Darrell Owens
@idothethinking.bsky.social
Housing and transit foamer. Liberal against fascism. My "bluesky posts" represent myself and do not represent my employer or any affiliated groups and organizations.
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I photographed and offered my thoughts on a large house addition out in Fairfax County, Virginia, which for some reason has become a lightning rod in a way that countless other McMansion buildings and old-house teardowns never do
The Big House That Might Not Be Able To
A home expansion in Fairfax County tests the limits of single-family zoning
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December 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I photographed and offered my thoughts on a large house addition out in Fairfax County, Virginia, which for some reason has become a lightning rod in a way that countless other McMansion buildings and old-house teardowns never do
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Another health breakthrough.
(h/t Gav)
(h/t Gav)
New study shows Alzheimer’s disease can be reversed to achieve full neurological recovery—not just prevented or slowed—in animal models | CWRU Newsroom | Case Western Reserve University
For more than a century, people have considered Alzheimer's disease (AD) an irreversible illness. Consequently, research has focused on preventing or ...
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December 29, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Another health breakthrough.
(h/t Gav)
(h/t Gav)
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Zelensky arrived in The United States and nobody from the Trump administration went to the airport to greet him.
Putin got the red carpet treatment from Trump because Putin is willing to give the Trump family billions in bribes to sell out Europe to the Russians.
Putin got the red carpet treatment from Trump because Putin is willing to give the Trump family billions in bribes to sell out Europe to the Russians.
December 29, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Zelensky arrived in The United States and nobody from the Trump administration went to the airport to greet him.
Putin got the red carpet treatment from Trump because Putin is willing to give the Trump family billions in bribes to sell out Europe to the Russians.
Putin got the red carpet treatment from Trump because Putin is willing to give the Trump family billions in bribes to sell out Europe to the Russians.
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“She found that people ingest an average of 39,000 to 52,000 microplastic particles per year from food and drinking water, and those who use bottled water on a daily basis ingest nearly 90,000 more microplastic particles into their bodies.”
www.wired.com/story/people...
www.wired.com/story/people...
People Who Drink Bottled Water on a Daily Basis Ingest 90,000 More Microplastic Particles Each Year
Drinking water in plastic bottles contains countless particles too small to see. New research finds that people who drink water from them on a daily basis ingest far more microplastics than those who…
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December 29, 2025 at 5:15 AM
“She found that people ingest an average of 39,000 to 52,000 microplastic particles per year from food and drinking water, and those who use bottled water on a daily basis ingest nearly 90,000 more microplastic particles into their bodies.”
www.wired.com/story/people...
www.wired.com/story/people...
I was really all about Stranger Things in 2023 but man that energy has zapped. I tried watching the newest season, first episode and got really bored. That 2020-2023 pandemic mentality has completely worn off on me.
December 28, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I was really all about Stranger Things in 2023 but man that energy has zapped. I tried watching the newest season, first episode and got really bored. That 2020-2023 pandemic mentality has completely worn off on me.
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New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok!
So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...
So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...
The NYT Recruiting Brochure for New College
A failing Ron DeSantis higher ed experiment gets a boost
donmoynihan.substack.com
December 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok!
So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...
So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...
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This is a radio station out of Fort Meyers, a part of the country that looks like this and is going to be underwater before basically anywhere else. This feels like a death drive thing to me.
December 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
This is a radio station out of Fort Meyers, a part of the country that looks like this and is going to be underwater before basically anywhere else. This feels like a death drive thing to me.
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'gig work has declined from the 1990s to now' seems counterintuitive, but I think one cause is that there was a *bunch* of gig work in the 1990s that has now largely disappeared, been automated, or gone overseas.
Inspired by @besttrousers.bsky.social, I tried to figure out how many gig workers there are
kevinonthemargin.com/the-great-gi...
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The Great Gig Worker Debate - kevinonthemargin.com
In which I boldly try to answer the question: how many gig workers are there?
kevinonthemargin.com
December 28, 2025 at 10:09 PM
'gig work has declined from the 1990s to now' seems counterintuitive, but I think one cause is that there was a *bunch* of gig work in the 1990s that has now largely disappeared, been automated, or gone overseas.
Young people arent attending anti-Trump rallies because they did the biggest protests ever in 2020 yet nothing changed. Then Election 2024 and MAGA 2.0 basically repudiated them. They're demoralized and exhausted. Social media burnout has negatively impacted their health so they're taking a break
December 28, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Young people arent attending anti-Trump rallies because they did the biggest protests ever in 2020 yet nothing changed. Then Election 2024 and MAGA 2.0 basically repudiated them. They're demoralized and exhausted. Social media burnout has negatively impacted their health so they're taking a break
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Happy birthday to SF Muni, 113 years old today!
December 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Happy birthday to SF Muni, 113 years old today!
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"Data from the Federal Reserve of Dallas shows a 5% drop in construction jobs during the third quarter of this year, the single largest dip in jobs in the region." www.texastribune.org/2025/12/24/s...
South Texas homebuilders say ICE arrests have slowed work
More than 380 people attended an impromptu meeting that industry leaders in the Rio Grande Valley hosted to draw attention to the chilling effect ICE arrests have had on construction.
www.texastribune.org
December 28, 2025 at 1:06 PM
"Data from the Federal Reserve of Dallas shows a 5% drop in construction jobs during the third quarter of this year, the single largest dip in jobs in the region." www.texastribune.org/2025/12/24/s...
In addition to all that: a dishwasher stores your dirty dishes completely out of sight and scent. Hard weeks where you dont have time to do the dishes and the sink piles up with dishes, stench and flies? All in the dishwasher; the kitchen smells great. Zero case for handwashing dishes, sorry.
People who want to get morally superior about how they hand-wash everything really gotta reckon with the fact that machine dish-washing uses considerably LESS water and emits considerably fewer greenhouse emissions than standard handwashing practices do.
(And you save a lot of time...)
(And you save a lot of time...)
December 28, 2025 at 6:35 AM
In addition to all that: a dishwasher stores your dirty dishes completely out of sight and scent. Hard weeks where you dont have time to do the dishes and the sink piles up with dishes, stench and flies? All in the dishwasher; the kitchen smells great. Zero case for handwashing dishes, sorry.
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“it is illegal for you not to like me”
This is the logical and inevitable conclusion of the last decade of elite media "free speech" discourse.
December 28, 2025 at 1:54 AM
“it is illegal for you not to like me”
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People who live in Silicon Valley and who have not yet been driven absolutely insane by living in Silicon Valley are never going to leave. Never. They aren't going to care about a new tax. If they cared about taxes they would have already left!!
People imagine that billionaires will do the Joe Rogan thing where they pick up their entire life and move to Texas but actual super rich tech people aren't gonna do that shit, it's still too important for them to be in Silicon Valley
December 28, 2025 at 5:49 AM
People who live in Silicon Valley and who have not yet been driven absolutely insane by living in Silicon Valley are never going to leave. Never. They aren't going to care about a new tax. If they cared about taxes they would have already left!!
ICE raids appear to be 100% responsible for the current housing crunch in south Texas. Indeed, they have brought residential construction to an end.
South Texas homebuilders say ICE arrests have slowed work
More than 380 people attended an impromptu meeting that industry leaders in the Rio Grande Valley hosted to draw attention to the chilling effect ICE arrests have had on construction.
www.texastribune.org
December 28, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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Li's Knife Cut Noodle is exactly what downtown Berkeley needed. I assume when the university resumes it will be impossible to get in there, but this week it's perfect.
December 28, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Li's Knife Cut Noodle is exactly what downtown Berkeley needed. I assume when the university resumes it will be impossible to get in there, but this week it's perfect.
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We should ask why it’s so easy for terms and concepts like “Heritage American” and “Western Chauvinism” are met with earnest analysis and exploration while academic theory produced by Black scholars are summarily dismissed by people reading introductory texts if that.
December 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
We should ask why it’s so easy for terms and concepts like “Heritage American” and “Western Chauvinism” are met with earnest analysis and exploration while academic theory produced by Black scholars are summarily dismissed by people reading introductory texts if that.
Gen Z are romantacizing 2008 - 2011 on tiktok and while I look back at those years as pretty bad, I do wish to relive 2008 once more just to appreciate Obamamania as an adult. I only got to experience it as a kid and in otherwise dark times it seemed so enthralling.
December 28, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Gen Z are romantacizing 2008 - 2011 on tiktok and while I look back at those years as pretty bad, I do wish to relive 2008 once more just to appreciate Obamamania as an adult. I only got to experience it as a kid and in otherwise dark times it seemed so enthralling.
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I hope we have a female President within my lifetime.
December 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I hope we have a female President within my lifetime.
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They didn't like Biden and sought out stories to hurt him. By contrast they like Trump so try to bury negative stories about him and minimize them
Barely a blip in the news. 🦗from the New York Times editorial and opinion pages. Compare with days of Hunter Biden Hysteria about unprecedented abuse of the pardon power.
December 27, 2025 at 10:25 PM
They didn't like Biden and sought out stories to hurt him. By contrast they like Trump so try to bury negative stories about him and minimize them
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YouTube sent an urgent push notification for new CaHSR conceptual renders of the ARTIC station. The recommendation models are getting better. youtu.be/ahDRxActj9g?...
ARTIC Station and Douglass Road Improvements
YouTube video by California High-Speed Rail Authority
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December 27, 2025 at 11:45 PM
YouTube sent an urgent push notification for new CaHSR conceptual renders of the ARTIC station. The recommendation models are getting better. youtu.be/ahDRxActj9g?...
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One of the lasting impacts of William Buckley getting dog walked by James Baldwin in the Cambridge debate in 1965 was that racial conservatism decided it was easier to dismiss Black ideas because they couldn't win the argument.
December 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
One of the lasting impacts of William Buckley getting dog walked by James Baldwin in the Cambridge debate in 1965 was that racial conservatism decided it was easier to dismiss Black ideas because they couldn't win the argument.
Its not even worth writing longform essays debunking heritage American. It doesnt apply to decedents of African slaves with 400 years in the USA. Nor Hispanics with southwest pre-anglo ancestry. Nor Native Americans. By definition, its discredited. QED. Good bye.
December 27, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Its not even worth writing longform essays debunking heritage American. It doesnt apply to decedents of African slaves with 400 years in the USA. Nor Hispanics with southwest pre-anglo ancestry. Nor Native Americans. By definition, its discredited. QED. Good bye.
It's interesting how the AI Billboards are extremely confined to SF. I'm unaware of any in the East Bay, including the suburbs.
December 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
It's interesting how the AI Billboards are extremely confined to SF. I'm unaware of any in the East Bay, including the suburbs.
It drives me nuts too but its literally how the American criminal justice system treats death by driver. If you can prove you were just a typical American driver and not trying to commit a homicide, you might spend at most a week in jail, if not that.
This kind of reasoning drives me nuts. No, the driver did not set out to kill anyone with her car that night, but she did do something known to be incredibly dangerous with consequences anyone could have expected. Obviously she didn't intend to harm another person. But she also didn't intend not to.
December 27, 2025 at 2:32 AM
It drives me nuts too but its literally how the American criminal justice system treats death by driver. If you can prove you were just a typical American driver and not trying to commit a homicide, you might spend at most a week in jail, if not that.