one of the park’s in my new neighborhood has this absolutely glorious oak tree (which may be the oldest in Oakland)

really appreciate Oaklandside’s traffic violence/street safety coverage and remember: traffic deaths are preventable, if we want them to be

Jesus Christ, this guy did everything so by the book he didn't even cross the border until he had his day in court and they still just black bagged him off to torture prison.

France has one plumbing and building code, so design doesn’t vary by submarket – important for a manufactured product, which require scale to justify the fixed capital costs of the factory process. Compare to the US: every state and many cities have their own codes, and worse, you find the most…

If pedestrian deaths can be eliminated on the previously deadly International Boulevard, we should be able to eliminate them on every other street. We just need the will to do it, especially from policymakers and Caltrans. Thanks @tvrr.bsky.social for tireless advocacy to achieve this huge win!

insane results lol. amazing. (and only with plastic posts too)

It's crazy how drivers think "I didn't see you" is exculpatory when they almost run you over. Yeah dude I don't think much of you but I'm pretty sure you don't drive around trying to crush pedestrians for fun. You not seeing me is the problem

In this house we believe Climate change is REAL Insurance risk models are FAKE LANDSCAPING is a human right

NEPA is like

cannot express how much I hate "foul up 3" it is antithetical to the beautiful game of basketball

🚲 party magic 💚

this is a fantastic point that I hadn’t thought about: when antivaxx was associated with crunchy Marin libs and caused an outbreak at Disneyland what happened? Dems fought back and passed stronger vaccine requirements now that antivaxxers are republicans they instantly took over the party

It is literally life and death if you speed

cars are deadly devices and as such impose responsibility on their operators

Yes In My Back Yard

whoa, that was a jolt!

Application for historic designation: Was there any notable historical event or trend associated with the property? No Well is it especially attractive or interesting as a structure? No Does it represent a particular local architectural style? Not really! Recommend listing as a historical resource

she's right, and she should say it, and so should American Jewish institutions & politicians

there are benighted lands on this planet where a child can be born into statelessness but such barbarism is nearly unknown in the Americas, home of hummingbirds & redwoods, the great river & the great cordillera bsky.app/profile/hann...

What’s going on here AC Transit?

“An ICE agent lured Wilmer out of his home under false pretenses, posing as a construction worker who claimed to have hit Wilmer’s car and needed him to step outside to verify. Another agent, accompanied by a dog, was hiding nearby and released the dog on Wilmer shortly after he stepped outside.”

I’m proud to be an American, the continent of citizenship by birth rather than blood

that's a lot of Californians for electric rail

personally I think it's bad that RFK is trying to reverse this, and I'm still so f**king mad at Bill Cassidy about it

the dream of a full bike loop around Lake Merritt is ALIVE & THRIVING

If state/Feds were more comfortable spending relatively cheap planning resources earlier then agencies could actually engage communities early and get useful feedback about impacts and tradeoffs earlier.

There sometimes actual environmental impacts to prevent or mitigate but so much CEQA alternatives analysis is done as an ineffective proxy for planning, because the underlying presumption is avoiding harm rather than achieving goals

plate check

you're saying restrictive zoning is a tool to block housing and uphold segregation? wow, I didn't know that, you're telling me that now for the first time

something set in Tenochtitlan they would have to build a live scale set

Top 3 cookbooks: 1) World Vegetarian, Madhur Jaffrey 2) The Wok, Kenji Lopez-Alt 3) Simple, Yotam Ottolenghi

fucking BLEAK

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We can't expect rural areas to design and deliver intercity rail projects by themselves. Caltrans' understaffing of rail and transit hurts rural areas and outer suburbs - who seldom have well-staffed transit agencies of their own - the most.

every traffic death is a policy choice

I always think it's funny that the US developed pretty much the optimal--by revealed preference--kind of suburb (close-in streetcar suburbs) in the early 20th century and then spent the rest of the century trying furiously to undo that good idea

the ride between Fruitvale & Lake Merritt BART really is notably long could use an infill station!

Redwood Coast: Humboldt

a cool thing about redwoods is that they are older than the land on which they stand and even the Pacific Plate their ancestors would have been browsed by sauropods

People who think mass deportations are a housing affordability strategy have no place in the YIMBY movement.

unfunded inclusionary zoning is not a very effective policy for delivering affordable housing Exhibit… idk, 73?

instead of the devil & angel on your shoulder, it’s a great egret & a great blue heron

I really think traffic calming via bike/ped improvements is the best thing Oakland can do for most of its retail districts would certainly make Dimond soooo much more pleasant!

was over by the Parkway today and wondering about this I do hope they can figure it out because “cannabis lounge movie palace” is a vision I very much am here for read through for the “discretionary land use approvals invite corruption” angle oaklandside.org/2022/08/29/p...

some day “articulating the facade” will be just the joke phrase it was always meant to be

pretty remarkable the difference in quality between Chai Thai Oakland (elite) and Chai Thai Berkeley (deeply mid)

are there jets flying above Oakland right now? what’s going on?

a liberalism that builds, yes, and also a liberalism that FIGHTS

Happy Berkeley Middle Housing Day! I think Berkeley’s middle housing code is quite good and am optimistic it will lead to lots of new homes

war of southern aggression