If you have any idea what I’m talking about I’m so, so sorry

Oh Bobarenko’s (not its name) is *fancy* And good! And like 9 dollars but it’s pretty big and has, like, so much boba (bobas? Boban?) in it so I dunno. Anyway will definitely be going here with some frequency. I also have no idea what the going rate for boba tea is

Fuck the Hurricanes go Caps

Oh shiiiiiiit look what’s open people sweetbambooboba.com?gad_source=1...

Yuuuuuuuup

Once again, the right is openly admitting that the entire focus on trans youth is to ultimately ban all gender affirming care for adults. All the credulous reporters and institutions that helped launder this right wing project are responsible. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I love hyperbole it’s the best thing ever *badumsh*

it is true what they say: star wars is for people who couldn’t understand star trek www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

No, that's exactly what Chappelle was doing and it's why trans people criticized him for doing it.

Subskeet of a bunch of stuff but YIMBYs like me aren’t developer shills or whatever, just tired of the harm of high housing costs, and NIMBYs aren’t usually driven by sheer greed so much as fear of change. Neither is as clever as the other side fears, people are just messy

This is so pathetic.

Scale down the costs obviously but this same thing happens in Takoma Park, as I (kinda sorta) wrote about several years ago now ggwash.org/view/80202/h...

Manhattan's West Village is the poster child for how historically preserving the buildings in high-demand neighborhoods eventually displaces all but the richest people. Case in point: a mansion created from two adjacent Bank Street townhomes will sell for more than SEVENTY MILLION DOLLARS.

California: cities need to plan for new housing. NIMBYs: we don’t want any change in our neighborhoods and we don’t want to displace any tenants so let’s rezone to put all the new housing capacity on commercial corridors. Planners: you got it. NIMBYs: wait no we need to save our small businesses!

For years, we were told the biggest threat to free speech were college students being upset by professors or fellow students making insensitive or bigoted comments. Now that states are banning entire concepts from curriculum, it's crickets. sanangelolive.com/news/educati...

FYI. And be warned, I will talk to you about housing. www.governmentjobs.com/careers/mncp...

“Voting against housing & citing its absence to oppose funding is not fiscal prudence; it is avoidance. We cannot continue to vote “no” on every change, every investment & every long‑term solution, while expecting schools, services, roads & community character to remain intact.” -Marblehead resident

i am willing to be persuaded otherwise but it doesn’t seem to make logical sense that a large influx new student housing would lead landlords to raise prices rather than lower them. www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2026...

Meanwhile the vibes here are very adorable and I will *probably* not take Dan’s dog home with me but I promise nothing

Want to get involved in IRL housing advocacy and make a real difference in passing great bills? California YIMBY lobby day is next month, and we will help you get to Sacramento! Sign up here: actionnetwork.org/forms/2026-y...

I asked myself "how do golf courses possibly afford property taxes" so I looked it up and came away convinced we could virtually eliminate the entire sport by simply removing several dumb tax loopholes

I regret to inform you that this is a pretty accurate representation of asking a community to allow more housing in it youtube.com/shorts/iFoZJ...

The biggest elephant in the room is the fact Elon spent $44 billion dollars to push out trans people and push anti-trans propaganda because he has a trans daughter who disowned him.

Also if when you’re really mad you rant about how we need specific technocratic reforms and regulations and that broader, simpler, angrier calls to action sometimes annoy you I think that may be a sign of autism because god damn (This is not a bit I am autistic and it is fine)

We do not act to match the high minded and urgent language we use to talk about those that are not safe elsewhere and we need to feel bad and change. It is my most catholic holdover from childhood

I’m not going to get into specifics here for various reasons but was just reminded how real this is in individual, specifics lives and it feels really fucking bad right now not gonna lie

Someone sat next to me on the metro drinking Starbucks and a seat pair opened up and he didn’t move and I get off at the next stop and I haven’t been this angry in years

By and large people complain too much about taxes here and I don’t think they are “too high” but the complaints aren’t based on nothing and a “why not both” strategy on this and growing the tax base is sitting right there folks

Sidebar, my neat trick on property taxes is to own property that isn’t very valuable (slaps roof of small condo that should be allowed in more places)

I’m tired, largely staying out of this, and am enough of a tax and spend guy that I’ll probably be okay with whatever happens but when these proposals come from an executive who constantly messages the county is full and we don’t need more housing and resists growing the tax base, god it’s galling.

These same people will cite school overcrowding as a reason to oppose new homes btw.

Some boomers in Salem made a shitty Photoshop for a protest against a new school and there's something interesting on the left side...

Somehow these drug-fueled revelations make people nicer to inanimate objects than other people

big news in Annapolis: the House version of Bring Back Main Street—now a study of how to allow homes in commercial zones—passed the Senate today, and the Senate version just made it to the House floor. five days to go until the General Assembly session ends ggwash.org/view/102510/...

The price of housing is set by supply and demand.

Yes. Yes it does

ICYMI: Montgomery County's budget deliberation continues to get spicy. www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

FYI all you Montgomery Hills/ Forest Glen types

Royal Farms will open its new Silver Spring store at 9475 Georgia Ave. on Monday, May 4.

I don't think most homeowners in massively unequal cities like Seattle realize how much "I am a fifth generation native Seattle resident and I know we need more housing, BUT it needs to be restricted to an area nowhere near me" is an incitement to class war

So many good audience questions! The housing policy wonk crowd takes research design very seriously (as we should).

Keep running into arguments where this keeps being valid so here we are

I don’t think BlueSky is dying but I do think it‘s stagnant because there are only so many unpleasant terminally online politically hyper-engaged left of center aging millennials with personality disorders and a history of underachievement to draw from. We’re pretty much all here already.

Yuuuuuuuuup

I made a (janky) video about why it is harmful when people say we have enough vacant homes to meet our housing needs. We do not. I spend about 9 minutes saying why it’s a problem when people say otherwise. The short version is that people love excuses to do nothing. youtu.be/qVSqo78sTYk?...

FYI, I admit I had lost track of this myself

Beginning on April 7, the Montgomery County Council will begin their deliberations on the FY 2027 budget, and funding for affordable housing programs has been proposed for significant cuts. Tangible shovel-ready projects are at risk of being derailed. Take action today: tinyurl.com/p5hxm8kj

Earth, from Artemis II. Everything you've ever done, everyone you've ever known, all that you have traveled is contained in this picture.