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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Somewhat crazy crosstab from a 2025 PPIC survey. Very substantial majority of Californians support building more apartments, 72% overall, but the percentage of noncitizens that support more housing is 92%!!!

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

@nickandert.bsky.social continues to be one of the best resources for transit information in the state. Incredible, wide ranging video. youtu.be/uYwInrTocww?...

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California's Brilliant State Rail Plan

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Some of these standing in for franchises more generally. I spent a significant amount of time in front of Civ III, *especially* the expansions.

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Watching Ghostbusters for the first time in a long time and man, this movie is great, but it is also *so* insanely an 80s movie. Having the secondary antagonist be an agent from the EPA is an insane choice 💀

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

These are terrible numbers for Bass jeeeez

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Reading some Econ lit as I consider a new project and jeez man, we gotta get these guys to redesign their tables so they fit on one page and don't require landscape orientation. This is the 21st century surely we can achieve this.

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

www.politico.com/news/2026/09... Bass advisors more or less admitting that she can't win if she tries to run on her record as mayor.

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

JD Vance going with the "bad boyfriend who doesn't want to get broken up with" pitch the midterms I see

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Can't wait to see what shenanigans River and the gang get up to this season

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Trump may just be the most petulant person in the country. "If I can't have it then no one can" shit from his hand picked board here.

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Made pizzas this afternoon which required prepping the dough yesterday for a 24 slow rise in the fridge and I regret to inform everyone that they really were significantly better than my regular one hour pizza dough.

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A feature of being a Manchester United fan on the west coast is that your whole Sunday is regularly ruined by 10:30 in the morning.

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My flight INTO Boston was delayed, now my flight is delayed OUT OF Boston, much more severely. This is evidently due to pre-planned runway work, which you would think they could have planned around. I will now be getting home at ~4am. I now have a personal vendetta against Boston Logan Airport.

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I have been a lot of places and been on a bunch of transit systems. The Green Line on the T in Boston is maybe the weirdest metro line I have ever been on

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

What is it with conference centers that they are allergic to having chairs and benches and just generally *any* location for people to sit down outside of panel rooms?

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social can still call a special session and include this bill so those barnacles who killed it have to put their names on the record. Big put up or shut up moment for a man who wants to be the President!

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

They should build a metro stop just for Porto's Bakery. Would clearly drive insane ridership

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Looking at the respective transit platforms for Nithya Raman and Karen Bass is so nerve wracking. One (Raman) has an actual vision for a city where transit works. (And let me tell you, if you've lived in a place with great transit (I have) it's impossible to feel satisfied in a place without it.)

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Watching Transformers (2007) in honor of the late great Peter Cullen. This movie is not "good" in the traditional sense of the word, but it is *awesome*

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I don't really have an issue with this...but I do find it a bit odd that we're all basically fine with schools having things like "successful applicants should have an active commitment to the Christian mission of the university" in their job postings.

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The newest episode of Gamechanger is the funniest thing I have seen in weeks. Absolutely incredible.

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Is there some rule that protagonists on ABC shows in particular are just not allowed to be happy? Everybody's dying all the time on that network I swear.

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Nick Andert @nickandert.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

If you're pissed that misogynistic man-child and Sepulveda Line attempted murderer Fred Rosen is hosting a fundraiser for Karen Bass, you can help counter it here. It's really becoming existential for our most important future Metro projects to get Bass and her appointees the hell off the board ASAP

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

This also reads as a prediction for how many goals Erling Haaland and Hull City are going to score in the premier league this year.

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I was never super bullish on Karen Bass' mayoralty, but it is actually surprising to me *just* how bad she's been.

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Being anti street tacos is such a disqualifying thing for the mayor of LA to believe. Like the mayor of New York being anti hot dog cart.

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Look I know you gotta do other stuff to make it to this point, but really I just feel like it must be so lit to be like the level of recognized/famous that gets you invited on shows like QI or Taskmaster or on other fun stuff like Gamechanger or Jet Lag The Game.

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Them making Cami Mendes wear blue contacts for Masters of the Universe was certainly a choice. I'm enjoying the movie, but it just looks *so* crazy.

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Inside of you there are two wolves.

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

They keep singing "music's in my soul" in Camp Rock 3 - but I don't believe them. I don't feel the soul.

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The answer to this is actually D. The language where they are from and the cat language of where they are from.

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Ted Lasso Season 4 is actually very fun when you don't have someone in your ear screaming that it sucks.

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I don't think yesterday's results say all that much that we can draw out with any sort of certainty, but I will say this: these elections do continue to clarify the coalitions of progressives and liberals/moderates.

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

People are blowing this out of proportion I think, but a hot take I have on the Francesca Hong hoopla is that her seemingly just not liking holidays is actually a real political weakness in much the same way that Zohran being a true sports fan is an underrated asset.

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Look man ten years ago the Dodgers had a homegrown team full of players they developed. They got cheated out of a ring and the team that did it got a weak ass slap on the wrist. If this is what "ruining baseball" looks like, the league ruined baseball first.

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Another substantial change over the last four years: lots of poké shops and ramen bars.

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The actual biggest difference between the last time I was in Europe and now is that there seem to be Five Guys restaurants practically all over in all the large cities. I am not kidding.

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

A single conversation with the average left-NIMBY is enough to convince you that they are genuinely just the most miserable people on earth man.

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

As a side note, I have been very impressed with the Dutch rail network on this trip. Incredibly easy to navigate, super frequent trains, and I have not experienced a single delay so far.

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

At a wedding in the Netherlands for a friend from university, and I kid y'all not - at 6'2" I am, if anything, average height for this guest list. It truly is a country of giants.

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I'm sorry. The Michael Jackson biopic made a billion dollars? Billion with a B?

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I like coming here, and I genuinely enjoy it, but the one thing I will absolutely knock Europe collectively for is just how much harder it is to stay hydrated here while on vacation than basically anywhere in the states.

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Lots of people making this about "overeducated, downwardly mobile" people upset that their education hasn't brought success, which, maybe? but imo a much clearer explanation here is that this group of people have both the personal experience of "just getting by" and the education to (1/2)

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

This kind of dense, walkable, mixed use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

French teen spotted wearing an Orlando City kit. Total MLS victory.

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