Trin is short for Trinket

✨️ PEDESTRIAN AFFIRMATIONS ✨️

and i'm not talking about the complaint i've seen folks have about how they crumple at the smallest collision - like that's supposed to happen - the car crumples so YOU don't

but like...how they've added so many bells and whistles that honestly the car is insane. like not to sound like a boomer but there's a lot of unnecessary shit going on in cars and its definitely pricing them out of anyone's affordability but even more so cars are becoming outright digital now? run by a computer program that can crash and mess up at any time?

she beautiful btw + love ur art

im not gonna lie I'm so jealous right now WHEN WILL IT BE MY TURN??? i want to fall in love with an eldritch lady too... and maybe have our bodies combined into a new kind of nightmarish form... and our minds too.... as a treat

Shortages and vacancies . . . Hardly ever is a connection made between the two. Either vacant properties are not considered part of the solution because they are not for sale (often because it pays for owners to keep them empty), or they are dismissed as the wrong type of housing in the wrong place by policymakers or developers (often a combination of the two). Vacancies are thought to represent two ends of the spectrum with no relevance to mainstream requirements. The arguments seem flimsy. Empty homes that are not for sale can either be subject to heavy taxation (as is happening in certain places) or to laws banning the phenomenon altogether. The second argument—wrong homes in the wrong place—is unconvincing given that it is commonly made by the same people who cite desperate housing shortages. Furthermore, given the increasingly footloose nature of work, “the wrong place” qualifies as a bit of a misnomer. The planning and building of large new urban developments while significant portions of the existing built environment remain empty goes against all common sense. Much is said about sustainability and forms of sustainable building. Well-intended as the notion may be, the uncomfortable reality is that how we approach things is simply not sustainable in its current form. Our unrelenting urge to “build away” our shortages comes with massive environmental consequences. The toll of the construction industry on the environment is well known, accounting for 50 percent of global resource extraction, 52 percent of all steel and 25 percent of all aluminum produced worldwide, and 16 percent of the world’s freshwater consumption. Buildings produce 33 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, are responsible for a third of global energy use, and consume three quarters of all electricity produced, while their demolition accounts for a third of all global waste. Furthermore, 30 percent of particulate matter emissions come from construction, while 56 percent of the occupational cancers in men are within the construction industry. It is hardly possible to overstate the impact of construction on the global ecosystem.

Similarly, China might have enough empty housing to house the world, but it means nothing if no one wants to live there. You can still have a structural shortage locally and an oversupply of housing nationally.