Urban Futurist Democrat
@urbfuturistdem.bsky.social
The future is urban. It's here, if we want it.
East Bay, CA
East Bay, CA
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On the theme of, "American planners regulate the wrong things," we should have much stricter regulations on noise-proofing apartments. It's the sort of issue regulation is meant to handle: it's difficult for most consumer to assess it before making a decision, and it really impacts qualify of life.
4-plex going up a few blocks from me. Gonna see about getting a showing when it's done. If we can see 2 adjacent units at the same time I'll bring a lil Bluetooth speaker to test the acoustic performance between units.
There aren't offset studs between units, so I figure it will perform poorly.
There aren't offset studs between units, so I figure it will perform poorly.
December 15, 2025 at 6:05 AM
On the theme of, "American planners regulate the wrong things," we should have much stricter regulations on noise-proofing apartments. It's the sort of issue regulation is meant to handle: it's difficult for most consumer to assess it before making a decision, and it really impacts qualify of life.
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lmfao the left-NIMBYs are going after zohran now. these groups are truly beyond parody. just a matter of time before they realize they’re actually just republicans
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December 15, 2025 at 5:07 AM
lmfao the left-NIMBYs are going after zohran now. these groups are truly beyond parody. just a matter of time before they realize they’re actually just republicans
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The Tesla drivers in this post are actually correct on the first count. My wife felt something similar in 2021 and 2022 after driving only rarely during the pandemic.
The feeling of danger is accurate. Driving is by far the most dangerous thing a typical person will do every day. By far!!
The feeling of danger is accurate. Driving is by far the most dangerous thing a typical person will do every day. By far!!
tesla owners admitting without shame they don’t know how to drive anymore
December 15, 2025 at 2:29 AM
The Tesla drivers in this post are actually correct on the first count. My wife felt something similar in 2021 and 2022 after driving only rarely during the pandemic.
The feeling of danger is accurate. Driving is by far the most dangerous thing a typical person will do every day. By far!!
The feeling of danger is accurate. Driving is by far the most dangerous thing a typical person will do every day. By far!!
Three people without speaking roles in Wake Up Dead Man - the single mother verbally abused in the sermon, one of the gay couple undergoing the same, and the gone-away wife of Renner's character - are all British actors.
December 14, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Three people without speaking roles in Wake Up Dead Man - the single mother verbally abused in the sermon, one of the gay couple undergoing the same, and the gone-away wife of Renner's character - are all British actors.
Not implausible, but these kinds of tactical questions are deeply silly to put in survey questions _to the public_.
Horserace Ate Everything
Horserace Ate Everything
Texas Dems:
"Who'd be more successful in mobilizing Dem-leaning non-voting Texans to turn out for them?"
Crockett: 53%
Talarico: 34%
"Who'd be more successful in convincing Texans who regularly vote GOP to vote for them?"
Talarico: 58%
Crockett: 29%
Texas Southern U. / Dec 11, 2025
"Who'd be more successful in mobilizing Dem-leaning non-voting Texans to turn out for them?"
Crockett: 53%
Talarico: 34%
"Who'd be more successful in convincing Texans who regularly vote GOP to vote for them?"
Talarico: 58%
Crockett: 29%
Texas Southern U. / Dec 11, 2025
December 14, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Not implausible, but these kinds of tactical questions are deeply silly to put in survey questions _to the public_.
Horserace Ate Everything
Horserace Ate Everything
In Wake Up Dead Man, is there anything that plausibly entitled Jefferson Wicks to demand to be addressed as Monsignor?
It seems only a few offices today get you that title, but maybe there are obsolete ways, or local practices not papally sanctioned?
It seems only a few offices today get you that title, but maybe there are obsolete ways, or local practices not papally sanctioned?
December 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
In Wake Up Dead Man, is there anything that plausibly entitled Jefferson Wicks to demand to be addressed as Monsignor?
It seems only a few offices today get you that title, but maybe there are obsolete ways, or local practices not papally sanctioned?
It seems only a few offices today get you that title, but maybe there are obsolete ways, or local practices not papally sanctioned?
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A really unfortunate thing about SF politics is that people like the Network State dipshits genuinely are fascist adjacent grifter morons, *and* many of their highest profile detractors are like the most uncharitable caricature of dysfunctional left wings politics possible.
December 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
A really unfortunate thing about SF politics is that people like the Network State dipshits genuinely are fascist adjacent grifter morons, *and* many of their highest profile detractors are like the most uncharitable caricature of dysfunctional left wings politics possible.
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I genuinely don't think I've ever seen a more transparently corrupt government and I'm from India
trumpcard.gov is live and the million dollar fees are all referred to as “gifts” or “contributions” to an undisclosed party lol
December 11, 2025 at 7:08 AM
I genuinely don't think I've ever seen a more transparently corrupt government and I'm from India
Remember when bird flu was totally going to be the next pandemic?
December 14, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Remember when bird flu was totally going to be the next pandemic?
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Can anyone on here give me a single good reason why the state of California is explicitly treating bad drivers as a protected class?????
December 14, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Can anyone on here give me a single good reason why the state of California is explicitly treating bad drivers as a protected class?????
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Just say ‘I like driving over the speed limit’ why debase yourself like this
August 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Just say ‘I like driving over the speed limit’ why debase yourself like this
Oh that sounds simple enough
December 13, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Oh that sounds simple enough
Senate leadership should be entirely made up of people with cause to want personal revenge against the administration. Kelly, Padilla, etc.
December 13, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Senate leadership should be entirely made up of people with cause to want personal revenge against the administration. Kelly, Padilla, etc.
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“We don’t need to build more housing we have enough vacant houses”
(*8 bed 1 bath abandoned meth lab)
(*8 bed 1 bath abandoned meth lab)
I was right. It was a meth lab. Its on the dea's clandestine lab registry. Incident august 4th, 2004. Has probably been abandoned for the last 20 years.
www.dea.gov/clan-lab
www.dea.gov/clan-lab
www.dea.gov
December 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
“We don’t need to build more housing we have enough vacant houses”
(*8 bed 1 bath abandoned meth lab)
(*8 bed 1 bath abandoned meth lab)
Ignition interlocks are the slapdrones of our era send skeet
December 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Ignition interlocks are the slapdrones of our era send skeet
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sure glad we went through a TWO DECADE implementation of these only for DHS to try moving the goalposts in the first year you actually might need one
Add to this that HSI just filed a declaration in our case challenging these policies saying they can’t trust REAL IDs as proof of status.
So showing your papers isn’t even enough to end the stop.
So showing your papers isn’t even enough to end the stop.
December 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
sure glad we went through a TWO DECADE implementation of these only for DHS to try moving the goalposts in the first year you actually might need one
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Actually it’s good if the one daily activity that kills other people if you fuck it up is heavily regulated
December 12, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Actually it’s good if the one daily activity that kills other people if you fuck it up is heavily regulated
Judith Miller vibes resurging
![NYT headline
Venezuela Oil Tanker Seized by US Was Part of Effort to Finance Cuba
Firms with ties to Cuba are getting a larger share of Venezuelan oil exports, as the island's security agents boost President Nicolás Maduro's defenses.
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December 13, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Judith Miller vibes resurging
Listenin' to some big out of town app store, hearin' him tell about horse girl gamblin'!
If I were running a pool night for trans people, I'd call it:
Trans with a capital T and that rhymes with P and that stands for Pool!
🏳️⚧️ 🎱
Trans with a capital T and that rhymes with P and that stands for Pool!
🏳️⚧️ 🎱
December 13, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Listenin' to some big out of town app store, hearin' him tell about horse girl gamblin'!
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It's the weekend, baby
December 12, 2025 at 11:31 PM
It's the weekend, baby
Seeing Get Out among a predominantly Black audience.
That fist-bump/grab moment...
That fist-bump/grab moment...
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 13, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Seeing Get Out among a predominantly Black audience.
That fist-bump/grab moment...
That fist-bump/grab moment...
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The Nero Wolfe novels were written from the 1930s to the 1970s. One of the most old-fashioned things in the earlier books is that on several occasions somebody is killed by a car and the police investigate it as a potential homicide as a matter of course
October 4, 2023 at 2:13 PM
The Nero Wolfe novels were written from the 1930s to the 1970s. One of the most old-fashioned things in the earlier books is that on several occasions somebody is killed by a car and the police investigate it as a potential homicide as a matter of course
WHAT DO DEMS FUCKING THINK THIS WILL LEAD TO
seriously, I don't get why they're excited about it
seriously, I don't get why they're excited about it
Sen. WHITEHOUSE: We finally are moving to file a bipartisan Section 230 repeal bill. Waiting any longer serves no useful purpose.
December 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
WHAT DO DEMS FUCKING THINK THIS WILL LEAD TO
seriously, I don't get why they're excited about it
seriously, I don't get why they're excited about it
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Ignition interlocks are a *less carceral* option! DUI is a common crime, many drunk drivers are not societal threats in other aspects, and we have a device that notably reduces proclivity to drive drunk without otherwise restricting their liberty.
I think it was a huge mistake to make our society so car-dependent. But man. The Discourse today is a good reminder that when it comes to roadways policy, otherwise progressive anti-car people quickly become some of the most pro-carceral, anti-civil liberties people on the planet.
December 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Ignition interlocks are a *less carceral* option! DUI is a common crime, many drunk drivers are not societal threats in other aspects, and we have a device that notably reduces proclivity to drive drunk without otherwise restricting their liberty.
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