I don't dislike brutalism (it has some good examples and some bad ones, like most styles), but government buildings should probably reflect democratic will.

> be microplastics researcher 2015 > develop better detection method > can see particles 10x smaller than before > run samples > counts 100x higher than previous estimates > publish > conclusion: "more research needed" > funding expires > be different researcher 2020 > even

I can’t imagine why college-age liberals don’t want to be friends with Gen Z Republicans

The nineties were a WILD time. Western countries literally thought that everyone would just trade and attend conferences and be friends forever.

terrifying to think that with a suitable covering of synthetic skin, these machines could convincingly pass for any number of US senators and congress members

The last worker in the US who knew how to make Tubas is having his union job shipped to China by hedge fund billionaire and Trump advisor John Paulson who made the TV rounds to defend tariffs as a way to bring jobs back to US

Charlie Kirk was killed by a rando and no high profile democrat supported it. Renee Good was killed by the government and every high profile republican supported it.

It's time to free ourselves from the tyranny of the International Building Code.

It's time

getting called a gentrifier for this really solidifies my opinion that nobody on nyc twitter has any idea what that term means and many of them are just straight-up in favor of segregation but woke

woke 1.0 vs. woke 2.0 in a nutshell

So many Gen Zers sold out everyone’s future because podcasters and tiktok edits told them to.

it's interest that there are multiple figures formerly viewed as more left than they currently are (fetterman, rfk) that have moved right after having either literal brain damage or actual worms in their head

Strange, I haven't seen any of the many conservative women's swimming enthusiasts tweeting about this incredible feat of athleticism...

It’s called “parking” because motorists started to store their cars on what had previously been little parklets. The degree to which prioritizing cars enshitifies cities cannot be overstated.

He’s the only mayor in the country who’s poked his head out from the bunker and realized that coalition that held up the 60+ years of Boomer NIMBYism is just… gone.

Today being married and owning a home generally means moving to an amenity-poor, drive-everywhere suburb because homes in amenity-rich, walkable urban neighborhoods are unattainably expensive. And increasingly few young adults want to own homes in amenity-poor, drive-everywhere

“you can’t afford to buy a house because Trump wants to invade Greenland” sounds like unhinged lib propaganda but it’s literally what’s happening rn

I like to imagine Mamdani has a list of little things that have pissed him off in NYC over the years and is going down that list one by one.

Urbanism friends, what is the best textbook of other book on New Urbanism you recommend?