Tom Skrainar

Bay Area native (we exist!). Equally comfortable in a dive bar as seat 1A on an aircraft (remember those?). Goes from Thomas Keller to tots in a heartbeat.

[Tom Skrainar @tskrainar]

How it How it’s
started going

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@summer__heidi Pentium Purrrrr-o

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@freshwaterpurl One. One is more than enough. Tax the rest into oblivion.

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@DrJenGunter The fact that this is happening in 2024 is Idiocracy come to fruition

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@Molson_Hart The tail number you referenced (N914AN) is a 24 year old 737-800 – not a MAX-8. This speaks to maintenance issues with the aircraft (hello, AA) not the manufacturing quality issues currently plaguing (new) Boeing aircraft.

Felt important to note the distinction there.

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@HeterodoxThis I mean, it's a handy reference for exactly how you should vote. Just not in the way they intended.

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@MichaelDTubbs I agree that it's totally unsustainable, but honest question: what's going to turn the tide?

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That face. 🤣

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

46 minutes into his history lesson, Putin stops to mock Tucker for applying to the CIA when he was younger and getting rejected.

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@christapeterso Umbrellas become useless in even moderate wind. Gave up on them (and embraced the full rain suit, pants included) a few years ago.

It's a goofy look, but it Just Works.

[Alex Armlovich @aarmlovi]

Every DOT in America knows about the list of design choices that Hoboken has used to eliminate *all* road deaths for 7 consecutive years

Every time our DOTs repave a road without this list they *knowingly* choose to continue killing 40,000 Americans per year instead

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@noahsloss JFC.

(Also Jackie has a legitimate point there – these things don't happen I a vacuum)

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@stillhere_415 @sf_leilani Always 👏 greedy 👏 landlords 👏

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@rakyll @JetBlue Been very, very excited to try this new cabin. Nice work grabbing the studio!

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@netcapgirl Same could be said of Boeing!

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@AnnaGHughes Them: "prep time 15 min"

Me: "how long do you think it's gonna take me just to sharpen this knife??"

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@justizin Background here: https://t.co/loabGc5Hld

[Sarah Larchmont @SarahLarchmont]

Congresswoman Elise Stefanik hiding from the ‘HOSTAGES’ on Jan 6.

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@justizin

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@WonkoAdams @mulegirl These are all problems, but not the reason things are closing left and right here. Commercial rent is out of control, even though there are tons of vacancies.

Imagine charging $11K/mo in rent to a dive bar at 17th and Capp St.

Pull it up on Street View and look around.

[Tom Skrainar @tskrainar]

@mulegirl We desperately need a vacancy tax with teeth (not the meaningless $250/linear foot of storefront).

Everything is closing because of insane rents.

Landlords are free to charge whatever they want, but vacancy needs to be taxed as a percentage of the offered lease rate.

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@norootcause "Reach out and brace me"

(K&R-style, of course)