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Mayor will face opponents to zoning plan at rallies outside of City Hall - 48 hills Press conference, silent protest marks first official meeting on upzoning proposal. Here's what to look for

Rent controlled apartment buildings should be categorically exempt from this upzoning legislation. Instead they are prime targets of it.

If proponents are serious about development without displacement and housing affordability, they will exempt rent controlled buildings.

when i say the NYTimes deserves neither your money nor your respect, i also mean NYTimes cooking, NYTimes puzzles, crosswords, connections, and wordle, the wirecutter, the athletic, and all their podcasts.

the NYtimes launders anti-trans bigotry; this is their victim-blaming victory lap

the year is 2029. i start my work day by logging into the authentication app and plugging a six digit code from my phone into the computer. after repeating this process 300 more times for every application and website i use, i am finally ready to get to work. it is now 5pm and time to go home

The Money Is In All The Wrong Places | Defector You can always tell who in Hollywood has family money by their Instagrams. People like Dakota Johnson, who have a Hollywood lineage deeper than the Mariana Trench, post only rarely. They post about so...

Excellent article that explains the bigger picture here, both about Sweeney in particular and the entire mass culture industry:

The arts still pull in comparable amounts of profit, but the share to actual artists has shrunk dramatically.

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The sentence that impressed me that English is a really beautiful language is "This shit is so ass"

these fuckers being able to destroy everything is not a foregone conclusion

Medieval scenes ❤️

Seniors Are More Conservative Because the Poor Die Off Sometimes older voters aren’t just naturally more conservative. It’s just that wealthier and whiter people tend to live longer and healthier lives.

Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. *Populations* get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner.

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this is how I feel about daniel lurie especially

it’s so cool that no one knows what’s going on or is going to happen with anything

The Age of the Double Sell-Out In the last three decades, youth culture has moved from a deep suspicion of commerce to a passionate defense of anti-anti-commerce to an entire generation of "creatives” who leverage the commercial ma...

My friend and yours @caseyjohnston.bsky.social linked to this piece in a recent newsletter, and it really got at the vibe of what a lot of things feel like culturally these days. Can we bring back SOME sense of shame and integrity? Like, just a little?

two text messages: There’s a burnt out Tesla covered in graffiti on the side of 40 All I saw was the word penis

husband texted me

i don't care about your browser history. show me your terminal history

this pic rules

YouTube just showed me an ad from a Christian college telling me to follow my divine purpose which was to get an online MBA

god I love San Francisco. this city makes no goddamn sense in the same way I make no goddamn sense

Mr Darcy the cat is more of a morning snuggler. he has a supernatural ability to detect when I’m about to get out of bed to start my day and without fail he chooses right then (and not a moment sooner) to jump into the bed and plop down on me and demand affection. I love him

Georgie the cat tucks me in every night, by which I mean when she sees me go to bed she hops up for snuggles for a little then once I shift to get comfy for real sleep time she hops away because she prefers to sleep on the couch. It makes me feel very loved

and yeah that sounds dramatic but seriously. Caring for a little creature who is so different from me, yet so full of love in our coexistence, is truly just the best. And I have two of them!!! Wow!!!!

It’s honestly crazy how much having pets has made me a better, more loving person than i ever thought I could be

How do cats always land on their feet? Scientists believed they use the dropper's hand as a fulcrum until these images, captured at 12 frames per second, debunked that in 1894. More on the Falling Cat Problem here: buff.ly/2Ep1orD

Really can't be emphasized enough that Kamala Harris, like most Democrats, did not actually run on the defense of trans people in 2024. The real ask here is for Democratic candidates to join in attacking a minority population that is being persecuted by the current administration for votes.

“I see in my circumstances similarities to Israel’s use of administrative detention – imprisonment without trial or charge – to strip Palestinians of their rights…

For Palestinians, imprisonment without due process is commonplace.”

Proposed HHS Rule Would Ban Trans Healthcare From Essential Health Benefit Coverage In ACA Plans An unpublished HHS rule on the Federal Register could have devastating impacts on trans healthcare, especially for trans people who don't live in trans sanctuary states.

1. ‼️BREAKING: (w/ @ket.bsky.social) A proposed HHS rule threatens to exclude trans healthcare from the list of Essential Health Benefits in the most sweeping anti-trans attack yet. It targets trans care for all ages for people on ACA plans.

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I mentioned this @amoorelouise.bsky.social article to my grad students recently bc the more I think about it, the more important it seems. LLMs make decisions by altering parameters until you get a desired outcome, not by reasoning through principles. + www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

yeah this was my life in 2022-23 and it was really effective in shutting people down and gaining support. If you are even a little funny you can already run rings around any ai chud

one of the heart breaking things about anti trans propaganda is how wildly effective it has been. Study after study pre 2017 showed the majority of people in the U.S. were generally positive on trans issues and happy to learn more. Jordan Peterson, JKR, Matt Walsh, all those freaks will burn in hell

the internet would be so cool if it wasn't evil

my fellow Californians of good moral character…

trans people need you, *i* need you, to tell Newsom exactly what you think of him saying trans Californians (in a trans! sanctuary! state!) aren’t worth protecting

PLEASE DO NOT LET THIS SLIDE

CA Gov Gavin Newsom "Completely Aligns" With Charlie Kirk On Trans Issues In Podcast The California Governor, in the launch of his new podcast, announced that he completely aligned with far-right, ant-LGBTQ+ influencer Charlie Kirk on sports, and agreed on prisons and youth care.

1. This morning, California Governor said he was in "complete alignment" with anti-LGBTQ+ hate-influencer Charlie Kirk of TPUSA on transgender sports.

He also conceded on trans inmates and gender affirming care for youth.

It's so much worse than being reported.

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