What about hollyhocks
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What about hollyhocks
Going long on Columbo-murderer-core interiors
This is an extremely Chicago-sounding policy idea
I mean come on it was the Bills game you can't miss that
Martin Luther King Jr. Day was voted on 15 years after the assassination and 22 senators voted "no."
I lived in Alameda for a little while and I could get off the bus there, unload my bike and be on my way to the office in about 30 seconds
the temporary terminal at the surface was so much more useful than the current setup
THIS
the whole city should have been upzoned via a form based code with a 60' height limit
The bar needs to be higher for qualifying a local recall IMO, the same with ballot measures
I don't understand this "targeting rent controlled housing" narrative at all.
It's not a real coalition, the most angry recallers also hated Gordon Mar for supporting dense affordable housing on Irving St
really happy with the thermally-modified wood soffits (balconies and tower cantilever) and how much it matches the exposed CLT deck (tall canopy photo right). they're not actually the same color but it ties the buildings together better than I'd imagined. lol at the little palm trees on the balcs.
I yearn for Democratic Party spines to materialize but instead get damp toast
Supervisor Peskin introduced a local ballot measure in SF in 2022 but it failed
Shortly after I moved to CA there was a recall election of Gov Davis and I thought it was bonkers & I didn't vote for it (or any other recall since)- And now it's open season on anyone people have a policy disagreement with Via @missionlocal.org @esksf.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2025/09/joel...
40% of global shipping is just moving around fossil fuels 2/3 of US energy production is just wasted in delivery
where are you
Oof been there too. California has the dumb 18' rule in effect statewide
Yes I saw one in person yesterday and it was gorgeous
You could literally just toss meth in any (open) fire, or destroy it even more easily without using fire at all, but for some reason the FBI used an animal carcass incinerator in a negatively pressurized animal shelter to smoke 2 pounds of meth with all the staff and animals in the building
There are a lot of plumbers and electricians who drive Transits or Transit Connects and you see Sprinters but the default is a pickup truck
It's half the price of a Cybertruck!
If you really need to carry a lot of stuff and want an electric vehicle this gets 270 miles per charge and your stuff won't get stolen out of the back like in a pickup: 2025 BrightDrop share.google/TAQMAlMmJ9ui...
Thanks!!
Lol it's a 3 story building that is like a photo from an Onion article
Whoa I hadn't heard that either
do you have a link to those maps? I love them
Senator Cabaldon speaks in support, discussing the need to pass the bill to make transit self-sufficient.
Thanks for doing the work, it's really exciting for people who are in the business of building housing to see others take interest in all the issues beyond zoning that make it hard to build housing
Today, the Center for Building published “Beyond Zoning” by John Zeanah, Memphis’s Chief of Development and Infrastructure. He chronicles the non-zoning barriers faced by Malone Commons, a low-rise multifam/mixed-use project, and how they worked through them www.centerforbuilding.org/publication/...
Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔 on.ft.com/3K05vhS
oh my god
I work at a national park that serves 150,000 visitors a year. We currently have 23 permanent employees.
The gentleman from Kentucky is right.
Did they not get the memo that nobody is dressing like that any more
Shrinkflation
where’s the beef this is bananas how do you like them apples covfefe
We can't just not authorize new housing until Costa Hawkins is repealed, that is delusional. BMR units are a lot more helpful to low and moderate income people today than new RC market rate units at market rent.
There are 400+ units of BMR housing going up two blocks from my office thanks to state streamlining bills. I don't really understand this argument.
Finances and the building code constrain it more than anything. Allowing more density near existing transit makes a better use of public resources so I don't fully agree with that.
The city doesn't really have a choice on rezoning unless we want to be subject to the Builder's Remedy. This seems like a pretty reasonable map to me.
That's ridiculous. The lot next to mine is getting upzoned.... To 65'. That is not a supertall.
The saga of procuring custom trash bins in San Francisco continues, with only one bidder qualifying of two submitted. I still don't understand why they insisted on this complicated design (there is a tester right near my house) missionlocal.org/2025/09/s-f-... via @missionlocal.org
The work is so good! I have been to the Darwin Martin House complex in Buffalo many times and they had fully restored the garden this summer. Incredible.
Even in US schools he's tested that way!
Wow I love it
Wow you are quite a sleuth!!
Oh man I miss going to the Adirondacks with my extended family
my mom called me after the game and told me how much she was shouting in the last five mins
Oh yeah! They used to have straps exactly like that!! It's like this watch but without the extra branding on the dial www.etsy.com/listing/1831...
It's nothing that fasting and sitting in an ice bath won't solve
Always lots of shouting in Buffalo, I can assure you
Also I found a higher res photo and that watch looks like it was purpose built as a wristwatch and I'm guessing is from the 1980s. The photo is from '92.
And the lower priced condos that are available in most places are in crappy old wood frame buildings with tons of deferred maintenance
I obtained a few old pocket watches from my dad's old stuff recently and they are gorgeous! Way too big to be worn on the wrist though.
So how about them Bills?? Maybe I was the only one who watched the game.
are you still eating seed oils? maybe this is why you don't understand.
They often go on the stakes if the trees are staked
It smothers the base of the tree and keeps it damp and is a great way to grow pathogens
For my next decree every child in the land shall attend Forest School on one day of the week. At Forest School, children will build dens, cook outdoors, climb trees, scrape knees, learn bird calls, identify plants and fungi, squabble, negotiate, lead, and drink hot sweet tea.
PSA: this is how to use a tree watering bag, don't put it around the base of the tree.
Getting reprimanded by your Golden God on national TV is gonna sting for the Table Folk for a bit. And he's right of course.
And many of the vacant homes are summer homes or between sales transactions or in uninhabitable condition etc.
Uhhh yeah that was my point
"why aren't you using AI for work"
Stop complimenting Newsom for his PR stunts Paywalled link: www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
My point is that this was a mutual thing, he wasn't anti YIMBY out of nowhere. He also cut deals on housing while in office in support of my larger point that "it's complicated"
Peskin
Agree re: Chan. I don't really understand a lot of the positions she takes tbh as they often seem to be at odds with a lot of her constituents
Considering how much money and time the YIMBYs spent fighting him it's not surprising?
In Dean's tenure on the BOS he was not a raging NIMBY IMO and he and Joel were both very strong on supporting bike infrastructure, transit and pedestrian safety
I just think all of our politicians are a pretty mixed bag on housing with a few exceptions. I'm working to stop the Engardio recall but at the same time he spent time defending single family zoning in a previous campaign.
Even Aaron sponsored the citywide ADU law, eased office conversions via planning code changes and passed the biggest upzoning in SF history (that last one was in his first go around on the BOS). He also negotiated the reduction in inclusionary units to help make projects pencil out
I mean I don't think this is really true in SF even. The majority of moderate politicians here have historically also sided with NIMBYs. People like Scott Wiener have been the exception. Dean actually brokered a deal to give Related a lot of extra height on a market rate tower to help it pencil out.
Imagine if RFK and co destroy childhood vaccination in the US? A 50% decline in childhood vaccination could result in 51.2 million measles cases over a 25-y period, 9.9 million rubella cases, 4.3 million polio cases, 10.3 million hospitalizations, and 159 200 deaths jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Los Angeles has done nothing but export their housing problem to the inland empire, Ventura and high desert LA City Council Member Padilla unmasked last week saying why they oppose this so much. They lose power and the ability to influence what gets built. Also tried to claim it’s “unfunded mandate”
I am a big pro-urbanization guy. I would not make excuses for people kidnapping, enslaving, raping, and murdering other people based on skin color or gender identity, even if doing so got me some bike paths or apartment buildings. Solidarity is solidarity. Some things are more important.
Students being progressive is not a bigger problem than a sustained assault by an authoritarian president, please get a grip www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
It really depends. At SFO there are often under 10 people in the Clear line. I think it partially depends on how many people locally have signed up for PreCheck
Ahhh this isn't true at all. I've used Clear a bunch of times to avoid missing my flight in the TSA line. The TSA line can get crazy long early in the morning.
Xi-Putin-Modi backslapping, along with easing global condemnation for Russia's aggressive war of territorial conquest, gives a sense of what the post-American world looks like. Not some sort of peaceful utopia, but a playground for authoritarians, with aggression abroad and repression at home.
There are used copies around
I should have bought a crate of them at the time
this is what i mean when i say the suburbs can't be retrofitted
i can't imagine why congestion has gotten so much worse everywhere. surely it has absolutely nothing to do with the average car on the road being significantly larger than 30 years ago.
Pope Leo XIV meets with one of the most prominent advocates for greater LGBTQ inclusion in the Catholic Church and encouraged his ministry, just days before a planned Holy Year pilgrimage of LGBTQ Catholics to the Vatican.
I wrote a chapter in that book with Tim Maly!
Those are all the places I passed by a million times in my childhood but things like the Rockies or Pacific Ocean were a huge mystery
You still see a ton of 2-3 bed apartments in the suburbs in low rise buildings. There is definitely a market for it and not much of a market for studios there.
Isn't this a joke
I am not sure I want any random people to notice my statement watch on the bus!
Lol Hublot
Also it's almost $1.6 million
I do kind of like this Tiffany dial one but the bezel is still too much
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