@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-04-22 11:02:56
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
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🎵 Rob a Bank
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@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-16 20:11:49
Amid a contentious feud with Pope Leo XIV regarding U.S. military interventions over the past several months,
including the war in Iran,
the Trump administration has
⚠️ended an $11 million contract with the Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami.
The contract through the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) gave funds to the organization to provide housing and other resources for migrant childrenwho entered the country without parents or adult family members.
@paulwermer@sfba.social2026-04-17 14:11:38
Instead of digging a bit deeper into factors affecting housing affordability, news articles like this uncritically accept YIMBY's Leora Ross's “Thanks to years of advocacy at the state level to pass laws like AB 2011, housing proposals like these will bring thousands of homes to the Bay Area and make it easier and more affordable for people to live here.”
There are so many factors affecting affordability - and this is ignored. WHY?
Plans for nearly 4,000 homes over Saf…
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2026-04-17 14:11:38
Instead of digging a bit deeper into factors affecting housing affordability, news articles like this uncritically accept YIMBY's Leora Ross's “Thanks to years of advocacy at the state level to pass laws like AB 2011, housing proposals like these will bring thousands of homes to the Bay Area and make it easier and more affordable for people to live here.”
There are so many factors affecting affordability - and this is ignored. WHY?
Plans for nearly 4,000 homes over Saf…
@scott@carfree.city2026-02-15 03:05:08
I'm shocked, shocked, that waiving the transfer tax on downtown office to residential conversions did not result in a single such conversion happening.
Well, not that shocked. (The real point of March 2024 Prop C was the sneaky provision letting the SFBOS reduce the transfer tax altogether without an election. Not to produce housing but to cut downtown landlords' taxes.)
@servelan@newsie.social2026-01-24 16:19:04
Aramark tells Yosemite workers it's axing most of their housing rights
https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/aramark-yosemite-employee-housing-21307621.php
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social2026-01-30 07:34:22
"The Continuing Relevance of DVDs and Blu-ray Discs to Library Collections"
https://journals.ala.org/index.php/lrts/article/view/8614 (
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2026-01-27 17:20:23
Seit dem 1. Januar 2026 gelten neue Vorgaben für die KfW-Förderung von #Luftwärmepumpen.
Förderfähig sind nur noch Modelle, deren #Geräuschemissionen mindestens 10 dB unter den EU-Grenzwerten der Ökodesign-Verordnung liegen. Damit soll der
@scott@carfree.city2026-04-06 02:33:59
I agree with SF Chronicle columnist Allison Arieff that we should follow in Paris' footsteps by electing socialist mayors. Ok, she doesn't mention what party they belong to, but Allison does praise Anne Hidalgo and Emmanuel Grégoire.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opini…
@scott@carfree.city2026-02-08 23:45:08
Achievement unlocked: Got the SF Chronicle to publish an argument for social housing!
(it's the second in this batch of letters to the editor)
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/letterstotheeditor/article/licence-p…