Lacunacraft
@lacunacraft.bsky.social
Just another random from Twitter
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It's that time again .ᐟ.ᐟ જ⁀➴
Show me your OCs and I will draw the one's that catch my eye ◉‿◉
Show me your OCs and I will draw the one's that catch my eye ◉‿◉
December 26, 2025 at 3:06 AM
It's that time again .ᐟ.ᐟ જ⁀➴
Show me your OCs and I will draw the one's that catch my eye ◉‿◉
Show me your OCs and I will draw the one's that catch my eye ◉‿◉
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Bsky, my pneumonia has taken a bad turn. I may be facing significant medical costs. I’m starting a GoFundMe to help out with medical bills and expenses. Please share if you can.
gofund.me/19d78b218
gofund.me/19d78b218
Donate to Help with Medical Bills for Pneumonia Recovery, organized by Lane Haygood
I have been diagnosed with a severe case of pneumonia and will be hospital… Lane Haygood needs your support for Help with Medical Bills for Pneumonia Recovery
gofund.me
December 31, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Bsky, my pneumonia has taken a bad turn. I may be facing significant medical costs. I’m starting a GoFundMe to help out with medical bills and expenses. Please share if you can.
gofund.me/19d78b218
gofund.me/19d78b218
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Let people just build their goddamn houses in peace.
It’s being called a “monstrosity” and the family who had it built is being called selfish and clueless and terrible neighbors. Someone on a Reddit thread said it looks like a “skyscraper” from the ground. I wrote about it:
The Big House That Might Not Be Able To
A home expansion in Fairfax County tests the limits of single-family zoning
www.thedeletedscenes.com
December 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Let people just build their goddamn houses in peace.
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in your 20s, you'll come across someone who's wrong online. it's very important than you spend the next 40 years of your life learning and arguing about this topic online long after they've moved on, built a career, and raised a family.
December 29, 2025 at 12:36 AM
in your 20s, you'll come across someone who's wrong online. it's very important than you spend the next 40 years of your life learning and arguing about this topic online long after they've moved on, built a career, and raised a family.
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The year is 2035. California's entire base of taxation is young renters and their entire budget goes to insuring suburban McMansions built in fire hazard regions. Half of Florida is underwater financially and the other half literally. Illinois is fine but still fucks up transit funding constantly.
December 29, 2025 at 1:29 AM
The year is 2035. California's entire base of taxation is young renters and their entire budget goes to insuring suburban McMansions built in fire hazard regions. Half of Florida is underwater financially and the other half literally. Illinois is fine but still fucks up transit funding constantly.
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So, uh, this video is coming down in a couple days for copyright reasons. It'll be probably down for a month while I fight it. It'll still be up on Nebula.
December 29, 2025 at 3:33 PM
So, uh, this video is coming down in a couple days for copyright reasons. It'll be probably down for a month while I fight it. It'll still be up on Nebula.
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my latest thesis is that the neo-brandesians hate cities because they view the density of cities as a form of geospatial monopoly.
yes, I know this makes zero sense on a policy level, but I’m just trying to deduce why a movement allegedly devoted to trust busting is obsessed with fighting YIMBYs
yes, I know this makes zero sense on a policy level, but I’m just trying to deduce why a movement allegedly devoted to trust busting is obsessed with fighting YIMBYs
December 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
my latest thesis is that the neo-brandesians hate cities because they view the density of cities as a form of geospatial monopoly.
yes, I know this makes zero sense on a policy level, but I’m just trying to deduce why a movement allegedly devoted to trust busting is obsessed with fighting YIMBYs
yes, I know this makes zero sense on a policy level, but I’m just trying to deduce why a movement allegedly devoted to trust busting is obsessed with fighting YIMBYs
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Transit's main competition is cars. If you raise fares from $2.50 to $3, you're still way more affordable than driving. But if you cut the bus from every 15 to every 20, you're screwed because cars have infinity frequency and 24 hr service span.
I hate that we’re having to think in these terms, but the evidence seems to be bearing out that steep fare hikes are less damaging to ridership than service cuts.
2025 was brutal for US transit. Agencies faced budget deficits, flat ridership, and open hostility from the White House.
I wrote a series of stories outlining ways to help transit endure.
Lesson #1: Whatever you do, don’t cut service. Riders will leave – permanently.
Here are a few others 🧵
I wrote a series of stories outlining ways to help transit endure.
Lesson #1: Whatever you do, don’t cut service. Riders will leave – permanently.
Here are a few others 🧵
December 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Transit's main competition is cars. If you raise fares from $2.50 to $3, you're still way more affordable than driving. But if you cut the bus from every 15 to every 20, you're screwed because cars have infinity frequency and 24 hr service span.
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Abolish historical preservation.
The city can’t renovate this pool because landmarks got wind of the plan and quickly designated this unremarkable building so now they are plowing over the kids playground to build a new pool building
In 2022, the city dropped its plan to build a brand new swimming pool for Green Lake's community center. Now the idea has floated back to the surface.
December 28, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Abolish historical preservation.
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I literally have no idea how any British person affords housing. Just feels like a situation where the numbers don't come close to adding up for basically anyone
My favorite factoid is that the average Brit outside of London makes less than the average West Virginian but has to deal with a housing market comparable to California.
America is a country of extreme wealth and extreme inequality, both things can be true at once
America is a country of extreme wealth and extreme inequality, both things can be true at once
I think that this belief is more common than any of us would like to admit and it is also extremely fucking wrong. This is why it’s important to learn about the rest of the world.
December 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I literally have no idea how any British person affords housing. Just feels like a situation where the numbers don't come close to adding up for basically anyone
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So much of the issues related to transit governance is downstream from the fact that both the boards of these agencies and many of advocates in this space believe that transit is a welfare program that acts as “transportation of last resort” as opposed to a viable, affordable alternative to cars.
The equity case for infrequent buses at low fares only makes sense if you believe low income people’s time has no value or that they don’t value their time.
Every transit professional knows this, but equity
December 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
So much of the issues related to transit governance is downstream from the fact that both the boards of these agencies and many of advocates in this space believe that transit is a welfare program that acts as “transportation of last resort” as opposed to a viable, affordable alternative to cars.
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My pickleball building code strategy is to adopt European window standards so that we can buy and manufacture triple-glazed tilt-and-turn windows at affordable prices that actually keep sound out
Zoning for pickleball… I guess we need to focus on the issues of our times, but this is indicative of a complain-oriented way of planning
December 27, 2025 at 7:45 PM
My pickleball building code strategy is to adopt European window standards so that we can buy and manufacture triple-glazed tilt-and-turn windows at affordable prices that actually keep sound out
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It’s funny to say this about cars, a product that has gotten noticeably more reliable and better in my life time and which China is quickly innovating on.
The profit motive is at the heart of every single stupid, unnecessary change to the things you use. Capitalists can't increase their profits by making something that works well and keeping it the same, so they endlessly "innovate" to Make The Line Go Up
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.
December 28, 2025 at 4:52 AM
It’s funny to say this about cars, a product that has gotten noticeably more reliable and better in my life time and which China is quickly innovating on.
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Quality of life in rural/small town America is vastly higher because of urbanist growth than it would otherwise be. And they will never ever forgive us for that.
I don’t always agree with of the broader political takes from some “abundance”-coded pundits but man the abundance critics are just pure nonsense merchants
like, what’s this guy’s deal? literally making up a guy to dunk on the idea that cities should build more housing and transit.
like, what’s this guy’s deal? literally making up a guy to dunk on the idea that cities should build more housing and transit.
December 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Quality of life in rural/small town America is vastly higher because of urbanist growth than it would otherwise be. And they will never ever forgive us for that.
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I know people hate Will Stancil, but this is simply objectively true.
The democratic socialist future is not piecemeal private mutual aid, it's sufficient taxation and spending to sustain the state capacity to bureaucratically ensure that no American goes hungry, homeless, or without health care.
The democratic socialist future is not piecemeal private mutual aid, it's sufficient taxation and spending to sustain the state capacity to bureaucratically ensure that no American goes hungry, homeless, or without health care.
Guys I know you’re all going to yell at me here but mutual aid is not meaningfully distinct from the kind of privatized community charity system where poor people go to the church and hope someone has donated a hot meal. It’s not progressive, it’s not effective, it’s not good service provision.
"poor enough to need mutual aid"
Everyone needs mutual aid.
Everyone needs mutual aid.
December 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I know people hate Will Stancil, but this is simply objectively true.
The democratic socialist future is not piecemeal private mutual aid, it's sufficient taxation and spending to sustain the state capacity to bureaucratically ensure that no American goes hungry, homeless, or without health care.
The democratic socialist future is not piecemeal private mutual aid, it's sufficient taxation and spending to sustain the state capacity to bureaucratically ensure that no American goes hungry, homeless, or without health care.
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Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.
December 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.
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More fundamentally, the political tension in American cities right now is between a faction who exists to protect the rents of incumbent interests and another who is allergic to any idea of trade-offs because they think there's a magic button that eliminates scarcity and only they will press it.
I hate that we’re having to think in these terms, but the evidence seems to be bearing out that steep fare hikes are less damaging to ridership than service cuts.
2025 was brutal for US transit. Agencies faced budget deficits, flat ridership, and open hostility from the White House.
I wrote a series of stories outlining ways to help transit endure.
Lesson #1: Whatever you do, don’t cut service. Riders will leave – permanently.
Here are a few others 🧵
I wrote a series of stories outlining ways to help transit endure.
Lesson #1: Whatever you do, don’t cut service. Riders will leave – permanently.
Here are a few others 🧵
December 27, 2025 at 7:36 PM
More fundamentally, the political tension in American cities right now is between a faction who exists to protect the rents of incumbent interests and another who is allergic to any idea of trade-offs because they think there's a magic button that eliminates scarcity and only they will press it.
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December 27, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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News flash bro, America has gone all in for Varang, Tsahik of the Mangkwan clan, as sexiest woman alive in a space of a week and a half.
December 27, 2025 at 7:57 AM
News flash bro, America has gone all in for Varang, Tsahik of the Mangkwan clan, as sexiest woman alive in a space of a week and a half.
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December 27, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Tastemakers: why hasn't Avatar penetrated into the broader cultural milieu?
Normal Americans: I want the hot, evil, ten-foot tall lady to step on me
Sickos: Haha yes haha
Normal Americans: I want the hot, evil, ten-foot tall lady to step on me
Sickos: Haha yes haha
News flash bro, America has gone all in for Varang, Tsahik of the Mangkwan clan, as sexiest woman alive in a space of a week and a half.
December 27, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Tastemakers: why hasn't Avatar penetrated into the broader cultural milieu?
Normal Americans: I want the hot, evil, ten-foot tall lady to step on me
Sickos: Haha yes haha
Normal Americans: I want the hot, evil, ten-foot tall lady to step on me
Sickos: Haha yes haha