David Kissling
@xtdave.bsky.social
San Francisco, cities, bikes, left politics, Dodgers ⚾️, Warriors 🏀, Kings 🏒
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I love the east Bay Area. People of different races and religions live and work together to build the American Dream. We in liberal society take this for granted but the national rise of extremism stemming from online content seeks to take this away from us.
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The American Beauty of the East Bay
Americanism is facing its biggest challenge from extremism. The people of the Bay Area show why its worth fighting for.
darrellowens.substack.com
December 25, 2025 at 3:56 AM
I love the east Bay Area. People of different races and religions live and work together to build the American Dream. We in liberal society take this for granted but the national rise of extremism stemming from online content seeks to take this away from us.
darrellowens.substack.com/p/the-americ...
darrellowens.substack.com/p/the-americ...
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Love this! I have exactly the same feeling riding over bridges in this city. Each time I do it I take in the view and think about how lucky I am to live here. It's a feeling that's hard to experience any other way other than on the seat of a bicycle.
Rama Duwaji, New York City's next First Lady, on the joys of riding a Citi Bike:
December 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Love this! I have exactly the same feeling riding over bridges in this city. Each time I do it I take in the view and think about how lucky I am to live here. It's a feeling that's hard to experience any other way other than on the seat of a bicycle.
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Over on the other app, the Mets are doing white genocide with their roster
December 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Over on the other app, the Mets are doing white genocide with their roster
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Funny how there's apparently no conflict for councilmembers who're landlords voting on tenant protections, or homeowners voting on new housing projects and rezoning actions.
Just for renters who want more homes.
Just for renters who want more homes.
In Santa Monica, the FPPC has disqualified pro-housing Councilmember Jesse Zwick from all future housing votes. They said that because he works for a housing non-profit, he’s “conflicted” and must recuse.
Pretty absurd. The NIMBY deep state strikes again.
www.smdp.com/state-regula...
Pretty absurd. The NIMBY deep state strikes again.
www.smdp.com/state-regula...
State regulators say Councilman Zwick is conflicted on housing votes
The California Fair Political Practices Commission has ruled that Santa Monica Mayor Pro Tem Jesse Zwick must recuse himself from housing production decisions
www.smdp.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Funny how there's apparently no conflict for councilmembers who're landlords voting on tenant protections, or homeowners voting on new housing projects and rezoning actions.
Just for renters who want more homes.
Just for renters who want more homes.
The post-NFL doubleheader 60 Minutes is the most influential Network news broadcast we have these days because it attracts viewers who aren't tuning in purposefully. The point of Ellison buying CBS is to keep anti-Trump stories off those broadcasts
But it won't air during NFL season capturing normies who wouldn't tune in otherwise which is what matters for Weiss, Ellison and Trump
December 22, 2025 at 3:10 AM
The post-NFL doubleheader 60 Minutes is the most influential Network news broadcast we have these days because it attracts viewers who aren't tuning in purposefully. The point of Ellison buying CBS is to keep anti-Trump stories off those broadcasts
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PG&E is doing a heck of a job
December 22, 2025 at 1:48 AM
PG&E is doing a heck of a job
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House member WAR is a reasonable guide to how much slack you should cut red district Dems but it is not a terribly good basis for shittalking sitting reps.
as Brian Scalabrine once said “I’m closer to LeBron than you are to me.”
as Brian Scalabrine once said “I’m closer to LeBron than you are to me.”
December 20, 2025 at 11:45 PM
House member WAR is a reasonable guide to how much slack you should cut red district Dems but it is not a terribly good basis for shittalking sitting reps.
as Brian Scalabrine once said “I’m closer to LeBron than you are to me.”
as Brian Scalabrine once said “I’m closer to LeBron than you are to me.”
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Addison highlights these types of comments from American conservatives, and I’ve seen this all the time and always think it’s especially deranged. America has the lowest density, most “single-family” housing stock of basically any modern nation and it’s still not enough for these people!
December 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Addison highlights these types of comments from American conservatives, and I’ve seen this all the time and always think it’s especially deranged. America has the lowest density, most “single-family” housing stock of basically any modern nation and it’s still not enough for these people!
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you can't have a governable city if you're just constantly re-litigating major infrastructure decisions made by voters. it's just complete chaos, ensures continued acrimony, and deprives businesses and families of the ability to plan.
it's a fundamentally unserious *and undemocratic* way to exist.
it's a fundamentally unserious *and undemocratic* way to exist.
Sunset Supervisor Alan Wong said he’d back a ballot measure to reopen the city’s westernmost coastal boulevard to cars, closing Sunset Dunes park.
S.F. voters closer to weighing in — again — on fate of Great Highway
Sunset Supervisor Alan Wong said he’d back a ballot measure to reopen the city’s westernmost coastal boulevard to cars, closing Sunset Dunes park.
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December 19, 2025 at 10:06 PM
you can't have a governable city if you're just constantly re-litigating major infrastructure decisions made by voters. it's just complete chaos, ensures continued acrimony, and deprives businesses and families of the ability to plan.
it's a fundamentally unserious *and undemocratic* way to exist.
it's a fundamentally unserious *and undemocratic* way to exist.
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the reality is Spanish is our de facto second language and white people need to sack up and face reality
Cannot believe this version of the Republican Party won a record number of Latino/Hispanic voters, this country is so cooked lol
December 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
the reality is Spanish is our de facto second language and white people need to sack up and face reality
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Think about this. Did you hear trans panic headlines in the 2000s? No.
Conservatives weren’t “worried” about trans people until the day they lost on Marriage Equality.
Once they realized most of us are just fine with gay marriage, they needed a new wedge issue and started attacking trans people.
Conservatives weren’t “worried” about trans people until the day they lost on Marriage Equality.
Once they realized most of us are just fine with gay marriage, they needed a new wedge issue and started attacking trans people.
I’m rewatching Mad About You & theres a joke where Ursula the ditzy waitress mistakes a recurring character for a post-op trans woman and immediately talks about how great she looks now, then deadnames her as part of a running joke at Ursula’s expense. In 1995. The great trans scare is manufactured.
December 18, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Think about this. Did you hear trans panic headlines in the 2000s? No.
Conservatives weren’t “worried” about trans people until the day they lost on Marriage Equality.
Once they realized most of us are just fine with gay marriage, they needed a new wedge issue and started attacking trans people.
Conservatives weren’t “worried” about trans people until the day they lost on Marriage Equality.
Once they realized most of us are just fine with gay marriage, they needed a new wedge issue and started attacking trans people.
The stimmies broke society and will make it impossible to do actual left economic policies for at least a generation
this is data I've been waiting for someone to put together, I think it explains a fair amount about Why Things Are This Way Right Now
the stimmies -> equities/crypto track created something of a new class in American society
the stimmies -> equities/crypto track created something of a new class in American society
'The bottom 50% – historically the least engaged in equities – has experienced the fastest rate of wealth accumulation and now holds more than $4 trillion in net worth.' www.citadelsecurities.com/news-and-ins...
December 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The stimmies broke society and will make it impossible to do actual left economic policies for at least a generation
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All discourse is the same now.
December 17, 2025 at 3:42 AM
All discourse is the same now.
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Good take here on Family Friendly Housing by @ad-mastro.bsky.social www.thedeletedscenes.com/p/is-yimbyis...
December 16, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Good take here on Family Friendly Housing by @ad-mastro.bsky.social www.thedeletedscenes.com/p/is-yimbyis...
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The casuals are right. The end of NBA games take too long. Spurs-Thunder was a classic, right up until the final took 9.8 seconds of game time took 12 minutes (without even one review).
Not only did Major League Baseball shorten games with its wide-ranging rule changes, but it did so by eliminating many of the sport’s boring moments.
The NBA should do the same and keep the main thing the main thing, writes @ekoreen.bsky.social.
The NBA should do the same and keep the main thing the main thing, writes @ekoreen.bsky.social.
December 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The casuals are right. The end of NBA games take too long. Spurs-Thunder was a classic, right up until the final took 9.8 seconds of game time took 12 minutes (without even one review).
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A functioning pluralistic society is what protects Jews, not a garrison state on the other side of the world.
I'm betting that somehow Ahmed Al Ahmed's ethnicity will not become the basis for loads of sweeping conclusions about multiculturalism.
December 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
A functioning pluralistic society is what protects Jews, not a garrison state on the other side of the world.
This is easier to do if it's less than a decade since the last trifecta and you have the political room to be strategic rather than catering to long term spending asks of the party
🇺🇸 trifectas get shot at doing something
Obama chose policy (ACA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
Biden chose policy (ARP/IRA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
The platform must be institutional reform next time. Right from the start, as @dhnexon.bsky.social said
Obama chose policy (ACA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
Biden chose policy (ARP/IRA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
The platform must be
If we want to actually be a representative democracy, then the platform needs to be institutional reform. All the Popularism and all the policies follow from that, not the other way around.
December 14, 2025 at 4:36 AM
This is easier to do if it's less than a decade since the last trifecta and you have the political room to be strategic rather than catering to long term spending asks of the party
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the 6-7 phenomenon is in no way different from any other catchphrase that kids have yelled out at any point in the last hundred years, there's no daylight between that and when i was in high school, the year straight where every guy kept yelling "i'm rick james bitch"
December 12, 2025 at 9:05 PM
the 6-7 phenomenon is in no way different from any other catchphrase that kids have yelled out at any point in the last hundred years, there's no daylight between that and when i was in high school, the year straight where every guy kept yelling "i'm rick james bitch"
Newsom must have only signed those housing laws because they were supposed to not work too well. If there's threat of them working then he has to ban them from rich neighborhoods
"We will not allow outside groups — even longstanding allies — to attack the Palisades," @gavinnewsom.bsky.social spokesperson on a now-filed YIMBY Law lawsuit against his July executive order banning duplexes in L.A. wildfire rebuilding www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Newsom wouldn’t budge on his duplex ban for the Los Angeles wildfire rebuild. So, a YIMBY group is suing him.
Gov. Gavin Newsom shrugged off a lawsuit by a YIMBY group over his executive order to ban duplexes in Pacific Palisades.
www.politico.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Newsom must have only signed those housing laws because they were supposed to not work too well. If there's threat of them working then he has to ban them from rich neighborhoods
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Faced with a once in a lifetime political realignment among Latinos, the GOP looked at themselves in the mirror, took a deep breath, and decided they had to get more racist
December 10, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Faced with a once in a lifetime political realignment among Latinos, the GOP looked at themselves in the mirror, took a deep breath, and decided they had to get more racist
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Paused my American Canto hate-read to finish writing a blog post about internet history.
Optimization was an era. It ended. Now we're living through the enshittification era. It, too, won't last forever.
(And we can kind of blame Elon for this mess.)
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Optimization was an era. It ended. Now we're living through the enshittification era. It, too, won't last forever.
(And we can kind of blame Elon for this mess.)
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
The end of optimization
Some thoughts on a transition point in recent internet history,
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December 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Paused my American Canto hate-read to finish writing a blog post about internet history.
Optimization was an era. It ended. Now we're living through the enshittification era. It, too, won't last forever.
(And we can kind of blame Elon for this mess.)
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
Optimization was an era. It ended. Now we're living through the enshittification era. It, too, won't last forever.
(And we can kind of blame Elon for this mess.)
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
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V pleased to have got this idea written down, which has been knocking around my head since a guy on here got pounced on for saying 'video games are actually incredibly good value for money nowadays'.
“Cut-price luxury and exorbitant necessity” is a great phrase by @stephenkb.bsky.social. The internet has made culture (and other superstar markets) more scalable and unequal, pushing up the price of necessities in places where superstars congregate.
www.ft.com/content/b49c...
www.ft.com/content/b49c...
The Netflix age has been great for consumers but terrible for artists
Returns to musicians and writers are dwindling fast
www.ft.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
V pleased to have got this idea written down, which has been knocking around my head since a guy on here got pounced on for saying 'video games are actually incredibly good value for money nowadays'.
Obviously this is not a defense of Greene, but it's clear that the secret sauce of Trump 2 is death threats and it's good when people who are receiving them start talking about it. That's the only way we get through this time.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I sent those deaths threats directly to him in a text message & informed him of what his name calling & words were doing - it was a direct assassination threat on my son. And he was extremely - I won't repeat what he said - but it was extremely unkind. No sympathy. No care"
December 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Obviously this is not a defense of Greene, but it's clear that the secret sauce of Trump 2 is death threats and it's good when people who are receiving them start talking about it. That's the only way we get through this time.