At a meeting about whether we're going to build housing for young families like us. An elderly NIMBY got mad at @alanakinrich.medsky.social for 'being distracting' by breastfeeding our baby in the reserved seats in the front. In case you're wondering who they think should be part of this process.

Anyone else obsessed with the urbanism of K Pop Demon Hunters? I presume the unamed city is Seoul.

One way to reduce condo defect liability: stop forcing architects to design buildings that leak. HCD’s “objective design standards” guide *encourages* making building envelopes more complex, heightening leak and therefore defect lawsuit risk cao-94612.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/documents/Ap...

I miss the old days when people would livetweet Berkeley city council meetings

At Terner Fall Colloquium, Buffy Wicks signals that the next big reform for the state legislature is going to condo liability reform and ownership housing units

Very-low-information voters with short attention spans and jumbled memory. "I disliked Biden because [thing Trump did], and I missed Trump because [thing Biden did]. I voted for Trump again because I wanted [thing Harris promised]. But I really hope that Trump doesn't [core Trump campaign promise]."

Again, zero respect for Americans. Trump has been around for 8 fucking years.

Now that im a cyclist again i lack safe east west routes in North Berkeley. Im wondering if brute forcing bike lanes on Hopkins via ballot measure Prop K style is the move. Most Berkeley voters are pro bikes (Measure FF)

Weird timeline we're in where nothing Republicans do seems to be newsworthy to media.

Two takeaways: 1) the Central Valley (mostly Hispanic) teamed up with the expensive mostly White and Asian coasts, reversing education polarization 2) The rural areas going no are mostly white rural areas. The alignment of Latino-heavy Central Valley with White Jefferson was short lived.

Is there anything that Caltrain did recently that might be instructive to other agencies? Something about wires?

Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez

I dont know if Jacob Frey has done so and if he's already done so then good but during his acceptance speech I would be nice if he condemned the anti-Somalian attacks Fateh was getting by national media.

Van Jones complained that Zohran's speech was too divisive because he spoke in defense of the minorities under attack. Im going to assume Jones has committed a crime and needs a Trump pardon.

The main reason im not terribly happy even though election results looked good nationwide is that ive lost so much respect for American voters who are so profoundly ignorant. The greatest responsibility in the world, let alone their own lives and a portion of Americans wield it like a slot machine.

Really says something that California, not Texas or the other Jim Crow states, put this issue to the people instead of rigging elections with their people none the wiser.

A lot of my friends including the one who lets me house sit and larp as a new yorker were advisors or advocates within Zohran's campaign. Good work!

Interesting that despite the toxicity and hysteria that the yimbys are winning in Marin County. Pro-commercial upzoning and anti-recall over apartment development in Fairfax are winning. www.sfchronicle.com/election/art...

new rare photo of me riding the bus with Zohran just dropped in USA Today

The Bredas were the most handsome light rail and quasi heavy rail vehicles i have seen in the US.

It is worth saying that putting “Africana studies” in scare quotes as if it’s a ridiculous concept is not a political argument. It’s just racism. “Africa is not worthy of a major” is the implication. Yeah dude you’re just racist. (From Gerard Baker at the WSJ today) www.wsj.com/opinion/mamd...

Kinda funny people thought Zohran would do anything other than endorse the ballot props 1-5. Obviously, he's way more yimbypilled than he lets on and he can barely contain himself on the debate stage.

Anyone in Berkeley have a ladder i can borrow?

Gf spat my dinner out and called me a failure of a cook

The Mission between 22nd and 18th st appears to be de-gentrifying. Back to Low Resource. Same with SOMA: now only has one high resource tract around the Transbay Center area. More of the Bayview is now id'd as higher segregated than last year. Westside SF going for Highest to high resource.

The draft 2026 TCAC Opportunity Maps are now out. belonging.berkeley.edu/2026-ctcachc...

social housing w/ 67 homes in a single loaded corridor high rise in BCN. this building is incredibly thin. units have daylight on 2-3 sides and i like the interstitial wintergarden as entry space www.archdaily.com/1035150/67-u...

Went to go see K-Pop Demon hunters at Emeryville AMC and had not one but two people ( i think parents) scrolling on their phones in front of me. One of which was scrolling fucking tiktoks.

Happy Middle Housing Day in Berkeley. As of today, multifamily housing up to 3 stories at 70 units per acre is byright and ministerial on all Berkeley lots in the flatlands and foothills for the first time in history, stretching from Kensington to Oakland.

Omg he admit it

The market-rate tenants being Zohran's biggest supporters isn't much of a surprise. Oftentimes I find that the biggest critics of market-rate housing are people who live in market-rate housing.

Is House of Prime Rib in SF worth it?

Zohran doing best with market rate tenants is a trvth nvke

Wild that developers in Tokyo are building brand new 312 sqft units minutes from the Skytree / Sumida (equal to Mission Bay SF or maybe Tribeca, NY) for $875 and thats on the higher end. Mission Bay is about $5.60 per sqft, this is $2.80. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeYJ...

New ep! We talk to Sy Adler about his 1980 manuscript about the birth of BART, and what we can learn about intergovernmental politics, real estate development, land value capture, and much, much more LISTEN >>>>>>>>>>>> seethecat.org/ep/2025-10-3...

At the same time though, understand that a New Yorker who is proudly MAGA (99% lives in Staten Island) and votes Mamdani is like 4 people. 3 of them are just blind and accidentally bubbled him in.

It was a short lived moment but as a proud globalist the United Nations world order dream Roosevelt ushered in from 1945 to 1949 feels like the last time humanity was ever so united on a global front.

This is going to be the death of local news in Berkeley. Crime and police activity is the primary motivation for subscribers to local news. With scanners encrypted, local news here will go bunk and make our local politics awful and uninformed. www.berkeleyside.org/2025/10/29/b...

Last night Berkeley City Council approved the staff recommendation for a wide parking-protected bikeway & bus boarding islands on Telegraph Ave, Woolsey to Dwight! The plan includes bus lanes around Ashby to address the primary transit delays.

Does anyone know someone at Bay Area MTC I can talk to regarding their 2025 Regional Transportation Plan (TIP)?

Berkeley City Council encrypting Berkeley PD's radio scanners is just going to lead to the further decline of local news. If you want a disengaged and uninformed population on public safety matters except via clumsy and limited police press bulletins days after the fact go ahead.

We're in this bizarre situation where the IDF and Hamas are in a hot war but after each attack they're going to say "back to the ceasefire."

Lol the Downtown Oakland Specific Plan has like 16 different zoning classifications in itself.

Had my first road rage incident where drivers do this thing where they block you in and honk if they think you werent giving them ROW. An inpulse surged out of nowhere and i chewed the driver out for blocking me to just sit on their horn.

This is what I'm starting to hate about California state laws. The push to nudge and use sticks rather than the state just outright zone what it wants puts ire and toxicity on local officials. www.kqed.org/news/1206146...

I just got back from NYC several months ago and I have never in my life seen a greater share of families riding public transit, especially late at night, anywhere else in the United States of America. The subway was the safest mass transit I've been on anywhere in the US

Berkeley is shaping up to the Jersey City of the Bay. Just going gangbusters approving housing. Its a new tower here every month. The latest tower proposal today, 169 homes, at Durant and Telegraph just approved by the Zoning Board and certain to be approved by Council. sfyimby.com/2025/10/berk...

Good thing there are still British papers or else I'm not sure we would have any real political reporting left in this country

The Washington Post editorial section hit rock bottom and just kept digging.

Just finished Tokyo Godfathers. Honestly, a good social commentary on being homeless but a lot more sad than humorous.