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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...

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Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWA

Today, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli...

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

very tired of being told it is the responsibility of urban democratic voters never to risk possibly maybe by chance seeming less than respectful of rural red state life and then watching thousands in nebraska cheer on the president joking about a nuclear strike on me and millions of my neighbors

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

While I’m making people mad by claiming consumers get what they want, a lot of consumers really do like big houses with no lot lines in the exurbs. Good urban form exists in lower quantities than demand for it but I think exurban housing has a very high demand and that’s why there’s so much of it.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 06/10/2026

A lot of people like sprawl. While we should not subsidize it like we do today, I believe that people should be allowed to have what they want and are willing to pay for. (Most people won’t be willing to pay the actual cost of insuring a house in the woods in the time of climate change wildfires.)

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 21h

New York City car owners who refuse to pay for off street parking are a mystery to me. If you want a car oriented lifestyle with easy parking and close proximity to urban density, Westchester, Long Island and New Jersey are available to you.

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BART @bart.gov · 05/10/2026

We just came across a bunch of old film footage capturing Bay Area commuter life in the late 80s, featuring BART, MUNI, AC Transit, County Connection and the classic old Oakland Coliseum red seats before Mount Davis!

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 06/10/2026

I asked the water consumption robot to fix Sausalito.

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Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 21h

This is the most median voter post I've seen in a while on NextDoor. Just read it and weep.

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Something my dad told me when I was maybe a year or two out of college, and feeling disrespected about something or other at work: everyone thinks their job is hard and everyone else’s jobs are easy

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“We’re making the right decisions to reinvest in the business, after an all-time low, we’ve started to return to growth, more than 2 to 3 times what we were" People realize this is a nothing statement that says nothing, right? Right?

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Shane Phillips @shanedphillips.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Another entry for the "impact fee nexus studies are bullshit" file! Student enrollment at LA Unified has fallen for 24 years straight, ~48%. And yet! We have an impact fee because: "As new development occurs, additional school facilities will be needed to house the growth in the student population."

A screenshot from the Los Angeles Unified School District 2026 School Impact Fee Justification Study. The text reads: "Education Code Section 17620 allows school districts to assess fees on new residential and
commercial construction within their respective boundaries. These fees can be collected without
special city or county approval, to fund the construction of school facilities necessitated by the
impact of residential and commercial development activity. In addition, these fees can also be used
to fund the reconstruction of school facilities to accommodate students generated from new
development projects. Fees are collected immediately prior to the time of the issuance of a building
permit by the City or the County.
As new development occurs, additional school facilities will be needed to house the growth in the
student population. Because of the high cost associated with constructing school facilities and the
District’s limited budget, outside funding sources are required for future school construction. State
and local funding sources for the construction and/or reconstruction of school facilities are limited."

Source: https://4.files.edl.io/0bc1/05/22/26/161250-26fd9501-6360-44fb-a158-3bb37a543fd9.pdf

A chart showing TK-12 enrollment in LAUSD declining in every year since 2002-03, from 724,000 in that year to 408,000 in 24-25, and a projected 376,000 in 27-28.
Source: https://gpsnla.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Facing-the-Decline-Building-A-Resilient-LAUSD_FINAL.pdf

Current school impact fee rates effective August 11, 2026, per square foot by construction type:
Residential: $5.38
Commercial/industrial: $0.87
Rental Self Storage: $0.32
Parking Structure: $0.44

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 05/10/2026

I can't believe I have to say this: Richard Nixon was corrupt and Congress was right to force him out. But, according to Trump's DOJ and a GOP congressman, Nixon was subject to a Deep State coup. Nonsense. This is just Trump trying to rewrite the past to obscure his corruption today. Link below ⬇️

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Noem demanded personal control over all DHS contracts over $100K and should be held responsible for the waste and (likely) graft that followed, which conservatively ran into the hundreds of millions. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/governing-...

From what we know of Kristi Noem, the head of DHS at the time, she was focused on micromanaging some aspects of government operations. Not workforce planning, but — you guessed it — the flow of grants and contracts. Any contract worth more than $100,000 had to be personally signed by her. And some of that spending was pretty questionable, such as a $200 million ad campaign prominently featuring Noem. There was no competitive bidding process and Noem directed money to Republican firms with long-term personal and professional ties to her. (The fact that Noem had previously led a “Meth: We’re On It” campaign did not seem to stop anyone from questioning her public relations skills).

DHS also bought 11 empty warehouses that it said would serve as detention centers, overpaid for them, and has since sold seven of them. Apparently Noem told officials to buy the warehouses within 30 days, leading to a rushed acquisition process. After the DHS spent nearly $500 million via no-bid contracts on 10 jets, officially for deportations, the planes are mostly unused, or reserved to ferry Trump officials around. So more likely to be incompetence than corruption in this case.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A 10K contribution and a $900 million return. The scale of the graft in Homeland Security is a) off the charts and b) possible because no-one believes they will face any accountability

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 05/10/2026

"Steady throttling of @usbls.bsky.social funding makes all decision-makers—public & private—less well informed... shouldn’t be up for debate, given how strong of an economic benefit they deliver." @hilwething.bsky.social @epi.org on federal economic statistics www.epi.org/blog/consequ...

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Consequences of austerity: How reductions in BLS funding threaten the credibility of our statistics

Government funding cuts are undermining the Bureau of Labor Statistics' ability to provide the reliable information that businesses and policymakers need to make sound decisions about the economy.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes

A tumblr screenshot showing a post and two reblog responses, reading:
1. "star trek would be the ideal fictional universe to get trapped in because you'd explain your situation and they'd be like yeah makes sense. no further questions. fortunately we can use the mysterious warp signature emitting from this system's icy moon to counterface with the solar radiation and slingshot you back home"
2. "I'm from a universe where your world is all a work of fiction." Benjamin Sisko, nodding. "That happened to me once."
3. "I Got Isekaid Into The Star Trek Universe And They Quickly Understood What Was Happening"

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Patrick Meighan @patsweetpat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My former mayor once told me: “people hate all the problems in this town. The only thing they hate more are the solutions to those problems.”

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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

People keep analogizing rent control to the minimum wage, suggesting that maybe empirical work will refute the theoretical work. But the empirical work is generally showing what theory would predict.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 04/10/2026

This is the animating principle of my YIMBYism.

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The loss of living memory of the Second World War is absolutely catastrophic

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

GOOD NEWS! A new cancer treatment has demonstrated unprecedented results in a large trial for cancer patients whose disease has become resistant to chemotherapy AND immunotherapy. Tumors shrank in OVER a third of participants, with 15 patients experiencing COMPLETE eradication of their tumors.

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 02/10/2026

Maybe an allowance for tower separation in seismic zones. But only against towers already completed or under construction, there's an incentive to go first.

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 02/10/2026

No height limits, no massing requirements, no facade articulation, no historic preservation, no setbacks, no parking requirements, no required open space, no required tree planting, no shadow limits, no design review. On every single lot in the city that allows any residential at all.

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 02/10/2026

Unlimited housing development on every lot, end of discussion.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 02/10/2026

I really don't understand America's culture of forcing service workers to be on their feet all day.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you need to send a fundraising email with the header “We know you’re not an ATM” maybe it’s a sign you ought to reign in the grifter consulting firms that are alienating supporters with a constant stream of panhandling spam to raise money that mostly gets poured back into their own coffers?

Dem fundraising email headed “We know you’re not an ATM”

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 02/10/2026

A small developer in Modesto just told me that SB 1117 is going to save him $21,000 in fees, which means he can upgrade some finishes and pass the savings along to future tenants 🙂

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Kris Wolfheart @kriswolfhe.art · 01/10/2026

getting called a slur by asuka in vr will permanently alter the life of any teenager it happens to

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julie muncy @julie.radiantarray.io · 29/09/2026

i've been saying, one path forward for the mid-budget games industry is just... going and making expansions to popular old games. there's a market here. bring back the era of outsourced expansion packs. i'm so serious.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 30/09/2026

Had to document this lest it be lost to history

a 27 inch dell monitor with Computer on a legal sticky note attached to its bezel. It's underlined

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 30/09/2026

wandering around the office and just walked by a detached monitor with a yellow sticky note on it labeled COMPUTER. kind of profound if you think about it

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm thrilled to share that SB 1116 was signed into law today. This represents four years of hard work by my team, across SB 684 and SB 1123, to iron out the wonky details, refine based on developer/planner feedback, and pass pro-housing reform that will get homes built. cayimby.org/legislation/...

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SB 1116: Strengthening the Starter Home Revitalization Act

SB 1116 will streamline the construction of smaller, lower-cost “starter” homes for home ownership by making several improvements to existing state housing law.

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28 Days Lehner 🪦 @danlehner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“‘Choosin’ Texas’? Ha, no pardner, I’m Choosin’ TAXES. Howdy, I’m Big Jim Medlock and I’m here to tell you how the social democratic welf

James Medlock (really Karl Polyani) wearing a cowboy hat

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John “Danielle” Phipps @magitekdad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have friends younger than 38 who look like this and they're wonderful people, and some of the worst people I know are conventionally attractive. Being hateful and misogynistic or kind and compassionate is who you are inside, not what you look like.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/09/2026

I wholeheartedly support this I think he should show up and campaign personally with every republican senate candidate, make it really clear that there’s no daylight between them he can start with susan collins

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

Californians: you're going to hear about the Starter Home Revitalization Act a lot over the next few years. In short, it legalizes small-lot infill ownership homes (ie townhomes and cottage courts) by-right everywhere housing is allowed, with strict approval deadlines similar to those for ADUs.

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

Before AB 956 you could build one detached ADU in your yard and two ADUs from space within your home (one interior conversion ADU, one Junior ADU). Now you can build two detached ADUs in your yard and one interior conversion ADU. This is great news for people with smaller houses and/or big lots!

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

California law exempts ADUs under 750 square feet from ALL impact fees and requires impact fees on larger ADUs to be paid on a per square foot basis. Before SB 1117, a 751sf ADU had to pay all 751sf worth of impact fees. Now, the first 750sf are exempt and you only pay on the excess square footage.

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

I really did not expect them to give me the keys to California housing law this soon out of grad school.

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 29/09/2026

To clarify, we should allow unlimited height and density near San Pablo Ave, College Ave, Telegraph Ave, Solano Ave, and Shattuck Ave.

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 29/09/2026

We should allow unlimited height and density near San Pablo Ave.

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 29/09/2026

Full decarbonization of electricity is achievable within 20 years. That's been true a long time. What's changed is that it's now driven by pure cost efficiency, not mandates and subsidies. That makes achievable into inevitable.

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 29/09/2026

Moral of the story is don't bet against the scalability of the semiconductor industry.

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 29/09/2026

It's mind blowing to me because I cut my teeth on climate/energy policy under Obama 1. Nuclear was the only remotely scalable option. Batteries didn't exist. Solar was an expensive niche.

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 29/09/2026

Up 3x in 5 years. In 15 more years people are going to forget there was ever a time when solar was considered prohibitively expensive as a climate solution. It will be the cheapest and first line solution.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Official monthly data is in, and US solar power generation hit a new record high, up 21% compared to this time last year!

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