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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 13h

Who hurt you?

A bike rack perpendicular to the curb for some goddamn reason

Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 17h

If I ever understand why my Bluetooth headset just doesn’t connect sometimes, I’ll have transcended human knowledge and my corporeal form

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 18h

Yeah…yeah…yeah...

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 18h

Even if SF ended up with the Builder’s Remedy, how many parcels near the ocean could you actually build a tower on? I can only think of a handful of examples (a few on Sloat, the Safeway), but the vast majority are still just standard small SF lots. The Builder’s Remedy doesn’t make lots bigger

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 18h

It’s natural to have fears. It’s disappointing that our journalism which should exist to help dispel fact from fiction plays into that

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 18h

This is an irresponsible graphic. Tell me where in the Family Zoning Plan the heights are like that on Ocean Beach. You can’t because it’s pure imagination. The vast majority of the parcels remain 40 feet. Most people won’t get past the scary headline/picture www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/r...

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 1d

I’m just a girl, trying to watch Caps hockey when I got too much other shit going on

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Patrick Siegman @siegman.biz · Mar 25

Many nations that allow midrise single-stair apartment buildings have a far better fire safety record than the U.S. The codes promulgated by the #NFPA haven't delivered.

The #NFPA should try to learn from nations that achieve better fire safety, instead of attacking those nations' code officials.

This chart compares fire fatality rates in nations around the world. Purple dots (provided by @holz-bau.bsky.social) indicate nations that allow single-stair apartment buildings up to at least 4 stories.

Source for the chart of average number of fire deaths per 100,000 inhabitants:
World Fire Statistics Report No. 28, 2023, page 114.

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 1d

Dropped my ballot off at City Hall yesterday, already got the message it’s been received and counted. Don’t forget to turn in those ballots and vote yes on 50. It’s literally the only question, let’s get this done

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Vulture @vulture.com · 1d

Wednesday’s Karly Hartzman and MJ Lenderman broke up. A month later, she writes in this personal essay, she had to record a love song for him for the band’s new album, ‘Bleeds.’

‘I’m Poking Roadkill With a Stick. Making It Twitch.’

Wednesday’s Karly Hartzman and MJ Lenderman broke up. A month later, she writes in this personal essay, she had to record a love song for him for the band’s new album, ‘Bleeds.’

www.vulture.com

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 2d

Solid showing for Haim @ Bill Graham

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 2d

The bucolic hamlet of Saint Francis

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 2d

Another evening of “this is why your city has a housing shortage”

Another room full of (mostly) older attendees for a public meeting about the Family Zoning Plan

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 2d

Oof that’s an expensive typo (still vote yes on 50 obvi)

STATEWIDE SPECIAL ELECTION
If you received this postcard, your household was mailed the November 4, 2025, Statewide Special Election Voter Information Guide which contained a typographical error.
District 27, which is to the right of District 26, was incorrectly labeled as District 22 in Figure 2 in the analysis of Proposition 50 on page 11 of the guide.
The corrected version is below and has been corrected on our website at voterguide.sos.ca.gov.
If you would like a corrected version of the guide, please contact our Voter Hotline at 1-800-345-VOTE (8683).
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SCAN ME
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With the correct map for redistricting

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Bobak Esfandiari @bobakesfandiari.com · 2d

"...since San Francisco has added little housing since the pandemic began, the city seems to be exemplifying a common warning of housing advocates: when demand comes back, so do the prices."
www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/a...

I'm shocked. This is my shocked face: 🤦🏽‍♂️

S.F. rent surge is outpacing every big U.S. city. Here’s what’s driving the increase

San Francisco rentals are leasing faster and pricing higher than they have at any point since the pandemic.

www.sfchronicle.com

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 2d

Our rents are spiking because it turns out people leaving during COVID was not a durable strategy for long-term affordability. Who knew? If we want our rents to stay flat (or, dare to dream, fall), we need to build more homes www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/a...

S.F. rent surge is outpacing every big U.S. city. Here’s what’s driving the increase

San Francisco rentals are leasing faster and pricing higher than they have at any point since the pandemic.

www.sfchronicle.com

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 2d

Sadly still a lot of this. Change takes time unfortunately :(

Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve had Adonais by Shelley on my mind

LIII
Why linger, why turn back, why shrink, my Heart?
Thy hopes are gone before: from all things
here
They have departed; thou shouldst now depart!

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 3d

Tired: we must build more housing to defeat fascism

Wired: we must repeal Prop 13 to defeat fascism

Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 3d

Trump 2.0 has really exposed how brittle and broken the West Coast states' tax systems are. WA, OR, and CA all have a 1% property tax cap. WA has a sales tax but no income tax; OR has an income tax but no sales tax. It is not possible to effectively resist Trump without fixing these tax systems.

CalMatters @calmatters.org · 3d

The news has sent counties throughout California into a panic. The state is bracing to lose hundreds of millions of dollars for permanent housing, which is the one thing experts agree on as the most effective way to solve homelessness. https://cal.news/4nBKuZI

📷 Fred Greaves

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 3d

They are closing with a very nice cover of “These Days” and I’m obliged to mention that Jackson Browne wrote that song when he was SIXTEEN

Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 3d

Mates of State giving an Edinburgh Castle shoutout, pour one out

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 3d

I *think* the last time I saw Mates of State was at the 400? Which is saying something

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 3d

I’m sad very excited sports bro across the street moved out, how else am I supposed to tell when exciting things in sports happen without his yelling?

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 3d

Minnesota corps looking out for each other I guess

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 3d

Let’s check in on some of the other attendees...

Two older male attendees in MWPGA (Make West Portal Great Again) hats

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