Have not checked YIMBYs of NoVA's email subscriber count in a while .... 2,319!

A red Toyota RAV4 flipped onto its side near Bailey's Crossroads

Even I did not know we offered this service

“You do not see a link between paracetamol use in pregnancy and autism in children.” Author of 'Expecting Better' Professor Emily Oster explains the studies on paracetamol use in pregnancy, after President Trump warned pregnant women against using the painkiller. #Newsnight

Acetaminophen is not associated with any increased risk of autism or ADHD in a study of 2.5 million births comparing siblings. Also, the simplistic studies showing a relationship link autism to very high levels of the drug. We have good information that people can use to make an informed decision.

Paging @yappelbaum.bsky.social

Another bit of evidence that *scale* matters. As things get bigger and more centralized, the humanity and the charm become liabilities. www.businessinsider.com/starbucks-po...

The energy I want to bring to my final half day of @yimbytown.bsky.social

First, huge thanks and congrats to Sen. @scottwiener.bsky.social. Without his dogged persistence and desire to work with his colleagues and address their reasonable concerns, we never would have made it. 2/x

By a single yes vote, including three of the body’s 10 Republicans

SB 79 HAS PASSED!

i got a message for burger kings: hide

my one public (for now :)) reflection from attending the Abundance 2025 conference last week is that i met a lot of medium-to-mostly-offline people who have a very positive view of what they're trying to accomplish (more housing, more transit, more clean energy, etc)

Each alleged mass shooter is even more On the Computer All the Time than the previous one. Probably nothing to worry about there

The Awful Effects of Velocipeding ca. 1890s

“This infrastructure is inappropriate for our community because it will have unacceptable impacts on (insert reason here).” “We cannot have any housing growth because we do not have the infrastructure necessary to support it.” Rinse and repeat!

“Norms’ importance and preciousness are hard for us to grasp while they shield us.”

I want to let you all know that the option to keep your mouth shut is available to you.

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It is incredibly simple to acknowledge that violence in any form is awful and erodes society.

Condemning another absolutely disgraceful act of gun violence. My thoughts & prayers are w/ Charlie Kirk & his family in this terrible moment & we are all grateful for first responders who immediately jumped into action. We must categorically reject all violence in our society.

folks, I've never lived through years of mass political violence but I do study it for a living: you don't want to live through years of political violence.

Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.

It seems like we're experiencing a sort of rerun of the political violence of the 1960s—except this time we have the internet cooking everyone's brains. None of this leads anywhere good.

The video is NFSL don’t recommend

Political violence is bad.

The attack on Charlie Kirk is disgusting, vile, and reprehensible. In the United States of America, we must reject political violence in EVERY form.

As I sometimes tell my teenage daughter, "No one has ever regretted not posting."

We're really close to completely surrounding the California Governor's Mansion with five-over-ones.

This is legitimately great and I will show it to my kids one day

People question whether building more housing can lower prices, but I think it’s useful to flip that around and ask: are you saying that you can block housing without pushing up prices? Is that plausible? Can I block the production of other goods or services with no effect on prices?

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RHNA was (admittedly) a toothless failure for decades. Adding teeth now for monitoring & enforcement requires enormous resources (staff + $) from HCD. Does that mean a simpler, cheaper housing targets program in another state wouldn’t be effective? I have no idea.

Housing markets rely heavily on access to capital (loans to build, acquire, upgrade, & sell property). So it's critical to have stable, well-functioning financial systems that operate under transparent, consistently enforced rules. Messing with central banks can have big ripple effects for housing.

Eli Dourado: everyone agrees that the academic journal system is broken but no one has the incentive to create something better. (Hard co-sign!)

We need cheap rent so idiosyncratic weirdos can make a living pursuing their passions.

New policy goal: Bats in your backyard

Demand state-level housing reform! (Full disclosure: Poll commissioned by grassroots political movement I played some small part in starting in our fair commonwealth.)

You know that the housing crisis is bad in a small state like Utah when it makes the national news. Also interesting that NPR picked Utah for a story on state zoning preemption because the state has been very timid when it comes to state intervention

If only there was some kind of grassroots political movement trying to reduce housing prices

When we fix this housing thing I will go back to school to get a landscape architecture degree and spend my later years doing urban design and skatepark planning.

Supposedly these things can go up to 1.5 miles. Read about the sport Snow snake in a book called "A Native American Thought of It: Amazing Inventions and Innovations."

1/ The latest from Factory Seconds, @lucagattonicelli.bsky.social drives multiple minivans and discovers that all new cars are not, in fact, good. Most motorists only have chance encounters with unfamiliar vehicles, so many operate with imperfect information when comparing different ones.

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Who was looking for compost drop off in ALX? Was it @alexgoyette.bsky.social ? Anyway Mom’s compost bins are back in #chirilagua #Arlandria Arlandria

California environmental groups

How would you protect a pumpkin plant from squirrels? Can I just buy something at Home Depot?

A good read