Bianca Walser
@biancawalser.bsky.social
I like safe streets, infill housing and trees. Find more ways to say yes. YIMBY, MeFite, Smithie.
(ambrosiamonkey over on the old place)
(ambrosiamonkey over on the old place)
Pinned
People who think that advocates for safe mobility infrastructure are politically powerful need to understand our streets would look very very different if that were in fact true.
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Sad death of CBS News as actual journalism
And a reminder that CECOT is a human rights travesty, and everyone up and down the Trump admin involved in illegally sending people there belong in The Hague.
And a reminder that CECOT is a human rights travesty, and everyone up and down the Trump admin involved in illegally sending people there belong in The Hague.
December 22, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Sad death of CBS News as actual journalism
And a reminder that CECOT is a human rights travesty, and everyone up and down the Trump admin involved in illegally sending people there belong in The Hague.
And a reminder that CECOT is a human rights travesty, and everyone up and down the Trump admin involved in illegally sending people there belong in The Hague.
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a muppet twist on iconic art: thread
December 21, 2025 at 6:48 PM
a muppet twist on iconic art: thread
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There is a tremendous opportunity for a brand new generation of media outlets to rise up right now because many news outlets that spent decades painstakingly building their credibility are seeing it torched by bootlickers with incredible speed.
December 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
There is a tremendous opportunity for a brand new generation of media outlets to rise up right now because many news outlets that spent decades painstakingly building their credibility are seeing it torched by bootlickers with incredible speed.
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Fwiw I think the “apologize for being white” thing is very clearly about making sure white people don’t feel an obligation to alleviate past injustices or make society fairer. Ultimately to do that you have to raise taxes and the billionaires holding Vance’s leash don’t want that.
December 21, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Fwiw I think the “apologize for being white” thing is very clearly about making sure white people don’t feel an obligation to alleviate past injustices or make society fairer. Ultimately to do that you have to raise taxes and the billionaires holding Vance’s leash don’t want that.
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Billionaire futurism is premised on selling a future that never comes to people instead of meeting their needs now. Wealth is, to be Derridean, always already there, yet never there.
December 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Billionaire futurism is premised on selling a future that never comes to people instead of meeting their needs now. Wealth is, to be Derridean, always already there, yet never there.
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i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"
How it started vs. How it’s going NOW 👀
LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽♂️
LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽♂️
December 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"
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This is a surgical dismantling of yet another dumb Matt Yglesias argument by a former clean energy exec and current Representative. This is the sort of thing that should make people stop listening to people like Yglesias.
Read the whole thing.
Read the whole thing.
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
This is a surgical dismantling of yet another dumb Matt Yglesias argument by a former clean energy exec and current Representative. This is the sort of thing that should make people stop listening to people like Yglesias.
Read the whole thing.
Read the whole thing.
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None of this is “good faith political debate,” and it’s not a coincidence that all these outlets are suddenly interested in the same “discussion” at the same time.
Treating women’s humanity like a thought exercise makes it that much easier to legislate away
Treating women’s humanity like a thought exercise makes it that much easier to legislate away
December 20, 2025 at 11:25 PM
None of this is “good faith political debate,” and it’s not a coincidence that all these outlets are suddenly interested in the same “discussion” at the same time.
Treating women’s humanity like a thought exercise makes it that much easier to legislate away
Treating women’s humanity like a thought exercise makes it that much easier to legislate away
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Congrats to Australia, this is really cool!
report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au
report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au
December 20, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Congrats to Australia, this is really cool!
report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au
report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au
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Reminder that naturalized citizens are people who jumped through every hoop, did all the paperwork, passed the test, and swore an oath to this country. They did it all “the right way” and still Republicans want to kick them out.
New attack on immigrants: the Trump administration is demanding that Citizenship and Immigration Services field offices start drumming up “100-200 denaturalization cases per month.”
Normally a naturalized citizen cannot be stripped of citizenship unless they committed fraud on their application. 🎁
Normally a naturalized citizen cannot be stripped of citizenship unless they committed fraud on their application. 🎁
Trump Administration Aims to Strip More Foreign-Born Americans of Citizenship
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Reminder that naturalized citizens are people who jumped through every hoop, did all the paperwork, passed the test, and swore an oath to this country. They did it all “the right way” and still Republicans want to kick them out.
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It's your birthday, Duane.
December 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
It's your birthday, Duane.
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Conservative anti-urbanism has always been in large part about social and sexual control, particularly of women. In small towns you can be shamed for having socially-unapproved sex. In a large, anonymous city with cheap housing, you can have multiple partners without judgment or social consequence.
I think on some level conservative NIMBYs oppose more housing because they dislike the idea of young people having more choices in how their lives are going to unfold
Is YIMBYism About Sex?
Sexual mores and housing demand, and the meaning of "pro-family housing"
www.thedeletedscenes.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Conservative anti-urbanism has always been in large part about social and sexual control, particularly of women. In small towns you can be shamed for having socially-unapproved sex. In a large, anonymous city with cheap housing, you can have multiple partners without judgment or social consequence.
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Now there is an effective metaphor.
"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
December 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Now there is an effective metaphor.
Some day, hopefully, people will talk in the exact same way about the smell of car exhaust.
for anyone young enough not to remember -- YES everything smelled like shit. Every public restaurant reeked, every used car reeked, all used clothing reeked. Every piece of furniture or appliance that came out of a bar or restaurant was covered in a thick layer of tar and never stopped stinking.
December 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Some day, hopefully, people will talk in the exact same way about the smell of car exhaust.
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this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
December 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
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Way more Epstein victims than trans athletes in the US.
It’s never been about protecting children. It’s always been about people being props for powerful monsters.
Support trans people. Support victims. Support personal autonomy.
Fuck patriarchy. Defund overlords. (Don’t eat garbage.)
It’s never been about protecting children. It’s always been about people being props for powerful monsters.
Support trans people. Support victims. Support personal autonomy.
Fuck patriarchy. Defund overlords. (Don’t eat garbage.)
December 20, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Way more Epstein victims than trans athletes in the US.
It’s never been about protecting children. It’s always been about people being props for powerful monsters.
Support trans people. Support victims. Support personal autonomy.
Fuck patriarchy. Defund overlords. (Don’t eat garbage.)
It’s never been about protecting children. It’s always been about people being props for powerful monsters.
Support trans people. Support victims. Support personal autonomy.
Fuck patriarchy. Defund overlords. (Don’t eat garbage.)
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In my most mom tone, “You can’t have any new highways until you take care of the ones you already have!”
Reading about Forest Service roads in @bengoldfarb.bsky.social Crossings, “The agency’s maintenance backlog exceeded $8B…If the service couldn’t afford its existing roads, it seemed ludicrous to build more.”
December 20, 2025 at 6:42 AM
In my most mom tone, “You can’t have any new highways until you take care of the ones you already have!”
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I love alt text. Not only does it make images accessible, I be having fun with the descriptions. Extra space for my lil jokes
December 20, 2025 at 5:51 AM
I love alt text. Not only does it make images accessible, I be having fun with the descriptions. Extra space for my lil jokes
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IDEA: Take a half block and remove cars.
December 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM
IDEA: Take a half block and remove cars.
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Anyway every housing policy fight is a proxy battle over who gets to live in your neighborhood and what lifestyles are acceptable.
December 20, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Anyway every housing policy fight is a proxy battle over who gets to live in your neighborhood and what lifestyles are acceptable.
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Bank of America first started offering credit cards to women in 1974
"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
December 20, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Bank of America first started offering credit cards to women in 1974
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From this point on, I'm forced to assume that every elected politician who does not immediately call for Trump's impeachment is in the Epstein files. Sorry. Just cutting the Gordian knot here, as one does during societal collapse.
December 20, 2025 at 12:05 AM
From this point on, I'm forced to assume that every elected politician who does not immediately call for Trump's impeachment is in the Epstein files. Sorry. Just cutting the Gordian knot here, as one does during societal collapse.
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I think Republicans are overestimating liberals' emotional attachment to Bill Clinton.
December 20, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I think Republicans are overestimating liberals' emotional attachment to Bill Clinton.
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If you want to trigger a years-long, vicious blood feud then tell a Bay Area NIMBY that you're carving out a little space in their neighborhood for people to walk and bike around without getting killed.
It is actually insane that this is probably going to go up for another vote. Perfect example of why it's so hard to get anything done in San Francisco. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s...
S.F. voters closer to weighing in — again — on fate of Great Highway
Sunset Supervisor Alan Wong said he’d back a ballot measure to reopen the city’s westernmost coastal boulevard to cars, closing Sunset Dunes park.
www.sfchronicle.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
If you want to trigger a years-long, vicious blood feud then tell a Bay Area NIMBY that you're carving out a little space in their neighborhood for people to walk and bike around without getting killed.
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FRIEND: It's called cauliflower. It's not ghost broccoli.
ME: [taking a long drag on my cigarette] Listen kid, I know what I saw.
ME: [taking a long drag on my cigarette] Listen kid, I know what I saw.
April 26, 2023 at 11:15 PM
FRIEND: It's called cauliflower. It's not ghost broccoli.
ME: [taking a long drag on my cigarette] Listen kid, I know what I saw.
ME: [taking a long drag on my cigarette] Listen kid, I know what I saw.