Witnessed a car strike a pedestrian from my seat on a @metrolosangeles.bsky.social train waiting at a light. Just awful. Our train operator had a front row seat and I really feel for him. Fuck.

Queer BlueSky: how old were you when you came out and how old are you now? I came out at 19 to my sister and parents at the the end of freshmen year of college. A stray word from my dad about not “announcing” led me to avoid coming out it to my extended family until I was 22. I’m 38 now.

Please don’t put in the newspaper the MRI was for my brain because my brain is perfect

Thanksgiving about to get crazy.

thinking of her today

This is a heartbreaking read, and also infuriating as they talk to many people who have Haitian refugees in there lives and yet voted for Trump. www.bbc.com/news/article...

This continues my theory that if I can watch a match, they play poorly and if I don't they are at least competitive. What a conundrum! Definity not watching the 2nd half.

Spending a week and a half in Paris and Madrid really drives home the point that the (American-ish) concept of a "one-seat ride" is overrated, and frequent headways at nearly all hours of the day is the true gold standard.

This is a pretty cool use of subway builder. As an Angeleno we keep rebuilding old routes instead of new connections and our ridership is the pits.

I’d replace Waymo with just “cars.” Private cars privatize streets. An uber or Lyft is not more moral b/c there is a driver. We need to invest in stronger transit networks and more bikeable cities, but cabs will still have a role to play and the tech is inconsequential to how we regulate ride hail.

What a day!

Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.

NEW: Sean Duffy frequently calls safety his “top priority” as transportation secretary. But I spent months wading through regulatory notices and found something far different: that USDOT has been delaying, weakening and killing dozens of safety rules, many opposed by the transportation industry.🧵

Immediately after posting a transit complaint I see this post and it’s like a salve. Public transit is connections in every sense of the word.

It’s crazy how often I’ll get off the A to transfer and the next train is another A.

Just last night, Google AI overview listed Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick as two of the greatest living film directors

“Goodies.” C’mon!

In 1582, a papal bull introduced the Gregorian calendar, still used today by most of the world. Because it’s 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, countries introducing it simply skipped a third of October, and if you scroll back far enough in the iPhone calendar app you can see it change

This is my met gala.

"Trump administration proposals seek to eliminate transit funding." Seeking to eliminate the Mass Transit Account (gas tax funding for transit capital projects); and the ability to flex highway money to transit -- subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

Thanks to dear leader Trump we have ended the national emergency of luxury watch imports. I love winning

Now that I actually work inside a city government, it’s really drives home how capacity is everything.

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed 4 years ago. In new research @urbaninstitute.bsky.social we study its effects. US transport spending increased by 30%, but: —Funding for non-highway projects flatlined —Construction cost increases resulted in no actual increase in infrastructure

Well, I get a consolation prize!

Well, my Metro A Line train may have been 10 mins delayed, and then it took 30 mins to get downtown instead of 18, but at least I then get to wait 11 minutes for my transfer! @metrolosangeles.bsky.social

Ingraham looks so deeply bored. Like despite her part in the propaganda machine she just can’t bring herself to play the part of excited sycophant.

Spotlight. Jesus Christ Superstar.

These bike lockers are so convenient, particularly when I'm going downtown and don't want to worry about locking up my bike.

I am so furious right now. AGs across the country fought to get SNAP benefits. Federal workers suffered with weeks of no pay. Millions of people showed up to protest Trump. Democrats showed up in record numbers at the polls to say 'we've got your back!' And you caved for literally nothing.

Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office. If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.

Without LGBT New Yorkers, Cuomo might’ve won. Mamdani’s genuine and relentless support of trans rights was not only morally correct, but an electoral necessity.

Mamdani has won more votes than there are people in South Dakota.

Cops stopped giving out traffic tickets is what happened lbwatchdog.com/content/file...

I feel like people who are rightly skeptical of NIMBYism are negatively polarized into supporting the gondola despite it being an objectively bad project.

Overheard at the bus stop: woman on phone, “you’re making me into a dark empath”

I’m crying www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

Turns out the real political spectrum is just how people feel about free parking 😂 Tag yourself!

Am I paranoid or are republicans going out of their way to ensure something violent happens at the No Kings protests?

My dog, descended from wolves, becomes essentially incapacitated if a leaf gets stuck on his paw.

BREAKING NEWS: SB 79 HAS BEEN SIGNED INTO LAW. Thank you to @scottwiener.bsky.social @gavinnewsom.bsky.social and cosponsors CA Yimby, Greenbelt Alliance, Inner City Law Center, Bay Area Council, AHLA, and SPUR. for making this bill happen.

For the love of God I hope they all do.

Kill people for a living might be one of the most vile things ever uttered by a us official. Some may say it’s more honest but they are wrong.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Democrats should never vote to fund a government that's waging war on its own citizens and firing officials *because* they insist on following court orders instead of breaking the law. Let Senate Republicans nuke the filibuster. None of this is normal and it shouldn't be treated as such.

My good friend Barbara has been disappeared by ICE. Looking for any contacts or resources to help find her. @laist.com @latimes.com @lataco.bsky.social @aclusocal.bsky.social @nlg.la

But America is an urban country. Most of the country doesn’t look anything like the stereotyped vision of the country rooted in an ahistorical rehashing of the 1950s. When the GOP attacks Portland, it’s attacking America.

So, like, Oregon should mobilize its National Guard (a well regulated militia if you will) to protect itself, right?

Social consequences for public bad behavior – including bad speech! – is how we "keep the temperature down". Sometimes social censure will overreach but that's better than violence! Thank you @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social! www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

New Neko Case AND Jeff Tweedy AND Cate Le Bon, out now? Well shut my mouth and call it a fine, fine Geezer Music Friday!

Getting my train freak on.