David Kissling

As someone who strongly believes that time changes are the least worst way to deal with the seasonal tilt of Earth on its axis, this is the best defense of not changing what we do

This is thrilling and didn't happen by accident. In 2023 we ended 30 minute waits on nights and weekends, and ever since, BART weekend ridership has been climbing, faster than weekday ridership. I championed this change for two years before staff made it happen, and it's worked as we had hoped.

Pretty cool data visualization of traffic injuries in relation to Sunset Dunes. Spoiler: the Sunset w/ Sunset Dunes is as safe as ever. sunsetsafety.zanarmstrong.com

The massive growth in Las Vegas unaffordability is a caution that you can't sprawl your way to affordability. Seems like the affordability benefits of growth are increasingly tapped out, while more and more people are trapped in a low wage market

The comfort, privacy, and space we can buy ourselves, as residents of a rich country, are difficult to resist, but they can erode the enterprise and the human contact that helped get us where we are in the first place

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

North America Schengen Zone is politically implausible at present but a basically guaranteed massive win on the merits of

Want “Paris density”? Let’s legalize six-storey single-stair apartments on every residential lot in every major city.

Do you know how much better food has become in the last thirty years, like, everywhere? It’s crazy. Drinking too.

YES on RTM, Prop H, and Prop 1 NO on Prop 43 and 45

Sublicensed CFP games are fools gold. So far ESPN only sublicensed the CFP games that compete against NFL games.

This absolutely rules. I don't care if Bluesky isn't Twitter circa 2016; it's a great place to hang out, chat with cool folks, learn new things, and most importantly, not get bombarded with slurs.

They should make a database of everyone who gets mad at a post like this and permanently strip them of their driver’s license

Billionaires throw a fit at the idea of an annual wealth tax... but literally everyone else already pays one via property taxes (either directly as a homeowner or secondarily as a renter). The only reason securities aren't taxed the same is because that's where the rich keep most of their wealth.

Today is the least hostile the Democratic Party is going to be towards Israel that it will be for a long time to come. And that will be true tomorrow, next month, and a year from now. One way train.

YIMBYism is working, it’s just obscured in the topline numbers by the single-family collapse. The California Building Industry Association went all-in on sprawl and insurers had to step in as the adults in the room and say no more wildfire risk, leaving YIMBYs to fix things with no help from CBIA.

Borrowing against a stock holding should be a taxable event.

I was always for AES, but this sucks and I moreover appreciate the way she's calling out the scam donations and PACs here too. One of the first Dem electeds to do this??? I think with the highest national profile so far? If she can improve that stance on Gaza I'd welcome her running for more stuff.

It makes sense, if your entire project is maintaining traditional hierarchies, to try to immunize people against empathizing with the people you’re trying to harm

crypto, car dealerships and MLMs. ripe targets for political and policy reasons.

This slide explains a lot about how ICC insiders think. Apartment buildings are for poor people who cannot be trusted.

The targeted CEQA reforms driven by Wicks and Weiner are working. Smart policy FTW! The coarse and greedy hackishness of Prop 45 is the polar opposite. NO on 45!

boy is this kind of ideology common in this country. FAR more prevalent than any kind of working-class identity. it's why voters in 2022-24 took the first seriously full employment in 20+ years completely for granted, but threw a shit fit over inflation that was partly caused by labor shortage

We’re gonna have a first time would series winner from a small market a month before the owners lock the players out over the sport being unfair for small market teams. Bless their hearts!

Just made this, this is what I actually believe

My most personal essay yet. Creative people need slack - time and space to try things and fail for a while. LA used to be cheap enough to give us that, but no more. All the tax credits and other efforts to save Hollywood will be for naught if there are no creative people left here to hire.

The year is 2050: birth rates hve collapsed. There are 5 children in the graduating class of your city’s only remaining high school . Old people on Nextdoor still find reasons to complain about them.

Yesterday I was able to go to a campaign house party for @scottwiener.bsky.social and came away even more impressed than I had been before. He understands the era we're in, the crises we face and I can't wait to see what he does in Congress

I decided to blog about this publiccomment.blog/p/jd-vance-w...

It is funny when one of the fascists realizes ”wait this is all simulacra guys chill out”

"islamo-communism" is basically a latter-day gloss on "judeo-bolshevism" for the modern conservative, and it has about as little connection with reality

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: nom nom nom gimme dat seed corn i have to eat all the seed corn bsky.app/profile/twil...

I paid my car loan off but still had to pay the DMV $370 this year. By this idiotic logic I guess don’t own my car

it makes my blood boil every time there’s a bullshit tech demo and everyone goes back to “oh that scamp elon has done it again” he’s a vicious monster out to ruin the lives of millions of people who don’t deserve any of it and he should be treated accordingly

PHEVs are not low emissions vehicles. Study after study finds that on average, they emit much more climate and environment damaging GHGs than stated due to how they are built and how they are used. 🧪💡🔌☀️💨💧🔋

Put another way, a lot of people are now WFH that didn't used to be able to, and that's a good thing (for them). But the effects of that on mass transit in the Bay has been huge transit deficits. And if RTM fails, it will be the workers who CAN'T WFH who will suffer most. So don't be an asshole!