David Kissling
@xtdave.bsky.social
San Francisco, cities, bikes, left politics, Dodgers ⚾️, Warriors 🏀, Kings 🏒
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The California state fire marshal was legally obliged to release the single-stair report on January 1. A month later, it's nowhere in sight, and I'm hearing the draft recommends doing the bare minumum. State legislators should just pass the code update themselves.
calmatters.org/housing/2026...
calmatters.org/housing/2026...
Housing advocates still waiting for state-ordered stair report
California’s fire safety regulators are more than a month late with a study on mid-rise apartments and staircases.
calmatters.org
February 10, 2026 at 8:14 PM
The California state fire marshal was legally obliged to release the single-stair report on January 1. A month later, it's nowhere in sight, and I'm hearing the draft recommends doing the bare minumum. State legislators should just pass the code update themselves.
calmatters.org/housing/2026...
calmatters.org/housing/2026...
it's bad that GM axed their Brightdrop EV vans due to tariffs and anti-EV govt policy because those would be perfect for this
February 10, 2026 at 7:51 PM
it's bad that GM axed their Brightdrop EV vans due to tariffs and anti-EV govt policy because those would be perfect for this
servants who are high-SES strivers, not the typical poor immigrant care workers that everyone else has.
it's what keeps them clutching the office until they die
it's what keeps them clutching the office until they die
February 10, 2026 at 5:02 PM
servants who are high-SES strivers, not the typical poor immigrant care workers that everyone else has.
it's what keeps them clutching the office until they die
it's what keeps them clutching the office until they die
The Dodgers finishing 20+ games ahead of the 2nd place Giants is not great for their postseason chances, but is great for me as a Giants hater
February 10, 2026 at 5:00 PM
The Dodgers finishing 20+ games ahead of the 2nd place Giants is not great for their postseason chances, but is great for me as a Giants hater
The end of this era led to a crack in the Democratic coalition, eventually resulting in Trump's reelection in 2024.
February 10, 2026 at 4:48 PM
The end of this era led to a crack in the Democratic coalition, eventually resulting in Trump's reelection in 2024.
Liberaltarianism was the dominant ideology of the Democratic Party through the long Obama era. It led to lots of great policy reforms like marriage equality and weed legalization. It ended in 2020 when COVID required government to say you could just not do what you wanted to do
IMHO the theme of the 2010s is that progressives achieved every policy goal from my teenage years but in every case decided that legalization was good but regulation was for losers.
February 10, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Liberaltarianism was the dominant ideology of the Democratic Party through the long Obama era. It led to lots of great policy reforms like marriage equality and weed legalization. It ended in 2020 when COVID required government to say you could just not do what you wanted to do
similar to my thought that we should use Caltrain as the brand name for trains throughout California, except for the current Peninsula line, which should be branded as BART
February 10, 2026 at 12:07 AM
similar to my thought that we should use Caltrain as the brand name for trains throughout California, except for the current Peninsula line, which should be branded as BART
Megyn Kelly's career evolution has basically been the Matt Bors Nazi cartoon in real life. I know she's always hated any visible diversity (Santa), but she sounds far more unhinged about it now
www.dailykos.com/stories/2018...
www.dailykos.com/stories/2018...
Cartoon: You made me become a Nazi!
Follow me on Twitter at @MattBors and check this Kickstarter I launched to create a comics magazine.
www.dailykos.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Megyn Kelly's career evolution has basically been the Matt Bors Nazi cartoon in real life. I know she's always hated any visible diversity (Santa), but she sounds far more unhinged about it now
www.dailykos.com/stories/2018...
www.dailykos.com/stories/2018...
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in a sane world we would be doing everything possible to make e/bikes a default mode of travel for short distance journeys.
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 7:21 PM
in a sane world we would be doing everything possible to make e/bikes a default mode of travel for short distance journeys.
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What if we kept all the self-denial, guilt and conformity pressures of Mormonism, but removed the community, sense of higher purpose and relentless focus on service?
Introducing: the modern linkedin lifestyle, by the new york times:
Introducing: the modern linkedin lifestyle, by the new york times:
Cafes across the U.S. are embracing the low- and no-caffeine lifestyle, with options that are a far cry from dusty tea bags and rewarmed decaf. nyti.ms/3XKlqoj
February 9, 2026 at 5:23 PM
What if we kept all the self-denial, guilt and conformity pressures of Mormonism, but removed the community, sense of higher purpose and relentless focus on service?
Introducing: the modern linkedin lifestyle, by the new york times:
Introducing: the modern linkedin lifestyle, by the new york times:
it's all vice signalling for what the dominant VC class dreams of seeing after they freaked out that millennial tech workers stopped actually working in 2020 (read: demanded some basic work-life balance and time to raise their kids)
February 9, 2026 at 4:13 PM
it's all vice signalling for what the dominant VC class dreams of seeing after they freaked out that millennial tech workers stopped actually working in 2020 (read: demanded some basic work-life balance and time to raise their kids)
He was talking it during his second term. I remember the freakout about it by the proto-Trumpers
February 9, 2026 at 3:49 PM
He was talking it during his second term. I remember the freakout about it by the proto-Trumpers
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The vibe of the Halftime Show
February 9, 2026 at 1:40 AM
The vibe of the Halftime Show
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Sometimes I think “everyone is twelve” is overstated. Then I see the literal health secretary announcing that he will never eat his vegetables and you can’t make him.
RFK Jr on what he'll eat during the Super Bowl: "I am on a carnivore diet so I just eat meat and ferments, and I'm very happy with that. So I'm probably going to have yogurt."
February 8, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Sometimes I think “everyone is twelve” is overstated. Then I see the literal health secretary announcing that he will never eat his vegetables and you can’t make him.
Toronto built their version of SF’s Central Subway (derogatory)
February 8, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Toronto built their version of SF’s Central Subway (derogatory)
Hoping for a deal soon!
February 8, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Hoping for a deal soon!
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I try not to be a scold about what social media platform people use, but I don’t understand how anyone should want to stay on a Discourse Platform like X, The Everything App if this is the discourse you’re going to get exposed to. What is to be learned from this exchange?
this interaction (about me!) says everything you need to know about the Bay Area neolibs
February 8, 2026 at 3:57 PM
I try not to be a scold about what social media platform people use, but I don’t understand how anyone should want to stay on a Discourse Platform like X, The Everything App if this is the discourse you’re going to get exposed to. What is to be learned from this exchange?
From a distance she appears to have had the same evolution as basically every non-San Francisco progressive to become significantly more pro-housing over this decade
February 7, 2026 at 5:15 PM
From a distance she appears to have had the same evolution as basically every non-San Francisco progressive to become significantly more pro-housing over this decade
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this may be the single most insufferable thing about the radical centrist caucus - not just extending good faith to obviously bad faith people but demanding everyone else do the same and chiding them when they don’t
A lot of our political discourse would be easier if we didn't extend good faith to people who would never extend it back.
February 7, 2026 at 4:22 PM
this may be the single most insufferable thing about the radical centrist caucus - not just extending good faith to obviously bad faith people but demanding everyone else do the same and chiding them when they don’t
official Olympic/IOC languages get to go first I guess
February 6, 2026 at 7:32 PM
official Olympic/IOC languages get to go first I guess
The defining trait is being run by their PMC lib, largely Bay Area management who could end the “no limits” moderation era because they have consciences, and not a billionaire owner whose brain was melted by their group chats
February 6, 2026 at 1:49 PM
The defining trait is being run by their PMC lib, largely Bay Area management who could end the “no limits” moderation era because they have consciences, and not a billionaire owner whose brain was melted by their group chats
I have to wonder how long Reddit gets to remain an uncaptured media site. It’s basically the last mass site fulfilling the job that pre-Musk Twitter did
Trump job approval rating by news platform
🟢 Twitter/X: +9
🔴 Facebook: -7
🔴 Cable TV: -10
🔴 Podcasts/YouTube: -14
🔴 Local TV: -17
🔴 Instagram: -21
🔴 Broadcast TV: -28
🔴 TikTok: -28
🔴 Newspapers/news sites: -33
🔴 Reddit: -40
www.theargumentmag.com/p/twitter-is...
🟢 Twitter/X: +9
🔴 Facebook: -7
🔴 Cable TV: -10
🔴 Podcasts/YouTube: -14
🔴 Local TV: -17
🔴 Instagram: -21
🔴 Broadcast TV: -28
🔴 TikTok: -28
🔴 Newspapers/news sites: -33
🔴 Reddit: -40
www.theargumentmag.com/p/twitter-is...
February 6, 2026 at 1:33 PM
I have to wonder how long Reddit gets to remain an uncaptured media site. It’s basically the last mass site fulfilling the job that pre-Musk Twitter did
This happens with*everything* now. No matter how grave the crime or one-dimensional the injustice, after four days the hivemind of American punditry decides that the Real Story is how the people upset about it are the real villains.
February 5, 2026 at 11:41 PM
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We are actually a very wealthy country overall, but our land-use policies and patterns make us feel like we're poor. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
If your household, not you, all of the income earners in your household, make over $130,500/yr, you are better off than 60% of American households.
Read theory
February 5, 2026 at 8:02 PM
We are actually a very wealthy country overall, but our land-use policies and patterns make us feel like we're poor. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
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Jessie Diggins, Olympic cross-country skiing gold medalist, from the Twin Cities: “I want to make sure you know who I’m racing for…”
February 5, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Jessie Diggins, Olympic cross-country skiing gold medalist, from the Twin Cities: “I want to make sure you know who I’m racing for…”