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Open up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth.

Infuriating.

I do not like your AI slop I do not like it, make it stop I do not want an AI house I do not want an AI mouse No AI box. No AI fox— That AI slop can go kick rocks I would not AI here or there I would not AI anywhere No AI car, no AI czar Your AI slop is killing trees I do not like it, let me be!

Periodic reminder that you can’t build a viable coalition to do good things until housing costs are addressed in the areas you need votes to try and do good things.

FYI, the water shuttle will be getting some TLC over the next couple of days, so service will be suspended until Friday. content.govdelivery.com/accounts/CAA...

New Nextdoor post generator just dropped.

The equity case for infrequent buses at low fares only makes sense if you believe low income people’s time has no value or that they don’t value their time.

My most NIMBY opinion is that noise is actually terrible and I’m fine regulating it heavily. It’s a key benefit reducing number and speed of cars, and why regulating pickleball in neighborhoods is fine by me.

Go to the Oakland Coliseum DMV and watch hundreds of people speaking dozens of languages deal with myriad important government functions in an efficient manner by well trained employees. It’s freaking amazing.

Any State of Jefferson variant of the rural diner story that doesn’t highlight confederate flags and white supremacy is patently dishonest.

Didn’t get everything you wanted for Christmas? These single-digit billionaires can increasingly relate.

Surface drainage, as opposed to pipes, with corner culverts is what most of Alameda has. Among other things this creates unique challenges when implementing street safety improvements like raised x-walks. Looking at you 2-way cycle track on Grand St.

it's crazy that 500 years ago, you would see the ruler of your country maybe once in your life and hear whispers that they're the Sun God, but now with social media, you get to see on a daily basis that they're the most unhinged, idiotic, and unhappy person you know

Muni bus, but I also choose its accessory (weapon.)

this is why Jews have trust issues with basically everyone. you keep assuring us you're not just trying to kill us and we keep seeing you, saying shit like this. "but he didn't hate the dead families he killed, he hated what they represented in his mind" uh huh. so original, never heard that one

Excellent dive into the finances and operations here. Building lots of housing (to make it cheaper) is the most important factor to help people struggling. Non-profit industrial complex needs to adapt, lower prices, overhead. More dollars will be available PER acute case.

Stand back, and stand by.

Merrick Garland, boy, I don’t know.

You may not believe that building new housing lowers rents, but your landlord does:

The key here is that if the city allows too much new housing to get built she won’t be able to profit off her uninhabitable death traps anymore.

Beautiful

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Every homeowner should be barred from future votes on housing since the potential for gain is far higher than Jesse Zwick's piddly ass nonprofit salary.

Funny how there's apparently no conflict for councilmembers who're landlords voting on tenant protections, or homeowners voting on new housing projects and rezoning actions. Just for renters who want more homes.

All property owners and renters have a financial stake in the outcome of housing votes. What are we doing here?

How bad is it for Russia on the frontlines? They launched an attack on Dobropillia today, led by men on horseback, followed by motorbikes and quads. Ukraine’s 1st Azov Corps wiped them all out in 2 hours with artillery and drones, as well as a bunch of armoured vehicles. It’s the horses I feel for.

Bari Weiss is killing stories the right way. by Ezra Klein

But we do have to apologize for JD Vance.

Engineers who install and maintain 5 lanes roads with uncontrolled crosswalks like this should be liable for the incredibly predictable death they cause. I’m not joking when I say this design should be criminal.

just have to point out what Everyone Already Knows, which is that if emergency services get stuck in traffic, anywhere, ever, its the fault of the bike lane bsky.app/profile/nick...

Engineers who install and maintain 5 lanes roads with uncontrolled crosswalks like this should be liable for the incredibly predictable death they cause. I’m not joking when I say this design should be criminal.

I like when my neighbor is running for a new job because he cranks the pro-housing dial up a couple notches. Let’s go.

Love this.

Holding the door for someone is a common courtesy. Stopping your car + not hitting someone with it while they cross a street is not an act of kindness or courtesy to be praised but the bare minimum of responsibility as a driver. Let's not mistake responsibility for courtesy.

The fact that for generations the engineering community promoted and permitted street design like this (and still does in many, most places)…. dear god.

Trying to make all the vacancies in his nascent gestapo more appealing.

“Disturbing… they had put in a ton of work and gone through every step of the process… they were pulled out of line steps away from swearing an oath to 🇺🇸…” BOSTON’s @mayorwu.boston.gov on Trump/Miller blocking immigrants AT THEIR CEREMONIES It was never just about illegal immigration

Progressive for whomst?

It is an American car company, after all. The American-est of all.

"A woman was seen on the ground screaming and wailing as two other women tried to comfort her." This is 100% my biggest nightmare. It is increasingly dangerous to just *walk* around our cities, and our electeds are mostly asleep at the wheel while kids die. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

This entire weekend

The person who was killed last night crossing Beacon Ave on a bike by a hit-and-run driver was named Allie. They were described as a "hard-core cyclist." The vigil/protest is expected to take over Beacon and Stevens until midnight, if SPD lets that happen.

Fuck

US-Japan archaeological team argues strong similarities between very earliest US lithic technology and lithic tech from Hokkaido means that isolated groups on Hokkaido may have used boats to hop along Beringia coast to Americas 18-22K yrs ago (no walk across the land bridge at all). (From Oct.)

This is completely unacceptable! AC Transit’s hydrogen fleet has 43%-64% availability depending on model, leading to canceled bus runs and stops in the middle of service. They must address this to retain/grow riders. Transit reliability is even more important to riders than speed or frequency.

The Discourse is about speed cameras and ignition interlocks. Neither of these are carceral, because they are alternatives to police and prisons. Speed cameras remove racist and violent cops from enforcement of speeding, and interlocks prevent multiple offenses - or crashes - that lead to jail time.