I've said this before and it might still be my hottest take, but, the new Caltrains are *way* too quiet.

The old ones were loud and that wasn't great, but at least you couldn't hear every conversation around you.

Mass market stuff is often both better written and *vastly* more culturally important than literary fiction with a tiny audience.

The fact that MFA programs almost universally prioritize the latter is a big part of why our country is how it is now.

First, their arguments generally speak against the safety of single-stair buildings. But…LA’s building code already allows them up to three stories for apartments, and many single-family houses go up to four stories with even fewer protections. So are they saying the existing code is unsafe too…?

Oakland dropped their affordable housing impact fees from about $30k/unit to $0 for much if the city, in a meeting yesterday, effective immediately. This is very interesting as it sets up a potential boundary effect experiment where the amnesty zone meets the other zones.

Harris said the exact words “Trump’s tariffs would invite a recession by the middle of next year” probably a thousand times lmfao

here’s a crazy statistic: more people work for the MTA (~70K employees) than are coal miners in the entire country (~42K)

@bilalmahmood.bsky.social Has the BVNA reached out to you about the allegations they published this morning regarding the SF Parks Alliance looting donor funds?

We are seeing what ‘familiarity breeds contempt’ looks like

Saw sf.gazetteer.co/a-former-tec... come up on the San Francisco subreddit and suddenly realized I wasn't following @kenwhite.bsky.social on bsky.