ira
@ira.bsky.social
I like cats and dogs and politics and cities and bikes.
I really hate how the search tab in apps has become the home page. This started with Instagram, but it’s most glaring for me right now with The Athletic. Total perversion of the magnifying glass icon.
November 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I really hate how the search tab in apps has become the home page. This started with Instagram, but it’s most glaring for me right now with The Athletic. Total perversion of the magnifying glass icon.
This Bluesky feature is hilarious (complimentary)
November 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
This Bluesky feature is hilarious (complimentary)
I'm just doing baked mac and cheese. Normally I add a couple of eggs, but this year there are more kids than in the past, so I'm thinking of doing a sodium citrate thing so that the good cheese can have the texture of velveeta.
Let’s run this again, was fun last year, what new adversities are we about to create for ourselves on the field, drop your menus below
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I'm just doing baked mac and cheese. Normally I add a couple of eggs, but this year there are more kids than in the past, so I'm thinking of doing a sodium citrate thing so that the good cheese can have the texture of velveeta.
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@nohaggerty.bsky.social's LA Times article about wildfire evacuation challenges reminded me how indispensable my e-bike was in the Palisades fire.
November 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
@nohaggerty.bsky.social's LA Times article about wildfire evacuation challenges reminded me how indispensable my e-bike was in the Palisades fire.
"Fran Sans" is a fantastic name for this font. www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...
San Francisco has a new font. It was inspired by an old Muni streetcar
A San Francisco designer fell in love with the typeface on an old Muni streetcar. She tracked down the man who created it to build the city’s newest font.
www.sfchronicle.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM
"Fran Sans" is a fantastic name for this font. www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...
@rollovereasy.org good morning! I’d like to submit another endorsement for Ornot’s Mission Pants (and Mission Shorts). I’m not wearing them right now but I often do wear them as PJs. So comfy!
📸 Joey
📸 Joey
November 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
@rollovereasy.org good morning! I’d like to submit another endorsement for Ornot’s Mission Pants (and Mission Shorts). I’m not wearing them right now but I often do wear them as PJs. So comfy!
📸 Joey
📸 Joey
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I would love to read an account of this saga that isn’t written in an atrociously purple way but seems like that’s too much to ask of anyone involved
November 18, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I would love to read an account of this saga that isn’t written in an atrociously purple way but seems like that’s too much to ask of anyone involved
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Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
November 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
“Football isn’t about what happens on the scoreboard. It’s about getting out there and having a good time.”
—The Minnesota Vikings
—The Minnesota Vikings
November 16, 2025 at 8:39 PM
“Football isn’t about what happens on the scoreboard. It’s about getting out there and having a good time.”
—The Minnesota Vikings
—The Minnesota Vikings
This seems very normal for a society that’s becoming wealthier over time. The problem is that we aren’t building these larger homes stacked on top of one another on a single plot of land.
some cities absolutely have true housing crises, no question. But Americans also keep wanting more and bigger & that’s a problem.
November 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This seems very normal for a society that’s becoming wealthier over time. The problem is that we aren’t building these larger homes stacked on top of one another on a single plot of land.
Wait so you guys aren’t in line to go to the Vikings game? Weird…
November 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Wait so you guys aren’t in line to go to the Vikings game? Weird…
I grew up in the South and have made my adult life in San Francisco, and lemme tell you I’ve gotten real tired of the way Dunning-Kruger Californians talk down about the South
I understand why a lot of white liberals are like, fuck the south, because they think about the people in power who are mostly white conservatives. But that is only because of Jim Crow, voter suppression, a lack of real funding for Dems there
November 16, 2025 at 6:23 AM
I grew up in the South and have made my adult life in San Francisco, and lemme tell you I’ve gotten real tired of the way Dunning-Kruger Californians talk down about the South
Hallmark movies have been lying to you
We need more homes. Real estate developers are in the business of building them. They do good important work.
November 16, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Hallmark movies have been lying to you
35-2 is such a funny score
November 15, 2025 at 9:59 PM
35-2 is such a funny score
It’s weird that Jimmy Fallon never changed his hairstyle from the early 2000s
November 15, 2025 at 4:40 AM
It’s weird that Jimmy Fallon never changed his hairstyle from the early 2000s
“AN OTHERWISE NORMAL LIFE TO LEAD”????
November 15, 2025 at 3:46 AM
“AN OTHERWISE NORMAL LIFE TO LEAD”????
Upside: bun
Downside: 5% chance of fucking up your connection at Heathrow and writing an embarrassing blog post about it
Downside: 5% chance of fucking up your connection at Heathrow and writing an embarrassing blog post about it
November 15, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Upside: bun
Downside: 5% chance of fucking up your connection at Heathrow and writing an embarrassing blog post about it
Downside: 5% chance of fucking up your connection at Heathrow and writing an embarrassing blog post about it
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What part of “we will welcome the stranger and build homes for everyone who wants to make a life here” do these people not understand?
November 15, 2025 at 2:59 AM
What part of “we will welcome the stranger and build homes for everyone who wants to make a life here” do these people not understand?
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People who think mass deportations are a housing affordability strategy have no place in the YIMBY movement.
A reminder, a person who claims to be a YIMBY but backs the deportation of people to "solve" the housing crisis is just a NIMBY.
November 15, 2025 at 2:27 AM
People who think mass deportations are a housing affordability strategy have no place in the YIMBY movement.
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Lots of buzz about the "affordability agenda," and how we get there.
Well, this is it. Housing and transport are most of the cost of living for most people. We can make it expensive, or we can make it affordable.
“The big difference is commuting. You don’t need a car.” apnews.com/article/hous...
Well, this is it. Housing and transport are most of the cost of living for most people. We can make it expensive, or we can make it affordable.
“The big difference is commuting. You don’t need a car.” apnews.com/article/hous...
No car? No problem. Building apartments near public transit could help address the housing crisis
Quantavia Smith, who was often homeless for a decade, now has a studio apartment in Los Angeles with easy access to public transit.
apnews.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Lots of buzz about the "affordability agenda," and how we get there.
Well, this is it. Housing and transport are most of the cost of living for most people. We can make it expensive, or we can make it affordable.
“The big difference is commuting. You don’t need a car.” apnews.com/article/hous...
Well, this is it. Housing and transport are most of the cost of living for most people. We can make it expensive, or we can make it affordable.
“The big difference is commuting. You don’t need a car.” apnews.com/article/hous...
San Francisco has a moral responsibility to build enough housing that it can be an affordable refuge for all the queer kids of the world.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
San Francisco has a moral responsibility to build enough housing that it can be an affordable refuge for all the queer kids of the world.
The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, has a great slogan for her campaign of street transformations there: “A city where you can let go of your child’s hand.”
As a parent of a small child, this is all I see now.
Karl Jilg for the Swedish Road Administration www.jilg.com
Karl Jilg for the Swedish Road Administration www.jilg.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, has a great slogan for her campaign of street transformations there: “A city where you can let go of your child’s hand.”
Features that would enhance my NYT Games experience:
- offline play
- faster app
- a button to go back to the Home Screen from three screens deep
Features the NYT Games team has built recently instead:
- Create a Wordle
- eighteen different nag screens telling me to create a Wordle
- pips
- offline play
- faster app
- a button to go back to the Home Screen from three screens deep
Features the NYT Games team has built recently instead:
- Create a Wordle
- eighteen different nag screens telling me to create a Wordle
- pips
November 11, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Features that would enhance my NYT Games experience:
- offline play
- faster app
- a button to go back to the Home Screen from three screens deep
Features the NYT Games team has built recently instead:
- Create a Wordle
- eighteen different nag screens telling me to create a Wordle
- pips
- offline play
- faster app
- a button to go back to the Home Screen from three screens deep
Features the NYT Games team has built recently instead:
- Create a Wordle
- eighteen different nag screens telling me to create a Wordle
- pips