Daniel Kavelman

Every SB 803 bus i’ve tried to catch at the Lamar Union station this week has been delayed or canceled :/ @CapMetroATX

Property rights.

@hecubian_devil so jealous! shes the reason i studied classics

Went to a Mary Beard talk, got my book signed after. Told her I picked my name because I’m a bit of a Cassandra and she laughed and gave me a thumbs up so my week is made

And Austin voters have been able to understand this, which is why pro-density candidates have a supermajority on City Council!

This views do not represent "Austin Environmentalists" and it is malpractice to only include the most anti-development groups when there are so many pro-environment stakeholders electeds who know that density in the urban core reduces pollution and protects green space.

Incredibly dumb populism slop policy proposal but unfortunately it is the type of thing that’s incredibly popular with the Median Voter.

@emmma_camp_ charli xcx - how i’m feeling now

Question for the group: has there been any great art about Covid? Any incredible literary novels or films? I can't think of anything off the top of my head but my cultural knowledge is not limitless.

My ancestors buried half their children. All mine are alive. My ancestors' house had a dirt floor. Mine is wood. I have indoor plumbing, I have hot water, I have never in my life hauled a full bucket half a mile and I probably never will. Do you know how rare it is, in human history, for small children to wear shoes? Mine have multiple pairs. I can speak to my relatives who live thousands of miles away, for free, at any time. Video, if we want video. With machine translation, if we speak different languages. The original Library of Congress had 740 books in it. I have more than that. If I run out of books in my home my local public library has 350,000. If I want to take a hundred books with me on vacation, they all fit on a device that fits in my purse. I have heat in the winter and AC in the summer and a washing machine and I have never, ever, ever had to scrub a dress clean by hand in the stream. I can look up recipes from more than a hundred different countries and I've tried dozens of them. I ride a clean and modern train across my city for $4, or take a robot taxi if I'm out too late for the train. I donate $40,000 every year to the cause of getting healthcare to the world's poorest people and even after the donations I never have to think about whether I can afford a book, or a pair of shoes, or a cup of coffee. There is a great deal more to fight for, of course. I hope that our descendants will look back on our lives and list a thousand ways they're richer. Maybe we ourselves will do that, if some of the crazier stuff comes true. But the abundance is all around you and to a significant degree you aren't feeling it only because fish don't notice water.

As much as I want an easier R for Talarico to run against in Texas, I cannot abide any discussion of Paxton being anywhere close to the levers of power. I hope John Cornyn wins that primary, and I hope Talarico beats him

The way no one has ever needed to fuck off this bad before

@YIMBYLAND Incredible! So excited to see this make an impact!

Last year I decided I was no longer satisfied just posting about housing. So I started a company with 3 other incredible dudes with the mission to build missing-middle housing at scale. Introducing... The American Housing Corporation It’s time to rebuild the American Dream.

Extraordinarily disappointing to see Commissioner @jefftravillion abstain from a critical vote for Vice Chair of CAMPO and sit out on a rare opportunity to assert the importance of the City of Austin and Travis County and let the suburbs once again take control of transpo funding

Hillary was absolutely telling the truth lmfao

this is so fucking pathetic and corrupt. These folks should be ashamed of themselves

Watching this OU defense.

Battle won ☑️

A new logo that asks, what if Austin TX was a local credit union.

The Austin land use regime changed through persuasion and talking and understanding. This venue and debate is so critical for understanding that we are all on the same side. And that good staff and good memos and good letters matter! Great work!

Jon Lovett’s face when LA City Councilmember Imelda Padilla said she forced an affordable housing project to go down from six stories to three stories and add in EV charging spaces

Half the complaints are about capitalism are actually complaints about scarcity and the subsequent necessary rationing of resources. Free parking is bad anyway, it imposes large negative externalities, distorts land use, and creates deadweight losses.