John Wolthuis

Feh

The conspiracy we wanted: Scary Apple govt affairs lawyers leaning hard on local politicians to stabilize employee housing costs.

The conspiracy we got: a handful of tech founders made some YIMBY c3 grants

Thinking about how YIMBY/Abudance is getting smeared as a conspiracy by Big Tech while remembering the last decade of trying to get *anyone* in FAANG leadership to take runaway bay area housing costs seriously.

Green MAGA and the crank realignment -or- how can we save the world in a low trust society? t.co/eIxqwbY7mC

You replied just to ask this?

Actual lol

Wait, are we here again?

TIRED: Killing your service’s third-party apps

WIRED: Killing your service’s first-party apps

I find it funny that I see zero people saying “whelp, back to Facebook”

Pour one out for the Bluesky SREs this holiday weekend.

😃

I once stayed in a Stockholm Airbnb with curtains that were basically just gauze. It was June so the sun didn’t so much set as bounce off the horizon. My jet lag persisted.

most cutting thing you can say is "who's this clown?" because it implies they're a) a clown & b) not even one of the better-known clowns

Oh no they got us

Can we talk about how triggering it is to see “https://staging.bsky.app/“ clearly being used for production? Hits me right in the old pager hip.

is this a safe space to ask if everyone’s just pretending to like succession

I meant to do a long post about Japanese urbanism and sensible zoning, transit, and housing policy. But really it was all eclipsed by those eggs.

I had the best eggs benedict I’ve ever had in Kyoto last week and it haunts me. Egg yokes the color of tobacco.

One reason this place feels different to me is that I slowly unfollowed all the early super-posters on Twitter, treating my feed as more of a professional resource.

But here, all the old super-posters set up shop early and its all cat pictures and shit posting, just like the old days.

Seems pretty chaotic, not necessarily in a bad way

Checking to make sure dog photo posts work.

Are there good anchor accounts for climate, energy & yimby here yet?

What’s everyone’s strategy for rebuilding your social graph here? I’m currently just trawling followed lists of people I recognize from the other place.

Koffee Mameya is a great experience if you’re ok waiting in line.

Hello fellow kids

Dearest mutuals,

How are things back home? We hear that the king’s actions grow more vile, and the new aristocracy he has empowered are cruel.

It is a wild but hopeful land here. Many have made the trip over. We still cannot block, which engenders much unpleasantness, but also opportunity.