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The arc of history bends toward upzoning. Let's talk about music and urban development. Politics. Music. Coffee. Erratic hot takes. Occasional sportsball (Arsenal, Phoenix, Stabæk). Currently: working on Te Whare Hangahanga. 🚲🚄🚌🌇🏗️ 🇳🇴 + 🇳
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I don't know anything about the thing, I'm not qualified to tell you about the thing, my thoughts on the thing are uninformed, I will not be saying a thing about the thing.

Australia’s electoral system is so cooked

WAKE UP

Received an email from our building manager to all the tenants in our building. A building built next to a major train line. It advised people that management, in response to residents' concerns about train noise, had raised "formal complaints with Metro Trains and the Public Transport Ombudsman."

It is wild watching countries try to establish rational responses to the Trump administration's insanity.

A major cause of rising house prices has been increased demand from investors. Our research shows restricting negative gearing to newly built housing and scrapping the capital gains tax discount would reduce speculation and allow more first home buyers to get into their own home.

Absolutely my favourite April Fool's content this year ☕🌅

#Housing credit lotteries in #Brazil show that early access to homeownership significantly boosts #fertility rates. Subsidies and zoning changes could support young families and address demographic challenges. B van Doornik, D Fazio, T Ramadorai, J Skrastiņš cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

Living rent free in their Spotify

@profanity.accountant ok

2025 albums that I've been enjoying

Hilarious being in a music discord server and being told that posting ‘political songs’ is a problem

Those damn DEI asteroids

We live in a world where wannabe marketing influencers are espousing the value of 'error-led content' as a way for people to express their authenticity. Be stupid so people know you're real.

One way flight booked. As they say, Everyone Must Go.