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Josh Martin

@jlmartin.bsky.social
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SF based, medicinal chemist by trade, housing and urban transportation enthusiast

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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 3h
Would be sad to see my local BevMo close but exciting to welcome >450 new neighbors sfyimby.com/2026/10/36-s...
sfyimby.com
36-Story Tower Proposed For 1301 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco - San Francisco YIMBY
Preliminary permits have been filed for a 36-story residential tower at 1301 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco. The application invokes the recently passed...
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We need a century long moratorium on asymmetric homogenous catalysis Nobel Prizes. Decadent choice by old men more focused on the nature of the universe than revolutionizing the world we live in.
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Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai win Nobel Prize in chemistry
Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Surely letting local councils pick and choose who gets to open a shop won’t go wrong in any way.
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Andy Burnham on Instagram: "Who is actually asking for more vape shops?"
49K likes, 2,908 comments - andy.burnham on August 11, 2026: "Who is actually asking for more vape shops?".
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Don’t block the box in San Francisco
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Lyft bike has bricked it entire system near portola. Seemingly without any announcements or comms. Pretty shitty for what is a publically subsidized system
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Crazy sunset is San Francisco tonight
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Talking to a bunch of middle aged marin suburbanites who drink on Polk because the bus service is so convenient permanently changed my brain chemistry
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 18/09/2026
BART should be the pride and joy of California, expanded continuously, relentlessly optimized and improved every year. In reality it's Grey Gardens. It rots around us while pretending to still be a great society.
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Is this good???
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Are autonomous vehicles and San Francisco development on a collision course?
It makes sense for robotaxi fleets to be parked close to their customers. But, someday, it’d make sense to put housing on those sites, too.
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The worst merchant association in the city is having an existential crisis because someone is going to build an apartment building nearby
sfstandard.com
A West Portal project doubled in size. It’s the latest in SF’s ‘F your feelings’ era
Local businesses are reckoning with the reality that a major West Portal development could whiz through the approvals process.
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Always a miserable experience on the Turk street bike lanes.
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Tearing down stub urban freeways makes you immortal. Legacy minded politicians take note
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
300 De Haro St looks like it’s almost topped out.
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Noah Smith get your ass on Bluesky so I can tell you to your face how dumb you are www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-death-...
noahpinion.blog
The death of Market Street
How San Francisco turned its most iconic street into a giant empty scar.
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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'It's called being in prison:' San Francisco has a broken-elevator problem
About 3,000 buildings in San Francisco have just one elevator. When they break down, it can be hell for senior and disabled residents.
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
How many other cities (ex) politicos complain when a trillion dollars of wealth gets added to their cities?
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The only people who are serious about building apartments in the bay appear to the the folks who mass produce the 101 adjacent 5 over 1s
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancis... The damn e bike riders are at it again
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From the sanfrancisco community on Reddit: Avoid Lombard and Richardson for a while
Explore this post and more from the sanfrancisco community
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Basically nothing I’ve bought has brought me more steady joy than my dickies 874’s. 29$, literally indestructible, non offensive silhouette, I wear them 3 times a week at least
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Can’t park there buddy
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Swear to god half of the standards pieces are rage-bait
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I’m following instagram conspiracy theories you guys couldn’t possibly wrap your head around
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
How exactly does one achieve this build??
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
“What’s the worst thing that could happen from giving my child this homeopathic traditional medicine???” The doctors can literally see lead deposits in the child’s X-rays
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
You won’t believe whose trying to sell you a seersucker suit nowadays www.instagram.com/reel/DbD5RSv...
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Tailor On Tap | Custom Clothes on Instagram: "Summer style, refined. Meet the Seersucker Suit from the Roger Stone Collection. Designed for warm-weather sophistication and available in both single-br...
17 likes, 2 comments - tailorontap on July 21, 2026: "Summer style, refined. Meet the Seersucker Suit from the Roger Stone Collection. Designed for warm-weather sophistication and available in both s...
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Sup. Melegar statement on Ocean Avenue Transit only lanes
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Feel like Sephiroth posting about the opps (the Howard Jarvis taxpayers association)
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
On a jam packed BART train headed to the city on a Saturday afternoon. Are regional leaders really just going to let transit fail in a couple months. Seems insane, how will the region work
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
“I will arrive at your therapeutic area with a molecule so chiral, so offensive to your multi-parameter optimization algorithm, that your model will flag it as “not drug-like.” It will then proceed to work, in vivo.” 😂😂
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
It’s really remarkable that a huge portion of the undocked bay wheels bikes are in on the Hayes Valley to Pac Heights to Marina axis. I would guess it’s a perfect storm of missing dock expansion (no new expansion here in 4 years +), people who shrug at the 2.5$ charge and big hills
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
The great highway debate takes a backseat in the D4 race 🫦🫦 So that the candidates can yell at the incumbent because he voted for the state mandated upzoning of high resource neighborhoods 🫥🫥🫥🫥
missionlocal.org
Great Highway takes a back seat in latest District 4 supervisor debate
At a debate hosted by Mission Local, District 4 hopefuls take jabs at incumbent supervisor Alan Wong, and draw other lines in the sand.
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Every map of Chicago is the same map: example # 1,000,000,032
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
If you commit crimes every day, you shouldn’t be allowed to be a cop
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Im like 90% sure that SFFD has used a 7 floor, single interior stair building for training since the 1950s. sf-fire.org/training/19t...
sf-fire.org
19th/Folsom (The Tower) | SF Fire Website
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
No money to help people get around, only money for stupid wars of choice
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
The SF BOS drama never ends sfstandard.com/2026/03/27/s...
sfstandard.com
Supervisor Jackie Fielder in the hospital; City Hall hangs in the balance
Fielder’s office has been in turmoil for weeks.
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
"I urge everyone to look out for each other" is the "thoughts and prayers" of street safety
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Who drives/who dies in San Franciscos streets
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Avid cyclists every time
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Thinking about becoming a much worse person after reading fb comments
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
These guys have a 2k a month mortgage in Haight-Ashbury and are still whining to the standard.
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Another brutal car crash in SF, our politicians and city arent acting with any sense of urgency
missionlocal.org
6 people hospitalized after car crash in Mission District, 2 with serious injuries
A car struck two pedestrians and one other car on 22nd Street at the intersection of South Van Ness Friday afternoon.
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The muni exhibit in the basement of city hall is fun. I found this photo particularly striking
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Permanent pedestrianization of at least parts of Chinatown is such a no brainer
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
SF street signs are in fine form today
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
New anti Elon Musk ad campaign in SF
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
This is so embarrassing for Keller. A laundry list of tired NIMBY tropes.
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French Laundry owner slams proposed affordable housing project near restaurant
Concerned business owners worry that financial risk could fall on locals.
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Josh Martin @jlmartin.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
A tour of SF, hosted by someone raised in Fremont, who now lives in NYC, is kind of a head scratcher from FT
ft.com
A beauty guru’s guide to San Francisco
Make-up artist Fara Homidi finds her happiness in the city’s sunsets, steakhouses and rooftop bars
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