David Welton
@davidwelton.bsky.social
Computers, startups, bikes, Italy (lived in Padova for about 15 years), Bend YIMBY
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The funniest stupid thing (stupidest funny thing?) that violent drivers always say:
"All these bicycles are causing traffic!!"
Ah so ... you'd prefer if we were all in cars in front of you?
"All these bicycles are causing traffic!!"
Ah so ... you'd prefer if we were all in cars in front of you?
November 25, 2025 at 5:32 AM
The funniest stupid thing (stupidest funny thing?) that violent drivers always say:
"All these bicycles are causing traffic!!"
Ah so ... you'd prefer if we were all in cars in front of you?
"All these bicycles are causing traffic!!"
Ah so ... you'd prefer if we were all in cars in front of you?
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Wow — Senators Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, Warren, Markey, Merkley, Heinrich have created an official internal "Fight Club."
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
Chuck Schumer Faces Pushback From a ‘Fight Club’ of Senate Democrats
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Wow — Senators Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, Warren, Markey, Merkley, Heinrich have created an official internal "Fight Club."
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
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oh hey just a winning competition for a coop in geneva by argemi bufano architecte that's 100% illegal in every part of the US...
8 story (3) connected point access blocks.
every home has daylight on 2 sides. massive diversity of home sizes
private outdoor space.
www.argemibufano.ch/le-rolliet
8 story (3) connected point access blocks.
every home has daylight on 2 sides. massive diversity of home sizes
private outdoor space.
www.argemibufano.ch/le-rolliet
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 AM
oh hey just a winning competition for a coop in geneva by argemi bufano architecte that's 100% illegal in every part of the US...
8 story (3) connected point access blocks.
every home has daylight on 2 sides. massive diversity of home sizes
private outdoor space.
www.argemibufano.ch/le-rolliet
8 story (3) connected point access blocks.
every home has daylight on 2 sides. massive diversity of home sizes
private outdoor space.
www.argemibufano.ch/le-rolliet
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NEW data I've received: Just 5% of people detained by ICE since October 1 have had violent criminal convictions, 3/4 had no criminal convictions at all. Most "criminals" had immigration, traffic, and vice offenses. Not the "worst of the worst"...
November 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM
NEW data I've received: Just 5% of people detained by ICE since October 1 have had violent criminal convictions, 3/4 had no criminal convictions at all. Most "criminals" had immigration, traffic, and vice offenses. Not the "worst of the worst"...
I thought "why I'm not a centrist" was a good article from @jerusalem.bsky.social but she's only promoting it on ... Twitter 😩 The place with the white supremacist owner and full of MAGA bots from various and sundry countries
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I thought "why I'm not a centrist" was a good article from @jerusalem.bsky.social but she's only promoting it on ... Twitter 😩 The place with the white supremacist owner and full of MAGA bots from various and sundry countries
These words should get people put on international arrest lists
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
These words should get people put on international arrest lists
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Living in the US in 2025: The government that hates green tech says your e-bike battery might explode if it gets wet, but the company says, nuh uh, only if it gets REALLY wet. And now you, a person who needs their e-bike and also doesn't want their house to burn down, has to figure out what to do.
Not trying to stan Rad here, but should we be a little skeptical of a CPSC that was gutted this year by an administration that hates green tech?
www.13abc.com/2025/05/14/d...
www.13abc.com/2025/05/14/d...
DOGE dismantles Consumer Product Safety Commission
When a product turns out to be dangerous, or even deadly, it’s recalled by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
It’s a watchdog group that’s now being dismantled by DOGE.
www.13abc.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Living in the US in 2025: The government that hates green tech says your e-bike battery might explode if it gets wet, but the company says, nuh uh, only if it gets REALLY wet. And now you, a person who needs their e-bike and also doesn't want their house to burn down, has to figure out what to do.
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This is the future liberals want
Almost every Safeway in San Francisco is planning a total rebuild into "housing over grocery." At least three recent proposals. Meanwhile, zero proposals from Safeway in the East Bay. sfyimby.com/2025/11/prel... sfyimby.com/2025/11/perm... sfyimby.com/2025/11/bern...
Preliminary Plans Filed For Safeway in Outer Richmond, San Francisco - San Francisco YIMBY
Preliminary plans have been filed for an eight-story apartment complex at 850 La Playa Street in San Francisco’s Richmond District. The project will...
sfyimby.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:50 PM
This is the future liberals want
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SOUTHCOM is curbing holiday leave as it prepares for potential land strikes in Venezuela within the next 10–14 days, NewsNation reports.
November 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
SOUTHCOM is curbing holiday leave as it prepares for potential land strikes in Venezuela within the next 10–14 days, NewsNation reports.
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Ah, yes, the biannual tradition of Phil Knight setting millions of dollars on fire trying to elect Republicans in Oregon.
Phil Knight has broken his own record for political spending.
Phil Knight Writes Record Check to Republican Legislative PAC
Nigel Jaquiss
www.wweek.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Ah, yes, the biannual tradition of Phil Knight setting millions of dollars on fire trying to elect Republicans in Oregon.
I'll take this guy any day over the drunk Fox News host dude
I swore an oath to the Constitution in 1986. I've upheld it through 25 years of service and every day since I retired.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I'll take this guy any day over the drunk Fox News host dude
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Absolutely screaming with excitement at @annemariegray.bsky.social of @opennewyork.org being named to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's housing transition committee.
So well-earned by Annemarie & such a good sign for the Mamdani administration.
So well-earned by Annemarie & such a good sign for the Mamdani administration.
We’re here in Central Park with Mayor-Elect @ZohranKMamdani.bsky.social to announce that our Executive Director @AnnemarieGray.bsky.social will be joining his transition committee on housing!
November 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Absolutely screaming with excitement at @annemariegray.bsky.social of @opennewyork.org being named to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's housing transition committee.
So well-earned by Annemarie & such a good sign for the Mamdani administration.
So well-earned by Annemarie & such a good sign for the Mamdani administration.
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Learning that Annemarie Gray (no relation) of Open New York, NYC's YIMBY group, has been appointed to Mayor-elect Mamdani's housing transition team. This is FANTASTIC news!
November 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Learning that Annemarie Gray (no relation) of Open New York, NYC's YIMBY group, has been appointed to Mayor-elect Mamdani's housing transition team. This is FANTASTIC news!
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"The batteries were sold with the following Rad Power Bikes e-bike models and as replacement batteries: RadWagon 4, RadCity HS 4, RadRover High Step 5, RadCity Step Thru 3, RadRover Step Thru 1, RadRunner 2, RadRunner 1, RadRunner Plus, and RadExpand 5"
November 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
"The batteries were sold with the following Rad Power Bikes e-bike models and as replacement batteries: RadWagon 4, RadCity HS 4, RadRover High Step 5, RadCity Step Thru 3, RadRover Step Thru 1, RadRunner 2, RadRunner 1, RadRunner Plus, and RadExpand 5"
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Seen a lot of people wondering why X, The Everything App would have a feature that gives away how much of the popular right wing accounts are foreign actors and this is why. They thought every left wing account would be that way because every accusation is also a confession.
Planned Parenthood uses a VPN so its twitter location is shown as Germany and now all of MAGA twitter thinks Planned Parenthood is a fake organization based in Europe.
November 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Seen a lot of people wondering why X, The Everything App would have a feature that gives away how much of the popular right wing accounts are foreign actors and this is why. They thought every left wing account would be that way because every accusation is also a confession.
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Only the best people!
November 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Only the best people!
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'I asked more experienced colleagues in planning, zoning & housing: where did these density regulations come from?
Their answers were frustrating to hear & embarrassing to repeat. The density regulations roughly matched the existing density of each neighborhood, sort of, more or less. That was it.'
Their answers were frustrating to hear & embarrassing to repeat. The density regulations roughly matched the existing density of each neighborhood, sort of, more or less. That was it.'
"Why I lost faith in zoning." tinyurl.com/5n8sh428 Baltimore’s former zoning board executive director, on why she supports @mayorbmscott.bsky.social bills to promote more density and multi-family housing in the city. [OP-ED]
Baltimore’s former zoning board director explains why she lost faith in zoning | Baltimore Brew
The mayor’s “Housing Options and Opportunity” legislation – including Bill 25-0066 – will go a long way toward fixing an unfair system. [OP-ED]
tinyurl.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
'I asked more experienced colleagues in planning, zoning & housing: where did these density regulations come from?
Their answers were frustrating to hear & embarrassing to repeat. The density regulations roughly matched the existing density of each neighborhood, sort of, more or less. That was it.'
Their answers were frustrating to hear & embarrassing to repeat. The density regulations roughly matched the existing density of each neighborhood, sort of, more or less. That was it.'
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20 before and afters of streets in Paris in one minute.
November 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
20 before and afters of streets in Paris in one minute.
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Family Worried Where Grandma Going With Conversation On Low-Income Housing https://theonion.com/family-worried-where-grandma-going-with-conversation-on-1819578444/
November 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Family Worried Where Grandma Going With Conversation On Low-Income Housing https://theonion.com/family-worried-where-grandma-going-with-conversation-on-1819578444/
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Engineers think it’s a liquid but traffic is a gas. Give it space and it’ll fill it up. Take it away and it disperses
Every time
November 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Engineers think it’s a liquid but traffic is a gas. Give it space and it’ll fill it up. Take it away and it disperses
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@sulliview.bsky.social 🎯 on normalization of Trump’s aberrant, deviant behavior
“it only worsens—because Trump gets away with it…
Will this ‘quiet, piggy’ moment make a difference? Only for those who care about decency in public officials & in 🇺🇸society” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“it only worsens—because Trump gets away with it…
Will this ‘quiet, piggy’ moment make a difference? Only for those who care about decency in public officials & in 🇺🇸society” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Telling a reporter ‘quiet, piggy’ was shocking – even for Trump | Margaret Sullivan
We’re supposed to be used to this by now, but getting used to it is dangerous. Her colleagues should have spoken up
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:40 AM
@sulliview.bsky.social 🎯 on normalization of Trump’s aberrant, deviant behavior
“it only worsens—because Trump gets away with it…
Will this ‘quiet, piggy’ moment make a difference? Only for those who care about decency in public officials & in 🇺🇸society” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“it only worsens—because Trump gets away with it…
Will this ‘quiet, piggy’ moment make a difference? Only for those who care about decency in public officials & in 🇺🇸society” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The idea that we get *less* migration from a destabilized Venezuela is madness.
Cracks me up how you could just replace Venezuela and Venezuelans with Iraq and Iraqis and it’d be indistinguishable from something written in 2002
November 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
The idea that we get *less* migration from a destabilized Venezuela is madness.
Come sign our "stop plowing the passes and maintaining our roads" petition! 🙄
November 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Come sign our "stop plowing the passes and maintaining our roads" petition! 🙄
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If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
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MARJORIE "THREE BRAIN CELLS" GREENE IS HAVING A BIG SAD RIGHT NOW BECAUSE OF ALL THE "TOXIC" IN POLITICS. BOO FUCKING HOO. FUCK OFF STRAIGHT INTO THE SEA, MARGE, BECAUSE YOU STARTED IT. NO ONE THOUGHT A POST LIKE MINE WAS POSSIBLE. READ IT, BECAUSE IT'S SEDITION IF YOU DON'T! LINK: bit.ly/4ofLMcC
November 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
MARJORIE "THREE BRAIN CELLS" GREENE IS HAVING A BIG SAD RIGHT NOW BECAUSE OF ALL THE "TOXIC" IN POLITICS. BOO FUCKING HOO. FUCK OFF STRAIGHT INTO THE SEA, MARGE, BECAUSE YOU STARTED IT. NO ONE THOUGHT A POST LIKE MINE WAS POSSIBLE. READ IT, BECAUSE IT'S SEDITION IF YOU DON'T! LINK: bit.ly/4ofLMcC