Encinitas Highlands Surfer
@highlandsurfer.bsky.social
I live and work in Encinitas, and I like to talk about housing a lot, transportation and biking from time to time, California and Encinitas politics, and cannabis.
IDK, sort of depends on whether you think crisis can emerge from a long term trends, and how you define crisis vs tragedy. It's a big problem that continues to hurt even though interest rates have put a clamp on nominal prices.
November 17, 2025 at 4:39 PM
IDK, sort of depends on whether you think crisis can emerge from a long term trends, and how you define crisis vs tragedy. It's a big problem that continues to hurt even though interest rates have put a clamp on nominal prices.
Okay, seems like the real storm has started and now we're going to find out how serious this thing is. Really looks like a monster storm to me, with potential to stall and combine with the next front in an impressive manner.
November 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Okay, seems like the real storm has started and now we're going to find out how serious this thing is. Really looks like a monster storm to me, with potential to stall and combine with the next front in an impressive manner.
For me the big shock line is this bit where she jokes about how perhaps she went professionally insane because of vaccines. It's a joke, I guess.
November 15, 2025 at 12:29 AM
For me the big shock line is this bit where she jokes about how perhaps she went professionally insane because of vaccines. It's a joke, I guess.
It's pretty out there tonight, before the storm arrives.
November 14, 2025 at 12:57 AM
It's pretty out there tonight, before the storm arrives.
The lighting is better for sure, but regarding the addition of the stack to the aesthetics I don't really agree.
Á chacun son goût.
Á chacun son goût.
November 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The lighting is better for sure, but regarding the addition of the stack to the aesthetics I don't really agree.
Á chacun son goût.
Á chacun son goût.
It would be much easier, politically, to preserve a smokestack than build housing, but no, it went when the desal plant and new power plant (which doesn't need it) were built, and it's good it's gone.
November 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
It would be much easier, politically, to preserve a smokestack than build housing, but no, it went when the desal plant and new power plant (which doesn't need it) were built, and it's good it's gone.
I mean, surely someone has commented on this.
November 10, 2025 at 6:45 AM
I mean, surely someone has commented on this.
I only recently learned that the entire "Shutdown" concept was some reverse-jiujitsu dem AG brained bullshit conceived in 1980.
![Before 1980, many federal agencies continued to operate during shutdowns, while minimizing all nonessential operations and obligations, believing that Congress did not intend agencies to close while waiting for the enactment of annual appropriations acts or temporary appropriations. In 1980 and 1981, Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti issued two opinions that more strictly interpreted the Antideficiency Act in the context of a funding gap, along with its exceptions. The opinions stated that, with some exceptions, the head of an agency could avoid violating the Act only by suspending the agency's operations until the enactment of an appropriation. The 1981 opinion established that "a government agency may employ personal services in advance of appropriations only when there is a reasonable and articulable connection between the function to be performed and the safety of human life or the protection of property."[7][11] These opinions formalized the "life and property exception" that determines which federal employees are considered "excepted" and must continue working during shutdowns without pay. However, even after the Civiletti opinions, not all funding gaps led to shutdowns. Of the nine funding gaps between 1980 and 1990, only four led to furloughs.[12]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wwqltco5xmlj5fgjexugvupl/bafkreifyoaebcrbxgkwy76zlxmrss4u65z4bpicj33xcngskv65xtio57e@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I only recently learned that the entire "Shutdown" concept was some reverse-jiujitsu dem AG brained bullshit conceived in 1980.
Ah, the one sentence we all get to say to ourselves as the years go by.
"in ways you might think I’d have outgrown by now, I’m a fucking idiot."
"in ways you might think I’d have outgrown by now, I’m a fucking idiot."
![Screenshot of article with last sentence highlighted:
"Mamdani seemed to me a small glimmering break in the wall of all that. A part of me wanted to do him a solid.
And so, after consulting with friends a little more media-seasoned than I, and exchanging some emails with the reporter laying out what I was and wasn’t interested in speaking about, I agreed to an interview. [HIGHLIGHTED PORTION] I did this because, in ways you might think I’d have outgrown by now, I’m a fucking idiot."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wwqltco5xmlj5fgjexugvupl/bafkreihhogsxc3jozen4fycbmtex7kre6wsbqidzzckbfxcco2mppyskty@jpeg)
November 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Ah, the one sentence we all get to say to ourselves as the years go by.
"in ways you might think I’d have outgrown by now, I’m a fucking idiot."
"in ways you might think I’d have outgrown by now, I’m a fucking idiot."
Pretty sure the exit here is more like the cartoon character Snagglepuss, famous for his catch phrase "Exit, stage left".
November 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Pretty sure the exit here is more like the cartoon character Snagglepuss, famous for his catch phrase "Exit, stage left".
I've never seen a person react less like a human being to any situation than Trump.
November 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I've never seen a person react less like a human being to any situation than Trump.
love the Portlandia small talk award show idea on this.
November 6, 2025 at 7:19 AM
love the Portlandia small talk award show idea on this.
The sound of a million DOGE CPUs overheating and melting at the phrase "Welcome to the transition".
November 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The sound of a million DOGE CPUs overheating and melting at the phrase "Welcome to the transition".
People hate diets, people love sandwiches, this phrase is everything.
November 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
People hate diets, people love sandwiches, this phrase is everything.
Surf is good, the view from the coaster is wonderful.
November 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Surf is good, the view from the coaster is wonderful.
I propose a compromise.
November 2, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I propose a compromise.
Maybe in Texas this kind of imagery is a net positive for your campaign, but in California you can run this image and generate 65-35 statewide votes by showing this, without batting an eye, probably still majorities in the reddest parts.
November 1, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Maybe in Texas this kind of imagery is a net positive for your campaign, but in California you can run this image and generate 65-35 statewide votes by showing this, without batting an eye, probably still majorities in the reddest parts.
I think this underestimates the role that the media played in shaping the public's opinion on this. ABC was running "CRISIS AT THE BORDER" theater coverage on March 21, 2021.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeL6...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeL6...
November 1, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I think this underestimates the role that the media played in shaping the public's opinion on this. ABC was running "CRISIS AT THE BORDER" theater coverage on March 21, 2021.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeL6...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeL6...
Huh, I guess people have different conclusions about what happened back in 2022 still. Was the Inflation Reduction Act the Green New Deal, or was it a trojan horse for a Green New Deal, or who even did this? IDK, but this confusion is clear evidence that the propaganda fight over it was lost.
November 1, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Huh, I guess people have different conclusions about what happened back in 2022 still. Was the Inflation Reduction Act the Green New Deal, or was it a trojan horse for a Green New Deal, or who even did this? IDK, but this confusion is clear evidence that the propaganda fight over it was lost.
Damn it's a nice afternoon out there!
October 28, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Damn it's a nice afternoon out there!
Riding the trolley highlights both the beauty and pathology of modern California.
October 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Riding the trolley highlights both the beauty and pathology of modern California.
NVIDIA is bigger than Microsoft!
This chart is fucking insane.
This chart is fucking insane.
October 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
NVIDIA is bigger than Microsoft!
This chart is fucking insane.
This chart is fucking insane.
View from the Coaster is pretty nice today.
October 21, 2025 at 6:12 PM
View from the Coaster is pretty nice today.
I am not a police investigator, but in determining how he was able to possess a gun which he was not able legally to possess, have they considered whether he lived in close proximity to one of the 50 "United" states that are known to be awash in guns?
October 21, 2025 at 5:55 AM
I am not a police investigator, but in determining how he was able to possess a gun which he was not able legally to possess, have they considered whether he lived in close proximity to one of the 50 "United" states that are known to be awash in guns?