Hey y'all, we just posted a Sound Design intern position here on the Respawn Jedi team for Summer 2026! Come make some really cool stuff with us *Caveat is you must be a student graduating no earlier than December 2026 jobs.ea.com/en_US/career...

I will be at GSC

In other news, I paid of my student loans so that's cool

Decades of unlimited local control over land use have left us with an historic housing shortage, unaffordable rents, homeownership out of reach for the middle class, and crisis-level homelessness. Enough is enough. It’s time for the state to step in and set some basic ground rules by passing SB 79.

Jon Lovett’s face when LA City Councilmember Imelda Padilla said she forced an affordable housing project to go down from six stories to three stories and add in EV charging spaces

Been relearning how to draw after years of avoiding it. Here's a tree

The most impressive thing about this campaign is how *creative* they are. They’re trying new stuff! Multiple times during the last few months I’ve thought “wow, I’ve never seen a campaign do that.” Much more of that needed everywhere.

Josh Albrektson turned this tweet into a letter to the LA Times! www.latimes.com/opinion/lett...

Karen Bass is an unhinged NIMBY and everyone still on the other site should ratio her

“Los Angeles leaders are once again demonstrating their cowardice and failing their own constituents who desperately need more housing—and they’re doing it at the behest of LA’s wealthiest, most entitled voters, who have consistently blocked progress on housing affordability.” - @hanlon.bsky.social

It's 2018. The LA City Council is opposing SB827 because it overrides local control. Rent is $1,663 It's 2019. The LA City Council is opposing SB50 because it overrides local control. Rent is $1,791 It's 2025. The LA City Council is opposing SB79 because it overrides local control. Rent is $2,625

Is private equity buying homes a problem? Yeah for sure, I hate BlackRock owning homes as much as the next person Is that as big of a deal compared to the fact we simply don't have enough housing and have built up massive barriers to building housing? No, not really

AAA estimates the average cost of owning a car is $12,297 a year, and recommends drivers spend no more than 10 percent of their income on car costs. This means you should make 120K to afford the average cost. Median *household* income in the US is $77K. The math just doesn't work.

As a self described lefty, getting out of the all new housing is luxury housing and that's bad mindset was pretty hard and took a while. This is a pretty rad video that describes why lefty NIMBY-ism is still bad even though it's more caring and understanding www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvTa...

Today, Secretary Duffy said he wouldn't fund high-speed rail projects due to them "not having the means to go the distance". Hours later, he announced plans to build a nuclear reactor on the moon.

It's so messed up that it's genuinely difficult to just bike around and eat croissants in American cities

Single family zoning effectively mandates McMansionization and economic displacement in high-demand neighborhoods by making it illegal to replace older single family houses with several smaller, less-expensive homes.

When four homes replace a SFH, each new home is about the same price as the original, and at 5 units or more, the new homes tend to be more affordable. But the critical comparison is to the 1-for-1 replacement — a mansionization, in other words.

My library is on sale! www.asoundeffect.com/sound-librar...

Getting that "I should move to Japan" feeling again today

If you're gonna keep firing graphic designers and copy writers for AI, you're gonna find out the hard way...

I'm really tired of almost dying on LA streets because some asshole wants to drive to a red light just a little faster

Today is an awful day. Some of the best people I've worked with have been let go

The Austin City Council voted 10-1 to allow up to 5-story, single-stair buildings. Austin joins a growing list of North American cities & states bringing back the once popular building type and allowing more flexibility in the types of housing produced in the City. 📍Austin, TX

Transportation costs are a huge problem! Housing costs in regions like New York City are, definitely, very high. But transportation costs are much lower! That's what makes it possible for NYC region to have lower overall housing + transportation costs than the Dallas region. htaindex.cnt.org/map/

Not a single time in this article glorifying the need for sprawl to address the US's affordable housing crisis is there a mention of the vast transportation costs of sprawling living patterns. Nor is there mention of the fact that sprawl is directly linked to disinvestment in urban cores.

Rare W for the USA right now

I’ve previously described abundance liberalism as an attempt to recover elements of the New Deal political economy, and I’d say Trump is setting us up for that pretty well by first recreating the Hoover economy.

Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression

"We are caught between a party that wants government to fail and a party that does not make government work" youtu.be/NcZxaFfxloo?...

Perhaps the Gamers are alright

Today @metrolosangeles.bsky.social sent a letter to the City of LA saying that they will sue if LA requires HLA compliance on Metro projects. HLA applies to any projects done on City streets, regardless of who does them. Sad that Metro doesn't want to be a better partner for safer streets.

The city of LA just announced a $1 billion deficient. All the while the LAPD has over half a billion in liability payouts alone and we refuse to build anything to actually increase tax revenue. We're likely about to see services cut for this? Absolutely not

Someone show this to the DOGE idiots

I made bread the other day

The Washington Post and LA Times editorial pages have gone full MAGA, MSNBC has purged all of its anti-Trump anchors, and Twitter is owned by a literal Nazi. Here's why liberal media bias is still a problem.

Definitely not related, I've gotten really into Aperol lately

Been trying to get new clothes lately and been inspired by a lot of Stanley Tucci fits then I realized I'm not rich enough to spend my life relaxing on the Mediterranean coastline in order to make the clothes I'd be wearing actually make sense

Breadman is back

The greatest modern comfort the internet has brought us is watching videos of highly skilled people doing their craft in silence in long form youtube videos

I do think it’s funny when the car companies are like “we may be divided but now more than ever, I think we can all agree: car ❤️”

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

This goes so fucking hard dude

Americans will go on vacation to a place that isn’t a car sewer, walk and take public transit for 8-12 hrs. a day, notice a change in their health, and attribute it to “they must not have the Illuminati chemicals here”

ITS RAINING

I'm so sad for this country. Take care of yourselves today and for the next four years y'all

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.

"Since removing these permit and review processes will help communities 'recover faster and stronger,' won't their permanent removal help California deal with, say, its housing shortages and make the supply recovery 'faster and stronger?'" reason.com/2025/01/15/i...