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Josh Skelekrahn
@joshkrahn.bsky.social
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Left-liberal YIMBY. Anti-fascist. Dreaming of trains across the sea. Avid fietser. 15-minute everything. Legalize Flavortown. A muter not a blocker. (he/him)
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Democrats can keep hunting for The Blueprint for winning candidates who know what The People want.

Or they can adopt election rules that foster competition and let vision and ambition do the rest.
Reluctantly agree
NYC is normal, it's the rest of you lot that are weird.
I really think it's just this and being attuned (and giving the appearance of being attuned) to what voters care about. NYC is so weird, there are no generalizable lessons.
rare L for the big guy
And on the sixth day, the Lord said, "Let there be free parking" and it was (not) good.
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And on the sixth day, the Lord said, "Let there be free parking" and it was (not) good.
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"Neighbourhood interiors were never intended for commercial activity", says one letter writer. To be fair, this is true, if you toss the entirety of human history and modern day Earth outside North America in the trash, and think that urban planning less than a century old is ironclad natural law.
No corner coffee shops: Toronto committee waters down neighbourhood retail plan
It’s the second time in less than a year councillors balked at allowing certain businesses to open on some residential streets
www.torontotoday.ca
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Such a silly argument. I mean most spare bedrooms were never intended to be home offices but then Covid happened. Circumstances change, people and communities adapt, life goes on. There’s no reason to not rethink the design of even small neighborhoods to make them more accessible.
"Neighbourhood interiors were never intended for commercial activity", says one letter writer. To be fair, this is true, if you toss the entirety of human history and modern day Earth outside North America in the trash, and think that urban planning less than a century old is ironclad natural law.
No corner coffee shops: Toronto committee waters down neighbourhood retail plan
It’s the second time in less than a year councillors balked at allowing certain businesses to open on some residential streets
www.torontotoday.ca
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I hope people in other countries understand that many of us are trying our best to resist the dictatorship but that the police in one American city will kill almost as many people in a year than all the police departments combined of a typical EU nation.
US citizen, 67, ‘has ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents after being dragged out of car while driving home into street they’d blocked off
US citizen, 67, has six ribs broken by Border Patrol agents, his running club says
www.independent.co.uk
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Hundreds of school crossing guards have suffered injuries on the job after being hit by a vehicle, and dozens of them have died, according to an investigation by AP and Cox Media Group Television Stations.
Crossing guards face life-threatening dangers on the job
An investigation by The Associated Press and Cox Media Group Television Stations found that school crossing guards face dangerous conditions, with many injured or killed on the job.
bit.ly
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So, murder then
Department of Defense officials told Democratic lawmakers in a brief on the U.S. military’s strikes against boats off the coast of northern South America that the military is not identifying the occupants of the boats before they bomb them. The Trump administration has killed at least 61 people.
Pentagon Admits to Striking Caribbean Boats Without Identifying Victims’ Purported Drug Links
The White House cannot “satisfy the evidentiary burden” to prosecute those they have been killing, one lawmaker said.
truthout.org
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I’m at the Friends of Downtown Community meeting to skeet about the Flock pilot program results.

Follow this thread for the details 👇
It works! My social anxiety is 20% lower when there are name tags
Fair. MVB was on another level that night.
Yeah they always kick ass live not sure what yall talking about
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Radon Abatement has not played out since June. We should play out more maybe, but in the meantime we have been working on stuff and hope to be able to share some things soon. This show would be great without us, but I am excited to be a part of it. Live music is still the best.
Excellent flyer courtesy of @joshkrahn.bsky.social is ready so that means I am gonna post about this show: True Love Always comes through for the first time in 20 years or so on Sat., Nov. 22! The killer Added Dimensions is also playing along with Radon Abatement. I am very excited about this.
We start when you get there ma’am
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who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.
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part of what gets me is the particular double-think involved in left-nimbyism. left nimbyism has been the dominant mode of thinking in urban governance for like fifty years, they won the war and achieved total control of policy, and they *still* think they're the plucky upstarts fighting The Man
Loophole: even bigger walk-in closets
This motherfucker needs to be locked up for murder. That’s not hyperbole.
Trump: "I don't think we're necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war, I think we're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We're going to kill them. They're going to be, like dead."
Quick Builds is a better term imo. Doesn’t try to sound cool, and acknowledges that it’s cheap (ie underfunded)
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Fire Marshalls who comment on these plans are just NIMBYs there on their own behalf but launder the complaint as an industry one to get scardy code officials to cut down density with a sledge hammer
“We’re trying to cram an awful lot into a single family lot that was originally plotted and laid out to be for a single home,” the fire marshal said, and then complained about how more people parking on the street because of increased density was impeding first responders.
I was going to post "this seems like some Rory would've already done, just for fun." Glad you and Charlotte are on the case!