GB Metz
@notthegiraffe.bsky.social
Dad, gadfly, housing abundance and safe streets. Your neighbor from Kew Gardens, Queens.
Blasting this to voters in TN-7 right now.
December 2, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Blasting this to voters in TN-7 right now.
The deal being "Yeah, fuck that guy."
November 3, 2025 at 3:33 AM
The deal being "Yeah, fuck that guy."
Queens CB4 is home to maybe the most severe overcrowding in the entire city, so of course they'd want to ease that with some new apartments, right? gothamist.com/news/elmhurs...
October 29, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Queens CB4 is home to maybe the most severe overcrowding in the entire city, so of course they'd want to ease that with some new apartments, right? gothamist.com/news/elmhurs...
It seems like every five years we get left policy wonks who think repealing Faircloth will create a social housing utopia, and I'm sorry to report that's just not the case.
We should get rid of it bc artificial barriers to more homes is bad, but it's not a real barrier to social/public housing.
We should get rid of it bc artificial barriers to more homes is bad, but it's not a real barrier to social/public housing.
![David Sirota: "Abundance Guys engineered a debate about housing that somehow never mentions AOC's bill to simply repeal the oligarch-backed GOP law that limits the amount of affordable housing local governments can build.
"It's almost as if this omission is a deliberate act of deception." [LINK to AOC's bill to repeal the Faircloth Amendment.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5ps2utwaw5zmkcefzd4i6r5f/bafkreih3d7zyyjsaxmwassofsvdoqwwk4zpnmvy55usu7sd6ruvlpedhju@jpeg)
September 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
It seems like every five years we get left policy wonks who think repealing Faircloth will create a social housing utopia, and I'm sorry to report that's just not the case.
We should get rid of it bc artificial barriers to more homes is bad, but it's not a real barrier to social/public housing.
We should get rid of it bc artificial barriers to more homes is bad, but it's not a real barrier to social/public housing.
I'll allow this from Suozzi. At the end of the day his voice does not matter/he at least acknowledges he has worse instincts than Hochul.
September 15, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I'll allow this from Suozzi. At the end of the day his voice does not matter/he at least acknowledges he has worse instincts than Hochul.
Jaguar is American? Target went woke? Disney didn't just beat earnings expectations? It's all lies for the sake of outrage and attention, all the time.
August 22, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Jaguar is American? Target went woke? Disney didn't just beat earnings expectations? It's all lies for the sake of outrage and attention, all the time.
This honestly might be the best pizza I've made. Using my meatloaf for the meatballs (I use a meatball recipe) was exceptional. And the combo of homemade sauce, provolone base and galbani block cheese for with Parm grated on top...amazing.
August 4, 2025 at 12:05 AM
This honestly might be the best pizza I've made. Using my meatloaf for the meatballs (I use a meatball recipe) was exceptional. And the combo of homemade sauce, provolone base and galbani block cheese for with Parm grated on top...amazing.
Full sheet grandma pie tonight. Half cheese for the kids, half meatball. It's a little more well done than I would have liked, but the taste test will be key.
August 3, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Full sheet grandma pie tonight. Half cheese for the kids, half meatball. It's a little more well done than I would have liked, but the taste test will be key.
Bc I'm not seeing this on here...seems like Mamdani is doing exactly what he needs to do to make the general a snoozer.
June 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Bc I'm not seeing this on here...seems like Mamdani is doing exactly what he needs to do to make the general a snoozer.
jfc, this non-endorsement endorsement from the @nytimes.com (which is no longer in the business of endorsements) is some weak, weak shit. It's like if stooge Rich Azzopardi was tasked with writing an editorial on the mayoral election but was forbidden from endorsing his boss (Cuomo).
June 16, 2025 at 1:35 PM
jfc, this non-endorsement endorsement from the @nytimes.com (which is no longer in the business of endorsements) is some weak, weak shit. It's like if stooge Rich Azzopardi was tasked with writing an editorial on the mayoral election but was forbidden from endorsing his boss (Cuomo).
I do not share this from the @nypost.com with glee, but Cuomo becoming mayor is something that can't happen.
May 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I do not share this from the @nypost.com with glee, but Cuomo becoming mayor is something that can't happen.
Remember when Cuomo flirted with Elon Musk to crush the competence of Andy Byford? Do we want to bring this back?
May 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Remember when Cuomo flirted with Elon Musk to crush the competence of Andy Byford? Do we want to bring this back?
The one saving grace right now is that Cuomo's appeal doesn't appear to extend beyond name recognition, if the new Siena poll is a good indicator. But it still may be enough for him to win.
April 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The one saving grace right now is that Cuomo's appeal doesn't appear to extend beyond name recognition, if the new Siena poll is a good indicator. But it still may be enough for him to win.
Lol he's doing the meme.
April 5, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Lol he's doing the meme.
How I know Cory Booker's filibuster is working:
April 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
How I know Cory Booker's filibuster is working:
This is not how you increase ridership to a destination that needs it.
April 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
This is not how you increase ridership to a destination that needs it.
jfc, if you don't want to be the party that's basically the office HR rep, don't try to hide behind language like you're an office HR rep.
March 6, 2025 at 8:35 PM
jfc, if you don't want to be the party that's basically the office HR rep, don't try to hide behind language like you're an office HR rep.
I'm not even spreading copium.
January 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I'm not even spreading copium.
Right, they should start tolling at 8 am on the weekends, when speeds noticeably start to drop.
Quit your posturing, man. You're just as capable of taking the train from Hollis as I am taking it from Kew Gardens when I go into the city on the weekends with my family.
Quit your posturing, man. You're just as capable of taking the train from Hollis as I am taking it from Kew Gardens when I go into the city on the weekends with my family.
January 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Right, they should start tolling at 8 am on the weekends, when speeds noticeably start to drop.
Quit your posturing, man. You're just as capable of taking the train from Hollis as I am taking it from Kew Gardens when I go into the city on the weekends with my family.
Quit your posturing, man. You're just as capable of taking the train from Hollis as I am taking it from Kew Gardens when I go into the city on the weekends with my family.
She'll only be assessed once per day, even if multiple trips in and out of the zone. congestionreliefzone.mta.info/tolling
January 4, 2025 at 9:53 PM
She'll only be assessed once per day, even if multiple trips in and out of the zone. congestionreliefzone.mta.info/tolling
Not perfect but not bad considering I thought the dough was a bust.
December 28, 2024 at 6:45 PM
Not perfect but not bad considering I thought the dough was a bust.
As an illustration of NYC's failure to imagine, this is a new-build single-family home only a few hundred feet from the subway.
It would not have been covered in the original, modest City of Yes text (street not >75 ft), but it was doubly exempted in the city council revisions (R-2 zoning).
It would not have been covered in the original, modest City of Yes text (street not >75 ft), but it was doubly exempted in the city council revisions (R-2 zoning).
December 9, 2024 at 3:53 PM
As an illustration of NYC's failure to imagine, this is a new-build single-family home only a few hundred feet from the subway.
It would not have been covered in the original, modest City of Yes text (street not >75 ft), but it was doubly exempted in the city council revisions (R-2 zoning).
It would not have been covered in the original, modest City of Yes text (street not >75 ft), but it was doubly exempted in the city council revisions (R-2 zoning).
Sheet pizza night.
December 9, 2024 at 12:41 AM
Sheet pizza night.