Huh, I wonder how that shift from housing production to housing preservation worked out for everyone

The biggest little city in three counties!

Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass is fun to see in a theater and laugh out loud with friends and strangers to

Getting my time in with the tourists

I look forward to the ways NIMBYs will continue to play themselves www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s...

Old newspaper clips are just modern social media posts

Listening to No Depression since Ted Leo whipped out a great solo cover of "Whiskey Bottle" and that first record is still like a goddamn revelation

lmao Herb Caen on Lena Horne

Learning things

Trying to get shit done but it’s too beautiful not to ride around and sit outside. Splitting the difference with a beer and a laptop

Bank of America’s AI thinks my record buying at Amoeba is a recurring monthly charge and I don’t know whether to feel honored or attacked

This headline is a bit hyperbolic but yes, it’s wild how many drive-thrus we allow in dense urban areas. The Chick-Fil-A in Emeryville seems to work fine without one www.sfgate.com/food/article...

In San Francisco (and maybe everywhere) the labels of "moderate" and "progressive" have become so useless as currently applied by the local media.

Ned Segal saying out our Alice event about the Housing Trust Fund that his ten year vision is over a million San Franciscans, lfg

I love to walk a few blocks from Noe Valley to a Giants game

The American healthcare system: hoping that members of R.E.M. and Pearl Jam like your music enough to donate to your GoFundMe

For all your autonomous homosexual needs

While it's been some fun rage bait and I've made fun of it too, I've been waiting for this follow-up on the whole peopling buying homes with Open AI/Anthropic stock "trend" which struck me prohibitively difficult/not quite real sfstandard.com/2026/07/13/m...

Planted a couple saratoga trees with my fellow volunteers yesterday for One City Day and they said we get to name them. This is Steve

Is there a reason hotel prices are really high in Chicago in mid-September or are they just like that and I haven't noticed because I haven't been in a while? Having trouble finding any Marriott below $500/night (at least in a location that makes sense)

This is some “the gods smote him for his defiance” level shit www.axios.com/2026/07/12/l...

If people had to pay the full cost of a car up front, that would completely change the economics of owning one! That we finance them as a society is an incentive. We can create incentives to get more people on electric cargo bikes too

Having a real “the body keeps score” morning and it did not like what I racked up yesterday lol

Maybe it’s just me but I think we should continue to tax the unearned wealth on primary homes driven by a crippling housing shortage that is one of the major drivers of those values going up

San Francisco now has the lowest apartment vacancy rate among major cities. It’s 2.2%, which is unhealthy & driving up rents. We need more housing of all kinds. We need to continue our work to get it built. And we need to stabilize renters in their homes.

Not only are the soft hit posts ineffective the down hit posts are a hazard

Did not know Ted Leo had an Uncle Tupelo cover in his bag. Respect

We have already met our quotient of fist pumping at the Ted Leo and the Pharmacists show one song in (not pictured)

I have not received a single correct bill from Anthem for my insurance since was unceremoniously switched to them on COBRA. In a sea of bad providers how are they somehow worse?

VAR will set you free

More thoughts on Ted Leo, why did I sleep on the new Charlotte Cornfield, and some fun new shows announced like Ivy(!) at Cornerstone (RIP Adam) janes-going-out-guide.beehiiv.com/p/vol-69-do-...

I love things like “former manufactured gas plant contamination” because literally no one gave a shit about that until someone proposed building something *new* with a lot of housing on the Marina Safeway site. Kinda gives up the game, you know?

Silicon Valley is insane because it’s a museum of unremarkable postwar sprawl where all the ticky tacky suburban tract homes cost three million dollars and the strip mall parking lots are full of insane sports cars.

I would simply not commit a penalty on Mbappe in the box

Love to see my culture reflected www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/comm...

Mainlining a bunch of Ted Leo and now mad at myself for not getting the 3-day ticket, what a fool past me was

oh, man, this is great. finally a Senate candidate without a bunch of skeletons in his closet. hear he did really well with the big storm a couple years back

Y’all this Valks squad is something else

Wanna learn more about the upcoming housing trust fund ballot measure in November? Join us for our Alice July meeting! partiful.com/e/g21xv14FQN...

Dropped a fork and it landed on my foot tines down and drew blood, how is everyone else doing today?

One thing I don’t think men understand is that rape and assault are so ubiquitous—and so perpetually immune from consequence or recognition—that many women learn to talk about these incidents as of they’re mere inconveniences. We are not allowed to treat them with more gravity.

The best edit I’ve seen in weeks, you absolutely have to turn the sound on for this one.

🎶 imagine there’s no planners / it’s easy if you try / no bland articulation / that makes you want to cry 🎶

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

Objective design standards such as this one might make buildings more expensive and more difficult to build, but you cannot deny that they also make cities uglier and worse to live in.

That’s quite the sign lol

As an avowed postcard sender and manual purist if ever given the opportunity (stick shift forever), I feel this in my bones www.wired.com/story/loss-o...

You can tell Millennials are finally getting control of things because no one wants to talk on the phone anymore when you have a problem

You are in a bad mood because the USMNT lost. I am in a bad mood because I was stuck next to an increasingly belligerent and drunk asshole who thought he was God‘s gift to sports knowledge at the bar. We are not the same