David Kissling
@xtdave.bsky.social
San Francisco, cities, bikes, left politics, Dodgers ⚾️, Warriors 🏀, Kings 🏒
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In 1978, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors downzoned the city, banning multifamily homes in many areas and sparking a decades-long affordability crisis.
47 years later, on a 7–4 vote, they passed the Family Zoning Plan to finally begin to undo that mistake.
The times, they are a-changin’!
47 years later, on a 7–4 vote, they passed the Family Zoning Plan to finally begin to undo that mistake.
The times, they are a-changin’!
December 3, 2025 at 1:16 AM
In 1978, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors downzoned the city, banning multifamily homes in many areas and sparking a decades-long affordability crisis.
47 years later, on a 7–4 vote, they passed the Family Zoning Plan to finally begin to undo that mistake.
The times, they are a-changin’!
47 years later, on a 7–4 vote, they passed the Family Zoning Plan to finally begin to undo that mistake.
The times, they are a-changin’!
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It's with heavy hearts that we share that Claude, our beloved albino alligator, has passed away at the age of 30. Claude brought joy to millions of people at the Academy and across the world during his 17 year tenure. We will miss him dearly. 🤍
December 2, 2025 at 10:22 PM
It's with heavy hearts that we share that Claude, our beloved albino alligator, has passed away at the age of 30. Claude brought joy to millions of people at the Academy and across the world during his 17 year tenure. We will miss him dearly. 🤍
The plan to break the MLBPA is to appeal to people mad that the Dodgers won a few World Series this decade
MLB formed a fan council. It wasn’t long before the league made its pitch on labor issues
www.nytimes.com/athletic/685...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/685...
MLB formed a Fan Council. It wasn’t long before the league made its pitch on labor issues
“One of the biggest things that came into my mind was like, ‘Why us?’” said one of the fan council members after MLB's presentation.
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:38 PM
The plan to break the MLBPA is to appeal to people mad that the Dodgers won a few World Series this decade
Yeah but what if the state is too efficient and doesn't create enough high salary managerial jobs compared to the NGOs and nonprofits?
Once again really speaks to the state of American leftism that "the state itself should do more social services" is being met with push back. Do y'all want the NHS or do y'all want grants to St. Ann's Hospital and Shelter for the homeless?
December 2, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Yeah but what if the state is too efficient and doesn't create enough high salary managerial jobs compared to the NGOs and nonprofits?
As I have said before, Waymo has proven that self driving cars work and are a significant improvement over human drivers. This technology is not going away.
Our focus needs to be on requiring them to obey all traffic laws and to not give away any bike or transit lanes to self driving cars
Our focus needs to be on requiring them to obey all traffic laws and to not give away any bike or transit lanes to self driving cars
“In medical research, there’s a practice of ending a study early when the results are too striking to ignore…When an intervention works this clearly, you change what you do.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o... (🎁🔗)
December 2, 2025 at 8:53 PM
As I have said before, Waymo has proven that self driving cars work and are a significant improvement over human drivers. This technology is not going away.
Our focus needs to be on requiring them to obey all traffic laws and to not give away any bike or transit lanes to self driving cars
Our focus needs to be on requiring them to obey all traffic laws and to not give away any bike or transit lanes to self driving cars
This is answering a lot of questions I have about whether these big market cable-owned RSNs are going to have a different future than the FanDuel networks
December 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This is answering a lot of questions I have about whether these big market cable-owned RSNs are going to have a different future than the FanDuel networks
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Hot take: bike lanes aren't big enough to take all the things people want to put in them. Either keep them for bikes or make them a lot wider
DoorDash Plans to Send Autonomous Robots into Bike Lanes.
momentummag.com/doordash-pla...
momentummag.com/doordash-pla...
DoorDash Plans to Send Autonomous Robots into Bike Lanes | Momentum Mag | Momentum Mag
DoorDash has begun rolling out Dot, its new autonomous delivery robot — a sleek, all-electric bot that can hit speeds of up to 20mph.
momentummag.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Hot take: bike lanes aren't big enough to take all the things people want to put in them. Either keep them for bikes or make them a lot wider
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Online sports betting might be killing your marriage, GPA and 401k. But is a clear social contagion killing sports, in any sense?
I wrote about the wave of betting scandals with insights from the 1919 Black Sox, the end-times Oakland A’s, and endlessly refreshing my Tankathon tab.
I wrote about the wave of betting scandals with insights from the 1919 Black Sox, the end-times Oakland A’s, and endlessly refreshing my Tankathon tab.
Tanking Is Hurting Pro Sports More Than Gambling Ever Could
Gambling isn’t killing pro sports, our guest columnist writes. The multiplying scandals are just part of a much deeper problem.
frontofficesports.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Online sports betting might be killing your marriage, GPA and 401k. But is a clear social contagion killing sports, in any sense?
I wrote about the wave of betting scandals with insights from the 1919 Black Sox, the end-times Oakland A’s, and endlessly refreshing my Tankathon tab.
I wrote about the wave of betting scandals with insights from the 1919 Black Sox, the end-times Oakland A’s, and endlessly refreshing my Tankathon tab.
We need to build more housing in the Westside of SF and have all the infrastructure we need to do it
SF has:
- declining school enrollment
- the best access to urban rec and park space in California
- sewer, water and other utilities under capacity. In Western SF more density makes it more affordable to serve these locations
- better transit access thru Muni Forward improvements
- declining school enrollment
- the best access to urban rec and park space in California
- sewer, water and other utilities under capacity. In Western SF more density makes it more affordable to serve these locations
- better transit access thru Muni Forward improvements
November 29, 2025 at 5:29 PM
We need to build more housing in the Westside of SF and have all the infrastructure we need to do it
The existence of this statement, including the name of the Department, is telling me that there's at least some Republican Senators who are tired of Trump and Hegseth's shit
November 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The existence of this statement, including the name of the Department, is telling me that there's at least some Republican Senators who are tired of Trump and Hegseth's shit
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The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime is underway and it's not AI:
Official data is in this week, and US solar continues to grow rapidly, with generation up 30% compared to last year!
November 29, 2025 at 12:21 AM
The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime is underway and it's not AI:
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One of the biggest barriers to implementing pro-housing policy is the folk wisdom that building new market rate/mixed-income housing increases rents even though study after study shows that the opposite is the case:
building more housing lowers rents
building more housing lowers rents
Interesting new working paper that studies chains of movers after the construction of a new apartment building in Honolulu.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
uhero.hawaii.edu
November 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
One of the biggest barriers to implementing pro-housing policy is the folk wisdom that building new market rate/mixed-income housing increases rents even though study after study shows that the opposite is the case:
building more housing lowers rents
building more housing lowers rents
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This might become my pet issue but it’s crazy how center left parties are hurting because they’re seen as the party of snobbish technocrats when the actual “experts” they go to are lawyers who think anesthesiology and TV manufacturing have seen similar productivity growth
November 28, 2025 at 12:23 AM
This might become my pet issue but it’s crazy how center left parties are hurting because they’re seen as the party of snobbish technocrats when the actual “experts” they go to are lawyers who think anesthesiology and TV manufacturing have seen similar productivity growth
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and yes, brussels sprouts have become less bitter in our lifetimes thanks to Hans van Doorn, a Dutch scientist, figuring out what made them bitter, and seed banks, and cross breeding the less bitter varieties with modern high-producing types
www.npr.org/sections/the...
www.npr.org/sections/the...
November 27, 2025 at 9:35 PM
and yes, brussels sprouts have become less bitter in our lifetimes thanks to Hans van Doorn, a Dutch scientist, figuring out what made them bitter, and seed banks, and cross breeding the less bitter varieties with modern high-producing types
www.npr.org/sections/the...
www.npr.org/sections/the...
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Hot stove fired up
November 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Hot stove fired up
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Hm, link was broken. This works I think?
The Real Way Schools are Failing Boys
“If we really want boys to succeed, we need to ensure that they know how to both beat—and lose— to girls."
time.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Hm, link was broken. This works I think?
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Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
I moved to a different apartment this summer and feel like I got on the last chopper out of Saigon. It's bad out there
Man, San Francisco city rents are going crazy. Listed rents for new apartments* are up 16% YOY for 1 BR.
* Based on a survey of listings. I don't know how well this takes into account things like concessions. And this doesn't hit existing rent controlled units.
www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
* Based on a survey of listings. I don't know how well this takes into account things like concessions. And this doesn't hit existing rent controlled units.
www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
November 26, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I moved to a different apartment this summer and feel like I got on the last chopper out of Saigon. It's bad out there
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This is the ultimate “bring back a past I’m nostalgic for without recreating any of the material conditions that made that possible.” Peak MAGA brain.
Sean Duffy, the U.S. transportation secretary, has been urging people for the past week to dress and comport themselves better as a way of restoring “civility” to air travel. On Tuesday, he added another item to his list of concerns: the quality of the snacks handed out on commercial flights.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Wants Healthier In-Flight Snack Options
Sean Duffy, who has been promoting greater decorum among air travelers, said he would like to see choices besides salty pretzels and buttery cookies.
nyti.ms
November 26, 2025 at 1:24 AM
This is the ultimate “bring back a past I’m nostalgic for without recreating any of the material conditions that made that possible.” Peak MAGA brain.
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"Adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) and heat pumps collectively saved US households between $5.6 to $8.8 billion in 2023 alone."
"80% of users are satisfied with their heat pumps, and nearly 95% of EV owners are likely to consider purchasing another EV for their next vehicle."
"80% of users are satisfied with their heat pumps, and nearly 95% of EV owners are likely to consider purchasing another EV for their next vehicle."
New Brattle Report Finds Beneficial Electrification Delivers Billions in Savings to US Households Along with Significant Emissions Reductions - Brattle
Harnessing the benefits of electric technology over the last decade saved US households between $5.6 to $8.8 billion in 2023 alone and prevented more than
www.brattle.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
"Adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) and heat pumps collectively saved US households between $5.6 to $8.8 billion in 2023 alone."
"80% of users are satisfied with their heat pumps, and nearly 95% of EV owners are likely to consider purchasing another EV for their next vehicle."
"80% of users are satisfied with their heat pumps, and nearly 95% of EV owners are likely to consider purchasing another EV for their next vehicle."
Good sign for this website that it's not just being used to break football news but also to troll
Apple pie is bad. This is not really debatable. So is key lime pie, while we’re on the topic. Pecan pie is the 🐐 tho.
November 25, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Good sign for this website that it's not just being used to break football news but also to troll
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This is a phenomenal example of how people advocating for the "character of the neighborhood" are often actually advocating to *change* the character to be less dense and more suburban. Which, if you go play with the city's n'hood GIS explorer, is what has happened all over Boston!
November 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
This is a phenomenal example of how people advocating for the "character of the neighborhood" are often actually advocating to *change* the character to be less dense and more suburban. Which, if you go play with the city's n'hood GIS explorer, is what has happened all over Boston!
Waymos and other self driving cars can replace Ubers, Lyfts and taxis and society is probably better off for it. We just have to be strict about them being programmed to follow traffic laws.
They cannot replace public transit and biking in cities and anyone saying they can is lying.
They cannot replace public transit and biking in cities and anyone saying they can is lying.
Waymo privatized another public street:
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 25, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Waymos and other self driving cars can replace Ubers, Lyfts and taxis and society is probably better off for it. We just have to be strict about them being programmed to follow traffic laws.
They cannot replace public transit and biking in cities and anyone saying they can is lying.
They cannot replace public transit and biking in cities and anyone saying they can is lying.