Johnathan Cahill
@johncahill.bsky.social
Now coming to you from Los Angeles -- by way of Omaha. Econ, history, housing 😎🐙🏳️🌈 - he/him
Nebraska is the Midwest❗️
Nebraska is the Midwest❗️
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more like "tries to make out with whichever strapping mid-30s election winner crosses his field of view" than agrees with tbh
November 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
more like "tries to make out with whichever strapping mid-30s election winner crosses his field of view" than agrees with tbh
That thing where you end up hating someone with generally good takes and policy positions because of their nasty, assholish online presence 😑
November 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
That thing where you end up hating someone with generally good takes and policy positions because of their nasty, assholish online presence 😑
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It's hilarious that "Her" (2013) is a movie set in 2025 about an AI that included a future LA subway map that looks like it was designed by an AI in 2025.
November 18, 2025 at 4:29 AM
It's hilarious that "Her" (2013) is a movie set in 2025 about an AI that included a future LA subway map that looks like it was designed by an AI in 2025.
Yo chat, I think my girlfriend might be a demon twink. Should I be worried?
my beloved girlfriend has an inexplicable attraction to grotesque, almost supernaturally weird old men. guys who look like the adults from a roald dahl story. fellas who act like they were perhaps recently animals turned human through some unnatural bargain with the fey. not me though
November 18, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Yo chat, I think my girlfriend might be a demon twink. Should I be worried?
This thread is insanity
This one is probably my favorite. I like how they lined them all up neatly in a row and then left the couch 😑
November 12, 2025 at 9:33 PM
This thread is insanity
I'm having incredible aurora witnessing fomo right now 😭
November 12, 2025 at 3:44 AM
I'm having incredible aurora witnessing fomo right now 😭
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Voters were mad about high prices and people freeloading off of government support, so we raised tariffs in order to send everyone $2,000.
November 10, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Voters were mad about high prices and people freeloading off of government support, so we raised tariffs in order to send everyone $2,000.
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I am not a crazy ideologue. I just think that the richest society in human history has a moral responsibility to welcome the stranger, feed the hungry, treat the sick, and house the homeless. If doing that requires forcing comfortably-housed people to accept neighborhood change, I'm ok with that.
Probably the key part of this piece. It comes down to the following: "What does prioritizing millionaire homeowners’ aversion to change over the needs of the poor and unhoused do to our souls?"
November 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I am not a crazy ideologue. I just think that the richest society in human history has a moral responsibility to welcome the stranger, feed the hungry, treat the sick, and house the homeless. If doing that requires forcing comfortably-housed people to accept neighborhood change, I'm ok with that.
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"Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 18:08. Eastern time, November 10. In a panic, they try to pull the plug."
November 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
"Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 18:08. Eastern time, November 10. In a panic, they try to pull the plug."
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Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists.
You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
November 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists.
You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
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Real ones also know that the AI industry is already basically getting bailed out (because they’re exempt from the tariffs the rest of us have to pay)
www.apricitas.io/p/the-tariff...
www.apricitas.io/p/the-tariff...
November 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Real ones also know that the AI industry is already basically getting bailed out (because they’re exempt from the tariffs the rest of us have to pay)
www.apricitas.io/p/the-tariff...
www.apricitas.io/p/the-tariff...
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For decades, a prime but isolated corner parking lot at 4th & Broadway in Denver's Baker neighborhood was too small for traditional development.
Thanks to Denver's forthcoming single-stair code updates, KGA Architects is proposing a 5-story single-stair apt on this "forgotten lot"
Thanks to Denver's forthcoming single-stair code updates, KGA Architects is proposing a 5-story single-stair apt on this "forgotten lot"
November 6, 2025 at 4:42 PM
For decades, a prime but isolated corner parking lot at 4th & Broadway in Denver's Baker neighborhood was too small for traditional development.
Thanks to Denver's forthcoming single-stair code updates, KGA Architects is proposing a 5-story single-stair apt on this "forgotten lot"
Thanks to Denver's forthcoming single-stair code updates, KGA Architects is proposing a 5-story single-stair apt on this "forgotten lot"
The promise of energy too cheap to meter
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 8:20 AM
The promise of energy too cheap to meter
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In reality this country, like the rest of the new world, was always a polyglot multiethnic society. The fact the American right are trying to ape European fascists and pretend America had the ethnic makeup of Iceland prior to the 1965 Immigration Act is deeply strange.
November 6, 2025 at 12:16 AM
In reality this country, like the rest of the new world, was always a polyglot multiethnic society. The fact the American right are trying to ape European fascists and pretend America had the ethnic makeup of Iceland prior to the 1965 Immigration Act is deeply strange.
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All YIMBY ballot measures are currently winning in NYC by 10-point margins at least
November 5, 2025 at 2:12 AM
All YIMBY ballot measures are currently winning in NYC by 10-point margins at least
Literally 😂
The fireworks started like half an hour ago and will not stop
November 2, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Literally 😂
I didn't even havd to watch the game, as soon as the fireworks started going off I knew theywom🎆⚾️
November 2, 2025 at 4:25 AM
I didn't even havd to watch the game, as soon as the fireworks started going off I knew theywom🎆⚾️
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I’m serious that we need a ballot initiative banning Metro from building street running sections & requiring elimination of all existing sections within 10 years. As with HLA and TOC voters here are going to have to insist on what we actually want.
The existence of street running sections in LA Metro is very telling - the tunnels and aerial structures don’t exist to give faster rides to transit riders, they exist when someone thought the impact of street running to auto traffic would be too large.
October 31, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I’m serious that we need a ballot initiative banning Metro from building street running sections & requiring elimination of all existing sections within 10 years. As with HLA and TOC voters here are going to have to insist on what we actually want.
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Actually, yes! State level zoning is a must-achieve. The cities are clearly incapable of doing so in any just and productive way. And besides, didn't SB 79 seem politically impossible when you first got involved? The political Overton Window is a movable object!
October 30, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Actually, yes! State level zoning is a must-achieve. The cities are clearly incapable of doing so in any just and productive way. And besides, didn't SB 79 seem politically impossible when you first got involved? The political Overton Window is a movable object!
The last decade has been such a disorienting trip...I increasingly feel like a stranger in a strange land
October 28, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The last decade has been such a disorienting trip...I increasingly feel like a stranger in a strange land
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I've said it before, but I'll say it again: No city on planet Earth does less with more than LA.
October 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I've said it before, but I'll say it again: No city on planet Earth does less with more than LA.
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Culver City just made history, and it has something to do with these big boxy fortress style apartment buildings ….
October 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Culver City just made history, and it has something to do with these big boxy fortress style apartment buildings ….
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I didn’t realize this - Culver City passed single stair reform! Up to six stories!
Can we get them to talk to LA City and County? 🙂
Can we get them to talk to LA City and County? 🙂
Culver City just made history, and it has something to do with these big boxy fortress style apartment buildings ….
October 23, 2025 at 5:00 AM
I didn’t realize this - Culver City passed single stair reform! Up to six stories!
Can we get them to talk to LA City and County? 🙂
Can we get them to talk to LA City and County? 🙂
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Updating my LEGO White House
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Updating my LEGO White House