@GettingBucketzz
@runolgarun
As an Ohioan who moved to the west coast from a city with a massive gun violence program:
I would rather walk past a hundred tents every day than dodge bullets again
On the plus side, there was an audio announcement that said “hey San Francisco, it’s mayor London Breed, we’re so happy to have you back on muni” and the whole damn bus booed
I love this fucking town
@ItsDanaWhite
@maracuyamama
How the hell can people see literally thousands of homeless people in every major American city and still somehow believe that each one is an individual failure, rather than the whole crisis being one big systemic failure?
@BriannaWu
As a non-passing trans woman and sex worker who stuck up for you a LOT when other trans people dogged you out on this hellsite and beyond, learning what you really think of me really fucking hurts. 😞
So
@maxdubler
says “SaN fRaNcIsCo HaSn’T lEt AnYoNe BuIlD hOuSiNg In 20 YeArS”
My brother in Christ, here’s a thousand units in ten years, VISIBLE FROM ONE INTERSECTION
Imagine seeing literally thousands of homeless people in every major American city, and think that there really are that many individual failures, rather than just one societal failure
The campers who trashed my alma mater left some of their "Queers for Palestine" signs.
Is this a twisted joke? Are you really that clueless?
Here's a map of countries that execute people for being gay.
My goal as a YIMBY is pretty clear. This apartment building in Oakland should rent for $700 or so which is commensurate with Midwest pricing. Not $2700 or whatever.
Hey, a trans girl I knew (not well, but in passing) took her own life tonight. If I don’t seem myself, that’s why. Second one of us I’ve had to bury in three months.
I am so very tired of this.
I promise you, Charlotte Clymer and Caitlyn Jenner won’t see you calling them a “brick” or making fun of their looks, but every late transitioner who follows you will.
One thing I find curious about San Francisco’s right wing is that they claim to want to get people off drugs and off the street, yet they want policy that has been proven time and time again not to work. It belies that the cruelty is the point.
Hey
@sfmta_muni
why are we letting a bar in the richest part of the city take up the whole sidewalk and two parking spaces for private profit? I had to walk in the street to make sure I was socially distancing from these unmasked diners
Tonight at a
@GrowSF
gathering I met 4 people who moved to the city in 2023. When asked why, despite all the negative press, they came each extolled the city’s creative energy. I heard, “SF is the best place to build & meet people with exciting ideas,” at least 6 times tonight.
A second Transbay Tube is currently being envisioned by the
#Link21
program. In 2024, Link 21 will decide whether to propose the crossing as
@SFBART
or Regional Rail (
@Caltrain
/
@CapitolCorridor
)
A 2nd crossing would both transform BART’s map and alleviate its biggest bottleneck
@AriDrennen
The entire right wing has been vibes-based, going all the way back to the Southern Strategy, at least. That Lyndon Johnson quote about picking white men’s pockets, etc
Nearly every floor of the dormant Oceanwide Plaza luxury development in Downtown LA was tagged this week. I counted 27 floors of graffiti. The $1 billion project was stalled 5 years ago and sits just across from LA Live and the red carpet for Sunday's Grammys.
@kcalnews
#DTLA
@mikurubaeahina
Get strapped. Even here in California I don’t see another way. Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six. I wish it wasn’t a need but this makes it apparent that it is.
Unreal. Twice in one day. Ok, I’m going to keep a running thread on this. Tag me when you see a bus shelter being used for a purpose other than waiting for the bus.
Another high-profile closure in Oakland due to crime will now play into two major local recall campaigns — that of
@AlamedaCountyDA
Price and
@MayorShengThao
10 SUSPECTS ARRESTED IN CENTRAL DISTRICT BLITZ OPERATION!
Officers assigned to
@SFPDCentral
pre-planned blitz operations for retail stores located on the 100 and 400 block of Powell Street.
We're conducting similar operations throughout the city and making dozens of arrests in
@rainypoo_
@Doug_Gimmedome
@sriharirn
@scarfburner
People say this shit like there aren’t places all over this country that are majority-black that look like this. Lots of metro Atlanta and Houston, PG and Montgomery County in Maryland, Richmond Heights and Highland Heights outside Cleveland...
A 25 unit, 100% market rate condo building by star architect Stanley Saitowitz, in San Francisco's Mission Bay fails to sell a single unit, defaults to the bank.
@dannoyes
@MoreScooters
@JoeBerkowitz
You’re lying, you were palling around with Joey Gibson in 2017 when he was in town and there are multiple pics to prove this. I walked fifty feet behind you all the way from city hall to Gough and Ellis that day, and you two didn’t even notice it
this pick-me-ass bitch needs to be dealt with by our local trans community, especially when we’re overrepresented amongst the homeless folks she seeks to criminalize. we gotta make it where folks who hurt their own sisters have no home in the queer community
Love to see the Castro community turn out to beautify the neighborhood with planters outside the Walgreens on Castro & 18th. Thanks
@RafaelMandelman
for making it happen!
@dick_nixon
The thing with Rubio is that, unlike most of his contemporaries, on some level, he knows exactly how stupid he is, and it shakes him to his core. It’s in his eyes when he speaks.
Genuinely good faith question: do you believe an extremely-low-turnout election with millions of dark money from venture capitalists and tech moguls airdropped into it can produce democratic consent?
@uwulution
Genuinely good faith question I’d appreciate a nuanced response to:
Why/Do you think you deserve to have your ideology implemented in govt if you can’t get democratic consent for that?
Betty, did you examine whether or not high commercial rent factored into this?
Other, better journalists have found that to be the case with other Westfield San Francisco tenants
End of an era: Nordstrom at Westfield officially closed at 5 pm after 30+ years on Market Street
Back in May, a spokesperson for Westfield mall and its owner said:
"The planned closure of Nordstrom underscores the deteriorating situation in downtown San Francisco.”
@KPIXtv
Nothing makes people happier than claiming moral superiority on the internet. Look at the joy on his face, the glee as he claims that installing planters is “hurting homeless people.”
Will admits the racial IQ gap exists, slams someone who shares actual research as “not an expert” and then shares his own findings:
“It’s just *immensely complicated*, you guys!”
Don’t let the intoxicating aroma of frying onions trick you into eating unsafe food.
Protect yourself from illnesses by not buying from unpermitted food vendors who don’t follow safety rules.
#DontRiskIt
@estrozeneca
@AriDrennen
this is gonna sound like a rhetorical question but I don’t mean it that way, I’m asking at face value:
what tangible harm is Mulvaney causing to our community?
My mother is dead and the reason my father still lives there is that he can see the daffodils she planted every morning and the friends and neighbors he’s known for 20-40 years.
Communities are for people. They are not numbers on a spreadsheet.
If you're in your 70s and sitting on a 4 bedroom house that you don't even occupy half of, I think you should be disincentivized to holding onto it
If nothing else, take your profits while the bubble is still there and move into a smaller house? Lots of great townhouses
Thanks you
@TheAdvocateMag
for recognizing me as one of your 2023 Advocates — leaders fighting for the LGBTQ community. This work is so important & it’ll always be a priority for me.
Security guard murdered by young teens last night. I'm so sick and angry. guards don't earn much. it's an honest, important job. so how can we support THEM? Always smile, say thanks. tap on the window as you go by and wave. what else??
“Senator I always thought you were an anti-racist but it seems like you value Israeli lives more than Palestinian lives, is that true?”
FETTERMAN: “Still with Israel”
“So you think an Israeli life is more valuable than a Palestinian life?”
FETTERMAN: “Okay”
I’m so very tired of being treated like a man by other trans women because I don’t pass, because I speak my mind, and because I stand up for what’s right instead of engaging in toxic positivity.
@SteierMisha
Meanwhile, Mister Moneybags updated his followers on his home office remodel in the Victorian he owns with his real estate developer husband in SF.
@drmistercody
@___maryboy
Friendly reminder that a friend was his co-worker at pacific bell, and had he not had his comic get big at the exact moment it did, he’d have likely been shitcanned for sexual harassment
you should be listening to actual SRO tenants in 2023 instead of selectively citing 150-year-old legislation to justify enabling developers to sell substandard housing
San Francisco, in 1870, passed a law requiring 500ft^3 of space per occupant of any lodging room in the city.
But it was only enforced in mostly Chinese areas, resulting in mass arrests...and they were thrown into far more overcrowded jails.
This is how to criminalize poverty.
Bart pigs, actual armed cops, sitting behind the station agent’s booth and jumping out on anyone who fare evades right now at west Oakland. They accosted this elder here.
@UnfareSF
His current slogans notwithstanding, Aaron Peskin has long been San Francisco’s housing obstructionist in-chief.
He also opposed car-free JFK.
He’s not progressive. To the contrary, he’s quite conservative.
Now he’s running for Mayor.
Hard pass.
Every time the YIMBYs compare the number of jobs added to San Francisco vs housing units built, they should be made to subtract tech layoffs in the same time period from the number of jobs added
Damn, another 22,000+ people laid off from Bay Area-based tech companies in the last month. I suspect the number of vacant housing units in SF will jump from 60k to 70k pretty quick.