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Ever since we got cameras, nobody draws or paints anymore.

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I should probably get on that.

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John “Danielle” Phipps @magitekdad.bsky.social · 8h

Wait are you telling me that artists are going to use these novel technological tools and processes originally developed for industry in new and interesting ways? This has clearly never happened before.

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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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ternercenter.berkeley.edu

The closest thing we have to that data is a not-great survey of ADU owners from 2021 showing that most of them are used as housing. That said, ADUs live many lives. An ADU that’s a home office today might be an adult child’s apartment next year, then a caregiver’s housing in a decade.

First Ever Statewide ADU Owner Survey Shows Growth, Room for Improvement - Terner Center

Accessory dwelling units (ADUs) have become an increasingly popular housing choice in California in recent years. This boom was buoyed by state legislative changes over the last several years that rem...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 7h

Even hotter take: the fact that ebikes let teens in the suburbs suddenly have freedom to move around the public realm unsupervised is precisely why many older people are trying to ban them (using safety as a pretext)

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 12h

“‘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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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 9h

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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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 7h

I do not think this guy is being slowly poisoned. I think he is revealing who he always was.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 7h

Dude always had rancid 4chan-poster vibes.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 7h

He has always had the stench of 4chan on him.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 8h

Dude always came off like a 4chan psychopath to me.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 8h

I don’t think he was ever really joking, is the thing.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 9h

Was Sean P McCarthy ever normal? He always struck me as the type of guy who delights in cruelty and bigotry.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 10h

he wasn't! nader's activism was directed towards replacing legislation and regulation with the plaintiff's bar!

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 10h

Kinda beside the point but that Buc-ee’s spec flag backdrop is *so* tacky.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 19h

A 70ish year old woman was watching video with no headphones on the bus the other day. It’s not just kids.

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There is still work to be done here but this just legalized a LOT of for-sale starter homes throughout California.

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Nope. If the house does not meet any single one of those requirements, it is untenantable.

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It applies if a single window is broken.

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leginfo.legislature.ca.gov

The Starter Home Revitalization Act already applies vacant and uninhabitable lots in single family zones; and that standard is about to change to "vacant or untenantable," with an *extremely* broad definition of "untenantable." 🙂 leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_...

California Code, GOV 66499.41.

California Codes Text Search

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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/...

cayimby.org

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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Had to do some googling for this but thank u

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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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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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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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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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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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It is better for those rich guys to be paying for new union-built high rise condos than for them to be bidding up the price of houses in the Mission.

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Huge thank you to Assemblymember Quirk Silva, Senator Caballero, and Senator Cervantes for being amazing authors and to their tireless staffers Dawn Adler, Jeffery Roth, and Julia Reyes for their incredible work. Major props also to @mnolangray.bsky.social, who worked closely with me on SB 1116.

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Governor Newsom signs housing legislation, cementing California’s record progress to reduce unsheltered homelessness and build more homes | Governor of California

Some professional news: @gavinnewsom.bsky.social just signed all 3 of the bills I worked on this year at @cayimby.bsky.social: AB 956 - 2 detached ADUs at single family homes SB 1116 - Starter Home Revitalization Act expansion SB 1117 - Fee relief for ADUs over 750 square feet

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Left-NIMBYs love to pit welfare state expansion against land use reform, but the latter can 1) can achieve significant poverty reductions 2) without means testing or administrative burdens, and 3) at a net gain for the public budget, which can then be used to expand the welfare state.

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re-read.bsky.social @re-read.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m pretty sure “it’s priced into land costs” is galaxy brained nonsense that planners and academics came up with to avoid having to reckon with the fact that IZ is a tax on new housing paid by renters.

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Oh, yeah.

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If we work hard and are lucky enough to succeed, you and I might get to be obscure historical footnotes.

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Well yes but also not every policy is going to serve every single constituency and solve every problem and that’s ok.

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I am making decent money for the first time in my life and it rules.

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Cancel me for this but I think that politicians should pursue policies that improve the material circumstances of their constituents.

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Zoomers straight up do not believe me when I tell them about pre-ACA health insurance policy rescission.

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Wow we finally ended the Great Recession ~20 years into my working life.

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