

Can you remove the domestic helper population?

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Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 16d

Thou shalt not squash a contributor’s contribution out of the git log.

Do whatever you want with your own git history but maintainers: learn the necessary git fu to make sure the newbies get merkle credit.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 20d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 16d

It’s truly awful that we have scammers attempting to profit off of genocide, but that’s the world we live in and we need to direct our resources to trustable entities.

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Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 16d

Byte range: 0-1
Type: app.bsky.richtext.facet#mention
DID: did:plc:uyida7xurslz7wbk5jc2sodh

That’s your DID; you were explicitly targeted by this.

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Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 16d

For example, for your recent reskeet, here is the underlying content of it.

bluesky-post-viewer.netlify.app/post/nhw72o....

Bluesky Post Viewer

bluesky-post-viewer.netlify.app

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Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 16d

@katereilly.bsky.social

Odds are pretty high that some of your well-intentioned reskeets about the plight of Gazans are scams.

bsky.app/profile/mk.g...

Matt Kane @mk.gg · 17d

These are totally legitimate real accounts in Gaza that just happen to craft posts that abuse a Bluesky bug to invisibly mention 651 accounts.

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Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 18d

Does “standing on the edge of a roof with no guardrails” meet OSHA standards?

They’re one overreaction to a return to sender tear gas canister from having somebody domino off the edge of that roof.

Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 18d

Federal officers pepper ball protestors at Portland ICE facility just now.

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Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 25d

2011 Ryan mind boggled by 2025 Ryan.

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Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 26d

A way to frame this: you may not work for the government past the federal full retirement age.

We’ll get you a cake, take your badge, and walk you out the door.

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Nathan Hammond 張拿敦 @nathanhammond.com · 27d

Mongkok vs. 旺角

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