@poetryforsupper.bsky.social you have an impersonator? see poetry4supper.bsky.social

yes. definitely. declining household size -> greater housing scarcity -> more crowded households (but not enough to offset declining household size)

that might be true. but overall persons per household have been in secular decline in CA, even though they remain higher than the national average. i’m on my phone right now, and can’t find an easy source re the last few years, but it’s a long term trend, and see eg www.capradio.org/articles/202...

There are plenty, no doubt, but I think overall household sizes have declined. Some of that is the preferences of the inframarginal wealthy, other is Prop 13 encourages long tenure and empty nests in big houses.

it’s touching to see Donald Trump make such an effort to prove Gary Gensler right.

i guess one point to make is that declining numbers in a shitty game of musical chairs don’t really reflect “preferences”. if homes can’t be built + wealthier household size declines, net outflow is baked in, but it doesn’t really reflect a preference for the out place.

if a President issues a shitcoin, even though it may bear all the hallmarks of a classic pump and dump, one must consider the possibility it’s intended as a durable means of deniable bribery.

post! post! post!

i must confess great ignorance of Grimes. she seems a bit weird and her taste in romantic partners not great, but beyond that, 🤷‍♂️

so many people into eugenics wouldn't make their own cut.

"Multimember proportional elections can be implemented at the state level without going through the federal government." @sjshancoxli.bsky.social www.liberalcurrents.com/the-crisis-o...

A Chinese app TikTokkers are fleeing to, as a kind of protest to the maybe impending ban. Also known as Xiaohongshu www.xiaohongshu.com/explore

[Zuckerberg] “not only did his big set of moderation changes to please Trump, but did so only after he was told by the incoming administration to act… he reportedly made sure to share his plans with top Trump aides to get their approval first.” @mmasnick.bsky.social www.techdirt.com/2025/01/17/a...

cynicism is not a sufficient epistemology.

don’t initial here for ordinary matters.

there’s something sadly emblematic about this as a (nearly) last (non) act. what do Yoda say? do or do not.

playing around on redbook, it is all welcomes and smiles and cordial mutual curiosity. until someone asked about israel and, hooboy, that got ugly fast.

one doesn’t imagine one is piercing the deepest hidden precincts of a memer’s or chatter’s heart, for sure.

you know you can translate what’s in Chinese? you know you can visit China? have you? it does nothing good for the world to imagine that any goodwill expressed by a citizen of a “foreign adversary” is insincere and planted by their state. it’s also just false.