agree, and then you lose mobile people like me because the bus is slower than biking and more stops means more carsicknsss

Stephen Jacob Smith@stephenjacobsmith.com · 5h ago

I didn’t draw this well, but this is why I think North American insistence on 1/8-mi. bus stop spacing vs. Europe’s 1/4-mi. is misguided. Average distance *to the line* is already so long that you’ve already lost people with big mobility issues before they’ve even gotten to the street with the bus.

Vehicles with gas tanks larger than 16 gallons are primarily full-size pickups, large SUVs, & muscle cars that get 10-15 miles per gallon. Median cost of these vehicles ~ $70,000, if financed ~ $1300/month, plus insurance ~ $250 a month. But sure, complain about gas prices for your Sherman tank.

The Sgt Joker@thesgtjoker.bsky.social · 22h ago

This wasn’t even full. 8647

Starting next week pools are gonna be closed on weekdays in Sac while temps are still in the 100s. One may think “Huh maybe we should raise the tickets above $3-5$ so we can keep the pools open” But user fees are inequitable. So in the spirit of ensuring equal access the pool will be inaccessible.

Again the bleakest part of the MAHA stuff is that most liberals think about this crunchy stuff as exploitable at best and outright true at worst.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 2d ago

There is pervasive corruption across our healthcare and agricultural systems that defy party lines. I meet with MAHA activists because a lot of their concerns are bipartisan issues that major corporations paint as partisan. The fight isn't left and right, it's top and bottom.

You can’t eat charts but you can eat fintwitter skeets (Matt darling’s are still inedible though)

Matt Darling@besttrousers.bsky.social · 2d ago

Ahhh.

But they will be

Steffen Rayburn-Maarup@rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 3d ago

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

I avoid the term “gentrification” when talking about housing affordability because it mostly describes *how people feel* about neighborhood change, not the change itself. For example, this author talks about how containerized trash pickup will “gentrify” NYC’s streets by replacing parked cars:

◥◤Kriston Capps 250@kristoncapps.bsky.social · 4d ago

Finally, someone willing to speak up for throwing your garbage onto nasty streets: "The bins will contribute to the sense of New York becoming more 'sanitized' each day, where it is gentrified and perhaps physically cleaner but losing its character and history." www.archpaper.com/2026/07/litt...

reposting b/c yimby bait

slate@pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 3d ago

my neighborhood 7-11 closed a couple years ago and tried to reopen but couldn’t get the permit approved because there’s a preschool next door and 7-11s sell alcohol (the previous permit was grandfathered in). i saw a fence going up around the lot recently and looked up what was moving in: a gun shop

Same for the progressiveness of a given regulation. Let’s pile on more environmental impact studies and not think about how that stuff stops housing, transit, bike lanes, congestion pricing, parking reform, etc

Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰@urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 3d ago

I wish we could shake libs out of the consensus position that the progressiveness of a tax policy can be solely evaluated by looking at one side of the ledger I have had many conversations like this “This tax is regressive” >But the revenue is being spent progressively “Had not considered this”

rigorous imposition of external validity on thee but not me is going to be a recurring theme for a whI’ll

Ariel M. (she/her)@byarielm.fyi · 5d ago

Friendly reminder as LLM papers come out that headlines aren’t everything and designing studies on these things are hard and costly, therefore more likely to carry an asterisk of “under these specific conditions (that likely don’t reflect real world usage)”

Can the frontier agents please take a break for the weekend it’s too much work to keep up with these daily cyberattacks

Had an inflammatory thought comparing masking absolutism to AI absolutism which I refrained from posting because i realized i wouldn’t learn anything from the resulting flame war. Please clap

im a non neutral cos I don’t listen to pop but as someone in that category i just do not care whether its produced by AI. It’s already slop. I don’t care if anyone is rewarded for producing it

Will Oremus@willoremus.com · 5d ago

Within 5 to 10 years a lot of pop music will be made at least partly with AI and the fact that our generation deplores it will be either irrelevant or part of the appeal

Anyone with experience regarding whether vertical mice help with radial tunnel syndrome? (please don’t talk to me about carpal tunnel I’ve only ever had the obscure tunnel syndromes)

I can’t help but notice everyone’s been really gloomy and irritable since the large hadron collider was shut off. Coincidence?

Such a good passage.

Moby Dick@mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 5d ago

BEING PAID,—what will compare with it?

I've long been a 'the euros are a better exhibit of futbol than the world cup' person and I feel a little vindicated

it's hard to explain for those not marinated in urbanist discourse but I feel like 80% of why I relate culturally much more to NYC than to the bay area (to the extent that I feel cultural affiliation to US regions at all) is b/c of urbanism

I feel like nithya raman is getting a lot less attention than mamdani even though on aggregate her policies are better of course who's to say how it would be different if mamdani's election hadn't occurred first, but still.

Benjamin Schneider@benschneider.bsky.social · 5d ago

Progressive LA Mayoral Candidate Nithya Raman told Vanity Fair that her main difference with DSA is on housing. www.vanityfair.com/story/nithya...

First they came for Atherton, and I did nothing, because it was hilarious.

Jordan Grimes@cafedujord.bsky.social · 5d ago

YIMBYs, a new moment of triumph is upon us! Atherton, the Silicon Valley enclave that prohibits all but single-family homes, one of the most exclusionary towns in the country, has just received its first multifamily housing project (ever!) under @scottwiener.bsky.social’s SB79!

In my experience, most people who fantasize about living a simple life without a lot of civilizational comforts have actually spent a lot less time living like that than I have.

In all the AI economic doom scenarios the AI rents all accrue to big tech but reality probably is that they’ll accrue to people whose parents bought SF real estate in the 60’s

Hyperlexic@hyperlexic.bsky.social · 6d ago

San Francisco's rent scene continues to go wild. Median listing for a 2BR is over $6,000??? www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

'credit scores are fake' is an assertion that has a lot of silly downstream consequences . if you've worked for a credit card company, you'll know.

Next door in Silicon Valley@nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 6d ago

That's not even how the mortgage bubble worked! The credit scores weren't faked! The problem was they were giving out huge loans to people who had sub-prime credit because they were getting big commissions to make loans to people who who had sub-prime credit!

Bluesky might be the densest concentration of people who understand that certain social policies can have good intentions but unintended consequences but also think that left wing economic interventionism always does exactly what it says on the tin

Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · last wk.

One thing you can see in the latest Stancil blowup is that a sizable share of this website thinks that good intentions are the only thing that matter in policymaking, and expressing skepticism that a policy will really work as intended is equivalent to stealing food from the poor.

This also describes a lot of discourse about housing, free parking, etc

Matt Darling@besttrousers.bsky.social · last wk.

When someone says "What do the emperor's clothes look like?", I think a good response is to describe the emperor's clothes. When people instead say "how dare you question the emperor's style?!" I find that just raises further questions.

Drives me nuts hearing about "food deserts" in this NYC-owned grocery store discourse. NYC does not have food deserts. It has expensive, low-quality groceries. The first city-owned store (La Marqueta) is in the middle; every red pin in a full-service grocery store. Not a bodega, not a greengrocer.

just became aware of William Howard Taft’s 1908 campaign poster

I'm down a rabbit hole on combination utensils. There's my beloved SPORK, but then we get into the much more exotic combos: This one's called a FORKCHOP, designed by Donald BonAsia in Los Angeles, available now through a variety of online retailers.

A lot of otherwise-inexplicable stuff is easier to explain if you ask "What if not 'political economy', but 'millennial religious sect'?"

There’s this weird thing going on in Dem politics where pollsters, Dem elected leaders, and center-left pundits have 1. All landed on this messaging consensus for more than a decade. 2. Oriented all their comms around this consensus and then 3. They all pretend this is not happening

NPR@npr.org · last wk.

Working class voters have moved away from the Democratic Party. Winning them back is key to the party's future, a new reports shows. But first, the messaging has to change. n.pr/4bgINgh