Davey Kim
@dvyk.bsky.social
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*opinions are my own!*
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+politics, nonprofits, global affairs | democracy is good
+housing, transit and urbanism | integration now
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Lead@SF YIMBY
#GoKingsGo
*opinions are my own!*
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Davey Kim
@dvyk.bsky.social
· Nov 12
Holy bulgogi!
I did NOT expect such a surge of followers. If you're just following me for the first time:
I skeet about housing, tech and identity. My biggest pet peeves are modern day segregation and opportunity hoarding along lines of race and class. Esp here in the San Francisco Bay Area.
I did NOT expect such a surge of followers. If you're just following me for the first time:
I skeet about housing, tech and identity. My biggest pet peeves are modern day segregation and opportunity hoarding along lines of race and class. Esp here in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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The official death count in South Sudan is nearly 1,600, making it the worst cholera epidemic in the country’s history.
But that toll is a dramatic undercount.
ProPublica found newly dug, unmarked graves alongside roads and in backyards.
But that toll is a dramatic undercount.
ProPublica found newly dug, unmarked graves alongside roads and in backyards.
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 20, 2025 at 2:40 AM
The official death count in South Sudan is nearly 1,600, making it the worst cholera epidemic in the country’s history.
But that toll is a dramatic undercount.
ProPublica found newly dug, unmarked graves alongside roads and in backyards.
But that toll is a dramatic undercount.
ProPublica found newly dug, unmarked graves alongside roads and in backyards.
Of all the times I was languishing at airports, never once did I crave a pull up bar.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced that they would invest $1 billion in making airports a wellness space.
This didn’t go over too well, and it’s not hard to understand why:
This didn’t go over too well, and it’s not hard to understand why:
Please don’t make airports healthy again. Just make them more efficient.
Mini gyms and healthier food options aren’t going to make airports less miserable.
voxdotcom.visitlink.me
December 16, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Of all the times I was languishing at airports, never once did I crave a pull up bar.
I hate it when people clearly embody hierarchy and status in their interactions with subordinates (e.g. writing shit quality emails, making people pick up your slack, because you're pulling rank) so much that I deliberately try to do the opposite.
December 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I hate it when people clearly embody hierarchy and status in their interactions with subordinates (e.g. writing shit quality emails, making people pick up your slack, because you're pulling rank) so much that I deliberately try to do the opposite.
Facial rec is here...
www.404media.co/email/331104...
www.404media.co/email/331104...
December 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Facial rec is here...
www.404media.co/email/331104...
www.404media.co/email/331104...
Is it just me or are a vast majority of grifters shunning higher ed products of higher ed? Now we know why.
A new survey reveals strong employer confidence in U.S. higher education across both parties, contrasting with the Trump administration's rhetoric and broader polls that show declining public trust. www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...
70% of employers have confidence in universities – Survey
A new survey shows that employer confidence in higher education in the United States is relatively high among both Democrats and Republicans – in sh...
www.universityworldnews.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Is it just me or are a vast majority of grifters shunning higher ed products of higher ed? Now we know why.
And here I thought getting hit with two tons of metal only gets better in the electric age.
Electric cars 'no more dangerous for pedestrians than conventional ones', new study finds
www.linkedin.com/pulse/electr...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/electr...
Electric cars 'no more dangerous for pedestrians than conventional ones'
Electric cars are no more dangerous for pedestrians than petrol and diesel models, researchers have found. A widely-reported study last year suggested pedestrians were twice as likely to be hit by hea...
www.linkedin.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:58 PM
And here I thought getting hit with two tons of metal only gets better in the electric age.
If anything protects me from outright despair...
December 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
If anything protects me from outright despair...
I think I'm gonna surf HB as a non local just to celebrate.
December 12, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I think I'm gonna surf HB as a non local just to celebrate.
Is promoting diversity that much more "distracting" than hamfistedly engineering ethnic homogeneity? I dunno. You decide.
December 12, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Is promoting diversity that much more "distracting" than hamfistedly engineering ethnic homogeneity? I dunno. You decide.
The idea of abolishing the EU now goes from utterly ridiculous to faintly possible because a whole host of internet chuds are now learning about the EU for the first time.
www.techpolicy.press/unpacking-th...
www.techpolicy.press/unpacking-th...
Unpacking the Politics of the EU's €120M Fine of Musk’s X | TechPolicy.Press
A conversation with Joris van Hoboken, a professor at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam and part of the DSA Observatory.
www.techpolicy.press
December 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The idea of abolishing the EU now goes from utterly ridiculous to faintly possible because a whole host of internet chuds are now learning about the EU for the first time.
www.techpolicy.press/unpacking-th...
www.techpolicy.press/unpacking-th...
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One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
December 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
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Today on Indicator: 2025 has been a banner year for AI nudifiers. I found another 9,000 ads on Meta since my last report, bringing the total for this year to 25,000. The top 10 nudifying websites got 10 million views in October.
Nonconsensual nude generators had another banner year. What will it take to defeat them?
Deplatforming the companies, debilitating the technology, and deterring the users
indicator.media
December 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Today on Indicator: 2025 has been a banner year for AI nudifiers. I found another 9,000 ads on Meta since my last report, bringing the total for this year to 25,000. The top 10 nudifying websites got 10 million views in October.
Now is the time to invest in asbestos!!
Sean Duffy on slashing fuel economy standards: "This rule will actually allow you to bring back the 1970s station wagon. Maybe a little wood paneling on the side. We can bring back choice to consumers."
December 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Now is the time to invest in asbestos!!
What the 🎄
Holiday Train | Caltrain
Caltrain Holiday Train
www.caltrain.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:25 AM
What the 🎄
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Big housing news in San Francisco today: the Board of Supervisors (their equivalent of City Council) votes to upzone the entire western half of the city. Currently much of the westside is houses. Commercial streets get a height boost.
Diagrams & maps below from sfplanning.org/sites/defaul...
Diagrams & maps below from sfplanning.org/sites/defaul...
December 3, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Big housing news in San Francisco today: the Board of Supervisors (their equivalent of City Council) votes to upzone the entire western half of the city. Currently much of the westside is houses. Commercial streets get a height boost.
Diagrams & maps below from sfplanning.org/sites/defaul...
Diagrams & maps below from sfplanning.org/sites/defaul...
Celebrating something more than a decade over due, but celebrating none the less.
Starting Dec 10, most Bay Area transit transfers will be free for two hours. If you take AC Transit to BART then transfer to Muni, your fare today is $9.10. With Clipper 2, the free AC and Muni transfers mean your fare will be just $3.90
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December 3, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Celebrating something more than a decade over due, but celebrating none the less.
Reposted by Davey Kim
Starting Dec 10, most Bay Area transit transfers will be free for two hours. If you take AC Transit to BART then transfer to Muni, your fare today is $9.10. With Clipper 2, the free AC and Muni transfers mean your fare will be just $3.90
1/
1/
December 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Starting Dec 10, most Bay Area transit transfers will be free for two hours. If you take AC Transit to BART then transfer to Muni, your fare today is $9.10. With Clipper 2, the free AC and Muni transfers mean your fare will be just $3.90
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1/
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Hey folks: this morning we're launching a monthlong fundraiser for @techdirt.com. Over the last year, we've been steadfast in not self-censoring, not capitulating, not sanewashing bullshit. But that's come at a cost. And we need help: rtb.techdirt.com/products/fri...
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December 3, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Hey folks: this morning we're launching a monthlong fundraiser for @techdirt.com. Over the last year, we've been steadfast in not self-censoring, not capitulating, not sanewashing bullshit. But that's come at a cost. And we need help: rtb.techdirt.com/products/fri...
I'd like to commend all my fellow YIMBYs in the trenches on this, knowing full well the preservation of down zoning has been a tool for home owning incumbents to halt new populations from integrating into their neighborhoods. We still have a long way to go, but this is one major obstacle cleared.
Family Zoning passes the first reading 7-4 at the Board of Supervisors. I've legit been working on this for 3 years. LET'S FUCKING GO.
If you showed up at a hearing, sent a letter, told your friends, or organized to make this happen, THANK YOU
If you showed up at a hearing, sent a letter, told your friends, or organized to make this happen, THANK YOU
December 3, 2025 at 5:21 AM
I'd like to commend all my fellow YIMBYs in the trenches on this, knowing full well the preservation of down zoning has been a tool for home owning incumbents to halt new populations from integrating into their neighborhoods. We still have a long way to go, but this is one major obstacle cleared.
Reposted by Davey Kim
Family Zoning passes the first reading 7-4 at the Board of Supervisors. I've legit been working on this for 3 years. LET'S FUCKING GO.
If you showed up at a hearing, sent a letter, told your friends, or organized to make this happen, THANK YOU
If you showed up at a hearing, sent a letter, told your friends, or organized to make this happen, THANK YOU
December 3, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Family Zoning passes the first reading 7-4 at the Board of Supervisors. I've legit been working on this for 3 years. LET'S FUCKING GO.
If you showed up at a hearing, sent a letter, told your friends, or organized to make this happen, THANK YOU
If you showed up at a hearing, sent a letter, told your friends, or organized to make this happen, THANK YOU
You know things are bad at the Daily Wire when they send three grown men to report on the Fall of America at McDonalds PlayPlace
December 2, 2025 at 4:50 AM
You know things are bad at the Daily Wire when they send three grown men to report on the Fall of America at McDonalds PlayPlace
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I’m at Land Use for the 4th(!) and final hearing on the Family Zoning Plan. It’s mostly NIMBYs here by my eyes but not nearly as full as previous meetings
December 1, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I’m at Land Use for the 4th(!) and final hearing on the Family Zoning Plan. It’s mostly NIMBYs here by my eyes but not nearly as full as previous meetings
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Today, our new District 4 Supervisor, Alan Wong, was sworn in.
As Sunset residents, we know what our neighborhood needs most after a recall, two ballot measures, and a Supervisor appointee resignation: a leader who can show us the way forward, not work to destroy Sunset Dunes.
As Sunset residents, we know what our neighborhood needs most after a recall, two ballot measures, and a Supervisor appointee resignation: a leader who can show us the way forward, not work to destroy Sunset Dunes.
December 1, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Today, our new District 4 Supervisor, Alan Wong, was sworn in.
As Sunset residents, we know what our neighborhood needs most after a recall, two ballot measures, and a Supervisor appointee resignation: a leader who can show us the way forward, not work to destroy Sunset Dunes.
As Sunset residents, we know what our neighborhood needs most after a recall, two ballot measures, and a Supervisor appointee resignation: a leader who can show us the way forward, not work to destroy Sunset Dunes.