According to the new rules, if you and a few friends go to the MDC and you say “where are the maduros” and they don’t let you in then all federal funds for detention and incarceration will be frozen

New life goal just dropped

EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected. Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43

Putting solar on your roof is great, but the world of possibilities is so much bigger than that once you notice that burning oil for cars is the #1 source of climate pollution/driver of the collapse of American democracy. Start here:

King tide along the Embarcadero in San Francisco.

tapping the sign

Fireworks as seen from the Brown Line Video by @ shuttersync99 - www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8yGExb7/

ICE is gross. In a lawsuit over inhumane detention conditions on floor 6 of ICE building in San Francisco resulted in a preliminary injunction. So ICE moved detainees to floor 5, claiming that skirts the injunction. Judge says, no way. www.courthousenews.com/judge-rips-t...

#KingTides Larkpsur 94939 New parking lot at Redwood High School. Mother Nature took it back! 🧜‍♀️🌊 @kingtides.bsky.social

Happy New Year, but more importantly, happy final day of the iconic MetroCard! We embarked on what truly became a disaster of a trip to send off New York's 30-year-old fare medium. youtu.be/1UMmhbU8W8o

capsizing my boat just to keel something

damn it's going to be one hell of a day I guess

I think about this a lot

i mean i guess dancers do stretch a lot

The pricing means that taking a Citi Bike will become, for a lot of people, the transportation choice of last resort, such as when there's a subway meltdown or it's 20 minutes before the next bus arrives. That's not at all what the city should want. It should be a seamless part of people's choices.

people keep reposting this as some major election conspiracy, but the actual USPS notice is wildly clear that they're not changing any policies: they're stating the longstanding reality that postmarks long haven't represented the date of mailing unless you request a manual postmark at a post office

power expert here. power lines only do this when they’re in great distress.

not chotiner fanfic 😭

it is extremely funny that RFK both does not believe in the germ theory of disease and is a lab leak truther

Fun opportunity for the next time his "run club" takes over Golden Gate Park

1. The name of the highest peak in suburban Atlanta is notable in its relation to the name of Major League Baseball's controversial first Commissioner. What is that peak's name? NO, WHAT'S THE GUY ON SECOND #LL107 #bestwronganswers

Cripes. This houses the 91-cm refractor, nearly 140 years old. I hope the damage to the dome and telescope isn't as severe as it looks.

114 mph! #CAwx bsky.app/profile/dust...

my Caltrain EMU has a bandage

A little good news from the world’s fourth largest economy: “From 2022 to 2023, GHG emissions per capita in California fell by 2.8% while inflation-adjusted GDP per capita grew by 2.3% over the same time period, demonstrating that climate ambition and economic growth can complement each other.”😎

🎅🎊🎁 What an incredible year at Sunset Dunes! From us and @johnelliott.bsky.social, we hope you have a wonderful holiday and New Years! We’ll see you at the park.

This is the 15th year of #DuvetKnowItsChristmas, which is preposterous. Rules: if you find yourself dealing with unusual / claustrophobic / gaudy sleeping arrangements this Christmas Eve, share a picture with the world. Use the hashtag (with capitalisation) and cc me if you can be bothered.

I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.

Stuck Waymo robot(s) hindered SFFD from getting to the PG&E substation fire, according to Sup Mahmood who is calling for hearings re PG&E and Waymo. Waymo has confirmed telops partially failed during this emergency (pic2). Map of >30 stuck Waymo locations called into 311 (pic1). archive.ph/OviuH

Happy holidays, Bluesky! I got you a megathrust earthquake, soil liquefaction, spine-tingling papers about the way our networks confound knowledge, and a PDF in a pear tree. It's my wrap on a year of trying to make sense of how we make sense of what's happening to us. www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-...

don't you hate it when you fall asleep on the subway and wake up stuck in Eastern Pkwoozner?

Amazing results in New York remind me how disappointing it is that congestion pricing efforts have stalled in San Francisco. With congestion pricing, Muni service could be robustly funded, transit ridership would climb, and traffic through much of the Bay Area would significantly decrease.

dudes rock

Some important context here

Thousands are still without power due to PG&E outage in the Civic Center neighborhood, so the city is setting up a Civic Center Charging Station at 1235 Mission Street. to help those affected.

We talked about yet how amazing the first real emergency use of Garmin’s emergency pilot incapacitation autoland system is?

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (July)

The PR push around “we’re taking the power outage in the Richmond very seriously” lowkey icks me out for how much it de-centred the rest of the city. Thousands of people in Civic Center have no power OR water w/ yet another quiet delay, and narry a peep from Mr Vertical Video.

to inaugurate the new blog, i've written about a local and contentious topic that's been on my mind for years. at its heart, it's about understanding the information that transit riders need. the case for splitting TTC Line 1:

A rare High Risk has been issued: "This will pose a significant threat of flash flooding, landslides, rock falls & mud slides. The greater than normal travel during the Christmas Holiday will potentially expose a larger number of people to these life threatening hazards." -NWS Forecast Discussion

Unlike many of Flock’s cameras, Flock’s Condor cameras track people, not vehicles. The exposure highlights the fact that Flock is not just surveilling cars—it is surveilling people, and in some cases it is doing so in an insecure way. LINK: www.404media.co/flock-expose...

PG&E is doing a heck of a job

Betty was one of the most generous people I had the privilege of interviewing. An extraordinary person who lived an extraordinary life.

If CPUC is not asleep at the wheel, they’ll be demanding a public retro of this Monday. Waymos in theory fail to the side of the road — why didn’t that happen here? (lol, CPUC is asleep. Unfortunately, local media is very bad at covering regulators, so that will get ~zero headlines.)

oh hey it's yet another Chronicle article about a "permitting nightmare" in which the reason we have rules (tenant created enormous fire hazard using space heaters because landlord failed to provide heating and there were no smoke detectors) is buried deep within the article and ignored

Well, it’s not every day you see a sitting Congressperson so utterly destroy a pundit’s argument with facts.

In a sign of things to come, a San Francisco immigration judge on Thurs. said several asylum-seekers can be sent to Honduras, a country they have never been to. The move could mean the same for hundreds across the Bay Area. "What will I do in Honduras?" missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-d...

yeppp. being the advocate who knows what's going on and can communicate that politely with people in power goes a long way. bring actual data and you're a superhero issue is that it's often hard, and the system is structured to make it hard, to become that person if you're on the outside