Josh Krahn
@joshkrahn.bsky.social
Left-liberal YIMBY. Anti-fascist. Dreaming of trains across the sea. Avid fietser. 15-minute everything. Legalize Flavortown. A muter not a blocker. (he/him)
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February 18, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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When people say this meeting could have been an email I say no absolutely not why are you in a my focused tab get out I’m trying to shop for jeans and now my coffee’s cold thanks a lot
enough emails. stop it
February 17, 2026 at 11:47 PM
When people say this meeting could have been an email I say no absolutely not why are you in a my focused tab get out I’m trying to shop for jeans and now my coffee’s cold thanks a lot
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Look at that cheese pull
June 1, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Look at that cheese pull
Adding “polybob” to the profile
February 16, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Adding “polybob” to the profile
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I've been thinking about two numbers: the county's most recent land use buildout project, and the county's estimated need for affordable housing. I'm very confident there's an impassable gap here, and I feel like ringing some alarm bells. which-side-are-you-on.ghost.io/how-will-we-...
How Will We Build Enough Affordable Housing in Albemarle County?
As with so many data stories, it started with a chart.
The May 2025 Annual Affordable Housing report for Albemarle County includes a chart showing the estimated number of Affordable Housing Units nee...
which-side-are-you-on.ghost.io
February 13, 2026 at 2:26 PM
I've been thinking about two numbers: the county's most recent land use buildout project, and the county's estimated need for affordable housing. I'm very confident there's an impassable gap here, and I feel like ringing some alarm bells. which-side-are-you-on.ghost.io/how-will-we-...
I’m enjoying the dudes rock adventure show
That’s the payoff for having not just dunk and egg, but Lyonel, and Steely Pate, and Raymond Fossaway. Just a kind of dudes rock adventure
February 15, 2026 at 3:01 PM
I’m enjoying the dudes rock adventure show
This checks out
I’ll say it again. There IS such a thing as “vertical sprawl.” It’s not tall buildings. It’s tall buildings IN CAR-DEPENDENT SPRAWL.
If you do tall buildings in walkable, multi-modal urbanism, then it’s VERTICAL URBANISM, not vertical sprawl.
Suggesting otherwise means you don’t understand sprawl.
If you do tall buildings in walkable, multi-modal urbanism, then it’s VERTICAL URBANISM, not vertical sprawl.
Suggesting otherwise means you don’t understand sprawl.
Lmao oh here we go. Not vertical sprawl!!!
February 14, 2026 at 11:23 PM
This checks out
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After housing, this is the next big zoning reform: the right to do business. Always found it odd that the USA, supposedly the land of the free market, makes it the hard if not outright illegal to open a business in most places.
Like many other planning failures, this one's also rooted in racism.
Like many other planning failures, this one's also rooted in racism.
The al pastor taco truck at sleepy North Berkeley BART is booming every night with neighbors, cyclists and families. Imagine what we could do with fully legalized street vending citywide.
February 13, 2026 at 2:52 AM
After housing, this is the next big zoning reform: the right to do business. Always found it odd that the USA, supposedly the land of the free market, makes it the hard if not outright illegal to open a business in most places.
Like many other planning failures, this one's also rooted in racism.
Like many other planning failures, this one's also rooted in racism.
The authoritarian mind can’t conceive of the practical benefits of rules and laws. It is only concerned with how behavior can be controlled and to what extent.
Rep. Brian Steil: "I flew home to my home state of Wisconsin, went to buy a 6 pack a beer, the clerk asked for my ID, confirmed it, and then I was allowed to buy the beer. I just think it's nuts that we protect our beer more than our ballots."
February 12, 2026 at 11:49 PM
The authoritarian mind can’t conceive of the practical benefits of rules and laws. It is only concerned with how behavior can be controlled and to what extent.
I could make so much cool Irish art in Ireland
February 11, 2026 at 11:48 PM
I could make so much cool Irish art in Ireland
If you see this horse do not approach. Do not accept rides from Streamers the horse.
OG youth influencers Harcourt Brace Jovanovich soft-launched the concept some 30-odd years ago; mind the teeth:
February 11, 2026 at 11:10 PM
If you see this horse do not approach. Do not accept rides from Streamers the horse.
Beautifully put
Our argument is simple but radical: transportation policy should maximize access, not movement.
For a century, we’ve measured success by car throughput and speed. But that's only a means. The end is connecting people to destinations they value.
We've been measuring, then building, the wrong thing.
For a century, we’ve measured success by car throughput and speed. But that's only a means. The end is connecting people to destinations they value.
We've been measuring, then building, the wrong thing.
February 11, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Beautifully put
Lmao I don’t even know what a “streamer” is. Is it someone who posts content on any streaming platform? Does it just mean TikTok? Is it a funny third thing? I’m grandpa let’s get me to bed.
“You don’t like Hasan because you prefer this other streamer”
what you extremely online weirdos seem incapable of grasping is that I don’t like ANY STREAMERS. abolish the entire medium. I have no idea who the fuck this “Destiny” streamer even is, leave me alone.
what you extremely online weirdos seem incapable of grasping is that I don’t like ANY STREAMERS. abolish the entire medium. I have no idea who the fuck this “Destiny” streamer even is, leave me alone.
February 11, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Lmao I don’t even know what a “streamer” is. Is it someone who posts content on any streaming platform? Does it just mean TikTok? Is it a funny third thing? I’m grandpa let’s get me to bed.
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This was one of the bosses' explicit goals in getting Trump elected - crush the strong Biden era labor market in order to discipline workers and make them submit to abuse and exploitation. That, not burrito taxi prices, was the actual economic stakes of the 2024 election
US HIRING AT RECESSION LEVELS: HIRING RATE AT 3.3%, MATCHING THE 2020 CRISIS AND NEAR A 13-YEAR LOW.
February 11, 2026 at 5:01 AM
This was one of the bosses' explicit goals in getting Trump elected - crush the strong Biden era labor market in order to discipline workers and make them submit to abuse and exploitation. That, not burrito taxi prices, was the actual economic stakes of the 2024 election
My wife brought home a reduced-price banana cream pie from kroger. She’s a special lady.
February 11, 2026 at 12:20 AM
My wife brought home a reduced-price banana cream pie from kroger. She’s a special lady.
This “sorry we’re full” argument is IMO one of the more ridiculous NIMBY gambits, yet it persists somehow
Staff also points out that Western Albemarle High School is already over capacity, and this would contribute to that.
Staff actually seems to have changed their recommendation to favor approval for rezoning, assuming the developer continues to try to address concerns.
Staff actually seems to have changed their recommendation to favor approval for rezoning, assuming the developer continues to try to address concerns.
February 11, 2026 at 12:09 AM
This “sorry we’re full” argument is IMO one of the more ridiculous NIMBY gambits, yet it persists somehow
Call me old fashioned but I think “that’s obviously going to result in death threats” is a fucked up thing to say on the internet
Bro, you did the Kat Abu mutual aid discourse completely of your own volition. Not even disputing its bad/risky campaigning, but it was so obviously going to result in death threats.
You like being publicly correct more than you like your personal safety.
You choose to be tankie bait. 🤷♂️
You like being publicly correct more than you like your personal safety.
You choose to be tankie bait. 🤷♂️
February 10, 2026 at 11:46 PM
Call me old fashioned but I think “that’s obviously going to result in death threats” is a fucked up thing to say on the internet
A show! Coming up! I love playing music show! And other bands good! Sensor Ghost a fave!
As a reminder, this show is coming up in about a month. Another chance to see @averysafecat.bsky.social, @joshkrahn.bsky.social, Erin O and I play music together of course, but much more than that. Sensor Ghost rules and I am excited to see Clenchers live for the first time. Good people, good music.
Next show at Visible Records in Charlottesville will be w/ the very cool, very unique Sensor Ghost outta DC (their last record on Dischord, Irritation on Demand, is great). Also joining will be no-wave-y skronkers Clenchers outta Richmond & Radon Abatement. Should be a good time. Saturday, March 14.
February 10, 2026 at 10:49 PM
A show! Coming up! I love playing music show! And other bands good! Sensor Ghost a fave!
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It really annoys me that the moral panic over e-bikes obscures the incredible impact they have had for disabled people.
This. For the disabled they are a vital tool, and without mine, I am housebound. The inherent ableism infuriates me, especially since I am a careful rider. In every incident I have been in, and there are very few, I was the victim not the cause. Every time.
February 9, 2026 at 7:16 PM
It really annoys me that the moral panic over e-bikes obscures the incredible impact they have had for disabled people.
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And now the ode to dense communities & neighborhood businesses, surely the most urbanist halftime show ever
February 9, 2026 at 1:30 AM
And now the ode to dense communities & neighborhood businesses, surely the most urbanist halftime show ever
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Puerto Rico hasn't had reliable power in a decade.
The grid sends occasional surges through the wires that fry appliances.
Electricity rates are among the highest in the entire U.S.
Heat waves are getting intense in the summer, and outages mean A/C is no guarantee for an aging population.
The grid sends occasional surges through the wires that fry appliances.
Electricity rates are among the highest in the entire U.S.
Heat waves are getting intense in the summer, and outages mean A/C is no guarantee for an aging population.
February 9, 2026 at 1:49 AM
Puerto Rico hasn't had reliable power in a decade.
The grid sends occasional surges through the wires that fry appliances.
Electricity rates are among the highest in the entire U.S.
Heat waves are getting intense in the summer, and outages mean A/C is no guarantee for an aging population.
The grid sends occasional surges through the wires that fry appliances.
Electricity rates are among the highest in the entire U.S.
Heat waves are getting intense in the summer, and outages mean A/C is no guarantee for an aging population.
Only I should be de-aged in tv commercials
February 9, 2026 at 2:18 AM
Only I should be de-aged in tv commercials
Best halftime show since Prince I think
February 9, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Best halftime show since Prince I think
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EAT IT EASTERN HEMISPHERE
February 9, 2026 at 1:32 AM
EAT IT EASTERN HEMISPHERE
So do people actually pay these “import duty” invoices they keep sending? Seems fake.
February 8, 2026 at 3:38 PM
So do people actually pay these “import duty” invoices they keep sending? Seems fake.