Nebula is putting on a Christmas Charity Stream today to raise money for World Central Kitchen! Come join the stream and help donate, or just share, like, and join the chat to help promote it! I plan to hop on the stream later today (with Ray from CityNerd!) but it will be around 7PM Eastern time, as I'll be in Toronto (which means 1AM Amsterdam time). Hope to see you there! https://www.youtube.com/live/MpVYz3hCRcA

This was the top post on reddit today: A woman in Seattle complains that her ~5km commute to work takes 45 minutes. She goes on to complain that the city is building "6 new apartment complexes" nearby. I don't want to dogpile her – she's a product of her environment – but it's yet another example of just how broken car-centric cities are. https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1pnsody/i_live_3_miles_away_from_my_work_it_takes_me_45/

I had a great conversation on The Urbanist Agenda Podcast with @Brent Toderian , an urban planning consultant and the former chief planner of Vancouver. Brent regularly works with cities to implement great urbanist projects, and he has some good advice as to how to actually achieve positive change in cities. Check it out on YouTube or your podcast application of choice!

After years of delay, the Finch West LRT line finally opened in Toronto ... and the initial reception has been really, really bad. So bad that the mayor felt the need to post to reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/toronto/comments/1pii3ay/comment/nt6qle8/ I'm going to be in Toronto soon. Should I make a video about the Finch West LRT, or would that be beating a dead horse at this point? 🤔

omfg McDonald's Netherlands hired a company to make a shitty AI Christmas ad for them and it's SO BAD. Even if it wasn't AI garbage, why would any company want to associate their brand with being anti-Christmas!?

I need to be in Stockholm on December 20th, and figured I'd take the night train from Berlin (which is easily accessible from Amsterdam by high speed train)... ... but then I looked at the timetable. WTF kind of schedule is this? Did they just throw darts at a calendar and call it a day? I am going to have to fly, even though I don't want to. Why is it so hard to take the train internationally in Europe. 😩