Reposted by Urban Futurist DemocratCoffeemancer Vanvidum @vanvidum.bsky.social · 3hI maintain that the decline of social institutions in the 20th century in many cases can be tied to the adoption of the automobile & television. 1121
Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 3hDammit, where is that tumblr artist sketch demonstrating how owl bodies are a lie? Posterity needs it 000
Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 17hTHIS is how I find the 2025 SCF is out? Wow. Should have been wall to wall today 110
Reposted by Urban Futurist DemocratWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 19hThis is a ‘good strategy’ in game theory terms if you assume Trump will punish you for not rolling over and showing deference and democrats won’t. Democrats should think about altering those incentives. 311594277
Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 20hWho is putting in the work to keep this one in the public consciousness knowyourmeme.com/sensitive/me...knowyourmeme.comI am aware of all Internet traditions | Know Your Meme“I am aware of all Internet traditions” is a catchphrase typically used to either mock someone else’s elitist attitude or defend one’s own reputation in be 100
Reposted by Urban Futurist DemocratPeter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 09/10/2026#MiniHungarianLanguageLesson: friday idiom today's idiom is "örülj, hogy lyuk van a seggeden", or in english "be glad/grateful that you've got a hole in your arse" it's how we express that things could be a whole lot worse 11810
Reposted by Urban Futurist DemocratJane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 22hYes we have championed the idea of single-stair, but I don't think this is how most of us would have implemented it. Also it's not obscure! Places all over the world do this. Stop acting like it's new and novel when we're the backwards place! www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...sfchronicle.comExclusive: This change to obscure S.F. building rules could unlock ‘missing middle’ housingHousing proponents hope single-stair reform could help spur the sort of modest infill projects that Mayor Daniel Lurie has backed but some said his plan didn’t go far enough. 2454
Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 22h"Sure you want that little guy, you're 12 years old" 031
Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 09/10/2026SINGLE STAIR AND (SOMETIMES) FIRE ESCAPES FOR SAN FRANCISCO INJECT IT INTO MY VEINS 0131
Reposted by Urban Futurist Democratdereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026San Francisco announces change to allow 4-6 stories single stair with secondary exterior egress requirements. [gift link to Chron] www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti... 513818
Reposted by Urban Futurist DemocratAaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The thing about Ben Collins is that he clearly views himself as a political actor. He came out of political journalism, he has no relevant comedy experience, his partner also came out of political journalism and ran for Congress. So we should view his actions primarily through a political lens. 840167
Reposted by Urban Futurist DemocratCinder (it/its) @dollcinder.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I don’t want everything tailored to my interests I want stuff made by perverts and sickos that makes me think about stuff differently 833251512
Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 09/10/2026@unavaleable.bsky.social can we get a "civil danger alert" graphic where the warning is "rectification of names commencing" 020
Reposted by Urban Futurist DemocratReconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 09/10/2026good lord 117123
Reposted by Urban Futurist DemocratInfrastructure Weak @infrastructureweak.bsky.social · 08/10/2026If I lived in Berkeley D1 I'd rank Burnet and Wrubel and would not rank Gangopadhyay. 3153
Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Take an upper end estimate of medical school costs and interest payments - maybe a US doctor spends $500,000 over their lifetime to be a doctor. That's a lot, to be sure. But according to tax data, 🇺🇸 mean physician income is over $200,000/year MORE than in 🇨🇦, 🇳🇱, or 🇸🇪. It's a guild! 110
Reposted by Urban Futurist DemocratAdriana Valencia for AC Transit Ward 3 2026 @valencia4actransit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Post-fatality street redesign is one of the worst things. Why does there have to be blood on the ground before cities actually _do_ something to make streets safer? unfortunately, this is a genre: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma0X...youtube.comMajor Safety Improvements Coming to Oakland Street After the Death of a 4-Year-Old GirlYouTube video by KPIX | CBS NEWS BAY AREA 2203
Reposted by Urban Futurist DemocratEast Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Considering voting No on Measure RTM? 26312
Reposted by Urban Futurist Democratmel in ballhalla 🏳️⚧️🔰♨️ @astruckpersonn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026crony contracts are bad! endless consultants are bad! the solution is state capacity. city engineers shouldn’t be writing rfps, they should be actually planning the projects. a city should have in-house construction workers to fill potholes and build bus shelters states should be doing the same 1226
Reposted by Urban Futurist DemocratRobert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 08/10/2026If RTM doesn’t pass BART says that by July 2027 they’ll have to close all the stations north of Concord, east of Bay Fair, as well as Orinda and Warm Springs. That will leave only 4 of 12 stations east of the hills remaining. 3162
Reposted by Urban Futurist DemocratEast Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 08/10/2026EBFE is cosponsoring a virtual phone bank next Tuesday 6pm. Sign up for that (or find many other options!) here: luma.com/connectbayar...luma.comConnect Bay Area · Events CalendarView and follow events from Connect Bay Area on Luma. Organizing for the Regional Transit Measure on the November 2026 ballot. Vote Yes on RTM November 3rd! Learn more, request window signs and lite... 011
Reposted by Urban Futurist Democratamy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 08/10/2026vote yes on the RTM measure in november if you love BART!! 1586
Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 08/10/2026What was happening at the Robert Crown Memorial Beach in Alameda? This is the KTVU chopper that circled it several times & seems to be promptly heading back to OAK where it started 010
Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This sucks. AND - it's not particularly democratic or undemocratic. 120
Reposted by Urban Futurist DemocratYonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 08/10/2026Conservative government of Alberta is preempting Edmonton, requiring the city to: —Reverse the city's 2024 change allowing small-scale apartment buildings to be built citywide. Change resulted in a building boom: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... —Restore parking requirements, which city eliminated in 2020 713627
Reposted by Urban Futurist DemocratStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026what 101584
Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 08/10/2026We are more or less in Niyazov Calendar territory en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renamin...en.wikipedia.orgRenaming of Turkmen months and days of week - Wikipedia 020
Reposted by Urban Futurist DemocratNext door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Half baked take The 5 most important races in California this fall 1. Insurance commissioner - wreck home insurance market or not 2. Mayor of LA - continue the housing crisis or not 3. Prop 43 - Prop 13 Maxxxx or not 4. Prop 41 - Gann Limit maxx or not 5. Prop 39 - make voting difficult or not 46010
Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Why did airplane-towed banner ads suddenly take off? They used to be rare out of my office window. Now I'm seeing half a dozen a day. Two at once, earlier this morning. 430
Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Has anyone ever been truly great (in the Great Man sense, setting aside all the problematics there) when they were mentally casting themselves as some Great Man of the past? 470
Reposted by Urban Futurist DemocratStan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Given how much Los Angeles' terrible governance on housing and homeless affects the rest of the state, it's no exaggeration to call the LA Mayor's race the most important election in California this cycle. 729646
Reposted by Urban Futurist DemocratTamara Keel [Scary Remix] @tamslick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026 7650129
Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 08/10/2026"'Philip' means 'Horselover' in Greek." 040
Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Does this make any sense to impose on research labs??? 560
Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Where was that research linked recently about how exurban housing construction hours from most of the jobs has much less filtering benefit on the rest of the housing market? 120
Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I hear he must do something. And coincidentally enough, this is something 020
Reposted by Urban Futurist DemocratKatherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 07/10/2026Wynn's Law remains undefeated. 1501622197
Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Guilly Foyle is my name, America's my nation. Graft base is my dwelling place, Doha's my destination. 020
Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Huh, the woman leaning back from him at a 20 degree angle appears to be Susan Dell. 020
Reposted by Urban Futurist DemocratNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Neoliberalism was terrible and we somehow managed to replace it with something even worse. 3474
Reposted by Urban Futurist DemocratNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It’s important to understand that the modern GOP’s vision for the economy, as implemented by the party’s leader, is about allocating resources through a combination of patrimonialism, influence peddling and outright theft rather than open market transactions. 112915
Reposted by Urban Futurist DemocratCadence “Not A Coffee Civet” Andrysiak @supportourpoops.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Blackstone is now my strongest soldier 4635
Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 07/10/2026After some hesitancy I'm probably going to argue for it - I think it's a stab in the right direction. But Prop 40 is just not going to pass folks, don't get invested in it 110
Reposted by Urban Futurist DemocratBART @bart.gov · 07/10/2026BART just set a new ridership record! We carried 254,248 trips yesterday. That’s our highest ridership day since the pandemic, a record we have been breaking again and again this year as more people want to take transit. Thread ⬇️ 421032
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