one of my favorite recurring subplots in housing discourse is NIMBYs talking about any major dev project like it’s a form of settler colonialism and meanwhile actual indigenous people are like “we are going to build the biggest apartment buildings you have literally ever seen”
"We think that building housing is part of the solution. We think net zero is part of the solution. We think a car-light development is part of the solution. We think building a sense of place and community is part of the solution."
-- leader of the Squamish nation www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/o...
There's a far better case for banning social media for people 65+ than for people 16-18
paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner)
Matthew Lewis -- living in the era of cults and consequences
"We think that building housing is part of the solution. We think net zero is part of the solution. We think a car-light development is part of the solution. We think building a sense of place and community is part of the solution."
-- leader of the Squamish nation www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/o...
If god had wanted me to be butch, she wouldn’t have made me so fond of rhinestones.
I made a leopard print rhinestone skateboard helmet and took photos of it with a star filter on the lens of my camera.
Michael Hobbes
the fantasy of an unmobilized group that can reverse your fortunes if you just say the right words, is convenient when you can’t work with your actual coalition
Yeah, the moment you give yourself license to be cruel to people if they meet a certain criteria, you’ll just keep expanding that criteria to feed the endorphin rush being cruel gives you.
The price of housing is set by supply and demand. The #1 best thing we can do to make housing affordable and protect tenants is permit a ton of new housing in the places people want to live so that landlords will be forced to compete against each other on price and quality.
Matthew Lewis -- living in the era of cults and consequences
The Children's Commissioner wants the social media ban extended to 18. Even though people will be able to vote at 16. The Beatles first went to Hamburg when George Harrison was 17. You can also decide to take on £50k of tuition fee debt at 17.
