Over 300 walkers laced up their boots 🥾for this year’s Peak2Peak, taking on 10 miles of San Francisco’s peaks, stairways, and hidden trails. ☀️ Be sure to check out the blog for more photos 📸 at walksf.org/peak2peak2025

This Saturday at #FlowerPiano, I am delighted to return to the Moon Viewing Garden to share some beautiful music by Johann Sebastian Bach, in honor of the maestro's 340th birthday earlier this year. If you happen to be at the SF Botanical Garden this Saturday Sept. 20 at 4:00 p.m., please drop by!

ok I cannot believe I am making this map

We're two weeks away from our Transit Hero nomination deadlines! This is your chance to recognize transit operators, attendants, individuals, or movements who have made transit better in 2025. Nominate here: buff.ly/B3q9O9m

Anybody need a band name? (spotted at Muni T line Chinatown Station)

@rollovereasy.org Gooooooooood morning from the 44 Guac’Shaughnessy!

September is back and so are we! Join us for a ripe and squishy show where we bring back one of our favorite guests, Dr Avocado! Set your internet dial to BFF.fm, and let’s start the morning together.

I went to four block parties in five hours to get a barometer reading of San Francisco. Still greatly upset that I just missed the tween rock band "Stranger Danger," but otherwise learned a ton about the city. #TotalSF 🌁 ❤️ www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...

Thank you so much to Supervisor @myrnamelgard7.bsky.social for introducing the #SFStreetSafetyAct: the blueprint for our city to tackle traffic safety & make #VisionZeroSF a success story. 🙌 You’re not just leading on safe streets, you’re trailblazing!

I’m vaccinated, flu and Covid. My doctor gave me a prescription for the Covid vaccine which made things smoother. #fuckRFKJr

Our morning started bright and early with our annual Transit Month Kickoff Rally and Ride Along! We rode in from the newly rejuvenated West Portal Station to City Hall, where speakers discussed the importance of Muni and Bay Area transit, and their hopes for the future of our transit systems.

Having a walkable city and safe streets depends on strong public transit. We ❤️ Muni this month and all year long, and need to be sure it stays strong.

Rally at the state building steps in SF demanding that the Gov keep the budget deal to keep transit running, save San Francisco and the Bay Area @governor.ca.gov

Huge BART ridership to fun events like this won’t happen if Governor Newsom doesn’t approve a $750 million loan to Bay Area transit agencies. Service will be decimated and folks who have the option will drive instead. Join me at an emergency rally Monday at 9 to stand up for transit funding.

One of my kids was denied the Covid booster today at San Francisco Walgreens. I wasn’t able to provide an acceptable reason for eligibility, they will require a prescription. Attesting to a medical condition they wrote down the name of for the other kid was good enough. Be forewarned.

Without this promised emergency loan from the state, millions of people in the Bay Area will suffer due to the steep cuts to transit service, the worsening traffic, and the rise in pollution. We need to turn out in big numbers Monday morning & get loud actionnetwork.org/events/emerg...

The governor is stalling on releasing previously agreed on transit funding. State legislators and the public are organizing in response. There will be a rally in San Francisco on Monday morning in response.

When PA ignored SEPTA's plea for emergency funding, Philly lost 20% of its transit service and riders faced 21% higher fares. CA has until Tuesday to offer loan to avoid worse fate in Bay Area. Please call Newsom and attend Monday rally. Details below 🧵 actionnetwork.org/events/emerg...

The sheer insanity of my kid being turned away from their Covid vaccine appointment because of CDC guidelines. Utterly detached from any semblance of concern for the wellbeing of people. I am beside myself with anger.

San Francisco City Football Club and SF Muni are excited to announce that the groundbreaking partnership promoting public transit and local footy is continuing for another two seasons. The partnership remains cashless, with no money exchanged between the two parties. #FIERROYORO ⚫️🟡 #HopOnMuni 🚍

The 1st few speakers, incl Muni driver @thatmc.bsky.social, oppose Lurie's move to allow @waymo.bsky.social et al onto Market. Muni also shortened several lines in June to turn around before Market St., forcing some riders to make a transfer to get where they're going. thefrisc.com/sfs-downtown...

I’m practicing what I preach, glad to commend my smooth as butter 15 Bayview Express operator on my way to City Hall today. It is worth remembering when you submit a commendation on the web form, there is a confirmation step after you press submit!

Bollocks

Transit Month kicks off today. I'm a big fan (of course) and I am very grateful to the folks at @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social and @sftru.bsky.social for organizing this epic month of events, contests, and advocacy. sftransitriders.org/transitmonth/

Art of the Day - Ring the Bay 🚋🚈🚃 Happy Transit Month to all who celebrate! Come to the Let's Glow BART Anime Festival on Saturday, Sept 6, 4:30-8pm at Warm Springs Station www.bart.gov/news/article...

Thanks for getting us where we’re going!

Here's a news story covering Sean's comments & the subsequent retaliation. Judge for yourself, but to me, this is our LA public transit showing how, bit by bit, institutions let fascism take hold. This is a matter of democracy, not just a job. Please share widely: lapublicpress.org/2025/08/la-m...

Guys, I have a special & unusual request today. My cousin Sean is a union bus driver here in Los Angeles who was just FIRED in retaliation for saying he would not let masked ICE agents onto his bus to abduct riders. The fight is on to get his job back, you can help: actionnetwork.org/letters/send...

We're so excited for the upcoming Muni Forever Summit! Although the guest list is full, we're still looking for a couple of volunteers to help us and @muniforever.bsky.social lead this important event. Sign up here: buff.ly/NfHo5a7

Hoowoooooooooooo! Tomorrow we’re yapping with the fine folks from @coyotemedia.org! Leave the den and start your morning with us, will ya? Now and forever on BFF.fm!

crime is rampant in DC

Peak2Peak is the ultimate hiking adventure you won't want to miss! 🥾 This year's route is full of delightful surprises, gorgeous views, and of course, plenty of challenging peaks. ⛰️ 🎟️ Tickets are going fast, so be sure to grab yours before they're gone at walksf.org/peak2peak

Grateful to see my friend @mapcenter.com this evening.

I ran into @isthelaststop.bsky.social on BART. Imagine that!

Never cross a picket line.

I really loved this narrated guide to a historical map by @mapcenter.com. pixeum.org/exhibits/569... I recall this platform, developed by Tom Paper, when he demoed it several years ago under a different name. I was pleasantly surprised to see all the exhibits now featured.

Mack actively disliked the Lunchables-themed Muni "Lunchabus," as we discuss in this epic Total SF podcast episode with @heatherknightsf.bsky.social. (I like bus wraps and wrote poetry about it.) www.sfchronicle.com/podcasts/art...

I need to see @thatmc.bsky.social operating one of these ... 🚍 ✌️ www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...

Actual busman on a true busman's holiday Content Warning: Excessive wholesomeness! 🧵

Follow along as San Francisco Muni's most engaging operator takes a bus journey through Paris

This is a #SpreadLove thread

Probably the closest to that for programmers is Bletchley Park, home of the first programmable digital computer. (The Difference Engine was never actually built, until recently.) I dragged my wife there on our honeymoon. It’s actually a great museum, she enjoyed! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossu...

This is great. I took my wife to Bletchley Park on our honeymoon, and my grandfather (a Plane Guy) took my grandmother to Lindbergh’s grave on… hrm, I think their 50th wedding anniversary. I guess I knew it was a thing but never seen it talked about.

In case you missed it, I have taken a busman’s holiday and travelled the original bus route:

Enjoying this thread about an actual busman's holiday.

My thread 🧵 about a busman’s holiday, a pilgrimage of sorts to trace the first ever transit bus route:

Today I will be taking this Île-de-France Mobilités bus on the Original Bus Route: Blaise Pascal’s Carrosses à cinq sols from Luxembourg Palace to Porte Saint Antoine. This route began service in 1662.

Here is my reply to a question transit operators are often asked: why doesn’t the bus wait for passengers who are trying to make a transfer (a train or bus is arriving at a nearby stop, for example) when it seems like waiting another half a minute is not a big deal?