Eli Kahn 🏳️🌈
@elikahn.bsky.social
Urban/environmental policy guy, YIMBY, sci-fi/fantasy writer, liberal, atheist. Californian in the DC area. All posts represent my views, not those of my employer.
where are they painted that were drowned after their vows?
where are they painted that were drowned after their vows?
i think about this old Facebook status of mine a lot and i think i unironically stand by the galaxy brain take in it:
October 31, 2025 at 7:59 PM
i think about this old Facebook status of mine a lot and i think i unironically stand by the galaxy brain take in it:
real heads remember
October 30, 2025 at 5:36 AM
real heads remember
share the photo most likely to make you look chud-coded enough to get insecure pundits to cape for you in a senate election for no reason
October 30, 2025 at 3:24 AM
share the photo most likely to make you look chud-coded enough to get insecure pundits to cape for you in a senate election for no reason
I was married, but I’m not married anymore. Women don’t like the vehicle.
October 16, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I was married, but I’m not married anymore. Women don’t like the vehicle.
ok, that’s enough of that
i trust the democratic primary voters of Maine, a state where I don’t live, to pick the best candidate against Susan Collins, and I am respectfully inviting them to hash it out outside of my field of vision ☺️
i trust the democratic primary voters of Maine, a state where I don’t live, to pick the best candidate against Susan Collins, and I am respectfully inviting them to hash it out outside of my field of vision ☺️
October 16, 2025 at 3:20 AM
ok, that’s enough of that
i trust the democratic primary voters of Maine, a state where I don’t live, to pick the best candidate against Susan Collins, and I am respectfully inviting them to hash it out outside of my field of vision ☺️
i trust the democratic primary voters of Maine, a state where I don’t live, to pick the best candidate against Susan Collins, and I am respectfully inviting them to hash it out outside of my field of vision ☺️
ugh everyone here is constantly tearing their hair out at a histrionic level, must be something specific to this app, other social media sites can’t be like this
meanwhile, on Nextdoor:
meanwhile, on Nextdoor:
![an unopened email from Nextdoor (sent from “Your North Rosslyn neighbors”). subject line: “Top post: BEWARE!!! BEWARE!!! B” email begins “BEWARE!!! BEWARE!!! She Is A Scam[mer]”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:m3m4uxx2yzrbgpgneem6qeqh/bafkreiamuruqk5xmr3xgfggh5vegndzamzaj2piwbqvca2acn4jr2d5pfa@jpeg)
October 11, 2025 at 11:38 PM
ugh everyone here is constantly tearing their hair out at a histrionic level, must be something specific to this app, other social media sites can’t be like this
meanwhile, on Nextdoor:
meanwhile, on Nextdoor:
you wouldn’t think this meme that I made would be relevant as often as it is! and yet!
September 22, 2025 at 4:52 PM
you wouldn’t think this meme that I made would be relevant as often as it is! and yet!
Sri Lankans swimming in the pool at the former authoritarian president’s obscenely fancy palace, after they forced him to resign and flee the country:
September 18, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Sri Lankans swimming in the pool at the former authoritarian president’s obscenely fancy palace, after they forced him to resign and flee the country:
Authoritarian ex-leader of Gambia Yahya Jammeh leaving the country after unexpectedly losing power in a 2016 election:
September 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Authoritarian ex-leader of Gambia Yahya Jammeh leaving the country after unexpectedly losing power in a 2016 election:
it is IMPOSSIBLE for me to respect an animal as a vicious killing machine if it’s also depicted as cute and cuddly, everyone knows fuzzy animals can’t also be deadly predators
pic unrelated
pic unrelated
September 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
it is IMPOSSIBLE for me to respect an animal as a vicious killing machine if it’s also depicted as cute and cuddly, everyone knows fuzzy animals can’t also be deadly predators
pic unrelated
pic unrelated
society if we understood politics not in terms of left vs right but in terms of the other French revolutionary seating chart, as “mountain vs plain vs valley”
August 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
society if we understood politics not in terms of left vs right but in terms of the other French revolutionary seating chart, as “mountain vs plain vs valley”
“And so I couldn’t help but wonder - was my interest in dating women just a phase? Was I just making a quick stop on my search for MR RIGHT to have some fun with MS NOW?”
August 18, 2025 at 1:29 PM
“And so I couldn’t help but wonder - was my interest in dating women just a phase? Was I just making a quick stop on my search for MR RIGHT to have some fun with MS NOW?”
if there is a conflict between the two, cheap food is much more important than “rural America’s prosperity”, because only some Americans live in rural areas but all of us eat
August 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
if there is a conflict between the two, cheap food is much more important than “rural America’s prosperity”, because only some Americans live in rural areas but all of us eat
in other words, this is US politics:
July 26, 2025 at 11:42 PM
in other words, this is US politics:
not exactly the same word or set of stakeholders, but the same basic problem:
July 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
not exactly the same word or set of stakeholders, but the same basic problem:
This is literally his point! You’re literally agreeing with him! Aaaaaaghhhhh!
July 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
This is literally his point! You’re literally agreeing with him! Aaaaaaghhhhh!
I do not think local governments have any legal authority to stop people from moving into their territory
July 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I do not think local governments have any legal authority to stop people from moving into their territory
this is the first performance that comes to mind when I think of playing oneself in a movie, so it must be one of the all-time greats
July 7, 2025 at 10:22 PM
this is the first performance that comes to mind when I think of playing oneself in a movie, so it must be one of the all-time greats
but no, every day in urban America it’s this
June 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
but no, every day in urban America it’s this
this thought has occurred to me about enough things people have said that it was time to make this meme
June 20, 2025 at 8:06 PM
this thought has occurred to me about enough things people have said that it was time to make this meme