ira
@ira.bsky.social
I like cats and dogs and politics and cities and bikes.
I grew up in the South and have made my adult life in San Francisco, and lemme tell you I’ve gotten real tired of the way Dunning-Kruger Californians talk down about the South
I understand why a lot of white liberals are like, fuck the south, because they think about the people in power who are mostly white conservatives. But that is only because of Jim Crow, voter suppression, a lack of real funding for Dems there
November 16, 2025 at 6:23 AM
I grew up in the South and have made my adult life in San Francisco, and lemme tell you I’ve gotten real tired of the way Dunning-Kruger Californians talk down about the South
Hallmark movies have been lying to you
We need more homes. Real estate developers are in the business of building them. They do good important work.
November 16, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Hallmark movies have been lying to you
35-2 is such a funny score
November 15, 2025 at 9:59 PM
35-2 is such a funny score
It’s weird that Jimmy Fallon never changed his hairstyle from the early 2000s
November 15, 2025 at 4:40 AM
It’s weird that Jimmy Fallon never changed his hairstyle from the early 2000s
“AN OTHERWISE NORMAL LIFE TO LEAD”????
November 15, 2025 at 3:46 AM
“AN OTHERWISE NORMAL LIFE TO LEAD”????
Upside: bun
Downside: 5% chance of fucking up your connection at Heathrow and writing an embarrassing blog post about it
Downside: 5% chance of fucking up your connection at Heathrow and writing an embarrassing blog post about it
November 15, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Upside: bun
Downside: 5% chance of fucking up your connection at Heathrow and writing an embarrassing blog post about it
Downside: 5% chance of fucking up your connection at Heathrow and writing an embarrassing blog post about it
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What part of “we will welcome the stranger and build homes for everyone who wants to make a life here” do these people not understand?
November 15, 2025 at 2:59 AM
What part of “we will welcome the stranger and build homes for everyone who wants to make a life here” do these people not understand?
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People who think mass deportations are a housing affordability strategy have no place in the YIMBY movement.
A reminder, a person who claims to be a YIMBY but backs the deportation of people to "solve" the housing crisis is just a NIMBY.
November 15, 2025 at 2:27 AM
People who think mass deportations are a housing affordability strategy have no place in the YIMBY movement.
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Lots of buzz about the "affordability agenda," and how we get there.
Well, this is it. Housing and transport are most of the cost of living for most people. We can make it expensive, or we can make it affordable.
“The big difference is commuting. You don’t need a car.” apnews.com/article/hous...
Well, this is it. Housing and transport are most of the cost of living for most people. We can make it expensive, or we can make it affordable.
“The big difference is commuting. You don’t need a car.” apnews.com/article/hous...
No car? No problem. Building apartments near public transit could help address the housing crisis
Quantavia Smith, who was often homeless for a decade, now has a studio apartment in Los Angeles with easy access to public transit.
apnews.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Lots of buzz about the "affordability agenda," and how we get there.
Well, this is it. Housing and transport are most of the cost of living for most people. We can make it expensive, or we can make it affordable.
“The big difference is commuting. You don’t need a car.” apnews.com/article/hous...
Well, this is it. Housing and transport are most of the cost of living for most people. We can make it expensive, or we can make it affordable.
“The big difference is commuting. You don’t need a car.” apnews.com/article/hous...
San Francisco has a moral responsibility to build enough housing that it can be an affordable refuge for all the queer kids of the world.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
San Francisco has a moral responsibility to build enough housing that it can be an affordable refuge for all the queer kids of the world.
The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, has a great slogan for her campaign of street transformations there: “A city where you can let go of your child’s hand.”
As a parent of a small child, this is all I see now.
Karl Jilg for the Swedish Road Administration www.jilg.com
Karl Jilg for the Swedish Road Administration www.jilg.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, has a great slogan for her campaign of street transformations there: “A city where you can let go of your child’s hand.”
Features that would enhance my NYT Games experience:
- offline play
- faster app
- a button to go back to the Home Screen from three screens deep
Features the NYT Games team has built recently instead:
- Create a Wordle
- eighteen different nag screens telling me to create a Wordle
- pips
- offline play
- faster app
- a button to go back to the Home Screen from three screens deep
Features the NYT Games team has built recently instead:
- Create a Wordle
- eighteen different nag screens telling me to create a Wordle
- pips
November 11, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Features that would enhance my NYT Games experience:
- offline play
- faster app
- a button to go back to the Home Screen from three screens deep
Features the NYT Games team has built recently instead:
- Create a Wordle
- eighteen different nag screens telling me to create a Wordle
- pips
- offline play
- faster app
- a button to go back to the Home Screen from three screens deep
Features the NYT Games team has built recently instead:
- Create a Wordle
- eighteen different nag screens telling me to create a Wordle
- pips
This is the ideal male Saturday night. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.
November 9, 2025 at 5:51 AM
This is the ideal male Saturday night. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.
@cjzero.bsky.social any chance you have this play from about 2 minutes left in the first half of the SJSU-Air Force game?
Well SJSU threw a pass from their end zone that was immediately deflected then caught by a SJSU player who was immediately tackled for a safety and now Air Force gets to run a 2-minute drill instead. Air Force has 138 rush yards and zero pass yards today.
November 9, 2025 at 12:56 AM
@cjzero.bsky.social any chance you have this play from about 2 minutes left in the first half of the SJSU-Air Force game?
I’m here btw. With @raynell.bsky.social and @wafoli.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I’m here btw. With @raynell.bsky.social and @wafoli.bsky.social
@sickoscommittee.org reporting live from San José State’s homecoming game against Air Force. The band just played “Do you know the way to San José?”
November 8, 2025 at 10:59 PM
@sickoscommittee.org reporting live from San José State’s homecoming game against Air Force. The band just played “Do you know the way to San José?”
Man, I used to avoid shopping at Publix because of this. Leave me alone when I’m shopping. I’ll ask you if I need something.
"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
Target is now requiring its employees to smile more
As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.
www.wilx.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Man, I used to avoid shopping at Publix because of this. Leave me alone when I’m shopping. I’ll ask you if I need something.
The Atlanta Beltline Eastside Trail construction site circa 2012. Yeah I was muddy when I got home from the bars but I needed a shower anyway cause they all were full of cigarette smoke back then.
What was a good transit service or piece of bike infrastructure that opened up your world when you were younger?
For me the C&O Canal Path and the Capital Crescent Trail helped me feel like I could bike pretty much anywhere when I was in my early teens
For me the C&O Canal Path and the Capital Crescent Trail helped me feel like I could bike pretty much anywhere when I was in my early teens
November 8, 2025 at 8:57 AM
The Atlanta Beltline Eastside Trail construction site circa 2012. Yeah I was muddy when I got home from the bars but I needed a shower anyway cause they all were full of cigarette smoke back then.
Why does he have all the same mannerisms as Bernie Sanders?? 😭
Sean Dunn, aka DC Sandwich Guy, speaks outside court after his not guilty verdict:
“I am so happy that justice prevails in spite of everything….
“That night I believe I was protecting the rights of immigrants…
Every life matters, no matter where you came from, no matter how you got here…”
“I am so happy that justice prevails in spite of everything….
“That night I believe I was protecting the rights of immigrants…
Every life matters, no matter where you came from, no matter how you got here…”
November 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Why does he have all the same mannerisms as Bernie Sanders?? 😭
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Sorry for using reserved front-row seats for people with additional needs to sit and breastfeed my baby, in a packed city council meeting about whether to upzone my neighborhood for more young people and families.
Oh wait--no I'm not.
Oh wait--no I'm not.
At a meeting about whether we're going to build housing for young families like us. An elderly NIMBY got mad at @alanakinrich.medsky.social for 'being distracting' by breastfeeding our baby in the reserved seats in the front. In case you're wondering who they think should be part of this process.
November 7, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Sorry for using reserved front-row seats for people with additional needs to sit and breastfeed my baby, in a packed city council meeting about whether to upzone my neighborhood for more young people and families.
Oh wait--no I'm not.
Oh wait--no I'm not.
Reminder to all San Franciscans: First Thursdays are for Downtown, not for whoever is annoying you online.
November 7, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Reminder to all San Franciscans: First Thursdays are for Downtown, not for whoever is annoying you online.
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SF YIMBY is proud to endorse @scottwiener.bsky.social in his historic Congressional bid! The YIMBY movement would not be anywhere near where it is today if not for the work and influence of Scott Wiener.
November 6, 2025 at 10:16 PM
SF YIMBY is proud to endorse @scottwiener.bsky.social in his historic Congressional bid! The YIMBY movement would not be anywhere near where it is today if not for the work and influence of Scott Wiener.
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a really key point here. Cuomo's attempt at gutter Islamophobic race baiting failed because Dem voter opinion on Israel-Palestine has shifted more than 70 points since 2023, and he somehow didn't notice prospect.org/2025/11/04/a...
November 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
a really key point here. Cuomo's attempt at gutter Islamophobic race baiting failed because Dem voter opinion on Israel-Palestine has shifted more than 70 points since 2023, and he somehow didn't notice prospect.org/2025/11/04/a...
My dad ran for political office once and lost pretty soundly. He hangs his hat on the local paper’s political reporter calling his concession speech the most gracious they’d ever heard.
Cuomo gave a fairly graceless concession speech, and Mamdani rips his skin off:
"My friends, we have toppled a political dynasty. I wish Andrew Cuomo the best in private life. But let tonight be the last time I mention his name."
"My friends, we have toppled a political dynasty. I wish Andrew Cuomo the best in private life. But let tonight be the last time I mention his name."
November 5, 2025 at 6:27 AM
My dad ran for political office once and lost pretty soundly. He hangs his hat on the local paper’s political reporter calling his concession speech the most gracious they’d ever heard.
Watching Zohran’s speech now and his NY accent really comes out when he’s shouting into a microphone.
November 5, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Watching Zohran’s speech now and his NY accent really comes out when he’s shouting into a microphone.