Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler Twitter profile

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

2 years

Salesperson: and as you can see, the jacket has this wonderful red lining Me, an urban planner, eyes narrowing: it has WHAT

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

14 days

Boomers love posting stuff like this and then calling the police on teenage skateboarders because they’re making noise.

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No helmet, no elbow pads, no kneepads and no fear! Oh how did we survive? 😉

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

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1 year

Bud Lite has been the default cheap beer at gay bars since 1977, when labor unions and LGBT groups organized a boycott of Coors to protest Coors' practice of forcing employees to take polygraph tests that included questions about their sexual orientation.

‘A Political Fight Over Beer’: The 1977 Coors Beer Boycott, and the Relationship Between Labour–Gay...

Link to PDF Featured image courtesy of Online Archive of California Author Biography Kieran Blake is a postgraduate student of History at the University of Lincoln, researching twentieth-century...

www.midlandshistoricalreview.com

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@bethanyshondark

1 year

This is what happens when you use a marketing and advertising agency that has never met one of your customers.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

6 months

New transit fare evasion discourse just dropped.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

19 days

This kind of dense, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

3 months

This is the main thoroughfare in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods on earth.

Travis R. Eby

@travis_robert

3 months

The inner suburbs of New Jersey being wealthier than 90% of Europe and yet generally ghastly to look at is a great example of how car culture impoverishes everyone, including rich people

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

6 months

This kind of dense, walkable, pizza-oriented development is illegal to build in almost every US city.

Capitol City Turn-Based Intelligence Center

@inthesamedevice

6 months

we all want to live here don't we

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

4 months

@jaketapper He killed two people.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

5 months

There are more current UCLA students than coal miners in the entire country.

kavi 🌉🚱

@notkavi

6 months

Rural folks do this thing where they're like "you out of touch coastal elite, in REAL America EVERYONE does X" and you look up how many people do X and it's like 1% of the population

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

10 days

If you make the buildings a little taller and let them touch, you can have lovely courtyards.

hidflect

@hidflect

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New housing in The Ponds, in western #Sydney .

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

14 days

I’m just a man, standing in front of the criminal justice system, asking why a 71 year old driver who killed a child with her car is not permanently losing her license.

San Francisco Chronicle

@sfchronicle

15 days

The driver who struck and killed a 4-year-old girl in a S.F. intersection will avoid jail time, the DA’s Office announced. Karen Cartagena, 71, will serve two years of probation, complete 400 hours of community service and enroll in a driver safety class.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

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Armand Domalewski

@ArmandDoma

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dogs in large cities are essentially settler-colonial

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

3 months

I think we should put 400,000 additional dwelling units here.

Joe Smith 🇨🇦

@joesmith323

4 months

@cafedujord you should get out a map of California and mark on the map where YOU would build 400,000 additional dwelling units.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

1 year

Here are the prices of the homes for sale in the neighborhood depicted in this illustration.

FT Weekend Magazine

@FTMag

1 year

Sneak peek 👀 of this weekend's cover Look out for the story on Thursday at

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

10 months

Former pro downhill skateboarder here. The way to make an event like the Dolores hill bomb safe is to shut the road down to traffic, line the sidewalks with hay, and require participants to wear helmets; not to have cops in riot gear fire flash bang grenades at kids.

Kyle Grochmal

@KCGrock

10 months

Just want to remind everyone that the Dolores Hill Bombing regularly resulted in serious and life threatening injuries for the kids in past years. This has been a very dangerous event.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

5 months

This real estate guy lost all his money because Austin built a bunch of new housing, which raised vacancy rates and gave tenants more leverage to demand lower rents in the existing building that he invested in. If you want to screw landlords and speculators, build more homes.

Noah Kagan

@noahkagan

5 months

Lost $100,000 in real estate. Invested in a real estate syndicate with "professionals." The original proposal was 11% yearly cash return.* The property just went to foreclosure. But Noah, landlords always get rich and real estate always goes up.📈 I don't know. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯…

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

4 months

I will never forgive General Motors for what they did to Los Angeles’ once robust streetcar transit system.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

6 months

“Old houses were just built better!”

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

3 months

I’m not a big RETVRN guy but we really do need to get back to the time when urban housing was so cheap and plentiful that any kid could show up in San Francisco or New York and find a place to live that they could afford on entry level service sector wages.

Rebecca Tiffany

@rebeccajtiffany

3 months

Also we should build so much housing that an 18 year old trans kid can move out from unsupportive family member's homes into a micro apartment or rooming house with a barista job. Those economic dynamic used to be the norm & we need to build that way again.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

3 months

@constans lol remember when all those cops retired right after the George Floyd protests got them a TON of overtime

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

6 months

This is Grad School for “I will NEVER touch grass.”

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

2 months

Los Angeles could look like this if its streets were not run by sociopathic traffic engineers.

Kasey Klimes

@kaseyklimes

2 months

Is there a major global city with better street trees than CDMX?

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

1 year

Harvey Milk himself brokered the deal between the Teamsters and the gay bar owners. Coors' market share went from 40% to ~14%. From The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk by Randy Shilts:

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

8 months

I am of the uncontroversial belief that California’s temperate coastal areas should be full of inexpensive multifamily housing, like Spain’s is, rather than reserved for $3,000,000 single family homes.

California YIMBY

@cayimby

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California housing policy pushes people out of temperate, climate-safe areas on the coast and into inland exurbs where they are at risk of extreme heat and wildfires.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

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@LittleMammith How do you get to your third year of law school without learning that the first amendment does not give you the right to disrupt a dinner party in someone’s home?

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

5 months

We have the technology.

Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

5 months

Feel like one of the biggest urban/suburban cultural differences is grocery shopping. When asked how I bring home a week's worth of groceries w/o a car, the answer is...I don't. I pick up groceries multiple times per wk, sometimes just enough for that night's dinner.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

1 year

All that said we do NOT have to pretend that Bud Light tastes good.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

1 month

Ordering delivery on DoorDash is a bad habit I picked up while stuck at home during a global pandemic, not a world-changing medical technology that has saved millions of lives.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

7 months

The CyberTruck looks like a Pontiac Aztek rendered on a PlayStation 1.

Adam Browning

@adambrowning

7 months

Saw my first cyber truck in the wild Don't mean to be a hater but...that's not a good lookin vehicle

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

9 months

The X logo looks like it’s for one of those ridiculous fragile masculinity subscription box services that would send you like an axe, a bottle of hot sauce, small batch coffee, and some beard oil every month in 2019.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

10 months

An unfortunate side effect of building 97% of America’s transportation infrastructure around cars is that enforcing reasonable consequences for dangerous driving (eg license suspension) amounts to taking away people’s ability to participate in society as a full citizen.

Alan Cole

@AlanMCole

10 months

I've experienced this maneuver about five times at the same intersection while dropping off my daughter at school, including twice today. Look, I am not an anti-car bike-hippie loon, but some people's licenses should be confiscated and their cars crushed into cubes.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

1 month

For those unfamiliar with SF’s geography, this is why the Board of Supervisors’ decision to downzone the northern waterfront was so offensive to so many YIMBYs:

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

2 months

American cities made this kind of very inexpensive housing illegal decades ago on the assumption that poor people would get nicer housing as a result. Instead, millions of people were forced into overcrowded, expensive housing and hundreds of thousands were made homeless.

Shaun

@shaunonsite_

2 months

Would you stay in an apartment in Japan like this for $300/mo?

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

10 months

Californians will be like "we need to protect this neighborhood's character forever" and the neighborhood looks like this

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

10 months

This is what gentrification actually looks like: six relatively inexpensive apartments being replaced by three very expensive townhouses.

Culture Critic

@Culture_Crit

10 months

London is healing.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

4 months

At the risk of being too “housing theory of everything,” in a sensible world, this guy would just get a cheap apartment and move out. But because he lives in the Bay Area, he’s stuck living with his mentally ill mother and obeying her rules.

Jelly Santos

@MrsJellySantos

4 months

His mom has extreme household rules due to her mental health issues

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

5 months

This is going to sound classist but ~60% of Americans do not have passports and have therefore never visited a real city that truly prioritizes pedestrians.

Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

5 months

There's a large group of Americans who simply cannot handle the notion of making city streets nicer to *be in* rather than convenient to *drive through* Opposition to speed cameras, traffic calming, etc. flows from that basic mindset. It's incompatible w/ progressive planning.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

28 days

Smoking crack on the train is not the same as being Black in public but thank you for playing.

Nobody calls it the “Mini Apple”

@frozenagitation

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@maxdubler We should have those sites. But we don't. And someone "feeling unsafe" is not a justification of...anything, really. After years of Black people being murdered by cops who "felt unsafe" around them, we should know better. If you "feel unsafe" but aren't, that's a you problem.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

9 months

You’re not supposed to say that part to a reporter.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

4 months

We joke, but a parking garage is the tallest structure in many, many American cities' downtowns.

Winnie

@AtlWinKnee

4 months

This is the realest meme I’ve ever created btw

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

4 months

Ridge Alkonis was sentenced to 3 years for reckless driving after crashing his car into a restaurant and killing 85yo woman and her son in law. American pundits have been treating this like a grave miscarriage of justice because vehicular manslaughter is effectively legal here.

Jake Tapper

@jaketapper

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GREAT AND BREAKING NEWS! This morning the US parole commission ordered the full parole and immediate release with no supervision of Navy Lt Ridge Alknois Here’s a picture of the Alkonis family, reunited!!!

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

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1 month

Rich people who do not want to change their consumption habits love inventing a theoretical marginalized person who NEEDS whatever wasteful product/service the rich person wants to keep using. We see this across many discourses: DoorDash, fast fashion, congestion pricing, etc.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

5 months

Have straight people considered being smarter?

LBS-NY

@NY_LBS

5 months

@maxdubler @worsematt 40% of harvard is LGBT etc. if you don’t think it’s a social contagion I have a bridge in Brooklyn for you.

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I wish American parks departments weren’t so allergic to having concessions in urban parks.

Miriam Pinski

@mirijulip

1 month

Munich’s beer gardens deserve all the hype. These are the English Gardens - central, accessible on foot, by bike and transit. There’s a playground and ice cream for kids, and tasty beer for the adults. Dogs welcome. People flock here.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

5 months

I say this as someone who has lived in beautiful old houses from the 1800s for most of my life: old buildings are nice to look at and generally total garbage to live in.

Michael Everett

@silvertongue39

5 months

@maxdubler Demolishing nice old buildings is bad actually

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

5 months

Uber kinda sucks but cab companies really had it coming.

mandercamp

@mandercamp

5 months

Guy driving this cab refused to turn on meter and insisted on being paid cash upfront for a ride to Dorchester. What he failed to consider is how much I love writing indignant emails to licensing commissions.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

2 months

More cheap, carbon copy, cookie cutter crap that developers threw up in 19th century Brooklyn with no consideration for existing neighborhood character.

Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

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Brooklyn Heights

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

2 months

Cars are like a gas in that they will expand to fill up all the urban space you give them.

Martha Lauren 🇵🇸

@NQRW

2 months

Me: *sobbing* you can't just turn everything into a car park Malta: *points at the capital city's ancient fortifications* car park

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

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Homosexuality was a diagnosable mental illness until 1973. The first modern Pride parade was held in 1970.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

2 months

Counterpoint this fucking rules and it should be built asap.

Historic Buildings & Places

@hbap1924

2 months

Please help us and object to this outrageous scheme to build a 42-storey tower over a Grade II building in #Birmingham . It would set a terrible precedent for listed buildings within the city. See the plans: 📷 : CGI image from Design & Access statement

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

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Twitter leftists will really be like "you believe in reforming zoning to allow housing abundance? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, abolishing capitalism" and then not abolish capitalism

Rohana Rezel 🐘 @[email protected]

@rohanarezel

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YIMBYs want to preserve the existing economic framework without challenging fundamental economic structures that are at the root cause of the housing. For example, they support real estate investors and short-term rentals.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

10 months

This project is great: 621 apartments replacing some single family homes right next to transit.

lej

@_lej44

10 months

Bye Bye, single family homes near transit.

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“This apartment building should not be built because it will cast shade on a park” is one of my favorite NIMBY talking points because it’s so demonstrably out of touch: park users actually prefer shade and very few of them want to be in the blazing sun.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

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“We have limited space” for new housing is a ludicrous thing to say about San Francisco, a city where fully half the land is occupied by one or two story single family homes.

Mark Daniel Snyder

@botoxedbuddhist

10 months

@constans No. We have limited space. I’m all for speeding up things and eliminating barriers but the priority needs to be placed on immediate production of designated affordable and free units for those most in need. Social housing and housing first programs have to be at the forefront. We…

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Many disabled and elderly people cannot drive. Our cars-first transportation system isolates them in their homes and makes them dependent on caretakers who can drive them where they need to go.

Catherine Shiang

@cathshiang

3 months

@EricaJSandberg These activists aren't considering haveing to haul groceries for a family, or kids they need to drive to different corners of the city, or elderly or disabled relatives they take care of that can't also hop on a bike. It's nice to be young and healthy. But not all of us are…

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Kansas City requires 7,000 square feet of parking for every 1,000 square feet of bar. Call me crazy, but I don’t think we should *require* on site parking for any establishment that sells alcohol.

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This is what Silicon Valley actually looks like: shitty strip malls on 6-lane stroads.

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@maxdubler

9 months

Imagine being the city planner in charge of figuring out how much parking this business needs.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

8 months

“Affordable housing” requirements in new market rate developments make housing more expensive overall and put the entire financial burden for housing subsidies on middle class renters while letting rich people—who overwhelmingly live in single family homes they own—off the hook.

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My father-in-law is a builder. It’s difficult to get his attention in a magnificent space because he’s lost in wonder. We were Breezewood, PA together years ago and I asked him what it would cost to build it today. I will never forget his answer… “We can’t, we don’t know how.”

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

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Gay people: famously uninterested in creating and preserving beautiful objects and places.

Ameno

@Ameno07374464

5 months

@maxdubler you're gay, you dont have any desire to make the world beautiful for your children

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Emeryville didn’t do years of studies or send consultants on international trips before adding seating to their bus stops. They found an off the shelf solution and did it quickly, cheaply, and without much fanfare.

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These are the “historic” buildings that San Francisco’s elected leaders are so desperate to preserve.

Brandon Bradford

@BrandonLBradfor

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Nope nope nope nope

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@chimppower1 @lukesesh2 @jealuuc It’s made for people who think at an eighth grade level.

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@yancey_todd I wear a bike helmet because I don't want a traumatic brain injury.

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The most important thing to know about Truck Guys is that they are enormous babies.

Ryan in Buffalo

@slavojtrex

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Happy one year anniversary to the time I tweeted this picture with the caption “These are the vehicles my coworkers drive to our job at a bank” and it made truck guys so mad they figured out which bank I worked at and tried to get me fired 🥳🎉🍾

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The concept of “shade impacts” on a park sounds pretty reasonable until you actually go outside and observe that most people prefer to be in the shade, rather than in direct sun.

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SIGNS YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD MIGHT BE GENTRIFIED SOON: - housing production is not keeping up with the demand for homes in your metro area (end of list)

Los Angeles Times

@latimes

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Black-trimmed homes, tiny libraries and other signs your neighborhood is about to be gentrified

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@pryor_politics Spiritually this is a boomer post

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@revhowardarson Zoomers straight up do not believe me when I describe pre-ACA health insurance practices like policy rescission, exclusions on preexisting conditions, and lifetime limits.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

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5 months

Just stop at the red light, dude. It’s really easy.

Senator Antonio Hayes

@AntonioHayes40

5 months

This is horrible. All of these cameras in neighborhoods. Further taxing Baltimore City Residents. Most within the Black Butterfly (East @SenatorMcCray & West @jillpcarter ). What message are we sending to our residents? @BmoreCityDOT The program was started to make it safe for…

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

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5 months

The real lesson of Uber’s cannibalization of transit ridership is that people are happy to pay more for convenience and reliability.

Daniel Trubman, Rootless Cosmopolitan

@dmtrubman

5 months

Getting too focused on fareless transit seems like a real transportation midwit position:

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San Francisco needs to build one of these every three weeks for the next 8 years to meet our RHNA goals.

M. Nolan Gray

@mnolangray

8 months

A parking lot turns into 700 transit-adjacent homes in San Diego. (2017➡️2020)

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

3 months

People always bring up this theoretical strip club next to an elementary school as an example of why we need zoning; but it makes no sense to me. Strip clubs have opaque windows and door staff to keep minors out, and they generally are not open during school hours.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

3 months

The famous New York street fashion photographer Bill Cunningham could only be Bill Cunningham because he had an extraordinarily cheap apartment in Carnegie Hall. A young person today cannot make that kind of life for themself. Cheap rent is freedom, including *creative* freedom.

Ryan Moulton

@moultano

3 months

When you can scrape by in a shitty apartment on rice and beans, it doesn't really matter whether someone is willing to pay you for what you want to do with your life or not. You're born with FU money. You can just walk out.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

5 months

I have an unprovable theory that espresso martinis are having a cultural moment right now because people want to party all night but don’t want to do street cocaine that may be contaminated with fentanyl.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

5 months

Counterpoint: standardized, mass-produced housing is often cute and nice 🙂

Rupa Subramanya

@rupasubramanya

5 months

So private developers will be "encouraged" to use standardized government blueprints for housing. This was done after the war to quickly build houses for returning soldiers and the fact that the government is doing this in 2023 reeks of desperation. Standardized housing was a…

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

4 months

Don’t graduate from college in 2009.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

9 months

My most strongly held urban design Take is that ~every building looks good from street level if it is surrounded by mature trees and that the #1 most impactful thing cities can do to ensure pleasant neighborhood feel is to maintain a robust street tree canopy.

YIMBYLAND

@YIMBYLAND

9 months

I’m calling bullshit. Aesthetics are totally subjective and if this pseudoscience was true, people wouldn’t find New York beautiful or interesting.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

1 month

Babe are you ok? You haven’t made any calls on your Tobler-phone.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

9 months

Reminding the adults in this condo association that being a member of society sometimes means having to drive carefully to avoid killing children, who should not be forced to sit inside and scroll all day.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

8 months

Discretionary land-use approvals create irresistible incentives for corruption: Australia edition.

The Australian

@australian

8 months

A Sydney property developer secretly filmed councillors with sex workers on a “boys’ weekend” trip to China so he could blackmail them into voting for his projects. Full details:

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

8 months

before Neoliberalism, a simple Venetian laborer could afford this home on a single salary

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

2 months

The key to understanding basically every ridiculous apartment amenity you hear about—gyms, podcast studios, movie rooms, ski repair centers, and so on—is that they are ways to use windowless interior or underground space that cannot be profitably leased to tenants.

Rural Broadband Cowboy 🤠/ SB24-171 Fanatic

@Wade_in_America

2 months

Alright, apparently “luxury apartments” do exist. Why would you get an apartment with a ski repair center? They’re located every 2-3 blocks all across Denver.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

10 months

One fun thing about owning a home in San Francisco is that it’s illegal to replace my street-facing windows with new energy-efficient and sound-insulating double pane designs because busybodies at the planning department think they look tacky.

Market Urbanism

@MarketUrbanism

10 months

Americans devised a nationwide landscape-altering land use regime to avoid building structures that keep noise out, but it is not resilient against novel threats. Might I suggest…triple-glazed tilt-and-turn windows?

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

9 months

Recent home sale prices in Millbrae:

Jordan Grimes 🚰

@cafedujord

9 months

Good evening, Twitter! I’m spending my Friday night in the affluent Bay Area suburb of Millbrae, where the county is presenting a plan to turn a hotel into ~100 homes for unhoused residents. It appears that the entire city is here, and they are *pissed*. 🧵

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

11 months

Not interested in college admissions discourse except to say that we should probably triple the size of the UC system because it’s the single greatest engine of class mobility in America.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

1 month

In America, we allocate housing by your ability to pay. Blocking new housing for rich people who can pay high prices just means that they’ll outbid the poor for existing homes. Stopping new construction doesn’t stop gentrification, it accelerates it. This is the lesson of SF.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

3 months

National Review

@NRO

3 months

Planners' preference for urban density should not supersede Americans' preferences for suburban or exurban living.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

6 months

My grand bargain for automobile speed regulation is that we should raise speed limits on grade separated highways, lower them on surface streets where people walk and bike, and build a ton of free or low cost public race tracks where people can drive like maniacs if they want.

David Zipper

@DavidZipper

6 months

Last week the National Transportation Safety Board recommended that speed-limiting technology be required on all new cars. It’s an excellent idea. @USDOT should do it. My latest in @FastCompany . 🧵 below

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

5 months

“It’s unethical to give George Santos money for a Cameo video” bro this is the first honest job that man has ever had.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

7 months

Berlin turning the site of the furherbunker into a surface parking lot is so perfectly disrespectful.

annika💒

@femaleweezerfan

7 months

boba shop next to the parking lot built over the bunker where hitler killed himself

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

14 days

@Judy686693591 @Whats_A_Rabbit This has never actually happened. No jury is going to award damages to a skater that trespassed on private property and hurt themselves jumping down a handrail or whatever.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

3 months

@mirijulip “There is a park two miles away!” This has to be bait.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

9 months

People who violate the speed limit literally every time they drive sure do have a lot of opinions about cyclists rolling past stop signs.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

6 months

I am in The Suburbs

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

10 months

This is a nice thought but blue states like Massachusetts cannot serve as a refuge for LGBTQ+ people in states where our rights are under attack when rent in Boston is $3200/month, compared to $1800 in Houston.

Maura Healey

@MassGovernor

10 months

Today, billboards just like these went up across Florida and Texas. Happy Pride everyone.

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