ahhhg! not even raining anymore but still windy "stormy" and SFO flights are detouring over #oakland 🙄😣 hearing planes every couple minutes for hours. vs louder helicopters.. both bad i viewed this unit. might have train + park sounds but quiet (not under flight path and no water pipe noises)

ah, one of the #oakland streets that highway engineers widened to rush to/from highway traffic thru and the neighbors get to live with tiny sidewalks for decades afterwards 🫠 such a lovely experience. (harrison street)

ah, one of the #oakland streets that highway engineers widened to rush to/from highway traffic thru and the neighbors get to live with tiny sidewalks for decades afterwards 🫠 such a lovely experience. (harrison street)

Cars Ruin Society is quite the Chapter asserting that 🚗🚙 have isolated us from each other by making streets inhospitable #LifeAfterCars

"Man who lost key motion in Elon Musk suit alleges S.F. judge used faulty AI" as i was reading this headline word-by-word, i imagined a man losing a 🗝 literal key-turning motion while wearing an Elon Musk suit/costume. would it kill editors to use clearer language?! lawsuit instead of suit?

bought a book for $20 at local books inc. to support small biz, but they actually got bought by barnes & noble?? it's $14 on amazon and other sellers. i need to feel validated that i did the right thing. paying full-price conflicts with my asian thriftiness (brag about scoring discounts) >__<;;;;

in one of my dreams this morning, my mom pressured me into taking more work: - a half-time job in addition to my full-time job, - then i was signing a contract to help her with her work, 2h a day. what time is there even left in a day??! woke up tired. did too much work in my subconscious/dreams

BART service has stopped in the Transbay Tube between West Oakland and Embarcadero due to a PG&E electrical outage. Bus service is available via AC Transit bus lines N/L, O & F.

2) The outage affected train control systems in one subway, and the cable car powerhouse. Muni, however, just rearranged its rail service and set up bus bridges for inoperable sections.

i think i need to wear noise-canceling earbuds all day or move out of the rainy day flight path

how is this 24yo already a "former Formula 1 engineer"?! very cool microcar/e-bike. 4 of them fit in a car parking space. we need more of this to challenge the bigger-and-bigger auto industry. #women #bikes #design #ebikes momentummag.com/the-elecy-is...

PG&E is having a massive outage in San Francisco. Waymo robots aren't handling the traffic light outages well. Cell service is also out is some places. No surprise as Waymo robots & cell have repeatedly failed during power outages. CPUC regulates both Waymo and PG&E (Profit Greed & Explosions).

whenever there's a power outage—that's another reason to build roundabouts instead of traffic signals. both are expensive but after construction of roundabouts, you're done. minimal maintenance, don't need to pay for or rely on pg&e. #SanFrancisco #poweroutage #sf #bayarea #traffic

did I just feel a slight earthquake or were my neighbors moving furniture #oakland #bayarea #earthquake

sometimes i take a step back from reading/listening to panicked angry comments about road diet/complete streets projects and LOL these ppl sound like they're gonna DIE!!! if they can't park their car right in front of their house they rly never got hit or almost hit by a car before. ignrc is bliss

thinking of moving.. so i can stop suffering from and complaining about noise pollution. - currently: paying 38% of takehome pay on rent (inclusive of pg&e & internet). walking dist. & 5min bike ride to BART. - interested place: would be 44% of my takehome pay. biking dist. to BART. quiet thought$?

90-year old speeding driver crashed into a coffee shop thanksgiving night. nothing in article about dealing with older drivers #losgatos #southbay #bayarea #seniors #visionzero #cars www.mercurynews.com/2025/12/17/l...

i nearly got hit by drivers twice in the past few weeks but not my time to die yet, i guess

happy hour food & drinks are a good deal at beretta #SanFrancisco, but wow, regular cocktails (martini, old fashioned—nothing super special) are overpriced. even over $16! tipped less than "suggested" amounts due to the lame 5% pass-thru but i still overtipped by $2. :/ (split check with friend)

it didn't look like it was raining outside and i used my regular mascara instead of the waterproof one 😣 horizontal rain spray got me. drivers no compassion, not even giving me extra distance while passing me on bike

branding.

“I don't wanna go far for stuff" My eloquent and powerful rebrand of the 15 minute city.

excited to go on vacation but also >_<;;; bc vacation is really a Site Visit. starting research and looked thru bikeway design guides, neighborhood parking reviews, more maps. good thing i'm travelling alone. don't ever date or travel with an urban planner. all photos are of intersections. 🚥🚲

what do you do when your new neighbor is still leaving his dog home alone, and dog is still barking excessively? prolonged barking. way past an alert bark when anyone is entering/leaving the building. been months already. "hey is your dog ok? plz get a dogsitter." #dogs

"She and her roommate have a combined income of about $400,000 yet are struggling to find a place to live that meets their needs." and those needs are?? 🤨 compare $400k household to $50k household?? @sfstandard.com

Imagine if cities demanded the same of car manufacturers.

i wish some AI startup would build upon ad-blocking. i want image blocking. in particular, i want images of these figures blocked: - the current "president", - the meme of the man standing up for some "unpopular hot take".

dim sum lunch with friends didn't go well for me today. i missed my second alarm so was already running late. then communication snafu and i spent 1h on BART (went to south city and then back downtown to updated location) not as quality time with friends but i made headway last night on hobby 😐

did a first run recording my new electro mix! making time for my hobby / life pursuit it's over 2h long >_<;;;; might cut one track and shorten a couple will release in 2026.

a journalist covered aella's slutcon! recommend reading. i think slutcon has such a worthy mission. esp. with the widening gender gap and incels/cancel culture/gender norms. men need help relationally and incel & PUA shouldn't be the only option. web.archive.org/web/20251212...

my fave #oakland local bar is closing! 😭 so i have to go support them even tho i don't really wanna drink so early, lol. they have a #motorcycle race on tv. so fun to watch. i hate cars in daily life but i used to play gran turismo. cars & moto on racetrack is good.

"Local safe streets advocate has more photos of bike lanes, crosswalks and intersections than of his family from recent vacation." www.creativebyrovelo.com/therovelorec...

i socialized for too long 😵 funny but now so tired. i hate white elephant but luckily ppl's gifts were pretty good. here's my box, i was hoping the person would show the pairs of socks one at a time bc they're super cute but alas. someone stole it from the first person bc they agreed it's v cute 😇

can housing experts plz answer my q: Is is legal to build european-style courtyard housing here? - main door is like a hallway tunnel w mailboxes, - then it opens up into courtyard, - bunch of other doors to go upstairs to sections of the building. instead of typical large lobbies in new large dev

Here's @tavos-kitchen.bsky.social on a San Jose bakery pop-up that sells 18 (!) different varieties of egg tarts, with more in the works. www.kqed.org/arts/1398489...

jazz mafia trio today at one of the let's glow locations! + free hot chocolate 😋🍫☕ #SanFrancisco #sf

chatting with a dude, he asked to exchange face pics so i sent mine. then he sends me a pic of his bike handlebars

wtf nuts #Berkeley #phd #college #ucberkeley www.mercurynews.com/2025/12/08/u...

folsom streetscape project—repaved! and upgraded bikeway to nice and wide!! striping still forthcoming but ppl are already using the bus boarding islands. good compliance with floating parking lane, even without concrete. i guess most sf drivers are used to it now :) #SanFrancisco

Our new study provides rare causal evidence about NYC’s speed camera program. We find large reductions in collisions (30%) and injuries (16%) near intersections with cameras. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... @astagoff.bsky.social ky.social @brendenbeck.bsky.social nbeck.bsky.social 🧪

let's glow #SanFrancisco this week only. some great pieces. it's like short films or projection-mapping visuals at a club/music festival. not just at the ferry building. locations: downtownsf.org/things-to-do... #holidays #visualart #art #streetart #projectionart #animation

after yet another BART delay, i boarded a train that happened to have a new Very Loud chime sound—and the chime is constant thru the WHOLE RIDE except for pauses for upcoming station announcements. we don't need more noise pollution. the loud wheels are loud enough. was this train audio broken

do you think these Free Bible Classes ppl have any effect on streetlife? deter bad behavior? are they more effective than the paid urban alchemy workers? would love for a UCB social work/sociology/urban planning student to study this. @marcelmoran.com if u know ppl in those fields #SanFrancisco

my neighbors (a couple) got the ava energy rebate so they both bought an e-bike each. now they have 7 #bikes in their apartment. #oakland umm but heavy to bring up the stairs... is why i use the bikeshare e-bikes instead. wonder how much program funding is still available

i just hit "submit" on #oakland seeclickfix but it didn't go thru. then seems like the whole website is down? look at this loser bmw suv (with ev smugness) with dodgers plateframe parked on the sidewalk

i received bad news today 😱😡😫 but i had my therapy appt yesterday. 😪 gdmit

i am once again calling for Even Frequencies of Alternating East Bay North & East Bay South trains thru the transbay tube. then schedule the timed transfers from that. #BART can anyone simulate that from that subway game?? plz.

Starting Dec 10, most Bay Area transit transfers will be free for two hours. If you take AC Transit to BART then transfer to Muni, your fare today is $9.10. With Clipper 2, the free AC and Muni transfers mean your fare will be just $3.90 1/

ariscault and b.patisserie having downtown #SanFrancisco locations is so great. barely any queues compared to neighborhood locations. - ariscault in "sketchy" civic center area, so not as busy. - b.pat at union square. tourists don't realize how good this bakery is, so no line. #food #bakery

dreamt that i was waiting too long for a bus in alameda to go to oakland. turns out 2 buses bunched up. bus drove north on a beach. on the sand. barely felt rocks in the sand. such a smooth fast ride. then bus went airborne. we were flying. in awe. bus was powered by solar panels on its roof.