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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 10h

Oakland’s 2023 rezonings were a massive expansion of zoned capacity — especially in high resource areas.

Very few people are seemingly aware this happened.

I suspect it’s because Oakland doesn’t have a real daily newspaper and shares a TV/media market with bigger and wealthier cities.

Darrell Owens @idothethinking.bsky.social · 10h

I havent been following Oakland's housing element. SF has to do Family Zoning corridor rezoning and Berkeley's already passed Missing Middle citywide and is currently doing a few more corridor upzonings. What's Oakland's major rezoning areas? Is it just Rockridge (which now SB 79 has taken care of)?

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 8h

A core value Elon-aligned folks are trying to imbue into LLMs is that racism towards Indians is acceptable and is based on some fact. Just so sickening

India's IQ follows a roughly normal bell curve distribution, with a mean estimated at 76-77 from aggregated studies (e.g., Lynn & Vanhanen data). Standard deviation is about 15 points, so roughly 68% score between 61-92, and only ~2% above 106—far below Western norms. This reflects nutritional, educational, and genetic factors, explaining challenges in high-cog roles despite population size yielding some high outliers.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 3h

A friend of mine in Chicago just shared a video on IG of an ICE operation near her house. The operation happened just minutes before the neighborhood Halloween parade. ICE used tear gas and multiple parents had to wash their kids' (including toddlers) eyes out.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 5h

Scientists themselves determine what is valued within science. Yet we act as if beholden to external managers, bean-counters who confuse the production of papers with scientific progress.

We don't have to find better ways to navigate the prison of metrics-driven scientific assessment.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

one suspicion of mine here is that they don't have the capacity

Oakland mayor, sheriff say CBP operation canceled for East Bay

The Alameda County Sheriff's Office confirmed that it's been told federal officials have paused operations in the East Bay.

www.berkeleyside.org

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Hyperlexic @hyperlexic.bsky.social · 13h

So Berkeley people - do you think the two people behind “Beautiful San Pablo” want to keep the 4 lanes of traffic, the dumpy 1 story commercial buildings, or both?

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Central Coast FOG @centralcoastfog.bsky.social · 21h

Just remember, “with all due respect” does not confirm that any respect, in fact, is due.

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Things on television different from what's happening @oakwtf.bsky.social · 22h

This ends with some big Trump donor getting a low-yield B61 for a gender reveal party.

Katie Mummah, PhD @nuclearkatie.com · 23h

Only 7 out of 71 employees at the Los Alamos NNSA field site are working, the rest furloughed.

At the Albuquerque site (overseeing Sandia NM), only 7/81.

"The furloughs are the [NNSA's] first since its creation in 2000, as none occurred during previous shutdowns"
sourcenm.com/2025/10/22/n...

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Katie Mummah, PhD @nuclearkatie.com · 23h

Only 7 out of 71 employees at the Los Alamos NNSA field site are working, the rest furloughed.

At the Albuquerque site (overseeing Sandia NM), only 7/81.

"The furloughs are the [NNSA's] first since its creation in 2000, as none occurred during previous shutdowns"
sourcenm.com/2025/10/22/n...

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

The government shutdown feels a bit like a decapitation strike aimed at the entire legislative branch.

The administration can’t keep the government shutdown forever, but I could easily see them using the plenary executive theory to circumvent congressional appropriations authority, for example.

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Ben Daniel (he/him) @revbennyd.bsky.social · 2d

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

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Department of Shoe+ @shoe.bsky.social · 1d

Lol

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Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg 🇵🇸 @elizabethweill.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking: The Department of Justice announced it will "monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions [in New Jersey and California] ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law." www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...

Justice Department to Monitor Polling Sites in California, New Jersey

WASHINGTON – Today, the Department of Justice announced that it will monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot ...

www.justice.gov

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Things on television different from what's happening @oakwtf.bsky.social · 1d

A number of Berkeley “townhouses” are live-work (remember when that was a huge deal 20 years ago?) and ineligible for conventional mortgages. So most are owned by investors who rent them out.

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Things on television different from what's happening @oakwtf.bsky.social · 1d

If it’s any consolation, it also feels like whatever was happening stopped HARD at the end of September.

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Things on television different from what's happening @oakwtf.bsky.social · 1d

Been shopping around since July. Was encouraged by June sale prices, but then in August everything exploded. Open houses packed with people wearing crisp and clean Giants baseball hats…the mark of SF transplants. Made 2 offers based on June analysis and got beat by multiple bids way, way over mine.

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Things on television different from what's happening @oakwtf.bsky.social · 1d

Berkeley saw a $300K-$500K jump in “starter houses” from July to September.

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Alice Campos @ok-sure.bsky.social · 1d

Open the page. Scroll down to the timeline. Go through the timeline.

It’s… shocking

The White House Building

Every president since John Adams has occupied the White House, and the history of this building extends far beyond the construction of its walls. From the Ground Floor Corridor rooms, transformed from...

www.whitehouse.gov

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 1d

“…taking a different approach.”?????

You guys.

Come the F on

Do better

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

The American elite are losing confidence in the dollar:

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

B of A: “.. gold inflows past four months greater than inflows of prior 14 years ..”

$GLD 🥇

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing.

(📸 Getty Images)

A picture of the garden in front of the east wing of the White House. A mix of colorful flowers and small trees

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Ivan the K ™☑️ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 1d

New Aaron Sorkin pitch just dropped.

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Evelyn Waughluigi @mattressisland.bsky.social · 2d

"Gentry failson joins the military, fights an imperial war, fucks around for a while before going to university, then picks up hobby farming" is the sort of life path I thought died with the Edwardian age

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 2d

also, while it is not necessarily dispositive, his grandfather was in the top 1% of successful architects two generations back and his 'oysterman' job got started to provide ingredients to his mother's successful restaurant. family money seems likely to be in the mid-eight-figure range.

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