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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 30/09/2026

This ceiling fan is wearing a studded belt. mcmansionhell.com/post/8291279...

a ceiling fan with a chandelier feature consisting of two rings of three rows of pyramidal crystals

a white belt with three rows of silver-colored pyramidal studs

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

No they weren’t. web.archive.org/web/20250901...

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 28/09/2026

Total YIMBY rhetorical victory watch: San Francisco’s newest NIMBY group, “YesAND,” is pretending to be YIMBY so that people will take them seriously.

MEET YesAND
YES, San Francisco needs more housing, particularly affordable housing.
AND we can build housing responsibly.
AND we can protect public health and safety.
AND we can respect the scale of our neighborhoods.
AND residents can have a meaningful voice when decisions will permanently reshape their communities.
That's YesAnd!
The Marina Safeway will be our first major effort and your help is critical.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 25/09/2026

Housing prices are a measure of supply and demand. California is more expensive than Texas because California builds ~half as much housing per capita as Texas.

Units permitted per 1000 residents per year in Texas and California

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 23/09/2026

Chuck picked this fight when he decided to sot down and write a column about how he thinks the YIMBY theory of housing affordability is “bullshit.”

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 23/09/2026

Guy who has never been to New York City or the San Francisco Bay Area: rich people would NEVER move into modest homes built for the middle class.

Strong Towns screenshot: The household purchasing a luxury condominium was never going to occupy a 500-square-foot starter home. Building that starter home does not require waiting for anything to filter down. It creates the missing product directly.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 23/09/2026

On the one hand, we have a growing body of peer reviewed research on the price effects of new housing. On the other, we have a traffic engineer's gut instinct.

Where Filtering Is Insufficient

About a decade ago, I was in Portland getting a tour from city officials who were touting a major development around one of their transit stops. It ostensibly had everything: a farmer’s market, a hub for local restaurants, lots of housing and plenty of affordable housing, all within walking distance of a major transit stop.

A delegation from the neighborhood joined me on the tour. Most of them were Black and significantly older than myself or the eager professionals giving us the tour. I sensed the skepticism and, in a moment of transition, I turned to one of them and discretely said, “This is all bullshit, isn’t it?”

“Pretty much,” he shrugged back. The vision being presented was compelling for young professionals moving to Portland and seeking housing, but not so much for him and his neighbors.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 22/09/2026

Nah. The water goes to agriculture, not urban uses.

Los Angeles, California
Water Use Trends

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 21/09/2026

This urban planning stuff is easy: make the street kinda skinny so drivers chill out, get rid of the front yards, let the houses touch, plant some trees on the sidewalks, and stripe a bike lane. Do all that, wait 25 years for everything to wear in a bit and boom: you have a pleasant neighborhood.

A townhouse lined street with trees and a bike lane.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 21/09/2026

If you liked “Midwest transplants don’t belong in New York,” you’ll love “people from small towns should stop moving to Los Angeles in search of fame and fortune.”

It's not 100% the same but as an Angeleno, I have to agree. I'Il just say that if the vast majority of transplanted influencers moved back out, I would not mind.
(To be clear, there ARE several content creators or what have you, not originally from here, who seem great!
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 21/09/2026

It’s genuinely weird that San Francisco anti YIMBYs are completely unable to be normal about me, personally. Pic related: the dozens of AI generated caricatures of me that Neighborhoods United SF posted over the course of 2025.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 21/09/2026

Me: while community gardens served a purpose decades ago, under-used urban land in high-demand neighborhoods should be turned into public parks or developed with housing. The insane guy who screamed at SF state Senator Scott Wiener until he left the trans march:

Dimitry Yakoushkin @decadimitry
X.com
"There are much better uses for these plots." - Every yimby ever.

Picture of bombed-out Gaza

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 19/09/2026

The Democrats are defending both trans people and the Kennedy Center.

The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 18/09/2026

Futch nonbinary AFAB combat veteran who runs their post office branch like the goddamn navy and manages Portland’s most ferocious roller derby team in the evenings.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 18/09/2026

Update: my rescheduled flight is now 2 hours late.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 18/09/2026

When u are upset that your flight got cancelled because an airplane maintenance issue pushed the crew past the time they were allowed to work but then u remember that this kind of thing is why flying is so safe.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 17/09/2026

Concept: this 1890s smoking jacket made entirely from cigar box ribbons, but made from professional conference lanyards.

A men’s jacket made entirely from yellow, orange, and red ribbons.

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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 · 14/09/2026

PRRI A large majority of Americans (71%) agree that "transgender people deserve the same rights and protections as other Americans, compared with 24% of those who disagree. This is split across party lines with 88% of Democrats and 77% of independents in agreement, compared with 57% of Republicans.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 14/09/2026

Bob Mackie was the guest judge on the very first episode of Rupaul’s Drag Race back in 2009. He was later given the show’s first lifetime achievement award.

Bob Mackie holding his lifetime achievement award from drag race

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 14/09/2026

RIP Bob Mackie, one of the top 5 gayest humans to ever live (complimentary)

Cher’s Oscars look with the feather headdress

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 13/09/2026

Never forget that he voted for trump because he wanted competence in government.

Bobby Fijan @bobbyfijan
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Most of all in government, I want competence
My preference would have been Desantis ... but I likely would have abstained if Josh Shapiro had been the nominee.
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 12/09/2026

I could not disagree more strongly with this approach. Landmarking bars, clubs, dance studios, and poets’ homes locks the city in amber and blocks new housing, which makes it impossible for non-rich future young people to move to New York and contribute to the culture. Just lay a plaque!

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These kinds of sites, he told me, are "an important part of what makes New York interesting and wonderful. I also think that we learn from our history, and I think that if there's anything that we've seen in the last couple of years, it's that if we don't understand our history, we make terrible mistakes. We don't understand how we got to where we are today. We don't understand what it took to get there. A lot of rights that we take for granted, people had to fight very hard for. They were not always a given. So I think having an understanding and a respect for history is an incredibly important element of a healthy present and future."

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 12/09/2026

The prior owner put in the worst overhead lights on earth.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 12/09/2026

Speaking of the IRA, this might be the best reply in all of twitter history:

Gerry Adams @GerryAdamsSF
22 Dec
This house is like Santa's Grotto. Takes half an hour 2 switch off fairy lights and assorted Yule illuminations. Feel like a grinch now.
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Eddielzzard'sBeret
@realnannysheila
@GerryAdamsSF Surely you know someone who can fit a timer.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 12/09/2026

TBT to a top 10 most insane housing twitter Post:

Environmental and Housing Justice At... ..•
@MaherJohn
Atta wasn't wrong as to urban planning and reform and he made the urban skyline and scalability much better for a few years as anyone who remembers walking between the two towers on winter day will tell you.
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 11/09/2026

Yes I am a political radical. No, I do not support actually doing politics.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 11/09/2026

While this column is kind of all over the place, “upzone so developers will build a lot of new housing and landlords will be forced to compete for tenants on price” is exactly what YIMBYism hopes to accomplish.

Most recently, a Council member
introduced legislation to upzone a large majority of his district, meaning that the density would be increased considerably. And since he flew the flag of affordable housing and it was, after all, his district, the bill passed, despite many of his constituents being against it.
One of the five at-large Council members walked the streets of downtown Nashville touting how the Council had recently passed legislation upzoning hundreds of square miles.
When pressed as to how developers could afford to build affordable housing, a former city official said that the developers would not be able to build affordable housing due to the cost of the infrastructure. When pressed, a sitting Council member who voted in favor of the upzoning admitted that the city would not be able to cover the expense of the infrastructure.
So, in fact, the bill did nothing to improve affordability.
Now, to the current situation. New apartment buildings have shaken the rental market, as the city has overbuilt. Many of the new buildings are offering as much as three months free rent in an effort to lure new tenants.
Investors who own older buildings are forced to lower rents and eat three months or more rent in order to rent their properties, and rental rates have fallen. If they have mortgages, they are in trouble.
Coupled with the highest rates since 2001, there is no reason for a person to buy a home when free rent is an option.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 10/09/2026

In 2008 Barack Obama attended an evangelical church’s presidential forum and made a speech explaining that he was against gay marriage on explicitly religious grounds. www.huffpost.com/entry/is-god...