Adam Old
@adamold.bsky.social
Cities, Transit, Housing, Ecology, Art, Neurobiology, Clouds, Rivers
The flammable ceiling is probably the main issue here.
January 2, 2026 at 3:16 PM
The flammable ceiling is probably the main issue here.
Are you referring to the pixel anti-aliasing on the ASCII characters?
January 1, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Are you referring to the pixel anti-aliasing on the ASCII characters?
Was missing some “Pump up the Jam”
January 1, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Was missing some “Pump up the Jam”
Pretty easy to measure height and density and FAR.
December 30, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Pretty easy to measure height and density and FAR.
Financing and hard costs make it hard to build towers at the moment, but 48 hills has been complaining about upzoning since before that was the case.
December 30, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Financing and hard costs make it hard to build towers at the moment, but 48 hills has been complaining about upzoning since before that was the case.
“You’re no Joe Kennedy, comptroller.”
December 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
“You’re no Joe Kennedy, comptroller.”
Employer provided healthcare is probably the biggest block to entrepreneurship in America. It’s sad that Obamacare didn’t solve all this.
December 28, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Employer provided healthcare is probably the biggest block to entrepreneurship in America. It’s sad that Obamacare didn’t solve all this.
Perhaps the people dying in traffic have been the murderers themselves.
December 28, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Perhaps the people dying in traffic have been the murderers themselves.
I think you mean 1990’s orchestral metal.
December 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I think you mean 1990’s orchestral metal.
Oh welp, guess we can’t have a gay president then, shucks. Or maybe polling is a one-time measure of a changeable attribute, that politics and media and the socials influence.
December 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Oh welp, guess we can’t have a gay president then, shucks. Or maybe polling is a one-time measure of a changeable attribute, that politics and media and the socials influence.
you must be thinking of the CATO institute.
December 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
you must be thinking of the CATO institute.
Why did you not start examining your options weeks ago when you knew this was the likely outcome.
December 21, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Why did you not start examining your options weeks ago when you knew this was the likely outcome.
But also, the things urbanites desire to build: parks, walkable neighborhoods, bodegas, 3rd spaces, co-housing, are all things that encourage social norms to coalesce, which is good. Social norms can’t be unilaterally the enemy.
December 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
But also, the things urbanites desire to build: parks, walkable neighborhoods, bodegas, 3rd spaces, co-housing, are all things that encourage social norms to coalesce, which is good. Social norms can’t be unilaterally the enemy.
Yeah, but not 15 Minute Cities!
December 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Yeah, but not 15 Minute Cities!
So a portion of the ecological improvement is the reduction in trawls, but a portion is also the reef effect increasing detritus-fall? I wonder which is more dramatic.
December 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
So a portion of the ecological improvement is the reduction in trawls, but a portion is also the reef effect increasing detritus-fall? I wonder which is more dramatic.
Technically accurate.
December 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Technically accurate.
Neanderthals have always been humans.
December 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Neanderthals have always been humans.
Chunnel to the dark side.
December 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Chunnel to the dark side.
Are there two sargasso seas? Where do asian eels reproduce?
December 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Are there two sargasso seas? Where do asian eels reproduce?
Toured a 4 story mixed use building on 3000sq ft lot with two stairways and I thought of you.
December 10, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Toured a 4 story mixed use building on 3000sq ft lot with two stairways and I thought of you.
Is he suggesting that the eels don’t need to eat?!
December 10, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Is he suggesting that the eels don’t need to eat?!