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Bobby Garrity @bobbygarrity.bsky.social · 21h

Just off the @yimbyaction.bsky.social Prop 45 debate. Was so helpful!!! I didn't know what to think of 45 before hand but after hearing both sides of the debate I'm now a clear YES on Prop 45! I hope the org votes to support it!

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Eight Buffalo Media Group LLC @eightbuff.com · 30/09/2026

The future could be magnificent, and you deserve a share of it.

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 29/09/2026

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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026

the future could be magnificent, and you deserve a share of it

Retro-futurist propaganda poster overlooking a radiant, green utopian city of rivers, bridges, gardens, and gleaming towers at sunrise. Four people and a shaggy dog sit on a flower-covered hillside, gazing toward the city. Across the sky in huge block lettering: “the future could be magnificent, and you deserve a share of it.”

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Bobby Garrity @bobbygarrity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am currently at the Jamaica station of the Long Island Rail Road and the transit envy is killing me.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 29/09/2026

People mistakenly believe that unfunded inclusionary zoning is a way to tax developers and rich people to fund subsidized housing for the poor. It is not. In reality, it’s a tax on working and middle class renters. Actual rich people, who overwhelmingly own single family homes, pay nothing at all.

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Bobby Garrity @bobbygarrity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if Person A makes Thing Z, you can criticize Person A without making things up about Thing Z.

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In recent months, the planned safety upgrades for a mile-long stretch of road near Griffith Park have grown highly contentious for Los Angeles politicians, street safety advocates, and nearby cemeteries. Read the full report here: lataco.com/forest-lawn-... 🎥: @marinamasako.bsky.social

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is a remarkably lazy argument. Subsidizing cheap gas just guarantees continued car dependency. The true financial anchor dragging down the working class is living in a society where expensive private vehicle ownership is a mandatory tax just to exist.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

we could solve the western water crisis overnight by simply charging alfalfa farmers market rates for water

Across the basin, alfalfa hay uses more than 5 million acre-feet of Colorado River water — that's 26% of all the water consumed in the basin. One acre-foot roughly equals the annual water use of two or three households.
In the Upper Basin, irrigated agriculture consumes 2.8 million acre-feet, or nearly half the water used by Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, the environment, reservoirs and water exports out of the basin. Cattle-feed crops, like alfalfa, consume 90% of all water used by Upper Basin agriculture.
That means alfalfa uses more water than cities, commercial users and industries across the entire basin:
Collectively, these users consume about 3.5 million acre-feet, or 18%, of the river's water. The Colorado River

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alasdair @alasdairc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

beef is negative food. you turn 1000 calories of feed into 100 calories of beef and a whole lot of methane and cow shit. ai does produce more food than the beef industry (zero)

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 24/09/2026

Pres. AOC/Buttigieg/Ossoff should turn this into an actual Office of Remigration that tracks down former immigrants to the US ejected by the Trump administration and offers them visas to return

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 23/09/2026

be a bloomer in a world of doomers you'll stand out, you'll have a better impact on the world, you'll have a better impact on yourself

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Bobby Garrity @bobbygarrity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I want to be a tailcoat guy but wouldn't use it a lot In LA

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Nick Andert @nickandert.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This Friday at 6pm at the brewery at Union Station, @calelectricrail.org will be hosting a Transit Costs Reform happy hour, and I’ll be giving a brief presentation on the topic. Come join us!

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Transit Costs Reform Happy Hour - LA · Luma

Do you want faster, cost effective transit service improvements? Want to learn how to bring down the costs of new subways, rail electrification and transit…

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The creation of dense, mixed-income, multiracial neighborhoods should be a significant policy priority for the Left because that is the breeding ground of our social base.

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Michael Schneider @michaelschneider.com · 19/09/2026

Everything that makes my dinner spot in Spain charming is illegal in most of the US: - zero parking - no setbacks - mixed use - single-stair buildings - a street width most fire departments wouldn’t allow I think it should be legal to build this in any US city, by right.

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Grace @gracekind.net · 19/09/2026

A cat is a machine that turns chicken into hair

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Bobby Garrity @bobbygarrity.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Fuck yes. It's far from the only reason I support my trans friends, but as a transhumanist I will always support everyone's right to leave the flawed body they were born into and become that which they wish and are truly meant to be.

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Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Really cannot stress enough how this is a direct result of the State of California saying “no more gas powered lawn equipment” and here we are Like, thats all it took. State says “this is banned now” and the market figured it out just fine!

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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 16/09/2026

LATE LAST NIGHT, Rep. Jay Obernolte voted to make CA’s air smoggier and expose port communities to more diesel pollution THIS is what MAGA Republicans are focused on — helping Big Oil by making ships dirtier — not lowering costs, making life more affordable, or helping Americans get care they need

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GeorgistSteve 🔰🏗️🌆🪩🗽 @georgiststeve.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The City of Los Angeles™️ :

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 16/09/2026

There should not be 88 different cities in Los Angeles county. Abolish Beverly Hills.

Map of incorporated cities in LA county.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 16/09/2026

Municipal fragmentation creates significant collective action problems in housing as every jurisdiction seeks to maximize property tax revenue while minimize spending on services (read: schools for poor kids).

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dame @dame.is · 12/10/2025

technology is not neutral, it’s good

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Bobby Garrity @bobbygarrity.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

For a second there I thought I knew the authors iykyk

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I feel every few weeks there's a meticulously researched @stephenjacobsmith.com post that's like "here's this one dude in charge of the California Doorknob Industry Commission who has statistically caused 67k more people to be homeless"

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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Finally San Francisco realized that “Twenty percent of zero is zero”. Unattainable inclusionary zoning mandates produce no affordable housing. In some places, it’s by design.

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Nithya Raman @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Want to know LA’s best kept secret? It is the matching funds program! The city will match Angelenos' donations up to six times. This means a $10 donation becomes $70 for our campaign. It is a tool to help grassroots campaigns like mine compete. Donate today! 🔗 in bio

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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 14/09/2026

Do you ever think about how San Francisco basically went through an economic miracle, with multiple years of double-digit growth, and about the only thing they have to show for it is a world-famous housing crisis? Data from fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GDPAL...

Chart labeled Economy of San Francisco, showing rapid growth from 2011 to 2024. On the right is a chart showing the GDP per year in billions, and percentage change.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GDPALL06075

Year Billion % Change
2001 $70
2002 $68 -3.5%
2003 $68 0.8%
2004 $70 2.0%
2005 $76 8.7%
2006 $81 7.5%
2007 $87 6.3%
2008 $88 1.1%
2009 $88 0.3%
2010 $92 4.6%
2011 $100 8.6%
2012 $112 11.8%
2013 $119 6.7%
2014 $131 10.3%
2015 $144 9.7%
2016 $157 9.2%
2017 $173 10.0%
2018 $189 9.4%
2019 $207 9.6%
2020 $215 3.7%
2021 $250 16.4%
2022 $246 -1.8%
2023 $259 5.3%
2024 $268 3.7%

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aly @aly.codes · 14/09/2026

you're allowed to be a libertarian socialist in the way that Henry George was a libertarian socialist

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dame @dame.is · 13/09/2026

the world’s most broken, irredeemable clock that isn’t even right twice a day because it has no hands somehow managed to be right about pacing the AI frontier

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Bobby Garrity @bobbygarrity.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Apparently this is still happening as I've had to report Gaza scams 2 days in a row. And honestly I think I prefer the porn bots

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Bobby Garrity @bobbygarrity.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Your regular reminder that those who hate immigrants hate America even more. Immigrants make America great, and our ability to attract the best and brightest is our true superpower.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 11/09/2026

Different sorts of capitalists are often at odds with each other, and this is very much a case where unleashing the developers to undermine landlords produces positive results for the regular Joe who just needs a place to live.

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 11/09/2026

A lot of NIMBYs get it in their head that developers and landlords are on the same side too and see developers profiting as somehow letting the capital that keeps housing unaffordable win. No, incumbent landlords largely don't want new development, they want artificially constrained supply.

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 11/09/2026

I love artificial intelligence ☺️ I love machine learning ☺️ I love using linear algebra to drive humanity forward ☺️☺️☺️

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Baselines shifted @tboggia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I worry that many on the left will vote for Kim for the wrong reasons. Kim's proposals are a bailout of wealthy suburban and rural homeowners at the expense of working class, urban people. She is using progressive language to distort yet another market to benefit those who have benefitted to date.

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Bobby Garrity @bobbygarrity.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Part of why it's a shame that Gemini is not competitive right now is that Hassabis is very consistent in talking about AI as a tool for accelerating science.

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Bobby Garrity @bobbygarrity.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The existence of Sam Altman implies the existence of Sam Primaryman

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Bobby Garrity @bobbygarrity.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This. Our transit agencies need the funding and political will to build great things and do so at great scale. You cannot lower costs without scale, and you will not build political will to scale something that is not great.

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 09/09/2026

This is why farmers are pushing glozoism about data centers so they can take all of the damage they did to the water tables and blame data centers for it so they can keep damaging the water tables. Its literally just a trick by the far right AG lobby.

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I do appreciate it when NIMBYs just say "the thing," instead of trotting out a bunch of bullshit about imagined sewer capacity or whatever

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 08/09/2026

The Coalition for Elevator Reform, led by The Kelsey, is up and running. Join if you have any interest in advocacy to bring down elevator costs! Especially if you are a member of a YIMBY group or have the ear of any politician. Email hello@elevatorreform.org, ask to join the mailing list.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It is less than a decade since the development of the transformer. Less than four years since the release of GPT-3.5 (ChatGPT). Less than two years since the release of o1-preview (the first Reasoner).

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