My nomination for Quote of 2025 goes to....

I am not sad to see Maraskeshia Smith go from Santa Rosa... a seemingly decent person who NEVER bothered to attend an IT staff meeting or introduce herself... after more than 3 years. Not a team builder. Kind of a gaping hole. If you're also a journey level CM, please don't make this mistake.

Thank you California Mountain Biking Coalition for elevating the voices of mountain bikers throughout California! 🙌🚵🏻‍♀️ Support this important trail advocacy work here: camtb.org/donate/

It's time to whistle the fuck up again Chicago. blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/16/b...

ha ha! too late, MAGATS.

Where, you ask, is this magical place? Why... Marin County - much to everyone's surprise!

Hate my graffiti? Call my lawyer.

Despite failing to pass in Oakland’s Public Safety Committee, renewal of a contract with Flock Group for almost 300 surveillance cameras will go to the full Oakland City Council this Tuesday. www.kqed.org/news/1206692... @oaklandprivacy.bsky.social

Two of the more important weather images in my realm. Updated every 15 minutes forever. These are a technological triumph and deserve to be celebrated! radar.weather.gov/ridge/standa... cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES18/ABI/S...

I know it shouldn't feel like schadenfreude, but it feels a lot like schadenfreude.

clever deflock solutions abound.

TFG. 8647 - that's right. 86.

WHEN IS A CREDIBLE JOURNALIST WITH MORALITY AND AN UNDERSTANDING THAT THIS MAN IS A PSYCHOPATH GOING TO SAY OUT LOUD, TO HIM, IN FRONT OF HIM AND ON THE RECORD: "MAN, YOU ARE SUCH A PIECE OF SHIT" because until that happens, the folks standing with mics are kinda pieces of shit, aren't they?

Apropos of everything...

California Air Resources Board: "To achieve climate goals, we need less driving" Transportation Researchers: "To reduce driving, we need fewer lane miles" Caltrans: "We need billions of dollars to keep widening highways." California Legislature: "You got it." usa.streetsblog.org/2025/12/02/o...

Few things are as cool on the internet as new bare earth hillshade models from recent lidar flights. Sonoma County just got to see the 2022 flight (most recent previously was 2013) sonomacounty.maps.arcgis.com/apps/mapview... from: sonomavegmap.org

On December 15, 1984 the #DeadKennedys played the River Theatre in Guerneville, California #Punk 🛜 linktr.ee/thedavedynasty

Oakland! Show up to council TOMORROW.

Prediction: Starlink IPO BUNCH OF BILLIONAIRES Kessler event (not the slow motion kind) BUNCH OF NOT BILLIONAIRES Jake is gonna short a little of it. buckle up. Go long on terrestrial networking.

Evergreen.

I think it's fair then to suggest that when the CHP Office, full of those chuckleheads, is struck by a meteor, it'll be cool - because the meteor had no idea it was going to hit their office. Fucking assholes. Every one.

Leave it to a knucklehead CHP spokesperson to suggest that the driver of a hit & run who has NOT been identified - one which killed the cyclist - has already gone on record to suggest that the driver likely couldn't have seen the cyclist. archive.is/ldugw www.pressdemocrat.com/2025/12/12/c...

"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest" Edward Abbey

My how times have changed... When I was in college the swim team I was on regularly threw 'keggers'... and they were always a hit. My son sends me photos of the 20 people attending his Saturday morning "Pancaker" Pretty rad. We are evolving.

knock it off, guys. Seriously.

Wow. When the oil tanker train in Pittsburg kills people on I-376, it's not because nobody told the railroad it was going to happen. These are photos from an active railroad bridge over an interstate. www.reddit.com/r/pittsburgh...

Is it possible to campaign any more pandery to public safety than Mike McGuire? Sorry Mike. You can support without the overt bootlicking. I'll be voting for someone else. Also: what have you even accomplished in 25 years of being elected? Pretty shallow legacy, Bud.

Correction, @sfgate.com : This is in "Russian Gulch" *not* Russian River. These are two different, albeit adjacent, watersheds.

Revisiting some all-time favorite hyperlocal news pieces as I consider a reboot. web.archive.org/web/20100616...

Big "you're about to experience some things" vibes.

Man. I miss my Bike-E sometimes.

Fifteen years ago in Santa Rosa Bike politics. They were the best of times. They were the worst of times.

cruising through old BUZZ pdfs (remember buzz?) evergreen.

Damn. I had no idea how iconic Tom Selleck was globally.

Somebody - not me - had google blur out my house on google maps. How to reverse that? Whomever did it did not have the authority to do that!

BTW - that's a $20M plane. Glad I'm not paying THAT insurance company... (Kansas City Life) of course, now I need to find what the SafeCo and the Liberty CEOs fly. Anyone know? globe.adsbexchange.com?icao=a17ba2 The age of investigating the rich so that we can eat them is here.

Just casually watching/listening to air traffic nearby and found this gem. What does the CEO of Kansas City Life Insurance do when they are downgraded? A quick trip to the wine country, naturally. I wonder if customers are getting what they pay for? insurancenewsnet.com/oarticle/am-...

wow. when local news headline story is "best dishes" ...we're cooked. Really hitting it out of the park, @pressdemo.bsky.social Surely there must be at least SOME public corruption somewhere?

Still awfully annoyed that you're significantly responsible for bringing these into our community, Mr. Vice Mayor. I had high aspirations for you, and that hope feels more than a little thwarted by you now. - Ready to reverse this @jeffokrepkie.bsky.social ?

Fuck Rep Sam Graves, in particular. "Earlier this month, Rep. Sam Graves, chair of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Comm. vowed that the new transportation bill ... will not include funding for “bike paths or walking paths.”" www.railstotrails.org/trailblog/am...

Need to know: Has anyone used this methodology to thwart automated license plate readers (ALPRs) like Flock? Will it work?

Just a bit of Bad Santa vibe on the taco Tuesday ride tonight. With a bit of Father Christmas on a chariot.

If the goal is non-destructive and vastly reduced efficacy, I struggle to think of a better answer. Can anyone help me here? Flock cameras need to die a painful death. In related news, was very disappointed to find that the Family run hardware store, Friedman Brothers, has them in Sonoma County.

Dudes that Jake absolutely despises for $1000, Alex.

Hello? $6 a gallon gasoline? Yeah, we'd like you to visit again. That would be great.

I had one of these SoCo rides myself yesterday. A bit grey, a little cold, but so pretty. Always pretty.

Any given day. The money you earn is taxed so that all these planes can just fly TF around. In fact, you might be working *right now* so that these aircraft can just burn fuel. Thanks for your hard work!

WTAF is going on here? Three or Four privately held F-5 Tigers headed out from Sacramento straight over the Pacific? For what? globe.adsbexchange.com?icao=aacff9,...

I guess there's somethin 4 everyone. Part of what I love about this show is the 'wait, what?' musical moments that Stephen & Robin always have for me. This best of 2021 episode was a huge head scratcher 4 me. My best list is NOTHING like these guys, who I'm usually so aligned with! pca.st/w3szhf7o