shawn

underdog mentality with champion composure

[shawn @malashenk0]

beast boy but instead of turning into different species of the animal kingdom he turns himself into a pickle

[Giacomo Volpe 🌹🤝🌐 @_giacomo_volpe_]

Despite being shit on most every other issue, the CA Rs might actually start to compete if they moved like this on housing instead of being even more deranged NIMBY than the Dems

Their gubernatorial candidate is an anti SB79 zealot

Most cant even do the bare minimum

[Basil🧡 @LinkofSunshine]

Has the NY assembly ever been okay

[clara the urbanist @SlopHq]

@mh0382757760749 we mourned manufacturing leaving the midwest for 40 years and now something energy-hungry wants to locate in michigan and the take is ‘girl no’

[Space 8K @uhd2020]

Orion and Meteor Shower ☄️

[Centrism Fan Acct 🔹 @Wilson__Valdez]

Nathan, what are your thoughts on the symbolism of this photo? Taken just days before the fascist president started a war with Iran.

Would love to hear about how this is 'Meeting the Moment' or whatever....

[Cameron 🇺🇸 🗽🦅 @CameronCorduroy]

they view themselves not as stewards of government, but as occupiers of conquered territory

there is no way out of this spiral without every member of this administration spending the rest of their lives in prison

[shawn @malashenk0]

it's like trying to argue with people who are advocating for retail theft of groceries when its like.... CalFresh gives you so much money if you're actually broke, extra if you have kids. there's food banks - we quite literally have free food for the poor!

[shawn @malashenk0]

its a larp

its always a larp

metro has LIFE and if you can't be bothered to do the bare minimum of signing up for free fares you are genuinely too far outside the grasps of simple social living, everything allowing you inside the gates is downstream of that fact

[Coconut Tree City 🥥🌴 @yin_yang_yo_]

Imagine having such strong feelings about how LA Metro is run and that we should have free fares, but telling on yourself that you don't ride Metro regularly by having the wrong amount for our fare

LA Metro fare is $1.75 a ride with 2hrs of free transfers lol

[Los Angeles Times @latimes]

Street homelessness went up in Los Angeles. In Nithya Raman's district, it was nearly cut in half https://t.co/BVvLLG5E4S

[shawn @malashenk0]

there needs to be absolute genuine fear in city halls when they vote on permitting that if they don't take compromises when and where they can the state can literally just permit developers and homeowners to cordially raze the entire city to build 5-over-1s

[shawn @malashenk0]

honestly builders remedy should also include the suspension of tenant protections in addition to clearing up the compromises it offered years ago like "objective design standards". builders remedy should be so disruptive you'd see 50 story talls in your SFH neighborhood in a year

[California YIMBY @cayimby]

Brisbane missed its deadline to rezone for new homes, so the state stripped its power to block housing there.

Builders can now skip city approval—one of only three CA cities to have its housing plan decertified this way.

[MTS @MTSlive]

Taylor Lorenz on the data center backlash:

"I went on Eric Newcomer's podcast recently, because I'm in this community group in LA, and they found out that there's a data center in downtown LA. It's not a hyperscale. The comments are like, this is why I've been feeling off, or my dog has cancer."

"That's not to say that there aren't serious environmental concerns with Colossus and some of these. Construction can disrupt the water table. Okay, but let's have an actual conversation about it."

"Everybody has lost the plot. There's no nuance, and if you talk to a lot of these people, they can't even explain what a data center is."

"A lot of the outrage about the data centers is coming from people that live in Brooklyn. You're feeding people slop and chum, and you're not moving these issues forward, and we're not talking about sustainable ways to build it."
@TaylorLorenz @UserMagazine

[YIMBY Democrats for America 🇺🇸🗽 @YIMBYDems]

"Maybe it's not that this building is too tall. Maybe it's that we kept our neighborhoods away from change for too long."

Let the healing begin!

[Deva Hazarika @devahaz]

Everyone at this meeting is a homeowner paying $3,000 annual property tax on their $4M property or $1,200 a month rent for a 2-bedroom apartment by the bay

[clara the urbanist @SlopHq]

you can simply legalize the fourplex. one vote, no money, no shovels, a room of people raising their hands, and suddenly a hundred thousand lots can hold four families instead of one. every city owns a printer that makes housing and most of them keep it unplugged

[shawn @malashenk0]

@jakeonrails property rights; unironically libertarians are the betters when it comes to local politics because local government needs to be supressed biggly. Why should the govt be able to tell you where and what you can build? Building code law is sufficient. Everything else is overreach.

[Glinert 🇺🇸 🏭 @StevenGlinert]

80% of San Franciscans are under 65.

[shawn @malashenk0]

@YIMBYLAND make it 30 stories, then 40, then 50 until they get the message and stop bitching and groaning. keep doing it for every development from here on out.

[shawn @malashenk0]

These wanton complaints and efforts to stymie additional housing need to be answered with the pent up rage and frustration felt by those who are making more money than they ever could've believed yet live more humbly than their parents because of these geriatric cronies.

[shawn @malashenk0]

I genuinely believe there needs to be a way to legally bloody the noses of this subset of small community minorities that exist to do nothing but bitch, groan and keep everything exclusively comfortable for them in their last years in society. Make it 30 stories now, then 40.

[Laura Waxmann @laura_waxee]

Hundreds of #SanFrancisco Marina residents turned out this evening for townhall on controversial @Safeway housing plan, which would place what for many is an uncomfortably tall, 22 & 18 story project at the low-slung neighborhood’s waterfront.
@sfchronicle