Eli Kahn 🏳️🌈
@elikahn.bsky.social
Urban/environmental policy guy, YIMBY, sci-fi/fantasy writer, liberal, atheist. Californian in the DC area. All posts represent my views, not those of my employer.
where are they painted that were drowned after their vows?
where are they painted that were drowned after their vows?
wintercels SEETHING at more evidence the American people reject their anti-warmth moralizing
November 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
wintercels SEETHING at more evidence the American people reject their anti-warmth moralizing
what is a “boy-friendly space”
NPR - DoD planning to cut its ties with the Boy Scouts. www.npr.org/2025/11/25/nx-s1-...
U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'
Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts.
www.npr.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
what is a “boy-friendly space”
being on most social media now is an endless stream of content where you can tell the poster is trying to manipulate the algorithm, but you can’t tell why the manipulation works or what grift they’re trying to run
November 23, 2025 at 8:02 PM
being on most social media now is an endless stream of content where you can tell the poster is trying to manipulate the algorithm, but you can’t tell why the manipulation works or what grift they’re trying to run
I’d be very skeptical of an authoritarian regime’s assertion that it’s necessary to move their capital out of the country’s largest city, especially since they’re planning to move it to a desert coast far from the country’s historic capitals. A dictatorship story more than a climate story.
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I’d be very skeptical of an authoritarian regime’s assertion that it’s necessary to move their capital out of the country’s largest city, especially since they’re planning to move it to a desert coast far from the country’s historic capitals. A dictatorship story more than a climate story.
much as feminism is the revolutionary idea that women are people, liberalism is the revolutionary idea that there is such a thing as an adult
November 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
much as feminism is the revolutionary idea that women are people, liberalism is the revolutionary idea that there is such a thing as an adult
every scene in Fourth Wing is like:
“‘This blows chunks,’ says McKenzie, sheathing her bloodstained sword.
‘Your mom blows chunks,’ says the largest man i have ever seen, narrowly edging out the previous record-holder from a chapter ago. It’s Connor Plantagenet! I seethe with hatred and arousal.”
“‘This blows chunks,’ says McKenzie, sheathing her bloodstained sword.
‘Your mom blows chunks,’ says the largest man i have ever seen, narrowly edging out the previous record-holder from a chapter ago. It’s Connor Plantagenet! I seethe with hatred and arousal.”
November 19, 2025 at 5:56 AM
every scene in Fourth Wing is like:
“‘This blows chunks,’ says McKenzie, sheathing her bloodstained sword.
‘Your mom blows chunks,’ says the largest man i have ever seen, narrowly edging out the previous record-holder from a chapter ago. It’s Connor Plantagenet! I seethe with hatred and arousal.”
“‘This blows chunks,’ says McKenzie, sheathing her bloodstained sword.
‘Your mom blows chunks,’ says the largest man i have ever seen, narrowly edging out the previous record-holder from a chapter ago. It’s Connor Plantagenet! I seethe with hatred and arousal.”
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Debanking for anything short of financial fraud convictions should be impossible. Fucked up beyond words.
So yes, this is a “beginning of the end” thing for me and simple stuff like, for example, having a bank account. Now is a good time to fight this issue and do so very publicly — it’s a matter of financial life or death for me
November 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Debanking for anything short of financial fraud convictions should be impossible. Fucked up beyond words.
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Not to bring everything back to my pet issue but one of the ways you make it less likely that teenagers are going to depend on older men for money is that you build more housing in major metros where the service jobs are
November 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Not to bring everything back to my pet issue but one of the ways you make it less likely that teenagers are going to depend on older men for money is that you build more housing in major metros where the service jobs are
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It really does seem like the two sides are a rainbow coalition of liberals vs a screaming horde of every hue hell bent on dragging back to superstitious barbarism.
November 18, 2025 at 12:20 AM
It really does seem like the two sides are a rainbow coalition of liberals vs a screaming horde of every hue hell bent on dragging back to superstitious barbarism.
maybe an eccentric take, but I think this kind of parochialism—“SF is me and the 50 people I recognize”—would disappear if everyone learned, and understood the weight of, the population of various places. an hour of public comment is 30 commenters, which is 0.003% of San Francisco.
the worst part of this is whenever there’s the odd issue that actually draws hundreds of commenters, one of the regulars will claim that the people who don’t usually show up must be paid shills, because the regulars have never seen them before
November 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
maybe an eccentric take, but I think this kind of parochialism—“SF is me and the 50 people I recognize”—would disappear if everyone learned, and understood the weight of, the population of various places. an hour of public comment is 30 commenters, which is 0.003% of San Francisco.
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I am once again tapping the sign that says "holding that humans are innately evil or corrupt is a belief that slopes toward fascism"
"The message is not that Trump is innocent, it's that *everyone is guilty.* Everyone assaults women, cheats on their taxes, uses public office for private gain. Propriety and following the rules? That stuff is for suckers. In a world of grift and graft, the most corrupt man should be king."
Why Trump can't make the Epstein scandal go away
His ordinary scandal management techniques are not working.
www.publicnotice.co
November 17, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I am once again tapping the sign that says "holding that humans are innately evil or corrupt is a belief that slopes toward fascism"
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they hate us for our freedom
Oh, and don't forget the gratuitous shot at queer and trans communities at the very end of this screed:
November 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
they hate us for our freedom
I know *why* people say misogynistic things about women and IQ (the guys saying this are trying to clear the competition for scarce faculty jobs)
but man, it’s some 1950-ass “hardy har har my nagging wife” nonsense, isn’t it? like, do you live in the world? do you know any people?
but man, it’s some 1950-ass “hardy har har my nagging wife” nonsense, isn’t it? like, do you live in the world? do you know any people?
November 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I know *why* people say misogynistic things about women and IQ (the guys saying this are trying to clear the competition for scarce faculty jobs)
but man, it’s some 1950-ass “hardy har har my nagging wife” nonsense, isn’t it? like, do you live in the world? do you know any people?
but man, it’s some 1950-ass “hardy har har my nagging wife” nonsense, isn’t it? like, do you live in the world? do you know any people?
I don’t even know where I picked up the cultural idea that “soothing” music is slow-tempo and quiet, but the music that actually makes me feel more at ease is basically the opposite of that
November 12, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I don’t even know where I picked up the cultural idea that “soothing” music is slow-tempo and quiet, but the music that actually makes me feel more at ease is basically the opposite of that
a fun thing is how in America if you need to take a medication regularly and it’s really important that there never be interruptions or delays to the supply,
you can’t. that’s not a form of reliability that exists
you can’t. that’s not a form of reliability that exists
November 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
a fun thing is how in America if you need to take a medication regularly and it’s really important that there never be interruptions or delays to the supply,
you can’t. that’s not a form of reliability that exists
you can’t. that’s not a form of reliability that exists
people were posting the other day about how New York politics are different from San Francisco politics, but this kind of thing makes them seem pretty similar
fascinated by the stance of this shitty ad paste campaign, which appears to be:
"fuck you for suggesting the city is good & could be better. this shit sucks & we like it that way"
"fuck you for suggesting the city is good & could be better. this shit sucks & we like it that way"
November 8, 2025 at 8:17 PM
people were posting the other day about how New York politics are different from San Francisco politics, but this kind of thing makes them seem pretty similar
ok now this one is just true
class war as a concept is transmisogynistic, authoritarian, and problematic.
November 8, 2025 at 10:08 AM
ok now this one is just true
I understand why it’s more complicated when men do it about women, but i still think “actually we should just never talk publicly about which celebrities we’re attracted to” is a terrible idea for a norm
being able to think through and compare notes on your attractions is actually really important
being able to think through and compare notes on your attractions is actually really important
November 8, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I understand why it’s more complicated when men do it about women, but i still think “actually we should just never talk publicly about which celebrities we’re attracted to” is a terrible idea for a norm
being able to think through and compare notes on your attractions is actually really important
being able to think through and compare notes on your attractions is actually really important
the thing about “UGH these leftists all want common good without sacrifice!” is that we could all be much, much better off if we just eliminated zoning and restrictions on immigration, and doing that does not involve sacrificing anything of value?
November 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
the thing about “UGH these leftists all want common good without sacrifice!” is that we could all be much, much better off if we just eliminated zoning and restrictions on immigration, and doing that does not involve sacrificing anything of value?
i think there’s two, possibly three alternative definitions of “firmest belief”:
1. first principle underlying all other beliefs, least likely to abandon even if contrary evidence piled up. Mine is “it matters whether your beliefs are true” (ironic as a first principle, but nevertheless)
1. first principle underlying all other beliefs, least likely to abandon even if contrary evidence piled up. Mine is “it matters whether your beliefs are true” (ironic as a first principle, but nevertheless)
Do you have a firmest belief?
I’m texting a friend who just said “X is my firmest belief,” and I don’t mind telling you he sent me into an existential vortex of disbelief and non-meaning because I do not know what the hell my firmest belief is.
I’m texting a friend who just said “X is my firmest belief,” and I don’t mind telling you he sent me into an existential vortex of disbelief and non-meaning because I do not know what the hell my firmest belief is.
November 6, 2025 at 5:37 AM
i think there’s two, possibly three alternative definitions of “firmest belief”:
1. first principle underlying all other beliefs, least likely to abandon even if contrary evidence piled up. Mine is “it matters whether your beliefs are true” (ironic as a first principle, but nevertheless)
1. first principle underlying all other beliefs, least likely to abandon even if contrary evidence piled up. Mine is “it matters whether your beliefs are true” (ironic as a first principle, but nevertheless)
tragedy: the protein drink that that consumer reports investigation from last week found was the most free of lead contamination tastes: bad
November 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
tragedy: the protein drink that that consumer reports investigation from last week found was the most free of lead contamination tastes: bad
I don’t get this analysis at all. Winning elections *is* “a solution to the party’s problems”! Winning elections is the party’s reason for being!
Is the claim “winning these elections does not guarantee Democrats will win all future elections”? If so, Youngkin is a failure by the same standard?
Is the claim “winning these elections does not guarantee Democrats will win all future elections”? If so, Youngkin is a failure by the same standard?
GM, Nate Cohn at his best sports pundit last night, already making up reasons why this one doesn't count
November 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I don’t get this analysis at all. Winning elections *is* “a solution to the party’s problems”! Winning elections is the party’s reason for being!
Is the claim “winning these elections does not guarantee Democrats will win all future elections”? If so, Youngkin is a failure by the same standard?
Is the claim “winning these elections does not guarantee Democrats will win all future elections”? If so, Youngkin is a failure by the same standard?
californians tend to represent our relationship with texas as us doing the don draper “i don’t think about you at all” thing, but that’s just our naturally diplomatic and friendly character
in hindsight wondering if california voters would show up in droves to tell texas politicians and donald trump to go fuck themselves seems kinda naive
November 5, 2025 at 5:20 AM
californians tend to represent our relationship with texas as us doing the don draper “i don’t think about you at all” thing, but that’s just our naturally diplomatic and friendly character
New York is one of the world’s great cities and deserves to grow! Staten Island is much larger than Manhattan and is drastically underdeveloped. It’s time for 3 million Staten Islanders.
I humbly suggest that Staten Island be upzoned into space for infinite amounts of affordable housing.
this is objectively hilarious
November 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
New York is one of the world’s great cities and deserves to grow! Staten Island is much larger than Manhattan and is drastically underdeveloped. It’s time for 3 million Staten Islanders.